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The Infamous Black Bird Southern Oregon History, Revised


Eaglets 1920-1921

   
Click here for more news from the Upper Rogue. Transcribed by Dale Greenley.
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune Fred Pettegrew came in and enjoyed a bed for the night, and a little later Roy, Ralph and Thomas Stanley came in and called for supper and then in the morning came in for breakfast. They are three out of about six or seven brothers, all in the stock business, that are counted among our most thriving stockmen and farmers, and among them they have a quantity of stock of different kinds to look after, but their stock consists mostly in cattle and hogs. They sold a lot of about 40 large hogs a short time ago and now have about that many more up feeding for the market.
    Sunday morning was another one of our gloomy mornings, as it was cold and foggy--we don't have perpetual sunshine here, but every winter have our regular visitations of foggy weather and while that is rather disagreeable, nevertheless it is a great benefit to the country as it keeps the ground from freezing and thawing, for when we have cold, clear weather and the sun shines out warm, as it sometimes does, that causes the ground to raise and freezes out the grain and grass that has started to grow and has not become sufficiently rooted to stand the sudden changes and the result is it dries out and dies. But while the fog is disagreeable it proves to be a great blessing to the farmers.
    We had our regular Sunday school service Sunday morning and there was no preaching. We went home and there Met Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cassey and family of Talent, who came over to visit Mrs. Cassey's sister, Mrs. Graydon Childreth, and after dining and spending a few hours visiting returned to their home. Mr. Trovato preached for us at night and announced that he would be here again next Sunday, January 4th at 11 o'clock.
    Harry Lewis, who is running the auto stage between here and Medford at present, came in Sunday evening and is still stopping here up to the present time, Wednesday afternoon.
    Monday was rather a quiet day in our town, as there was very few people in from the country, although there was a few, among them was G. W. Sanders of the Antelope orchard and A. G. Bishop, another one of our leading orchardists.
    In talking with Mr. Bishop with regard to the snow storm that we had on the night of the 11th inst., I inquired as to the damage done to his fruit trees, and he assured me that there was none of any consequence, but that everything was progressing finely. Mr. Hamilton, the foreman on the F.L. Company's ranch, was in town, but I did not speak with him, as he was just going out as I saw him.
    B. A. Nason of Prospect came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday morning and went on up home as far as Derby on that line.
    We had four young men, who were out duck hunting, who came in a little late, and called for dinner. They were Harold Grey of Medford, a student of the University of Oregon, Paul Reddy of Medford, a student of the University of Santa Clara; Roy Hill, Medford, Stanford University, and our own Bobby Pelouze of Eagle Point, a student of Stanford University. Bobby says that he expects to finish his course in the Stanford this year and then thinks of taking a four year course in the Harvard University. We, at least, many of us Eagle Pointers, feel rather proud of the achievements Bobby has made and is making, and are hoping that, as he is striking high, he may reach the topmost rung of the ladder.
    James and William Merritt of Reese Creek, E.P. P.O., W. P. Haley and Carl Nickell were among the business callers Monday.
    George Holmer and Clem McDonald are fixing up the old store building opposite the Eagle Point bank building for a garage and are planning to do considerable business the coming season.
    L. J. Macks and Charles Foeller of Trail came in Monday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Roger Sears of Butte Falls came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning and went on up home the same day.
    Mrs. Artie Nichols, a daughter-in-law of our town mayor, John M. Nichols, paid them a visit and Wednesday went on the L.C. stage to visit her mother.
    William Martin and F. F. Nichols drove in Tuesday and in the afternoon Mr. Nichols went to Medford with William Perry.
    Mr. and Mrs. Russ Moore of Lake Creek were business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. L. E. Armstrong, his two sons, W. E. and F. M. and daughter, Miss Agnes E. Armstrong, motored in Tuesday from their home in the Lake Creek country, the old Charles Newstrom place, and after stopping here long enough to procure and put on a new tire on their Maxwell, went on to Medford.
    Fred Chartrow and his brother, William E. of Gold Hill, and J. W. Berrian of the fish hatchery, Butte Falls, and George Albert, also of Butte Falls, were diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Tuesday afternoon was the time set to hold what might be called a water ditch meeting. There was a good attendance, mostly of people living north of our town, although we had Mr. Beebe of Central Point, William Lewis, the sheep men of Central Point and Mr. C. M. Thomas, attorney of Medford. And after discussing the P's and C's of the case in the street until some time after the hour appointed, we met in Brown's hall and the meeting was called to order by W. E. Hammel and after stating the object of the meeting, introduced Mr. Thomas, and after he had explained more fully the object of the meeting and the law governing it called for anyone who wished to ask any question bearing on the subject. There was quite a number asked questions relative to the elimination of poor land and then Mr. Rhoades, the civil engineer, reported that the ditch would be 19½ miles long to bring water this side of the hill so as to water the land, at an approximate cost of $150,000. There was considerable discussion as to whether the water right could be secured on account of the prior claim of the O.&C.P. Co., but Mr. Thomas expressed the opinion that there would be no trouble on that score.
    Lloyd Stanley of Butte Falls and P. E. Sandoz came in Tuesday night for supper and Mrs. Sandoz stayed all night and Lloyd came in for breakfast this morning.
    Mrs. Sears of Medford and Mrs. Thomas Todd of Trail came out on the stage this morning and Mrs. S. went on up to Butte Falls and Mrs. Todd went on the Trail stage up home on Elk Creek.
    Mrs. B. H. Bryant, who has been out visiting friends in this neighborhood went to Medford on the stage Tuesday morning.
    W. D. Roberts has moved into the old home now owned by Mrs. James Owens.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    D. J. Steiner and Wm. Smith, who are living on the Medford-Central Point road and R. J. Steihl of Portland were here for late dinner Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Steihl was on his way up on the headwaters of Reese Creek to look at a place that is for sale. John Seiler, formerly of Medford, and Thomas F. Nichols and Ed Hensley were also here and took supper and Ed Hensley commenced boarding here again.
    January 1st was one of those lovely days such as we often have in Southern Oregon, and almost everyone either went to Medford or stayed at home and enjoyed New Year's dinner at home although J. E. Jackson and wife and Harry Young and wife came in and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Chauncey Florey, our popular county clerk and family, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Raymond Reter, and family came out and took dinner with his father, A. J. Florey, Sr.
    Carl Childreth, a son of Henry Childreth of Ashland, Lester Abbott and wife, Mr. Vernon Jones and Miss Bernice Edmondson of Butte Falls came in and spent the night and all went on to Medford the next morning.
    M. Heckenberg and Charles Chrear came out on the Butte Falls stage. Mr. Heckenberg went out to Hamilton Watkins and Mr. Chrear went on up to Trail on the stage. And Wm. Chamber's little girl, a little tot, came out on the stage and went on up to her home at Butte Falls. Wm. Heckathorn also went up to Trail on the Persist stage.
    There was a meeting of the directors of the First State Bank of Eagle Point here on December 21st, when all of the directors of the bank were present except two and held their annual election, re-electing all of the old officers, and elected Miss Hazel Brown as assistant cashier. Miss Hazel had been acting in the capacity for some time past, but only by appointment, but now is the regular elected assistant.
    On account of her mother's condition, just recovering from the effects of an operation, Miss Hazel is staying home, caring for her mother at present, and S. B. Holman is acting as assistant cashier in her place.
    All of the directors of the bank at the annual meeting expressed themselves as in favor of increasing the capital stock on account of the increase in business and the future prospect. There has been a very material increase in the business in the bank as under the management of J. V. McIntyre one person did about all the work, whereas now under the management of Mr. H. J. Deveney, the present cashier, the business has increased to such an extent that is requires an assistant cashier.
    Miss Elizabeth Deveney, a sister of our banker, who is teaching in the high school of Cottage Grove, has been here visiting her brother, H. J. Deveney, during the holidays, left on New Year's Day for Cottage Grove.
    A. C. Spence, the official road supervisor of the Brownsboro road district, was doing business here Friday.
    Hamilton Watkins and wife came in Friday morning. Mrs. Watkins is engaged taking the census in this neighborhood.
    Robert Merritt and his sister, Miss Maud, were among the business callers Friday.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel and her sister, Mrs. Sam Courtney called at the Sunnyside Friday afternoon and took the stage for Medford.
    Mrs. R. Helle also made a business call Friday, settling up her business preparatory to starting for Idaho to visit her father, who is said to be in poor health. She thinks of remaining there and caring for him for an indefinite length of time.
    James Riley, formerly of this neighborhood, but more recently of Talent, was a guest at the Sunnyside Friday night.
    J. R. Clark of Butte Falls, Walter Bradshaw of Brewster, Wash., one of the fruit men of that section, W. E. Walker of Standard Oil Co., Medford, and Ernest Peachey of Ashland, one of the timber cruisers, and two strangers were here for dinner Saturday, and later in the day H. H. Williams of Medford at present, but formerly of Idaho, and Wm. C. Pierce, machinist for Hubbard Bros. of Medford, called for dinner.
    Eli Dahack, one of the principal advocates and boosters for the project to bring water from Big Butte into the valley, was in town Saturday. There seems to be some considerable trouble over the project as there appears to be considerable misunderstanding as the question of the elimination of the land unfit for irrigation or inaccessible to the water, and then there is an element among the farmers who seem to want the water brought in but are fearful of the title to the water right, and I would suggest that someone who is versed on the subject write a concise statement of the facts with regard to the claim of the O.&C. Power Company's right to the water in Rogue River and its tributaries as it is claimed by a number that the aforesaid company holds a title to all of the water in said river and it tributaries and if the company hold that title to the water, etc., it is a matter of record and if the title has been tested in the courts that also is a matter of record. In order to enable the voters to vote intelligently on the subject if someone would write an article covering these points and publish it in the Mail Tribune, the most of the voters would understand how to vote on the subject a week from next Saturday, Jan. 17, 1920.
    Owing to Thursday being a holiday the creamery men laid off and took a rest and did not come here until Saturday for the cream.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday evening James Riley and John Mayham came in and spent the night.
    Sunday morning at the close of our Sunday school, Rev. Trovato preached for us, and at night Rev. J. C. Stille of Indian Creek preached one of his characteristic sermons, taking for his text Heb. 3, "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation." He is one of the old style preachers and if he finds the word "Hell" in his message, just says it right out, and by the time he got through there were but very few in the audience but began to think that he meant the message expressly for them, and there was a degree of seriousness pervaded the congregation such as hasn't been witnessed here before for some time. Revs. Weikes and Greer have been holding meetings here now for about three weeks, and by special request by Rev. J. Trovato, the stationed Presbyterian minister for Eagle Point, Brownsboro and Butte Falls. Mr. Stille preached that Sunday evening. Mr. Stille has been preaching for us regularly during the fall and early winter, but owing to the condition of the roads between here and his place, it was thought best for him to discontinue until the mud was dried up as there is about 6 or 7 miles of genuine sticky between here and his place. However, he still has his regular appointments at Reese Creek Sunday school every Sunday and seems to be meeting with some success.
    Messrs. Weikes and Greer are still carrying on their meeting, but I am not apprised of how much longer they intend to continue here.
    Sunday Wm. H. Lewis, the sheep man, and W. W. Winfrey of Louisville, Kentucky were here for dinner and so was Wm. von der Hellen of the von der Hellen Hardware Co., and wife and brother-in-law, A. J. Florey, Jr., and Thomas and Roy Stanley.
    Glen Haley, one of our regular boarders, has been employed as a machinist in the garage of McDonald and Holmes of this place. They are getting their new quarters fixed up in good shape and seem to be doing considerable business for this time of year.
    Henry Thornton of Persist, who has been down to Ashland to visit his father, one of the old pioneers of Jackson County, returned Monday and took passage on the Persist stage for his home. He reports that his father is very feeble and almost helpless.
    Thomas and Roy Stanley drove a band of cattle down to the John Singleton farm to be fed, last Monday, they having bought Mr. Singleton's hay.
    Speaking of Mr. Singleton, I understand that he has sold his fine farm and his stock, etc., to a man by the name of Esch of Ashland, consideration $20,000, $3000 for the personal property and $17,000 for the ranch. It was a cash deal, I understand. Mr. Esch has bought one of the best farms in this section of the country and we are hoping that he will prove to be as good a citizen as Mr. Singleton has been. He and his family will be greatly missed from the community.
    Charles Hanscom and Roy Stanley were among the diners Monday.
    Our teachers, Misses Lansing and Young, were at their posts Monday morning, and our school is going on just as though there had been no break in the term.
    F. S. Bailey, one of the U.S. land cruisers, came in on the stage Tuesday, ate dinner at the Sunnyside, procured a saddle horse of S. H. Harnish and started up about Climax to inspect two tracts of land that are wanted as homesteads and has not returned at this time, Wednesday afternoon. Besides having Mr. Bailey as a guest Monday for dinner, we had W. W. Cottrell, John W. Smith and family who are living on the north edge of Big Sticky, Roland Hubbard of Medford, Carl Brainerd, John Iseli of Butte Falls, on his way to Portland, and Nick Young, our road supervisor.
    I met Clifford Hickson limping along on the street Monday afternoon and on inquiry learned that he had stepped on a nail and run it almost through his foot about mid way, but he says that it is getting along very well.
    I also met Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek. He was trying to stop a leak in his carburetor and was having the time of his life.
    Mrs. Theron Taylor nee Elsie Adamson, a daughter of the mail carrier between here and Persist via Trail, was doing business in town Tuesday.
    Wm. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons, who has been confined to his home for some time past with rheumatism, went to Medford Tuesday to consult a specialist.
    Dorsey Coy, Pete Young, A. A. Betz, and L. L. Conger were among the business callers Tuesday.
    A. L. Haselton, one of our old school teachers has been employed to teach a school near Rancheria Prairie.
    Mr. Turner, who is living three miles above the fish hatchery on Elk Creek, and August Bray of Newburg, Ore., were guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday night. Mr. Bray was on his way up to see a farm that he has just bought, unsight and unseen. It is situated near the mouth of Indian Creek.
    Al Mayfield and wife are stopping with her brother-in-law, Wm. G. Knighten.
    W. A. Hutchinson and John Greb came out on the stage Wednesday morning and Mr. Hutchinson went on up home on the Trail stage.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, is here papering some of the rooms in the Sunnyside Hotel. He carries a fine assortment of wallpaper and furnishes his patrons with what they want in that line.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 10, 1920, page 5


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    H. Denney, representing the Boye Needle Company, San Francisco, Cal., was here Wednesday for dinner.
    Rube Johnson and Walter Wood drove in with a team Wednesday and took passage on the Lewis jitney for Medford, and remained there overnight, coming out on the mail auto.
    Mrs. F. J. Ayres of Reese Creek, and her daughter, Mrs. Roy Smith of Medford, came in Wednesday. Mrs. Smith has been out visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, and other relatives and friends for the past few days, and Wednesday afternoon started for home on the Lewis jitney.
    Among the business callers Thursday was Geo. W. Stowell. He came in to bring his cream and eggs for the creamery men. He had two cases of eggs and two cans of cream.
    C. E. Bellows brought in his cream and the creamery men had brought out for him a lot of beaver board, to used in the place of lumber or plastering in finishing up his house. He said that lumber was so high and so hard to get that it would cost him more than the material he has and this is equally as good as either the lime plaster or the wood for ceiling. Henry French also came in and brought in his eggs and cream, but not so many eggs as Mr. Stowell. When I asked Mr. Stowell how many hens he was keeping he replied, "Oh, about 500." Who wonders that he has two crates a week to bring to market.
    Speaking of Mr. French, the creamery men brought out a National Vacuum washing machine for his wife. He intends to attach it to his gasoline motor and save his wife the brunt of the work in washing. When one can attach those machines to an electric or gas motor power it saves a very large part of the labor in washing.
    F. S. Bailey, of whom mention was made in my last, who has been out on Antelope Creek cruising timber, returned Thursday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford on the 2 o'clock jitney.
    Al Mayfield of Ashland, who has been here with his wife, who is caring for her sister, Mrs. William G. Knighten, went to Medford with Will Lewis, and so did Mrs. Roy Smith.
    John Rader, on of our well-to-do farmers and stock men, was among the business callers Thursday.
    William Messal of Lake Creek came in Thursday and brought a whole beef and two hogs dressed. He let one of the creamery men have one-half of the beef and the two hogs, and in addition to the two hogs, the creamery men had three more dressed hogs that he had procured from Lemon Charley. These creamery men! There are two trucks, representing the two creameries in the Jackson County and the Independence, that make their regular trips through here every week and buy up almost anything the farmers have to sell, in addition to the eggs, cream, chickens, hides, green or dry wood, mohair and almost anything else that the farmer has to dispose of that they can haul in a truck.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long passed through our town Thursday evening.
    J. F. Maxfield, who lives north of here near Hay Creek, was a business caller Friday and so was Pete Young and his sister, Miss Clara Young, who own and operate a fine farm just west of town.
    Mr. and Mrs. George B. Brown and a part of the family, of Brownsboro, were here Friday, and Mrs. Brown's brother, O. V. Bell, on their way to Medford, but were having tire trouble and stopped here for repairs.
    Messrs. George Summers, Harold Peyton and his brother Ralph Peyton of Flounce Rock came out on horseback and took dinner at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Charley Plummer of Chehalis, Wash., who has been visiting his cousins, Mr. and Mr. J. R. Thornbrue, the past week, left Monday for Central Point, accompanied by Mr. Thornbrue.
    Carlyle Natwick was in town Friday, having a team shod up. He said that he was going to start for Union Creek camp this, Saturday, morning with a four-horse team.
    C. J. Kafer, the Brownsboro merchant and meat deliverer, and George Joe Mayham were among the business callers Friday, and so was Mrs. Fred Dutton, and J. L. Robinson, one of our big farmers. He is farming this year 400 acres of land and has bought a Fordson tractor and expect to put in this spring 100 acres of land in corn. He and his boys are rustlers.
    W. W. Parker of Butte Falls came out Friday to try to untangle his tax business. He has sold a section of timber land northeast of Butte Falls and in making out the abstract was notified that there was a part of the land on the delinquent list on the tax list of 1907 and 1908, and he has his receipts to show that his taxes were all paid up to and including those two years. But he has to go to the expense and trouble to go clear to Jacksonville to straighten out the blunders, or worse, of incompetent county officials.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cummings started this Saturday morning for San Francisco, Cal., to visit her daughter.
    Carl von der Hellen of Wellen was a business caller this morning and so was E. G. Harding of Lake Creek. Mrs. H. went on to Medford with Wig Jacks.
    Artie Nichols came in this morning on the Lewis jitney to meet his wife, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. McDonald of Brownsboro, and other relatives, and to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols. Miss Myrtle Minter also came out on the same jitney.
    Hamilton Watkins was also a business caller this morning.
    Welborn Beeson of Talent, and W. W. Cottrell of Trail, were here and took dinner at the Sunnyside today.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mc. F. (Han) Lewis, who is working for the Brittsan brothers on the P. S. Anderson dairy ranch, on Rogue River, about six miles above here, was a business caller Saturday afternoon. In speaking of the Anderson ranch, for years it was considered as one of the many ranches up Rogue River and in the foothills as being of little consequence, but since it was purchased by Mr. Anderson and he has placed the Brittsan brothers in charge of it and has perfected a ditch to bring the water of Rogue River onto the land and under their management it now is considered one of the best ranches in this section of the country. And if I was asked what has made the change, I would answer, work and water. For when I first knew the place 50 years ago--the old Reese place--it was about all that could be done to raise feed to keep a team to do the work, and a few cows. But now it is a thriving dairy ranch and bringing in to the owner a handsome return for the investment. And that is not an isolated instance, but there are hundreds of cases all through that section of the country where, if they succeed in bringing in the water from Big Butte as is contemplated where thousands of tons of hay and grain will be produced. I hear the stockmen telling of the wonderful change that has taken place in the production of especially hay, where the increase, on account of water, has been from one to three hundred percent. And still there are a few of the "old mossbacks" who are fighting the project to put water on the land.
    George Givan was also another business caller Saturday afternoon, and he can add his testimony in favor of bringing in the water onto the land.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald, at present the hostess in the Elks' Resort, came out Saturday afternoon on the stage and spent the night at the Sunnyside on her way to Medford, taking passage on the Sunday morning stage.
    L. F. McCabe and daughter, Miss Ellen, drove in Monday morning and Mr. McCabe went on to Medford in the Lewis jitney and Miss Ellen took the team home.
    Benj. Brophy, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, was in town Monday and in talking with him on the subject of using water and referring to an article in the Daily Mail Tribune where it was suggested that a farmer could afford to pay $125 per acre for the use of water on the land, he affirmed that that was correct, and cited to a place where there was a fine crop of alfalfa growing on ground that would not grow "blackeyed beans" without water.
    Thomas F. Nichols was in town Monday and reports that he has sold his cattle to the Stanley brothers. He met his wife here, who had been in Medford, having her teeth extracted.
    Mr. Adamson, the present mail carrier between here and Persist via Trail, went to Medford Saturday and his daughter, Miss Ella, has been carrying the mail in his place, but she is fully competent to fill the position. Mr. A. returned today, Wednesday, and took charge of the business again.
    Robertson and Patton of Medford brought out a Fordson tractor Monday for J. L. Robinson, and Tuesday Benj. Garnett brought out a lot of distillate to be used in the place of gasoline on the tractor. Mr. R.'s many friends are hoping that he will make a success in the undertaking and he surely will if push and continuance will accomplish it.
    George W. Senders of Wellen was a business caller also Monday.
    W. E. Butler was in town Monday afternoon. He had a load of dressed hogs on his hack, and was retailing them out to customers in quantities to suit. What he could not sell here he was taking to Medford.
    John Holtz of Sams Valley, W. C. Daley of Lake Creek, William Martin and L. F. Nichols were diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday. Mr. Daley had been to Medford and on his way out broke a spring in his Maxwell and took to our old reliable, W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith and auto repairer, for repairs, and called one of his neighbors, James Culbertson, to come for him. And John Holtz also left his car at the same shop for repairs.
    A. Meyer of Lake Creek came out from Medford and went on up home with Mr. Culbertson.
    Benj. Whetstone and his brother-in-law, Thomas Riley, were also business callers Tuesday.
    Mrs. John D. Singleton and her daughter, Miss Sarah, and Mrs. Carl Esch were doing shopping here Tuesday. Mrs. Esch is the wife of the man who bought the Singleton farm.
    Among the business callers Wednesday were A. C. Spencer, Gus Nichols and wife, and a strange young man. They all came out from Brownsboro on the E.P.-L.C. stage and Gus Nichols and wife went on out to Medford.
    Mrs. Sarah Hall and Mrs. J. R. Satchwell were also business callers. Mrs. Satchwell was working earnestly for the Southern Oregon Club, who are trying to secure legislation that will put a stop to the state paying out the taxpayers' money to propagate fish for the benefit of millionaire cannery men and leave us poor mortals to eat whatever happens to slip through their nets. To this end she was giving the Oregonian just what it deserves for its treatment of the people of Southern Oregon in killing our normal school, our fish industry--in fact, almost every move that has been made to develop the southern part of the state. And while she was working for the above she also was soliciting for the Evening Telegram. She seems to be meeting with considerable success and several of the subscribers of the Oregonian dropped it and have subscribed for the Telegram.
    J. F. McCabe and his daughter, Miss Ellen, were visitors this Wednesday morning.
    Thomas, Ralph and Roy Stanley, three of our prominent cattle men, took supper Tuesday night and breakfast this morning at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 19, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    J. L. Robinson, our boss farmer, and William Lewis, our boss sheep man, were in town Wednesday afternoon, and Mr. Robinson reports that he has his Fordson tractor at work and that it was doing fine work. After experimenting with it, they (he and his boys) got it started Tuesday morning and the two boys kept it running night and day for 30 hours, and later in the week he reported that they were still plowing night and day, plowing about half an acre an hour, and that the machine done the work all right, plowing the ground about eight inches deep. The ground is frozen about five inches deep, and that the plows go right under the frozen ground, turning it completely over, and when the sun comes out and thaws the ice it will leave it in fine shape for his corn crop. He intends to keep on plowing night and day so long as the ground keeps so that he can, and he is hoping that it will not rain at least for a few days, so that he can get his 100 acres plowed ready for corn.
    J. C. Brown, real estate dealer of Medford, and Roscoe Hulse of Arizona called for dinner Thursday. They were on their way up Butte Creek to look at a farm that was being offered for sale. Mr. Hulse is in the cattle business, and Mr. H. and Mr. B. were inquiring particularly about some of the fine farms up in that section of the county, and looking at it from my viewpoint there is some of the best farms in the county located in the Lake Creek country, and since the farmers have learned the value of the commercial fertilizers and learned that by a judicious use of them that the crops can be increased 100 percent, they feel perfectly at ease so far as this high cost of living is concerned. M. L. Lewis, one of our rustling young men, was also here for dinner Thursday and so was Mr. Robert Schultz, who lives near San Bernardino, Cal. He came to look over a tract of land that he was interested in but found that the roads were so bad that he concluded to postpone his trip until later in the season.
    Mr. E. D. Schrader of Wellen, a goat dealer and mohair raiser, was also a diner Thursday at the Sunnyside, and so was William Martin and Thomas F. Nichols and Chris Bergman and wife here for dinner that day.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paper hanger, was also in town Thursday. He had come in to see about a portable woodsawing outfit they had ordered from Portland. He says that he has several jobs of work in the painting and paper hanging line engaged, but that the roads are so bad that he can't get around in his car, so is going to cut a lot of wood and have it ready for the market next summer.
    Rev. Mr. Brittsan and wife of Medford came out on the Lewis jitney and were met here by his son, E.V. Brittsan, and went out to the Anderson ranch.
    Jacob Monia and wife of Brownsboro were doing business here also Thursday.
    Earl Hays, one of our rustling young farmers, was in town Thursday, and asked me to send in for the Daily Mail Tribune for him, but I told him to just send in his check to the office as I had no receipt book and was not taking subscriptions for the paper now, but simply writing for it, as they were doing business on a cash basis, no credit. Pete Young was another business caller and made the same request, and I gave him the same answer. Although I am working to get subscribers for the Daily Mail Tribune all the time, am not authorized to take subscription for it.
    J. B. Rayborne of Medford came in Thursday evening and spent the night and in the morning went on up to Trail on the stage on his way to Prospect.
    Mr. Gains of Trail, a cattle dealer, spent the night with us on his way out to Medford.
    Late Thursday evening W. E. Cooper, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cooper, and Mrs. M. A. Cooper and Mr. Dressler of the firm of Page-Dressler, real estate dealers of Medford, came in and called for supper, going on to Medford that night.
    John Goin, our agate man, who has been spending the past month up around Albany, Portland and Newport visiting relatives, returned Thursday to his room in the Sunnyside.
    Last Friday Milo Conley and his mother, Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro, were doing business in out town and when they went out he had about 100 feet of flooring and about 80 rods of wire fencing and a lot of other things in the wagon.
    Mrs. Bert Clarno and her two sons, Carl and Wallace, were doing business with our leading merchants, George Brown and Sons.
    Speaking of the Brown firm I was very agreeably surprised Friday as I was making my rounds looking up Eaglets for the readers of the Daily Mail Tribune to see William H. Brown, a member of the firm, sitting in his accustomed seat, the bookkeeper's, in the store. He has been confined to his home for several weeks with rheumatism, but is so now that he can walk on crutches. I was also agreeably surprised to meet Mrs. Royal G. Brown, the wife of another member of the firm in the store, for she has been a patient in a hospital in Medford for some time where she had to undergo two operations, but was regaining her strength.
    Charles Klingle of Lake Creek was a business caller also Friday, and so were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wattenburg. I understand that Mr. W. has taken charge of the Joe Rader farm on Antelope.
    George Givan, one of our prosperous farmers, was a business caller Friday.
    Rev. Hoyt, the Presbyterian Sunday school missionary, was in town Thursday to meet Rev. Joseph Trovato, the pastor of the Presbyterian church of Butte Falls, Brownsboro and Eagle Point, and has made an arrangement to give a stereoptic lecture showing scenes taken from the foreign lands on Sunday evening, February 22, 1920.
    We are to have two elections in this section, one at Reese Creek school house to vote on bonding the district (water) to raise funds to cover the expense of bringing in the water from Big Butte for irrigating purposes, and the other is to be held here to elect officers in the Eagle Point Ditch Company, for the coming year.
    The two traveling evangelists, Messrs. Weikes and Green, who have been conducting services here for the past month, closed their meeting last Friday night. They are surely stayers as they have had services every night except for two Sunday and four Saturday nights. They seem to be rather out of the ordinary line as they claim to be non-denominational and seem to ignore all other evangelists, although they seem to set forth good Bible truths, so far as I could understand, for I am hard of hearing and Mr. Weikes being a Scotchman and having a very distinct brogue it was very hard for many of us to understand. Their congregations run from two to 14, generally about eight or nine. Mr. W. said they were going from here to Trail to commence services tomorrow, Sunday, January 18th.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Holt of Portland came in this noon for dinner. They came down to look at a place on the north fork of Reese Creek, but when they learned that there was no water for irrigation on the place returned to Medford to go to Lake County to look for land there.
    Mrs. Chris Bergman, her sister, Mrs. Pete Betz, and Miss Agnes Schoudland, who is teaching in the Laurel Hill district, came in for dinner today. And later in the day Mrs. Joe Casey and two children and brother-in-law, Graydon Childreth and wife of Talent, and Mr. Cross of Butte Falls.
    J. H. Cooley of Medford, Mr. Norris, farmer on the Wilfley orchard, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby called.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 20, 1920, page 5
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


DERBY FAMILY IS BURNED OUT, AID FUND IS STARTED
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


REESE CREEK RIPLETS
    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


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. Dee Bradshaw of Brownsboro and Miss Agnes Johnson, who is teaching in the Antelope district, went up to Butte Falls Saturday to attend the teachers institute, returning in the afternoon, and report they had a very interesting meeting and well attended, especially considering the difficulty in getting there.
    Our Sunday school was very poorly attended last Sunday, as there was quite a number that stayed away on account of being afraid of the "flu." Although there is not a case of the dreaded disease in our town, Dr. Holt reported that there was one case, his daughter, Helen, in our town and up to Thursday he reports that there are no cases in town. His daughter Helen resumed her studies in school again last Monday.
    Mr. E. G. Trowbridge and daughter, Miss Florence, and Mrs. H. Borden of Medford and Mr. Lawrence Luy of Wellen and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cessy and two children and Graydon Childreth of Talent were here for dinner Sunday.
    George A. Hollenbeak of Prospect came in on the Butte Falls stage Monday morning and went on up home. Mr. Hollenbeak was just returning from a trip to Redding, where he had been to visit a brother who he had not seen for forty-five years.
    L. W. Smith, who has been spending the winter with relatives in the Lake Creek district, was here on his way to Grants Pass. He came in last fall from Idaho and has about decided to remain in Southern Oregon on account of the climate and the general healthfulness of the country.
    A. C. Spence, our efficient road supervisor of Brownsboro, was a business caller Monday and the last that I saw of him he was on a deal for an automobile, but whether he succeeded or not I have not learned. I understand that our townsman, David Cingcade, treated his good wife to a new auto last Saturday. They are getting to be almost a necessity nowadays.
    Mike Hecenburg, who has purchased the Morrison place on Reese Creek, was in town getting several pieces of very long iron pipe. He is putting in a water system on his place.
    Mrs. Van der Mark and her three little girls were here for dinner Monday. They had started for her home near Butte Falls and were detained on account of something going wrong with the machine. The reader will remember that Mrs. Van der Mark is the lady who was burned out a short time ago. And at that time I reported that S. M. Hawk, her father, was burned out, but it proved to be Mrs. Van der Mark, although the house belonged to Mr. Hawk and he was living with her at the time.
    W. E. Hammel was also here for dinner Monday. He seems to be very optimistic over the prospects of having the water brought in from Big Butte onto the land in his neighborhood and feels that it will add very materially to the wealth of the community.
    Ed Higinbotham motored through our town Monday forenoon, headed for his old home section near Derby.
    Fred Pettegrew and R. A. Petty were business callers Monday, and so was George McDonald, the foreman on the Rhodes farm, and Alex Vestal of Reese Creek.
    Ira Tungate and his mother came out from Butte Falls Monday evening and Mrs. Tungate spent the night with her sister, Mrs. Nancy Watkins, and Ira spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Jeff Brophy and son, James, accompanied by Mr. C. D. Thomas of Grants Pass, came out from the Brophy farm near Peyton, stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner and went on to Medford.
    Clarence Robinett and wife, nee Fay Perry, came down from near Glendale to visit their parents, Mrs. W. L. Childreth and Wm. Perry. Mrs. Robinett was suffering from a felon on her finger.
    Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was a business caller Tuesday.
    Tuesday afternoon as I was making my rounds in search of items of interest to the general reader, I met a group of men, mostly farmers, discussing the actions of our legislators and the principal topic seemed to be the, as one man expressed it, "the fool dog law." They were giving the poor unfortunate members of the legislature a general roundup, and in the course of the remarks which were not at all complimentary, they decided that they simply had to do something and did not know what else to do, and about this time another farmer joined the group and announced that he saw in the Weekly Oregonian that Governor Olcott had vetoed the bill, and then the question came up as to what would be done with the twelve or thirteen hundred dollars that had been paid in for dog licenses and whether the county would be repaid the money paid out for the collars and tags that have been sold to the dog owners. And then they gave the same legislators a general roundup for passing a law forcing the farmers to brand their butter or turn it over to the creamery trust. And finally they decided that we had better leave all of the old party leaders, do away with the senate entirely, as a fifth wheel to a coach, quit electing lawyers and bankers to the legislature, lower house, and elect no one except plain, old-fashioned farmers to enact our laws. I see in the Oregon Journal where one writer makes the statement that out of the bills passed by the last legislature that 50 percent were either useless or in the interest of the trusts. The people are getting exasperated along these lines.
    Miss Florence Pool, our county demonstrator, Mrs. Emma Sheets and D. M. Lowe of Ashland called for supper last Tuesday night. They had been up to Lake Creek to hold a meeting in the interest of the Farm Bureau and came down here for supper and then went back to Brownsboro, where they were booked to hold a meeting that night. Mr. Lowe gave us a very interesting fireside talk on the way he managed to raise such a variety of greens, vegetables, grass and fruits such as he has been exhibiting at the county, state and national fairs. They are to hold a meeting here tomorrow, Thursday, night and in the afternoon Miss Pool is to hold a meeting with the mothers and daughters and give them some hints on cooking, etc.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 14, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wednesday afternoon, after I had finished writing my letter to the Medford Mail Tribune, I took a stroll around town to see if there was anything of interest to be seen, and I soon found ten of our enterprising citizens of the town and community engaged either in pitching horseshoes (quoits) or else enjoying the sport looking on, and soon our painter and paperhanger, Sam Courtney, drove up, but didn't tarry long, but procured some gasoline for his machine and went on his way looking after business.
    In the course of the afternoon Mr. John Dixon of Trail came into the Sunnyside to spend the night, remarking that he expected to remain until Friday, as he wanted to go up on the Adamson stage, and that stage does not go only three trips a week. Later on Mr. H. T. Galey of Ashland, a traveling insurance agent, came in for the night and about the same time, Mr. S. W. Tracy, a traveling salesman for the Ball Brand Rubbers, came in and spent the night with us.
    Mrs. A. H. Haselton has gone over into California to visit her two daughters, one at Hornbrook and the other at Chico. She took her son, Bobbie, with her, expecting to remain for an indefinite period, as her husband is engaged teaching near Rancheria Prairie.
    Mrs. Walter Myers came in Thursday morning bringing her cream and eggs. She said that she was hatching out chickens and that Mr. Myers stayed at home to plow and look after the incubator while she came to town. She is the lady mentioned in a former letter as having bought a number of turkeys at Talent for breeding purposes. They expect to be in the poultry business quite extensively this season.
    There has been another change in real estate in our little town. Mr. W. P. Morgan, who owns the old Pool hotel property, having bought a three-acre tract of the von der Hellen-Brown Real Estate Company and a lot joining his hotel property and the old A. J. Florey lot lying between Main Street and the creek.
    Rev. Mr. Hoyt of Ashland, the S.S. missionary for the Presbyterian Church, called on your correspondent Thursday afternoon. He was working in the interest of the drive for the Armenians, appointing soliciting agents and notifying the different sections of the country the amount that each was expected to raise for the cause. In the hum of conversation, he mentioned the fact that he expected to give a stereoptic exhibition entertainment in the church here on the evening of the 22nd of this month. There will be about ninety different slides portraying scenes over the seas. The exhibition will be free, but at the close there will be an offering for the benefit of the destitute Armenians.
    Thursday evening there was a meeting here at the opera house in the interest of the Farm Bureau, and Miss Florence Pool, the home demonstration agent, came out in the forenoon to make the necessary arrangements for holding the meeting. There was not near the number in attendance that would have been, had the roads been so that people could have come in their cars, but the horrible roads kept a number away, for in talking to the farmers who came in to dispose of their cream and eggs, and they all expressed a strong desire to attend, but could not on account of the bad roads, not so muddy but so rough, and by the time they milk their cows, it makes it too late to drive with a team into town after dark. But there was quite a number who could and did attend and Mr. Cate, our county pathologist, gave us a talk setting forth the object of the organization and told of what they had done to help the farmers, by forcing the middleman to sell at a more reasonable price, and the bureau furnishing the farmers with the necessaries of farm life, such as sulfur and other fertilizers as well as feed, as many of them have to buy at greatly reduced prices. There are quite a number in this neighborhood who have expressed a desire to become members of the bureau. Miss Pool also gave a short talk on the subject of preparing food, especially on canning vegetables, as well as fruit. And then Mr. Cate resumed his talk, inviting the farmers to assist in the organization. There is quite a number in this community who are favorable to the move and expect to give in their name and pay their initiation fee.
    There was quite a number of people here for dinner Thursday. Among them, William Lewis, sheep king of this section, and his man, Geo. Ford, J. A. Ware, P. S. Anderson and J. S. Pierce, of Trail.
    Mr. Nason, one of the forest rangers, came in on the Medford stage and went on up to Trail.
    Wm. Stanley, father of the five or six Stanley boys who are interested in the cattle business, was a business caller Thursday.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Friday was Mrs. Carl von der Hellen, of Wellen, Mrs. George von der Hellen and son, Donald, of Medford and her sister Mrs. S. Whitley Richardson of Portland; Mr. Charles Horton of Klamath Falls; C. V. Loosley of Fort Klamath and his father, Geo. W. Loosley of Ashland; three cattle buyers and Walter Wood, another cattleman of Eagle Point.
    Mrs. John Greb, wife of one of our leading farmers, passed through our town Friday p.m. on her way to Brownsboro to bring her daughter home, who is teaching in that district.
    Bert Clarno, wife and her son, Carl Bergman, passed through town on their way to Medford this Saturday morning.
    H. T. Chachno of Chicago, E. J. Murphy, wife and son of Wellen, Ernest Peachey, who is engaged counting the stockmen's cattle for U.S. range, R. M. Conley, John Cobleigh, Butte Falls; G. W. Berrian, the fish hatchery superintendent, Butte Falls; M. F. Lewis and Harvey Smith were among the diners Saturday and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kleinhammer, W. K. Zeidler of Applegate called for dinner. They each have farms on Little Applegate and are engaged in the cattle business.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Sunday morning we had our regular Sunday school exercises and at the close Rev. Trovato preached, but the attendance was very small although Rev. Trovato preached one of his very best sermons.
    By the time I reached home the company from the surrounding cities and country began to arrive at the Sunnyside for the chicken dinner, and then the job of securing names of the visitors began. The first ones on my register were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wise and family, P. S. Anderson, Misses Phena and Helen Anderson, J. W. Snider, wife and children, C. V. Loosley of Fort Klamath and Charles Horton of Klamath Falls; J. G. Pierce, Trail; Master Hugo and Joyce von der Hellen, Lloyd Stanley, Howard Silliman, Mrs. H. B. Silliman, Mrs. J. Silliman, Roy Wakefield, Mrs. C. W. Wakefield, Mr. J. W. Wakefield, Hester Wakefield and Charles Wakefield. The ten last named had phoned from Medford the day before that they were coming, so as to have Mrs. H. prepared. A good idea. Y. R. Wise, A. B. Sheibley, Miss Stella Anderson and her sister Ethel. They had spent the night at the Sunnyside. Glen Haley and A. J. Florey, Jr., were also guests during the night, and Miss Florence Lansing and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, besides a few whose names I failed to secure. The visitors from Medford report that the road between here and Medford is in fine condition and the most of them expressed a determination to come out again in the near future.
    Mrs. E. Y. Strong of Trail came out on the M.-E.P. stage and went on up to her home Monday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harnish were favored Monday morning with the arrival of another plow boy weighing about nine pounds.
    W. H. Eddy and son Harold Eddy of Portland were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Eddy was canvassing the town selling a medicine to cure all complaints of the feet.
    William J. Johnson of Coshocton, Ohio, and Wm. Lewis, our sheep king, were also here for dinner. And so was Edgar Johnson, representing Johnson Hide and Wood Company of Brownsboro, and J. W. Scott of Medford, representing the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Fred Neil of Ashland were all here for dinner and so was Charles Loveday and Charles Horton and Charles Cingcade, three cattle men. Messrs. Loveday and Horton had just bought a lot of steers of Charley Cingcade and they all three came here for dinner. Harvey Smith was also one of the diners Monday.
    J. L. Robertson, who is in the habit of coming to town every day in a buggy, he has his boys plowing and running his Fordson gang plow, harrow or spring tooth harrow, and it seems to keep him busy most of the time. He came in Monday in an auto bringing the shafts of his buggy with him for repairs. He said that he let the boys have the buggy and that when they drove into the driveway one of them about the first thing that he did was to pull off the bridle, and the horse supposing that he was loose turned square around and the result was both shafts and the crossbar were smashed, but our blacksmith soon had them repaired and ready for use again. The next time they intend to unhitch the horse before they take off the bridle.
    Mrs. H. F. Pech of Bend, Oregon came out Monday on the 11 o'clock jitney, but was not early enough to catch the L.C. stage so went to the Sunnyside and remained overnight, taking the E.P.-L.C. stage for her grandfather's place--Mr. Damons, who owns a farm near Lake Creek. She intends to spend a while visiting him before returning home.
    Harry von der Hellen was among the business callers Monday also.
    W. E. Hammel, one of the leading promoters of the ditch from Big Butte to the section just north of town, was here on his way to Medford. He seems to be greatly encouraged over the project and is planning to put a large part of his place in alfalfa and clover. He is satisfied if he can succeed in putting water onto his land that he will be able to raise several hundred tons of hay, besides other kinds of crop. He is one of our progressive men who believes in going ahead and doing instead of doing as some of the oldtimers are doing--throwing cold water on every move toward the advancement for fear that the taxes will be increased.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby came out on Monday on the stage, went to Medford, returning Tuesday and going on up home.
    C. R. McDonald, the man who came in from Idaho a short time ago and bought the W. E. Hensley place, started for his old home in Idaho Tuesday afternoon to attend to business interests, expecting to be gone a few weeks. He will tell the people of that frozen region about our Southern Oregon climate.
    Ed Morgan has moved into the Wamsley house.
    In my rounds Tuesday I called at the new garage and found they had it fixed up in good shape and were doing some business. I also called at the old garage--the W. L. Childreth blacksmith shop, and found them busy. Mr. Childreth has engaged the services of Glen Haley, an expert machinist, to help him in his garage work, and we speak for both places, expecting to be able to report that both places are crowded with work.
    J. B. Jackson, one of our farmers, was in town Tuesday and speaking about the Farm Bureau told how when he wanted to procure sulfur to put on his alfalfa that the dealers in Medford and Central Point said that it could not be sold for less than $80 a ton, and how he and William Perry had theirs laid down at their doors in Eagle Point for $47 and $30 a ton and other fertilizers in the same ratio. He is boosting for them.
    Sam Courtney, Marshall Minter and Mr. Hoagland of Central Point were business callers, Mr. H. taking out with him several rolls of barbed wire, going towards his farm above Brownsboro.
    William Perry is engaged in pulling up about half of the fruit trees on the Roy Stanley place.
    O. P. Calef, agent for Knight Packing Company, was here for dinner Tuesday, trying to get the farmers to engage in the production of tomatoes, offering to pay $20 a ton delivered at the plant in Medford.
    Miss Florence Lees and Mr. L. O. Turner of Trail, who have been working in the fruit dryer that was burned in Central Point, came out and spent the night at the Sunnyside Tuesday night.
    William Moore of Butte Falls and Ethel Cook of Medford were here for dinner Tuesday on their way to Medford. Mr. Moore returning Wednesday morning and going to B.F. on the stage.
    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harry Stanley, were business callers Tuesday.
    William von der Hellen, accompanied by J. P. Goin and J. G. Pierce, started for Round Top this morning to tear down a large barn that Mr. von der Hellen had bought. He intends to put it on his farm on Reese Creek.
    Remember the stereopticon entertainment Sunday night, February 22, for the benefit of the helpless Armenians. Free for all.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 23, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday attorney William F. Briggs of Ashland and his client, Ross Spence, also of Ashland and Mr. J. M. Small, a prominent cattle man of Eastern Oregon, called for dinner. They were here looking up necessities in a case now pending in the circuit court, wherein Albert Clements is the plaintiff and Ross Small is the defendant in a suit for damages in the sum of $6,000 for personal injuries and four hundred dollars damage to his machine. The collision occurred last June as Mr. Small was coming from Ashland to Medford and Mr. Clements was coming in from an intersecting road. A boy about fifteen years of age was with him, who received a slight cut on his head and also a cut on his leg. The boy has been living at the Sunnyside Hotel for the past four years, but I refrain from making any comments on the merits of the case, as both Mr. C. and the boy were here either that day or the next.
    James Leabo of Portland, Ore., was also here for dinner the same day and so was W. E. Trensher and W. S. Campbell. They were representing the Trigonia Oil and Gas Co., of Medford, Mr. Campbell being the vice-president of the company. They were selling shares in the company and while here they sold a lot of shares to Dave Pence and W. E. Horn of Trail, who happened to be here for dinner at that time and Mr. Joseph Geppert of Butte Falls was also here for dinner the same day. He has been appointed as supervisor for the Butte Falls road district and went on to Jacksonville that afternoon.
    J. T. Adams, the merchant at McLeod, came in with a wagonload of groceries and gasoline and spent the night with us. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gottlieb came in for supper the same evening, going on to Medford that night. Mr. Gottlieb was also representing the Trigonia Oil and Gas Company. The representatives of the company say that they are selling quite a lot of shares and that the company expects to start drilling by the first of next month. They will begin work in Fern Valley, east of Phoenix.
    While Dave Pence was here Thursday, meeting the two representatives of the oil and gas company, one of them seemed to be well acquainted with him, and conversation naturally turned to the subject of the roads in his district and he said that he had them all well dragged and in good shape and that led to mentioning the Morgan Hill road, just this side of Trail, and Mr. Campbell remarked that Morgan Hill will be a standing monument to the credit of Dave Pence as long as it stands, as it is one of the finest pieces of work in the country.
    Mr. H. L. Vanderburgh of Butte Falls came out on the stage Thursday and went on to Medford the same day.
    John Cadzow of Butte Falls came out Thursday afternoon, went to Medford the same day and returned to the Sunnyside that night, going on home the next morning. Fritz Compson of Trail also spent the night with us. Mr. Compson is an aged man, living alone back on the upper part of Elk Creek. His physical condition is such that he should be looked after by his friends.
    Arthur Mulholland, a man from Eastern Oregon, came in Friday morning on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and inquired for Roy Stanley, and later they two took a trip up above Trail to look at a farm returning that evening, staying overnight at the Sunnyside. He spoke in the highest terms of the country, but did not think that the place would suit his wife, as she has always been used to having a great deal of company and religious and social privileges, as she has been living near a city and also a town, but he thinks that the country is all O.K.
    John Mayhorn, who has been breaking a young horse to ride for S. H. Harnish, has been stopping the past few days at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. H. L. Pech, who has been up in the Lake Creek country for the last few days visiting her grandfather, Mr. Daniels, came out Friday on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage, took dinner here and started for her home in Bend.
    Meryl Garnett of Medford came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Friday morning and went on up to Lake Creek to bring out a car.
    Mr. Welch of the Medford Grocery Co., Medford, came out on the stage this Saturday morning and went to Butte Falls.
    I understand that the surveying crew who are working on the prospective Crater Lake highway, have moved into the S. H. Harnish house.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sample were doing business with our merchants this morning. Mr. Sample is foreman on the Alta Vista orchard.
    J. D. Arnes, the foreman on the Coburn Edgell orchard, was also a business caller this morning.
    A man by the name of Peterson from Portland has bought a half interest of Mr. Adamson in the mail carrying route from here to Persist. Mr. Peterson expects to carry the mail in a Ford, and Mr. Adamson is to run his truck wherever he can get a job.
    Miss Bernice Hargrave of Butte Falls, one of the teachers in the school, came out this morning, took dinner and went to Medford in the Lewis jitney. Sam Courtney and H. C. Drews, head timekeeper on the O.W.R.&N. out of Portland, came in for dinner today and expect to remain a few days.
    As Mr. Joseph Geppert was coming out from Medford Friday p.m., with a county truck, about three miles this side of Medford he was met by two men in a small car and after he had pulled out as far as he could to give space for them to pass, they ran into his truck, striking a point of the hub on a front wheel, knocking the steering wheel out of his hand and causing the machine to turn crossways in the road, throwing it into the ditch and then drove right on, not even offering to help him out. Fortunately, there was no damage done, except tearing a tire off a front wheel, but he thinks at least they could have stopped to help him out, but they were probably afraid that there might be a damage suit, but they showed a cowardly spirit and that they were men of no principle. Mr. Geppert came on to the Sunnyside that night, going on up to his home Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Sunday morning just as we were preparing to open our Sabbath school, Rev. J. W. Hoyt and his son Arthur came in to take part with us. Mr. Hoyt is the traveling evangelist working in the interest of the Sabbath schools for the Presbyterian Church. I, as teacher of the Bible class, requested him to take charge of my class, but he declined but after the regular exercises were over we invited him to address the school which he did, giving us some very interesting suggestions. As we had no preaching appointment for that day we repaired to our homes. Owing to the inability of our regular Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. J. L. Robertson, to attend, Mr. Carl Esch, one of our new members, who has recently bought a fine farm just below town, acted in that capacity. At night Mr. Hoyt, who is at present working on behalf of the Armenians, gave a stereopticon entertainment and took up a collection for the benefit of that downtrodden and persecuted race of people, resulting in an offering of $8.97 and after deducting $1.50 to pay the express charges on the slides from Portland and back, $7.47 cents was handed to Mrs. Robertson to be forwarded to the proper official of the drive. The entertainment was quite interesting and we had a very respectable-sized audience. Mr. Hoyt was somewhat handicapped during the exhibition on account of him not getting the slides he had expected and consequently was not familiar with the accompanying explanations.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday noon for dinner were James Archibald, C. H. Hargadine of Ashland, Wm. von der Hellen, wife and son Hugo, W. C. Clements and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Brown and John Foster, now of Lake Creek. At night Mr. Hoyt and son Arthur were here for supper and Miss Bernice Hargrave who went on to Butte Falls that night.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, who owns and operates a fine farm a short distance below our town and has been visiting relatives in California, returned last Saturday but I did not learn of her arrival until Monday when her son, Guy, was in town.
    Mrs. Ernest Peachey, wife of one of the forest rangers, came out Monday on the Eagle Point stage and went on up to her home in Butte Falls.
    Green Mathews and his son Verna were in town Monday.
    I noticed in last Sunday's Medford Sun among other very interesting things a poem written by B. F. Dowell, entitled "The Old Brick House," and the reading brought vividly to my mind the scenes of my first introduction to Oregon in October, A.D. 1861, and while I was in Jacksonville, then a thriving mining camp, my attention was called to that brick house as being the only brick residence in Southern Oregon. It was erected by Mr. Dowell's father, B. F. Dowell, Sr., who at that time was one of the leading attorneys in the state and while he was making his home in Jacksonville, he spent a good part of his time in Washington, D.C. practicing law in the supreme court. I well remember having my attention called to the marble mantlepiece and its surroundings that was brought in from Crescent City on pack mules and the fine furniture that was also brought in from there in the same way. And about that time was erected the Methodist church that was built by donations contributed by the sporting class of the town, for while many of them were professional gamblers many of them were men of refinement and culture but had drifted into vices so prevalent in the day, but they were liberal to a fault and always ready to lend a helping hand to the needy.
    Mrs. A. C. Spence, wife of the Brownsboro road supervisor, was trading here Monday.
    Wm. Holman of Lake Creek was also a business caller Monday, coming in on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mrs. H. M. Morgan of Sams Valley is here visiting her husband's parents, W. T. Morgan, who now own the old hotel property known as the old Pool hotel, but the venerable couple have closed the hotel and are enjoying the pleasure of private life.
    Mr. and Mrs. Stuart McKissick of Klamath Falls came in and engaged room and board for Mrs. McKissick and after eating his dinner Mr. McKissick joined Mr. Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, and went up in the Big Butte country. Mr. McKissick is a civil engineer and is expected to assist in the work of building the irrigation ditch that will bring water into this valley. Mr. McKissick has engaged the von der Hellen bungalow to live in.
    Mrs. Ernest Dahack and children, who have been visiting in San Francisco, visiting relatives, returned last Saturday, Feb. 21.
    T. C. Drews, head timekeeper on the O.W.R. and N., mentioned in my last, remained with us until Monday afternoon, returning on No. 16 for Portland. [While] he was here he spent a good part of his time looking for agates, securing some fine specimens.
    A. R. Leovett of Klamath Falls, and E. L. Beeson of Talent, and C. S. Plymale, also of Klamath Falls, and H. C. Stoltze and J. E. Edmiston of Medford, organizers of Fruit Growers corporation and Frank Rhodes were here for dinner Monday.
    Nick Young, formerly our road supervisor, who has been on the sick list, was on our streets Monday and so was George Albert who lives at the Dupray saw mill. He reports that Mr. Dupray has resumed operations again and intends to supply lumber to the needy.
    Robert Harnish was dragging the road between here and Reese Creek Tuesday.
    T. F. McCabe and daughter Ellen were business callers Tuesday.
    The surveyors working on the Crater Lake Highway between here and Prospect have finally reached our town and set the stakes for the road between the von der Hellen hardware store and the Eagle Point Bank. I heard Royal Brown remark that they had been just six months surveying 36 miles of road, but perhaps they were not all of the time running on the same route. I understand that when they started to run through a field north of here they were stopped but that is all foolishness. There is strong pressure being brought to bear to have the new road cross Little Butte some distance below the old bridge and change the road so as to leave all of the old part of the town out entirely.
    There was a man here for dinner Tuesday representing the Arthur Boomhower Corporation of New York.
    H. E. Webb of Derby came out Tuesday on the stage and went to Central Point, returning this Wednesday morning.
    D. R. Patrick, W. C. Daley and W. S. Chappell, our shoe men, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    W. E. Butler, wife, father and daughter-in-law were here in town on business Tuesday.
    C. V. Loosley, a cattle buyer of Fort Klamath, spent Tuesday night with us and was met here this Wednesday by Ben Brophy and the two went up on Big Butte together.
    Alex Betz, Alex Vestal, W. W. Winfrey, a sheep man, Edgar Johnson, a hide buyer of Medford, Edward Shroke, a meat buyer of Medford, were here for dinner today and while out here the two last named bought six calves for veal of J. B. Jackson and son, and Mr. Szugger of California, was also a diner at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Marion, of Derby, was a business caller Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 28, 1920, page 5


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Thomas Harris of Lake Creek was among the callers Wednesday afternoon.
    The Misses Sadie and Ethel Anderson of Medford, in company with A. J. Florey, Jr., came out from Medford Wednesday evening and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Jack O'Conner, wife and two boys of Phoenix, came out Wednesday evening on business, remaining until bed time with Mrs. Howlett. Mr. O'Conner having business with one of the mail contractors in this section.
    Mr. J. H. Heener of Brownsboro came on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Thursday, bringing with him two large coyote skins, taking them to Medford to sell. He reports that he has been quite successful the past winter catching them. He says that they are very cunning and quite hard to catch in a trap and related of one instance where one was caught in a trap by the hind leg and he had laid on a large stone on the chain attached to the trap and after the coyote worked the stone off of the trap, picked it up and carried it quite a distance before he dropped it and then it got fast in the brush and was finally captured. In former days the coyote skin was of but little value, but now they are bringing from $8 to $15 each owing to the condition of the fur, and some of our lady citizens prize them very highly for wraps.
    Professor H. P. Jewett, principal of the Butte Falls high school, was a passenger on the stage Thursday on his way home. He said that the school board had closed the school on account of the prevalence of the flu. At that time there was about 15 cases, but this Saturday morning the report came that there were 30 cases and Mrs. S. A. Wheeler, a trained nurse, was on her way up there to help Mrs. Lee care for the sick. Mrs. Lee went up on Thursday morning.
    Master Richard Vanderbaugh of Butte Falls came out on the stage Thursday and walked into the Sunnyside Hotel and inquired if he could have dinner, and being answered in the affirmative, inquired where he could wash. He is a little tot, but as bright as a new minted dollar and on being asked to register his name, wrote it in a neat legible hand, and I could not help but contrast the present methods of teaching, for when I was a boy, to find a child of 14 years of age that could write his name was a rare thing, much less a child of 7 or 8, but we are surely living in a progressive age. After Richard had eaten his dinner, he paid for it and went on to Medford on the stage.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls was also a business caller Thursday, and so was P. S. Anderson of Medford. Mr. Joy and Lonnie Bless of Elk Creek, Pete Betz, one of our farmers, C. E. and Ora Bellows, Henry French and E. V. Brittsan, some of our enterprising farmers and dairy men were in on Thursday to meet the two creamery men, who run the Jackson County and Independent creamery trucks. They were both here at the same time, and both trucks were loaded. The next morning I saw the Jackson County Creamery truck pass through here again and he seemed to have a good load on again. They gather up hundreds of gallons of cream and hundreds of dozens of eggs besides dressed hogs and calves and chickens, thus leaving hundreds of dollars in cash with our farmers. I was talking with a man this morning who keeps 500 hens and he told me that he was getting 300 eggs a day and that by the middle of March he would get a great many more. He said that the price of eggs had dropped, that he only received 31¢ a dozen Thursday so he was not going to sell any more, but put them in cold storage until the price comes up.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robertson, Rube Johnson, Alex Mathews, who live out north of our town, and Mrs. Ed Tucker and daughter of Brownsboro, were dealing with our merchants here Thursday.
    Ray Harnish came very near being seriously hurt Thursday. He was riding a horse that he had just broke to the saddle, which became unmanageable, and in attempting to make him go as he wanted him to he reared up, falling over backward and Mr. Harnish's foot being in the stirrup, so that he could not free himself from the saddle, the result was the horse fell on his leg, but fortunately there was no serious damage done.
    Murt Daily of Medford and Frank Bagley, one of the U.S. timber inspectors, spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Beale of Butte Falls were here Friday morning and Mrs. Beale went up home on the stage, but William remained here. He has had a paralytic stroke but is so that he can walk by using one crutch.
    Jack O'Conner of Phoenix came out Friday morning on his way to Butte Falls, but on arriving here found a telephone call to return to Medford on urgent business, so he called a taxi and went back to Medford.
    R. L. Walton, representative of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., of New York, was here for dinner Friday and so was James Owens, our county commissioner, D. A. Houston, an internal revenue officer, hunting up the poor fellows who have an income of $1000 or more to relieve them of part of it. He remained here until today, going to Grants Pass this afternoon.
    A. A. Betz, Arthur J. Mugg of Portland, G. L. Buckner of Medford, Charles Terrill, sheriff and deputy and two strangers came in late for dinner while I was out hunting Eaglets so I didn't see them.
    Geo. Stowell and little stepson came in this morning and the little boy went out in the country on the jitney.
    Carl Hays, our new road superintendent, and Bob Harnish were dragging the roads this morning, but now the rain has come at last, and will put a stop to road work, we all hope, for awhile. The rain is about the most welcome visitor we could have and we hope that enough will come this time to start vegetation, for the long drought has seemingly damaged the growing crops and kept back the grass so that the stockmen have had to feed longer than usual.
    J. F. McCabe, F. J. Ayres, Ed Spencer, from Fort Klamath, were business callers today.
    Mrs. E. J. Murphy, daughter Thelma, and Mrs. Murphy's sister, Miss Ethel Holman of Wellen, J. E. Garner, formerly of Brownsboro, but now of Medford, Mrs. Ernest Peachey, wife of one of the forest rangers and Wm. A. Hauser of Portland, representing Failing-McCalman Hardware Co., Portland, were here for dinner today.
    Walter Wood and wife were in town on their way to Medford today.
    Charles Klimvle of Lake Creek was also a business caller Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 4, 1920, page 5


REESE CREEK RIPLETS
    Mrs. W. Isbell, who was confined to her bed a few days last week, is able to sit up some again.
    Mrs. C. E. Bellows is gradually improving since her operation.
    Mrs. Frank Johnson is still confined to her bed from the effects of the flu, but is improving slowly.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joe Noonan and little daughter spent Sunday at Mr. Isbell's.
    Mrs. B. Clarno has been spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Crandall.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins visited at the Stilles' last week.
    Mr. Ora Bellows and family expect to move to Weed, California in a few days.
    H. Watkins has a thoroughbred Plymouth Rock hen weighing about ten pounds, which he prizes very highly. He has trained [her] to sing while he carries her in his arms.
    The first day of March this year was blustery, having snowed the most of the day, but it melted as fast as it fell.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 5, 1920, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday night Henry Trusty of Elk Creek and Sam Courtney of Reese Creek spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Sunday morning we had our usual attendance at Sunday school, but did not have any preaching, as our minister Rev. Joseph Trovato, instead of coming out from Butte Falls to fill his regular appointments at Brownsboro and Eagle Point, remained in Butte Falls helping to take care of the sick and needy. There has been a regular epidemic of flu in that city and Mr. Trovato volunteered his services to help the needy. The result was that there was no preaching in Brownsboro or this place either. I am not prepared to say whether there will be preaching Sunday or not, but I hardly think that there will be, as if Mr. Trovato should decide to come out and preach, the people here would hardly venture out to hear him for fear of taking the disease themselves.
    Sunday noon we did not have very many here for dinner, as we had had a little snow and rain, with a prospect for more. Although it proved to be a fairly nice day considering that it was the fifth Sunday in February, something that does not happen very often and will not occur again until February, 1938, if I am correctly informed. But we did have quite a number as it was, among whom was Mr. and Mrs. McGill of Seattle, Wash.; Miss Hineman of San Francisco; D. B. Worson of Portland, Oregon; Wm. von der Hellen, wife and son Hugo, and daughter Joyce; A. J. Florey, Jr., and Miss Ethel Anderson. The two ladies are from Medford and enjoy coming out here and partaking of a good chicken dinner. Laurence Luy of Wellen; Art Smith, who is a part owner in the old J. W. Smith home and orchard, and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Joe Casey and two boys and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Childreth of Talent.
    Monday morning when I got up I found J. W. Sanders, the superintendent of the Commercial orchard, was here for breakfast, and suppose that he had come from home that morning as he is a man that is generally up and doing. Carlyle Notwick and Jack Florey were here for beds also Sunday night and breakfast Monday morning.
    Mrs. Fred Sturgis of Elk Creek and George Strong, also of Elk Creek and Mrs. Ernest Peachey came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage. Mrs. Sturgis and Mr. Strong went up home on the Eagle Point-Prospect stage, and Mrs. Peachey went up to her home in Butte Falls.
    P. W. Haley, one of our enterprising farmers, I understand, has sold his farm and is moving into Central Point. We don't like the idea much of having our old standby farmers selling out and moving away, but it has come to that point where an old man like Mr. Haley, for he is around 60 or 65 years, is not able to do the work on a farm and to attempt to hire the ordinary laborer who is in the market for hire and depend on him for help when he will lay in bed until just time to wash his face and eat his breakfast before 8 o'clock, and if the team is fed the employer will have to go out to the barn and feed it and get it ready to go to work or else the hired man puts in a good part of his eight hours that he is expected to work getting the team ready and then if he is left to himself--well, he won't hurt himself working, and he will be sure to be in in plenty of time for supper. That is about the way that it is represented by those who have to depend on hiring men to work on the farms, and the farmer has to keep up his teams and have them do only about half the work they should have done, so the older ones are leaving the farms and the newcomers are introducing the tractor and Caterpillars to do the farm work instead of spending so much on hired help. And yet if an employer says a word about bringing in foreign help he will be shouted down as "un-American."
    Speaking about work in general and on the roads in particular, I heard two taxpayers discussing the proposition as to using the tractor Caterpillar to do a great deal of the grading, leveling, scraping and ditching on our county roads instead of using horses. When the horses are used, as a rule, they are stopped every short distance to rest, and the owners are careful not to overwork them, and the man who handles the plow or grader is careful not to set it too deep, but with the iron horse, one can hitch onto the plow or grader, set them as deep as desired and it will walk right along and do more work in one day than they can in two days with the teams and at a great deal less expense.
    Miss Mae Greb came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Monday morning.
    J. P. McAuliffe of Fort Klamath and S. S. Mitchell of Ashland, two cattle buyers, C. W. Walton of Portland and Hamilton Watkins, on the free ferry road, C. V. Loosley, Fort Klamath and Fred Neil of Ashland, Mrs. S. A. Wheeler of Medford, who went up to Butte Falls as a trained nurse, came out on the stage Monday. All took dinner here.
    S. M. Hawk of Butte Falls came out on the stage Monday and went on to Medford.
    W. H. Crandall and "Brig" Whetstone were also business callers Monday.
    Thomas Cingcade came in with his wood-sawing machine to have it sharpened up a little by our blacksmith and machinist, W. F. Childreth.
    B. H. Willison, representing L. Dinkelspiel, San Francisco; H. B. Stephenson, jitney chauffeur and E. L. Potts of Medford were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. Ed Marstersen and Mrs. Elvin Roberts of Dufur, Oregon, sisters of W. P. Morgan, who have been here visiting their sister, started for their home Tuesday.
    Green Mathews, one of our prosperous cattlemen, made a business trip to Medford Tuesday.
    James Dervis, Jr., one of the deputy county assessors, who is appointed to assess the Brownsboro, Lake Creek and Climax districts, was with us Tuesday night on his way to his district.
    H. L. Hayes and wife were in town this Wednesday morning on their way home near the free ferry. They had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Riley.
    Carl Taylor of Portland, a son of Mrs. R. G. Brown, who is a sister of Mrs. W. H. Brown, is here visiting his mother and family.
    J. M. Spence of Kerby, Ore., who has been visiting his cousin, A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, came out on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage this morning and went on to Medford on his way home.
    H. Bruggeman of Seattle, Wash., came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage today and went up to Brownsboro on the Lake Creek stage.
    C. H. Nordwick and son Carlyle, John Greb, Jr., Irvin Grey and his brothers George H. and Otto, and A. C. Edler of Lake Creek and Miss Lorraine Armes of Ashland were in town today. The five last named were on their way to Medford.
    Mr. E. Szugger of Banning, Calif., a mule buyer; Frank Neil of Derby; Wm. von der Hellen, one of our hardware men, and Mr. Jess McNeil of Alameda, Calif., were here for dinner today. Mr. McNeil was soliciting subscribers for some twenty different magazines and by that means working for a free pass to college. He served over two years in France and was gassed, which incapacitates him from heavy work. He seemed to be meeting with success in his undertaking. He seems to be a bright young man and has undertaken a laudable project, trying to finish his education.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 6, 1920, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday after I had written my Eaglets for the Mail Tribune, Mr. E. Szugger of Banning, Cal., a mule buyer who had been around Northern California and Southern Oregon, came in for supper and bed. He was on a deal with one of the Stanley brothers for some mules. I heard one of the boarders that happened to be in Medford say that he had bought up a nice lot of mules that he shipped from Medford the next day.
    Jess McNeil, a traveling salesman, also spent the night with us Wednesday night.
    Walter Meyer and wife, who live just north of our town and are interested in the dairy and poultry business, came in early Thursday with their cream and eggs. The creamery and egg business is getting to be so immense that the trucks are now coming in twice a week, Monday and Thursday, and seem to be loaded each time they come, but I hear some of their customers complain that there is too great a difference in the price they pay and the price that is being paid in Medford and Central Point for eggs.
    I understand that the Crater Lake Highway engineers, who are looking over the different routes between Medford and Prospect to decide which route will be the most practical, have established a line running as near straight as they could across the desert. (Now gentle reader, please don't misunderstand and take for granted that the tract of land I term desert is a barren waste, for it is not, but it is a tract of thin land that by common consent has been called the desert for the past sixty years, although it will produce vegetables and berries if the proper fertilizers and water are used.) After leaving Agate station they ran a straight line to Antelope Creek, crossing it a short distance below the old bridge running through David Cingcade's place, then crossing the old road running through Mrs. Coy's, intersects the old road near a short grade, following the old road most of the time until they reached the lower end of Eagle Point, then crossing the Butte Creek run as near as they could go on a straight line to go between Geo. Brown & Sons store and the new garage, crossing the street and going between von der Hellen hardware store and the bank, then bearing off in a northeasterly direction toward the top of the hill, running north for the old road. It is to be expected that there will be some kicking, but those who object had better grin and bear it. While it will discommode a number, if we can have a good road from here to Medford so that we can travel it at all times of the year we can put up with having to go half mile or so out of our way to cross the creek. The principal objection is the location of the bridge crossing Little Butte.
    Among those who brought in their eggs and cream Thursday were Geo. Stowell, cream but no eggs; he is saving them for higher prices. Mrs. Grant Mathews and son, Ed Cowden, C. E. Bellows, and while he was here he had our cobbler repair some shoes. Speaking of shoes, the men who have to buy say that they cannot afford to pay such prices so our cobbler is doing a rushing business. Henry French, E. V. Brittsan, he brought in 35 gallons of cream beside quite a number who brought in eggs and no cream, and many of them brought in as high as 20 dozen. There are others who are planning to go more extensively into the egg business.
    I met V. E. Peterson, the new mail carrier that drives between here and Persist, Friday morning as he was getting ready to start on his route. He had as part of his load six ten-gallon cans to take up in the Trail and Elk Creek country and while talking told me of an accident he had had on his trip during the snowstorm on the 20th of last month. The grade is so narrow that there is just room for his Ford to go over it and the snow had made the ground slippery and the result was that his car turned over a steep bank breaking one wheel and demolishing the top, but fortunately he was not hurt, so he managed to right his Ford and proceed on his journey.
    W. A. Rummel of Trail was here for dinner Thursday and so was Chas. Horton of Klamath Falls, Fred Neil of Ashland and C. V. Loosley, Fort Klamath, and J. K. Schooler of Brownsboro, the last four named remaining over night and Mr. Schooler went to Medford Friday morning and Mr. Horton to Butte Falls, both returning and remaining here overnight and Mr. Horton is still here. He and Mr. Loosley and Neil are buying cattle.
    Thursday as I was crossing on our wire suspension bridge a car stopped at the end and a man jumped out and walked up to me, reached out his hand and called me by name, and it proved to be John Matney of Klamath County, one of our old neighbors of years ago. We had not met before for thirty years and still he recognized me while riding in a car. He and his son Vance and cousin Harry Welch had come out from Medford just to see some of the oldtimers here, John and L. E. Nichols, the Brown brothers and a few others he knew when he was a boy.
    John McAllister of Lake Creek came out on the Lake Creek stage Friday.
    John Nichols, our mayor, started to repair our wagon bridge Friday. The railing had been thrown down when they put on some extra planking and he concluded to repair it as it was dangerous and while I was looking for Eaglets discovered him at work so joined him and helped him out and now it is considered safe again.
    N. E. Slusser, our barber and agate grinder, has been making some changes in the interior of his agate shop.
    W. E. Hensley of Wellen, and Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers, were here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellestad of Central Point were here Friday to meet their daughter who is teaching in the Derby district.
    Herbert A. Mitchell, representing S. M. Bixby & Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., O. C. King, representing the Medford Grocery Company, Medford, Gus Ditsworth and his brother-in-law, Uriah Vaughn of Peyton, John Holtz, Mr. Nason, R. U. Cander, Geo. West, Geo. Cottrell and the three cattle buyers, and Benj. Brophy were among the diners Friday.
    Miss Maude Merritt, who lives on Reese Creek, came out on the Lake Creek stage and Miss Anna French of Talent came out on the Medford stage on her way to teach school in District No. 84 above Elk Creek on Rogue River.
    B. J. Martin and J. T. Lane of Derby came out bringing out a load of wood, selling it to Mrs. Howlett at $3 per tier.
    Died, Friday morning, at her home near Prospect, Miss Lillian Cunningham, daughter of Mrs. Nelson Nye, aged about 22 years.
    A. C. Walker, one of the deputy assessors, was here for dinner today, Friday and so was Frank Brandon, Wm. Coy, Thos. Nichols, Wm. Martin and Frank Bagley, one of the U.S.S. men.
    R. A. Petty was in town today getting the wire stretchers to put in a cross fence on the place.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 8, 1920, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    After I had written my letter for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, John Foster of Lake Creek, John Mayham, Jay Spitzer, Miss Margaret Riley, Frank Brandon of Central Point and five or six men who are in the Forest Service came in for supper and beds. The Forest Service men engaged rooms and meals for an indefinite time as they are engaged in putting up a telephone line between here and Trail, connecting the Butte Falls line with it north of here.
    Sunday morning we had our regular Sunday school as usual and there was an addition of three who came in but took no active part. There was no preaching as Mr. Trovato, the regular minister, did not venture out from Butte Falls where he had been helping to care for the sick, and I am unable at this date to announce when he will be here again, although Dr. Holt reports that those who have been sick are improving. He reports that there were forty cases in that place and neighborhood. We of Eagle Point have been very fortunate in that regard as we have had but three cases reported in our town.
    We had quite a crowd here for dinner Sunday. Mrs. Allie Daley, who assisted Mrs. Howlett in her work, reported that there were 53 took dinner (noon), including the family and regular boarders. Among those who came from a distance and from their homes in Eagle Point were A. J. Anderson, wife, son Harold and two daughters, Misses Ethel and Sadie, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Satchwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Carpenter, all of Medford, A. L. Haselton who is engaged teaching school near Rancheria Prairie, who came out to meet his wife and son Rob; Mrs. A. L. and Mrs. Frank Haselton of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Palm, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jewell, Mr. and Mrs. Anna Avis, Mr. and Mrs. Tenett and son, Dr. and Mrs. Hart of Medford, Joe Moomaw and wife and baby, Rollen Reter, wife and child, Medford; Wm. von der Hellen, wife, son Hugo and daughter Miss Joyce, Eagle Point; Ernest Peachey, C. D. Morgan and wife of Gold Hill, G. W. Medley and wife, Medford; C. E. Gates and wife, Miss Marie Gates, Mildred Jacques, Mr. Hanford and Mrs. Whitley, Mr. Stuart Kissick. (Mr. Kissick is the engineer who has charge of the work of surveying and locating the proposed water ditch from above Butte Falls, taking the water out of Big Butte Creek, and he brought with him his crew consisting of C. G. Hegler, Wm. James, Ed James and P. McCool.) Mr. Kissick has had his wife boarding here since about the 23rd of February and the four last named engaged rooms and board for an indefinite term. There were quite a number here Sunday who were strangers to me and in the tumult of coming and going I failed to get all of the names, but in such a company it is very hard to secure all of the names but no one was intentionally omitted. Miss Anna French of Talent, who came out Saturday on the stage on her way to near McLeod to teach school, remained here at the Sunnyside until Monday morning, taking the Trail stage for her destination.
    Charles Horton of Klamath Falls, one of the cattle buyers, came in Monday and went out with Ben Brophy to look over his cattle that were on the range in the low hills near Round Top and Antelope Mountain, returning to the Sunnyside that night tired and hungry, for he had had no dinner that day.
    Cecil Culbertson and wife came in Monday morning on their way to Medford.
    George Gates of Medford and Edward Riley called for dinner Monday and so did Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls. She came out from home, took dinner and went on to Medford.
    R. E. Morris, our school supervisor, came out Monday night, spent the night with us, went to Laurel Hill and Reese Creek, visited the schools, returning to the Sunnyside that night and today. Wednesday went up to Brownsboro, Butte Creek and Lake Creek schools. Speaking about schools brings to mind an article that appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune of the 8th over the signature of W. E. Phipps, where he criticizes the action of the school board of Medford for what he calls a usurpation of power, and I will say for the encouragement of Mr. Phipps that I have heard quite a number of our citizens applauding him for his stand in the matter. I cannot see the use of having a contract signed unless it is binding on both parties, and when a teacher signs a contract to teach a given time for a specified amount, she, or he as the case may be, holds the board to that contract just the same as a corporation would hold a contractor who agrees to perform a certain job and they generally have to sign a bond as an assurance that the contract will be filled, but if a teacher signs up he or she can resign on a simple pretext and the board will generally accept the resignation through sympathy and if they don't accept they can do as a teacher did in one of our rural districts in the high hills, she came out on some pretext and married, then sent word that she was not going to teach anymore, and so left them to hunt up another teacher, and all the penalty attached was the revoking of her license to teach, but what did she care for that, for she was married and did not care how much she discommoded the patrons of the school. If they sign a contract it should not be left to the option of the board to raise a salary and if they have that right they should have the right also to lower the salary. It is a poor rule that don't work both ways.
    A man came in Tuesday and gave his name as A. T. Spacer but was very reticent as to his business, but in the run of conversation remarked that he had recently come from California. P. S. Hargood, a traveling salesman, was also here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Nate Garrett, who live on the old Phoenix road near Roxy Ann, came in Tuesday to bring in Mrs. Garrett's sister, Miss Ellen McCabe, who has been visiting Mrs. Garrett for the past two weeks.
    M. F. Lewis, George McDonald, J. R. Beach, Frank Smith, Noble Zimmerman, who has been spending the winter in Blue Canyon trapping, and Wm. Moore of Butte Falls and Harry Smith were among the diners today, Wednesday.
    We are having some fine showers now so that the buzz of the autos is positively stopped for the present.
    Prof. A. L. Haselton, who is teaching north of Butte Falls, came out Saturday, returning Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 12, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    After I had finished my letter to the Mail Tribune Wednesday afternoon and taken it to the post office, O. Adams of Butte Falls, Mr. B. Bursch of Wellen and Thomas Edsall of Phoenix came in and enjoyed board and lodging for a few days. They are engaged in running out government lines in the Lake Creek country. They go from here in a car to their day's work and return. W. R. Hannington of Boardman, Ore., also came in and engaged a room for a few days. He is interested in the agate industry and has been engaged hunting over our agate fields in this section. While here he succeeded in securing a very nice lot of stones. He hunted up to today, Saturday, noon, and then started for his home. He promised before he left to return this coming fall and spend a while gathering up more agates. Fred Frideger of Medford, who owns a 20-acre orchard just above town, also came in for supper and a room, to remain a few days. He is out to prune up and improve his orchard. Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, was also here for supper.
    Our neighbor, Mr. Morgan, who now owns the old Farmer Hotel property, has driven the posts for a fence to enclose the property and some adjoining lots he has purchased.
    Ralph Peyton of Peyton came out on the stage Thursday morning and went on up home.
    Although Thursday is one of the days when the cream-gathering truck comes around, there seemed to be but a few farmers in town, although Henry French and his daughter, Miss Mae, came in and were accompanied by Miss Ellen McCabe. Ed Cowden and wife were also in and were doing some business with our merchants. Mrs. Fred Dutton and a lady friend were also here and so was George McDonald, the foreman on the Frank Rhodes farm, and while he was here I asked him how he liked the way the Fordson tractors work, and he replied that it was doing the work very well, but he was fearful that the heavy iron wheels would pack the ground so at to make it so hard that it would not revive again for a long time, and the next man that I interviewed on the subject was Thomas D. Singleton and he said that he had tried three different kinds of plowing machines, and that he liked the one he had fine. Said that he was plowing up his alfalfa meadow with three heavy horses and a hand plow and had worked hard for about three days, and that he then put in a tractor and accomplished as much in five hours as he had in three days and it was done well. He then hitched on to three sections of harrow and harrowed it down; then hitched onto three sections of spring-tooth harrow and crossed it, leaving it in fine shape, and that the present owner of the farm, Mr. Earl Esch, will raise a fine crop of wheat on it. I then related what Mr. McDonald had said about packing the ground and he then asked which was the worst for the land, to have a large hard iron wheel run over the land, or to have a horse weighing 14 or 15 hundred pounds tramp over it day after day and each foot measuring five or six inches across, and thus pack the ground and then the next year repeat the work again and skim off the same soil that had been moved the year before, down to the packed surface, and he was so decidedly in favor of the iron horse. After it is packed with the machine the same machine will put the plows under that crust and liven it up again and make it as good as ever, and Mr. Singleton predicts that the time is not far distant when the horse will be done away with, as a plow power and that the "iron horse" will take his place almost entirely on the farm.
    Carl Kyle, who is on the J. W. Grover farm, was here having some blacksmith work done Thursday and Robert Gordon of Fort Klamath came in, ate this dinner and went out to Medford on the jitney.
    Wig Jacks, who has bought land in our town, is fencing it, and arranging to put water on it. He has the ditch already blocked out.
    Ralph Beibersteadt was among the business callers Friday.
    Mrs. Sherman Wooley went to Butte Falls to see her mother and brothers Friday on the stage.
    Benjamin Whetstone was also among the callers Friday, and so was Harvey Roy, Lloyd and Thomas Stanley. The first three named seemed to be going to drive off cattle to the mountain range.
    Rev. Trovato came out from Butte Falls and went to Medford to enter the hospital to be thoroughly examined to ascertain if there were any of the germs of the flu hanging to him, as he had been right in the midst of it in Butte Falls while waiting on those who were sick.
    Floyd Tucker brought out the Lake Creek and Brownsboro mail for his brother-in-law, William Staub, Friday.
    Mike Sidleyson of Lake Creek came out from Medford Friday morning and went up home on the stage.
    James Owens, one of our county commissioners, was here interviewing some of our citizens, as well as A. C. Speck, the road supervisor of the Brownsboro road district, and Thomas Stanley of Butte Falls.
    Miss Hazel Brown, our assistant cashier, motored to Medford Thursday evening, returning in time to be at her desk by nine o'clock a.m. next morning.
    Horace Geppert came out Thursday, went on to Medford, returning here Friday a.m., and remained until this Sunday morning with us at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Ella Belford, who has been up in the northern country, returned to her home Friday. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Anna Stewart.
    A. J. Cobleigh of Butte Falls was in town Friday and so was E. E. Tucker of Brownsboro, and Thomas D. Singleton, formerly owner of the Esch farm.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wettinburg, who are running the Joe Rader farm near here, were in town Friday, and so was Thomas Carlton of Prospect and Wm. Cottrell of Trail.
    Mrs. J. H. Carlton of Wellen was here Friday visiting her sisters, Lottie Van Scoyoc, and Mrs. S. B. Holmes.
    Among the callers today, Saturday noon, were Mrs. Ed Murphy, daughter and sister, Miss Holman of Wellen, Mr. Charles E. Turner of Kansas City, Mo., J. L. Farley of Portland, J. H. Murphy of Medford and Mrs. Richardson of Butte Falls and M. T. Leneis. They were all here for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wm Cottrell of Trail, one of our leading stockmen, A. J. Florey, Jr., Miss Ethel Anderson and her sister Sadie, of Medford, came in Saturday evening for rooms and meals.
    Sunday we were favored with a fine downpour of rain and snow, and that day Mr. C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle came out from the camp that they had established a short distance beyond Prospect, and report that the snow, when they left, was fourteen inches deep and snowing like everything. Carlyle said that it snowed so hard that he had to lower his windshield to see to drive, as the snow would accumulate on the windshield so fast as to completely cover it up and the wind was blowing so hard that they were completely covered with snow. There has been a vast amount of trouble borrowed by a number of our citizens on account of the scarcity of snow in the hills and some predicted that there would be a great scarcity of water on the range for stock, but now their fears have all vanished, and now they are borrowing trouble fearing that as we have had such a fine rain and snow that it will be the last and that we will not have any more rain and the result will be a failure of crops, but I have been living in this immediate neighborhood for the past fifty-three years and have never seen a failure of crops, yet it is the case quite often that someone will have a failure of his crop, especially his corn crop, but that is generally attributed to a failure of the farmer to properly prepare his ground before planting or leaving it half worked, pulverized, after it is planted, but where the ground is properly worked before and after the corn is planted, especially if the ground is well rolled after the planting and then if it is inclined to bake, to run over it with a light harrow. That will almost always ensure a good stand and with proper care and culture a good crop.
    Owing to the inclement weather Sunday morning there was not the usual attendance at Sunday school, but nevertheless we had a very interesting time, but no preaching as Mr. Trovato failed to put in an appearance and I am not able to state whether he will be here next Sunday or not, but we will have Sunday school as usual commencing at 10 o'clock a.m.
    Miss Ethel Freeman of Ashland, who is teaching in the Little Butte district, came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and went on up to her school on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Clarence Middlebusher of Trail and Fred Frideger of Medford also came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and the driver, Joe Noonan, had to leave a lady, who is engaged teaching in the Elk Creek district, Miss Edna Von Gotham of Rogue River, who came out later on the Eagle Point jitney, and remained at the Sunnyside until this Wednesday morning, and then went up to her school on the Eagle Point-Persist stage.
    J. M. Dews, one of the deputy assessors, the one assigned to assess Brownsboro, Lake Creek and Climax districts, came in Sunday night.
    Rollie Mathews, one of the stockmen of this section, was in town Monday and in talking with him in regard to the cattle, he said that they had turned out all of their cattle except about sixty-five cows with calves that were too poor to hustle for a living yet, as there is practically no grass, and I am told that among those turned out there is quite a number that have succumbed to the hard winter as quite a number of the cattlemen have fed out all of their hay and it is so scarce and high that the owners are taking chances on their pulling through on browsing on oak shrubs and chaparral.
    W. S. Chappell, our shoe repairer, was away from his shop Saturday afternoon and on inquiring the cause of his absence he said that he had been up to C. E. Bellows to put up a water tank and fix it to his engine, put in a hot and cold water system in his house, and everything nicely arranged now so that Mrs. Bellows can have everything convenient for caring for her milk and cream vessels.
    Our postmaster, W. C. Clements, received a package of sweet clover seed from the department to be given to some one of the good farmers in the neighborhood to be planted and the character of the soil and all the particulars noted and reported to Washington, D.C., and Mr. C. selected Mr. John L. Robertson to plant it, and he says that he has about an acre already plowed, the tract he experimented on with his new Fordson and that he is going to take special care and see what it will do. A few years ago the plant came up wild around here and some of the farmers cut it and reported that the cattle especially seemed to like it as well as any hay they could get. I intend to watch the result and report to the readers of the Eaglets, if I live that long.
    Mrs. Wm. Holman of Lake Creek and another lady were here Tuesday, and so was Mr. Stanford Houston of Long Branch (Trail) and Mrs. Ida Kent of Merlin. Mrs. Kent was on her way up in that country to visit her relatives. They both took dinner with us.
    Three of the gang of surveyors working with Mr. Stuart McKissick, the engineer who has charge of the laying of the route for the water ditch from Big Butte, and have been boarding here, were called to Medford to do some office work by our county surveyor, Mr. Frank Rhodes, but one of them came back Tuesday. Speaking about Tuesday brings to mind the fact that on that day 88 years ago, I arrived on this earth in Augusta, Me., and since that eventful day have seen the various ups and downs of an ordinary life, and the Good Lord has blessed me with every needed blessing, and I can truthfully say with the Psalmist David, "That I was once young and that now I am old, and that I never have seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread." For our Savior said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God." And all these things shall be added unto you, and I have fully realized the truth of that statement for I sought him while young and he has kept me all these years, praise his holy name.
    Steve Smith and wife and Perry Foster of Debenger Gap (Trail) were doing business in town Tuesday.
    Miss Pool, the county food demonstrator, spent Tuesday night with us.
    Bert Nason and R. H. Canders, two of the forest rangers, who have been stopping with us for the past week or more, started this morning for Pelican Bay to look after Uncle Sam's interest out there.
    J. F. Lozier and Earnest Feister of Medford passed through here this Wednesday morning on their way out to W. H. Crandall's.
    J. J. Schaiber and Dr. Kirchgessner of Debenger Gap were in town this morning.
    Wm. Heckathorn of Elk Creek went up home on the stage this morning.
    Wm. Lewis, our Eagle Point jitney driver, and Mr. Henry B. Pury of Medford were here for dinner today.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ayres of Reese Creek were in town this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 19, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wednesday W. W. Wilfley, who has been assisting Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, with his sheep, came in and spent the night and a part of the next day at the Sunnyside.
    Fred Frideger of Medford also came in to occupy his room after an absence of a few days layoff on account of the rain. He is getting his orchard up in fine shape.
    B. F. Fuller and wife were doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    M. M. Krantz of Butte Falls came out on the Eagle Point stage Thursday morning and went on up home on the same line of stages.
    Miss Florence Pool, our county food demonstrator, was also a welcome visitor at the Sunnyside the same night. She had spent Tuesday night with us and Wednesday went to Lake Creek to visit the schools on the route--Brownsboro, Butte Creek and Lake Creek--returning Thursday evening. She seems to be a live wire, and makes a good impression wherever she goes.
    Our road supervisor, Carl Hayes, had two road graders at work leveling down the roads Thursday; he and Mr. Ward were running one and Rob Harnish and his brother Ray the other. They were on the road between here and Brownsboro.
    Corbin Edgell, business manager of the A. Corbin orchard and owner of the Edgell orchard adjoining the Corbin orchard was a business caller Thursday morning. He had two other men in the car with him, strangers to me.
    Cecil Culbertson and wife passed through here Thursday morning on their way to Medford. Cecil says that when we get  the Crater Lake Highway finished through here that about all of the Butte Creek and Lake Creek settlement will just rush through here and go right to Medford to do their trading. It will be so nice to have a good smooth road to ride on.
    And I would not be surprised if there was not too much truth in that light remark to make it altogether a joke, for unless our business men give some inducement to them to stop they will go on through as it will not consume more than an hour more time and then they can trade where there is more of a variety and competition.
    G. E. Pierce of Brownsboro was guest at the Sunnyside Thursday and so was J. E. Edmiston, one of the organizers of the Oregon Growers Association of Medford. He says that he is meeting with remarkable success in perfecting the organization.
    Among the casual caller Thursday were P. S. Anderson, owner of a fine dairy farm on Rogue River about five miles from here, and J. D. Buchanan of Medford. He simply came out with Mr. Anderson for the ride and to see the country. J. H. French and son Lloyd came in what at first appeared to be a new car, but on close inspection showed that it was his old car, but Lloyd had repainted it, making it look almost as good as new. Eugene Bellows, another one of our enterprising farmers and dairy men, and Pete Betz, who owns one of the best farms on Rogue River, Charles Hanscomb, one of our cattle men, T. F. Nichols, owner of another fine farm on Rogue River a few miles above here, Mr. Joy of Reese Creek, Thurman Taylor, Ed Condon, who now is on the old John Nichols place, Thomas Cingcade and wife who was here for repairs for his gasoline wood-sawing outfit and had to send to Portland. His outfit has been in the Childreth blacksmith shop but it is now all up in good shape.
    Mrs. Cingcade came in to do some shopping.
    Many of the Thursday visitors brought in cream and eggs to deliver to the two truck drivers who are visiting our town every week and are leaving a lot of money with the farmers and dairymen. Geo. Stowell, our boss egg man, was in town Thursday but did not bring in any eggs but brought in his cream. He says that 30¢ a dozen is not enough for eggs when wheat is selling for 4 and 5¢ a pound.
    Mr. Slusser, our barber and one of the agate men of our town, has been making some substantial improvements in his agate grinding shop.
    W. W. Cross of Butte Falls spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    John Seiler of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Thursday for Medford.
    H. C. Mechem of Trail and Frank Hayes of Butte Falls were passengers for their homes Friday morning on the stages.
    Andrew Pool of Trail, one of the forest rangers, and wife, came in Friday morning and took a room at the Sunnyside. Mr. Pool came out to join the force who are putting up a government telephone line between Medford and Trail and Mr. Wm. Jones, of Butte Falls, another forest ranger, also came in to join them. He also is stopping at the Sunnyside.
    A. J. Cole, Earl Coffin and H. Lemke of Chicago were here Friday canvassing for enlarging pictures. They took dinner here and then went on out in the country. Ed Johnson, John and J. E. Brownlee of Medford, were here for dinner. They are engaged in buying hides, veal, wool, etc.
    J. P. Hardin of Eastern Oregon and Joe Brown of the firm of Brown and White, real estate dealers, were also here Friday for dinner and so was Benj. Edmondson, Jr., of Butte Falls, who remained overnight and so did E. L. Melton, deputy dairy and food commissioner, and J. D. Mickle, commissioner, of Portland.
    Mr. Taylor, one of the deputy assessors, was here Friday assessing our town.
    Henry B. Paul of Medford came out on the stage and went out to the W. H. Crandall farm this Saturday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Coleman of Lake Creek were here for dinner today. Mr. Coleman is the man who bought out Wm. Holman last fall, and they seem to be well pleased with their deal.
    A. S. Bliton, our meter reader, H. J. Deveney, our banker, and Mr. Robert G. Valentine were here for dinner today.
    Mrs. Bert Clarno, Mrs. L. E. Stewart and two daughters, Miss L. E. and Miss Ara Stewart of Butte Falls, and Miss Marie Meyer, who is teaching in the Reese Creek school, Mr. Valentine and another man went out today on the Lewis jitney, and W. S. Baker, of Derby, was crowded out and had to wait for the Eagle Point stage three-quarters of an hour later.
    Mr. and Mrs. Stuart McKissick, who have been boarding at the Sunnyside for the past four weeks, have gone to housekeeping in the von der Hellen bungalow today, Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1920, page 8


REESE CREEK RIPLETS
    Miss Pool, the home demonstrator, met a few of the ladies at the home of Mrs. C. E. Bellows last Thursday; making dress forms was the order of the day. Those having forms made at that time were Mrs. Peter Betz, Mrs. W. H. Crandall, Mrs. Sam Courtney, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mrs. H. Watkins and Miss May French.
    The ladies took their lunch and spent a very pleasant as well as profitable day.
    The Reese Creek Sunday school expect to have an all-day meeting at the school house Easter, April 4th. Come and bring your lunch and remain all day. There will be a short program, also a sermon by Rev. J. Stille.
    The recent rains have caused the farmers to wear a more cheerful countenance.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 25, 1920, page 6


REESE CREEK RIPLETS
    R. B. Vincent made a trip to the power plant Thursday after a team and wagon which he recently purchased from Louis Pankey.
    W. A. Higinbotham was summoned to Jacksonville Tuesday to attend the Peyton trial. He returned home Thursday evening, bringing with him Ernest Hollenbeak, who has been spending the winter at Winters, Cal.
    Messrs. Tracy, Boothby, Frank Ditsworth, Chas. Manning and Wm. Lewis were also called to Jacksonville to attend court.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Peyton of the power plant motored to Medford Wednesday.
    Stewart Ditsworth of Laurelhurst, who was confined to his bed several days last week, is up and around again.
    The sad news reached Mrs. J. F. Brophy last week of the death of her brother, Thomas McAndrew of Reno, Nevada. We extend our utmost sympathy to the bereaved family.
    Lizzy Manning returned to her home Sunday after spending a couple of weeks at James E. Grieve's.
    Chris Natwick and son Carlyle came up to their camp Thursday which they have established somewhere this side of Union Creek.
    Chester Davis, Dee and Waldo Nye spent Sunday evening at the Evergreen ranch.
    Mrs. F. M. Manning and daughter Dency spent Wednesday afternoon at J. F. Brophy's.
    R. B. Vaughn, Stuart Ditsworth and sister Hazel spent Sunday at Prospect.
    Louis Pankey, from the power plant, has purchased a new Baby Overland car. He brought it home Sunday and was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Bert Nichols and Ray Davis.
    Mr. and Mrs. Connie Clark left Monday afternoon for Portland, where Mrs. Clark's brother is very ill with the flu.
    Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Boothby and sons Ed and Frank, made a business trip to Red Blanket Monday.
    Mrs. F. M. Manning was visiting a few days last week with Joe Phipps and family.
    Miss Fern Gordon spent Sunday with Mrs. Lizzie Nichols.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 26, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    After I had written the Eaglets for the Medford Mail Tribune, Mr. Edgar Wight, one of Medford's jewelers, came in to spend the night and interest himself the next day hunting over our agate fields for agates. So Sunday morning, after eating a hearty breakfast and taking a lunch prepared by the hostess of the Sunnyside, he started in company of J. P. Goin, the agate king of this community, George West and William Jones, two of the forest rangers who are stopping at the Sunnyside while putting up a telephone line from Trail to Medford, they started out to seek their fortunes, and when they returned, reported that they had had considerable success. Mr. Wight makes a business of gathering agates, having them cut and polished and then mounting them. They succeeded in securing some fine stones.
    Misses Ethel and Sadie Anderson of Medford came out in company of Mr. A. J. Florey, Jr., and Glen Haley to attend the dance given in the dance hall here, and after the dance took rooms at the Sunnyside Hotel, remaining until after dinner Sunday.
    Professor A. L. Haselton, who is teaching out about eight miles northeast of Butte Falls, came out Saturday evening, remaining until Tuesday with his family. He has a small school, two little girls and says that he is getting along nicely with them. They, the children and teacher, have to go down a quarter of a mile to the school house, where they find an up-to-date school with all the modern conveniences including a fine modern heating furnace with plenty of wood.
    D. R. Patrick, who is working, carpentering, on the Talent ditch came in Saturday evening on the Lewis jitney and hurried on out to his home in the foothills, intending to reach there before dark.
    Sunday morning we had our regular Sunday school on time, but our minister, Mr. Trovato, did not show up and the consequence was we had no preaching. On inquiry I learned that he had gone to Medford and joined the United States cavalry, and when the Sunday Oregon Journal came out it contained quite a notice of him as being an expert equestrian and pistol shot. But he left us unceremoniously and the first that we knew of it came in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, with whom he had boarded while here, stating that he had joined the army and was on his way to Wyoming to a fort as his headquarters. He did not seem to succeed as a minister here, as he could not get the people interested enough to turn out and hear him. I am informed that he tried, during the late war, to enlist in the army, navy and marines, but was rejected on account of his height, as he was too short to fill the standard. We wish him success in his new undertaking.
    Sunday was not as pleasant as could be wished, as it was rather chilly March weather, but we had quite a number of people here for dinner, beside our regular boarders, among whom were Nick Young and Miss Ruby Haley of Central Point, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nunan, daughter Virginia, and son, Craig, of Jacksonville, Mildred Thompson of Stanford University, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satcharty, Medford, Mr. G. M. Best, San Francisco, Bernard Tickrow, of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Childreth, who have been stopping at the Sunnyside for some time past, have moved and gone to housekeeping on the Wilfley orchard, Gordon going to work there for the summer.
    Monday morning there was some stir on the street, as some of the dairy people came in early to bring their cream, and among them I noticed Mrs. Walter Meyers. She is making a specialty of the dairy and poultry business and when she asked the creamery man the price of eggs and he replied 28¢ a dozen, she replied that they better keep the eggs and eat them than sell at that price. With wheat at four and five cents a pound that it would not pay to sell.
    Ed Cowden was another who brought in his cream but the most of the dairymen are waiting until Thursday.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby was a passenger on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Monday and went on up home.
    Mrs. Ida Lee Bush, representing Washington, D.C., was among the guests Monday at dinner. She is one of those affable characters that seem to make friends wherever she goes and soon has people interested in her work.
    Mr. W. B. Butler, who is making his home with his son, W. E. Butler, about two miles above here, was also here for dinner Monday. The old gentleman is quite feeble, as he is nearing his 88th birthday.
    Mr. Marshall and his two boys of Brownsboro, who bought the mills, was here also Monday.
    Mrs. Radcliff was also a business caller Monday.
    E. P. Hanby, one of our ex-soldiers, and Miss Violet Graham of Trail came in Tuesday, and remained until this Wednesday morning, when they went up home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage.
    George McDonald, foreman on the Frank Rhodes farm, took dinner and went on to Medford, returning this morning.
    Tuesday forenoon I was called to the phone by the sheriff's office and notified to be in Jacksonville by 3 o'clock that afternoon to appear as a witness in a civil suit between Albert Clements and a Mr. Small over a collision between their two cars, so after inquiring around, I found that Frank and R. G. Brown and S. B. Holmes were to go also as witnesses in the same case, so managed to get a ride with them. Otherwise, I would have had to walk, as the jitney does not leave here until two o'clock and then I would have been landed in Medford and could not get there on time at any rate. (Suggestion: The next time anyone is wanted, call a little earlier.) But I went anyway and on the way I noticed that the grain that had been planted was looking better than I expected and the alfalfa was looking fine. I could not tell very much about the case, as there is such an echo in the court house that it is very hard for one to understand what is said, but we console ourselves that when Medford gets out of debt that we will have a new one, but how long that will be puzzles a prophet to tell.
    George Loosley of Fort Klamath and Fred Neil of Ashland came in after an absence of several days and resumed their places at the table in the Sunnyside. Mr. Loosley has been in here off and on for some time, buying up cattle for shipment to his ranch in Klamath County, and now has them turned out on the range north and northeast of here and he and Mr. Neil are looking after them until he gets ready to take them across the mountains to his ranch.
    Another of our old landmarks has been removed. Mrs. Watkins, our nearest neighbor, has had her old barn that has been standing for years torn down and now the lot looks as though something had been lost.
    Allison Allen of Spokane, a half-brother to John M. Allen of Derby, came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage this Wednesday morning and went on up to visit his brother.
    John L. Lane and wife of Derby came in and spent Tuesday night with us and Wednesday morning Mrs. Lane went on down to Ashland.
    O. C. Walker, our deputy assessor, was a guest at the Sunnyside today for dinner and so was Mr. R. E. Martin of Medford, a representative of the Portland Flouring Mills, and so was Carlyle Natwick. He had recently returned from the Prospect country and reports a quantity of snow on the route of the Crater Lake Highway between there and Union Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wednesday afternoon Dr. W. W. P. Holt, our M.D., brought into the Sunnyside Hotel George A. Hollenbeak, to remain for a few days while he is being treated for blood poisoning. The doctor was called by telephone that morning to go to Mr. Hollenbeak's, near McLeod, and when he reached the place found Mr. Hollenbeak suffering with his right hand and on examination found that his hand was in a very bad condition, so after lancing it and giving it proper attention brought him out here, and at the present writing the hand, although very painful, is getting along as well as could be expected.
    Louis Martin of Trail also came in that Wednesday evening to spend the night. He had an assortment of furs that he had captured the past winter and took them to Medford, sold them to one of the Medford buyers at what he considered a good price, returned to the Sunnyside for the night and went up home the next day on the stage.
    Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, our assistant postmistress and telephone operator, slipped off from her many friends about a week ago and went over to Weed to visit one of our old school teachers, Mr. J. C. Barnard and wife, who is now living in that city in employ of the Weed Lumber Co., returning Wednesday afternoon, and reports having had one of the most enjoyable visits of the season.
    Lester Smith of Butte Falls, who has been attending the state university, came out on the stage from Medford and went out to the Ed Cordon ranch to visit his sister, Mrs. Cordon, Thursday.
    Wm. Perry and wife, who have been in Medford and Jacksonville for several days attending court, as Mr. Perry was one of the jurors for the term, returned Thursday to their home.
    Thomas D. Singleton, one of our retired farmers, was in town Thursday.
    There were quite a number of our farmers, dairymen and chicken raisers in town Thursday and the two trucks of the Jackson County and the Independence creameries arrived here quite early so as to meet the early comers on their way up the country and several of them were here ready with their eggs and cream to meet them. Among them was Mrs. Walter Meyer, and while here she reported that she had brought off one incubator of chicks but that the incubator proved to have a leak in it and the result was that the eggs did not hatch well, although she had ninety little chicks almost large enough to fry, and another batch that will hatch the last of this week, about yesterday or today, Saturday.
    The trucks seem to be loaded both ways, as they bring out almost anything that is wanted by the farmers, even to wire fencing and furniture, grain or mill run, hogs and hides--a very great convenience.
    C. E. Bellows and wife came in and were at the Sunnyside for dinner. They were accompanied by John B. Bechan of the Jackson County Cow Testing Association. Mr. Bechan has been visiting the various dairies in this section and testing the cows for the owners.
    James E. Perry of Riddle was here Thursday night. Mr. Perry remained until after dinner Friday and while here went out to look over some of the agate fields. He was looking for large, clear, preferably white, agates but could not find what he wanted.
    Mrs. S. J. Hessler of Lake Creek was in town Friday and went on up home in the stage.
    Perry Foster of Lake Creek, who had been to Jacksonville on business returned Friday and spent the night with us.
    John Foster of Lake Creek came in Friday evening and went on to Medford the same night.
    Just a short time before supper Friday evening the representatives of the Butte Falls basketball team came in for supper, consisting of Glen Albert, Ernest Albert, Orbia Albert, Eston Ahlstrom, Theodore Fredenburg, Wilson O'Brien and Prof. H. P. Jewett, principal of the Butte Falls high school, and after eating supper they loaded into two cars with Harry Lewis to drive one. Jed Edsall the other, Mrs. Howlett and daughter Hattie in with Jed, and went to Central Point to play against the Central Point basketball team. Jed and Mrs. Howlett went on to Medford to see the show at the Page. The result of the game was the score stood 41 to 12 in favor of Butte Falls. On the return trip Jed came by Central Point and picked up the Butte Falls players and brought them out here for the rest of the night. They came out on a little car on the track, returning this Saturday morning in the same way, feeling quite jubilant over their victory.
    Miss Mildred Tucker of Brownsboro came out on the Lake Creek stage this morning and went up to Butte Falls on the stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Howell of Boise, Idaho, uncle and aunt of Mr. H. J. Deveney, our banker, came in yesterday to visit Mr. Deveney and family and the McDonald family, relatives, who came in from Idaho last fall.
    Guy Pruett, one of our farmers, and Clarence Cox of Marysville, Calif., is here visiting relatives and also visiting his mother, Mrs. Wm. Smith, who owns a small farm between Medford and Central Point.
    John Zimmerlee, who at one time owned the Farmers Hotel, came in yesterday and was on the streets this morning.
    Ralph Peyton of Peyton passed through town today on his way to Medford.
    Thomas Singleton, Jr., drove in this morning to do some trading with our merchants.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, came in from the camp and reports that all of the old snow was gone, that they had about a dozen men at work and that as soon as the weather settles they expect to put on a full force and finish up the job.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Carl Bergman and Alex Vestal called Saturday night for supper.
    Among the arrivals Sunday at the Sunnyside was H. C. Christofferson of San Rafael, Cal., E. G. Trowbridge and Mrs. H. E. Berdan of Medford, Mrs. Lapworth of Seattle, Mrs. J. K. Holmes also of Seattle, Ward Spatz of Hastings, Nevada, Harry Rosenberg and his brother David of Medford.
    Andrew Pool, one of the forest rangers who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for some time, made a trip up to his home on Trail Creek Sunday morning and John Holtz, another one of the company, went to his home in Sams Valley, and George West, still another one, went to Medford on the Sunday morning stage to meet his wife who came down from Portland on the Saturday night train, remaining until Monday morning when both came out on the Eagle Point stage. Mrs. West has been stopping for some months in Portland under the care of a specialist, but has so far regained her health as to be able to rejoin her husband and they expect as soon as practicable to move to Klamath County, where Mr. West expects to be engaged looking after Uncle Sam's interests in the measuring of lumber on Anna Creek. Wm. Jones, another of the forest rangers who is stopping here, spent a part of the day gathering agates but they all went to work Monday on the telephone line between here and Medford. They have been handicapped by lack of material as they have not been able to get the poles out from the Butte Falls country on account of bad roads. They also lack insulators, etc.
    When they came in Mrs. Holmes greeted me as though we had been long time acquaintances, for she said that she seemed to have known me for some time as her son had been cutting out the Eaglets and sending them to her regularly for a long time and that she looked for them regularly as the week rolled around. After eating dinner and looking around the place admiring our beautiful Little Butte Creek they settled down to make a visit and a more enjoyable time was seldom had, and they left expressing the wish that we would meet again under like circumstances. Later in the day George V. Loosley, wife and little daughter came in for supper and then went on to Ashland that night. Mr. Fred Neil and his father, I learned, later came in from Ashland to see Mr. Neil Sunday afternoon, but as there was none of our family present and Mr. Neil was out looking after the cattle that Mr. Loosely has bought and turned on the range in the foothills they did not stay long. Mr. Goin, who happened to be in the house, entertained them and reported to Mr. Neil when he came in.
    There was a lady came out on the Medford stage and went on up to Lost Creek on the Lake Creek stage, to take charge of the school there, I learned later, but did not learn her name.
    Ralph Bieberstedt was a business caller Monday morning.
    Mrs. Susan Hart, who has been in Medford working in a hospital for some time, came out on the stage Monday and went out to her farm.
    I see that Wig Jacks has the concrete pipe on the ground and is getting ready to pipe the water from his new ditch under the street near the Eagle Point Bank building.
    Our creamery men were both on time Monday, and Mr. Pickel, one of the drivers, says that the volume of cream is increasing, that he is getting fifty gallons of cream a week now from one man near Brownsboro and that he intends to add twenty more cows to his herd and that then he will be able to supply him with a hundred gallons a week, and that his business is increasing in the Little Butte Creek country. The fact of the business is there is some of the best land in Jackson County in that section and furthermore there is as fine a lot of men and women up there as can be found in the state and they are not afraid nor ashamed to work. I once in a while hear a man say, "Oh, I would not run a dairy when you have to get up and go out to milk at five o'clock in the morning and then again at night," and I notice those same persons have to run a limited store account and seldom have any cash on hand, while the dairyman has the cash to pay and can trade where he pleases. I met a man who has a fine cow ranch and asked him if he had brought in cream and he said no, that he had but one cow, but remarked that he could keep a hundred dairy cows on his ranch but that it was too much work to attend to them. But if he would put say fifty or seventy-five good cows on the ranch and lease it out on shares what an income it would bring him, and what a help to some poor family or families and to the entire community.
    Mr. Johnson, formerly one of the creamery men of Medford, passed through here Monday on his way up the country.
    Jack Grigsby, Sam Coy, Charles Hanscomb, Gus Nichols and wife were business callers Monday, and so was John Rader and Henry Stanley.
    Roderick B. Baker came out Monday from Medford with a jitney driver and was met here Monday by Bernice Edmondson, who came out on the Butte Falls stage, and they two went to Medford together, were married and the next day came out on the stage and went up to Butte Falls.
    Joe Riley passed through Monday with a road drag leveling down the roads.
    Sherman Wooley and Harry Lewis came in for supper Monday night.
    Jack Tungate of Butte Falls went out home on the stage Tuesday morning. He had his finger wrapped up and on inquiry I learned that he had had the end of his finger cut off by a pulley. I did not learn the particulars as he was about ready to start when I saw him.
    James Owens, one of the county commissioners, was here having some work done on a road drag.
    John M. Allen and wife of Derby came out Tuesday to have his horses shod and to patronize our stores.
    Mrs. W. E Hammel was here Tuesday. She had been out to Medford to attend the home gathering of the Rebekahs.
    Thomas Cingcade has finally procured the necessary repairs for his wood saw and has it started and is sawing wood for people around town.
    O. S. Frank of Roseburg and B. W. Paul of Paul's Electric store, Medford, were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Frank and Mr. Paul are both interested in the electrical business.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Webb of Derby were here on business Tuesday.
    Mr. Mims, the Medford postmaster, and Miss Florence Lansing, the principal of our school, were here for supper Tuesday.
    Mrs. Lee, the county nurse, was here Tuesday night and went up to Brownsboro, Butte Creek, Lake Creek, etc., today, Wednesday.
    Our county surveyor, Frank Rhodes, spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 5, 1920, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Miss Mildred Neil of Derby, who is an assistant in the office of the county clerk in Jacksonville, came out last Wednesday and went on up home on the stage.
    Lawrence Cox of Marysville, Cal., was also a passenger on the same stage for Butte Falls and so was A. J. Cobleigh of Butte Falls. Mrs. Sherman Wooley of Eagle Point also went up to Butte Falls to assist in caring for her mother, Mrs. William Beale, who has been under the care of different physicians for some time.
    W. C. Clements, our postmaster and manager and principal owner of our telephone system and a gentleman, one of the post office inspectors whose name I did not learn, were here last Wednesday for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl von der Hellen of Wellen were here on business Wednesday afternoon, and so was Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Norris, the superintendent of the J. M. Wilfley orchard. Mrs. Morris was met here by her brother, Mr. Cox, and he went out to the orchard with them to spend the night.
    John Greb, one of the leading farmers and orchardists in the valley, was also here Thursday on business.
    Our shoe cobbler is proving to be quite an acquisition to our community, for in addition to the cobbling business he can turn his hand to almost any kind of mechanical work from repairing pipes, either in stoves or where breaks have occurred, etc., and now he has inserted machinery to repair old saws, gumming them out and making them almost as good as new.
    April first came in almost as rough as March left us, cold, windy and stormy, but while the weather has been rather disagreeable for the past two weeks, we have reason to be thankful to the "giver of all good" that while we have had a little disagreeable weather, we have escaped the terrible tornadoes that have been visiting the Middle West and South. But today, Saturday, the change has come and now it is clear and warm with a prospect of a lovely day for Easter.
    Benjamin Whetston, Marshall Minter and Pete Young and his brother Nick Young, our ex-road supervisor, were doing business here Thursday.
    Among those who were callers at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday were D. H. Mills, manager of the Butte Falls Lumber Company's business; Mr. R. H. McCurdy, of Medford; C. D. Thompson and R. A. Grant, capitalists of San Francisco, California. The two from San Francisco were out looking over the country, seeing its possibilities in the line of production. They are like the most of the capitalists that visit our valley, very reticent, but learning all that they can without imparting very much to the other fellow.
    T. E. Semple, who has been the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard for some time, has resigned his position and moved to Medford and Mr. Hovey, the same man who had charge of the orchard during its early history, has been reinstated. We extend to him a hearty greeting and wish him success in his stewardship in his old position.
    Mrs. Florence Lee, the county nurse for Jackson County, after leaving here Wednesday morning, went up Little Butte Creek, visiting the Brownsboro, Butte Creek and Lake Creek schools, returned and spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside, and while she was returning here visited the Eagle Point school in the afternoon.
    Mrs. John Miller of Lake Creek, who has been out to Medford on business, came out on the stage Friday morning and went up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Miss Ella Adamson, daughter of the present contractor for carrying the mail between here and Persist, went up home Friday morning, taking her sister, Mrs. Sherman Taylor, with her.
    Thomas F. Nichols and Wm. Martin, two of our prominent citizens from the rural district; J. Edward Grieve, Prospect, and C. J. Seymour, engineer on [the] Crater Lake Highway and Chris H. Natwick, one of the contractors on said highway, came in Friday from Prospect and report that they have had a lot of snow fall between Prospect and Union Creek, but that it was melting very fast and that as soon as the weather settles they will put on a force of men and rush the work to completion. They were all here for dinner, on their way to Medford. Mr. W. J. Stamper, representing H. G. Brace & Co., Seattle, Washington, advertising calendars, novelties etc., was also here for dinner Friday and so was Nick Young, who was here having some repair work done on his car in the W. L. Childreth shop. Carl Brenard of Medford was here for dinner and Jake Jonas, formerly of this place, came in for dinner and spent the night with us. Mr. Jonas is now engaged in mining near Merlin and came over to take his household effects from here, where he has had them stored, to Merlin.
    Mr. Adams, who bought the McLeod business near the upper steel bridge, also spent the night with us.
    Mrs. J. D. Arnes, wife of the foreman on the Corbin Edgell orchard, was doing business here Friday.
    F. O. Austin, one of the Butte Falls merchants, J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls Fish Hatchery, Mr. Koontz, Butte Falls and W. S. Baker, Derby, came out from Medford on the stage Saturday morning and went on up home.
    Otto Wyss, representing Robertson Hardware & Steel Co., Portland, and Carl Farrier, formerly of Lake Creek, but now of Portland, were here for dinner today.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1920, page 3
EAGLE POINT AND MEDFORD I.O.O.F. LODGES TO UNITE
    The preliminary steps have been taken for the consolidation of Eagle Point I.O.O.F. lodge with the Medford lodge. Certain routine form has to be gone through before the amalgamation is entirely complete. The final ceremony will probably be accompanied by one of the social features which have become a popular conjunction with formal proceedings the present season.
    The Eagle Point lodge was instituted a few years ago and started on its career with every promise of success. Shortly afterward came the war upheaval which brought about conditions that made it practically impossible to hold regular meetings and keep up the lodge work. A suggestion to consolidate with the Medford lodge met general approval in both lodges.
    The consolidation will bring the Medford lodge membership up to 200 or more. The local lodge has been making a very substantial increase this year through its own initiations. An additional class of eleven initiates was started through the degree course last Monday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1920, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the callers after I had written the Eaglets for the Mail Tribune Saturday afternoon were George Morriche and George Klingle of Lake Creek. Mr. Morriche is the man who has charge of the water pipe at the intake of the Fish Lake-Medford water system, and Mr. Klingle is one of the promising young farmers of the Lake Creek country. Wm. Holmes, Jake Jonas and A. M. Gay were also guests at the Sunnyside Saturday night.
    Easter Sunday morning broke on us rather damp, as early in the morning it was raining and then that went off with a fog that lasted for a few hours, but then the sun came out bright and clear and the day proved to be as lovely as one could have desired and we had our Sunday school as usual with the exception that our superintendent was not in his usual place, on account of a slight indisposition, but his father, the senior Mr. Esch, took his place and we had one of those interesting lessons appropriate to the occasion for our consideration.
    Among the arrivals at the Sunnyside for dinner were Elmer Nice, Hotel Medford truck driver, Sidney S. Smith and children Lloyd and Stanley of Medford, Mr. Theron Taylor, E.P., Ray Casey, wife and two boys, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McReynolds and daughter Eva, Mr. and Mrs. N.J. Murrell, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Simpson, Lauretta Simpson, George W. Neilson wife and two boys, Harry Lewis, Wm. von der Hellen, wife and daughter Joyce and son Hugo, and later in the day Mr. E. M. Sutton, E. Whiston and G. Whiston of Central Point and Wm. Lewis, our sheep king, also of Central Point. The McReynolds, Murrells and Simpsons after eating their dinner and spending an hour or more looking over the place and enjoying the beauties of our Butte Creek started for a drive, intending to return for supper, but on the road had a breakdown in one of their cars and the result was they, at least part of the company, came in late and reported their mishap and went on to Medford, as one of the ladies had left her children with a neighbor to care for them and it being Sunday evening could not phone so hurried on home as fast as they could. This incident illustrates the fact that there are no earthly pleasures without their sorrows.
    Wm. Heckathorn of Elk Creek (Trail), is here visiting his uncle and aunt, Frank Lewis and wife.
    Mr. Mechem of Trail came out from Medford on the stage Monday morning and went up home on the Trail stage and a young girl also came out from Medford and went up on the Trail stage.
    Miss Thelma Ellestad, who is teaching the Derby school, also came out from Medford and went to Derby on the Butte Falls stage.
    Wm. Cottrell and J. C. S. Weills were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Cottrell is one of the leading cattlemen who owns a fine farm on Rogue River this side of Trail, and Mr. Weills is a Medford stockman.
    Rudolph Pech and Henry Tonn of Lake Creek, two of our prosperous farmers, made a short stop at the Childreth shop as they passed through town Monday on their way from Medford.
    William Holman and Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek were doing business here also Monday.
    Tuesday Jack O'Conner of Phoenix called for dinner and he had with him Roy J. Frederick, E. A. Braden of Tacoma, L. E. Bigelow of Medford. The visitors were very reticent as to their business but I would judge by their conversation that they were interested in geological business, either oil or mining.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McReynolds, C. W. McReynolds and wife of the A. W. Walker Auto Company were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. C. W. McReynolds is selling the different kinds of autos for the A. W. Walker Auto Company.
    M. Schutt of Derby came out on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday and so did Miss Mildred Neil of Derby, one of the clerks in the county clerk's office at Jacksonville, who had been up home visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil, came out on the stage and went on to Medford the same afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robertson came in Tuesday combining business with pleasure, Mrs. Robertson spending a few hours visiting their son John and family who live in the lower part of town.
    Wm. Dupray, who owns and operates a sawmill about five miles this side of Butte Falls, came in and spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Theron Taylor, who went up to Trail to visit her mother and family a few days ago, returned Tuesday bringing her mother, Mrs. Adamson, with her.
    There are quite a number of strangers visiting our town, and many of them simply rush through without stopping, going both ways.
    I see that Holmes and MacDonald, our new garage men, have been painting new signs and the garage is now christened the Eagle Point Garage.
    F. J. Ayres and wife drove in this Wednesday morning with a team and report the road as being in horrible condition, very rough from the Reese Creek school house to this place and interspersed with deep mud holes. He said that nobody but Jud could run a car through and then he has to take his Ford.
    Mrs. Harvey Smith has gone up to the Mill Creek camp on the Crater Lake Highway to assist Mrs. C. H. Natwick in the culinary department.
    There was a carload of lumber came out Tuesday evening for Mr. Jacob Monia of Brownsboro and Mr. Weidman of this place. Mr. Monia intends to build a home on his farm near Brownsboro, and Mr. Weidman will use his for fluming purposes.
    Wm. Staub, our Lake Creek mail carrier, after he had carried the mail to Lake Creek came back and brought out Mrs. Stockford of Brownsboro and took her to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 10, 1920, page 2
REESE CREEK RIPLETS
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Will Merritt April 12th, an eight and a half lb. daughter. Mother and daughter are doing nicely.
    Tom Vestal and wife have been visiting in Medford for a few days prior to going to housekeeping on their ranch above Reese Creek. Tom expects to work on the Butte Falls road.
    Miss Marie Meyers and a few of her friends came out from Medford Sunday morning and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel.
    Mr. Hammel and Marshall Minter are working on Mr. Hammel's windmill, raising and placing it in position.
    Rev. John Stille preached Sunday after Sunday school. Mr. Eli Stille and Rev. J. Stille sang a duet, "Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters."
    C. E. Bellows was soliciting for the Farm Bureau last week.
    Mr. Lewis of Central Point, the sheep man, was out this week looking after his flocks.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 16, 1920, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    J. P. Goin, our agate man, has been turning his hand toward making some improvements around the Sunnyside Hotel in the line of fencing. He has removed the old dilapidated wire fence and put in its place a neat picket fence, besides making some other much-needed improvements in the carpenter line.
    J. Henry French and wife were in town and reported that they have installed a water system so that now they have water running in the kitchen and will soon have a hot water tank so as to do away with the old inconvenient was of doing business, and have hot and cold water in the house, so as to lighten the work of caring for the milk cans, cream separator, etc. A family who has a few cows and hens and will strictly attend to business soon reach the point in life where it can have the modern conveniences and sail through life, if not on flowery beds of ease, [they] can greatly improve on the old system.
    John Radar, one of our leading farmers and stockmen, was among the early callers Thursday morning and so was Charley Cingcade, another of our stockmen.
    Mr. J. Wattenburg and his daughter, who are living on the Joe Rader place, were also callers Thursday morning.
    Mrs. William Brown gave me the following news item Thursday for the Eaglets: There will be a clothes fitting and clothes-repairing meeting at the Red Cross rooms over George Brown & Sons' store on next Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, and a general invitation is extended, especially to the ladies and girls in their "teens" to come and receive instruction free and learn how to cut, fit, and make their own clothes and to economize in the line of wearing apparel. Miss Pool, our county demonstrator, and Miss Beles, a trained lecturer from the O.A.C., will be there to render all the assistance they can. All the ladies in this section of the county are cordially invited to attend, and in addition to receiving instruction in that line of housekeeping, have a royal good time in a special way.
    J. L. Hovey, the present superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, was in town Thursday shaking hands with his old-time friends.
    Mr. Gitzen, one of the Medford veterinaries, was out Thursday to doctor a fine cow for William Perry, but he did not reach here in time and as a result, she died, quite a loss to Mr. Perry.
    W. E. Hensley of Wellen was a business caller Thursday.
    Corbin Edgell was a passenger on the Lewis jitney for Medford Thursday.
    Mr. C. C. Carter of Seattle, a cousin of William C. Daley, was also a passenger on the Lewis jitney. They had not met before for several years, and Mr. Carter accidentally heard of his being here, as he recently bought the George von der Hellen property just above town, and came out and met him here.
    The management of the forest reserve men have been making some changes in the arrangement of the men, as two of them, who have been stopping here, have been called over to Klamath County, Mr. George West and John D. Holst, and Mr. Fred Matz has come to assist the other two, Mr. Andrew Pool and Wm. Jones, in finishing up the telephone line connecting Trail with Butte Falls and Medford line. They expect to have the line completed by Monday or Tuesday.
    Floyd Pearce, who had one of his legs badly crushed several years ago in a runaway, and had it patched up by the doctors of Jacksonville at that time, has been to Portland and had it overhauled and the bones reset, came home last Tuesday and has bright hopes of regaining the use of his leg again, and his many friends here are rejoicing with him and his family over the successful operation.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith and auto specialist, met with an accident the other day. He was trimming one of his fruit trees and in trying to get out of the tree his foot stuck between two limbs and he had already let loose of the tree with one hand, so in trying to extract himself, he wrenched his knee and ankle so that he has had his shop closed since Wednesday, but he thought that he would be able to resume business by the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Sam Courtney came in Thursday afternoon and Mrs. Courtney is staying here assisting with the work in the Sunnyside for a few days.
    Among the callers for dinner Friday beside the regular boarders were Dr. J. L. Helms, veterinary of Medford Horse Hospital; Wm. Meyer, Albert Peters, Fred and Ralph Stanley, Clifford Hickson, and Charles Laven. The Stanley boys had sold a lot of mules and horses to Dr. Helms and he was out to receive them.
    Later in the day John Foster, S. Peranks and J. P. True called on their way to the Fish Lake ranch. They had been up the creek working on a flume to bring the water across the south fork of Little Butte Creek on the Fish Lake ditch and had completed the job and were on their way to headquarters.
    Herb Carlton of Prospect was here in town Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of northwest Washington came in Friday evening, and are still here at this writing, Saturday evening . They are interested in the agate business.
    Mrs. Stepford and baby of Brownsboro, who went to Medford last Tuesday, returned this Saturday morning and went up home on the stage.
    Mr. Guy E. Gane of Grants Pass, who has been up in the Lake Creek country looking after his farm, the Daniels place, came out today, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went to Medford this afternoon.
    W. H. Buskirk of Portland, who stopped here last fall on his way to Los Angeles, came in today noon and this afternoon went out to hunt agates, and I should have said that Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are putting in their time hunting agates.
    Friday evening the following members of the Butte Falls basketball team called for supper: Miss Foley, Norma Stewart, Nora Williams, Ellen O'Brien, Alta Stewart, Ernestine Fredenburg, Sam Hodges, Milton Hammersley, Lawrence O'Brien, Theodore Fredenburg, Orby Abbott, Ernest Albert, Eston Ahlstrom, Prof. H. P. Jewett and Glen Albert. They were on their way out to Central Point to play basketball against the Central Point team. It will be remembered that a short time ago the Butte Falls team went out and done up the Central Point team good and hard and this time they were going to finish the job, but the scale turned and the score stood 22 to 5 in favor of Central Point. But they had a very fine time, large crowd and the Butte Falls team took their defeat heroically.
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    Sunday morning was one of those lovely mornings such as is seldom seen except in Southern Oregon, where people who have been living up in the northern part of the state and Washington, Idaho and Montana are entirely unacquainted with such weather, but when they come here, can fully appreciate such a day. For instance we had Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell of Fernville of northwestern Washington, and W. H. Buskirk of Portland, and they could hardly realize that it was the 11th day of April, but so it was.
    When the church bell rang for Sunday school we found not only the regular attendants, but also quite a few additional who came to enjoy the Sunday school exercises. On my way to church I noticed quite a number of autos whizzing along the highway headed for the different camping places for picnicking and by the time I reached home the guests began to arrive for dinner. Among the first to arrive were Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satchwell, Miss Wilson, Richard Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. Stickel of Medford. Then came Judge TouVelle and wife, and Gus the Tailor and wife, L. V. Luce and wife, E. G. Trowbridge, Mrs. H. E. Boyden, Miss Florence Trowbridge and Albert Tarbow, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wakefield, Mrs. W. B. Silliman and Viola Silliman, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Silliman, Howard Silliman, Vivian Brown, Charles Wakefield, Hester Wakefield, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Dakefield, Effie Taylor, Olive Bessett, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rader, Grace B. Dye, W. S. Summer, the manager of Potter Palmer business at Table Rock, D. P. Wood, Mrs. D. P. Wood, A. B. Clayton and wife of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Kahlstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Gammill, Mr. Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McReynolds and daughter, Miss Eva. Miss Eva came out to celebrate her tenth birthday with her parents at the Sunnyside. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell of Fernville, Wash., making just fifty transient guests beside seven of the regular eaters.
    Sunday morning Andrew Pool and Fred A. Matz, W. H. Buskirk and J. P. Goin, our agate men, took their lunches with them and went out to look for agates, remaining most of the day, and when the came in had quite an assortment of stones of different varieties and some of them were seemingly very good.
    Fred R. Neil went up in the Trail Creek country Sunday.
    Wallace Bergman and family were visiting Mrs. N. E. Watkins Sunday, and Mrs. Knaps, who lives on the old Harbaugh farm, and the Misses Reed were visiting the family of John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Ellis and Hugh Darice of Ashland spent Sunday night at the Sunnyside on their way up to visit W. S. Baker who has a homestead on the Derby road.
    There was an election held in the Climax district last Saturday to vote on the herd law to decide whether stock should run at large or not, and the result was that those who favored the enforcement of the herd law won out by a majority of ten, and now after sixty days there will be no stock allowed to run at large at all, thus requiring all the cattle men who have been using that range for the last fifty years to either herd them off the entered land or take them away to other ranges, and where cattle have been raised on a range it will be very hard to hold them in certain bounds and about all that the land is fit for is for range purposes. But I understand that the few settlers who live in that section are interested in sheep and goats and they have to herd them and now they will have a complete monopoly of the range.
    While Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell were here last Saturday and Sunday Mr. Campbell bought out the interest of H. J. Deveney, our banker, in the First State Bank of Eagle Point and started back to his home in Washington Sunday evening, expecting to return and take charge of the bank by May 15th next. It is with regret that we have to chronicle the change, for during the time Mr. Deveney has been among us he has made a host of friends and it is with reluctance that we give him up, but we are assured that Mr. Campbell is an all right and up to date man and the short sojourn of himself and wife made a very favorable impression on all of those who met him.
    Among the business callers Monday were John Rader and wife. Mrs. Rader has been here for several days stopping with her daughter, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants. Ed Fisher of Indian Creek, W. E. Hammel, Marshall Minter, Sam Courtney and Charles Houston were also callers.
    When the Persist mail truck went out the driver, Mr. Adamson, had a large bundle of long cane rods cut off at the small end, and on inquiry as to the purpose of such rods Mr. Adamson said that they were for Mr. P. F. Johnson of Trail and that they were to be used in making "fruit thinners." Mr. Johnson has invented and patented a contrivance for thinning fruit. Standing on the ground with these light poles and a cutting machine on the end a man can reach to any part of the tree and thin the surplus fruit without the risk of falling from a ladder and eliminating the work of carrying a ladder around in the loose and often sticky ground.
    Prof. H. P. Jewett of Butte Falls came out on the stage Monday morning and so did Miss Nydah Neil. She came out from Medford to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Neil of Derby, and Jack Tungate was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage.
    S. L. Stewart of Salem, a traveling man who keeps his business to himself, came in Monday morning and spent the night with us, going to Butte Falls on the stage Tuesday morning.
    Other diners at the Sunnyside Monday were Geo. Cottrell and R. M. Conley of Butte Falls, Mr. Conley having bought the John Higinbotham place and Mr. Cottrell has bought the Hack sawmill on Clark Creek. T. E. and H. E. Edler were also here for dinner Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Daley of Lake Creek, were also in town Monday on their way home. They had been out to Medford and rented a house and were going home to move out.
    I see that the Independence Creamery Company have a new truck and have made a change in the name of the company. The truck bears the name of Eldridge Dairy Produce Company.
    Ed Cowden and family and Fred Pettegrew were in town Monday.
    T. W. Sanford of Ashland came in and spent Monday night at the Sunnyside, and Tuesday he and Fred R. Neil, also of Ashland, spent part of the day trying to catch some fish out of Rogue River, but failed owing to the water being so muddy, they said.
    There were two strangers came in Tuesday for dinner, but I failed to learn their names.
    Thomas F. Nichols, wife and half sister, Miss Naoma Smith, were among the shoppers Tuesday.
    George Hollenbeak, the man mentioned some two weeks ago who was here having his hand treated by Dr. Holt for blood poison and was taken to the hospital in Medford, returned Monday and while Dr. Holt was here Tuesday to dress his hand he reported that the stork had visited the home of W. L. Merritt, on the H. Watkins place, and the result was a fine daughter was added to the family on last Sunday.
    Today, Wednesday, is one of those showery days and the result is there seems to be no one coming to town as the roads are too slippery for cars and too muddy for horses.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 19, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The Pacific & Eastern Railroad Company have been digging a well near their large water tank close to the depot, as their pump froze up and bursted last winter and I understand otherwise injured their water system and now they are putting the well and pump nearer the depot so that the agent, if they have one stationed there, can look after the plant. As it was, they had to pump the water from Butte Creek and carry it through pipes for several hundred yards. They have a fine gasoline engine to use in pumping the water.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer of Lake Creek passed through town Wednesday afternoon on their way from Medford.
    George V. Loosley called Wednesday evening for supper and to meet Mr. Fred Neil, who is stopping at the Sunnyside, caring for a lot of cattle Mr. Loosley bought some time ago, and are now running on the range in the foothills.
    Joe Riley, one of the pioneers of this section, was a business caller Thursday morning and so was Mr. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro. Mr. Spence is the road supervisor in the Brownsboro district and seems to be looking after the interest of those who have to travel over the roads.
    Earl Hays, the road supervisor of the Eagle Point district, was also in town Thursday. He seems to be so busy all the time that he can work on the roads and I hear those traveling over his roads speak very commendably of his work, but the continuous rains we have been having for the past few weeks make it hard to keep them in anything like a good condition.
    Jack Hickson, the foreman on the A. G. Bishop orchard, was in town Thursday having a large span of horses shod.
    Lewis Bloss, who is stopping on the John Rader farm, was a business caller Thursday.
    Mrs. George Avery, of Medford, who had been up near the Dupray sawmill, with her husband on their homestead, came out Thursday with George Albert on his motor car, and reached here just in time to miss the jitney and stage both for Medford so had to wait until the afternoon jitney, but she went to the Sunnyside to rest, and went out with Will Lewis on his 2 p.m. jitney, but George Albert rushed around and went back home for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Orn Cass were shopping here Thursday.
    W. T. Normile and Frank Rhodes were among the diners at the Sunnyside Thursday, and so was Watt Beebe of Agate, and Ralph Severance, recently from California. Mr. Beebe was having Mr. Severance take a small bunch of cattle up to his ranch above here.
    Fred Aimes and Joe Pool motored through town in a new Ford Mr. Aimes had recently purchased.
    Jack Tungate of Butte Falls and "Shorty" Allen of Wellen were also here Thursday.
    Pearl Stowell, who left here last season for Washington, returned and was shaking hands with his friends Thursday.
    Mrs. McDonald of Brownsboro came in on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Friday morning, talked a few moments with Dr. Holt and then Mr. Staub started toward Medford with her and a young man.
    Frank Neil, Geo. Koeksen and Joe Kidd, who was formerly with J. M. Vogeli in the tavern that burned down near the Pacific & Eastern depot, came out on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Frank Johnson of Indian Creek and Lawrence Luy of Wellen were also business callers Friday.
    Ott Nichols and his brother-in-law Bob Harnish, and W. S. Baker of Derby, who are engaged putting up a lot of wire fencing out near Happy Camp, were here for dinner Friday and Mr. Baker is here up to this Saturday evening.
    Miss Florence Pool, our food demonstrator, and Miss Jessie Biles, assistant state home demonstrator of Oregon, were here for dinner Friday and Saturday. They are holding meetings with the ladies of the town and surrounding country, giving instructions how to economize in the making and remaking of clothes. I dropped in Friday to see and be seen and found a baker's dozen, all ladies, intently listening to what Miss Biles was explaining with regard to her work, but owing to the extremely disagreeable day and bad roads and the lack of advertising, there was but very few in attendance, but today there was a very nice attendance, for some of the ladies came from a distance in the country, among whom was Mrs. Ed Cowden, Mrs. Carl Esch, Miss Elsie Singleton, Miss Margaret Singleton, Mrs. Pete Petros, Mrs. Charles Klingle of Lake Creek and Mrs. George B. Brown of Brownsboro. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Klingle dined at the Sunnyside.
    While in conversation with Mrs. Brown I naturally inquired whether Mr. Brown was developing his quicksilver mine on his farm and she said that he was and the result so far is that the rock assayed $3.00 in gold and about the same in silver and a still larger percentage in quicksilver to the ton, and that he feels greatly encouraged over the prospect.
    Thursday as Mr. Adamson, who carries the mail from here to Persist via Trail, was coming out with the mail in a truck, in crossing one branch of Elk Creek the water was so deep that it came up on the car so as to stop his engine right in the middle of the creek and then he had to get out to get a team to pull the truck out of the water, it being about two feet deep and the result was that he did not arrive with the mail for some time after the usual hour, and it will be remembered that Thursday was one of those cold, stormy blustery days such as we seldom have as late as the 15th of April. To say that he suffered with the cold, as he was wet considerably above his knees.
    There was quite a large band of cattle went through town this Saturday morning on their way to the Sacramento Valley. It was a lot of cattle that Green Mathews had sold, but I did not learn the name of the purchaser.
    Wm. Holman, Benj. Brophy, W. E. Butler, Corbin Edgell and Green Mathews were among the business men who were in town this forenoon.
    Shorty Allen and Roger von der Hellen of Wellen, W. S. Baker and W. T. Normile were here Saturday for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 20, 1920, page 5


TRAIL ITEMS
    Dave Pence has purchased the George Storm place, which he will run in addition to his own place.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Todd spent Sunday visiting J. E. McDonald and family, who are staying in the Rogue Elk hotel during the owner's absence.
    Mrs. Van Heffner, who has been seriously ill, is improving rapidly.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson of the Bar 8 ranch spent Sunday afternoon visiting Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart on the Rogue River ranch.
    W. G. McDonald, owner of the Rogue Elk hotel, is in Medford and is expected home soon.
    Mr. Engle passed through with a small bunch of sheep on his way to the Evergreen ranch.
    K. E. Hutchinson spent Sunday visiting with Mr. Will Houston and family.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1920, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Saturday evening after I had written the Eaglets Mr. George Loosley and family of Fort Klamath; Harry Lewis, who had been out to Klamath County and W. S. Baker of Derby came in to spend the night.
    Sunday morning broke on us, not as gloomy as we have had during the past few weeks, but rather dismal for one who had anticipated going out and having a good time on the banks of our beautiful Southern Oregon streams, but nevertheless, it was not so disagreeable but what quite a goodly number of the pleasure-loving citizens of the towns and cities came out for a ride and dinner. Among the first of those who stopped at the Sunnyside was Miss Lena H. Wilson, Mrs. Fred Neil and her two boys, Joe and Kay of Ashland. They had come to meet Mrs. Neil's husband, who was here looking after Mr. Loosley's cattle. Then Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McReynolds, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Merrell and daughter, W. A. Summers, D. R. Wood and wife; Miss Dye, Fred Arnes, Miss Ethel Anderson of Medford and A. J. Florey, Jr., Miss Jane Hinman, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hinman and Mrs. R. A. Gill of Medford. Instead of the usual greetings, when our guests arrived Sunday morning, about the first thing was "What has become of the Eaglets? Have you quit writing for the Mail Tribune? Why were there no Eaglets in the paper last week??" etc. And the only explanation that I could give was that the Medford Mail Tribune was getting so popular and has such a wide circulation that the leading business men and women are demanding space for advertising so that the Eaglets were simply crowded out, but that I wrote regularly every Wednesday and Saturday. It is a matter of history that that is the first week during the last two decades and more but what the Eaglets have [not] made their appearance in the Daily Mail Tribune or its predecessor under a different name, for I have written regularly every week almost since the paper was first published as the Medford Monitor.
    Mrs. Adamson of Trail, the wife of the mail carrier on the Eagle Point-Persist route, came out Saturday and spent Sunday with her husband and daughter, Mrs. Theron Taylor, and went up home on the stage Monday morning.
    John Warner, formerly of Trail, but now of Portland, came out on the stage from Medford and went up home to visit his mother, Mrs. John Warner of Trail.
    Mrs. Ralph Stanley of Lake Creek and Mrs. Ira Tungate and her sister, Mrs. Ed Cowden, were shopping and visiting friends here Monday morning.
    Mrs. Walter Meyers of Hay Creek came in Monday morning to bring her cream and eggs and reports that she has not had as great success with her chickens as she anticipated, as after they were hatched, disease got among them and she had lost quite a lot of them, but that her turkeys were doing fine and that the first hatching were well feathered out and were very large for their age and that she also is raising a quantity of ducks. If Mrs. Meyers don't make a success in life with her cows, hens, turkeys, ducks and then as a side product, pigs, with her husband to help with all their energy and perseverance I don't know where some of those who sit around and take the world easy and say that they won't milk cows because they have to get up too early in the morning and won't care for chickens because they are liable to die after they are hatched, etc., will come off.
    William E. Butler and his father, W. C. Butler, were transacting business in our town Monday. W. E. Butler was having some repair work done on his auto in the Holmes and MacDonald garage.
    H. T. Pankey and E. R. Oatman, the two fruit tree inspectors, were out last Monday inspecting the trees and looking over the fruit prospect. They report the prospect good for a crop of fruit but that the crop will not likely be as heavy as it was last year.
    Pete Young and W. C. Pool were among the business callers also Monday.
    C. H. Toney, who owns a fine farm on Rogue River, near McLeod, who has been spending the winter in Oakland, Cal., came in to the Sunnyside Monday and remained until this Wednesday morning and went up home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage, and J. H. Shaw of Aberdeen, Wash., came in on the jitney Monday, on his way from Los Angeles, and took a room at the Sunnyside and is here at this writing. He is considerably interested in the agate business.
    N. J. Hodges and son, Newbern of Medford, were here for dinner Monday. They had started to go to Butte Falls in their car, but on learning the condition of the road between the Reese Creek school house and Vestals', they concluded not to try to make the trip.
    Floyd Pearce was on the streets Monday for the first time for months. He has to use crutches, but has high hopes that he will eventually have the use of his leg that was mashed, set and rebroken. Now both legs seem to be the same length. While he was here he asked me to send his subscription in for the Weekly Mail Tribune, and so did C. H. Toney, and I am sending in both subscriptions with this letter.
    C. E. Bellows and Sam Coy were both in town Monday on business, and so was Mrs. Hamilton Watkins and Mrs. Merritt of Reese Creek.
    Mr. Milo Conley commenced to haul lumber from the P.&E. depot for Mr. Jacob Monia. Mr. Monia is hauling lumber to replace his house that was burned down some time ago.
    Charles, Dorsey and Ruth Givan were in town Monday to register so they can vote at the primary election on the 21st of May. Roy Ashpole does the registering.
    F. D. Dills of Yakima, Wash., came in Monday evening, took a room and the next day went to work helping to put up a lot of fencing for Frank Rhodes.
    George Hollenbeak, who has been here and at the hospital in Medford for the past month with blood poison in his hand, has so far recovered as to be able to go home to Prospect Monday.
    Pliney Leabo, who has been working in a box factory at Hilt, came in and took a room Monday night. He was laid off on account of the strike on the railroad.
    Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro and Noble Zimmerlee [Zimmerman?] came in on the stage and Noble went on up to Butte Falls on the stage.
    The P.&E. railroad seems to be doing some business. They brought out five cars of saw logs Tuesday for Medford.
    William Holman and family have moved into the house belonging to Mrs. Marvin Wood and this morning went, or rather started for Derby, but it is a question whether they can get through, for the road is almost impassable.
    Misses Ella Belford and Juliana Hornik were attending to business in town Tuesday.
    I have a few more items but they will keep through for my next, as this letter is too long already.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 26, 1920, page 5
TRAIL ITEMS
    As the weather is so fine many Medford faces are expected to be seen along the river soon.
    The Jackson County Creamery truck made its first trip to McLeod last Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and Will Stewart spent the day in Medford Tuesday.
    The deputy assessor, S. S. Aiken, has been down from Prospect as far as Elk Creek.
    Mr. Tom Carlton made a trip out to the valley after a load of hay yesterday (Friday).
    The Sunday school at Trail was exceptionally well attended last Sunday.
    Mr. Van Heffner of the U.S. fisheries is putting in the racks to hold the chinook salmon until fishing time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart, Miss Anna French and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and daughter, Olive, spent Thursday evening at the Bar Eight ranch.
    Mr. Ditsworth has hauled several truckloads of potatoes to the valley. We are wondering if he is going to start a bank.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 26, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the items I omitted to write up for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune last Wednesday was that A. S. Bliton, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, had made his regular rounds and was inquiring for the residence of certain parties who had been added to the list of those who were patronizing the power company.
    J. A. Weills of Medford was also a caller at the Sunnyside and so was Nick Young, our ex-road supervisor.
    W. E. Hammel, one of our leading farmers and a genuine good roads enthusiast, was a business caller and while here did not fail to speak encouragingly of the great project to have our country roads materially improved, i.e., to have us vote to bond the county for a half million and have the state give equally as much and then the general government appropriate equally as much to build roads outside of the main thoroughfares. Our experience out in this part of the county, where the roads have been so very bad that the contractor had to hire two sets of men with pack horses to carry the mail over a road that has been used for over fifty years, it seems as though almost everyone who is at all interested in the subject will vote for the bonds.
    Mrs. Fred McPherson of Portland has come down to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Nichols.
    Mrs. George Brown and her neighbor, Mrs. Hectner of Brownsboro, were also business callers.
    A. H. Dougherty, traveling salesman, was here and spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights. On account of the condition of the roads in the outlying districts he had to change his plans and postpone his visit in those neighborhoods.
    J. L. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was a business caller Wednesday and so was John Rader, L. K. Haak and Shorty Allen and wife of Wellen and Mrs. Allen's brother, Ed Hensley, also of Wellen.
    Fred Neill, who has been off duty as carer of the Geo. Loosely cattle for a few days, returned to his room at the Sunnyside Thursday evening. J. H. Tyrrell and his grandson, Loren Farlow of Lake Creek, passed through here Thursday morning on their way up to Mr. Tyrrell's Lost Creek ranch. It will be remembered that Mr. Tyrrell sold his ranch of 320 acres to the Tacoma [probably Takilma] Metal Company on account of the manganese mines located there and at the close of the war, when the demand for the ore stopped, that the company turned the place back to him again and now he has two homes, one in Medford and one on Lake Creek and he has his hands full caring for both places.
    J. H. Shaw of Aberdeen, Wash., who stopped here last week to look for agates, started for his home via Portland, Thursday. And Pliney Leabo, who has been working in a lumber mill in Hilt, started for Medford the same day.
    Wm. Beale of Butte Falls was brought to the Sunnyside and remained two nights under the care of Dr. Holt, has been moved across the street where his wife and daughter are caring for him. He has had a severe stroke of paralysis but is improving.
    John B. Wimer, one of the candidates on the Republican ticket for the nomination of sheriff, was here Thursday for dinner and so was R. L. Burtrick and son R. L. Jr. Also Geo. D. King of Seattle. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Sherman Wooley, wife and her father, John Smith, Ed Spencer and Harry Smith took supper together at the Sunnyside Thursday evening. Prof. R. E. Maris, our school supervisor, was also here and spent the night.
    Joseph Geppert, the Butte Falls road supervisor, was in town Friday morning and went up home on the Butte Falls stage.
    M. A. Simon of Wellen was a business caller Friday and so was A. C. Spence, the Brownsboro road supervisor.
    J. C. Pendleton, one of the deputy assessors, was here Friday.
    Henry Meyer and son Auburn of Lake Creek came out and went on to Central Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Schutt of Derby drove out Friday.
    One of the Johnson brothers, who bought the P. W. Haley farm here, was a business caller Friday.
    Charles Horton of Klamath Falls, and Harley Dunn of Ashland, two cattle buyers, were here for dinner Friday.
    J. M. King and Sam Courtney were here for dinner Friday and Sam is stopping at the Sunnyside while he is painting R. G. Brown's house.
    Frank Swingle and son of Ashland called this morning on business. They were on their way up the creek.
    There was a jolly crowd went through here this morning on their way up the creek to have a picnic dinner. The company was composed of Elmer Vipps, Miss Barr, Miss Kingsley, Lewis Clark, Richard Singler, Glen Leach, Ruth Grover, Dorotha Newman, Frank Buchter, Katherine Lindley, Josephine Hartzell, C. McReynolds, Helen Holt of Eagle Point, and Edith Lumsden, the freshman and sophomore classes of the Medford high school. As they drove through town some of them spied your correspondent and stopped and about the first request was to give them a write-up in the Mail Tribune, and the result was that they soon gave me their names. They were surely bent on having a good time and appeared to be as happy as "clams at high tide."
    J. Wattenburg and daughter, Miss Evelene, were shopping here this Saturday morning.
    P. W. Haley of Central Point, R. M. Conley of Butte Falls, Wm. Jones, one of the forest rangers, Perl Davis and J. G. Davis of Medford were here for dinner today. The two Davis men are hauling lumber from Medford to Brownsboro for Ralph Tucker. He is building a large barn. He is one of the dairy men of that section.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 27, 1920, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    Fay Middlebusher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Middlebusher, has been quite sick but is improving rapidly.
    A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ash of Trail.
    Fred Middlebusher took a number of men to Prospect to work on the road Sunday evening.
    There was preaching services at the Trail school house Sunday evening, Rev. Glazer of Grants Pass speaking.
    Ermal Ingram of Medford visited over Sunday with Keva Hutchinson of the Bar Eight ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carlton, also Mrs. Vincent and family, were unable to attend the basket dinner Sunday at the Rogue River Ranch. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hutchinson of the Bar Eight; Miss Anna French of Talent and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and daughter Olive, of the Buckhorn farm.
    This is the last week of Miss Eula Houston's school.
    The Free Methodists held their quarterly meeting at the Elk Creek school house Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1920, page 2
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The Misses Ethel and Stella Anderson of Medford came out and spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside.
    Glen Haley of Central Point and A. J. Florey, Jr., were also among the lodgers Saturday night.
    Sunday morning was one of those lovely bright mornings that would cause almost anyone, no matter how much they objected to stirring around, to go out and take in a good portion of fresh, healthful morning air and with the lovers of nature and pleasure, would naturally prompt them to get out, especially out of the towns and cities and go out into the open and break the monotony of routine life. And judging from the number of cars that passed through our town that morning, there must have been hundreds of them that took advantage of the time and started out joyriding and pleasure seeking. I heard one lady remark, in the afternoon, that almost everybody had gone out picnicking as the roads and streams seemed to be lined with cars and people and still there was a goodly number stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner from different parts of the valley, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Mills and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Briggs, Bert R. Greer and wife and daughters Ethel and Lillian of Ashland, and Mrs. Viola Hail, a sister of Mrs. Greer, of Los Angeles. Bert Greer is the popular editor of the Ashland Tidings and for years has made it a rule to come up and take dinner at the Sunnyside among the first real lively Sundays in the spring or early summer. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Nicholson, Floyd Nicholson, Clause B. Gay and wife, N. S. Campbell and wife of Portland, S. Hughes, T. Hughes of San Jose, California, R. Campbell and Virginia Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Porter and son, Jack; "Gus the Tailor," and wife of Medford; Miss Hazel Antle of Corvallis, acting cashier and assistant cashier of the First State Bank of Eagle Point; E. J. Kaiser, the postmaster of Ashland and formerly editor and proprietor of the Valley Record; W. H. Mowat and G. R. Satchwell, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Burdic, Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Burdic and child of Ashland; W. A. Summers, Miss Dye, D. R. Wood and wife, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Mann, Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley, recently of Astoria; Roy Stanley, wife and son; Mr. and Mrs. William Perry, John W. Smith, J. C. Mann and family of Medford; Farmer Mavol, O. H. Johnson, wife and child of Ashland and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Medford. After they had all eaten their chicken dinner and rested a short time visiting and having a good social time they started out for a good joy ride and to enjoy the beauties of nature along the different routes.
    Mrs. Petersen of Trail, wife of one of the mail carriers on the Eagle Point-Persist route, came out Saturday evening with her husband, to do some shopping among our merchants and went home Monday morning.
    Miss Thelma Ellestad, who is teaching in the Derby district, came out from Medford Monday morning on the stage and went on to her school. Miss Ellestad arranged to have a friend take charge of her school Monday morning while she is coming out from Medford.
    J. M. King, who owns a farm on what is known as the Conover Camp, was a guest at the Sunnyside Monday and so was Mrs. Marie Ownby of Klamath Falls, Mr. E. P. Fox, formerly interested in the milk goat industry and Mr. Ray Jillson, the baggage man in the Ashland depot, S.P.R.R. He was taking a few days layoff and came up with Mr. Fred Neil to spend a few days with him at the Sunnyside, remaining until today, Wednesday.
    Mrs. Tungate of Jacksonville came out to visit her sister, Mrs. Anna F. Watkins, and also to visit her nephew, Wm. Beale, who is sick at his stepdaughter's, Mrs. Sherman Wooley.
    Mrs. C. E. Bellows came out Monday and went out to Medford on the Lewis jitney.
    There was about the usual number of our dairy men and chicken men in with their cream and eggs Monday as usual, and among them was Mr. Bickhen, the cow tester, who has been testing the cows for them. He went to Medford that afternoon on the Lewis jitney.
    I met Monday afternoon Miss Helen Holt, once of the company of high school pupils, who were in the company mentioned in my letter published Tuesday in the Mail Tribune, and she reported that they had one of the times of their lives and further that there were two more loads of the same pupils followed them, making about sixty altogether, and per necessity they had to have a good time fishing, romping and laughing and why shouldn't they, for they started out to have a good time and had it.
    Mr. E. R. Jones, who married Mrs. Ragsdale of Lake Creek some time ago, passed through town Monday with a registered Jersey bull in his wagon weighing 1300 pounds. Mr. M. D. Bowles, also of Lake Creek, was with him and while here wanted me to take his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, but I told him to send his check into the office, as I was not taking subscriptions for the Medford Mail Tribune.
    Everett Abbott, formerly of Butte Falls, but now of Portland, passed through here Tuesday on his way to Butte Falls to visit his mother.
    Charley Humphrey and wife of Derby came out Tuesday and brought out two long pitchforks for our hardware man, Mr. von der Hellen.
    Geo. W. Stowell, our chicken king, was in town Tuesday on business.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton was also shopping here at the same time.
    Dr. Kirchgessner of Beagle was called in council Tuesday to see Wm. Beale. Dr. Holt is the attending physician.
    F. D. Dills, who has been here for a week, started Tuesday for California.
    James Watkins, Central Point; Chris Beals and John Mayham, L. D. Cranford of Ft. Jones, Calif.; M. E. Southern of Etna Mills, Calif.; and Bert Brown of Ft. Jones, Calif. were also here and spent the night. They had come over with a truck to move the machinery in the T. E. Nichols building, used for making ice, to be taken to Dunsmuir, Calif. The machinery was purchased by Mr. Lenthan. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Harry Isbell, Mr. H. F. Hardwick, Misses Helen and Phena Anderson, all of Medford, called for dinner and still later our popular sheriff, C. Terrill, and candidate for renomination and his old opponent, W. O. Garrett, called for supper.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 30, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    J. L. Robertson, our boss farmer, was in town Wednesday afternoon and reported that he had fifty acres of corn planted and was pushing business so as to get a hundred acres more planted. He does business on a large scale.
    J. Wattenburg, who has charge of the Joe Rader farm on Antelope Creek, brought his auto in Wednesday to the Childreth shop to have it repaired.
    Wm. Lewis, our sheep king, took a band of about 800 sheep through here, going south to the range so as to save the grass north of here for his sheep while shearing next week, about May 4 or 5.
    George Loosley of Ashland and his son Kay of Fort Klamath came in Wednesday, took dinner, had a talk with Fred Neil, who has charge of his cattle, and went back to Ashland that evening. While here Mr. Kay Loosley made arrangements with J. P. Goin, our agate man, to go out to Fort Klamath and assist in caring for his stock, and Mr. Goin started Friday morning. Mr. Goin has been a regular boarder at the Sunnyside the most of the time for over a year and the people of the Fort Klamath country will find him an all right fellow.
    H. J. Deveney, our banker, took a trip up into Idaho looking over the field for business and returned Thursday to his post in the Eagle Point Bank.
    In my last there was a mistake as to who was assistant cashier in the Eagle Point Bank; it should have been that Miss Hazel Brown was assistant and that she had charge of the business of the bank during Mr. Deveney's absence.
    Mr. Mary A. Wright, formerly Mrs. Mary A. Wright Ringer, now divorced from James Ringer, was here Thursday packing up her furniture and preparing to take it to her home in Albany, Ore., as she has sold her house and lot to Mr. Mittelstaedt.
    Miss Nydah Neil was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Thursday on her way home.
    Dr. J. L. Holmes, the Medford veterinary, and Elmer Peters of Medford called for dinner Thursday and so did Victor Bursell, a popular candidate for county commissioner, and Dr. Kirschgessner.
    There was a fair representation of the Elks went from here Thursday evening to Grants Pass. They were Fred Pelouze, R. G., J. F. and Wm. Brown, J. B. Holmes and Roy Ashpole, and they started to have a good time and report that they had it.
    D. E. Whitley of Persist and D. L. Von Needa came out from Medford on the stage Thursday and Mr. Von Needa went to Medford.
    Mrs. Ed Tucker and daughter of Brownsboro were shopping here Thursday.
    Charles Nickell, who has been the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard for some time past, resigned his position and expected to move to Phoenix today, Saturday.
    Ellis Davidson of Applegate, and W. G. Bailey of Medford, came in and spent Thursday night with us. Mr. Bailey was canvassing for a silo company.
    There seems to be considerable travel on the roads now but they are still very rough out in the hills. There were three men went up to Butte Falls Thursday on the stage and one man was left for want of room on the car on account of the heavy mail and parcel post.
    We had a very interesting entertainment by our school Friday and the attendance was unusually large; in fact after the folding doors had been opened so as to throw the two lower rooms into one and the seats and chairs had been placed so as to fill all available space, leaving the most of one room for the children to perform their parts, about every seat was filled and several sat on the window sill. The exercises commenced with the usual singing, led off by Mr. R. G. Brown and Dr. Holt singing "Whispering Hope." Then "Kentucky Bell" by the 8th grade students. This was followed by recitations by the students of the different grades, and then the grammar grade gave an exhibition of physical culture that was very fine.
    This was followed by "Pied Piper," a story told by Dorothy Pierce, and dramatized by primary pupils. Little Miss Dorothy is a little tot and went through with her long part of the play without a breakdown and I may say that the primary pupils carried off the laurels, considering their ages. This was followed by character building by six little girls. These were followed by different recitations by pupils in the lower grades.
    Then we had a history drill that was fine, by the 8th grade. It was remarkable with what promptness they answered the questions and such a quantity of them. This was followed by story and pantomime by Jane Van Hardenburg and Dorothy Coy. We then had the Indian club work that was fine, given by the grammar grades. These were followed by recitation by Kenneth Jack. We then had a fine display of physical culture by the primary grades followed by the May Day dance by six little girls that was well rendered.
    This was followed by a spelling contest by the 8th grade. They spelled 100 words and at the close of the hundred words the judges called off the number of those who missed spelling one or more words and they took their seats, leaving five who had not missed and then the principal, Miss Lansing, resumed the work to see who would win out, and for some time it looked as though we were going to be kept there for some time, but finally they began to drop out until the class was reduced to two, Cyril Hawk and Miss Cleo Robertson, and for quite a while it was nip and tuck between them, but finally Cyril Hawk missed a word and Cleo spelled it, making her the champion speller of the school, but I must say that the spelling was fine and they all deserve credit for the work they have accomplished. This was followed by folk dances by the grammar grade, "Little Red Riding Hood" by primary grade and then song by grammar grade. Owing to the length of the program I have had to abbreviate on account of space, but taking the entertainment all through it was simply fine and the teachers, Miss Lansing and Miss Young, are entitled to a great deal of credit for the great pains they have taken in instructing their pupils.
    C. H. Natwick came out from the work on the Crater Lake Highway and reports that they have about forty men at work at present and are pushing the work right along.
    Fred Neil came in yesterday for dinner and so did O. D. Herbert of Portland.
    John Holts, one of the forest rangers, came over from Pelican Bay Friday.
    Mrs. C. L. Schieffelin, secretary of the Red Cross of Medford, was here to attend the school entertainment.
    Misses Helma and Bessie Hanna and Percy Foster came in from the Debenger Gap neighborhood today, Saturday.
    George Laidley and H. L. Cox came in on the stage from Medford and went up to Butte Falls. They are both Forest Service men.
    Wm Marion of Derby came in this morning to have Dr. Holt dress his hand. He had it caught in a saw at the Dupray mill and cut off the end of one of his fingers.
    Mr. Thom, a solicitor for the Western Farmer, was here for dinner today and so was Thomas Fuson, Mrs. R. I. Stuart and Miss Isabel Stuart of Medford. Mr. Fuson represents an insurance company.
    Mr. Isabel who has charge of the Wm. von der Hellen farm on Reese Creek, was in town today and reports that they are shearing Mr. von der Hellen's goats.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1920, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    Frank Middlebusher of Trail is working on the road up by Prospect.
    Dave Pence was up to see Bert Higinbotham Wednesday.
    Fred and Denzil Middlebusher took a truckload from town to Prospect for Jim Grieve.
    A crowd of young people went to Prospect to attend the dance Saturday night. Those from Trail were Miss Spencer, Miss Eula Houston, Merrel Houston, Miss Enid Middlebusher, Miss Minnie Pool, Hazel and Zella Pence, Keva Hutchinson, Miss Anna French and Sanford Houston.
    The Trail Sunday school had a picnic dinner at the home of S. W. Hutchinson Sunday. Those partaking in the good time were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence and children, Zella, Hazel Lincoln and Alberta, Miss Enid Middlebusher, Mr. Sanford Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and daughter Olive, Mr. Ralph Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and family, Miss Eula, Miss Givan and Merrill, Mrs. Jo Canutt of Medford; Miss Spencer and Fred Middlebusher.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher was unable to attend the Sunday school picnic on account of having her hand operated on, Dr. Kirchgessner taking a large splinter out Sunday morning. Her friends all wish her hand to be all right soon.
    Mrs. Van Heffner has been ill again, having had to call the doctor.
    Mrs. Vincin, of Table Rock, spent Sunday visiting with her sister, Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher of Trail.
    A joint school officers' convention and teachers' institute was held at the Ash hall Saturday. The people from the surrounding districts met in the morning, bringing their lunches making a basket dinner of the affair. There was a program from the Central and Trail schools, beside the speaking, several speakers taking part.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    D. L. Flynn and wife of the People's Electric Store, Medford, were here for dinner Saturday afternoon.
    Polk Smith and wife, John Mayham, John Foster and Wm. Jones, one of the F.S. men, were here and spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside, and Mrs. Sherman Wooley and children were here for breakfast.
    Wm. A. Beale died at the home of Sherman Wooley, Sunday morning and the remains were taken to Medford the same morning by Mr. Perl, Medford undertaker, and burial took place Tuesday afternoon in the Central Point cemetery. The religious services were conducted by your Eagle Point correspondent. There has already been a notice of his death published in the Mail Tribune so will not add more. There was an error stating his age, it should have been aged 50 years, one month. There was a large company attended the funeral.
    Our Sunday school was unusually well attended as there were more in attendance than for several Sundays before.
    By 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning the company began to collect at the Sunnyside and inquire as to the prospect for satisfying the appetite, and it kept your correspondent busy with his little book and pencil registering the names of the people as they came and I am quite certain that I missed some but I tried to treat them all alike, but many of them came and registered without my asking, as a very large majority of the people who came out from the towns and cities appear to like to see their names in the Medford Mail Tribune as well as to read the names of others who have been enjoying a ride out in the morning air and having dinner away from home.
    Among the first names on my list are Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mann and children, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Barrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davis, Mrs. Kerr, J. W. Snyder and family, Ethel Ausan and daughter Genevieve, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Moran, J. E. Moran, of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyer, Sr., of Lake Creek, Dr. Henry Hart, wife and son Robert of Medford, Mrs. H. V. Hart and son Everett of Quincy, Ill., A. S. Rosenbaum, Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pelton, Gold Hill, Gus the Tailor and wife of Medford, Mrs. Carrie Ryan of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Peterson, Grants Pass, Mr. and Mrs. Don Simpson and daughter Laurett, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McReynolds and daughter Eva, Mrs. J. W. Meyers, Miss Alice Hanley and her niece Miss Clara Hanley of Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill and daughter of the A. W. Walker Auto Company, Medford, Chris Bergman, B. L. Dodge, Medford, Sherman Wooley and family, Polk Smith and wife, F. E. and Mrs. French, Wm. O. Dickinson, Donald Dickinson, Helen Dickinson and Wilbur Dickinson of Ashland, Harry Smith, Miss Joyce von der Hellen and her brother Hugo and cousin Judge Florey, W. O. Roberts, and son-in-law, H. A. Hutton and wife and D. R. Patrick.
    D. R. Patrick engaged room and board as he is engaged in making some alterations in Roy Stanley's house and doing other carpenter work for him.
    D. L. Van Neede came out from Medford and went up to Butte Falls Monday morning and there was a strange lady on the stage at the same time going up the country.
    V. E. Brittsan of the firm of Brittsan Bros., who have charge of the P. S. Anderson dairy farm, came in Monday with his auto to have W. L. Childreth overhaul, clean and repair it. The garage men here seem to have quite a lot of work to do already this season.
    Charley Seefield and wife came in from their home near Lake Creek and were trading with our merchants Monday.
    Mrs. Sam Courtney and sister, Miss Mina Minter, who have been in Medford, came out Monday morning and went up home.
    Sam Courtney, who has been engaged papering Roy Ashpole's house. Sam is a good workman and seems to be kept busy either painting or papering somebody's house.
    Fred Chaney of Kansas came in Monday too late to catch the stage for Butte Falls so stayed at the Sunnyside. He came out to see the country and visit a relative he has in Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thom, solicitors, were here for dinner Monday, and so was Ralph and Mrs. Roy Stanley, Clifford Hickson, Dr. J. L. Helms, veterinary of Medford, and Henry Trusty of Elk Creek.
    When Bert Brown, one of the men who have been stopping with us while taking the machinery out of the ice plant, went to look after his horses he found that they had broke loose and started for Fort Jones, Calif., so starting on the trail he found them in the pound at Medford with a charge of $4.40 against them. Paying the bill, he returned just in time to help put on the last of the heavy machinery on the truck. Speaking of the machinery, Messrs. Crawford and Brown finished up shipping it to Medford Monday to be taken to different points in California, a part for Dunsmuir and a part for Fort Jones.
    Other business callers Monday were Charles Givan, A. C. Spence, Brownsboro road supervisor, James Culbertson, Ed Spencer and N. A. Loucks.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Campbell, the men who bought out the interest of our old banker, Mr. H. J. Deveney, came in Monday afternoon and is now getting acquainted with the patrons of the institution. They drove from Washington in their car.
    Thomas Farlow of Lake Creek was a business caller Monday.
    J. T. Adams and son, O. D. Adams, of McLeod, spent Monday night at the Sunnyside.
    Edward Dale and wife are here visiting our postmaster, W. C. Clements, and wife.
    Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek drove through Eagle Point Tuesday morning.
    Mr. Bassett, the old Butte Falls shoe cobbler, came out Tuesday morning and went up to his old home.
    Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller of Medford, E. Stone of Portland and Miss Janet Pendergrass, Miss Burnett, pastor of the Free Methodist church of Medford, and Sheriff Charles Terrill were here for dinner Tuesday. Miss Pendergrass is state lecturer for Pacific Coast Protective Society. The three were out looking after the interests of the rising generation.
    Geo. Skeio of Butte, Montana came in Tuesday and remained until this Wednesday morning. He was on his way to Trail looking for government land to locate on.
    Miss Catherine Foley, one of the Butte Falls school teachers, Ernest Peachey and wife called for supper Tuesday evening and went on to Butte Falls that night.
    J. H. Dunaway of Medford, was a business caller Wednesday morning.
    Mrs. Miller of Trail and little grandson came out on the stage from Medford and went home this morning and Polk Smith and wife and two others went to Butte Falls on the stage this morning.
    Frank Johnson and family of Indian Creek were in town this morning.
    Mark Winkle and Glen Haley and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kinney of Ashland were here for dinner today. Mr. Kinney is one of the candidates for county commissioner. W. D. Welch of Medford, candidate for county treasurer, also on the Republican ticket, and A. E. London of Medford were here for dinner today. Mr. London has traded for a small orchard, two lots, and house known as the old Peachey place in block 8 in our town. He procured it from P. H. Daily.
    There is a deal on hand whereby one of our prominent citizens sells his farm to one of the Medfordites, but as I cannot get either of the parties on the phone will not give it out today, although money has been paid down to secure the trade.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 8, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    In my last I referred to a deal that was on where I withheld the names of the contracting parties because all of the papers had not been signed. I always try to keep everything that I write for the press as near as possible straight. The deal to which I referred was where J. B. Jackson and wife sold their fine farm in the upper edge of our town to Leroy A. Smith and wife, who have been living in Medford for the past year or two, but formerly of this place. Mr. Smith bought with it what cattle Mr. Jackson had. While we regret very much to have Mr. and Mrs. Jackson leave us we feel that we are compensated to a great extent by having Roy and his family take their place. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are young and as steady and reliable as an old town clock and we predict that in a few years they will build up a business that will bring in quite a revenue. I understand that Mr. Jackson has not fully decided where they will go but seem to favor going to the state of Washington.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Koontz of San Francisco and F. B. Rayburn were here Wednesday eve for supper and then went on out to Medford.
    K. D. Jones was here on his way to his home in Butte Falls, while his wife was visiting their relatives in Gold Hill. He and Chris Beale were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday morning.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton was shopping in our town Thursday.
    Buel Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls passed through here Thursday on their way from Central Point to their home in Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, our new banker and wife, were here for dinner Thursday, and he tells me that they have formally taken possession of the bank and are making some changes in the management of the institution; one very important and convenient change Mr. Campbell has made is to keep the bank open during the noon hour. The way the business has been conducted before was to have the bank close at noon and not open until 1 o'clock p.m., thus forcing a person who was working by the day to lose a part of a day's work in order to do business with the bank for it does not open until 9 a.m. and close at 3 p.m., but with the bank being open from 12 noon until 1 p.m., a laborer can attend to his business and still be on time to go to work. Another change that he wished to make it is to arrange the business so that he can close the bank at noon on Saturday so as to correspond with the custom of the other banks in the country.
    R. P. Neil wrote to Mrs. Howlett requesting her to be ready to serve dinner about 1 o'clock Thursday for five or six, so Thursday afternoon he came in bringing with him his wife, Mrs. Wm. Denton, John Denton, Mrs. C. A. Bara and Charles Bara, all of Ashland, and after satisfying their appetites they spent some time enjoying the sights along the banks of our beautiful Little Butte Creek.
    D. L. Van Needa was on the stage going to Butte Falls again Thursday morning. He is very reticent with regard to his business but he seems to be a stirring business man and appears to be interested in the timber business around Butte Falls. Ray Watkins and Mrs. P. W. Tungate were also passengers on the stage Friday morning..
    Mr. Peterson, the man who is assisting in carrying the mail from here to Persist via Trail, came out Friday morning to bring two passengers so as to catch the jitney for Medford. He and Geo. Adamson are carrying the mail between them. Mr. Adamson runs a truck and carries the mail, passengers and freight from here to Trail, and Mr. Peterson takes what is left after passing Trail on up to Persist. Sometimes Mr. Adamson has a full load of over a ton of mail and freight besides his passengers.
    Glen Owen of Central Point, and W. D. Spencer of Portland, were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Spencer represents a tank and pipe company of Portland.
    T. F. McCabe was in town Friday and took out two rolls of wire fencing.
    Mrs. Ed Murphy and her sister, Miss Holmes of Wellen, were shopping here Friday and visiting their brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paper hanger, has just finished papering Roy Ashpole's house and today, Saturday, is doing some work for T. E. Nichols.
    J. H. Cochran and wife of Medford were here for supper Friday evening. Mr. Cochran was inquiring particularly about J. V. McIntyre, Mr. Deveney, our banker who has just gone out of the bank, and Mr. Campbell, our new banker, and upon inquiry learned that he was one of the Medford insurance men and that our bankers were handling the business for the same companies he is interested in.
    D. S. Hall of Radley, Colo., came in and spent the night Friday and went on up to Butte Falls this Saturday morning. He seemed to be looking for a location where he could secure a small tract of land, get himself a few dozen hens and a few cows and live like a prince.
    We had a genuine runaway in our little town, and it was not somebody's girl and boy but Wm. Perry's fine bay team. The neck yoke broke, letting the tongue of the wagon drop down and as quick as a flash both horses dashed forward and jerked the driver, Leroy Smith, off of the seat onto the doubletrees and at the same time jerked one of the lines out of his hand, thus leaving him helpless so far as stopping the horses, so, bracing himself against the end of the wagon bed and throwing the line he held away, jumped clear from the wagon unhurt. It was a very narrow escape, for in a short time the wagon collided with a telephone pole breaking the wagon and harness and freeing the horses from each other, one of the horses dashing to town and the other going in an opposite direction.
    Thomas Lewis, one of our young men, who was taken about two weeks ago to the hospital in Medford to be operated on for appendicitis, has so far recovered as to be able to be on the streets this morning.
    T. C. Gaines and wife of Trail drove out from Medford this morning, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on up home this afternoon. Geo. Spooler of near Los Angeles, and Orville Jones of Oklahoma, were here for dinner also today. Mr. Spooler had been up to the old Obenchain place to visit his brother, and Mr. James accompanied him. They were headed for Hood River Valley.
    Jacob Geppert and son Horace came in from their home near Butte Falls on their way to Jacksonville. Mr. Geppert is the road supervisor in his district and was going after powder to use on the road.
    I understand that Mr. Deveney has moved into the Wamsley house to remain until the close of our school, the 21st inst., and that Mr. Campbell, our present banker, has moved into his own house he bought from Mr. Deveney.
    Walter Painter, who has been away from here for several months, came in on the Trail stage.
    Mrs. Chas. Blaess and Miss Spencer, who is teaching the Trail school, were business callers in our town this morning.
    W. H. Crandall motored into town this afternoon and so did Thos. Stanley and wife.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 10, 1920, page 6
SCHOOL SEASON CLOSED, REESE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    Reese Creek, May 10.--Miss Marie Meyers closed a very successful eight months term of school, Friday, May 7th, with a picnic dinner, quite a number of the patrons and friends of the school bringing their dinner and participating. Those present besides the pupils and teacher were: Mr. and Mrs. H. French and Miss May, Mr. and Mrs. Bellows, Mr. and Mrs. Crandall and children, Mrs. Merritt and Miss Maud Merritt, Mrs. Pettegrew, Miss Ethel Ewen, Charles and Leland Pettegrew, M. Heckenberg, R. R. Minter, Marshall Minter and Miss Mina, Mrs. Sam Courtney, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mrs. H. Watkins, Miss Ellen McCabe. Those attending from Laurel Hill were the Misses Stella Conover and Hattie Johnson. After dinner the young people played games while the older people visited.
    Miss Meyers expects to return Thursday and Friday for the eighth grade examinations.
    Paul Robertson is still quite sick. The rest of the family have all been sick but are getting better. Almost everyone is having an attack in some form of bad colds or flu.
    The farmers are rejoicing over the fine rain that fell Saturday night, which was much needed.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1920, page 8
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson went to Medford Tuesday to stay the week out, returning Sunday.
    Fred Middlebusher took a truckload of distillate to the Mansfield ranch.
    Mrs. F. L. Hutchinson spent Friday night with Enid Middlebusher.
    Dave Pence has his teams working on the road at Prospect.
    Miss Tressie Pence and Roy Vaughn were married Saturday, May 8. Their many friends wish them a long and happy wedded life.
    Oscar and Will Stewart lost one of their horses Sunday evening. The animal took sick suddenly and died before morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 13, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday Sam H. Harnish gathered up his little family, consisting of his daughter, Dot Dutton, and her husband, Fred Dutton, his son, Ray Harnish, wife and two children, and Sam Rob and wife and his brother-in-law, wife and baby and went up to Williamsburg to visit his old father-in-law and mother-in-law, J. P. Moomaw, and other members of the family. Elder Moomaw lived for several years in this neighborhood and has quite a lot of friends here who realize how he and his wife would enjoy such a visit from their children and grandchildren. They returned Sunday night and Monday morning Sam was ready to start with his load of high school children for Medford.
    Word came to me Sunday morning that the day before Miss Marion Nye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Nye of Prospect, had fallen over an almost perpendicular precipice some twenty feet and was very badly bruised, and had her leg broken between the knee and thigh. She was taken, after having her leg attended to by a doctor from Medford, to Medford and was resting easy at last accounts at her aunt's home, Mrs. Raymond Pettis'.
    We had another one of our fine spring showers Saturday night and while it interfered to some extent with the prearranged plans of some of the pleasure seekers in stopping them from going out picnicking or otherwise enjoying themselves, although there was a few who ventured out to take dinner at the Sunnyside, and a few went out and took their lunch on the banks of the streams. Among those were Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Morgan, Mr. J. Bardwell, Mrs. Sarah Orett and Mr. and Mrs. Grover East of Ashland.
    Among those who were guests at the Sunnyside were Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. McReynolds, Mr. J. Dye, Dr. Wood, W. A. Summer, superintendent of the Modoc Orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow, Mr. and Mrs. Marian Merrill and daughter, Miss Jess, little Miss Jess was out celebrating her birthday, Gus, the Tailor of Medford. There were some others came in, but in their hurry to get to the table I failed to secure their names.
    Miss Inez Willits, who has been teaching in Sherman County, came in on the Monday morning stage from Medford and went on up to her father's on the Eagle Point-Persist stage.
    Fred Pettegrew and one of his boys were in town Monday morning and the boy went on up to work on the Crater Lake Highway, on the stage from Prospect.
    Mr. Fred Pelouze, one of our leading farmers and dairy men, was in town Monday morning. He had just returned from Eugene, where he had been to witness a ball game between the Stanford and the University of Oregon ball teams, in which his son, Bob, had taken a very active part, he being a member of the Stanford team, the victors in the game.
    Sherman Wooley has moved his family up on the Crater Lake Highway, where he will work this summer.
    G. W. Medlow of the California-Oregon Power Co. was here for dinner Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Goss were in town Monday. Mr. Goss has decided that he will not build this summer, as the prices of lumber are prohibitive.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl von der Hellen were callers Monday morning and so was Mrs. Sam Coy and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Theron Taylor.
    Eugene Bellows, wife and Mr. Joy were also business callers Monday.
    E. V. Brittsan was also a business caller Monday, but went on to Medford to procure seed corn, as that is a scarce article in this section.
    Miss Hazel Brown, who has been the assistant cashier in the First State Bank of Eagle Point, has, since the bank changed hands and management, accepted a position in the Medford National Bank of Medford.
    L. E. Walker, a cattle man of Klamath Falls, came in Monday night, took a room at the Sunnyside and is working for Mr. Kay Loosley with his cattle, getting them together to start over the mountains for Fort Klamath.
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King, in Chico, Cal., a ten-pound boy, May 1. Mrs. King was formerly a resident, in fact a native of this place, being formerly known as Miss Genette Haselton, a daughter of our old professor, A. L. Haselton, and her many friends and schoolmates are congratulating her on her arrival to the state of motherhood.
    Mr. J. C. Mahoney, Jeff Brophy and Amos Ayres and a stranger went up to Butte Falls Tuesday.
    John Howard, one of the old vets of the Civil War, came in Tuesday and went on up to his home on Rogue River. He has been traveling the past year and reports that he has been in 15 states since he left here. He spent the winter in Los Angeles.
    L. K. Haak and daughter, Miss Winifred, were among the business callers Tuesday.
    Jeff Conover and W. H. Crandall were also here Tuesday. Mr. Crandall had been to Medford and was on his way home.
    Fred Neil, Kay Loosley, Frank Hoover of Klamath County and Geo. H. Wehman and J. P. Hayes of Butte Falls came in Tuesday night for room and meals. Mr. Wehman was formerly a citizen of our town, the harness maker, and made the Sunnyside his home most of the time for seven years. He left here about two years ago and went to Pendleton, where he has been working at his trade ever since.
    Married in Medford, Tuesday evening May 11, Mr. Walter Painter, formerly of this place, but more recently from Washington state, and Miss Ella Adamson of Trail, Ore. The groom and bride came out this Wednesday morning on the Medford-Butte Falls stage, and went up to Trail.
    Mrs. K. D. Jones and daughter, and J. P. Hughes of Butte Falls, were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage this morning, and so was Roy Watkins and two strangers.
    J. Hickner, our coyote trapper of Brownsboro, was in town this morning and so was Dee Bradshaw, also of Brownsboro, and Wm. Haskell of Lake Creek.
    Frank Johnson, wife and daughter, Miss Hattie and Alvin Mathews and family were business callers this forenoon.
    Frank Henner, Industrial Accident Commissioner, Salem, Ore., Ralph Stanley, and Alex Vestal, were among the diners today.
    G. A. Hanson of Brownsboro was doing business this forenoon with our merchants.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1920, page 5
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. and Mrs. Painter came out on Wednesday's stage for a short visit with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Adamson, leaving Thursday for Washington, where they will make their home.
    R. R. Dawson, R. D. Watson, E. E. Ash, Lowell Ash, Johnnie Warner, C. Cushman, Claude Ragsdale and Frank Middlebusher all spent the weekend at their homes near Trail, returning to Union Creek Sunday evening, where they are working on the highway.
    Little Ethel and Alma Inlow have recovered from their colds sufficient to resume their school duties again.
    Miss Edna Peterson left Monday for Portland where she will visit relatives and friends for a couple of months.
    There will be a big dance at Trail hall, Saturday night, May 22. Orchestra music from Medford. Come everyone and bring your supper and have a good time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Houston and children were Sunday visitors at Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Hazelwood and family left Wednesday for Klamath County in their new Ford, where Mr. Hazelwood has employment for the summer.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1920, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wednesday afternoon after I had finished and mailed my letter for the Mail Tribune, Geo. Cottrell of Butte Falls, the man who bought the Hawk sawmill on Clark's Creek, came in and spent the night. The next day he left his four-horse team at the Sunnyside barn, employed Mr. Morgan to take his truck and go to Medford for his load of supplies for his family and mill including two barrels of crude oil. After spending another night with us he loaded up and went home expecting to start up his mill in a short time and supply our local market with what lumber is needed.
    Everett Abbott, formerly of Butte Falls, but more recently of Portland, came out on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday afternoon, spent the night here and continued his journey to Butte Falls to visit his mother and family for a few days.
    R. A. Weidman, husband of the manager and saleslady in the T. E. Nichols store, who bought the T. E. Nichols farm joining our town and is greatly interested in the dairy business and Thursday attended the meeting of the dairymen's convention. He seems to think that the time spent in going to Medford and listening to the lectures given on the subject of the dairy business is well spent and that the information obtained through that source more than compensates for the loss of time.
    Thursday morning a man giving his name as Berderman, who is interested in the development of a cinnabar mine near Brownsboro, came out on the Eagle Point stage, [and] took passage on the Lake Creek stage for the mine. Jeff Brophy of Peyton was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage.
    C. J. Freeman and C. L. Beeson of Talent, C. M. Roberts, the district attorney, C. E. Terrill, our sheriff, both candidates for re-election, Ralph Cowgill and little boy, candidate for representative, J. B. Jackson and wife and Charles Horton of Klamath Falls and Dr. Kirchgessner of the Debenger Gap country were here for dinner Thursday.
    J. D. Arnes, the foreman on the Corbin-Edsall orchards, was doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    Mrs. L. K. Haak was visiting our school Thursday. She is one of the directors in this district and said that she felt so much interest in the result of the examinations of the eighth grade pupils that she attended the school so that she could see the papers before they were sent off. I inquired as to how the examinations were rating and she replied that they were very good. Mrs. Haak has always taken a great deal of interest in our school and is now serving her sixth or seventh year as director, and while there seems to have been some criticisms of her course in the management of the school affairs, she still goes right ahead and I can't see but she is about as good material for school director as we have among us, and I can't see where we could improve by making a change in the directorship.
    Our school board have secured as teachers for the next term Miss Josie Riley as principal and Miss Young, the present primary teacher, as primary teacher conditionally. Miss Young came from the Middle West bearing a certificate to teach in her home state, but owing to the uncharitable and selfish law in this state, her certificate will not allow her to teach in this state without taking an examination and procuring a certificate here, so she has been teaching on a permit from our county superintendent. Prof. Ager and the board are so well pleased with her work that they have employed her conditionally on her securing a certificate at the next examination.
    Robert Harnish and wife were business callers Thursday and so was Pete Young, another one of our prosperous farmers.
    Mrs. W. C. Clements made a business trip to Medford Thursday in the Lewis jitney.
    Gus Ditsworth of Peyton, and his sister, Mrs. Ida Heidbreid and Mrs. Arthur Yerkes of Goldendale, Wash., passed through here Thursday for Peyton.
    T. E. Nichols has had the old meat and ice sign taken down.
    Marshall Minter was trading here Thursday.
    Walter Wood was in town Thursday and reports that he has put in one hundred twenty-five acres of corn this spring. He bought a Fordson tractor and went to work to put in a crop and summer fallow on his land. He has rented several hundred acres beside the 120 acres that he owns. He adopted a novel plan to get his land in corn in a hurry, so running his tractor night and day--his son ran it in the daytime and he himself ran it at night--by that means he plowed ten acres a day and while he was plowing his ground he harrowed it at the same time by placing a timber across the plows and fastening the harrow to the timber so that the end of the harrow would just miss the unplowed ground, it followed the plow and that gave it the first harrowing and then the harrow would continue to reach out onto the plowed ground, thus repeating the work until the ground was thoroughly pulverized and then he had a man follow up with a corn planter and by the time he was done plowing his corn was all planted. He claims that he has done the work of 16 horses with his tractor.
    Perl Stowell was among the business callers Friday.
    Our stage from Medford to Butte Falls, since the roads have dried up so that cars can run over them, seems to be doing a lively business.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Friday for dinner we had H. G. Bolton of St. Louis.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 19, 1920, page 10
GEORGE WEEKS' HOME AT TRAIL BURNED DOWN
    Trail, May 20.--Mr. George Weeks' house burned last week, destroying everything. Mrs. Weeks first discovered the fire just smoldering on the roof but being alone was unable to reach it with water. After saving their papers and a few clothes she took the baby and ran half a mile to a neighbor's for help. By the time the men got to the burning house it was too late to do any good. The children are staying with neighbors until Mr. Weeks decides what to do.
    The Franklin fire insurance man was out Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess entertained Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson at dinner Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and Will Stewart spent Tuesday in town.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Saltzman were out Tuesday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    There was a public speaking at Trail Wednesday on the road question. Gus Newbury and other speakers took part.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1920, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Henry Childreth and wife of Ashland came up Saturday evening to visit his brother, W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith.
    Charles Klingle and wife were here Saturday afternoon on their way home in Lake Creek.
    There was a meeting of the directors of the Eagle Point ditch company and among other business transacted elected John L. Robinson as ditch boss.
    There was a meeting of the town council and among other things attended to appointed our mayor, John M. Nichols, to order material for a new floor on our footbridge, with proper bed pieces, and make any other alterations necessary to secure the safety of the bridge.
    Among the other business callers Saturday afternoon was L. K. Haak and daughter, Miss Winifred, Geo. Givan and son Charles, Mike Sidley, Sr., Mike Sidley Jr., and Miss Helen Sidley of Lake Creek, H. D. Mills and family of Butte Falls passed through here on their way to Butte Falls.
    Carl Esch received by parcel post Saturday evening two crates of day-old chicks from Portland.
    We had a very interesting session of our Sunday school Sunday morning and among those who have been members of our bible class was Miss Margaret Singleton, and at the close of the school bid farewell to her teacher stating that she expected to start for Kentucky today, Wednesday. Her presence will be greatly missed and her many friends are wishing her a prosperous journey and a happy home in the state of her adoption. Miss Singleton and her brother, John D., have been the joint owners of what is known as the Singleton farm, now owned and occupied by Carl Esch and his father, and while among us have been among the leading business people of the community and they will be greatly missed by those who have been their near neighbors.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satchwell, Mrs. Will G. Steele, Miss Jean Steele of Medford, L. W. Campbell, Portland, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McGill, D. B. Morrow, Medford, Dave Burdic, R. L. Burdic, Morgan Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Johnson, Otis Johnson, Belle Johnson, Joyce Johnson and Perline Johnson of Ashland, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Van Scoyoc, Eugene Vilm, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moffatt, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Moffatt, Miss Alberta Moffatt, Eugene and D. Moffatt, Mrs. Mary Wright of Albany, Ore., Gus the Tailor, Medford, Frank Meyers, Derby, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Neil and sons Donald and Herbert and Miss Matney of Medford, W. A. Sumner, Miss Grace Dye, D. R. Wood and wife, R. P. Neil and wife, Alta Norcross, Gretchen Kraemer, Ashland, Lester Bradshaw and Earl Tucker, Brownsboro, Fern Donaldson, Mrs. R. Bruce Keown, Nellie Donaldson Keown of Medford and A. A. Betz.
    Mr. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was a business caller Monday morning and in speaking of the shower we had that morning said that he thought these little showers, that most of the farmers and orchardist welcome, were a detriment to the fruit instead of an advantage, as he claims it draws the moisture from beneath the surface and then the dry wind dries it up with what moisture comes from the showers--a novel idea to me, but it may be so, who knows?
    Mr. Adamson, the Trail mail carrier, took up to the free ferry a 3½-inch centrifugal pump for Charley Blaess to use in pumping water from Rogue River to irrigate his land. People are beginning to realize that with water on the land they can make it produce twice as much hay or grain and without water they cannot raise a garden.
    Benj. C. Sheldon, one of the promising candidates for the house of representatives, was out here Monday for dinner but as usual was in an awful hurry, but perhaps after next Monday his nerves will not be under such a strain.
    Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen and her daughter, Miss Dorotha, motored into town today.
    Among other callers Monday were Mr. Joy, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows, Verna Mathews, Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, Everett Abbott who was on the stage coming from Butte Falls going to Sams Valley to work in a sawmill, Robert McCabe and family, Fred Pettegrew, Harvey Stanley and Dr. Kirchgessner.
    There was a small force of men working on the irrigation ditch, the water of which runs through the grist mill, a limited amount, said water being used for irrigating some of the gardens around town, under the direction of the new ditch boss, John L. Robertson, and he had to throw up the job and go home about noon to see a baby boy that had arrived that forenoon and John feels quite proud that it is a boy.
    The intelligence came over the wire Monday morning that Edward Hensley had passed of Sunday night. The funeral was held at the Antelope cemetery, religious services conducted at the grave by Rev. Millard of Medford. There was a fine attendance and the floral offerings were very beautiful. The remarks by Mr. Millard were very appropriate and impressive. As there has already been a notice given in the Medford Mail Tribune it is not necessary for me to add more on the subject.
    L. F. Ivenhoe and family arrived here Monday afternoon from Oakland, Calif., and engaged a room for the night, moving into Mrs. Van Scoy's house Tuesday, temporarily.
    Frank Neil, the bookkeeper for the Eagle Point Construction Company on the Crater Lake Highway, was in town late Monday afternoon on his way to the Union Creek camp. He said that they had about 50 men on the payroll and forty horses at work. That just before he left they were demonstrating with a tractor and had ordered a large tractor which would go up Wednesday. I understand that the tractor expects to do the work of three three-horse fresnos in a day and if that is the case they will be able to finish up a strip between Silver Camp and Whiskey Creek without the expense of establishing another camp. This last information I received from R. G. Brown, one of the firm.
    Mrs. L. A. Belle of San Francisco spent Monday and a part of Tuesday at the Sunnyside. She is a representative for the Designer Publishing Company.
    Mrs. Anna Rice, nee Anna Matney, one of our old neighbors from 50 down to 25 years ago who moved to Washington about 1893, came down to visit some of her old friends and is going out to Klamath County to visit her brothers and sisters. She is stopping at present at the Sunnyside. She has one of her little granddaughters with her.
    Thomas Anderson, a young man, came in Tuesday on the jitney and engaged a room at the Sunnyside and is still here.
    J. M. Wilfley was in town Tuesday; he recently arrived from California.
    Thomas Collins, Mrs. Findley, Mr. and Mrs. Jap Andrews and B. E. Haney of Medford, Sam Courtney, Ray Harnish and W. C. Clements of Eagle Point, were guests at the Sunnyside today. Mrs. Clements and Mrs. Ray Harnish went to Medford so their husbands rounded up at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1920, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday afternoon John Allen and family of Derby passed through our town. They had been to Medford in the forenoon and returned home. Owing to the rapid way we have now of traveling, the farmers who live twenty-five or thirty miles from "The Hub" can jump into their cars, spin out to Medford in the morning and attend to their business during the forenoon, eat dinner, go to the theater or picture show, or visit friends a few hours and go home in time to do their chores, and thus spend the day and take some comfort out of life, instead of the old routine of trudging over rough roads with a team, attending to business as fast as possible, not taking time for dinner, and hurrying home to try to do the chores before dark. And after we have the two million dollars invested on the roads that was voted on Friday applied to our county roads, why then it will be almost like flying in an aeroplane. I don't pretend to be a prophet or the son of a prophet, but will venture the prediction that then our country stores will be almost a thing of the past, and that 85 percent of the country people will go to the large towns and cities to do their trading.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton, who lives in the Wellen district, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who is the manager and saleslady in the L. E. Nichols store, made a trip to Medford to have some dental work done.
    The Holman Brothers of Antelope Creek were doing business here Wednesday afternoon.
    Ed Phipps passed through here Thursday morning on his way out to his sheep camp. He reports that his sheep are doing fine.
    John Grieve, the veteran road builder of Prospect, Ira Tungate of Butte Falls and two young men came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Thursday morning and went on up the country for their homes. The Medford-Persist-Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage seems to be doing a thriving business in the line of passenger traffic, as it seems to be well loaded each way every day.
    Earnest Carpenter, A. S. Bliton of Medford, J. W. Ager, our county school superintendent and W. G. Morrow of Grants Pass were here for dinner Thursday.
    Albert Williamson, a young man without a home or relations in the country, came in Thursday to the Sunnyside, and is now working on the Tronson farm for a man he calls Martin.
    Mrs. B. H. Bryan and Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gilbert came out from Medford Thursday to visit friends in our town.
    Mr. V. Hill and family have moved into the Thomas Boltz home.
    Gus Edler of Lake Creek came in Thursday with his mohair for Geo. Brown and Sons, and while here lost his goat dog, but did not miss him until he was almost home, so came back the next morning for him, finding him where he had fed his horses. He claims that he is very valuable, as he stays with his goats most of the time not allowing anything to disturb them.
    Dr. Kirchgessner, Frank Smith and Mrs. Roy Ashpole were here for dinner Friday and later Roy Ashpole, John Greb, S. B. Holmes, Thomas Vestal and Wig Jacks, the election board for the day service, were here for dinner. While Roy Ashpole was on the election board, his wife was confined to the store and came here for dinner. Harvey Smith and son were also here for dinner Friday.
    Early Friday morning the people from the country began to arrive so as to vote and get out home to work and by seven o'clock in the morning there was quite a gathering in front of the town hall, where the notice said the election would be held, but the powers that be ruled that it should be held in the old stand in the Brown hall, where there are already ten booths ready for use, and by 8 a.m., a crowd had already collected anxious to use their right as American citizens to help select the future candidates for office. There seemed to be but very little interest in the nominations of the county offices, unless it was the sheriff and district attorney, but there were a few who worked hard to defeat all the measures and amendments where there was any likelihood of our taxes being higher, but they all came out ahead in spite of the opposition and the vote for the $500,000 for good roads was carried about three to one. There was a very good turnout, as there was 180 votes cast, about 50 percent of the registration, but there are quite a number whose names are on the list who have moved away since the last election.
    There was quite a number of people here from Medford that just came out for the ride or perhaps on business. Among them was P. S. Anderson, Mr. Roberts, J. C. Barnes and C. Westman.
    Charles Humphrey of Derby came in early this Saturday morning to bring in the ballot boxes from his precinct, as he had orders to bring them to Roy Ashpole's and deliver them to a deputy sheriff, another saving of several dollars expense to the county. He reports that there were 22 votes cast in Derby and that every one was cast for the county bonds. The people up there know how to appreciate good roads.
    Bert Grigsby and wife came out from their home this Saturday morning with a load of wood for the Sunnyside. He and Mr. W. S. Baker have bought a Ford truck and expect to deliver quite a lot of wood this summer.
    Among the diners today were John W. Smith, who is part owner of the old J. W. Smith farm on Big Sticky; Chas. Humphrey and W. A. Hauser of Medford, a traveling man for a hardware firm in Portland.
    James E. Hughes of Butte Falls passed through here this morning with a large-sized gasoline engine, to be used in cutting shingles.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. H. McCurdy of Medford passed through here this morning on their way to the mouth of Clark's Creek, where they expect to camp and picnic a few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 24, 1920, page 6


TRAIL NEIGHBORS RAISE BIG PURSE FOR FIRE VICTIMS
    Trail, May 25.--The neighbors of George Weeks took up a very substantial subscription for them which amounted to about $175, owing to the family losing everything by fire a few days ago when their house burned down. The neighbors wished to show their sympathy and good wishes in some way besides words.
    Floyd Hutchinson, who had his teeth severely injured quite a while ago by an auto rim flying off and hitting him in the face, spent Wednesday in Medford having dental work done.
    Mr. Verbick of Union Creek took a business trip to town the last of the week.
    Mrs. Jennie Hutchinson left Wednesday evening for an extended visit in Pomeroy, Wash. She will visit her brother and sister, Omar Fitzsimmons and Mrs. Dora Burt, and other relatives while there. While there she will attend Pioneer Day which is the 4th and 5th of June.
    The dance at Trail was a decided success Saturday night, May 22. An unusually large crowd attended. It was a basket lunch, with only hot coffee served.
    There were several cars stopped at the Rogue Elk Hotel today. From present appearances the tourist travel will be very heavy this year.
    Tom Weeks and Ralph Dunlap have started to work at Prospect on the Union Creek road.
    Dave Pence made a business trip to Union Creek Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Wednesday in Medford shopping.
    There were very few attended the meeting on good roads Wednesday evening.
    The Ash truck brought down a load of men who wished to attend the election Friday. Only a few people voted Friday morning, but during the afternoon the board was kept busy.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 26, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Judge G. A. Gardner and wife called for supper Friday evening. They had been out riding over the different roads out this way trying to discover what was needed and how best to do the work.
    Theodore Fredenburg, Miss Norma Stewart and Glenn Albert of Butte Falls came out Saturday evening on the stage, took supper at the Sunnyside and went on up home that night, the stage driver taking them, making the round trip that night.
    Harry Lewis, one of our hustling young men who is working on the Crater Lake Highway, got something in one of his eyes and came out Saturday night to have it extracted, spending the night at the Sunnyside.
    Wilbur Ashpole came out Sunday morning bringing with him his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Ashpole of Medford, to visit their son Roy and family.
    E. A. Hildreth, Jr., of Butte Falls, C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle came in from the Crater Lake Highway Saturday night and took rooms at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. L. L. Simmons, wife of the last pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. L. L. Simmons, and her sister, Mrs. Hudson of Valley Forge, Wash., came in Saturday evening to visit their father, Mr. Sheibley, who is on the sick list.
    Our Sunday school is becoming more and more interesting, although the number in attendance is not so large as is desired, but we trust that the number will continue to increase, and interest will remain also.
    There were services conducted by the same two men who were here last winter, and held services in the church building last winter, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Slusser, our barber, Sunday morning.
    Now come the names of the teachers, their husbands, wives and close friends of said teachers, and their husbands and wives of the Lincoln School, Medford. It was a birthday party for Miss Kate Stine and Nellie Donaldson. There were in the party Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hanby, Mr. and Mrs. W. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Willits, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. West, Misses Agnes Robinson, Nellie Donaldson, Kate Stine, Cecil, Crude [sic], Margarite Andrews, Mrs. Mary Williamson, Ruth Derniel, Mr. John Deaver, Neil Franklin and Merle Willits. They had sent out word the day before that they were coming and the arrangement was made to have them all eat together. They surely did have a royal time and seemed to be satisfied with their entertainment.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rader, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Culver and two boys, of Phoenix.
    In addition to them there was Gus the Tailor and wife, Lois Whitley, Albert Clements, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Deveney and children, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Mrs. George von der Hellen and son Donald and June von der Hellen, Mrs. J. F. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Vahn, Dr. and Mrs. Barber, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Deveney and three children, Mrs. J. Dunbar, John Dunbar, Sr., John H. Dunbar, Jr., D. P. Dunbar, Mrs. C. Gallagher, the five last named were from San Francisco; Nick Young, Clifford Hickson and Ed Spencer.
    Your correspondent took a trip to the Hub Monday morning to consult Dr. Emmens, the leading oculist in Medford, with regard to his eyes, and although he was there in the doctor's office quite early in the morning found that he was so crowded with work that he requested to defer treatment until a future date. As I was passing along at the rate of--well I won't try to say as the speedometer was disconnected so that it didn't work, but we went just fast enough so that I could see that everything in the vegetable line looked lovely and I discovered that the prospect of an abundant crop of alfalfa hay was fine but too fast to even see if there was any fruit on the trees or not, but it does one good to break loose from the home surroundings and just see how beautiful Rogue River Valley does look while everything is green and lovely.
    S. S. Aikens of Prospect came out on the Eagle Point stage Monday afternoon and spent the night with us on his way up home, taking passage on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning.
    Mrs. Abbott, Sr., of Butte Falls, who has been visiting Ashland, came out Tuesday morning and went up home on the stage and Charley Bacon and wife were also passengers but Mrs. Bacon stopped off and spent the day with Mrs. Howlett but Charley went on to Butte Falls, and Joseph Geppert was also a passenger Tuesday, on the stage. Speaking of the passenger traffic on the Butte Falls stage, this Wednesday morning when it came in from Medford there were 11 passengers and one more got on here, although several of them were children, and in addition to the passengers there was a very large mail. He had to leave one man who wanted to go to Prospect very much, but there was no room.
    Mr. and Mr. F. J. Ayres came in Tuesday morning to do some work on their place here in town.
    Mrs. Dennie Zimmerlee, who went up some months ago, has returned and is the guest of Mrs. Walter Wood.
    W. P. Gray of Portland represents the Goodrich Rubber Co.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith and auto machinist, is taking his dinner now at the Sunnyside as his wife is attending the meeting of the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. and Rebekahs as a delegate from the Eagle Point lodge.
    Messrs. C. F. Moran of Medford, T. Y. Cronin of Seattle, and P. Nelat of Spokane, Wash., were diners here Tuesday and Miss Elizabeth Whiting of New York spent Tuesday night here, going on to Prospect to take a vacation and rest. She has been connected with one of the large hospitals of New York City for some time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Watkins of Reese Creek passed through here Tuesday on their way to Eugene, Ore., where they expect to remain indefinitely. The readers of the Mail Tribune will miss the Reese Creek items, as Mrs. Watkins was the compiler of them, but she will be missed more by those who are in the habit of attending the Sunday school in that district as she has been the superintendent of that school for several years, and they both will be missed by the community in general as they were foremost in almost every move for the good of the community.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 28, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    When I wrote my last letter for the Mail Tribune and had reached what I thought was about the limit of the editor's patience on account of its length I just stopped and so will give in this some of the happenings of the day I wrote, Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, were business callers.
    Mr. and Mrs. Woods of San Francisco were among the diners at the Sunnyside and so was W. L. Childreth and A. C. Menece [A. C. Marion?].
    G. Stubblefield of Lake Creek was a business caller and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Wednesday evening C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, and son Carlyle came in from the works, bringing with them Charley Pettegrew, one of the boys working on the road, to go to Medford to have his eyes treated. He said that he thought it was some of the pumice dust that had settled in his eye. This is the second one who has come in from there troubled with the same complaint.
    Mrs. R. C. McGill and Mrs. George West and R. D. Patrick came in and spent the night and William Holman came in and took supper. Mrs. McGill and Mrs. West remained a few days and Mrs. McGill returned to Medford Friday morning, but Mrs. West is here at this writing, Saturday.
    Mrs. Rebecca Jonas, who has been stopping with Mrs. W. H. Brown for the past few months, started for Merlin to keep house for her son.
    Mrs. Jack Tungate and family of Butte Falls, Mrs. Jack Doubleday and H. B. Terrill were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols of Lake Creek came in Thursday morning and were joined by his mother, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, and went to Medford.
    H. E. Deveney, who recently sold out his interest in the First State Bank of Eagle Point to H. E. Campbell, started for Idaho Thursday where he expects to make his home in the future. He went by railroad and will be joined by his family in the near future. Although Mr. Deveney has been with us but a short time he has made a number of warm friends here who regret very much to lose him and his family.
    Mrs. Ernest Dahack was a business caller Thursday, shopping with our merchants.
    Judge George A. Gardner and County Commissioner Owens drove through our town going toward Medford. They had been out looking after our roads.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Schutt of Derby drove in Thursday with their cream to meet the creamery trucks.
    Mr. Maxwell, who is living on a farm just north of Eagle Point, was doing business here also Thursday.
    Thursday noon T. E. Cronin of Medford, J. C. Spangler of Spokane, and Harry Wallingworth of Seattle stopped here for dinner. They were on their way up to Fish Lake with a truckload of tools, bedding, etc. They said they were going up as far as they could with the truck and were going to repair and build the road so that they could go all the way to the lake. The arrangement is to put a force of men and build another dam and tap Four Mile Lake, so as to furnish water sufficient for irrigation purposes around Medford and vicinity. Mr. Cronin and Mr. Wallingworth were here again Friday and said that they went as far as G. W. Frey's Thursday and were on their way with another load. I understand that the company intends to make a first-class road up to the lake, and then it is but a short drive from there to Pelican Bay and Fort Klamath, and if that is done it will shorten the route to the Klamath country very materially.
    J. D. Arnes and family motored through our town Thursday afternoon, on their way from Medford. Mr. Arnes is the foreman on the A. Corbin Edgell orchards.
    Fred Neil of Ashland, who is interested with Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath in the cattle business, came in Thursday evening and spent the night with us.
    Mrs. Watson and daughter of Trail and Mr. Austin, one of the Butte Falls merchants, and three strangers came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning and Mrs. Watson and little daughter went home on the Trail stage and the rest went on to Butte Falls.
    The members of the I.O.O.F. lodge and the Rebekahs had a special meeting Thursday night and another of their big feeds. There were about 30 members present and a few of the visiting members, among whom was Prof. A. J. Hanby and W. L. Miller, secretary of Medford lodge.
    J. B. Bichan, the cow tester for Jackson County, and L. D. Tucker of Brownsboro, were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Bichan had been to the Tucker dairy testing his cows. Messrs. Ralph and L. D. Tucker have added to their herd and now are milking 30 cows and the creamery men from Medford are getting a large supply of cream each week, in fact he gets so much cream, eggs, etc., up Little Butte Creek above here that he has to have a trailer attachment and then by the time he gathers up what the farmers and dairymen bring here for him he has about all he can put on his truck and trailer, and as soon as the Eagle Point-Brownsboro ditch is completed and the thousands of acres of good hay land are brought into use some enterprising company will erect a creamery here and save the extra expense of having a truck come out from Medford.
    Harry Smith, who is caring for the C. H. Natwick ranch while Mr. Natwick is superintending the work on the Crater Lake Highway, was also a diner Friday.
    Miss Ethel Ewen and her half-brother, Mr. Pettegrew, passed through here Friday evening, and so did Mrs. Stewart and son of Reese Creek, and while Mrs. Stewart was in Ashpole's hardware store I was interviewing the boy and among other questions I asked how they were going to get along in the Sunday school now that the superintendent, Mrs. Watkins, was gone and he very quickly informed me that his mother was the superintendent, and I am assured that the Sunday school will get along all O.K. with Mrs. Stewart as the superintendent, and the help of a few noble Christian women that they have in that neighborhood.
    This Saturday morning as I was making my regular rounds gathering items of news for the readers of the Mail Tribune I met H. Hayes of Trail and he gave me a piece of agate that he had taken out of a ledge where he claims that he can get any quantity for commercial purposes. It is situated about a mile from the mouth of Indian Creek and if it proves to be of any value will be but a short distance from the Crater Lake Highway and may become a leading industry. The rock is very hard and clear.
    Gus Pech and Emmett Klingle of Lake Creek were in town trading this morning.
    John Greb and son were in town this morning and report that they have completed their well going to a depth of 150 feet through very hard rock and have an abundant supply of water.
    C. F. O'Connor of Portland and L. C. Falkanhagen of Grants Pass were here today for dinner.
    Mrs. Green, formerly of Eagle Point, but now of Los Angeles, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Lloyd Pierce, and looking after her property here.
    C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle and Roy Watkins came in today from the Crater Lake Highway for a late dinner. They report the work progressing finely on the road.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1920, page 2
TRAIL ITEMS
    A carelessly thrown cigarette stub or match set fire to an old stump near the bridge crossing Elk Creek just above the Rogue Elk Hotel. When discovered the fire had spread, catching an old tree, and the bridge itself had just started to burn. The fire was started and was burning fiercely within fifteen minutes time. No damage was done, however, as attention was called immediately.
    Mr. Vincent, road supervisor from Prospect to Elk Creek, has been working on the lower part of his division filling in chuckholes and improving the road in general.
    George Weeks went to the mill on Butte Creek Wednesday to see about lumber for the rebuilding of his home, which burned recently.
    There were several out to the last day program given at the hatchery school. The program was enjoyed very much. Mrs. Eph McDonald gave a reading and Mrs. Oscar Stewart helped in a dialogue. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Sumner and infant son Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Van Heffner and Gertrude Heffner, Mrs. Howe, Mrs. Eph McDonald, Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and Olive Hutchison, Mrs. Anna McDonald, and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
    Miss Anna French, whose school closed Friday, returned to her home on a ranch near Phoenix Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart went to Medford Saturday to spend the day shopping.
    There has been a slight frost for the past three or four nights. In some places the bean crop was ruined and in others it wasn't touched. Today it acts as though it were trying to rain, which would certainly be welcome to those with corn just coming up.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess of the ferry crossing below Trail have been seriously ill with the flu. Mr. Blaess took sick first, then his wife and mother came down, all three being confined to bed.
    There have been several cases of the flu up about Prospect.
    Mrs. Ash's Sunday school class spent Sunday in Central Point. There were about 25 people attended from here. After church they enjoyed a picnic dinner at Bybee bridge.
    Mr. and Mrs. Watson entertained S. W. Hutchinson at dinner Sunday.
    Oscar and Will Stewart enjoyed a brief visit from their sister, who has been spending a few months in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 5, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Saturday afternoon after I had written and mailed my letter to the Mail Tribune, Thomas Carlton and wife and his brother, Herb, were business callers in our village.
    J. Wattenburg and son, who are managing the Joe Rader farm on Antelope, were business callers Saturday afternoon.
    Sunday morning was one of those lovely cool mornings such as makes one feel thankful that we are here instead of in the Middle West, where one can swelter with the heat on the one hand and shiver with the cold on the other and early in the morning we could see and hear the autos rushing through town for the different camping places along the streams and highways, bent on having a good time fishing, or romping through the woods--in fact there was quite a number of the citizens of our larger towns and cities passed through here Saturday afternoon on their way to the hills to have a two days outing, having their tents, beds and bedding along, and when they began to come back Sunday evening and Monday morning told of what a fine time they had had.
    There was not the usual crowd here for dinner Sunday owing perhaps to the fact that the Elks of Medford were having about their first picnic dinner on their new Elks resort on the banks of Rogue River, where it was expected that all of the He Elks and She Elks, Jenny Elks and Elkettes, without reference to age, color or for condition in life were urgently invited to attend, and the invitation had been extended through the columns of the Mail Tribune so that almost everybody in the country, and Northern California and Southern Oregon had perfect knowledge of the fact that they were expected to be on hand and join in the pleasure of an old-fashioned picnic, and then another reason perhaps was that Sunday was Memorial Day and hundreds were engaged in paying tribute to the loved ones who had gone before.
    But there were a few who in connection with some of those duties and pleasures, already referred to, added visiting the Sunnyside and partaking of a good chicken dinner to the list. Among those who were here for dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Karl Knapp, Mrs. L. Hall and daughter Bertie, and son Eddie B. Hall, Gus the Tailor and wife, Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Morrill and daughter Floss of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, John W. Smith, wife and two children, James Donahue of Medford. Mr. Donahue was the guest of one of our regular boarders, old-time acquaintances in the old States.
    Later in the afternoon Roll Smith, wife and daughter-in-law of Tolo came in and spent the afternoon. Still later our popular sheriff, Charlie Terrill, wife and son Glenn and wife came for supper.
    Married, in Portland, May 20, 1920, Clement McDonald of Eagle Point and Miss Ruth Gibbs of Portland. Mr. McDonald is a member of the firm of Holmes and MacDonald, proprietors of the Eagle Point garage, and returned with his bride Sunday, May 30, and Sunday evening a number of his friends met and welcomed him by giving them an old-fashioned serenade and after spending a while in tendering congratulations the serenaders retired, wishing them a long and prosperous life.
    Among the callers Monday morning was Thomas Cingcade. He reports that his hay crop is good and that he was rushing to try to get it put away before it rains.
    W. E. Hammel, wife and sister-in-law, Miss Minter, were early callers Monday morning on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres and two children came out from Medford on the stage Monday morning and went on up to Elk Creek on the stage to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Trusty.
    Mrs. Pechy Hagen of Applegate also came out Monday on the Butte Falls stage and went up to Lake Creek to visit friends.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer and her granddaughter Miss Violet Calhoun were here on business. Mrs. Meyer is not only interested in the dairy business but also in the poultry business, chickens, turkeys and ducks; she seems to be making a specialty of ducks and says that she has young ducks as large as the old ones.
    D. W. Roberts, who has been out in the Ft. Klamath country helping his son-in-law build a barn, returned the first of the week and reports everything lovely out there.
    William Stanley of Lake Creek was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Gitzler of Ashland were among the callers Monday for dinner.
    Clarence Robinette and wife, who have been working in a sawmill, have returned to our town again but intend to go to Medford soon to live.
    Mrs. C. E. Bellows, Miss May French and Miss Myrtle Minter came in Monday and Miss Minter went to Medford on the Lewis jitney, she being one of the high school pupils.
    John Cox, formerly of Fort Klamath but now of Oakland, Cal., and wife and niece, Mrs. M. E. Pruett, were business callers Monday.
    Ralph Stanley, John Rader and David Cingcade, three of our leading stockmen, were here Monday.
    D. B. Gillette, Mrs. A. M. Hayes, Miss Bernice Hayes, Mrs. Dolph D. Halley and Miss Lee Halley, who had been out taking a little pleasure riding in the open air, called at the Sunnyside Monday afternoon to interview your Eagle Point correspondent.
    W. H. Crandall and family and Bert Clarno and wife, who had been out to the Central Point cemetery, passed through here Monday afternoon on their way home.
    Miss Zelpha Jackson, Mrs. George Armstrong, Thomas Ragsdale and Mrs. Thomas Ragsdale of Medford stopped Monday evening for supper and so did Robert B. Warner and Albert C. Meyer and two boys, Albert C. Meyer and Malcolm Meyer of Ashland, and A. L. George, representing a Portland seed company.
    Tuesday morning Joe Riley was here getting his team shod ready to move a rock crusher from near Beagle to Antelope Creek where the county will do some road work.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hayes of Trail passed through here Tuesday.
    J. W. Sanford and wife, C. W. Klum and wife, C. J. Anderson, representing Ward's goods, Mrs. Bessie Coffman, nee Bessie Chambers, were diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Mrs. Guy Pruett, nee Verta Grover, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Louis G. Ramey of The Meadows was in town Tuesday exhibiting specimens of rock taken out of the cinnabar mine near his home.
    Miss Nydah Neil of Derby passed through here Tuesday afternoon on her way to Medford, returning this Wednesday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 5, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    J. Monia of Brownsboro has been hauling lumber from our depot to build a new barn on his place.
    Thomas Farlow and Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek were visiting our town Wednesday.
    H. D. Mills of Medford, formerly the business manager of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, passed through here Wednesday on his way to Butte Falls.
    Wednesday about noon Roy W. Findley, L. E. Walker, the two Brandon brothers, the owners of the Snowy Butte flour mill of this place but now have the Central Point mill leased and are letting their own mill remain idle, were here for dinner Wednesday and so were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley and his father, Wm. Stanley, Harry Smith and Albert Conley were here for dinner Wednesday.
    Graydon Childreth has moved into the Arglee Green house.
    J. H. Heckner of Brownsboro, who is in the employ of the United States, spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside and so did Jay Davis of Derby, Mr. Davis going to his home on the stage.
    John Esch, one of our staunch farmers, was in town having his team shod getting ready to haul in his hay. Mr. Esch and son Carl are the owners of what is known as the J. D. Singleton farm and report that they had their first cutting of alfalfa down and that it would take about a week for them to haul it in, that there would not be as much hay on the place this season as there has been, as last year Mr. Singleton plowed up quite a lot of the alfalfa land and sowed it to wheat, and that the young alfalfa was not matured as yet. They have one of the best places in this section and are assured of an abundant harvest.
    Dr. Conroy and wife of Medford called Wednesday evening for supper on their way home.
    Thursday was one of the busy days in Eagle Point, it not only being the day that the Eldridge Creamery & Produce Company have their truck visit our town and community, but we had on that day Miss Lydia Doolittle, millinery specialist, O.A.C. extension service, among us and word had been sent out to each one of the surrounding country that she was coming to give free instructions to all who desired to learn as to how to make, trim, or remodel their old hats and the consequence was that by noon she found that she had not come to our town in vain. She held her meetings in the Red Cross room over Geo. Brown & Sons' store.
    Among the arrivals at the Sunnyside that day for dinner were Miss Lydia Doolittle, the lady just referred to, Mrs. Bergman, J. H. Murphy and four men, all strangers, who ate their dinner and left before I procured their names.
    In addition to those who came in for dinner there were Mrs. Charles Klingle of Lake Creek, Mrs. Geo. Brown of Brownsboro, Mrs. Herman Meyer, Mrs. Ed Meyer, Mrs. Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, Miss Mae and her father, J. H. French, and son Floyd and Mrs. French's father, Perry Foster. While sitting talking with Mr. Foster he incidentally remarked that he had just received a letter from Ed, his son, who left a few years ago and went to Pennsylvania to live but before he left went to the Mail Tribune office in Medford and subscribed for the daily so that he could hear from home through the Eagle Point Eaglets, and that whenever he received the Mail Tribune he always looked for the Eaglets for news from home. I had about made up my mind to stop writing as there is but little in it financially and there is a lot of work in it, and other reasons, but when he made that remark the thought occurred to me how much good I am doing in carrying the good news to the thousands of readers of that little paper way off out in Southern Oregon. I simply changed my mind and concluded that I would try to keep at the work a while longer. And that is one reason why I mention so many names so that their friends who are scattered not only over the state of Oregon but over the entire civilized world, for I have received word from so many telling me of the comfort they derive from reading that class of news in the Eaglets.
    Jack Tungate of Butte Falls came out Friday with a truckload of shakes on his way to Central Point.
    Friday Leon E. Reynolds, agent for Case tractors, Portland, Henry L. Emstrom, representing J. E. Haseltine Co. of Portland and Noah Frederick, representing an oil company of San Francisco, were here for dinner. They all seemed to be doing considerable business and looked as though they were faring well.
    Mr. Hamilton, superintendent on the Fish Lake ranch, took about four hundred head of mixed cattle from the ranch to the range near Rancheria Prairie Thursday and Friday, and Ed Dutton, who gave me the item, reported that they had a hard time driving them through the brush, as they were not used to being driven, having been kept in a pasture and that the young calves were a fright to handle in the timber and brush. Many of them were the fine imported stock that the Dutton Company have brought from the East. During the time they were in the timber one of Mr. Hamilton's little boys became separated from the rest and became bewildered and was lost; it took about four hours before he was located.
    Vernon Cottrell and Edward A. Nichol of Clarks' Creek mill--the old Hawk mill--came out Friday and spent the night with us, and so did George Lewis, Medford, and Claud McKee, Applegate. They had two five-ton trucks to load with steel for the Eagle Point Construction Company to take to Union Creek camp to be used in the construction of the Crater Lake Highway. After they had loaded--the steel was brought out last season on the P.&E. railroad, and has been here ever since--after they were loaded they had to cross Little Butte Creek here and the question came up as to whether the bridge was safe, but they made it all O.K. They had to go by the Bybee bridge route as the Dodge-French bridge is considered unsafe under a heavy load.
    Wm. Lewis had a truckload of wool pass through here for Central Point this Saturday morning.
    John Grieve, Chris Beale and Mr. Guano [Clarno?] came out on the stage today.
    M. C. Mahoney of Butte Falls was in town today and so was ex-senator H. von der Hellen. He and Postmaster W. C. Clements went to Medford to attend the funeral of the late Geo. P. Mims, the Medford postmaster.
    Chris Bergman and wife were here for dinner and so was Chris Beale and John Mayham.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1920, page 5
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Middlebusher left Sunday to spend a few days on Applegate visiting relatives.
    The Jacksonville Creamery made their first trip with their new truck, which is a great improvement over the old one.
    At last the rain has arrived. Although a few farmers have their hay down, the majority are very glad to see the steady downpour.
    Two large G.M.C. trucks, loaded with bridge irons for the Union Creek road, mired down in front of the Bar 8 ranch owing to sub-irrigation.
    The dance at Trail Saturday, June 5, was very well attended, a basket supper being in order. Heine's orchestra furnished the music.
    Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson has been real sick this last week, but is improving rapidly.
    The minister who was to preach Sunday at Trail failed to arrive.
    There was a fair attendance at the Union Sunday school, the lack of attendance due, no doubt, to the dance the night before.
    There will be preaching next Sunday at Trail by Rev. Griffith.
    There was a school meeting Saturday night at Trail, to consider the consolidating of the school districts.
    Lucy and Eula Foeller, who have been attending school at Medford, were out to the dance Saturday night.
    The fishing is unusually good just now, owing, no doubt, to the weather conditions.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1920, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    There are quite a number of men working on the road between here and Fish Lake and on the water ditch leading from the lake to the valley, and the Rogue River Canal Company are preparing to build an extensive dam at the outlet of the lake so as to hold a very large volume of water for irrigation and domestic purposes, and us poor mortals below the prospective dam are hoping that the governmental authorities will take the matter up and see that it is so constructed that there will be no danger of another Johnstown flood as even the near approach to a flood such as we had four years ago the 4th of June when the water came so near to breaking through the dam that was then the outlet of the lake, when it did considerable damage to the various places along the valley of Little Butte and caused a number of the families to have to move out and remain on the higher ground all night, and gave some of our citizens here such a scare that they kept their automobiles standing ready at the door to carry them to the hills.
    But one of our contractors who is to build the dam assured me that the dam would be made as strong and safe as possible. But when it comes to building a dam to hold such a vast volume of water as will accumulate in Fish and Four Mile lakes during our heavy storms such as we sometimes have in this country, it will require one that will be almost absolutely unbreakable.
    Saturday after I had mailed my last letter for the Mail Tribune, Sherman Wooley came in from the Crater Lake Highway camp at Union Creek and spent the night and Chris Beale of Butte Falls and James Donahue of Medford were also guests at the Sunnyside.
    The arrangement had been made by that accommodating mail carrier, J. E. Edsall, to take Mr. Donahue and George Wehman out to the Blue Canyon on the northeast side of Mt. Pitt and spend the day having a good time fishing. They went within about four miles of the place with his Ford and then had to walk the rest of the way up the hills through the brush, over rocks and logs. Oh, it was lots of sport. They had had everything arranged the night before and so started at 4 o'clock a.m. in high glee with bread, butter, potatoes, preserves, frying pans and coffee pot and went out to beyond Butte Falls before they stopped for breakfast. Eating a bite they rushed on to get fish to eat, but by the time they reached the fishing ground they began to realize that there was some work as well as sport, but they had a good time and caught a nice lot of fish, but found that they were about a month too early in the season. It was quite a trip for Messrs. Donahue and Wehman, for they are not accustomed to that kind of exercise, but they stood it fine and are planning to go again later in the season and go Saturday evening and spend all day Sunday.
    Sunday morning was rather gloomy and there was not the stir on the road and consequently not very many at the Sunnyside for dinner, but those who did come had a pleasant time and a good old-fashioned chicken dinner. Among those who honored us by their presence were: Mr. and Mrs. Cole Hall, Medford, Albert Clements and Mrs. Louis Whitley, Prof. R. E. Morris, school supervisor, Mrs. C. W. Palm, Mrs. J. W. Keane, Mrs. Ida Stewart, Mrs. S. J. Emerick, Medford, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hanna, Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. John Reter and daughter Miss Bernice Reter, Miss Ruth Agee, Mrs. Ella Kane, Ashland, Miss Joyce von der Hellen, Eagle Point, Gus the Tailor and wife, Carlyle Natwick, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Muirhead of Gold Hill and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, Eagle Point. Later in the day John Warner and Charles Cushman of Trail came in and spent the night.
    Sunday evening and night the farmers and stockmen were made glad by a gentle downpour of rain that continued all day Monday and it is estimated to be worth thousands of dollars, not only to this valley but all over the coast. Although the rain stopped the boys and girls as well as the men who are working in the orchards to have to lay off for a short time, but that little inconvenience amounts to nothing compared to the amount of good it has done.
    Among the callers Monday morning were Miss Estella Conover, Miss Hattie M. Johnson, Miss Maurine N. Stille, Miss Mona Minter, Mrs. Mary Beale. Mrs. Beale has been stopping with her son Harvey and was on her way home to Butte Falls. J. H. Heckner is engaged in the U.S. department to rid the country of the rodents.
    Harry Hayes called on your Eagle Point correspondent and among other things told of the Stille Bros. starting up their sawmill on Indian Creek about 12 miles from Eagle Point.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., and little daughter were business callers Tuesday.
    Mrs. McDonald, who owns a farm a few miles above Brownsboro, drove into town Monday and remained until in the afternoon getting her buggy repaired.
    Mrs. L. L. Simmons of Valley Forge, Wash., and her sister, Mrs. Watson who have been stopping here with their father, Mr. Schneeley, started for their homes Monday.
    Sam Courtney, our painter, came in Monday evening and spent the night and the next day did some painting on the Sunnyside.
    A. G. Bishop and Corbin Edgell, two of our leading orchardists, were in town Tuesday and so were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, and Eli Dahack, who was here having some repair work done on his spraying machine.
    Pete Young, one of our thrifty farmers, and W. C. Pool were also among us.
    Mr. Losia of Medford came in Tuesday. He had been up above here on the creek on business.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Berst of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cox, Mrs. Jas. Stokan, Miss Lenore Stokan of Medford, and Mrs. Gus Brey of Lake Creek. Mr. Brey has bought a place just above the soda springs on the south fork of Little Butte and reports that they had a fine rain up there Friday until Tuesday morning. They were all here for dinner; the two from Portland and the four men from Medford just came out for a drive and to take dinner.
    Among others who were here on business were H. E. Hensley, Cecil Culbertson, E. V. Brittsan, Fred Pettegrew and son, Ed Condon, Mrs. Ed Murphy.
    [omission] that they had fine rain up there Friday until Tuesday morning. They were all here for dinner, thw two from Portland, and the four from Medford just came out for a drive and to take dinner.
    June 8th, 1920, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cingcade, a girl baby. Mother and child are doing fine.
    Mrs. Henry Tonn of Lake Creek, who has been stopping with Mrs. Cingcade, came in this Wednesday morning and went up home on the stage.
    Two of the Stille brothers, J. C. and another brother whose name I have forgotten, passed through here this morning on their way to Medford with a cast iron wheel to have it mended; it had a piece broken out. It was one of the large belt wheels in their sawmill.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1920, page 7


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday while I was at the post office waiting for my mail, Mr. McKissick, the civil engineer, drove up in his auto, came into the post office and taking me by the arm remarked "Come out here, I have something to show you," and on our arrival pointed to a large rattlesnake with eleven rattles and a button, that he had killed that day while he had been at work, just outside of our town in what is known as the Hamilton place. It was a fine specimen of a rattler and about as large as I have seen for several years, in fact it being the first I have seen for a long time, for they are not very plentiful around here, as the hog [is] a natural enemy of his snakeship, for while the bite of the rattler is very poisonous and very often results in the death of the victim, the hog can be bitten by them and even eat them, with impunity and receive no harm.
    The same evening while I was sitting reading the Mail Tribune, Mr. Chauncey Florey, our popular and accommodating county clerk, came in and introduced me to R. B. Blodgett of Los Angeles, Cal. They had come out to try their luck at fishing and take supper at the Sunnyside.
    The same afternoon W. H. Crandall and family drove in from Medford where they had been to procure spray dope to be used on his orchard out three miles north of our town.
    Charles Winkle also came in that afternoon for supper, and Mrs. Sherman Wooley, who has been visiting her brothers Corbett and Polk Smith near Butte Falls, also came in and spent the night.
    Thursday Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Pomerenz of near Central Point came in for dinner. They were looking for Mr. Frideger who had been stopping with us while out here working in his orchard. They said that they were building on a farm north of Eagle Point and wanted to find a plasterer to do their work in that line.
    Albert Clements and L. C. Taylor, who are working for the county, were here for dinner. They had been taking two truckloads of cement tiling up to be used on the road above here, and they were also here again today, Saturday, on the same business. Rob Harnish, who was engaged at the time dragging the road, was here for dinner.
    Thursday there were eight passengers on the auto stage passed through here from Medford to Butte Falls and Prospect; two of them were for Prospect, that is Frank Ditsworth and bride. When Frank got out at the post office here he had his head way up and walked right by me as though he didn't see me but I thought nothing of that but in a few minutes he passed me by again with a high head and finally I climbed up so that I could reach his shoulder and grabbed him to let him know that I was still on top [i.e., above ground; alive], wondering what had come over him, but finally learned that he had the responsibilities of a family resting on his shoulders and then the whole incident was explained. He had just been married and his many friends around here are wishing them all kinds of success through their future life.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls was another one of the passengers on the stage; he had been to Medford with his mother to see her off for Portland and was returning home.
    Mrs. Maxfield, who had been stopping for a few days with her sister, Mrs. Charles Cingcade, was also in town on her way home.
    Mrs. F. J. Ayres, Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harry Stanley, were among the business callers Thursday.
    Grant Wortz of Rogue River motored through our town Thursday and so did J. W. Berrian of the Butte Falls fish hatchery. He reports that they had 1.35 inches of rainfall last Sunday and Monday up there.
    Gus Nichols and wife were among the business callers Thursday. He reports that his prospect for hay is not so good as it was last year.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher of Trail, who had been out to Medford visiting relatives, came out on the Eagle Point stage Thursday and spent the night at the Sunnyside going up home Friday morning on the stage.
    Friday morning our community was shocked by the announcement that William Taylor, one of our old and valued citizens, had died very suddenly the night before. He leaves a wife and several children and grandchildren to mourn his departure. He is of old pioneer stock, his parents having settled in an early day east of Medford near the foot of Roxy Ann. I have not the data to give further notice, but understand that the remains will be interred in the family burying ground at Phoenix.
    Mrs. Nora Kelly, son Robert and daughter, Miss Marjorie Kelly, and Mrs. Ella Bush nee Ella Hanley called for dinner Friday and to renew old acquaintances, for that is the first time I have seen Ella for about forty years.
    A. McDonald of Medford, Mrs. Cross, formerly the hotel keeper of Butte Falls, and W. W. Green of Jacksonville were passengers on the stage Friday from Butte Falls.
    Mrs. George O. Gorhan and Mrs. Taylor and daughter Miss Josephine, J. H. Hecknor, Mr. Adams, formerly of McLeod but now of Portland, and his friend were here for dinner Friday. Charley Blaess of Trail was also a business caller Friday.
    Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath called Friday afternoon on business and while here reported that that morning he had had his auto stolen and up to the time he was here had no word from it.
    David Rosenberg of Medford and Miss Georgia Crape of Columbus O., a relative of Mr. Rosenberg, stopped at the Sunnyside a few minutes before noon and decided that they were not hungry but liable to be later in the day, so had Mrs. Howlett put up a lunch for them to take on the road. They wanted to go up as far as Lake Creek. While here the subject of sheep came up and he remarked that he had just bought a buck that is warranted to shear forty pounds of wool at shearing. Some sheep!
Medford Mail Tribune, June 14, 1920, page 4
TRAIL ITEMS
    A large bunch of sheep belonging to Ford & Wilson passed through on their way to the range until time for them to go on the reserve.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher has been in town for the last few days having dental work done.
    Mr. Ace and George Weeks have been hauling lumber for the rebuilding of the house of George Weeks, which burned recently.
    Mr. S. W. Hutchinson arrived in Medford Tuesday after a visit of three weeks in Pomeroy, Washington.
    Mr. Tom Weeks has been sick with the "flu," but is up now, the other children all coming down with it. The baby has been seriously ill.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart spent Saturday night in town. Jim Stewart, son of Oscar Stewart, returned with them, having finished his course at O.A.C.
    Again it has rained in time to save lots of work in irrigating. There was some hay down, but the good the rain did to the corn offset the damage to the hay.
    Rev. Griffith preached Sunday afternoon. There was a basket picnic after Sunday school, which, as usual, was very well attended.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Middlebusher left for their home in Washington after an extended visit with Mr. Middlebusher's mother.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Mail Tribune as I was on my way to the post office I met Thomas Lewis and he told me of an experience he had had that day with a large rattlesnake a short distance above town. He was walking along through Roy Smith's pastures, the old J. B. Jackson place, and discovered a huge rattler, so securing a piece of a rail he made for it but missed it and his snakeship ran into a squirrel hole, when he secured a pick and shovel and started to dig him out, but as soon as the rattler discovered what was going on he commenced to make battle, and the attack was so unexpected that the first pass the snake made came very near reaching him, but he jumped back and recovering himself, struck him with the edge of the shovel, cutting his head nearly off. He, in relating the circumstance, said that the snake was as large around as his arm just below the elbow and Thomas is not a small man, but I suppose will weigh in the neighborhood of 140 or 145 pounds. He had seven rattles on his tail and Tom said that when he did rattle it was simply terrible. He did not say whether he was excited or not, but suppose he was. The rattler is on exhibition in Lewis' confectionery.
    Frank Johnson and wife of Indian Creek and his brother Rube, and Alex Mathews were also here in town Saturday afternoon and so was Mrs. Thomas Farlow and son Earl of Lake Creek.
    Miss Zelma Roberts, a daughter of our townsman W. D. Roberts, who has been teaching school in Crook County, returned home last week.
    Sunday morning broke on us as though it might be anything but lovely although it proved to be a very pleasant day but threatening rain, but the faithful few who are in regular attendance in Sunday school were on hand and we had a very interesting Sunday school session, John Esch leading the Bible class, Mr. Campbell the young people and Mrs. Carl Esch the primary class, and I am glad to say that we are once again favored with the assistance of Miss Nora Childreth as organist. While she was attending the Medford high school she could not always be with us, but now we have reason to hope that she will be able to be with us and take an active part in our Sunday school.
    Among those who were guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satchwell of Medford, G. M. Best, and G. W. Griffin of San Francisco, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Satchwell. Gus the Tailor and wife of Medford, Albert Clements and Mrs. Lois Whitley and her brother D. G. Miller, Medford, Pliney Leabo who came in Saturday night about midnight and remained until Monday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Findley, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stone and Miss Marie Earhart, all of Medford. R. L. Burdick and wife of Ashland, Mrs. Roy Stanley and little son, Mr. Nick Young. Later in the afternoon Geo. McDonald and C. H. Natwick. And while we were all gone to Phoenix to attend the funeral of our old neighbor, Mr. W. W. Taylor, two others came in, ate their dinner and left the cash on the table for "Ma Howlett." I may say that owing to the fact that the funeral services were to be in Perl's chapel at 2 o'clock that the table was left about as the guests left it and the strange visitors found everything on the table to eat. There were quite a number of our citizens went from here to pay respect to the memory of the departed, and including those who joined the procession by the time we arrived at the cemetery at Phoenix there was a very large attendance. The services at the chapel and also at the grave were conducted by Rev. L. Myron Boozer of Medford and very appropriate and impressive. The floral display was very grand, covering the grave completely, as well as the graves of other members of the family.
    Miss Zelma Roberts, daughter of our townsman, who has been teaching in Crook County, returned to the parental roof last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro were among the business callers Monday. And so was Benj. Brophy and E. V. Brittsan. They came in to bring in their cream for the Eldredge Produce and Cream Co. of Medford.
    Tuesday morning Luther L. Clark, Frank Hicks and Charles Donahue came in from the Fish Lake road camp for breakfast. They had been working on the road between the intake where the water enters the pipes for the Medford system and Fish Lake, but became dissatisfied with the situation and quit to hunt another job. The same day there was a whole truckload of men passed through here headed that way. It is always the case where a number of men are employed on any public work that there is a certain element that become dissatisfied and are thus going and coming. They report that there were about forty men at work on the job.
    Charles Givan, one of our promising young farmers, was attending to business in our town Tuesday.
    There seems to be considerable travel on the road between Medford and the surrounding country out this way as the Butte Falls stage is quite well loaded each way, having from four to eight passengers each way. Of course some of them change stages here and go out on the Trail or Lake Creek stages and some go as far as Derby and go on the Prospect stage, but it shows that the people are on the move.
    Joseph Geppert, the Butte Falls road supervisor, came in Tuesday morning with one of the Jackson County road trucks to have some repair work done, and then went on to Medford, returning in time to go home that night. Those of us who are interested in good roads are anxiously waiting for the time to come when the "powers that be" will start work on that three miles of sticky between the Reese Creek school house and the Vestal place so that the good people around Derby and beyond will not be forced to remain at home as they have been for the last ten or twelve years.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday were S. H. Harnish, his son Rob and wife, Mr. R. D. Flaherty, manager of the Farm Bureau Exchange, Medford, and Fred Robinson, representative of the livestock business.
    Louis Gibson of Reese Creek was in town Tuesday and so were Mrs. John Rader and Mrs. Harvey Stanley.
    Among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday evening en route to Medford were A. Dupray, Mrs. Averill, Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman and her daughter, Miss Violet, and one or two others.
    Ed Higinbotham motored through out town headed toward the Prospect country and Joe Pool went to Medford on the Lewis jitney this Wednesday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 17, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mr. and Mrs. George Singwald of Oakland, Calif., came in Wednesday evening to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade. Mrs. Singwald is the daughter of our townsman, Mr. Cingcade and Hattie, his daughter, was raised and educated here until she passed the tenth grade when she went and took a regular business course, including stenography and typewriting, and for several years followed that branch of business in different cities in California, but finally she was married to Mr. George Singwald, who is now engaged in the art business, preparing plates to make the pictures and engravings in newspapers and magazines. They came up in their car and are now visiting Mr. Thomas Cingcade and her old schoolmates and old-time friends. They expect to return about next Wednesday.
    Dr. Kirchgessner came out last Wednesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Hill, who has quite a tract of land planted in onions on the Tronson place, was in town Wednesday having our blacksmith make little shovels to use in transplanting onions.
    Mr. J. H. Gay of Central Point and his son, Louis D. Gay and wife of Seattle, Washington, were business callers, or rather visitors, for they were simply out looking over the country, and the visitors seemed to be very well pleased with the appearance of things in general.
    Wig Jacks, John Nichols, et al., have been building a flume so as to bring the water from the ditch. Mr. Jacks has already built into a part of the town that the ditch could not reach.
    Mrs. Arglee Green of Los Angeles and her sister, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, called on Mrs. Howlett Wednesday afternoon, and J. H. Heckner, the rodent exterminator, and Chris Birdsman and wife were here Wednesday for supper and Mr. and Mrs. Birdsman spent the night with us.
    Jack Bittson, one of the truck drivers on the Crater Lake Highway, also spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    There were seven passengers came out on the Medford-Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage Thursday morning. Two got off here, and Mrs. E. R. Harper of Portland took passage on the same stage, and the two who got off, Gus Edler and his niece, Miss Lorraine Hagnes of Ashland, went on the Lake Creek stage for Lake Creek.
    Miss Zelma Roberts went to Medford Thursday.
    George W. Barker, the Butte Falls banker and family, stopped here Thursday evening for supper and then went on home that night.
    Wm. C. Johnson of the firm of Johnson Bros., who bought the P. W. Haley place, was a business caller Thursday.
    County Judge Gardner and the two county commissioners, James Owens and Thos. H. Simpson, accompanied by Jack Washer, the man who is superintending the road work on Dry Creek, passed through here to Butte Falls Thursday, looking over the road and looking for a suitable place to put the rock crusher to crush the rock to go on the road between Reese Creek and Butte Falls.
    The Beeson brothers and one of the lady employees took supper and breakfast at the Sunnyside Thursday and Friday. They came in Thursday morning with their show outfit, consisting of bears, dogs, birds, etc., and entertained the people, and I understand had a good crowd, and the entertainment was said to be very good for a small place.
    Thomas Stanley and wife of Butte Falls and his brother, Carl, of Lake Creek, were here on business Thursday.
    Mrs. W. S. Baker, who has been a patient at the hospital in Medford, was brought out here Thursday afternoon and will remain here for a few days until she recuperates a little. She is getting along fine. Dr. Holt is her physician.
    W. H. Crandall and family were here Thursday afternoon. They came in to celebrate his oldest boy's, James Edison Crandall, birthday anniversary with ice cream and cake.
    Israel Patton of Butte Falls, who has been over on the coast working, came in on the stage and went up home Friday morning.
    John Allen, one of our leading stockmen of Derby and son, Walter, were in town Friday having a team shod to work on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls road. They took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did J. H. Murphy of Medford and later in the day we had Mr. H. Feldenheimer, J. B. Williams of the Union Meat Co., Portland; J. H. McDuff, Montreal, and J. N. Smith, Chicago, Ill. and still later Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Stoddard and two children and W. S. Baker and two children. He came in to visit his wife referred to in this letter and spent the night. Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard were on their way from the neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they had been spending the season. They brought with them two milk goats and came in from Medford Saturday morning. They had three little kids. Mrs. Stoddard and the children went up to Butte Falls on the stage and Mr. Stoddard took the goats and their trunks up on the P.&E. train.
    Mrs. H. M. Daniels and son, Horace, and daughter, Miss Margaret Daniels, passed through our town Friday afternoon on their way to visit Mr. and Mrs. George Givan and family.
    Mrs. J. H. Deveney, wife of the banker, who recently sold out his interest in the First State Bank of Eagle Point to Mr. H. E. Campbell, and children, started Friday for Midvale, Idaho.
    Mrs. Dr. W. W. P. Holt and two daughters started today, Saturday, for Berkeley, Calif., where they expect to remain during the summer. Mrs. Holt and children are visiting her mother, Mrs. Perdue.
    George Klingle of Lake Creek started this morning in a car for some point in California to spend the summer.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., Lake Creek, Mr. Adams, merchant of McLeod, and four strangers were at the Sunnyside today for dinner, and later in the day Mrs. R. Kyle, Gertrude Jean and Ross P. Jean and Dr. Holt were among the diners.
    Thomas McCabe, one of our former orchardists, and C. Edgell, an orchardist, were doing business here today.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 21, 1920, page 3
TRAIL ITEMS
    The annual school meeting of district No. 84 was held Monday afternoon at the school house. Oscar Stewart was re-elected as director and Mrs. Oscar Stewart as clerk. A 5-mill tax was voted in order to pay off some of the back debts. Also the school was voted to be closed for two years on account of the financial condition of the district. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart, Ace Week, Will Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hutchinson. Will McDonald, the chairman of the board, was not present. Neither was Mr. Van Heffner, who has four children of school age. On account of being alone at the store Mr. Adams was unable to be present.
    Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and family and Miss Enid Middlebusher spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    There was preaching at Trail Sunday by the new minister, with basket dinner and afternoon meeting.
    Mr. Vincent has been hauling bridge lumber from Hall's mill below Trail.
    Mrs. Oscar Stewart broke one of the hubs on their car on her way to Trail one evening. Leaving the car along the wayside, one of the neighbors kindly took her on as it was a business trip, later taking her on home.
    Never has the weather been so perfect for haying. Hot, yes, but it makes good hay.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDonald and three children will be at the Rogue Elk Hotel this summer.
    Miss Eula Houston has gone to California to take a course in summer school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ash came down from Union Creek Saturday evening, in order to be home for school election. They spend Sunday at Sturgises'.
    Merle Houston has been home several days on account of an ulcered tooth. He had to have it pulled and his cheek lanced.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 23, 1920, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. Arglee Green, who has been here visiting her sister, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, and looking after her property, started for Los Angeles last Wednesday in her auto to look after her interests there, expecting to return in about six weeks, expecting to make some decided improvements on her place in our town.
    Mrs. Walter Bales of Kansas City, Missouri, a sister of Mr. J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, and Miss Bessie Spencer, niece of Mr. Wilfley, also from Kansas City, came about the middle of the past week to make him a visit. Mr. Wilfley came in Thursday and brought them with him, so that they might see our town and meet some of his many friends here. Mrs. Bales seems to be very well pleased with our country, and especially with our climate. Asking him, with regard to his prospect for a fruit crop, he said that the prospect was quite good. With regard to the blight, he said that when he looked around and saw how other orchardists had been treated that he felt that he had been treated quite well, although there was some blight in his orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and daughter, accompanied by Miss Bertina Gardner of Lake Creek, came in Thursday. She had come out help thin out the fruit in one of the orchards.
    There seems to be but little trouble in securing help to thin the fruit, but the farmers are having some difficulty in getting help to cut and care for the hay crop, although they are offering good wages. There is one man in this neighborhood who is offering eight dollars a day for a man and team. But the smaller farmers are exchanging work, helping each other and in some instances women are turning out to help, the price being so high, forty cents an hour, that it is quite an inducement to them to work and it is not an uncommon sight to see a man running a mower and his wife using the rake. But the question comes up, what is to be the result of these high prices for labor? For every one who has given the subject a serious thought knows that the farmer cannot afford to pay such prices as are demanded and the result will be that there will be a large portion of the farming land go uncultivated, with the result that there will be a falling off in production and the same class that is now holding up the farmer, will find that he will be left without employment and be very liable to go hungry himself.
    Rev. W. C. Reuter, formerly pastor of the M.E. church in Medford, but now of St. Maries, Idaho, came in on the stage Thursday and went to Mr. John Greb's, who has had charge of his landed interests here.
    Mrs. Eber Emery of Gold Hill, who is traveling for the Ward Remedies Co., was a business caller Thursday. She has taken the place formerly occupied by Mr. A. H. Peachey.
    Mrs. T. E. Nichols, made a business trip to Medford Thursday.
    Mr. Adams, our sub mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Persist route and is now doing considerable freighting, brought in a truckload of fence posts from Medford for George Stowell. The posts were shipped from the state of Washington to Gaddis & Dixon and then shipped out here and by the time they are hauled from here to the Stowell ranch, the cost of transportation alone will amount to no small item, for they average fifteen pounds each.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hessing and son Carrol of Talent, were here for dinner Thursday on their way up the creek for a fishing excursion.
    Wm. Moore, the saw filer for the men who are engaged getting out saw logs near Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday going to Medford and so was Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Marion, formerly of Derby, on their way to Medford, and they were all three of them on the same stage Friday going back up the country. Mr. and Mrs. Marion were going to Derby to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Allen. They expect to go to Bandon soon.
    John Norris, the foreman on the Wilfley orchard, was in town Thursday and Friday, having Mr. W. L. Childreth work on his auto.
    Thursday afternoon, while I was looking for items to write in Eaglets, Dr. Holt, our M.D., came along and asked me to ride with him out to John Owens', where he had a patient, Mrs. Owens out there, who had been operated on and brought home, so jumping into the car we went over the hill and into Dry Creek Valley, passing through some of the fine farms, and I noticed that the farm products, especially the wheat and corn, looked fine. I also rode a part of the way over the new road that the county officials have been making. They have done a fine job for a summer road, but it lacks the finishing touch for winter. When we arrived at the John Owen home, I found that since I was there last he has put himself up a neat frame residence, and made other improvements. But the house is of little consequence compared to the housekeeper, but we found her in fine condition and doing as well as could be expected.
    W. E. Hammel, another one of our wide-awake farmers and orchardists, came rushing into town to have his mower repaired.
    Thursday evening, Mrs. J. P. Svenson of Grants Pass, Mrs. Sandoz of Elk Creek and Miss Ellen Hanson of Minneapolis, and Mr. T. F. Throwell of Weed, California, came in to spend the night at the Sunnyside. They all went up on the Trail stage. Miss Hanson is a niece of Mr. Svenson and they were on their way up to his farm on Elk Creek, where they expect to remain during the summer.
    Robert Pelouze motored through town Thursday afternoon on his way home.
    Everett Edsall, who has been working on a railroad in Nevada, came in Friday morning on the Medford-Butte Falls route and came up to visit his mother, sisters and brothers. He is a patient now in the railroad hospital, he having been thrown off the water tender on the train and had his shoulder blade broken some weeks ago, and is here on leave of the doctor until July 1, when he must report for treatment. He went from here to Phoenix Friday night to visit his mother and sister. He also went to Butte Falls, his old home, with his brother, Jed.
    Laurence Luy of Wellen was a lodger Friday night, and Wm. Perry and wife of Eagle Point, Nettie Grover of Medford and Mrs. Harriet Allen of Seattle were here for supper. Mrs. Allen is a daughter of Mrs. F. M. Stewart and sister of Wm. Perry, and Mrs. Grover is on her way from California, where she has been visiting her mother and sisters, to her home in Seattle.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 28, 1920, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday while John W. Smith was here getting some repair work done on his mowing machine, he and Harry Stanley met and in the run of conversation were speaking of the difficulty in procuring help on the farm and the manner they would slight their work, and Mr. Stanley related how he had gone to Medford and brought out four men to help on the farm. He was to pay $5 a day and board. This was on Thursday afternoon, so Friday morning after the four men were well filled up one of them started off for Medford and the three went to work, and at noon after dinner another quit and the next morning after breakfast the third man left for Medford but the fourth man stayed until Monday morning after breakfast and he left so he had to go hunt more help. There is no way the farmer can protect himself for it is not as though they were in town where they could board at a hotel, but the farmer has to board his men and the consequence is the farmer is simply at the mercy of that class of men and they will engage to work for a man, get well filled up and then he, like an Esquimaux, can eat enough at two or three meals to last him for two or three days, and then hunt another job. The result is that the farmer will have to exchange work and get his work done the best he can and next season cultivate no more of his land than he can handle himself and let the rest of his land go uncultivated.
    There seems to be a great deal of travel through this section of the country as the stages seem to be loaded each way, and it is not an uncommon thing to see six to ten passengers on the Butte Falls stage going and coming, and in addition to that there are dozens of cars dashing through our town going each way to and from Crater Lake, although those who stop here caring enough to talk report that there is a quantity of snow all around Crater Lake yet.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dixon of Los Angeles; they had come in via Klamath Falls, Ft. Klamath and Crater Lake, expecting to camp at the lake, but there was so much snow they were obliged to come on to Prospect. They were simply traveling through the country for pleasure on their way up into Canada. In addition to them we had Jack Schooler, who lives on the old Obenchain place, on the hill above Brownsboro, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Peachey, who are in the Forest Service stationed at Butte Falls.
    J. H. Tyrrell and wife, formerly of South Butte-Lake Creek post office but now on their farm between Medford and Jacksonville, John Swenson of Grants Pass and his niece, Miss Ellen Hanson of Minneapolis, who has been up on his place on Elk Creek although they are boarding with W. W. Willits, V. E. Peterson, the Eagle Point-Persist mail carrier, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Royal, formerly of Montague, Calif., but now living on the place formerly owned by Mr. Tyrrell, the one he sold to the Tacoma Metal Co. of manganese mining fame, were all here for dinner on Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Tyrrell and Mrs. Royal to make out the papers transferring the farm on South Butte from Mr. and Mrs. Tyrrell to Mr. and Mrs. Royal. They have one of the best farms in the Butte Creek country, and we wish them abundant success in their new home.
    Later in the day we had as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pelton and daughter Miss Gladys, of Gold Hill, Mrs. Frank Neil and Miss Neil of Portland, and J. P. Kelly of Sebastopol, Calif. They had just come in from Crater Lake on their way home and stopped for dinner.
    During the afternoon I met Mrs. B. S. Baker of Douglas County, who lived several years ago on Trail Creek. I also met Mrs. Hill of Derby, who owns the old Castor place. She was on her way to Medford and later returned and spent the night at the Sunnyside going up home Friday morning.
    There was a man here Thursday afternoon by the name of B. F. Skillman, representing the Mutual Creamery Company of Portland looking over the business.
    There was a general gathering here Thursday afternoon of the stockmen of this section of the county to meet Mr. Rankin, the forest supervisor, who was here to apportion to each one the tract of land assigned to them for their summer range. Among the stockmen here that afternoon was John Allen of Derby, Wm. Stanley and four or five of his sons, two of Herman Meyer's boys, Milo Conley and several others whom I do not know.
    Mrs. Mansfield was also attending to business in our town Thursday.
    Friday C. E. Bellows and family, Mrs. Robert McCabe, James Yyant [Bryant?] and Mr. Blankenship were here on their way to Medford.
    There were seven passengers came out Friday morning on the Butte Falls stage, among whom were Mrs. Charles Wilkinson and her two grandsons on their way to her home at the South Butte soda springs.
    J. E. Edmiston, Sr., and son were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Edmiston is with the Oregon Fruit Growers association estimating the fruit crop.
    Lee Edmondson and family and Mrs. Edmondson's sister, Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman of Butte Falls, passed through here Friday on their way to Derby. Mr. Edmondson was formerly in the sawmill business at Derby but now comes from Hood's Center.
    Among the arrivals at the Sunnyside Friday evening were James Dorothy of Medford, C. H. Natwick and wife, Truman McClelland, Henry Trusty and Harry Lewis.
    Mrs. Frank Lewis, who has been visiting relatives in Portland during the Shriner convention, has returned to her home unable to tell the wonders she saw while in Portland.
    This Saturday morning Jed Edsall ran his big Hudson Six out of the garage and in a few minutes had the baggage and necessary equipment for satisfying the inner man stored away for a trip to Crater Lake, Fort Klamath and home via Green Springs mountain road via Ashland home, loaded Mrs. Howlett and daughter Hattie, George Wehman and James Dorothy into it and started at 4:35 a.m.
    Mrs. Walsh and family of two boys and a girl of Klamath Falls, and C. W. Cline, came in from Crater Lake this morning for dinner and so did Herman Meyer, Jr., and little daughter, S. H. Harnish, Dr. Holt and Clifton Hickson. Mr. Meyer reports that on the headwaters of Little Butte they had a regular downpour of rain and caused the creek to overflow its banks, doing considerable damage to the hay and grain in the lowlands.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been working over in California this summer, came in on the stage from Medford.
    During Jed Edsall's absence Joe Moomaw is carrying the mail from Prospect to Butte Falls.
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    I had so much to write about last Saturday, the day that I wrote my last Eaglets, that I thought best to stop and save some of the items for this letter, and among the items was the fact that Carl von der Hellen of Wellen was in town looking as though he had been at work. I hope he will pardon me for mentioning such a thought, but he was attired as though he was, or had been, running a mowing machine, and if my memory serves me correctly, he had brought in a part of a mower to the shop for repairs.
    J. L. Robertson, our boss farmer, was in town the same day, talking about his one hundred and twenty acres of corn he has growing, and the thought seemed to trouble him as to how he was to care for all that corn and clear the land, so that he can sow it in wheat this fall. He was on a dicker with Marshal Winter to assist him in disposing of some of the product of the land. He is looking for a bumper crop and every indication points in that direction.
    Mrs. Montgomery came in Saturday morning and spent the day, assisting Mrs. Howlett in her work, and Mr. Sheibley was also a helping guest at the Sunnyside.
    There was a truckload of men and their baggage stopped here Saturday noon and two of them took dinner here. They were on their way up to where the R.R. Co. are opening the road to Fish Lake.
    We had an unusually interesting session of Sunday school last Sunday morning. The Bible class was led by Mr. John Esch, and the boys' and girls' class by Mr. H. E. Campbell, our banker and the primary by Mrs. Carl Esch. There was some of the children absent, but we expect a prompt attendance after the 4th.
    There was not the usual number of guests at the Sunnyside Sunday for dinner, but those who did come seemed to be well satisfied and some of them remained all afternoon. Among those who came out for dinner were Mrs. J. M. Williams, Miss Issie McCully, Miss Lulu Williams of Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lowry, and six children, five boys and one girl, a lively, healthy, happy family. They were seated at a table by themselves and had dinner served family style, and a happier family I have seldom seen. Mr. Lowry is the foreman on the Bear Creek orchard, about two miles south of Medford. The family remained until the cool of the evening and started to go home via Brownsboro. We also had Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lee of the Eden Valley orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vestal and Mr. and Mrs. G. Schermerhorn, Miss Alta Naylor, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hayes of Medford. Later in the afternoon, John W. Smith, wife and two children, who live on the edge of the desert and Big Sticky, and Mrs. Joseph Geppert and son, Charles, of Butte Falls.
    William Lewis, the jitney driver between here and Medford, who went to Portland with his mother a week or more ago to see the Shriners, Rose festival, etc., returned last Saturday night, but Mrs. Lewis remained to visit relatives. He reports that "Like the Queen of Sheba, the half has not been told."
    John Allen and wife of Derby and their son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Marion, passed through town on their way to Medford Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Marion were on their way to Bandon, where they expect to make their home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hilkey of Aromas, California, and Fred Cummings, the water boss, were here for dinner Monday.
    Glenn Haley, who has been up to Portland, returned Monday and two of the Hughes boys of Butte Falls, came out and one of them went to Medford on the Medford-Butte Falls stage.
    James Weill and Noblit of Medford and H. E. Campbell and wife took supper at the Sunnyside Monday night and Messrs. Weill and H. L. Noblit remained overnight.
    Our barber, N. E. Slusser, has been making some material changes in his shop. He has lined it on the walls with checkered white oilcloth and painted the wainscoting and ceiling white and greatly improved the appearance of the room.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman reports that they have lost a valuable cow from "bloat" since I last reported. It was quite a loss to them as they have recently purchased a farm from F. E. Nichols and were getting it stocked up with good dairy cows.
    Mrs. Fred McPherson and son, Fred, Jr., came down from Portland, and are visiting her parents, T. E. Nichols and family.
    Fred and Ralph Dunlap, Fred Owen of Trail and V. E. Peterson, the mail carrier between here and Persist, were all here for dinner Tuesday and later Dr. Kirchgessner of Beagle came in.
    Harris Bros., a colored troupe, came in Tuesday morning, called for breakfast and beds. After eating, they went to bed. Before coming here they had billed the town for an entertainment for Tuesday night. The troupe consists of three men and two women and a little boy. They had a good attendance, but--well, I didn't go so will make no comments, but I heard a man and woman talking the next day and the woman denied being there and the man said "yes you were," and she finally owned up that she was.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Overton of Owasso, Okla., came out on the stage Tuesday morning and tramped over our town until 3 p.m., and went back to Medford on the same stage. They said they were just looking around.
    Corbett Smith of Butte Falls was a business caller Tuesday evening.
    J. M. Wilfley, accompanied by his niece, Miss Bessie Spencer, of Kansas City, Mo., were in our town Tuesday evening.
    J. H. Best of Medford came in with a load of hay, taking it up to the logging camp near Butte Falls, where he spent the day.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 6, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday afternoon after I had finished my writeup for the Mail Tribune, Thomas Abbott and family of Lake Creek and Howard Fox of Albany, Ore., passed through here on their way to Butte Falls to visit Mr. Abbott's mother, Mrs. L. E. Abbott, where it was planned to have a reunion of the family on the 4th.
    The same evening Mr. Furnish of Albany and N. E. Mooney of Prospect passed through here on the way to Medford. And that evening Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway between Prospect and Crater Lake, came in and spent the night and Roy Stanley and wife called for supper. J. M. Hill also called for bed and breakfast the night of the 4th.
    July 4th coming on Sunday and as Mrs. Howlett was off taking an outing in Ft. Klamath she had secured the services of Mr. Alice Daley to take charge of the Sunnyside Hotel during her absence, and as it was to be one of the big days at Ashland we did not expect to have very many guests here for dinner that day, but there is no telling who might come so Mrs. Daley prepared dinner as usual for all who might come and among those who did visit us at that time were Dr. and Mrs. C. W. McColin, New Market, Iowa, Jack Cameron, Mrs. Esther Cameron of Medford, Mrs. Dr. McColin is a daughter of Kendall Cameron, one of the early pioneers of Jackson County. We also had Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Haney and his niece Miss Blanch Haney of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Speck, Gus the Tailor and wife, Geo W. Neilson, wife and two boys, G. H. Swope of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Marshall and daughter Marjorie of Medford.
    And later in the day W. D. Roberts, Miss Lalo Roberts, Miss Zelma Roberts of Eagle Point and Miss Rowena Roberts and Donnie Myers of Ashland, Sherman Wooley, wife and two children, Mrs. Chris Natwick and John Mayham. There were two persons whose names I failed to get on my list. Sometime during the night Henry Trusty and Harry Lewis came in and took beds and the next morning took breakfast, and J. M. Hill came in and took a bed and Monday morning he and Mr. Adamson, the Persist mail contractor, took breakfast.
    Mr. and Mrs. Merle Kilgore and family of Klamath Falls passed through our town Tuesday on their way home, they had been over to attend the celebration at Ashland and were returning by the Rogue River and Crater Lake route.
    John Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz, George Stowell, Harry Lewis and Mr. Adamson were among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Mr. Willard Heryford of Santa Cruz, Calif., who had been up to Butte Falls visiting his aunt, Mrs. E. E. Smith and other relatives, came out on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday afternoon. He was accompanied by his cousin, Mrs. Ed Cowden and her two children. He intends to remain and help Mr. Cowden through his harvest.
    T. F. McCabe was also in town Tuesday.
    Marsh Garrett, one of the big stockmen of the Lake Creek country, was in town Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and family of Lake Creek, Mr. and Mrs. H. Crawford, a son-in-law and daughter accompanied them. They had been to Ashland and were on their way home.
    Mrs. W. Wagner of Trail, came in and spent Tuesday night with us and went up home this Wednesday morning.
    B. J. Anderson and C. E. Terrill, our sheriff, called for supper Tuesday evening.
    Mrs. Laura E. Abbott of Butte Falls and her son-in-law, Howard Fox and wife of Albany, came in for supper Tuesday evening on their way to Butte Falls.
    W. D. Roberts and family started today, Wednesday, in their auto for Central California to remain indefinitely.
    Henry Thornton of Persist came out on the stage this morning and went up home on the Persist stage.
    J. L. Robinson, our boss farmer, went to Medford this morning to buy a large disc plow as he has several hundred acres of land to plow. He intends to plow up his land as soon as he gets his grain off of it and have it ready to sow this fall. He expects to weigh it down with sufficient old iron and rocks to force it into the hard ground and with his tractor as the propelling power will tear up the ground and have it all ready for the wheat in time to catch the early rains.
    Today, Wednesday, we had as diners Mrs. A. L. Haselton and son of Butte Falls, Sherman Hamilton of San Jose, Calif., Mrs. J. F. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Johnson and two children of Medford, and a strange man.
    Your Eagle Point correspondent, after staying home the 3rd and 4th, took a trip down to Ashland to hear Mr. Gerard speak and you can imagine my disappointment when going to the place where it had been announced that he would speak, the Chautauqua building, and there learn that Mr. Gerard was not to be there and that Bishop Shepherd would speak in his place at 2:30, in the park. It was a great disappointment to hundreds of people who went from all over the country, including Klamath County, especially to hear him speak. The substitute was very good and the speaker gave us a fine short address but he was laboring under a severe handicap trying to fill the place of another, especially one so noted as Mr. Gerard. It appears that the change in the place of speaking was made so as to rent the building to five traveling negroes who were billed to fill the hour, 2:30. But this life is full of disappointments, and about all that we can do is to accept this one in good grace as coming in the ordinary course of life.
    We reached Ashland just in time to see the tail end of the parade, but what we saw was very good. One thing that particularly attracted my attention was the quantity as well as the quality of the hay and grain all along the route. But there are others better prepared to give a writeup of the three days celebration, for I was only there a few hours. But I was not the only one who was disappointed in my trip to Ashland on account of the speaker failing to come.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 9, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wednesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, who bought the Wm. Holman place in Lake Creek precinct, were in town and report that everything is lovely up in their section, that the prospect is good for crops, and that they are still well pleased with their buy.
    Mrs. Anna Corum of Butte Falls was one of the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday morning on her way home. There were several other passengers on the stage, but all strangers to me.
    George Hollenbeak, formerly of Prospect, but now living near the steel bridge, near the mouth of Big Butte, who had such a siege with blood poisoning in his hand, was in town Thursday. He had taken up a marked sow and four unmarked pigs and posted them and was looking for a justice of the peace so he could have them sold, but as we are so peaceable in our neighborhood that we don't have to have a peace officer, he has decided to go to Central Point or Medford to have the business properly attended to.
    Alex Mathews, one of our hustling farmers and stockmen, was doing business Thursday with our merchants.
    When E. V. Peterson, the Eagle Point-Persist mail carrier, came in Thursday, he brought in with him Mrs. George Adamson, Mr. George Weeks and son, Asie Weeks of Trail and John Howard, who makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz and brought them all to the Sunnyside for dinner and beside them we had Dewey Hill of Derby and Dr. Kirchgessner as guests at dinner.
    Among the business callers Thursday, beside those referred to, we had Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno, Mrs. Mayfield, Mr. and Mrs. French, beside quite a number of strangers and autoists, who dash through town so fast that one can scarcely discern who they are.
    Gordon Childreth reports that he killed a large rattlesnake, as large as his wrist, having 14 rattles, and he reported that he had had more, but had lost them off. He killed the rattler on Pete Young's ranch. There seems to be more of that species of snakes around the country than I have heard of before for several years.
    Mr. Gus Bray of Newbury, who is here looking after his interest on Indian Creek, just north of here about nine miles, spent Thursday night with us, and went up to his ranch Friday morning on the Eagle Point stage.
    Joseph Geppert, the road supervisor of Butte Falls district, drove into town Friday. He is working on a cutoff on the Eagle Point-Derby road on the Vestal ranch.
    Mr. J. T. Adams, who owns a store at McLeod on the Eagle Point-Crater Lake Highway, called for supper Thursday evening and went on up home that night.
    A man giving his name as G. V. Jennings came into the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday night about 11 o'clock and asked for a bed. He said that he had started that afternoon, from a ranch said to be about eight miles distant, for Eagle Point and missed the road and had been wandering around in the dark. He could not tell what direction he had come. He seemed to be considerably bewildered. He said that he stopped at a house and asked the host to permit him to lie down on the carpet and rest the rest of the night, offering to pay two dollars for the privilege, but was turned away. He was well dressed and was carrying a heavy suitcase and an overcoat. He said that he was 74 years of age, and not very strong. The next morning he took passage on the stage for Medford.
    Mr. McDonald of Klamath Falls, a cousin of Mrs. Wm. Knighten of this place, came in to make Mr. and Mrs. Knighten a visit Thursday.
    J. M. Riggins, wife and daughter, formerly of Derby, but now of San Francisco, in company of Gus Edmondson and wife of Butte Falls, passed through here Friday on their way to Derby. Mrs. Riggins is a sister of Mrs. Swihart of Derby and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman of Butte Falls and is making them a visit.
    Mrs. Ernest Peachy and Mrs. R. M. Robinson of Butte Falls were here for dinner Friday and so was an elderly lady, whom I did not know. We also had three doctors as diners Friday, Dr. Holt, Dr. Kirchgessner and one other who did not wish to have his name published. He is from San Francisco and was looking over the country for a location to settle and practice his profession, and later in the day Mr. J. H. Heckner, the rodent exterminator, called for dinner.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been up beyond Butte Falls visiting his parents, came out on the stage and went on to Doris, where he is working in a lumber camp. There was also two boys on the same stage, they were hunting work, and had been to Butte Falls trying to find it, but said that they were only offering four dollars and board, and that they would not work for that. A lady, thinking to help them, sent them to Roy Stanley and he offered the same price, and the last I saw of them, they were sitting on the sidewalk watching for a chance to ride to Medford. I suggested to them that inside of twelve months they would be hungry and begging for work at considerably less wages than four dollars and board.
    It becomes my painful duty to record the death of Mrs. John L. Robinson, Jr., who passed away last Friday night about 11:30, leaving a babe about three weeks old, her husband and two little girls, about 10 and 15 years of age. The death has caused a spirit of sadness over the entire community, for she was not only a loving and lovable Christian woman, but a devoted wife and mother and has been one of the most active members of our Sunday school, and up to shortly before her confinement, the superintendent of our Sunday school.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek was a business caller this Saturday morning.
    George W. Frey and son, Edward, of Lake Creek, called for dinner today and later H. C. Pardey, agent for the Chemical Fire Apparatus Company of Portland, called for dinner. While here he established an agency with the Eagle Point Garage Co.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1920, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday afternoon while I was talking with W. L. Childreth with regard to the funeral of Mrs. John Robertson, and as to who would officiate he remarked that Rev. John Stille was to conduct the services and that Mr. Stille said that he would have to borrow a suit of clothes to wear on the occasion. And on further inquiry learned that about two weeks ago the home of himself and his brother Eli was burned to the ground with its entire contents including all of their money, books and accounts and left them with nothing but the clothes they had on, while they were working in their little sawmill, and left them without even a hat to wear. They were living on their homestead and the fire left them entirely destitute. Some of their friends are doing something to help them to get a start by donations.
    Rev. John Stille has been doing considerable evangelistic work in this section of the country up to the time that the sticky roads go so that they--for he and his brother Eli went together; he assisting in the singing--giving their service to help to build up society. They both came and took part in the funeral services.
    The funeral services were conducted at the residence and there was the largest attendance I have ever seen at a funeral in this neighborhood and the floral offerings were very fine. The Eagle Point Sunday school procured a beautiful selection as evidence of their high appreciation of her services as superintendent of the school up to the time of her illness. The remains were interred Sunday afternoon in the Central Point cemetery.
    There were a large number of autos passed through here Sunday morning headed for different parts of the country on picnicking expeditions, some going to Crater Lake, some to Prospect, while others were going along the banks of Butte and Rogue River to fish and enjoy life in that way. We had the fewest number here at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday that we have had this season, but those who did come seemed to enjoy themselves just as well as though there had been a large crowd. Among the guests were Mr. Charles Applegate and Fred Neil of Ashland, Gus the Tailor and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Haselton and son Rob, now of Butte Falls, A. W. Hubbs and wife and Miss Sibena Frazier of Medford. And later in the day Horace Geppert of Butte Falls and Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman of Los Angeles, Cal.
    Mr. and Mrs. Leidman are making their annual visit to this country. Mr. Liedman is a professional fruit packer and has been going from Imperial Valley in Southern California as far north as Rogue River Valley packing fruit along the route as the fruit ripens and finishes up their itinerary here in the fall packing apples. They took a room at the Sunnyside Hotel but this Wednesday morning went to Butte Falls on the stage to visit Mrs. Leidman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, who live about eight or ten miles beyond Butte Falls, to be gone a few days.
    Dr. T. T. Shaw and wife and Miss or Mrs. Corinne Laubon and O. M. Murphy of Medford, came into the Sunnyside about 8 o'clock Monday morning from off the south fork of Rogue River where they had been picnicking and fishing, and called for breakfast. They reported that the weather was very cold up there and when they reached here were so cold that the Dr. and his wife stayed close to the cook stove.
    M. C. Mahoney, wife and daughter Ailene and Mr. Brainard of Butte Falls passed through here with a new Ford Monday on their way home.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, was a business caller Monday. He seems to think that his fruit crop is A1, but the labor question seemed to bother him.
    Hamilton Fox of milk goat fame of Lake Creek came in Monday after a road grader to use in that part of the county that had been brought here a few days ago for repairs.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, passed through here Monday afternoon on his way to Medford.
    R. Hulse, who is living on the old Heath place just above Brownsboro, was here getting repairs for a hay net he had broken Monday.
    Charles DeLinn, contractor on the Fish Lake dam project and his manager, Mr. Pearson, were here for dinner Monday. They report that the work on the project is suspended on account of some legal trouble in the bonding move.
    W. J. Parr of Los Angeles was a passenger on the stage Tuesday on his way to near Derby to look over a tract of land he had recently bought of a Mr. Hill. He found the land all right and returned on the same stage in the afternoon.
    Mrs. Agnes Stewart of Medford was also a passenger on the same stage and went from here on the Lake Creek stage to visit friends in the Lake Creek country and attend a school picnic next Friday.
    Mrs. E. Van Duesler of Montana, state university instructor in home economics, came out with Miss Pool, our county demonstrator and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Lyle E. Butler of Sutherlin, Douglas County, was here Tuesday for dinner. He is working on the health and sanitation board. He spent the night here.
    Gus and Ed Edmondson of Butte Falls were also diners at the Sunnyside and so was Harry Lewis, who had come in from the Crater Lake Highway camp and is stopping here for a few days. R. P. Dopp was also here for dinner Tuesday.
    Fred Pettegrew was in town Tuesday.
    Mrs. Carl Cobleigh of Butte Falls and her sister, Mrs. Thomas Jones and two children of California, came out on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday and went out to Medford.
    Ed Cowden was among the business callers Tuesday and so was Rev. H. G. King, who has charge of the Union Sunday school department in this district.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fender and family of four children came in from the Modoc Lumber Co. mill on Williamson River, Klamath County, Tuesday night about 8:30 and spent the night at the Sunnyside on their way to Jacksonville to visit relatives.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 16, 1920, page 3
TRAIL ITEMS
    Tom and Herb Carlton and Will and Jim Stewart took their cattle to the mountains last week, making the trip together.
    Keva Hutchinson was in Medford last week from Thursday to Tuesday of this week. He was working at the Medford Hotel.
    L. L. Holmes was visiting his sister, Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson, at Trail last week. He returned to Reedsport, where he is working.
    Mr. Adams of McLeod started Wednesday night for Medford. He started late in order to make the trip in the cool of the night. He spent Thursday in Medford purchasing supplies for his store, returning home Thursday night.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Saltzman were visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson. They came Saturday and left Sunday evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and son Jim and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and daughter Olive spent Saturday evening visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Mrs. Weeks and children spent Sunday at Conley's mill visiting her son Tom, who is working there.
    Dr. Sweeney and family are camping about three miles above Trail.
    Dr. Van Scoy and family have moved into their summer cottage above Trail. They intend to spend the summer there.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 16, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Steve Smith of Beagle was a business caller Wednesday afternoon and Pete Young, another one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, was here early Thursday morning.
    When the Medford-Butte Falls auto stage came in Thursday morning from Medford, there were seven passengers and among them was Sherman Hamilton of San Jose, Calif., who came up to look after his father's business.
    Wm. and Harry Lewis and Ed Spencer started Thursday to go to Diamond Lake for an outing and to fish in the lake. Will Lewis, who has been running a jitney from here to Medford the past few years, has concluded to lay off for a while and rest up. He expects to go to Crescent City, after he returns from Diamond Lake, and enjoy the sea breeze while visiting his aunt and other relatives. Owing to Mr. Lewis' suspending his jitney work every morning, those who desire to go to Medford by public conveyance in the morning will have to go on the 7:15 stage.
    Henry Town, wife and daughter of Lake Creek passed through here for Medford Thursday.
    John Mayham, who is looking after the interests of Benjamin Brophy on Big Butte, came out Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Thursday morning Mr. M.D. Bowler, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jones, Mr. M. M. Ragsdale, Raymond Ragsdale of Lake Creek came in to look after their business interests here and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside, and in addition to them Mrs. E. L. French of Medford and Mr. D. S. Sawyer, Medford, were among the guests and at night Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Corey of Medford spent the night with us. They were on their way to Crater Lake and expect to spend some time in the hills enjoying camp life.
    Thomas F. McCabe, one of the pioneer orchardists, was also a visitor in town.
    Bert Clarno and wife also passed through here Thursday afternoon on their way home, out north of here a few miles.
    Carl Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, called on your Eagle Point correspondent Friday morning on business.
    I omitted to state that George W. Stowell and stockmen returned from a trip up north, where he had been, and purchased eight head of Guernsey heifers. He is not only a good farmer but is as well interested in the dairy business and of course is prospering in business. He keeps about five hundred hens and the product in eggs is such that when the market drops too low for him, he simply puts them in cold storage and keeps them until there is a raise in the price and thus realizes all there is in the business. I saw a statement in the Oregon Journal of a recent date that the eggs laid by the Oregon hens are worth annually practically as much as all of the fruit produced in the state. And that the poultry industry in Oregon is nearly half the livestock industry, and still the cost of caring for cattle, sheep, hogs and horses amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the cost of caring for poultry is comparatively trifling and the amount of cash that the eggs alone in our sparsely settled state amounts to $3,150,000,000 [sic]. And still when we look around to ascertain the number of persons who are really interested in the poultry business, we find that they are very few. To be sure, every farmer keeps a few hens on the farm, about enough to eat up what would otherwise be wasted, and they are let run at large with no special care as to the grade of hens or the laying qualities or kind of breed they have, and still Oregon is credited with her 15,000,000 head of poultry, valued at $16,000,000 and 98,000,000 dozen eggs, valued at $58,000,000. And if we would add to the above statement the thousands of eggs that are used in the families on the farms, we would find that the amount would increase very materially.
    Friday noon, J. M. Remen and George S. Potter, two traveling salesmen of Eugene, Ore., Chris. Bergman and Jeff Conover were among the diners.
    H. Berg of Newport, who owns a farm on Indian Creek, was here having his driving horse shod, getting ready to start today, Saturday, for his home in Newport, Ore.
    Rev. Father Maher of the Catholic hospital, Medford, was out here Friday, the guest of our postmaster, W. C. Clements.
    J. M. King, who has a homestead on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls road, was in town Friday, having his team shod to work on the road between here and Butte Falls, when the "powers that be" get ready to go to work on the main road. They have had a force working on a cutoff for some time, but the big job, grading and rocking the three miles of sticky, is still untouched where the mail carriers have such a time in the winter getting through.
    O. C. Boggs, wife and mother and family passed through here yesterday evening on their way to Crater Lake.
    A. R. Zimmerman of Butte Falls came out yesterday, went to Medford, bought him a new Ford, came out here and took supper and took his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman, and went up home. I stated in my last that Mr. and Mrs. Leidman had gone up, but when they reached Butte Falls, they found that their father had not arrived, so came back to their room in the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Frank Netherland and Mrs. Doubleday were passengers on the Butte Falls stage this Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 19, 1920, page 5
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher has gone for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Dolf Olsen, who lives at Bend, Ore. She intends to be gone several weeks.
    Mr. Griffith preached again at Trail Sunday. There was a large attendance. There was a basket dinner after Sunday school and preaching services in the afternoon.
    The Free Methodists are preparing for their camp meeting again this year. Their tent is a mile or so above Trail along Rogue River.
    Several of the Trail young people went up to the swimming pool in Elk Creek Sunday. While they were in the water someone got busy and tied their clothes up into many hard knots, causing some trouble and no hurrying in dressing. Those who enjoyed the swim were Miss Enid Middlebusher, Orgu, Merle and Given Houston, Keva Hutchinson and Minnie Poole.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cunningham from Neosho Rapids, Kansas are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson. They will only be here a week or so, as business engagements call them home.
    Mrs. George Weeks took her son, Tom, up to the Conley mill Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 23, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday after I had written my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune, I took a ride out to "The Hub" of Jackson County, the city of Medford, but before I started I lingered long enough to eat my dinner and besides myself there were W. E. Genack, of R. L. Polk & Co. of Portland, Nick Young, one of our prosperous young farmers and stockmen, Harold Grey, Luther Tisdale, Margaret Mansfield, Thelma Nettles of Medford, on their way to Butte Falls. They were simply out for a little pleasure ride and anticipated enjoying the dance at that place. Carlyle Natwick who had come in from the Crater Lake camp on Union Creek reports that the work is progressing finely on the highway.
    In my last I unintentionally omitted to mention what happened to one of our promising young men, Robert Harnish. While he was stacking hay, in handling the hay fork in pushing it around so as to dump the hay just where he wanted it, the fork turned after it dumped just so that the point of one of the prongs struck him on the throat inflicting quite a severe cut, but his wife applied local remedies and he was soon at his post in the hay field again.
    Speaking of accidents or mishaps, we had a very serious mishap some weeks ago when our fellow citizen, Fred Pelouze, was very seriously hurt by falling 30 feet from the comb of his barn. The trip used in unloading hay needed some adjusting and Mr. Pelouze went up to make the necessary repairs when something gave way and he dropped the 30 feet lighting on his feet, on the hard ground, and it is unnecessary for me to say that he was seriously jammed but fortunately no bones broken. It so happened that I did not hear of the accident for over two weeks after it happened, but now that I can state that he has so far recovered as to be able to be around again I will record the incident and [am] glad to say that there is no more serious results than what there was, for Mr. Pelouze is one of our best and most progressive citizens.
    Sunday morning Charles Law, Alva Stallsworth, Clarence Long and Lester Cash of Medford came in from Lake Creek, where they had been attending a dance, for breakfast and reported having had a very pleasant time.
    Sunday morning we had a very interesting session of our Sunday school, although our banker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, he being one of the teachers, was absent. He had gone to Ashland to attend the Chautauqua. Owing to the death of our former superintendent, Mrs. John Robinson, who was acting corresponding secretary, it became necessary to elect another so Miss Nora Childreth was elected to fill the vacancy.
    By 11 o'clock Sunday morning the guests began to arrive at the Sunnyside for dinner and by the time that dinner was over, for they continued to come until after the first table was served, we had with us H. B. Nye and wife of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gregory and son Roy, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Gregory and sons Eugene and George, all of Dinuba, Calif., Gus the Tailor and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Oaterson of Capital Hill, Mrs. O. T. Oaterson, Chicago, Mrs. C. M. Speck, Ida May Piper, Medford, Dr. A. R. Hedges, Dr. Louise G. Hedges, Mona Hedges, Ruth Hedges, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jackson, Butte Falls, Mrs. Pelton, Oscar Higinbotham, Mr. and Mrs. Semple and two children, Eden Valley orchard, Mrs. Florence Melegan and daughter, Mrs. Nona Peater and sons of Kenilworth Hotel, Medford.
    Monday when the Butte Falls auto stage came in there were seven passengers and among them Mrs. J. W. Miller and little grandson of Trail on their way home from Medford.
    A. J. Florey and Miss Ethel Anderson of Medford were out visiting friends Monday and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Thomas Farlow, one of the progressive farmers and stockmen in the Lake Creek country, and wife passed through our town Monday evening on their way home.
    A lot of machinery, a roller, a pulverizer, two road graders, a truck, wagon and another machine that I can't name and a 125-H.P. Caterpillar came in Monday afternoon on the way to the Reese Creek country to be used on that sticky road that has been such an eyesore to the traveling public. The machinery was so heavy that it all had to be taken through the water to cross Butte Creek and Mr. Thrasher, the foreman, had what I would call a hard time getting across but he didn't seem to think it was much of a job. They managed to get [the] roller across that afternoon and took the Caterpillar back to pull the rest of the machinery across but put that off until the next day and Mr. Jack Thrasher, the foreman of Rogue River, and Mr. Royal Haymond of Gold Hill, one of the company, took supper and breakfast at the Sunnyside but slept with the machinery.
    Monday afternoon our daughter Hattie had a call to go to W. S. Baker's on the Derby road and I went along for company and got a glimpse of where J. Geppert and his gang of helpers are working opening up the cutoff on the Vestal place. It appears that they have done considerable work there but there is a lot of rock to be removed before it is completed.
    Ralph Bieberstedt, who lives on the Bieberstedt farm between here and Brownsboro, was in town Tuesday having some repair work done on his auto by W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith.
    In my last I mentioned that Will Lewis was going off on a trip and that there would be no morning service but since then his father has concluded to run the jitney.
    Tuesday noon J. F. Adams, the McLeod merchant, A. S. Bliton, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, John Mayham and Miss Ella Belford were here for dinner.
    Miss Bessie Harnish went to Medford on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday afternoon.
    J. P. Coleman and wife, D. R. Patrick, Lem Charley and wife, Mr. Barker and family of Butte Falls passed through our town Tuesday afternoon.
    Mrs. Guy Pruett was a business caller Tuesday.
    Mrs. McGill and two young ladies came out from Medford Tuesday afternoon to visit Mrs. Howlett.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our hustlers, was hustling around town Tuesday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Gilhovson of Harbor City, Cal., came in Tuesday, took dinner and remained overnight with us. They were on their way to Trail to visit Mrs. Gilhovson's sister, Mrs. John Warner.
    Homer Randall of Trail also spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Robert R. Minter came in on the stage this Wednesday morning from Hillsboro, Ore., and so did Mrs. A. W. Short and daughter Ruth of Phoenix, and Clarence Holmes of Ashland. The three last named and Mr. Randall and Mr. and Mrs. Gilhovson went up to Trail on the stage this morning.
    J. G. McAllister, formerly of Ashland, has moved into the A. J. Daley house that he has purchased.
    Shorty Allen and H. Simons of Wellen were business callers this morning.
    W. H. Buskirk of Portland, one of the agate men who was here last spring, came in this morning to gather a few agates while on his way to Arizona. Geo. W. Stowell was also here for dinner today.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1920, page 6
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    Mrs. Sorrels of Phoenix is visiting with her son, Elie Oliver, and family this summer.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. A. Olsen of Tumalo, Ore., for a few weeks.
    There will be a big dance at Trail Hall Saturday night, July 31. A basket supper. Music by Medford Orchestra, come one, come all.
    Mrs. J. T. Zimmerlee was a Trail caller Monday.
    Mr. Dollarhide and family of Ashland joined the camp meeting above Trail Monday, and expect to spend the rest of the week.
    Frank Holmes is putting up his hay this week. He expects to return to his work near Union Creek next Monday.
    R. R. Dawson, E. Cushman, C. Frye and Amos Ayres spend Sunday at their homes.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 28, 1920, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. M. L. Pruett, one of out enterprising lady farmers, was transacting business in our town.
    The same afternoon there was a company came in from Los Angeles and had the misfortune to break something about their car and on taking it to the Holmes and McDonald garage found that in order to have it repaired they would have to send to Medford for a piece to replace the break. The company was composed of H. G. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Gootee. They were touring the Pacific Coast visiting all of the national parks and were on their way from the eighth wonder of the world, the Crater Lake park, and Mrs. Hamilton emphasized the statement that of all the places they had visited so far that Crater Lake park was the most wonderful, grandest and most sublime of all. They had visited the Rogue River Gorge, Natural Bridge, Mill Creek and Barr Creek Falls and said that Crater Lake and the scenery between the lake and here was simply wonderful. While they were getting their car repaired they took supper at the Sunnyside, going on their way north the next morning.
    Among those who visited the Sunnyside and took dinner Sunday noon were R. A. Petty, who is on the Vernen place and his son R. A. Petty, Jr., Medford, Gus the Tailor and wife, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moomaw, J. E. Mason, Mrs. Clarence and two daughters, Frances and Harriett, and Miss Mathews from the Kirkland farm. Mr. and Mrs. Forte, Miss Forte, Mr. and Mrs. McGill, Mrs. von der Hellen and her son Hugo and daughter Joyce, Mrs. Fred McPherson, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Potter and daughter, Mrs. Edward Pleason, Ashland, and later in the day Captain A. J. Vance and wife, Medford, Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Burton, Jr., of Stockton, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. S. Morrow of Portland, O. B. Morrow, Medford, Miss Cavender of New York, Lester Lytle and his mother, Mrs. J. F. Ditsworth of Talent. The last ten named came in the evening from Crater Lake and Eastern Oregon for supper on their way to their headquarters.
    W. L. Childreth and family took a trip up in the hills some 15 miles beyond Butte Falls in the neighborhood of Blue Canyon. They were accompanied by Mrs. Alice Daley.
    Miss Emma Lovett and Miss Ruth Sharpe of Medford came out on the stage Monday morning and went up to Trail on the Persist stage to attend the camp meeting that is in progress this week. There were two other passengers on the stage going to Trail the same day but I did not learn their names.
    Arthur Brown, who is soliciting for the Oregonian, came out and spent the day at the Sunnyside.
    Monday morning Mrs. William von der Hellen and her two children Hugo and Joyce and her brother Jack Florey and wife and Mrs. Fred McPherson started for the Union Creek camp on the Crater Lake Highway to rusticate for a few days or weeks as the spirit moves them.
    The Fruit Dealers Association have been using the P.&E. depot as a workshop to make up fruit boxes to be used in this section of the county and during the past few days quite a number of orchard men have been hauling them to the different orchards preparatory to packing pears.
    Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, was a pleasant caller Monday and took dinner and so did J. F. Davis of Medford.
    Mrs. George Brown of Brownsboro drove into town Monday forenoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman, who have been making the Sunnyside headquarters for some time, have rented furnished rooms and moved to Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Parr, who have purchased a tract of land near Derby station, went out on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning so that Mrs. Parr could see their future home, returning the same day. They were going to San Francisco to work for a while as they are both trained nurses, I understand, and expect to build on the land this fall.
    W. Pool and his son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Arnes, who is foreman on the A. Corbin Edgell orchards, were business callers Tuesday.
    T. F. McCabe and Miss Ethel Ewen were among the business callers Tuesday. And so was Lloyd French and J. Waterbury.
    Fred Drews, head timekeeper in the Portland office of the O.W.R.&N.R.R. Co., came out Tuesday and engaged a room at the Sunnyside for a few days. He is taking his annual vacation, and as he spent his vacation here last year concluded to come back again this season. He is spending a part of his time hunting agates; he went out this Wednesday morning on the Medford stage, hunted agates and returned on the same stage by 2:30 p.m.
    H. E. Campbell and wife, our banker, and John Foster of Medford were here for supper Tuesday evening, and Mr. Foster spent the night here.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were among the business callers Tuesday and so was Jimmy Dugan and son. While here I learned, I think, the straight on the fire along the track of the P.&E.R.R. There was a man, I did not learn his name, walking down the track and he noticed a small fire in the end of one of the rotten railroad ties, but thought nothing of it and cared less perhaps, and after the fire was over he told one of Mr. Ayres' neighbors about seeing the fire on the railroad. The supposition is that it caught from sparks from the locomotive. Mr. Ayres said that he was hoeing in his garden when he saw it and ran to put it out but the wind raised and he then ran back to the house to phone to catch the train men at the depot here and succeeded, but by this time the fire was running in all directions. It burned about a half mile of board fence for Mr. Ayres, quite a lot for Mr. Vestal, Mr. Wilfley and Mr. Natwick but burned no buildings.
    W. D. Roberts, who started a week or more ago for California, returned last Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 31, 1920, page 5
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    Friday, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson took their guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cunningham, on a tour up the Rogue River hoping to convince them that Oregon scenery is by far the better than that of Kansas. Among the various points visited was the Natural Bridge.
    On account of the illness of Mrs. C. M. Cunningham, they were unable to start on their return trip home. They had intended visiting Pomeroy, Wash., for a few days.
    The camp meetings of the Free Methodists have been very well attended.
    Mrs. George Weeks spent Wednesday visiting with Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson.
    Clarence Holmes is visiting with his sister, Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson. He intends to spend the summer here.
    The tourists still are traveling more every day. Most of them carry camp outfits, but the hotel has had a good run.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 31, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. S. Baker and family and Mrs. Sears of Derby called at the Sunnyside on business and then went on to Medford.
    Mrs. Jane O. Gleason of Medford came out on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday and went to Butte Falls to spend the summer, to try to work off her trouble, the hay fever.
    Miss Delia Steiver of Medford came out on the same stage and went up to the Lake Creek country to visit Mr. and Mr. Gus Nichols.
    Thomas Stanley and wife of Butte Falls were business callers Wednesday.
    P. L. Toon of Aberdeen, Wash., came in and spend a day or two at the Sunnyside. He is interested in the agate business and came up from Ashland, where he had been detained on account of his baggage being misplaced on the S.P., to spend a while here in the agate fields.
    Wm. von der Hellen, F. E. Furry of Phoenix, Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Purdin were here for supper Wednesday evening. Mr. Purdin and Mrs. Furry were out here settling up the estate of the late W. W. Taylor.
    Thursday morning John Seiler and family, accompanied by Mrs. Stewart of Butte Falls, came in on their way to Medford.
    R. A. Petty was in town Thursday morning on business. He said that he was having his wheat cut that day with a binder and that the prospect was good for a good crop.
    Last Thursday J. W. Mitchell, the Christian Science healer of Medford, came out accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wyncoop, Mrs. E. A. Dyke, Mrs. C. D. Carlton, all of Medford, to take dinner at the Sunnyside and to spend the day. After dinner Mr. Mitchell went out and visited a number of his friends in our town while Mr. Wyncoop and the ladies remained at the hotel enjoying the cool shade of the screened veranda. Mr. Mitchell reported that he had spent the afternoon very pleasantly and if I am not mistaken those of us who remained enjoyed the afternoon equally as well. At any rate, they all promised to return in the near future and Mrs. Dyke assured me that she was coming out before long to take a Sunday chicken dinner. In addition to them we had A. J. Mitchell of San Francisco, H. J. Pankey, C. C. Cate, Mrs. Pete Betz and Nate Slusser, our barber, here for dinner. Mrs. Slusser has gone to Ashland to spend a few days visiting and Mr. Slusser occasionally takes dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson of the Bar Eagle ranch at Trail called. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson have purchased the old Johnson place joining the Elks Resort, having purchased all of the tract except five acres where the Elks Resort hotel stands. They had been out to Medford and stopped here for supper.
    Wm. Lewis of Flounce Rock, and Mrs. Chas. McKinnis of Rock Point, and three children came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning and Mrs. McKinnis and children were on their way to Butte Falls to visit her relative, Mrs. R. D. Jones.
    C. E. Clark of the Northwestern Turpentine Company of Portland, Or. also went up on the stage Thursday. He is establishing camps in the timber in the Butte Falls country to extract turpentine, pitch, etc. to manufacture the various products of our forests except the timber.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. S. K. James of Medford passed through here Friday on their way to Crater Lake. Mr. James say that he has been in Medford for the past two years and that he has never been in Eagle Point before. What he has missed.
    H. T. Findley of the Union Oil Co., Medford was here for dinner Friday and so was Chas. F. Jones and C. M. Gilmore of Paul's Electric Store, Medford.
    Mrs. Carl Esch, wife of one of our prosperous farmers, who with his father owns the old J. D. Singleton farm, was doing business here Friday.
    Miss Fern Lewis, daughter of our confectionery man and jitney driver, went to Medford Friday afternoon.
    Walter Marshall and little boy of Brownsboro were in town Friday and took out with him a lot of wire fencing.
    There have been two large loads of lumber passed through our town from Medford for one of our big orchardists, J. M. Wilfley. He is building a bunkhouse for the benefit of his men working in the orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bresser and son Chester and Mrs. Fred Jeffrey of San Francisco passed through here Friday evening on their way to Crater Lake.
    J. M. Whillaman and other relatives, of Portland, are here visiting his daughter, Mrs. McKissick.
    Friday evening Judge G. A. Gardner, James Owens and T. H. Simpson, our county judge and two county commissioners, called for supper. They had been out all day riding over the roads, inspecting them, and report favorably--but wait until about the first of February and it will be a different report.
    Mr. Stoddard and John Swanson of Butte Falls, and E. W. Frey, F. R. Frey and wife of Lake Creek were also here for supper. They had been to Medford and were on their way home but were hungry and stopped long enough to eat.
    Edwin D. Hill, of Napa City, Cal., was on the stage this Saturday morning on his way to visit his daughter, Mrs. Fred Hill of Derby. He is canvassing for patriotic history designs.
    In addition to Mr. Hill there were nine others on the stage and two passengers here to go and the result was that the contractor had to send an extra car as far as Derby.
    We had as diners today, Saturday, H. H. Williamson, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, Miss Grace E. Long, who has just returned from Monmouth normal school where she has been taking a course in teaching, and has a homestead near Derby. Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, son Hugo and brother A. J. Florey and wife, Mrs. Fred McPherson and son Fred Jr., who have just come in from the Union Creek camp on the Crater Lake Highway, Albert Clements, Nate Slusser, our barber, and J. T. Oard of Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 2, 1920, page 6
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    The Rogers and Houston families spent Sunday in a family reunion. Mr. Keva Hutchinson was a guest.
    The Free Methodist camp meeting closed Sunday evening. A large crowd attended. The meeting has been a real success.
    They are going to start fishing at the U.S. hatchery today and will continue for a couple of months.
    Miss Eula Houston is home from Sisson, Calif., where she has been attending summer school. She will teach at Trail this winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ash spent Sunday at home at Trail. Mr. Ash is working on the Union Creek road.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson took lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart in honor of their fifth wedding anniversary.
    The dance at Trail Saturday night was very well attended.
    Fred and Denzil Middlebusher spent Sunday with their sister Enid Middlebusher.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clary and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hale spent Saturday and Sunday up the Rogue River stopping on their way home to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson
Medford Mail Tribune, August 5, 1920, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Saturday afternoon after I had written for the Mail Tribune readers, among the business callers was Nick Young, Herman Meyer, John Lester, O. E. Frey and his brother J. W. Frey, the two last named of Lake Creek, and took supper here, and so did John Lester.
    Sunday morning we had a very interesting session of our Sunday school, although the teacher of the intermediate class and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, were absent.
    There was a vast number of autos passed through here Sunday morning and later in the week Mrs. Charles Wilkinson of Dead Indian Soda Springs, and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Clyde Plymire, of Portland, called and reported that there were 150 names registered at the Dead Indian Soda Springs that day and besides that there were a large number scattered along the banks of our little Butte Creek and Rogue River besides a host of sightseers went to Prospect and Crater Lake, and still we had here for dinner Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Clay, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rawley, Galva, Illinois, J. S. K. James and wife, Miss Lizzie Ranter, Miss Mollie Britt and Mr. E. Britt of Jacksonville, Carl Jackson of Butte Falls, C. H. Natwick and Harold Van Scoy from Union Creek, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cunningham and son William of Medford, and Miss Roxie Helen of Sacramento, Mr. and Mrs. Alenderfer of Medford, C. J. Rickert, Joe Clements, transients, and J. D. Welch of Portland, Coast Livestock Company, who were passing through with a band of sheep taking them to Ben Brophy's to pasture, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Shady and son, jeweler in the Martin Reddy shop in Medford, Miss Lillian Noben and Everett Nash, Medford. Quite a number of those who were here for dinner remained the most of the afternoon enjoying the cool veranda. Later in the day James Juland, Portland, came in and remained overnight, also Captain A. J. Vance and wife, Ralph Hayman, Rock Point, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Merriman and son Francis of Medford, Miss Margaret Mansfield and Miss Edith Creede of Medford.
    Monday morning Sam Coy and Thos. Cingcade were among the early callers and Sam Coy tells me that he has leased his mother's farm for five years and expects to move onto it this coming fall.
    A. J. Anderson, wife and son of Medford and his son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, Jr., passed through here Monday morning on their way to Union Creek for a two weeks' outing.
    Pete Young and his sister, Miss Clara, were here on business Monday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hubbs of Medford, and Miss Saben Frazier of Oskaloosa, Iowa, were callers Monday afternoon on their way to Crater Lake.
    Monday morning I took passage on the Butte Falls stage for the F. J. Ayres farm to see some of the Jackson County road machinery work on that sticky road on Reese Creek, but when I reached the place where I expected to find them working with the big Caterpillar I found that they had to lay off and the men were engaged opening up a rock cut, so did not see the machine work but had a fine visit with Mrs. Ayres, as Mr. Ayres had gone to Medford with a load of hogs but he returned by noon. Jumping into an auto stage that is used to haul the men to and from their work, I rode out to where the men are working with the plow and fresnos. I remained until the stage returned. In the meantime I noticed what the men were doing under the direction of our road supervisor, Mr. Hayes, and he is doing a fine job and if our county court can manage to get the rock crusher up there in time to cover it with crushed rock before it gets wet the work will prove a great benefit, but if they fail to rock it this fall the work will be of little use as when it gets wet and is used as a road it will be of but little use as it will be flattened out as bad as ever, but we hope for the best.
    Frank Johnson, who owns a farm where it is contemplated to put the Crater Lake Highway bridge across Rogue River at the mouth of Indian Creek, and family passed through here Tuesday morning on their way to Medford.
    Wm. Smith, formerly of this place but more recently living between Central Point and Medford, was here. He has sold his place on the Central Point road and bought property in Ashland and Medford both. He expects to make his home in Medford. He has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Gus Nichols, on Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, as he does not get possession until about the 10th of the Medford property.
    J. W. Prillaman, his mother and sister, Miss E. Prillaman, are here visiting his son-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart McKissick, the civil engineer who has charge of the survey and locating the water ditch from Big Butte to this neighborhood. Their grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Prillaman, is now in her 79th year of age. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walker, one of the Ashland civil engineers, and children, W. E. Hammel and wife were visiting Mr. and Mrs. McKissick, taking lunch (dinner) with them and my informant reports that they had a very nice time as Mr. and Mrs. McKissick know just how to entertain company so as to have everything pass off pleasantly.
    D. S. Simpson of Central Point was a business caller and diner Tuesday, and so was John Hoskins of Trail and E. V. Peterson, the sub mail contractor of Trail.
    Henry Tonn and family of Lake Creek were in town Tuesday and while here in his auto at Geo. Brown & Sons' store, our shoe man, Mr. Clappell, not noticing that the car was behind him, backed his truck into the front of Mr. Tonn's Ford, breaking one light and mashing a shield but hurting no one.
    One of the Brittsan boys came in Tuesday to visit the two brothers who are on the P. S. Anderson farm.
    T. F. Nichols, wife and half-sister Ruth Smith was in town Tuesday.
    Mrs. Slusser, who has been visiting in Ashland, returned home Tuesday.
    Robert Harnish and his father-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Nickell, returned home from Fort Klamath Sunday night.
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    Gus Ditsworth of Peyton was a business caller Wednesday.
    Dr. W. S. Holt was here Wednesday with his son, Dr. W. W. P. Holt, our local M.D. Dr. W. S. Holt was formerly a missionary to China in the interest of the Presbyterian board of missions, but since then has resided in Portland but now is assistant secretary of the board of ministerial relief and sustentation of the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Dr. Holt lived in Portland prior to 1913, then he was elected to his present position. He has come back to Portland in the interest of the board and expects to remain until about December. He has traveled through almost every state in the union. He only remained long enough with his son to take dinner at the Sunnyside with him and went on to Portland Wednesday night.
    George W. Neilson and Vernon Edwards, a civil engineer in the service of the S.P.&S.R.R. of Portland, stopped off Wednesday to get dinner as they wanted [waited?] to make their regular trip for that day. Mr. Neilson is the superintendent, manager and conductor of the P.&E. and is one of those hustlers who keep things moving.
    Dave Phipps and his brother Henry Phipps of Richmond, Virginia, were also here for dinner. Dave said that he had taken a contract to make a quantity of irrigation ditches for Mike Hanley on his north fork ranch and was on his way up there with a load of the necessary outfit for the job.
    Frank Lewis brought in five passengers Wednesday afternoon and among them were Herman Meyer, Sr. and his little granddaughter of Lake Creek.
    Corbin Edgell and Fred C. Bell, recently of Chicago, were here for supper also Wednesday and in inquiring as to their business--as a newspaper correspondent I have acquired the habit of asking questions, natural result of that business--and learned that Mr. Bell had very recently bought the Corbin orchard. I also learned from Mr. Edgell that the prospect for fruit was good this season.
    Sam H. Harnish and George Gehman started Thursday for the Cinnabar Springs in California. They are both afflicted somewhat and have gone there for their health, intending to camp out and have a good time.
    Mrs. Dee Bradshaw and her daughter were here Thursday.
    H. H. Williams, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, was here Thursday for dinner and so was Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Burke of Ashland. Ed Spencer of Union Creek was also here.
    Dr. Holt, our M.D., reports that the stork visited the home of H. W. Wade and the result is they have a seven-pound girl in the family. Mr. Wade is the foreman on the Tronson orchard.
    Cliff Hickson is employed as driver of the truck for our shoe cobbler, W. S. Chappell, and is engaged hauling wood for different parties in our town. He has taken a room and board at the Sunnyside.
    J. F. Maxfield, Mrs. Bert Clarno, Harvey Stanley and wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. John Rader, George von der Hellen, Walter Marshall and wife, Shorty Allen of Wellen, Gus Nichols and wife and her daughter Myrtle Smith were all here on business Thursday.
    Al Young of Sheridan, Wyo., came in Thursday evening and spent the night. He is traveling alone seeing the wonders of the Pacific Coast. He left here Friday morning for Crater Lake. He is taking his time and stopping along the route; he says that he wants to see all that there is to be seen as he passes through the country.
    Miss Ella Belford, who has charge of the Stewart farm, was a business caller Friday morning.
    Thomas Ward, who formerly had charge of the King brothers place on Big Butte but now is located about four miles from Medford, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning and so was Peter Simpson of Trail and S. D. Hill and his daughter, Mrs. James McCord and daughter of Napa City, Calif., on their way to Derby to visit his son Frank Hill and family.
    Alex Vestal and F. Davis, one of our agate men who is in the employ of the Agate Products Co., San Francisco, and Levi Murphy of Medford, were among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday noon. Mr. Davis is a civil engineer and agate expert who was here some months ago in the employ of the same company. He is located at this time in the Lake Creek section looking for agates.
    Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Stater of Portland, and Miss Grace B. Dye of Medford, called for supper. They were on their way to visit Crater Lake and intending to go as far as Prospect that evening.
    Gus Ditsworth and wife of Peyton drove in from home this Saturday morning to the Sunnyside for breakfast. They were on their way to Medford, and wanted to reach there early, attend to their business and return home tonight.
    This morning I met J. M. Hayman, who has charge of the J. H. Cooley orchard and reports that this is the first day he has had time to lay off since he took charge of the place in May, working seven days in the week, but said that today he procured the services of a man to care for the irrigating so he was going to Medford on the Lewis jitney this morning to receive orders for the future, as next week he will have the irrigation to look after, alfalfa to cut and care for and care for the pears. He doesn't have much to do, does he?
    Charles M. Gilmore and M. H. Nichols of the Western Electric Company, Portland, were here for dinner today.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 9, 1920, page 5
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. James Stewart, son of Oscar Stewart, left Saturday for Richfield, Utah, where he has been appointed as ranger. He has been spending the summer with his folks on the Rogue River ranch.
    The fishing at the U.S. fisheries above Trail has been exceptionally fine this year. There have been visitors every day to see the unusual numbers of fish.
    A large touring car headed for Medford got stuck in the mud (due to subirrigation) Sunday evening. They worked until one o'clock Monday morning and finally spent the remainder of the night at the hotel. They were rescued Monday morning. Mr. S. W. Hutchinson, owner of the ranch, has been trying to have the roads fixed, but so far nothing has been done.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and Will Stewart spent Sunday and Monday in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 11, 1920, page 6


WORK ON CRATER LAKE-TRAIL ROAD TO BEGIN SOON
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 IS FULL OF RUMORS ON P.&E. SALE
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
SWISS AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES VISITS ROGUE ELK
    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






NEW ROGUE ELK RESORT ON UPPER ROGUE RIVER IS POPULAR
    The new Rogue Elk Resort hotel, located on the Crater Lake Highway, at the mouth of Elk Creek and Rogue River, where the best of hunting and fishing can be had. Guides and horses are furnished for hunting parties, fine natural swimming pool. The building is one of the finest in Southern Oregon and represents a large investment. An ideal place to spend vacations. A great feature of the interior is a large landscape art exhibit to be shown perpetually, comprising Oregon's most famous scenery. Two huge fireplaces also adorn the interior, built of native rock. Estimated weight ninety tons. A rare feature is a number of pieces of furniture, also designed by the artist, W. G. McDonald, consisting of heavy oak and Indian-tanned deer hides.
    L. E. McDonald, the manager, is sparing no means in making every comfort possible for the guests and extends a welcome to all en route to Crater Lake to stop and look through. The roads are in good condition and the river road scenic route will take you directly by the new enterprise, which is a credit to the Rogue River Valley.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1920, page 3
RECEIVER'S SALE PACIFIC-EASTERN HELD TOMORROW
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews had died in the hospital in Medford last night of appendicitis, aged nine years. She is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green Mathews, 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
SIX BILLION FEET OF PINE AND FIR TAPPED BY P.&E.
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
MANY NOTABLES AT ELK CREEK
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, Rube Johnson and Verna Mathews 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


TRAIL ITEMS
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
TRAIL
    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 gone to Eugene, where they will stay for the winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Huchinson spent Sunday hunting in the vicinity of Yellow Rock Canyon. They had no luck, not even seeing any signs of game.
    Miss Gwen Houston, who is attending school in Central Point, visited home over the weekend.
    Keva Hutchinson spent the weekend with his parents. He is attending school in Medford.
    Oscar and Will Stewart have gone to the mountains to look after their cattle. They intend to be gone three days.
Jacksonville Post, September 25, 1920, page 1
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews.
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
TRAIL ITEMS
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews 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
ELK CREEK
    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
BOBBY PELOUZE IS CALLED CARDINALS' GREATEST ATHLETE
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
ELK CREEK
    Mrs. Oscar Stewart has gone to Medford, to be absent several days.
    Mrs. Lloyd LeBeau is visiting with Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson for a few days.
    This cold weather is greatly appreciated by the farmers who have hogs to butcher. S. W. Hutchinson butchered six last Wednesday for home use. Oscar Stewart will butcher sometime this week.
    On account of the snow up here the farmers with hay and no cattle are greatly in demand by the cattlemen with more stock than hay.
    Mr. Hall, who owns the mill by the old free ferry, was knocked unconscious while helping his son drive posts last week. The sledge flew off the handle, hitting Mr. Hall, who was holding the posts. He was unconscious for several minutes.
    Floyd Hutchinson made a trip to Hall's mill for lumber for the U.S. fisheries. The high water tore out part of the new water wheel, also causing considerable damage in the hatch house.
    Will Stewart started for Medford Saturday with a bunch of beef.
    Mr. and Mrs. Newton Ward, who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson, for the past two weeks, returned to Ashland Saturday, where they will visit with Mrs. Ward's mother, Mrs. W. B. Holmes.
    Ralph Watson has been sawing wood for Mrs. Middlebusher of Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 12, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 OF EAGLE POINT DIES, AGED 81
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


LARGE SHEEP DEAL IS CONSUMMATED
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 Mathews, 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


ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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


ELK CREEK
    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
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    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 twice, first the Monitor, then the Medford Mail, and then the Medford Mail Tribune, and for years before that I wrote for the Jacksonville Times and Valley Record regularly every week, and if the Lord gives me the ability to do the work, gathering items and writing I will not predict how much longer I will try to keep it up, and while on the subject wish to extend to the editors and managers of the paper, through all these years for their kindness in bearing with my mistakes, and to the many friends who have encouraged and assisted me in my arduous duties.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 19, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Lawrence Conger, who is living on the old Ewen place, came to town with a load of apples Wednesday but could not get a satisfactory offer so took them to Medford, but I have not learned anything further as to what he did with them.
    F. F. McCabe, another one of our orchardists, was also in town Wednesday and took late dinner at the Sunnyside.
    O. W. Picon and wife, recently from Denver, Colo., came in Wednesday and camped on the bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek expecting to go to work for Charley Delin on his contract on the Crater Lake Highway, but on account of the continuous rains, keeping the ground so full of water that they cannot work to advantage, and he not liking the idea of doing nothing, engaged to go out to the Price camp and cook for his road crew. They started this Saturday morning but something went wrong with their car so they returned to the Holmes and McDonald garage for repairs and were still there at two this afternoon when I left there for home.
    E. Harvey, wife and two grown sons also came in the same day and camped on the same stream, intending to go to work on the job as soon as the ground will permit.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer of Hay Creek, who has been out to Talent visiting her children and other relatives, returned Wednesday morning on the Eagle Point stage on her way home. She said that she was in a hurry to get home as she had an incubator full of eggs that was due to hatch that day. Asked how she had succeeded in her undertaking in the poultry business, for the reader will remember that she has been engaged in the general poultry business, ducks, geese, turkeys as well as chickens, and she replied that she had done quite well.
    Walter Marshal and family of Brownsboro were business callers also Wednesday.
    G. E. Merrell of Derby was a guest of the Sunnyside Wednesday night and while here remarked that he was here last fall and gave me his name and a letter from John Zimmerlee of Trail telling him that he saw his name in the Eagle Point Eaglets, the consequence that two old friends had renewed acquaintance and that Mr. Zimmerlee had put him on a track where he was in a fair way to clean up a thousand dollars. Another instance showing the advantage of advertising.
    John Dixon of Trail also spent the same night at the Sunnyside, remaining until Friday morning when he took the Persist stage for home.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Crane of San Francisco came out on the Butte Falls stage Thursday and went up on the Lake Creek stage to visit Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Farrier of Lake Creek, they being old time friends.
    Wm. Grieve of Prospect was also a passenger on the Derby stage on his way up home.
    I unintentionally omitted to mention something about what George Holmes and Thomas Lewis had done for our footbridge across our beautiful Butte Creek, but it is not too late yet and when I give my own opinion I feel that I am giving the opinion of all that have had the pleasure of walking across it, for it is now in a much better condition than it ever was even when it was first built, for in addition to what was done in the first place, they have put in two extra bents, thus bringing the floor nearer on a level and have put in, in the place of the old pine posts, four new yew posts, and filled the hole with concrete, thus making them so solid that there is positively no give.
    In one of my recent letters I stated that Ray Harnish had moved onto his own place but instead he has moved onto and rented his mother-in-law's, Mrs. W. W. Taylor's, farm joining his own.
    For the information of her many friends in this town and vicinity I will state that the stork has visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Reter nee Margaret Florey, and the result is a fine baby girl born March 17th, 1921.
    Shorty Allen of Wellen was a business caller Friday and when I met him he was trying to put a bale of barbed wire on his saddle horse, and with me to hold his horse and Wm. Holman of Lake Creek, who just happened to come along, he succeeded, and reported that the von der Hellens were fencing a large tract of desert land on the Antelope Desert.
    Mr. Nessler, the man who has rented the Perry Foster place on the Trail road west side of the river, was in town trading with that popular firm, Geo. Brown & Sons, and in conversation with one of the firm I remarked that there were but very few of the farmers coming into town now and he remarked that at least two-thirds of the business they do was done over the telephone and sent out by parcel post or by the stages.
    The Eagle Point Ladies' Improvement Club met at the home of Mrs. B. F. Fuller last Wednesday afternoon, and Miss Hayman and Mrs. Hayman acted as hostesses. There were twenty-seven ladies present, and they discussed the most effective way to improve our town but came to no conclusions as to the best way to proceed and finally decided to postpone any special decision until after the dance tonight. Refreshments were served and a pleasant session of the club was had. The next meeting will be March 31st at the home of Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mrs. McAllister will act as hostess.
    Mrs. O. M. Goss made a business trip to Jacksonville Friday.
    Fred Dutton, one of our progressive hustling young farmers and stockmen, was in town trading and reports that his wife who has been afflicted with the flu has about recovered and expects to visit her father, S. H. Harnish, soon for a week or so.
    Mr. Purr of Derby was also a business caller Friday.
    Mrs. Cummings of Central Point, formerly Mrs. Wamsley, has been the guest of Mrs. Lottie Von Scoy for a couple of days.
    E. V. Brittsan and W. Bergman and three strangers were here for dinner Friday.
    Miss Edna Peterson of Trail was installed as assistant at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    As I have gone about my limit I will have to stop and leave the rest for my next letter, such as real estate changing hands, new people moving in, etc.
Medford Mail Tribune, March.22, 1921, page 5
ELK CREEK
    Mr. Frank Clary made a business trip to Ashland Sunday. Charlie Clary, who has been visiting Frank, returned home with him.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn spent Sunday afternoon visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe have a new baby girl, born March 17.
    Mr. Jess Clary, who has rented the F. L. Hutchinson ranch, made a business trip to Eagle Point Saturday, returning last Sunday evening.
    Mr. Henry Trusty has been circulating a petition to have our mail either continued as it is or have a daily mail. They are trying to cut it down to twice a week.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher spent Saturday afternoon visiting with Miss Hazel Spencer.
    Reverend Glazier of the Free Methodist Church will hold two services at the Trail school house Easter Sunday, March 27.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and daughter, Lee, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson.
    Mr. Roy Clancy of Ashland is working at the U.S. Fisheries.
    Mrs. Middlebusher and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson called to see the new baby at Mrs. Howe's Saturday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 26, 1921, page 3


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Chris Beale of Central Point, who has been working on the Jacksonville-Applegate road, came over and went up to his old home, Butte Falls, last Saturday.
    Miss Alice Humphrey and Miss Myrtle Minter, who are attending the Medford high school, came out Saturday and went out to their homes in Derby and Reese Creek, returning Monday on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point stage and going to Medford.
    There was a carload of people come out Saturday and the most of them went on up into the timber country, but one of them, Mr. W. Blake of Medford, said that he had come out to see the agent for one of the large dairy farms on Rogue River, but when he arrived, found that the man he wanted to see had gone to Ashland.
    Some of the civil engineers who are working on this unit of the Crater Lake Highway have rented the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Holt in the von der Hellen Hardware Co.'s store for offices this summer and moved their office fixtures into them.
    Mr. Dunaway of the Rogue River Broom Works of Central Point was soliciting patronage Saturday, intending to proceed on up the country, but on learning the condition of the roads concluded to postpone his trip until later in the season.
    A. A. Clausen and R. B. Guthrey came in and engaged rooms Saturday. They are in the employ of the government as draftsmen on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Miss Ellen McCabe was a business caller Saturday and so was G. L. Robinson and J. Manier of Brownsboro.
    While Charley Bacon and wife were out here last Saturday they closed the deal with Mrs. Sarah Coy, selling his house and lot here in our town. We wish to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Bacon in their good fortune in finding a buyer, but congratulate Mrs. Coy in securing so good a bargain, for although I am not at liberty to state the price paid, as I have not seen either of the parties since the deal was made, but know that she made a good buy and has a fine comfortable home now of her own.
    Mrs. Rosa Smith and her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Perry, were shopping in town Saturday and so was Fred Linn of Lake Creek.
    Mrs. Cal Thomason of Medford, Mrs. Jack O'Conner of Phoenix and Mrs. R. M. Richardson of Butte Falls were business callers Saturday afternoon and Mrs. Richardson remained overnight at the Sunnyside, going on up home Sunday morning.
    Mr. Frank Nitkey, Luther and Stanford Hughes, also of Butte Falls, spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside and went up home Sunday morning and Carl Bergman was also a lodger at the Sunnyside.
    The dance given Saturday night by the L.C.&C. was well attended and I understand the receipts amounted to something over fifty dollars. One of the promoters of the move promised to give me, in writing, an account of the whole affair but when I went to Geo. Brown & Son's store this Wednesday afternoon to get the account found that she had neglected to leave it for me, but from all accounts it was well attended and the behavior was about normal.
    Mr. Ed Burgess, the man who looks after the horses, and sees that they are all properly cared for, Charley Delin, the subcontractor on the unit between the desert south of here and Hog Creek, returned from Portland Sunday afternoon, bringing his wife with him. They have moved into the house with James Jordan.
    Mrs. Charles Edmondson and her daughter, Mrs. R. B. Baker of Butte Falls, came out Sunday and took rooms at the Sunnyside and expect to remain for some time.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer and her brother, Mr. J. W. Wright, were attending to business here Monday morning and she reported that the heavy blasting on the Crater Lake Highway had killed all of her ducks, except five, and was spoiling the eggs so that they will not hatch.
    Miss Hogan, who has been in a hospital in Medford for the past two weeks or more with blood poison caused by an ulcerated tooth, came out Monday morning and went on up home on the Butte Falls stage to resume her duties as teacher in the Crater Lake school district.
    Thomas Vestal of Reese Creek was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage.
    T. F. McCabe and Thomas Anderson came in Monday and Mr. McCabe intended to go to Medford in the morning, but as there is no jitney running in the morning except the 7:15 stage, he had to wait until after dinner before he could get off.
    Sam Courtney is engaged painting Wm. Brown's house, both inside and out.
    We had five strangers, Mr. McCabe, C. L. Farrier, Lake Creek and his friend, Mr. L. A. Crane of San Francisco, who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Farrier. Mr. and Mrs. Crane went up last week, but the name was spelled wrong in my list. They were all guests for dinner at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tedrick and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Redpath, two professional pruners, were in town looking over the situation.
    Bert Childers of Medford and his force of seven men, who are placing the culverts on the Crater Lake Highway, were added to the list of boarders Monday.
    Edwin Koenig of San Francisco came in and spent the night Monday on his way up to Derby to visit his stepfather and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
    Miss Viola Hughes of Butte Falls spent the night at the Sunnyside, and took the Butte Falls stage for home.
    John Logan also spent Monday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 28, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    John Logan of Trail and John Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, came in Tuesday night and remained until Friday morning. They came out from Medford, intending to go out on the Trail stage, but owing to the condition of the roads, Mr. Peterson's car was so completely wrecked that he was not able to use it, so had to do the next best thing, and the best he could do was to get a small runabout to take the mail and leave everything that he could. But he is not the only one who has trouble carrying the mail, for the men carrying the mail from here to Butte Falls had the same trouble, for Tuesday Miss Ida Dunlap of Derby came in, intending to go home that morning, and the mail and post was so heavy and bulky that she had to wait until this Saturday morning before she could go and then the mail carrier had to leave one young lady who wanted to go home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murphy and daughter of Wellen were business callers Tuesday, and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Charley Givan. He came in with a load of potatoes from the Givan ranch on Rogue River, and Pearl Stowell, Nick Young and Judge Florey, beside several strangers, whose names I did not procure.
    K. D. Jones of Butte Falls, who has a contract to build two concrete buildings in Medford, was a passenger on the stage Tuesday.
    T. P. Coleman and wife of Lake Creek were here Tuesday, doing business with our bank. They were on their way to Medford to spend the night. They are the people who bought the William Holman place on Lost Creek and I asked Mrs. Coleman how she like their new mountain home and she replied, "Just splendid, everything is so green and lovely." Although it is very muddy, they walked out to where they had their car parked, and came right along out.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, who have a farm on Reese Creek, were in town Tuesday and, thinking of that horrible piece of sticky between the Reese Creek school house and their place, I inquired how they managed to get out. She said they just hitched their faithful team to the hack and came right along through it.
    Mr. Kingery of Wellen was here Tuesday and so was Harry Carlton and wife, also of Wellen. I notice that the people who come in from the country come either on horseback or in a light rig, or on foot, much the safest way.
    There was a company of seven, all U.S. servicemen, except one, and that was Mrs. W. H. Coombs of Medford and she was to be the cook for the company, came in Tuesday evening and called for supper and breakfast. Fortunately they all had their beds and slept in the barn, except Mrs. Coombs. She managed to secure a bed in the house. They were going up beyond Butte Falls to plant trees to try to replenish the timber that has been cut, burned or otherwise destroyed.
    Mr. R. A. Petty, who lives on the Vermeren place, was in town Thursday making a deal to sell some corn that he has managed to keep over.
    Mr. Art Turpin of the Antelope orchard was in town having his team shod by our blacksmith, Mr. Childreth.
    Speaking of horse shoeing, we had quite a little excitement in our little town two or three days the first of the week. Charley Delin, the subcontractor, who has his teams here and occasionally works on the Crater Lake Highway when the weather will permit, has a lot of horses that have never been shod or handled very much and several of them were so mean and vicious that they had to be almost "hogtied" to do anything with them, but with the assistance of Polk Mathews to do the heavy part of the work, they managed to get them shod. The reader will bear in mind that Mr. Childreth has been troubled with something like the flu for the past week or more, and was not in a condition to tackle the job alone.
    Mrs. Frank Farlow of Lake Creek was a passenger on the Lake Creek stage Thursday.
    Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, has put a neat-looking concrete sidewalk in front of his place of business.
    D. Inagler of Eugene came in Thursday and spent the night taking the Eagle Point-Trail stage for Trail Friday morning.
    Paul B. Rynning, state highway engineer and A. A. Clausen, Sr., bridge engineer, who are engaged in the construction of the Crater Lake Highway in this neighborhood, are occasionally taking their meals at the Sunnyside.
    C. A. Stanton of Portland was a guest at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    A few days ago I received a letter from our daughter, Mrs. Grant Shaw of Portland, in which she sent me the accompanying clipping taken from a Portland paper.
    "'Old Jim' Howard, famous mountaineer character of Southern Oregon, went to jail yesterday to start serving out a $200 fine at the rate of $2 a day. Howard received the $200 fine from Judge Bean, after he had been found guilty by a federal jury of possessing moonshine whiskey Thanksgiving day. 'Old Jim,' as he is affectionately known to residents of Klamath Falls, was formerly a licensed distiller in Tennessee and the product his stills turned out was famed far and wide."
    "Old Jim" Howard was for several years associated with his brother, Ted, and lived in the foothills northeast and east of here and at the time were generally suspected of carrying on the business of running an illicit distillery, but finally the climate became too hot for them and they both disappeared, greatly to the relief of some of their neighbors.
    Ed Dutton and John Rader, two of our prominent stock men, were discussing the subject of high taxes, and the price of cattle, and they seemed to think that it would be difficult to sell the stock cattle at the price they are assessed at by the assessor, or rather the county court, and they were also discussing the question of the prices of beef cattle on foot and the price of beef dressed and arrived at the conclusion that taking into consideration the circumstances in the East, about the best thing we could do would be to recall the entire county court, from the county judge down to the janitor and make a clean sweep, and stop sending lawyers, bankers and doctors to the legislature and send some of the staid old farmers, who would put a stop to adding debts to our already taxed-to-death people and let us have a little rest in that line. But a question comes up in my mind as to how we could prevent the lawyers, bankers and doctors from going when they lay awake nights and plan for months ahead, while the farmers and stockmen are lying awake studying how they can manage to get the cash to pay the exorbitant tax.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1921, page 6
ELK CREEK
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Houston and children spent the weekend visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clary have moved out to their ranch which they have rented.
    Mr. N. T. McDonald is visiting in this community after a three years' absence.
    Mr. Sturgis is hauling hay from the Bar 8 ranch.
    Mr. Glazier, who was scheduled to preach at the Trail school house Sunday, had considerable trouble getting over the roads. He had to walk the last stretch arriving at Trail at about 2 p.m.
    A meeting will be held at Trail April 3 to organize a Sunday school.
    Mr. Ray Clary made a business trip to Ashland.
    Mr. Tom Todd is building a new barn and is asking a few of the neighbors in to help raise the frame.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 31, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The Eagle Point library was formally opened by the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club on Thursday, March 24th, in the town hall, and a general invitation had been extended to all to come in and partake of light refreshments, tea cake, etc., and examine the books and help to circulate them and have them read, with the hope of cultivating the habit of reading more.
    The club have secured a fine assortment of books and magazines and offer them free to anyone who wishes to borrow them. The library will be open every Tuesday and Saturday from 2 until 5 p.m., and on Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 o'clock p.m. There will be ladies in attendance who will be pleased to wait on anyone who may desire to procure good reading matter. Another move in the right direction and it is hoped that the result will be an improvement in that department of education.
    Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Butler and his brother-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barspry, were in town on their way to Medford.
    C. F. Alderson and Joel O. Haskins of Trail were here for dinner and reported that they had just closed a deal to purchase a farm in the Debenger Gap section, of Mr. McAlester.
    Friday I broke loose from my ordinary routine of duties and went to Medford and there I met quite a number of people of our town but several also who live beyond here who were there trading, visiting and seeing the sights. Among them were W. C. Daley, son Clem and families, Mr. Wm. von der Hellen, Mrs. Bert Clarno, Mrs. W. H. Crandall and Thos. and Mrs. Farlow of Lake Creek. All seemed to be very busy trying to get ready to start home.
    Phil Loosley, formerly of Fort Klamath but now of Ashland, made a hurried business call Saturday.
    J. P. Goin (Agate Jack), who had been up in the Lost Creek country gathering agates, returned to his room in the Sunnyside Hotel Saturday with a fine assortment of agates.
    Sunday morning the Eagle Point Sunday school decided to go out to Reese Creek and unite with the Reese Creek Sunday school in their Easter exercises so all hands including your correspondent started and on reaching there found quite a number already there with their lunch boxes and baskets well filled, and about 11 a.m. the Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. Merritt, called the company to order and after the singing of songs and reading the regular scripture lesson, prayer was offered by your correspondent and the classes took their places. The primary class had to go out in the yard on account of the house being so small. It was led by Mrs. Carl Esch, and her father-in-law, Jacob Esch, led the Bible class, and after the school was dismissed lunch was spread in the old-fashioned style on long tables outdoors and all hands partook of a good hearty meal.
    After spending an hour or more visiting we then had preaching by Rev. Stille, a soul-cheering sermon on the subject of the Resurrection of Christ. We also had some fine singing by John Stille and his brother, Rev. Stille. It was an occasion that will be remembered for a long time and hopes are entertained that impressions were made that will result in much good.
    There were quite a number of people came in for dinner at the Sunnyside but I am not able to tell who, but later in the day there were nine came in for supper.
    There was considerable moving in our little village the latter part of last week and Sunday. Mr. Schiebly, who sold his home to Ernest Dahack, our barber, moved into the Charley Pointer house the last of the week, and Mr. Dahack moved into his own house. Mr. Hill, who has been living in the Boltz house back of the bank building, moved out onto what is known as the Pool place on the south edge of the desert Sunday, and the same day Clem MacDonald, who has been living in the house belonging to Fred Frideger of Medford, moved into the Boltz house. That is all the moving I have heard of although I met P. H. Daily Monday and spoke of Dahack moving out of his house and he remarked that he had it already rented and a month's rent paid in advance, but I am not ready to tell to whom as yet.
    Rudolph Pech came in from his home in the Lake Creek country with a part of a truckload of spuds on his way to Medford. J. H. Carlton of Wellen was a business caller Monday. And so was E. F. Senell of Portland and A. R. Nordwick of Medford of the Nordwick Tire and Auto Co. They were both here for dinner and so was Charles Brown and daughter of Medford, besides three other men who are strangers. Since we are having so many here to eat, the road and bridge men, strangers come in and eat, pay their bill to the hostess and often I do not see them and if I do, don't know them from the road workers.
    W. E. Webb of Derby was in town also Monday and so was Pete Betz.
    Miss Ruby Haley of Central Point, formerly of this section, is here visiting her brother, Percy and wife.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek was here on business Monday and so was Frank Johnson and wife of Indian Creek.
    John Warner and Charles Cushman of Trail were here Monday night.
    Henry Meyer, another man of the same name as Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, who lives on Lick Creek, Lake Creek post office, came out on the Lake Creek stage Tuesday and went to Medford to have some dental work done, returning this Wednesday morning. Miss Mildred Neil came out on the Butte Falls stage and went up home to Frank Neil's Tuesday, and Geo. Prentice also came out and went up on Reese Creek to visit his son-in-law, Mr. Purr.
    Frank J. Neuner of the state industrial commission, Salem, was here for dinner Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1921, page 6
AGATE ITEMS
    Everyone is making garden and putting in crops this fine weather. On account of the great amount of rain the farmers are about a month behind in their farming operations.
    Mr. Sunderman has disposed of his place on the Crater Lake road and intends to move to Northern California soon.
    A large number of friends and neighbors gathered at the John Timmon home last Saturday evening. The gathering was in the nature of a hard times surprise party and was a great success in every way.
    Henry Gregory, our road supervisor, has been quite busy lately grading the roads and putting them in good shape for the summer's travel.
    E. C. Hamilton is fixing up his ranch and making preparations to move onto it soon.
    Miss Irma Hamilton and her brother Lester are recovering from an attack of the mumps.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1921, page 6
ELK CREEK
    Miss Gwen Houston spent the weekend visiting with her parents on the ranch near Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clary and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hutchinson and daughter Olive made a trip to Trail, Friday, April 1st.
    Oscar and Will Stewart made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Keva Hutchinson spent the weekend visiting with his parents, returning Sunday afternoon to Medford where he is going to school.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clary and Roy Clary and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and Olive Hutchinson made a trip up to see Mr. Clary's brothers, Frank and Ray Clary, who have a ranch up Butte Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. Ernest Peachey and Mrs. Kent of Medford were pleasant callers at the Sunnyside Wednesday afternoon.
    L. A. Crane of San Francisco, who is visiting with his wife Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rassar of Lake Creek, came out from Medford on the stage Wednesday morning and went up to Lake Creek. He had been spending a few days looking over the situation with an eye to locating somewhere in Southern Oregon.
    Bud Obenchain of Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, was in town a couple of days about the middle of the week.
    Wig Ashpole, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Frank Amy, the first and last named from Medford, and Mrs. Van Scoy is our assistant postmistress but they were all here at the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday.
    Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro, John Miller of Lake Creek and Roy Smith of Eagle Point all came out Wednesday from Jacksonville where they had been serving on the jury, and Mrs. Roy Smith and Mrs. Sam Courtney were visiting at the Sunnyside the same day.
    Thursday R. A. Peyton, formerly of Peyton, Ore., but now of Medford, came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on up to his old home.
    Charlie Loar, who is engaged in the fish hatchery business with Mr. Berrian and has been boarding here for several weeks looking after the fish eggs, went back to Medford Thursday as the season is about past for fish eggs in these streams.
    Speaking about eggs brings to mind a conversation I heard a short time ago. One of the ladies who belongs to the Civic Improvement Club--the reader will notice that I have dropped the word "ladies," because one of them met me on the street today, Saturday, and told me that they had dropped the "ladies" because it was so common and it is to be called the Civic Improvement Club--but what I was going to say was about the conversation about eggs. There was some talk at a meeting of the Civic Improvement Club about turning over the funds collected from the dance they gave a short time ago to help the starving Chinese and in the course of the discussion one of the ladies remarked that she thought that if eggs were so plentiful in China that they could ship them over here and so glut the market that they could be sold at nine cents a dozen that food must not be so very scarce, that they had better keep their eggs at home and eat them and not ship them over here and force the price sown to fifteen cents a dozen, and as for her part she did not intend to contribute a penny to feed the Chinese when we have so many at home to feed, so they finally decided to keep the money here and use it to improve our own town.
    In my last letter I inadvertently made a mistake in giving an account of shoeing the Delin horses and said that his helper, Polk Mathews, when it should have been Polk Smith as at the time I was writing I may possibly have been thinking of some improvements Green Mathews was making.
    Thursday R. M. Conley of Butte Falls, who owns the old Hawk mill, was here for dinner and said that he had all of his logs sawed up. G. W. Barker, Mrs. Mary Richardson, also of Butte Falls, A. J. Florey and wife and brother, Judge, were here for dinner besides three men and two women who just came in, took dinner and paid up and hurried off.
    J. Monia of Brownsboro was here on business Thursday, and R. R. Minter of Reese Creek came in in the afternoon and went to Medford returning the next morning.
    Frank Neil of Derby came out to have his horses shod.
    W. G. Messall of Lake Creek [and] J. Wattenberg, who is farming the Joe Rader farm on Antelope, were in town Thursday.
    The same day Earl Tucker of Brownsboro, Mike Sidley and Emmett Klingle of Lake Creek came in with a herd of cattle for Kay Loosley of Ft. Klamath, leaving them with Roy Stanley to care for. They all took supper at the Sunnyside and went home that night.
    Thursday when Mr. Peterson, the Persist mail carrier, came in he gave me a dollar and a half to pay for the renewal of the subscription of W. G. Morgan for the Weekly Mail Tribune, and the next day G. E. Merrill of Derby gave me his subscription for three months for the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun, Eagle Point post office, and here I wish to tell my friends that I am not acting as the agent for those papers and it would be just as well to do business direct with the Medford office.
    Ed Tucker was with them bringing out the cattle and went back to his home in Brownsboro.
    T. C. Barry, Brownsboro, O. Adams, Medford, a lady and her little boy came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning and Mr. Adams and Mr. Barry went out on the Lake Creek stage.
    The Klum Adv. agents were out Friday putting up ads for cigarettes and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    A. H. Thompson, who recently bought McQuoid's property here in town, has moved and is now a resident of our town.
    Robert Neil, who owns a farm on the head of Lick Creek, was a business caller Friday and so was R. Pech of Lake Creek.
    W. E. Wiesendanger of Medford Grocery Co., and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bigelow, representing Fisher Flouring Mills Co., were here for dinner Friday and so was Harry Weston of Medford.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby came in Friday bringing in a small load of wood. He came principally to have his team shod.
    O. M. Goss of Butte Falls came out Friday to do some work on his orchard.
    W. E. Hammel was also a business caller Friday, but the most of the farmers are at work at home.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The regular meeting of the Civic Improvement Club of the ladies of Eagle Point and vicinity met on Thursday, March 31st. There were 28 members present, and the question came up as to the best plan to use the funds on hand and the accumulating funds, for according to the present arrangement each member pays ten cents biweekly, and the reader will bear in mind that the organization is not confined to citizens of the town exclusively but is composed of some of the people of the town as also of several of the ladies who live near the town lines, so when it comes to the distribution of the funds those outside of the corporate limits of the town claim that they have a right to a say as to where and how they shall be distributed. So when the question came up as to whether the funds should be used for the purpose of having the electric lights placed along the streets the question came up as to where the lights should be placed and how many there should be as well as to the expense, etc. Well, in the discussion of the subject as to where the lights should be placed, one lady suggested that there should be one on the corner by the bank and that would light the two stores, bank and garage, but then the objection would be raised to that phase that it is outside of the residential district and the stores, bank, etc. are all closed and consequently there would be no need of a light way off there, and then another lady suggested to put one by the banker's residence and that would light that street and partially light the approach to the wagon bridge. There was no special objection to that and then another near the approach of the footbridge as that is used about as much as any other thoroughfare in the town and would light all along the country road. Another suggestion was to put one at the Stanley corner, and then the objection came up that that would be outside of the corporation whereupon those living inside the corporation limits objected on the ground that the object was to light the town.
    By way of explanation I will say that the promoters of the scheme to have the town incorporated had the engineer run the lines so as to leave out five families on the east end and six on the lower or west end because they knew that they all would vote against the move to incorporate, and the project would fall through. But the members of the club living outside feel that they are just as much entitled to the benefits of their funds as those living inside as they were in town before the little plat was taken out of the middle, and so that is about where the trouble will first arise, but we hope that everything will be amicably arranged and we will have our little town not only lighted, but other improvements that are greatly needed.
    Among other decided improvements made in our town is the wrecking and removal of what was left of the old lumber shed that stood near the railroad track and was an eyesore to passersby.
    Green Mathews was a business caller last Saturday and took out a lot of wire fencing and barbed wire.
    Mrs. Quire and her daughter, Miss Mabel of Linville, Iowa, called on your Eagle Point correspondent last Saturday as they had written some time before inquiring about the prospect for procuring agates, and when they came I introduced them to J. P. Goin (Agate Jack), and I understand they purchased some fine specimens. Miss Mable Quire is now engaged in teaching in one of the schools in Ashland. Her mother came out some time ago to see the country and she secured a position as teacher as stated above.
    Fred McPherson, who came down from Portland to visit his wife and son, returned home last Saturday. His son is attending school here and I understand that Mrs. McPherson and son will join her husband as soon as our school closes sometime in May. Sam Hughes, Harold Patton, Carl Bergman, Mrs. M. R. Richardson of Butte Falls, C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle, and Adin Haselton spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside.
    A. H. Thompson and wife, formerly merchants at Lake Creek, having moved out into their own house, spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside. He and his brother have sold their store and property to J. W. Antle, formerly of Medford.
    Thomas Abbott and family of Lake Creek came out Saturday on the Lake Creek stage, called on the hostess and daughter of the Sunnyside Sunday afternoon.
    Speaking about Sunday, it brings to mind one of the coldest and most disagreeable days we have had during the past years, snow, rain, hail with a heavy north wind that seemed to penetrate to the bone. There were two men came in from the Medford concrete works on Bear Creek with a truckload of sand and gravel for the concrete work on the culverts on the Crater Lake Highway and when they reached the hotel they were almost frozen.
    Monday afternoon as I was canvassing the town for Eaglets who should I meet but two of the old employees of the Mail Tribune office, L. E. Whiting and H. L. Young, and Mr. Whiting remarked as we shook hands that he had "set up" a great many columns of my Eaglets while in the Mail Tribune shop. They are both working in Portland now, Mr. Whiting on the Oregonian and Mr. Young is proofreader in the office of the Oregon Journal. Mr. Whiting looked as if he had been well cared for, but Mr. Young looked somewhat thinner than he used to be.
    W. G. Averill, one of the U.S. naval force, came out on the stage from Medford Monday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside, going on to Butte Falls Tuesday.
    J. W. Van Horn of Sisson, Calif., came in Monday and went up to Trail to visit his daughter.
    Mrs. M. R. Richardson and Miss Viola Hogan came out on the stage Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside that afternoon. Miss Hogan is teaching the Crater Lake school but was called out to Medford because of the death of her mother and then had to go to the hospital again herself. She has had a terrible time with blood poisoning.
    Miss Ruth Corning of Jacksonville was also here Monday.
    While on my rounds Monday I met Guy Pruett and he told me that there were four Japs living near him, and Wednesday night while they were all away, except one, their house took fire and burned down. The Jap came running to his place just as he jumped out of bed for help but by the time they reached the place the house was destroyed. The poor Jap was so excited that he could not find his pants, and said that he had sixty dollars in paper money in his pants pocket. The loss is estimated at about $800.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 8, 1921, page 9


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers during the week not mentioned in my last was Gus Pech of Lake Creek, John Greb and George W. Stowell, the last named being the chicken king, who were in town the first part of the week, Mr. Stowell having come to town to have his car overhauled by our blacksmith and machinist, W. L. Childreth, and while I naturally asked all kinds of questions about his hennery business and learned that he has about 800 laying hens, and that about seven-eighths of them were laying now. That he had one bunch of two-year-old hens, and that they do not lay so well as the year-old hens, quite a falling-off from what they did last year, that the creamery men were only paying 18¢ a dozen for eggs and the result was that he was storing his eggs to be put on the market later when the price was better, that he had about all of his farm sowed in alfalfa, and between his hens and cows he was managing to live and keep his head above water, or in other words is independent.
    Marsh Garrett, another one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, who owns two stock ranches, one on Lake Creek and the other on the headwaters of South Little Butte Creek, was in town twice during the week, and reports that stock is doing fine, although he seems to think that the bottom has dropped out of the price.
    There was a stranger came out from Medford and took dinner at the Sunnyside. He said that he came out to look at a tract of land that was offered for sale. I showed him where the land was situated, he went and saw it, but did not express his views as to how it suited him. I did not learn his name.
    E. Weigld, representing one of the Medford auto companies, and Thomas Swem of Butte Falls were here for dinner.
    John Allen and wife were business callers Tuesday and Thursday. They passed through our town and went on to Medford, bringing back quite a load of stuff in their wagon. Mr. Allen is the road superintendent for the Butte Falls road district and reports that he has run over that sticky road on Reese Creek with a heavy grader and improved it considerable, but that the sticky is so wet that it cannot be helped much until it dries out more, and that he has fixed some of the worst mud holes along the route between the Reese Creek school house and the foot of Rocky Hill.
    Charley Brown, the Fordson man of C. E. Gates' shop, was here for dinner and talking Fordson to all that he meets.
    Miss Margaret Sears of Reese Creek came out on the stage from Medford and the Eagle Point-Derby was so loaded with mail and passengers she had to lay over. That is a very common thing, as the mail man cannot run anything larger that a Ford and it takes about all of the room for the mail and parcel post.
    John Norris, the foreman on the Y. M. Wilfley orchard, was in town, having some repair work done by our blacksmith on some of his farm machinery.
    Herrick Wheeler of Medford came in late for dinner Wednesday. He had been up to R. M. Conley's after a horse and found some of the roads so bad that he was late for dinner.
    Mrs. Viola Koontz of Butte Falls has been here in town visiting her brother, Polk Smith, and other relatives during the past few days.
    Fred Neil of Ashland came in Wednesday for dinner and remained until Friday. He was canvassing this section of the county selling oil stock in one of the oil fields of Montana. It appears that he and a few others have secured a lease on a forty-acre tract of land in the oil fields of Montana, where oil has been found in great abundance, and he made it so plain to some of the folk around here that they could almost see the oil coming right into their pockets already coined into gold. He seemed to be having some success in his undertaking, as he claimed to have sold right around $12,000 worth of stock in Ashland.
    Mr. Holser of Grants Pass was also a dinner guest at the same time Wednesday.
    Luke Ryan, one of the capitalists of Jackson County, formerly a merchant of Jacksonville and later in the mercantile business in Medford, came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage on his way up to his ranch on the mouth of Big Butte near McLeod.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton was here visiting her father, S. H. Harnish, about the middle of the week.
    W. D. Steidman and Vernon Dews of Medford were among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    Miss Jean Goade and two of her granddaughters, Mrs. H. Lewellyn and her sister, Miss Bessie May Tumley of Grants Pass, came in Wednesday and were met here by another granddaughter, Mrs. Robert McCabe, and taken out to their home. Mrs. C. E. Bellows brought Mrs. McCabe in and took the company out for her, a very neighborly act.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Burdic, formerly of Ashland, but now of Grants Pass, were here for dinner also Wednesday. Mr. Burdic for some time visited out of town, buying hogs and cattle, but since then has been interested in the oil fields of California.
    Our town council has been utilizing the lumber taken off the floor of the footbridge for repairing our sidewalks. Our janitor of the school, Mr. Schiebly, performed the task.
    Mr. and Mrs. Kelso of Derby were business callers Thursday.
    Mrs. Roy Ashpole, wife of one of our popular hardware merchants, who has been confined to her bed in Medford at the home of her mother-in-law, and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Ashpole, has so far recovered as to be able to come home and assist in doing the house work. Of course, she had our old reliable doctor, formerly of this place, Dr. W. P. Holt, now of Medford.
    The Stanley brothers, Roy and Ralph, butchered some eight or ten young calves and shipped them to Klamath Falls, a comment on our market in and around Medford.
    I find that I am getting this letter too long, so will stop for this time, but will write again Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1921, page 5


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    When I stopped writing last Saturday afternoon I was just ready to tell about our egg king No. 2, Henry French, and his son Floyd, who had come back from Medford via Eagle Point, the first time I had seen them for two or three weeks, and then I caught Henry on the fly and he was in such a hurry that he said he had but little time to talk as he had a little business to attend to while Floyd and our blacksmith were doing a little repair work on his car. I asked why I had not seen him, etc., for so long a time and he said that for the last few weeks he had been taking their eggs and cream to Medford since the roads were getting worn down as he could cross the French-Dodge bridge and have a better road to Medford than he could to go by way of Eagle Point, and that they had to go to Medford to get his cow and chicken feed at the Farm Bureau as he could save money by that means and that he could get considerable more for his eggs and cream than he could from the creamery men out here. I could not hold him longer so turned and went to the shop and found Floyd busily engaged working on the car, too busy to talk, but I noticed that the car seemed to be well loaded with feed, milk cans and egg crates, and the crates would indicate that they were taking around a hundred dozen eggs a week and cream in proportion and if he could save a few cents a dozen eggs on a hundred dozen and a like profit on their cream it would soon run into dollars.
    Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Rynning called for dinner the same day. Mr. Rynning is the state engineer on the Crater Lake Highway in this section and he and his wife have rented rooms over the T. E. Nichols store and gone to housekeeping.
    L. E. Whiting, the old typesetter of the Mail Tribune force but now on the Portland Oregonian, who had been out in the valley, passed through here on his way up toward Lake Creek.
    Miss Francis Loads of Trail, Mrs. J. Doubleday and Mrs. Israel Patton of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage and Miss Loads went out on the Butte Falls stage.
    G. E. Hollenbeak of Central Point came in Friday morning and brought Emmet Hollenbeak and W. G. Goodlow to go out and assist in putting a telephone line from Prospect to McLeod for our postmaster and telephone operator, W. C. Clements.
    James Watkins of Central Point was also here visiting his sister-in-law Mrs. N. E. Watkins last week.
    Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Edward Cowden, was met there Saturday by her husband and went out to Medford.
    Harry Hayes and wife of Indian Creek were in town visiting Mrs. Hayes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Riley of Antelope Creek. Mr. Hayes had hurt his back and was on his way to Salem to consult a specialist.
    T. P. Coleman of Lake Creek, who had been out to Medford for a few days attending to business, passed through here Friday on his way home.
    R. B. Baker of Butte Falls came out Thursday to visit his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Charles Edmondson, who are stopping at the Sunnyside, remaining until Tuesday morning.
    J. Clifford of Butte, Montana, was a guest at the Sunnyside. He was out here looking after his land interests in the Lake Creek section.
    There has been considerable interest taken in this section of the country as to who will be the lucky person to receive the contracts to carry the mail from here to Trail six time a week and back; also to carry the mail from Trail to Persist and back twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. It was thought that this morning there would be some word received but I was talking with one of the bidders this Wednesday and he had received no word from the department.
    C. L. Coffer and George Ellis, both of Sacramento, Calif., Wig Jacks and Chauncey Florey of Jacksonville were here for dinner Saturday. They did not disclose their business but hurried off as soon as they ate their dinner.
    Mrs. George West of Medford, wife of one of the Forest Service men, who is boarding here to meet her husband, spending the day with the hostess and her daughter, she and her husband returning home together Saturday evening.
    Mrs. McKissick, wife of the civil engineer who has charge of that department of the canal coming from Big Butte above Butte Falls to this section, and her aunt, Miss Prillaman, both of this place, went to Medford Saturday.
    Miss Rose Whaley of Butte Falls is assisting in the culinary department in the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Henry Childreth and his son Carl of Ashland came up to visit his brother, W. L. Childreth, Saturday, returning after taking supper at the Sunnyside the same evening.
    Mrs. D. Bradshaw of Brownsboro and Mr. and Mrs. Russ Moore of Lake Creek were business callers Saturday.
    Warner Bergman of Medford and his brother Carl of Reese Creek and J. P. Oswald of Wellen were here for dinner Saturday.
    There were but few visited here Sunday, a few from Medford and Mr. Frank Ditsworth of Peyton, who was on his way home from the hospital in Medford, having undergone an operation for appendicitis.
    Monday morning A. M. Gay, J. W. Barry and eleven more passengers came out from Medford on the different stages and there were several more left because they had no way to come.
    F. L. Bailey, one of the old reliable Forest Service men, and his chauffeur, Geo. A. Hyde, came in Monday, took dinner, went up on Long Branch, came back Tuesday, spent the night, went to Lake Creek this morning, took dinner here and went to Ashland this afternoon. They are going some.
    Shorty Allen and wife of Wellen and Art Vestal of Reese Creek, L. K. Haak and daughter, Miss Winifred, accompanied by Mr. Pierce of Hubbard Bros. of Medford, were in town. Mr. Hawk was just starting a new Cleveland tractor and Mr. Pierce came out to start it for him.
    Fred Pettegrew of Reese Creek and J. Esch, the men who bought the Singleton farm, were business callers Monday.
    E. F. Payne and L. J. Wilson of Medford were out here looking for work with Charley Delin, but he had all the men he needed just then. They took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Tuesday evening there was a quiet wedding at the home of our neighbor, Samuel H. Harnish, when he was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary M. Frenna. The marriage ceremony was performed by your Eagle Point correspondent.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 15, 1921, page 9


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers not mentioned in my last letter was J. W. Frey, one of the pioneers of Jacksonville, but for the last several years a resident of the section near Fish Lake on the road some distance above the intake where the water from Fish Lake enters the pipe to supply water for the city of Medford.
    R. S. Gleason, who has a homestead near Butte Falls, was a Sunnyside guest Wednesday.
    F. G. Thompson, formerly a merchant of Lake Creek, came in Wednesday afternoon and engaged board and room for a few days. He has sold out his business in Lake Creek and is undecided as to what he will undertake at present.
    Dennis Zimmerlee of Trail came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside Wednesday. He came out to get two wheel scrapers to be used on the Crater Lake Highway this side of Trail, of Charley Delin.
    C. D. Mills of Pasadena, California and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ellison of Detroit, Michigan, came in the same day and engaged board and rooms for a week or more. Mr. Mills is a practical agate cutter and polisher. They came up together from Redondo where Mr. Mills has a shop where he had a force of five or six men working at the business. They are putting in their time hunting over our agate fields and are finding some choice specimens.
    F. L. Bagley and his chauffeur Geo. A. Hyde, timber cruisers, after leaving last Monday took a spin up in the Trail and Elk Creek country, came back and went up in the Lake Creek timber to inspect a homestead, returned and spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside. They are some goers in the timber.
    Walter Marshall and wife of Brownsboro drove in Wednesday to do some trading.
    William Martin of Hog Creek and Noble Zimmerman of Butte Falls came in Wednesday and Noble went to Medford on business, engaging board and room at the Sunnyside. He is working for H. B. Tronson in his orchard.
    There were two young men and two young women came in about 7:30 p.m. and complained of being awful hungry and called for supper and while it was being prepared I inquired if they were from Medford and one of the men said no, they had been over in Siskiyou County where they could get good whiskey, so I made no further inquiries, as I thought that perhaps I had all the information necessary.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel and her brother-in-law, Sam Courtney, and wife were here on business also Wednesday.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres and two children of Medford came out on the stage Thursday morning to visit her father-in law, Mr. F. J. Ayres, and wife who live on Reese Creek.
    Fritz Pech, one of the potato raisers of the Lake Creek country, came out on the Lake Creek stage Thursday.
    R. M. Conley of Lake Creek, T. F. Armstrong and son, F. A. Armstrong of Medford, were here for dinner Thursday and Mr. Conley said that he was getting ready to start his sawmill as the ground was drying out so he could haul his logs, and Mr. Armstrong while he was here arranged to buy a truck from Geo. Brown and Sons and is going to haul some logs for Conley's mill.
    Mr. and Mrs. Riley D. Henson of Medford were here for dinner Thursday. Mr. Henson is in the employ of the Klum Advertising Co. of Medford.
    T. F. McCabe, Fred Arnes, [and] Martin Hill were business callers. Mrs. Ed Cowden of Eagle Point and her sister, Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, who had been visiting her sister, drove in and Mrs. Tungate went out to Medford on the Medford-Butte Falls stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. John King of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada have been here visiting J. W. Prillaman and his sister, Miss Prillaman, old neighbors when Mr. and Miss Prillaman lived in Canada.
    George Albert, who makes his home at the Dupray sawmill near Butte Falls, was a business caller.
    Wig Jacks spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    E. N. Vilm, wife and baby were here on business Thursday. Mr. Vilm is in the business of making and distributing flour and was out interviewing Geo. Brown and Sons on the subject of supplying this market with the product of his mill.
    The Ladies' Civic Club of Eagle Point met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. William Perry. There were twenty-four members present and refreshments were served by Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Leroy Smith. There was but little business transacted except deciding to give another dance on Saturday night the 23rd. They decided to let the question of lighting the town go until next fall as they will not be particularly needed during the summer months. Mr. reporter informs me that they had one of the best social affairs of the season. When Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Roy Smith have the entertaining to do it will always be done right up to date.
    Mr. Kidd, who is making the water ditch for T. F. Nichols, and his sister Ruth and Henry French was in town Friday, and reports that he has commenced work on the ditch again. The reader will remember that he had to stop working during the winter on account of the high water, but he expects to rush the work through so as to use the water this season.
    W. E. Hensley of Wellen was trading with our merchants Friday.
    B. F. Fuller was here getting pipe and fitting it up at Ashpole's hardware store Friday to repair the damage done a year ago last winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gilmore of the Paul Electric Store of Medford were here for dinner Friday on their way out to interview W. H. Crandall with regard to furnishing him with a much-needed pump.
    Walter Parr of Reese Creek was in town Friday getting material to pull the chaparral off of his homestead, of our popular hardware merchant, Roy Ashpole.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 18, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    E. C. Hamilton, supt. of the Fish Lake ranch belonging to the Rogue River Canal Co., Judge G. A. Gardner, James Owens and Victor Bursell, our county commissioners, were here for dinner on Thursday of last week. They had been riding over our roads in the Reese Creek and Lake Creek country and seemed to be of the opinion that they needed some work done very badly, and said that they expected to put the road force to work very soon to finish up the Reese Creek-Butte Falls road right away as far as possible, and expressed their regrets that the early fall rains last year interfered with their plans so much, but anticipate having especially the Reese Creek part of the road put in good shape for next fall's travel.
    Thomas F. Nichols, wife and sister, who own a fine farm on Rogue River at the mouth of Hog Creek, and Thomas Farlow, wife and two daughters and Miss Thelma Moore of Lake Creek were business callers Thursday evening on their way home from Medford.
    Fred Neil also came in Thursday evening. He is highly gratified with his success in disposing of his oil stock and feel very sanguine of the results.
    Charley Bacon, our old conductor on the Pacific & Eastern railroad when it was being operated by the Hill interests, has been quite a frequent visitor to our town the past week or so.
    Charley Lear, one of the force connected with the fish hatchery business, passed through here last Saturday on his way to the upper country but I did not learn his destination.
    J. W. Berrian also was visiting our town and reports that they have been fully as successful in gathering fish eggs as could be expected considering the unfavorable season; that he has been able to transfer the eggs he had here in course of incubation to the hatchery near Butte Falls.
    J. M. Wilfley, owner of one of the large orchards, who has been away during the winter, was on our streets again last Saturday.
    W. P. Holbrook, another one of our orchardists, who has an orchard and farm west of here near the mouth of Little Butte, was also a business caller.
    E. R. Oatman and H. T. Pankey, orchard inspectors, were here for dinner Saturday and so was A. B. Mackenzie of the Rogue River Aircraft Co. of Ashland. He was visiting our town trying to secure pupils to receive instruction in the art of flying, as the company have opened in Ashland a school in that line where any who so desire can receive the necessary instruction.
    H. C. Burmell, Mason, Nebraska, [and] E. G. High were also here for dinner Saturday. The last named was selling autos.
    Sunday morning we had a very interesting Sabbath school and it seemed as though the members in the juvenile class were loath to close when the superintendent called or the closing exercises.
    Last Sunday there were not very many people in for dinner outside of our regular boarders. There was among them Mr. Lumsden of the firm of Hutchison & Lumsden and family including his son and wife, and Miss Klum and a few others. Also there were quite a number of the young folks came in from the dance after it closed Sunday morning.
    George W. Daley and wife of Fort Jones, Calif., are here visiting his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Daley.
    Monday morning I went into Medford on the 7:15 stage and beside myself there were J. L. Robinson, Sr., Mrs. Polk Mathews and her brother Jessie Cliffen, and while I was there met a number of our neighbors not only from our town but people from the surrounding country, who were there on business, and while there I also met our popular sheriff, Charley Terrill, and in the run of conversation he spoke of the statement published in the Saturday Mail Tribune that he had appointed Wig Jacks as one of his deputies and he especially requested me to state that it was a serious mistake. But I told him that it was contradicted in the Medford Sun the next morning, but he said that he wanted it put in the Eaglets as it would be seen there by more people than anywhere else in the paper.
    Monday evening Frank D. Swingle and his son A. M. Swingle and Don Buchanan of Ashland called for supper. Mr. Swingle came up to see Mr. McAllister on business, returning home the same night.
    The same old question of the rights of the water users along the old ditch where the water is taken out of Butte Creek above the Pelouze place and is supposed to end at the county road between the Wm. Perry and Stanley places, and where the laterals are supposed to begin, is up again and the question of what is to become of the overflow after it reached the road and those who are using the water from the main ditch in the laterals claim that those on the ditch proper are required to take care of the overflow as those below them cannot use or care for it. They have organized a company of their own and appointed O. M. Goss as ditch boss, and are notifying those interested in writing that they must clean out their part of the ditch and also that those on the main ditch must care for the overflow as it is detrimental to the farm and orchards below.
    Luke Ryan, one of the Medford property owners, came out on the Eagle Point stage and went up to his ranch at the mouth of Big Butte.
    Harold Van Scoy, who has been working for his uncle, Wm. Holmes, on Griffin Creek, came in the first of the week to visit his mother, our accommodating and efficient post office clerk.
    C. J. Nicholson and wife and C. A. Ferrin, wife and daughter, Miss Inez, of Wenatchee, Wash., who have been as far south as Los Angeles, came in Tuesday noon and are here at this writing, Wednesday, April 20th. They are spending a short time gathering agates and seem to be meeting with considerable success.
    A. J. Ellison and wife of Detroit, Mich., who came in a week ago and have been gathering agates, left the Sunnyside this morning for their home in their car and took with them about 200 or 250 pounds of agates they had picked up that they intend to take home with them to have worked up.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1921, page 7
ASK IMMEDIATE HEARING ON BUTTE FALLS RAILROAD
    The citizens of Butte Falls have petitioned the public service commission of Oregon to declare the railroad recently purchased by M. D. Olds as a public carrier. The owner objects to such action by the commission on account of the hazardous risk of carrying passengers and because of the expenses of maintaining regular train service; however, he is willing to have the road declared as a carrier of forest products and is willing to deliver freight to Butte Falls about twice a week, free of any transportation charges. Mr. Olds is very anxious that the commission arrive at a decision by May 10th in order that he may perfect plans which he now has under consideration; therefore, the directors of the Medford Chamber of Commerce have authorized a telegraphic request to the Public Service Commission for an immediate hearing on the Butte Falls petition.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 27, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    J. D. Price, who owns a tract of timber land in the Trail section, came in the first of the week and went to Medford on the stage.
    Frank Abbott of Lake Creek was in town on his way from Medford up home. He is planning to go to work on the Crater Lake Highway here next week.
    F. J. Ayres and wife of Reese Creek were business callers also Tuesday.
    Wm. Perry, our road supervisor, was a business caller and also went to Medford and Jacksonville to lay plans regarding the work on the roads. He has already done considerable work on the Agate-Lower Butte Creek bridge road and intends to make a good road as far as it goes, no slipshod patchwork.
    Joe Poole and family were shopping in our town Tuesday of this week.
    As I was called to Medford the first of the week there were some incidents occurred here that are not reported, but while in Medford met quite a number of our citizens as well as people from out surrounding country.
    L. H. Swink, one of the merchants of Butte Falls, came out on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday and went on out to Medford.
    Warren Armsberry of Lake Creek came in Wednesday morning and went up to his home on the Eagle Point stage.
    There seems to be considerable travel between Medford and Butte Falls recently, and hopes are entertained that business may revive there again and something done to give employment to the idle men who are daily seeking work on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Ed Dutton, our old road supervisor up to the election of James Owens as county commissioner, has the appointment as foreman on the road work on the unit between the south side of the David Cingcade farm and Hog Creek. He is a practical road builder and seems to know just how to handle men so as to deliver the goods.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Norris, foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, were in town Wednesday.
    Mrs. Chris Bergman drove in Wednesday to procure a supply of garden seeds.
    Geo. Adamson and W. S. Chappell, the first named our old stage driver on the Persist route, and the second our old cobbler but now both interested in the sawmill business near Trail, came in Wednesday and took home with them a lot of pipe Thursday morning. They report that they are getting out considerable lumber but the most of it is used in that vicinity on the Rogue River bridge and neighborhood.
    R. B. Baker of Butte Falls came out from home Wednesday evening to see his wife, who is stopping at the Sunnyside under the care of Dr. W. W. P. Holt of Medford.
    T. T. Taylor, who has been confined to the house under the care of Dr. Holt, has so far recovered as to be able to be around town again.
    Thursday morning I went to Medford again on business and when I left home Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Nicholson and wife and Mrs. C. A. Ferrin and daughter Miss Inez of Wenatchee, Wash., were here. They came in Tuesday the 19th and had spent the time gathering agates, but when I reached home that night found they had started for their homes. They had gathered a nice lot of stones and taken them away, Mr. Nicholson having learned the trade under the direction of C. D. Mill, who is now here gathering agates. They expressed themselves as very much pleased with our country.
    Speaking of Mr. Mills, he has been here now since the 13th inst. and expects to remain until next Wednesday the 27th, and is gathering all the agates he can. He went to Medford Friday and shipped 480 lbs. of the stones to his shop in Redondo [Beach], near Los Angeles, Calif., and expects to take that many or more with him in his car when he goes.
    While I was in Medford Thursday I met J. L. Robertson, Sr., Green Mathews and his son Rollie and they reported that some sneak thief or thieves had taken two forty-rod rolls of Page fence and four rolls of barbed wire fence from the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway that had been left on Green's place to be put on the road across his farm. He said that he and Fred Pettegrew, who has the contract to put up the fence for the county, tracked the truck from where the wire was taken across the Dodge-French bridge but could track it no further as other vehicles had gone over the route and obliterated the tracks.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls came out Friday and went on to Medford on the stage.
    John Swanson of Trail was at the Sunnyside Thursday evening when I arrived home, and there was another man, a stranger, came in and spent the night.
    Mrs. Lydia Jones of Talent was here visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Knighten, and returned today.
    W. S. Baker, who is foreman on the Frank Rhodes farm, and Mrs. Ed Tucker and her daughter, Miss Mildred of Brownsboro, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno, J. W. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, were among the business callers Friday.
    Mrs. Fred McPherson made a business trip to Portland and is there at this writing, Saturday afternoon.
    Ernest Carpenter and Nick Young were among the diners Friday.
    W. G. Campbell, a man unsettled, came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday and started this morning for Trail. He said that he was looking for black sand, as some he had found was quite rich with gold.
    Walter Allen of Derby was in our town Friday evening, and Shorty Allen of Wellen was also here having some drills sharpened and I inquired what he was doing with drills as he is a farmer and he said he was prospecting for gold, that he had found a quartz lode and that it prospected quite well.
    Geo. W. Stowell and son Charles came in this morning and brought six sacks of spuds to the Sunnyside.
    Carl and Alvin Bieberstedt of Brownsboro were doing business in our town this morning.
    Joseph Prall of Reese Creek came in on the Butte Falls stage and went on up home on the Prospect stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frey of Lake Creek came in this morning, left their plowshares for our blacksmith to sharpen and went on to Medford.
    Mrs. J. F. Maxfield and son came in this morning on business, returning before noon.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1921, page 11
ELK CREEK
    Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson, who has been spending the last two weeks visiting with her mother in Ashland, returned home Saturday.
    Ray Clary returned Saturday from a business trip to Ashland, bringing his sister, Miss Mollie Clary, back with him for a few days visit.
    There was a surprise on Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clary Saturday, April 23. The neighbors from miles around attended. Everyone had a good time, the party breaking up soon after midnight.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson have moved into one of the hatchery houses, as Mr. Hutchinson has been appointed there.
    The upper racks at the Rogue River Fishery station are almost completed.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. J. C. McGee, a traveling lady who is working in the interest of the Designer magazine, was canvassing our town Saturday afternoon, spent the night at the Sunnyside, taking passage on the 7:15 stage Sunday morning.
    The dance given by the Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point is reported to be a perfect success both socially and financially ever given in Eagle Point. A great deal of credit is due to the ladies of the club for the splendid management and the lunch they served. The four-piece orchestra led by Mr. Haight added greatly to the pleasure of the occasion. The gross receipts were $165.90, of which $96 was cleared above all expenses. Since the ladies have taken the matter in hand there is a marked improvement in the general deportment as they are determined to have them conducted so that it will be a pleasure to those who wish to attend, if for nothing more than the social enjoyment, and can go and have no fears of being detracted by rowdyism. It is the intention of the management to continue their social functions during the early summer months. I see that I have said nothing about the sumptuous feast served by the ladies, but the reader may be assured that when they undertake to do anything in that line it will be done about right.
    Among the prominent visitors were our popular sheriff, C. Terrill and wife from Jacksonville. The Narregans and Westons of Sams Valley, Virgil Strang and wife, and Gene Narregan and Miss Mansfield of Medford were also in attendance.
    I have been asked a number of times recently how Eagle Point happened to receive its name and have finally decided to give as correct an answer as possible.
    Sometime in the early '70s a petition was circulated to have a post office established here and the question came up what name would be given to the office. About that time a man by the name of McFadden was teaching school in this district and was out gunning and shot and killed a large eagle out of a pine tree standing on the points of the hill in the edge of the village and someone suggested the name Eagle Point in commemoration of the event, but I am not able to definitely name who, but think that it was Mr. McNeal, who was appointed the first postmaster.
    Sunday morning when our Sunday school superintendent arrived at the church I soon noticed that his wife, Mrs. Carl Esch, was not in the company and as she is the teacher of the primary class I naturally inquired the cause of her absence, fearing that she was sick, for she has been so prompt to be at her place, so asking the first one of the company I met, Mr. J. Esch, was informed that she had stayed at home to care for the chicks as they had received 500 wee chicks the afternoon before from Corvallis and she had remained at home to care for them.
    There were a few people out Sunday for dinner and among them were four ladies from Medford, but they were so busy looking at the sights and especially our suspension bridge that I did not secure their names. There were quite a number who had attended the dance the night before and took beds and breakfast, remained for dinner and one of them, Charley Givan, who was here Saturday remained until Monday morning and went up to Butte Falls on the stage Monday morning.
    R. E. Mieth of the Portland Bridge Construction Co., spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside. His company has the contract to build the bridge across Rogue River on the Crater Lake Highway, and was on his way up there.
    Timmie Dugan, who owns a fine farm and orchard on the P.&E. railroad, was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. Bassett of Butte Falls came out Monday on the stage and stopped here and Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby, Mr. M. J. Jones, E. W. Abbott, A. H. Wright, L. D. Tinker and E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls and J. Prall of Reese Creek also came in on the Butte Falls stage Monday and went on to Medford.
    William Hansen and family of Brownsboro were here Monday getting a bill of goods of Geo. Brown & Sons.
    I also met J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, and his foreman, John Norris, and three of his men there Monday. The rain that fell Sunday night made the sticky so adhesive that they had to suspend operations for a while.
    Marshall Minter, one of our hustling young farmers, came in with his gang plow Monday to have a little repair work done by our blacksmith.
    Ralph Bieberstedt, another one of our prosperous young farmers, was also a business caller.
    C. D. Mills, one of the men who has been here during the past two weeks gathering agates, left Tuesday morning for his home near Los Angeles. Counting what he has shipped and what he took with him in his car totaled about 700 pounds.
    Mr. McAllister, one of our prominent citizens who bought a farm near Central Point, went over there Tuesday morning to do some work on it.
    Our school teachers, Misses Riley and Young, are planning to give an entertainment on Friday, May 6th and desire to have all the patrons and friends of the school attend.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 30, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Wednesday, April 27th, was the general cleanup day, and bright and early, for town folk, I met our lady member of the town council, Mrs. Mattie Brown, with her rake already at work, not only using the rake herself but giving orders to others to do what she wanted done and by night the different piles of rubbish that were to be seen all over our town demonstrated what our determined women could do. I don't know but it would be a good idea to recall the five members of the council and elect five ladies in their place, for we have had experience enough with the men to show that while they were in authority that they either have no taste for that kind of exercise or would rather sit in a cushioned pivot chair than to get out and rustle to accomplish something in that line. She promised that if the owners and residents on the different pieces of property would clean up she would have a truck come around and haul the debris away and then our town will look and be more attractive.
    W. P. Holbrook, Verna Mathews, Gordon Cox and one of the Hayes men and two of the women were in town about the middle of the week on business.
    John Swenson of Trail came out on the Persist stage and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did John Dickson and went on to Medford the next morning.
    John Rader, one of our prominent stockmen, was in town also and while here in conversation John began to remark about the high rate of taxes as well as the high rate of assessment and I referred him to the fact that there were so many taxpayers that take no part in trying to see that we get good competent men into office to make and administer our laws and he pleads guilty to his being very negligent in that case, for I doubt if he had voted at any of the elections for the past six or eight years, and after a general election it is an easy matter to count up twenty-five or thirty in an ordinary-sized precinct who were too busy at home to go to the polls to vote and I predict that after the special election in June next when we are to vote for or against the vast appropriations of our tax money to be used as suggested by our late legislature that there will be that number in this precinct who fail to vote. Let us wake up and at least try to put a stop to adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to our burdens in the way of taxation. If we sit still and let the lawyers and bankers of the country say who shall go to make our laws and administer them and they simply feather their own nests they are not so much to blame after all. Let us wake up and begin to look out for our own interest. And while I am on this subject, quite a departure from my usual custom, let us insist on having the next legislature change our election laws so that no one can vote on the subject of issuing bonds unless he or she is a taxpayer on real estate. As it is, anyone who pays no taxes at all can vote a half million or more dollars on the property of his neighbor from whom he is renting a home.
    W. E. Hammel and wife and son Courtney and wife were business callers. Mr. Hammel came in to take out a new disc harrow he has secured through Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware men, and Sam Courtney had come in to finish up a job of painting for William Perry. Sam has rented the building opposite the post office for a paint shop and is kept quite busy lately.
    Speaking of the hardware business, R. B. Price, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, has ordered eight miles of barbed wire from Roy Ashpole, 48 bales to be used to fence Mr. Price's land on the side of the Siskiyou Mountains.
    O. W. Train of Lake Creek was with us recently.
    During the last few days our school janitor has succeeded in planting a good solid yew post and erected the old flag pole that fell down some time ago and now Old Glory is once more floating in the breeze at its head.
    J. H. Heckner, the government rodent exterminator, was in town getting things ready to start in poisoning squirrels.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno and her son Carl Bergman and Pete Betz and wife passed through town on their way to Medford to see Mrs. Clarno's son Walter Bergman, as word came out by phone that he had been hurt by a horse, but did not know the particulars.
    Mr. Hoagland of Central Point and grandson came out from his place near Brownsboro with a load of stovewood on his way home.
    Mrs. L. A. Crane and her two daughters Misses Bertha and Helen Crane of San Francisco, who are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Farrier of Lake Creek, were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro was a caller Thursday.
    Last Thursday evening was rather a busy time with our old Dr. W. W. P. Holt, formerly of this place but now of Medford. It appears that Mrs. Thomas Cook, who lives in the lower part of our town, needed the assistance of a doctor and called Dr. Holt and about the same time Mrs. R. B. Baker of Butte Falls, who has been at the Sunnyside over a month under the care of a doctor, needed the assistance of a doctor so called for him and from early in the evening until ten o'clock he was kept busy going first to see one and then the other and the result was that at 9:20 p.m. Mrs. Thomas Cook became the mother of a fine 8-lb. boy and at 9:40 p.m. Mrs. R. B. Baker became the mother of a fine 7½-lb. girl and at last accounts both mothers and babies are doing fine. Grandma Laura Edmondson, Mrs. Baker's mother, is as proud as any grandma can well be and well she may be.
    Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath, Roy Stanley of Eagle Point and Fred Neil of Ashland were here for dinner Thursday.
    Geo. W. Stowell, the egg king, and son, Thomas Cingcade and Ray Harnish were business callers.
    R. D. Henson, foreman for Klum Adv. Co., with a force of W. P. Smith and W. Hall, were here Thursday putting up another set of boards for advertising purposes and Mr. Henson says that they are kept busy putting up boards and advertising. They did stop long enough to eat dinner at the Sunnyside.
    The Civic Improvement Club met at Mrs. Roy Stanley's last Thursday and had a very pleasant time and good eats of course. There were 17 members present and a representative of the California-Oregon Power Co. gave them a talk on the subject of lighting the town but there was no definite action on the subject. The next meeting is at Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen's, May 12th.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 2, 1921, page 3


ELK CREEK
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Saturday in Medford, spending Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. George Saltzman. They returned home Sunday morning.
    There was a May Day program and basket dinner at the Elk Creek school Sunday, which was well attended in spite of the rainy weather. Several cars from up near Prospect were down.
    Mrs. J. G. Clary and Miss Molly Clary visited with Mrs. F. L. Hutchinson Thursday afternoon.
    The Crater Lake Highway is reported in a very bad condition between Medford and Trail. The portion which belongs to the new permanent highway is the best along the way.
    Mr. J. E. McDonald made a business trip to Medford last week.
    The Rogue Elk Hotel is getting a new coat of paint, which is greatly improving its appearance. They are also repapering and painting the interior.
    Miss Molly Clary returned to Ashland with her brother, Ray Clary, Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Rev. James E. Condor, pastor of the Methodist Church, South, Medford and Wheeler Miffin came out Thursday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside. They came out to try their hand at fishing, but found that there was too much water in the stream and it was too roily for them to bite. Mr. Condor seemed to think that the fish could get enough to eat without hunting for it on a hook.
    A. C. Spencer and his brother Charles of Brownsboro were business callers also Thursday, April 28th.
    A. G. Robinson of Prospect was a passenger on the Medford-Prospect stage Friday of last week.
    Pete Young, one of the pioneer farmers of this vicinity, was in town last Saturday and while here received a lot of shakes he had shipped out from Butte Falls. He is planning to build another large barn in anticipation of having a big crop of hay and grain, as he is a good farmer and has one of the best farms in this section of the country.
    Arthur Morrison, formerly of this place in his boyhood days, but for several years a resident of Eastern Oregon, was here for dinner last Saturday. He is visiting some of his old schoolmates and making headquarters with Henry French near the French-Dodge bridge on Rogue River.
    Mrs. Robert M. McCabe of Reese Creek and Mrs. Fields of Medford called Saturday to inquire for the home of Wm. Wright, who is living on the Sam Coy farm near town.
    There were four men here Saturday, who wanted to go to Central Point and they made a deal with Mr. Lewis to take them for $1 apiece, but there was one, an old man, decided that he would rather stay a few hours longer and save fifty cents rather than pay the price, going via Medford and then pay 15 cents to ride from Medford to Central Point, or walk. In the first instance he would save 35 cents or if he walked, would wear out 15 cents worth of shoe leather, very doubtful economy.
    Mrs. Hebe Walls of Ashland came in Saturday to the Sunnyside to visit one of our regular boarders, Mr. J. P. Goin, and take dinner. Mrs. Walls is the mother-in-law of the late George Owens, at the time of his death county commissioner, and Mr. Goin worked for Mr. Owens for nine and a half years and she seems to think as much of him as she would of her own son.
    Milton Conley of Brownsboro was also a business caller Saturday afternoon.
    May the first came in rather cloudy and cool and about all the difference I could see between that and any ordinary day was that there was a few of the regular attendants of the dances here, came in Saturday night late for beds and late breakfast Sunday morning. Even our Sunnyside was not so well attended as usual, and speaking of the dance, some of the men who are boarding here and went in to see and be seen, reported that the attendance was rather slim since the ladies have undertaken the management of the dancing and enforce the rule of good behavior or leave. They seem to be taking the lead in that as well as other matters.
    Gordon Cox, who has a farm about four miles below Trail, was here having his team shod up.
    J. H. Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, who is having Dr. Emmens of Medford treat his eyes, came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage for his home. Mrs. Bert Clarno also came out and went out home via the same route, for while they both live on the opposite side of the river from the stage road, they get off and call for boats to come for them, quite a convenience.
    There were also three other passenger on the Eagle Point stage and one of them was Rev. L. M. Phillips, the pastor of the Free Methodist church of Grants Pass. He has a [line of type omitted] and was going up to visit her.
    Mrs. Grace R. Hart, a professional nurse, who has the care of Mrs. R. B. Baker and her baby at the Sunnyside, reports that the mother and babe are doing fine. This will be good news to Mrs. (Burnace) Baker's many friends in and around Butte Falls. They have named the babe Dorothy Loraine Baker.
    Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby, who is attending the Medford High School, passed through here Tuesday on her way to Medford.
    Mrs. Roy Stanley of this place started Tuesday for Portland to be at the bedside of her father, who is reported on the sick list.
    Adin Haselton, who is working on the Antelope orchard, spent Sunday and Monday at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. H. Heryford of Butte Falls went up home on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our rushing farmers and orchardists, has purchased a lot of two-inch pipe that was used in the ice plant some time ago, but since has been sold and removed, and is fixing up an apparatus to spray his fruit trees more rapidly.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 7, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The other day as I was passing by the city hall my attention was called to the change in the appearance of the inside of the building since it became the home of the Eagle Point library and has come under the supervision of the Ladies Civic Improvement Club and I could not help but notice the contrast between the arrangement when it was under the management of the old mayor and city dads, if there was any management of the old city mayor and council, for when they had charge of affairs, it looked like a hurrah nest gone to seed. A rickety old table and a few chairs, loose boards arranged along on side of the room and the floor--well, I better say no more on that part of the subject--but the change that has taken place since we have a city recorder, city treasurer and only one councilwoman with a new mayor. Since they were elected and went into office the city hall has been fitted up with neat shelves, and a fine assortment of books, magazines and papers adorn the shelves, and three neat tables, covered with white tablecloths, take the place of the one that was there under the old regime, the old voting booths that were used when we were fighting to get rid of the old saloon have been removed and where they occupied space it is now occupied by a neat table, where anyone can sit and write or read, or if so desired, copy extracts from the books in the library, in fact there has been such a change that one would hardly believe that it was the same place. But if the ladies of the C.I.C. will excuse my suggestion, it would be that while they are making such radical changes as have been made, they would appropriate a portion of the funds they receive from a generous public and have the interior of the building improved in appearance, at least, as well as in comfort by having the standing and bare walls covered with a neat lining and that covered with attractive paper. It would improve the appearance, as well as the comfort, very much.
    There was a large truckload of large-sized pipe, six or eight inches in diameter, passed through here Tuesday headed toward Medford, but the driver did not stop and no one seemed to know who he was or where it came from or where it was going.
    J. C. Pendleton of Table Rock was a business caller Tuesday. I understand, from our deputy assessor, Floyd Pearce, that he also is a deputy assessor. I saw him, but he was engaged in conversation with Frank Brown, one of the firm of George Brown and Sons, so I did not meet him.
    Mrs. Ella Koontz, Ira Tungate, Corbett Smith, George Albert and Horace Geppert, all of Butte Falls, came out Tuesday and some of them went on to Medford. Among them was Ira Tungate, Mrs. Koontz, Geo. Albert and Mr. Smith. Horace Geppert remained here and went in the next morning.
    Wednesday morning, by a little after seven o'clock, the road from up Butte Creek and the different sections of the country north and northeast of here began to buzz with the different vehicles, cars, trucks and wagons on their way to Medford to see the show, although several only went to see the parade, and by 10 o'clock our town was almost deserted, and many of them remained until the evening performance and the result was that one could hear the cars passing until the wee hours of the morning. Among those who came from the Lake Creek section were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heyer, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Wm. Grissom and family and a brother of his and family, Ed Cowden, who lives about three miles out of town and family, they went in on the stage: A. C. Spencer, wife and children, and his brother, Charles, and family of Brownsboro: George Adamson, wife and seven of his children and M. S. Chappell of Trail all bent on seeing the show, they came out in a truck and when they reached here took their son-in-law and wife in, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Taylor, making a full load.
    J. P. Oswald of Wellen, who has been working on the Rhodes and Price unit of the Crater Lake Highway, was here for dinner Wednesday, on his way up home near Wellen. He had had his wrist hurt, so was laying off for a few days.
    F. J. Ayres and wife of Reese Creek were in town, he having a little repair work done on his car. They came in to meet their son-in-law, F. T. Newport, and family, formerly railroad agent at this place on the Pacific & Eastern railway, but now they are stationed at Astoria, but are taking a vacation of two or three months and are going back east to visit his parents. He has a leave of absence and a free pass on fourteen different railroads. They expect to go via the southern route and visit New Orleans and other southern cities, including Washington, D.C., then Philadelphia, New York and back through the northern states, via Chicago, returning via the northern route to their home. When Mr. Newport was here, he was nothing more than an agent on a small line in a small railroad town, but by strict attention to business has kept climbing and now holds a position where he is held in such esteem by the company they can afford to give him a layoff, pay him his wages and give him free rides over fourteen of their lines. This is a lesson to the boys and girls who knew him when here. Always strive for something better.
    Charles Givan was a business caller Thursday and so was Thomas Stanley and wife of Butte Falls.
    L. A. Richter, who has his home on the divide between the Umpqua and Rogue rivers, called for dinner Thursday and so did Mr. A. M. Gay.
    Charles M. Gilmore of Paul's Electric Store was out arranging electric machinery in this section of the country and selling electric goods.
    R. A. Minkler of Ashland was also here for dinner representing several different manufacturers in Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
    H. G. Wimer of San Francisco, Cal., came in Thursday evening, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown. Mr. Wimer was here some years ago as the agent of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, but now he has learned the dentist business and is talking of opening an office in our town, but had not decided at last accounts.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 9, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Harry Hayes and wife were business callers Friday and so were Pearl Stowell, William Holman and Harry Stanley.
    Among the passengers on the Eagle Point stage were Henry Thornton of Persist and Mrs. Anna Peedster of Los Angeles on her way out on Reese Creek to visit her son-in-law, Mr. Parr, and family, one of the homesteaders in that section of the country.
    Benj. Whetstone was also here, having some work done by our blacksmith.
    C. D. Clark and wife came out Saturday morning and went on up to Prospect, their home.
    Mrs. A. J. Moen, the lady who came in last fall, went and interviewed our county school superintendent, found a vacancy in the Reese Creek school district, called up the school board of that district on the phone, made arrangements with them to meet her at the Reese Creek school house the next day, Saturday, came out to the Sunnyside that Friday night with her husband and two boys, Albert and Frank, went to the Reese Creek school house the next morning, arranged to teach the school, rented a house to live in, arranged for household goods for housekeeping, moved in and commenced her school Monday morning at 9 a.m. and finishes up her school on Friday, May 13th and expects to start back east to join her husband, who has preceded her as business matters called him home at that time. Now if that ain't going some. And the beauty of the whole thing is that she has taught them a good school and though patrons are well pleased with her, not only as a teacher but also as a neighbor and citizen. But what I started in to say was that Mrs. Moen and her two boys came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside, took the 7:30 stage the next morning, went to Medford to send her oldest boy over to Hilt to visit his grandmother before they start back to Iowa. Another lesson for our boys and girls showing what perseverance, grit and push will accomplish with education. Never give up but try.
    S. W. Tracy, representative of Ball-Band Rubber, Mishawaka, Ind., was also a lodger at the Sunnyside Friday night.
    On Friday, May 6th, our two teachers in the Eagle Point school, Miss Josephine Riley, daughter of one of the pioneers of the county and at one time one of our county commissioners, and Miss Ruth Young, our primary teacher, gave a fine art exhibit and entertainment showing the work of the children in that line, and it seemed truly wonderful the progress they had made. Some of the paintings would compare favorably with work in the same line in the higher grades. It will be remembered that Miss Riley is an expert in that branch of education, having taught in that department in the Medford high school last year. And Miss Ruth Young displayed wonderful skill in that branch last year, as this is her second year as primary teacher in our school, and the school board and patrons would be glad to secure her services for another term but she has decided to take a higher course in the university at Eugene.
    Sam Courtney and Marshall Minter, who have been engaged painting the residence of Wm. von der Hellen, are making the Sunnyside headquarters while they are working in town, but when they are working in the country either board at the place where they work or go home. They have just finished up painting the house of Corbin Edgell. They seem to have about all the work they can do in their line of painting and paperhanging.
    Will Nickell, T. P. Coleman and Herman Meyer, all of Lake Creek, were business callers Saturday.
    Mrs. J. H. Heckner, wife of the official who has charge of distributing poisoned grain to kill off the ground squirrels, came out on the Eagle Point stage and went up to her home near Brownsboro on the Lake Creek stage Saturday morning.
    Mrs. Koenig of San Francisco, who has been up in the Derby country visiting friends and relatives, passed through here Friday to Medford, returning Saturday.
    Sam Harnish reports that someone has drawn a long piece of pipe out of the well where his barn was burned several years ago and thinks it was a mean trick.
    A. C. Radcliff, who owns a nice home just above town, has had a time getting a large sheet iron tank out and up to his place. The tank is nine feet high and ten feet in diameter and when he started across the bridge with it the top of the tank came in contact with the cross-ties in the top of the bridge cover, it startled the horses and they jerked it against so hard as to jam it all out of shape, but finally he gathered a crowd of young men and they, after trying to wheel it through the bridge, but it was too flimsy as the top hoop was pulled off so they procured two timbers, put in on and pulled it through the bridge.
    Kay Loosley and wife of Fort Klamath, and Mr. and Mrs. Findley of the Klamath Falls Packing Company, were here for dinner Saturday.
    And so was Robert Moore of Wellen and J. D. Patrick and a man and wife whose name I failed to secure were here for dinner Saturday.
    Rev. H. G. King, the Sunday school evangelist for the American Sunday school union, came in Saturday afternoon and announced that he would preach Sunday morning after Sunday school. There was a small congregation but he gave us a good talk and also held services again at night. Mrs. Nettie Grover and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Pruett, were in attendance in the morning. Mrs. Grover was our Sunday school superintendent for several years while she lived here.
    I see that I am going beyond my limits so will call a halt here by adding that [Harvey] Stanley is the proud father of a 9½-pound boy born Tuesday morning and James Owens, our county commissioner, was in town the same day and seemed to be very solicitous as to whether [Harvey] would survive the shock, but at last accounts both parents and grandparents are out of danger.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 16, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mr. T. Hamrick, formerly one of the pioneers in the neighborhood of Agate, but now in the Dead Indian Soda Springs country, was a passenger on the Eagle Point stage on his way up home Tuesday.
    C. B. Pearson of Trail, Wm. von der Hellen, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, and H. F. Hodson of a Portland firm selling road machinery, were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Pearson has charge of the construction work on the Crater Lake Highway between the new Rogue River bridge and Trail. They report that they are progressing finely with their work.
    Earl Tucker and Lester Bradshaw were also here for dinner Tuesday. They came down from their home in Brownsboro to shear a small bunch of sheep.
    Mrs. Cal Thompson of Medford came out to help do the work at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Mrs. Charles Edmondson and daughter, Mrs. R. R. Reter, of Butte Falls, who have been at the Sunnyside for a month or more, returned to their home on Wednesday and took Mrs. Baker's new baby with them, and I am glad to be able to say that the trip did not hurt the young mother.
    Among the callers Wednesday were Mr. Hayman, supt. on the J. H. Cooley orchard, and he reports that the late frost has greatly damaged the peach crop and the pear crop to a great extent, but the apple crop bids fair to be good. John Norris, supt. of the J. M. Wilfley orchard, reports that the pear crop is considerably damaged.
    Ernest Dahack, our town barber, in addition to fixing up his shop in fine style, has installed a complete water system, dug a well along the side of the irrigating ditch that runs through his place he recently purchased, and walled it up with cement so as to ensure pure water, put up a large tank with gasoline engine with pipe attachments so as to irrigate the land above the ditch. He has also arranged his bathtub so as to give hot and cold baths and has the arrangements made so that he can accommodate his customers to anything in that line.
    Mrs. L. M. Miller came in Wednesday morning from California with her two children on her way to visit her brother, Mr. Oliver, on Trail Creek, but found that the stage did not leave on that day so remained over until the next morning at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby also came in on the Eagle Point stage and went up home on the Prospect stage.
    Ray Moore and T. E. Cronin of Medford were also here Wednesday and so was H. V. Carter of the Beaver Portland Cement Co., Portland. There were also two men here for dinner Tuesday but as they were on a special deal desired to keep their names from the public for a while. Fred Neil of Ashland was also here selling stock in oil fields in Montana.
    Mrs. J. Montgomery, one of the pioneers of the valley, who has been visiting her daughter, returned to her home here Wednesday.
    Wm. Hurst of Andrews County, Montana, arrived here with his little boy Tuesday. He chartered a car and came through bringing his household goods, team, wagon, etc. His family are not expected for several days yet. Mrs. Hurst is a sister of the late Mrs. John Robinson, who passed away some months ago. They have moved into the Charley Painter house in the lower part of our town.
    Mrs. Ralph Stanley of Rancheria, Butte Falls, was a business caller Wednesday, and so was Mrs. M. L. Pruett, one of our prosperous farming women.
    Mrs. Robert Verbick, a daughter of Frank Lewis of this place, who has been living in Santa Barbara, Calif., during the winter, arrived at her parents' Wednesday.
    G. E. Merrill of Derby spent the night at the Sunnyside Wednesday on his way to Medford.
    Dick Vanderberg of Oregon City, spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Your Eagle Point correspondent spent Thursday in Central Point and Medford so is unable to tell much that was going on in our little town.
    Another one of our prominent citizens has left us. Mr. McAllister, he having bought a farm near Central Point, although he remarked that he greatly likes this place and if he had known [that] a tract of land joining his home here was for sale he would have bought it but he had already bought his farm before he learned about it being for sale. But we have simply made an exchange, for Mr. Denton of Ashland has bought the tract of land referred to and the McAllister house and I understand has moved into our town.
    Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, came out Friday morning and brought out Mrs. M. L. Heryford and her son W. H. Heryford of Butte Falls who are on their way to Santa Cruz, Calif. M. Heryford owns a fine stock ranch out a few miles from Butte Falls and they are going to Santa Cruz on business.
    Corbett Smith of Butte Falls came out Friday with a young black Percheron stallion to procure a license to stand him this season. Dr. Gitzen, a veterinary, was here to examine him so as to grant the license.
    Mr. Swink, one of the Butte Falls merchants, and a stranger came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on up to Butte Falls Friday, it being the first day the stage with the same driver has gone the round trip with a large car.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., and son Earl passed through here Friday with a corn sheller on the way home. Mr. Robinson has considerable corn and he intends to shell it and chop it up for chicken feed. He will use his tractor engine for the propelling power to shell and chop the grain.
    W. E. Hammel was here inspecting Mr. Smith's stallion.
    Fred Pettegrew was also here attending to business matters.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 18, 1921, page 7


ELK CREEK
    Mr. and Mrs. Van Heffner and family of the U.S. fisheries made a business trip to Medford Wednesday, returning home that evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson and daughter Olive spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher at Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess made a business trip to Medford last week. Mrs. Blaess, who has not been well, is feeling much better.
    Mrs. Frank Ditsworth has made several trips to the valley with loads of potatoes.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and small daughter spent Sunday week ago in Medford, visiting relatives.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and Fred Middlebusher made a business trip to Medford in the truck Tuesday.
    Mr. Floyd Hutchinson has been appointed apprentice fish culturist at the Puget Sound stations, Washington, but will be in charge of the Rogue River stations this summer.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clarey made a business trip to Ashland Friday, returning Sunday afternoon.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mr. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Mrs. Irwin Howe of Trail was brought home from Medford this week, where she has been under the doctor's care for the past few weeks. She is doing nicely now and it is hoped that in a short time she will be able to get around.
    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson and Mrs. Van Heffner visited with Mrs. George Weeks Tuesday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    When I had reached what I though was about a column space in the Mail Tribune I was just about ready to give an account of a fine entertainment that was given by Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen on Thursday, May 12th, to the members of the Civic Club of our town. Among those present were Royal G. Brown, J. F. Brown, W. H. Brown, S. B. Holmes, Clem MacDonald, R. A. MacDonald, Ralph Stanley, Roy Smith, T. E. Nichols, A. J. Florey, Lottie Van Scoy, Paul B. Rynning, R. A. Weidman, J. M. Nichol, Miss Ruth Young, Mrs. W. C. Clements and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen. After going through the regular routine of business receiving reports, etc., and discussing propositions for the future they decided that they would discontinue giving dances, at least until later in the season, as the parties who have the hall leased for the season asked such an enormous rent that they concluded not to pay it. After the business affairs were disposed of light refreshments were served and then the company was entertained by Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. R. A. Weidman by singing a duet and other songs. I see that Mrs. Gus Nichols' name is not on the list that was handed me and whether she was absent that time or it was an oversight on the part of the friends who gave me the list or not I am unable to say, but she is an active member of the club. The next meeting is to be at Mrs. J. Frank Brown's and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Weidman are to be the hostesses. These social gatherings are not only very pleasant but of vital interest to the welfare of the town.
    Among the callers not mentioned in my last letter was Verna Mathews, one of our rustling farmers, who was here getting a load of gravel to do some concrete work on his farm. Mr. Parr of Reese Creek was also a business caller, and so were Mr. and Mrs. J. Wattenburg, who are making a success of farming on the Joe Rader place on Antelope Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Henson and R. Willingale of Portland were here Thursday for dinner.
    Sam Church of Agate was also a caller Thursday.
    Mrs. A. J. Moen and son were here Friday evening and spent the night on her way to Hilt, Calif., to visit her mother and after spending a few days expects to start for her home in Iowa.
    Mrs. C. H. Wilkinson, who owns a fine farm out northeast of Medford on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road but lives the most of her time on their place at the Dead Indian Soda Springs with her husband and her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Camp, who is the wife of an electrical engineer in Montana, is here visiting her parents and passed through here last Saturday on their way up to the Dead Indian Soda Springs to visit her father, Charley Wilkinson.
    Two of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah were transacting business here last Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Semon were here for dinner Saturday. Mr. Semon is one of the contractors on the bridge work on the Crater Lake Highway. He is interested in the concrete plant in the north end of Medford and is furnishing the sand and crushed rock for the bridges across Antelope, Little Butte, Reese Creek and Hog Creek on said highway.
    C. A. Bosworth, press agent for Foley & Burk shows, was here for dinner Saturday and so was R. D. Henson, foreman for the Klum Adv. Co.
    Sunday morning I took passage on the stage and went to Medford to hear the renowned minister, Rev. E. J. Bulgin, preach and had the privilege of hearing him preach three of his wonderful sermons. It is useless for me to even try to tell what he said or how he says it for one must hear and see him to near fully understand, although he generally uses such plain language that the unlearned can fully understand him. And after hearing him three times am surprised that men of good sense would publish such letters as were published just before he came to Medford in the Mail Tribune, trying to influence people from going to hear him preach, but it shows the vindictive spirit of those who oppose everything that is good and is of the same stripe as those who are working to try to bring back the saloons into our country in which they are manifesting the same devilish spirit.
    Mrs. Tungate of Butte Falls came out Sunday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Thomason, who is helping in the Sunnyside Hotel.
    As I came out from Medford Monday morning on the Butte Falls stage Mr. John Cooper of Trail and B. H. Hayman were also passengers, Mr. Cooper going to Trail and Mr. Hayman to visit his parents who are on the J. H. Cooley orchard, his father being the foreman.
    J. P. Goin, our agate man, was a passenger going to Medford Monday morning. He took in two sacks and a box of agates to ship to parties north. He is making quite a business out of gathering and shipping agates. He returned that evening to his room but started for Newport to be at the bedside of his father who is quite low, the next day.
    Mrs. Glenn Kunkle, C. E. Bellows and wife and Mrs. Ed Cowden were among the business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mershons of Medford were in town soliciting business in their line. They are recently from Nevada and have opened business as manufacturers of choice candies. Mr. Mershons said they had crossed the country twice, coming via the southern route and returning via the northern route, and decided that Medford was the place for them to do business.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cingcade were among the business callers Monday.
    Ira Tungate and Oliver Adams of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Monday for Medford.
    Mr. Pollard Brays and Mr. Narregan and Kay Loosley were guests at the Sunnyside Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1921, page 6
ELK CREEK
    Several of Medford's leading merchants were at the U.S. fisheries on Rogue River Sunday working on their camp grounds which is on part of the station land. They nearly completed the fence around the camp and it is understood that two or three cabins will be started right away.
    Miss Eula Houston and Fred Middlebusher were married Friday evening, May 13, at the home of Rev. J. E. McDonald, who performed the ceremony. The wedding was a complete surprise to everyone. Although the couple were at a picnic which Mrs. Middlebusher gave to the school children, no one knew they were married.
    It began raining here Sunday evening and has been raining ever since. Monday it hailed quite hard several times, being hard on cabbage and tomato plants.
    Will McDonald is painting the Rogue Elk Hotel and making various improvements which certainly makes a different-looking place of the hotel and grounds. His brother, Fred McDonald, who ran the little store across from the hotel last year, is back and is enlarging his store.
    Dr. Van Scoy and son of Medford spent Sunday at their summer home just above the Rogue Elk Hotel.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Hutchinson and daughter Olive took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Van Heffner.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1921, page 2
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    On Thursday, the 12th inst., Mrs. Joe Merriman and Mrs. Perry Haley gave a card party at the home of the former. There was twenty-two present and after spending an hour or two in social games, light refreshments were served and the rest of the evening was spent in a social way, and my informant tells me that they had a very enjoyable time together.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Walker, two daughters, Misses Ida and Annabelle Walker and Miss Ida Matney were guests at the Sunnyside last Tuesday for dinner. Mr. Walker is an automobile dealer and garage man of Medford and was out with his family combining business with pleasure. He had been out to take his brother to his homestead on Clark Creek in the Derby section.
    Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was a business caller and also Charley Cingcade, who is stopping with his parents here in town, while his wife is in the hospital in Medford. She is troubled with a goiter and is in a serious condition.
    George Givan was also a business caller the same day, and so was Pearl Stowell, both living on Rogue River west of town.
    W. E. Hammel, wife and her father, Mr. Robert R. Minter, passed through town on Wednesday morning on their way to Medford.
    Robert McCabe and two of his neighbors drove in Wednesday and passed on toward the valley.
    J. R. Sisemore, J. Dixon and Roy Stanley called for dinner Wednesday. Messrs. Sisemore and Dixon are prominent stockmen of Fort Klamath and Roy Stanley is one of the leading stockmen in this section of the country.
    Mr. A. H. Daugherty, the traveling representative of the Roubhley [Houbigant?] medicines and extracts, was also here for dinner.
    Frank Simpson, one of the pioneers of the valley of Brownsboro, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Wm. K. Coleman and W. D. Steadman were here for dinner and were also here again Thursday. Mr. Coleman is special deputy game warden and Mr. Steadman is of the Roguelands Irrigation Co. Mr. J. W. Mitchell and Raymond Furry were with them on Thursday. Mr. Mitchell is of the Mitchell Ladder Co., who have the construction of the screens to be used in the irrigation ditches to prevent the fish from entering the ditches. Mr. Furry is of the Roguelands Irrigation Co. They were out on the irrigation ditches on Little Butte Creek.
    I see that in my last letter published in the Mail Tribune the printer made me say that Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stanley had been blessed by the arrival of a fine boy, when it should have been Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley, and when I saw the mistake I began to inquire if there was a Harry Stanley among the five brothers and felt greatly relieved when I learned that there was not, because I began to think that I might be met by some woman, who might demand an explanation.
    Speaking about babies I received word last night, Friday, that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harnish, formerly of this place, but now of Phoenix, were the proud parents of an 8-pound daughter, born May 17, 1921. Dr. W. W. P. Holt informed me also yesterday that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols were presented at noon the 20th inst., with a four and a half-pound girl.
    Thomas Carlton of Flounce Rock was a caller Thursday and so was Clifford Henson and Miss Eula Norris, daughter of Mr. John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard.
    Our school closed on Friday and for the closing exercise they had a picnic dinner and one of the little girls, in speaking of it, remarked that they did have a fine time indeed. The two teachers, Miss Josephine Riley and Miss Ruth Young, in leaving here leave a whole community, not only the children, but the parents as well, of warm friends who would be glad to welcome them here as teachers for the next year's school term.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek was among the few business callers Friday.
    There were two strangers here Friday for dinner, but requested to withhold their names from the public.
    William Perry and wife were here for dinner Friday and Mrs. Perry visited the most of the day, a very welcome guest.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the business manager and sales lady of the T. E. Nichols store, went to Medford Thursday to consult Dr. Holt, with regard to her case.
    J. M. Hayman and S. L. Conger were business callers Friday and Mr. Hayman, who has charge of the J. H. Cooley orchard, reports that the fruit crop will not be up to the average in the orchard on account of the late frost.
    Mrs. Ralph Stanley of Butte Falls and Mrs. C. W. Austin of Medford were passengers on the stage Friday on their way to Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Austin went up to their ranch beyond Butte Falls in their car, but the late rains made the roads so bad that he thought best for him to remain a little longer and have her go home and look after things there.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 24, 1921, page 7


ELK CREEK
    The ladies in the neighborhood spent Wednesday afternoon visiting with Mr. Floyd Hutchinson. The visit was planned to be a surprise and everyone enjoyed themselves. Those present were Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher of Trail, Mrs. Oscar Stewart, Mrs. Jess Clary, Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson, Mrs. Dave Pence and Mrs. Van Heffner of the immediate neighborhood and Mrs. Lizzie Nichols and Mrs. Gus Ditsworth from near Trail.
    Mr. Jess Clary and Mrs. Frank Clary went to Ashland Saturday. Mr. Clary returned Sunday, bringing his mother and Mae, Mable and Charlie Clary for the summer. Mrs. Frank Clarey will stay in town a while, as she takes poison oak so bad.
    There was a surprise shower on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher Saturday evening. Everyone present brought some gift suitable in starting housekeeping.
    Mr. Van Heffner took a load of household goods to Medford Tuesday to freight to Salmon, where the family will move shortly. Mr. Heffner is to have charge of building the hatchery there.
    Mr. Dick Vincin and crew are working on the road from Trail to the Elk Creek bridge.
    Dr. E. Kirchgessner visited the hatchery Saturday. While there he bought Mr. Heffner's Jersey milk cow.
    Mr. Roy Vaughn made a trip to the valley Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1921, page 7


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Saturday R. B. Price, one of the contractors on the unit of the Crater Lake Highway between Hog Creek and the new Rogue River bridge at the mouth of Indian Creek, and Mrs. McCarflin, the superintendent of the culinary department in the Rhodes and Price camp, passed through here on their way to Medford.
    W. H. Crandall, the hustling farmer and orchardist, also was a business caller, but as usual was in too much of a hurry to stop to talk.
    Mrs. William Hurst, the wife of the man referred to in one of my last letters as chartering a car in Missouri and bringing all of his household goods, stock, etc., and coming in with one of his boys, arrived here in their auto with another son and two daughters last Tuesday, the 19th, safe and sound. Mrs. Hurst is a sister of the late Mrs. John Robinson, who passed away about a year ago.
    Mrs. Tungate, Grandma Tungate, of Butte Falls, was here also visiting her daughter and sister, Mrs. F. J. Ayres, last Saturday.
    I understand that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson, who formerly owned the place now owned by Leroy Smith, passed through here on their way to Butte Falls to visit their son Carl and family.
    Wm. Wright, who is living on the Sam Coy place but has rented a small tract of land from the Thomas F. Nichols place up on Rogue River, for garden purposes, passed through town Saturday afternoon with his family on their way up there. He said that he was going up to look after his tomato plants as he was fearful of a frost that night. He expects to be able to partly supply the market with various varieties of vegetables this coming season.
    Warren Hill and Walter Allen of Derby called Saturday afternoon inquiring for a way to get to Medford.
    Misses Hazel Riley and Miss Vida Bradshaw came out from Medford on the stage Saturday afternoon and stopped at the Sunnyside and attended the dance that night.
    V. A. Stewart and wife, S. S. Mitchell, wife and daughter Charlotta May, A. W. Hubbs and wife, E. J. Feldman, Miss Marguerite Cooke, Dr. W. W. P. Holt, wife and her mother, Mrs. Purdy of Medford, were guests here Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Henry, Master Henry and Miss May Childs, who recently arrived from Chicago and have bought property in Medford, were out here Sunday, and so was Mrs. L. Cambers Fullis of Salt Lake, Utah, and her brother, Royal U. Cambers of Ashland. Mr. Cambers is one of the Forest Service men but is now on the retired list until June 1st, on account of he having an attack of pneumonia.
    Jack Vaughn of Peyton, came out from Central Point Sunday and spent the night, going up to Trail on the stage Monday morning to visit his brother, Nick Vaughn, who lives near Trail.
    Among the callers Monday were C. E. Bellows, wife and little daughter, E. V. Brittsan, Verna Mathews, Mrs. P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek (Trail), and Lewis Tonn of Lake Creek. Mr. Brittsan and his brother have leased what is known as the P. S. Anderson dairy ranch on Rogue River some six miles above here, and Mr. Brittsan reports that the last he heard of Mr. Anderson he was back in his old home in Norway visiting relatives and reviewing his boyhood days. Mrs. Sandoz had been out to Medford on business and came out on the stage and took passage on the Persist stage for home.
    Floyd Pearce, our deputy assessor, was finishing up his work as assessor Monday. It appears that there is a provision made so that the old Civil War veterans and the veterans' widows have an exemption in their taxes and he was straightening that out with the two old vets here, James Jordan and M. S. Wood, and Mrs. W. E. Watkins, the widow of the late John Watkins.
    R. D. Henson, of the Klum Adv. Co., and A. J. Baker of the Poster Adv. Co., New York City were out here Monday on business and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    N. E. Slusser, our old barber who sold out last fall to Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, and went to the southern part of California, returned to our town Tuesday to get some of his furniture. He and his wife have settled in Medford, but says that he has not fully decided whether he will remain there permanently or not, owing to a business deal he has on hand, although he says that he likes Jackson County, Oregon better than any other place he has been so far.
    Thos. Vestal, wife and baby girl were in town Monday and Mrs. Vestal called my attention very vigorously to the fact that I had made a grievous mistake when I published the birth and said that it was a boy when it is a girl. The next time I will try to be more careful and write it very plain, but printers sometimes make mistakes as well as reporters. Scott Boyer, a neighbor of Mr. Vestal, was with them. He has a homestead in the Reese Creek country also.
    Fred Dutton was also a business caller Monday and so was R. R. Pamp of Grants Pass, who came in Monday night to the Sunnyside and engaged a room for a few days. He is engaged in the agate business and is putting in his time hunting agates.
    A mining man who gave his name as R. Green of Grants Pass called for breakfast Monday and Tuesday mornings.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 26, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. H. Crandall and family passed through here Tuesday morning on their way to Medford. Mr. Crandall said that although he was very busy he thought he would just take a day off and go to Medford as he needed some more machinery, a disc harrow and some things for his haying tools, and so concluded to just take his family and make a day of it.
    E. D. Ross of Yankee Creek, Wellen post office, was in town having his team shod, getting ready for the harvest work.
    Charles Seefield and wife of Lake Creek were also among the business callers and so was J. K. Joy of Reese Creek, who came in with Rube Johnson and Alex Mathews.
    Raymond Daugherty and his sister, Miss E. Daugherty and Lawrence Hanson of Ashland passed through here Wednesday on their way to Big Butte for an outing. They said that they did not know just where they were going, they simply wanted to have a good time camping out, fishing, etc.
    Robert R. Minter, who owns a fine farm near the Reese Creek school house, and two of his daughters, Mrs. Sam Courtney and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, passed through here on their way to Central Point Wednesday morning.
    Speaking about Central Point, if the Medford merchants don't wake up and begin to cut on their prices the first thing they know they will find that there is a slacking up among their customers, for several out this way have already begun to go there to do their trading, although quite a number are still sticking to our old merchants here, and as they own their own buildings and have no rent to pay and no clerk hire to pay, they will of course put the prices of their goods so low that they will hold the most of their old customers.
    R. C. Weidman, one of our prominent orchardists and dairymen, went to Medford Wednesday to look after his interests in the fruitgrowers association.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Cole and two sons from Weed, Calif., passed through here to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Maxwell, near Brownsboro, five miles above here.
    Messrs. David and Frank Edgar of Portland were here for dinner.
    Herman Meyer of Lake Creek drove into town early Thursday morning and went right to Holmes and MacDonald's garage to have some repairing done on his auto.
    George Givan, one of our prominent stockmen and farmers, made a business call the same morning, as did Wm. Wright.
    Miss Belford, who has charge of the Stewart farm a short distance northeast of Eagle Point, came in to bring Mrs. Ed Cowden so that she and her two children could catch the stage for Butte Falls. After visiting her mother and sister in Butte Falls they returned Friday via the same route for home.
    Harvey Stanley, another one of our stockmen, was also procuring supplies from our merchants Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed E. Barnes, formerly of Burns, Oregon, but now of La Center, Washington, called for dinner Thursday on their way to Prospect. Mrs. Barnes was formerly Mrs. Joe Stickel of this place, a daughter of Mrs. Ann Thomas of Central Point. Mr. Barnes was one of the prosperous stockmen of Burns, but on account of the health of his family, sold out and bought property in Washington. They had been visiting Mrs. Barnes' mother for a week or more.
    Mrs. F. R. Wymore, whose husband is working in California, but has a homestead on McNeil Creek, was a passenger on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Thursday on her way up home. W. S. Clark and wife of Ashland were also passengers on the stage that morning.
    The Civic Club of Eagle Point held their regular meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. Frank Brown and they not only had a good attendance, but a very pleasant time. Those in attendance were Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. R. S. Brown, Mrs. Mattie Brown, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Wm. Hardenberg, Mrs. William von der Hellen, Mrs. Hammond, Miss Hammond, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mrs. McNicoll, Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. Roy Smith, Mrs. Roy Stanley, Mrs. B. F. Fuller, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mrs. Paul Rynning, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. Amy Brown and Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the two last named being hostesses. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. W. H. Brown and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. von Hardenberg will serve. They transacted but little business outside of the regular routine, unless it was that they decided to give another dance tonight, May 28, and try to raise funds to finish up the Union Hall that is now used as the town library. They also discussed the subject of lighting the streets, but as they had not heard from the company as to the cost, could not arrive at any conclusion.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Seaman, who were recently married, have moved into the P. H. Daily house. Mr. Seaman is one of the civil engineers working on the Crater Lake Highway in this neighborhood.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek was a visitor Thursday on his way to Medford.
    Mr. H. H. Noel, one of the auto dealers of Medford, was a dinner guest at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Mrs. Barbara Jones of Los Angeles is here visiting the family of J. L. Robinson, Sr.
    S. M. Baker and wife were trading here Friday.
    Mrs. M. L. Richardson of Butte Falls spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside and went up home on the stage Friday morning.
    Everett Abbott and Mrs. Mildred Smith of Butte Falls came out and took breakfast at the Sunnyside Thursday morning on their way to Medford. There was quite a number of the Butte Falls people came out Thursday morning to meet the state commission to see what they were going to do with regard to the railroad being used for the mail and for them to get their supplies out.
    Sam Charley and wife passed through here Thursday going to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1921, page 5


ROGUE ELK RESORT IS NOW OPEN
    W. G. McDonald, proprietor of Rogue Elk resort, was in Medford Wednesday. He says the resort is open for business and that tourists have begun to arrive. Mr. McDonald has repainted and repapered the resort, built sidewalks and otherwise improved the resort.
    Mr. McDonald has also made arrangements to build a lodge at Fish Lake on the south fork of the Umpqua and expects to begin work as soon as the snow will permit.
    To reach this resort the trip will be made by auto to Brown's cabin and thence by horseback 14 miles to Fish Lake.
    F. B. McDonald, who has the confectionery and campers' supply store at the resort, was also in Medford Wednesday. He has enlarged his store and stock of goods for this year.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 2, 1921, page 5


ELK CREEK
    Several of Medford's prominent business men and their families spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday camping near the U.S. fisheries on Rogue River.
    The new cabin Mr. Brayton is building on the camp ground is progressing rapidly.
    Miss Margaret Van Scoy is entertaining several girl friends at her summer home near the mouth of Elk Creek.
    Mr. Fred McDonald made a business trip to Medford Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 3, 1921, page 7


BOY SCOUTS ARE GRANTED CAMPING SITE, UNION CREEK
    Word has just been received from the forest department by Scoutmaster Millard that a camp ground site at Union Creek had been granted for the Boy Scouts of Southern Oregon. Mr. Millard, the local scoutmaster, and Mr. Rankin, representing the forest department will make a trip to Union Creek at once and select the site. The grounds will comprise quite a number of acres and will be beautified by the scouts this summer. The plan is to erect a log lodge with athletic field, swimming pool, rustic bridges, etc. It is hoped that in a few years this camp will be one of the main attractions for tourists on the road to Crater Lake. The work will be under direction of one of the forest rangers and Mr. Millard representing the Boy Scouts of the valley.
    The first camping trip of the summer for Boy Scouts will start June 12th and last one week. The trip will be made by auto truck under the personal supervision of Rev. Millard, scoutmaster of the Medford troop. The week will be spent on their new camp grounds at Union Creek. Much work will be done on the grounds this first trip and boys rendering the best service will receive a distinguished service medal. Besides interesting work of building rustic bridges, cook ovens, swimming pool, etc., there will be a number of side trips into the big woods and interesting points.
    Every Boy Scout in the valley who wishes to make the trip should be present Tuesday evening, June 7th at the Washington School grounds, where full details and expenses of the trip will be explained.
    This camp ground is not for Medford Boy Scouts alone but for Southern Oregon, and if there are Boy Scouts from the surrounding towns interested in these summer camping trips they should get in touch with D. E. Millard, 521 West Eleventh St., at once for full information.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 4, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside since I wrote last Saturday afternoon were Edward Cook, Oben Ray and John Rhodes of Klamath County. They called for supper, beds and breakfast Saturday evening. Mr. Ray was still on his crutches. His ailment was caused by being gassed while in France. He is a son of one of the leading stockmen of Klamath Marsh.
    Clarence Marine, recently of California, was a passenger on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and so was Mr. Charles Frey, who has a home on the Fish Lake road some eight miles this side of the lake by that name.
    Isaac Childreth, who has been working on the Crater Lake Highway and boarding at the Sunnyside, left Saturday for Ashland, his home, to join his father's family in Ashland, who were preparing to start for Oklahoma, their old home, to visit Mr. Henry Childreth's brother, who lives near Muskogee. His father, Mr. Henry Childreth, has been engaged as a blacksmith for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. for some years, and is taking his layoff and a trip to his old home. They expect to be gone some months.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of our leading merchants and one of the contractors for the grading of the unit from the new bridge on Rogue River to Trail, and also the contract for putting the crushed rock on the fourteen miles between the edge of the desert at David Cingcade place to Trail, returned from Portland the first of the week, where he had been to perfect his contract above stated.
    Wm. H. Brown and wife and Mr. R. W. Ferrill, with Fleischner, Meyer and company of Portland, were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday. Mr. Brown is of the firm of George Brown and Sons of this place.
    W. J. Carvin, formerly the engineer on the P.&E. railroad, came out to fix up the pump at the P.&E. depot so as to fill the 50,000-gallon tank on that line. It had been emptied last fall and left without any water in it and the result was it leaked considerable. He had quite a time getting the pump to work, as the gasket was badly worn, and standing all winter without being used it took some time to get it started again.
    Fred Pettegrew, who owns a farm out on the new Crater Lake Highway, was here for dinner Saturday. He seems to think that the new highway will be the proper thing for him, as it is so arranged that it will give him an outlet not only to Eagle Point, but to Butte Falls as well. R. A. Petty was also a business caller Saturday. He says that this rain that we had last Saturday night will be worth thousands of dollars to our valley. In talking with him the subject of wild oats and hay came up, and he said that he had left about fifty acres of ground to cut wild oat hay, but the bronco grass took it, so he plowed it up and thus killed off a terrible nuisance, but has his ground ready to sow this fall to wheat. Speaking of the bronco grass, it is getting such a hold on the land here that if there is not something done to check it, and get rid of it, it will soon destroy all of the alfalfa, but by cutting it before the seed is formed it may destroy it altogether, but after it becomes formed, there is nothing that will eat it.
    Carl Jackson and wife and Robert Coffin and wife passed through here in company of Carl's father and mother who have been visiting them in their home in Butte Falls, on their way to Medford. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson were formerly citizens of our town, but sold out, and have been spending the winter in Southern California, and were on their way up into Washington. Carl J. and family and Mr. Coffin and family spent the night at the Sunnyside and owing to the heavy rain Saturday night, the ladies and children started a little after five a.m. to their homes on the motor car, as it was making a special trip to bring out some of the relatives of the late C. Gray, who was killed in the jitney wreck near Grants Pass. Ira Tungate (a cousin of the young men) was one of the passengers out from Butte Falls and came here for breakfast. Carl Jackson and Mr. Coffin went up Sunday morning with their Ford.
    Among the diners Sunday, beside the regular boarders, some 25 road men, we had Mr. K. M. Rose of Ashland and Mrs. C. Haverkamp of Kansas City, Missouri.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Trefren, son and daughter, Mr. Ray Trefren and Miss Sadie Trefren of Ashland came in Sunday evening and spent the night.
    The young folk had a very interesting ball game here Sunday afternoon. There was no special object at stake, but some of our town boys and some of the young men who are here working on the Crater Lake Highway made up teams and spent the afternoon very pleasantly in that way.
    There was a large number of our citizens went from here to Medford Sunday morning to attend and take part in the memorial exercises, and the result was that our town was almost deserted.
    Henry Trusty of Elk Creek spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside and was also here again Monday. Mr. Armstrong and son, who bought the Charley Newstrom place in the Lake Creek country, were here for dinner Monday and so was George West and wife of Medford. They were on their way to the Brownsboro cemetery to decorate his brother's grave. George is in the Forest Service and said that Monday was the first Memorial Day that he has been situated so that he could observe the day for eight years.
    Mrs. Albert Clements of Prospect called a few moments Monday.
    Mrs. J. C. Murray and Mrs. Charles Delin and children, of Medford, were also visiting our town.
    Pete Betz and wife and her sister, Mrs. Chris Bergman, were also here Monday evening. They had been to Medford and were on their way home.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls spent Monday night at the Sunnyside.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby was in town Monday. He was bringing out a truckload of wood and taking back a load of household goods belonging to Thomas Cook and his mother.
    I have quite a number of items, but see that I am making my letter too long, so will stop for this time.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 6, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers last Wednesday not mentioned in my last was Mrs. J. Monia of Brownsboro, W. E. Webb, one of the Derby farmers, Charles Mathews recently of Montana, and James B. Hamrick of Central Point.
    C. A. Barton and H. L. Barton, state agents for the New World Life, who are canvassing this part of the country in behalf of that institution, were here for dinner Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and seemed to be meeting with considerable success in their line.
    H. H. Noel of Medford, a traveling salesman for the Buick auto, was also here for dinner the same day.
    Lee Whately of Prospect was also a business caller on his way home Thursday.
    F. J. Ayres and wife of Reese Creek were also transacting business here. While they have a farm on the Eagle Point-Derby road, they also own property in our town and were here looking after their first cutting of alfalfa.
    Mrs. Rose C. Schieffelin, who is working in the interest of the Red Cross Society, went up to Butte Falls on the stage on Red Cross business and brought out a woman and six children who seemed to be under her supervision.
    J. B. Cooper and Mr. Throsall of Trail came out on the stage from Trail Thursday and went on to Medford.
    John Wilkinson of Lane County, Ore., a nephew of our neighbor, S. H. Harnish, came in Thursday to pay him a short visit. Mr. Wilkinson formerly lived in Central Point but moved with his parents to a place about twelve miles south of Eugene City.
    Mrs. Simon, the wife of one of the old foremen on the Alta Vista orchard, and her mother, Mrs. Murton of Wellen, were transacting business here, also visiting some of their old neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Van Handenburg, now of this place.
    Since the school in Butte Falls has closed Mr. O. M. Goss and family have moved from there into the old George Wamsley house. They have been staying in Butte Falls in order to have their daughter, Miss Helen, attend the high school there as they did not fancy the idea of having her spend so much or her time on the road going and coming to and from the school in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Goss have a nice pear orchard in the outskirts of our town and contemplate building a home on it this summer.
    Thomas E. Nichols, one of the pioneers of the valley and one of our merchants, made a business trip up to John Allen's about the middle of the week.
    During the past week there have been quite a number of large trucks passed through here loaded with lumber and household goods, camping outfits, provisions, etc., on the way to Prospect, taking material that far, while the road from Prospect to Crater Lake is covered with snow, so that as soon as the snow is gone and the road to the lake can be traveled, they can rush it through to fix for the tourists.
    There have also been several truckloads of lumber and supplies of different kinds taken through here to the Tom Farlow place where the Fish Lake Ditch Company are putting up a large warehouse to store their supplies for future use while they are at work on the lakes, and the roads are so that they can haul over them. There have been quite a number of men with beds and bedding going up in that country, and every indication is that there will be quite a quantity of work done this summer and from appearances there will be considerable work done on the Pacific and Eastern railroad between now and next Christmas.
    Mrs. C. A. Springer of Central Point passed through here about the middle of the week on her way to visit her father, A. A. Hall, who lives near the free ferry on the west side of the river.
    Charles Kringer, who operates a sawmill on Long Branch near Trail, was a passenger on the stage, and so was Louis Sayes, also of Long Branch, who is in the grape business.
    Messrs. G. Corthell and H. H. Baker of Medford were passengers on the stage going up to the Luke Ryan place near the mouth of Big Butte Creek.
    Mrs. W. W. Willits was also a passenger on the stage from Medford on her way up to her home at Persist, she being the postmistress of that post office.
    Mrs. McKissick and her aunt, Miss Prillaman, and Mrs. S. A. Van Handenberg motored to Medford last Wednesday.
    Thomas B. Murray, recently from California, came in to visit his niece, Mrs. W. P. Morgan, and to attend the funeral services of his nephew, Benjamin Franklin Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan of this place, formerly of Trail.
    Mr. Murray reminded me of a ride we took together when I was on the Eugene City circuit and he was going to hear me preach the spring of 1862.
    N. Anderson and family of Butte Falls move out to Portland.
    Prof. J. R. Robinson and family, wife and daughter and two boys came out from Butte Falls where the professor was the principal and Mrs. Robinson had charge of the eighth grade department. They had trouble with their car and had to be hauled in. They spent the night at the Sunnyside but Thursday morning started again for Hermiston, Eastern Oregon, where they expect to teach the coming season.
    Tuesday Fred Neil and Harry Hosler of Ashland, Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath, Lloyd Stanley and Mr. Coy, brother of Mrs. H. E. Campbell, the Eagle Point banker's wife, took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Roy Wilson, recently from California but now of Medford, was a business caller Thursday, and so was Mrs. George B. Brown of Brownsboro. Mrs. Brown came in to do some trading.
    Scott Boyer and wife were also business callers. They, among other things, bought provisions and supplies of George Brown & Sons and barbed wire of Roy Ashpole, one of our popular hardware merchants. They have a homestead on Reese Creek and are preparing to fence it.
    Henry Meyer and wife of Lake Creek and his brother, Herman Meyer, Sr., were here in the morning transacting business but later went on to Medford. Henry says they go to Medford to get to ride over a smooth road.
    Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek was also a caller Friday.
    R. D. Hanson and his helper, Thos. Elliott of the Klum Adv. Co., were here for dinner Friday.
    Mrs. Buel Hildreth and Mrs. George Richardson and the two Carson girls of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage. Mrs. Hildreth went to the Sunnyside. On the same stage were David Edgar and son Frank Edgar, two timber cruisers, who have been cruising a timber belt beyond Butte Falls, spent the night, going on up to Lake Creek this Saturday morning. They are from Portland and in the employ of the U.S. government.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 9, 1921, page 6
ELK CREEK
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson visited friends in Trail Sunday afternoon.
    Mrs. Tumy of Medford visited the U.S. Fisheries Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clary and Charlie May, and Mabel Clary spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald made a business trip to Medford Monday. Mrs. McDonald will take in the Rose carnival at Portland.
    Mr. and Mrs. Van A. Heffner left Monday for their new home in Salmon, Idaho, where Mr. Heffner will put in new racks and superintend the building of a new hatchery building. Mr. Heffner was in charge of the Rogue River station for five years and made a splendid record.
    The racks at the Rogue River station washed out for the second time Monday, the river being so high it will be hard to repair the damage until the water goes down.
    Fred McDonald has been sick for the last few days but is feeling much better at this writing.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1921, page 9
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    In my wanderings around town last Wednesday afternoon, Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, called my attention to a book he held in his hand, and it proved to be a day book that was used in the old Butte Creek flouring mills forty-seven years ago when it belonged to the firm of Emery and Daley. It contained the names of a great many, in fact almost all of the old settlers in this and surrounding neighborhoods, for at that time it was about all the grist mill near here and the farmers would come in from Sams Valley and the country around where Medford and Central Point are now situated bringing in their wheat and exchange it for flour. At that time the rule was to have the miller take out one-eighth of the wheat for toll and the farmer would then take home with him, if he had good clean wheat, from thirty-eight to forty pounds of flour beside all the bran and shorts and the screenings. But it was but a short time before the millers adopted a different plan and instead of taking out one-eighth they would take all of the flour except thirty-five pounds and give the farmer a certain part of the mill feed they called it, that was the bran and shorts all run together, and finally they adopted the plan of taking all the wheat and giving the farmer thirty-five pounds of flour for a bushel of wheat. At the time referred to I have seen the road blocked with wagons and teams for an hour at a time, for people coming in from, say Sams Valley via the Bybee bridge, would often be at the mill by 4 o'clock in the morning in order to be unloaded and get back home so they could load up again that night.
    The reader will bear in mind that all of the wheat had to be run through a screen and a small one at that, and all of the cracked wheat and other seeds taken out before it was weighed, and it would sometimes take several hours to run a load of say a hundred bushels through the screen and consequently those living at a distance had to move early to get home the same day.
    Our election passed off very quietly as there were only about one hundred votes cast and the vote for the bonus carried 56 to 41, the legislation bill was defeated by 23 to 74. The Emergency Clause amendment lost by 41 to 52. Marriage license lost by 34 to 58 and the woman jury bill lost by 25 to 64. So the reader will see that a majority of the voters in this precinct seem to think that it is better to let the Portland clique, that seems to govern the legislature, fix up their little schemes, and some of them are not so very little and attack the emergency clause, and thus take it out of the hands of the people rather than give the governor power to veto that clause or part of the bill that they, the clique, was afraid to submit to a vote of the people.
    Fritz Pech and his mother, Mrs. Maggie Pech of Lake Creek, passed through here on their way to Medford, returning the next morning and going up home on the stage.
    B.W. Paul of the electric store, Medford, was out here Wednesday evening for supper. He was out trying to secure signers on a petition to have the county call another election to vote to raise $37,000 to build houses, etc., on the fair grounds, an additional expense to the taxpayers for the benefit of a few interested Medfordites. He met with little encouragement out here, for the country people are already tired of paying such heavy taxes.
    Rev. J. F. Brittsan requests me to say that he will preach here on Sunday, June 19, at the close of the Sunday school.
    W. M. Jenks, salesman for W. K. Tanland Co., was here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mr. Helms of Prospect came out early Thursday, bringing the mail from there, and went direct to the garage to have work done on his car. He brought out Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Price of Portland and they called a taxi from Medford to take them in to Medford.
    There seems to be a great deal of travel on the stages just now and many of them are strangers looking over the country.
    Mr. Heckner, the official squirrel poisoner, passed through here Thursday on his way to the hills with squirrel poison.
    Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers, came in Thursday and left his auto at the W. L. Childreth shop to have it overhauled.
    C. H. Pierce drove in in a one-horse buggy Thursday. He was trying to secure more members for the Farm Bureau.
    We had our full quota of civil engineers here for dinner Thursday; there was K. E. Hodgman, deputy state engineer, Herbert Nunn, C. C. Kelly and Will Jay and N. J. Drew, who said he was not a civil engineer, and R. W. Rea, a civil engineer for the Medford Ditch Co. And we had besides them James Owen and Victor Bursell, the county commissioners, and five strangers whose names I failed to secure.
    The L.C.C. of Eagle Point met Thursday at the home of Mrs. W. H. Brown on June 9th and there were about the usual number of ladies in attendance, although a few of those who have attended the previous meetings were absent. Mrs. W. H. Brown and Mrs. S. A. Van Hardenberg were the hostesses. The next meeting will on Thursday, June 23, at the home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett. As Mrs. Pruett lives some three miles out in the country, the arrangement was made for those who have cars to meet at the post office at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and take any who wished to attend the meeting out and back, a fine arrangement. Will tell later who will serve as hostess.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett and her daughter, Mrs. Thos. Stanley, were business callers.
    Mrs. Merritt and son were trading here Friday.
    Mrs. J. W. McKissick and her aunt, Miss Margaret Prillaman, and Mrs. S. A. Van Hardenberg and daughter motored to Medford Friday.
    R. C. Farrier and wife were here for dinner Friday and were met here by Mrs. Farrier's sister, Miss Martha Porter, who has been teaching the Derby school, and all went up to their home on the north fork of Little Butte, Lake Creek post office.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith, son and daughter of Portland were also here for dinner. They had been up to McLeod visiting friends.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1921, page 5
RED MEN HOLD A NOVEL CEREMONY NEAR BIG BUTTE
    A novel and enjoyable ceremony was held last Saturday night in a grove north of the city across from the Big Butte bridge by which Weatonka Tribe, No. 1, Improved Order of Red Men, of this city, conferred the adoption degree on a class of 25 palefaces. About 140 members were present, including Red Men from all parts of the Rogue River Valley and Northern California points. After the ceremonies the redskins feasted on mulligan stew prepared by P. C. Bigham.
    Weatonka's degree team, one of the best in the state, put on the work under the direction of Frank E. Martin, district deputy great sachem of the reservation of Oregon. The grove was illuminated by electric lights, and searchlights and other novel effects added to the attractiveness and weirdness of the scene. The committee in charge consisted of Victor Huston, Victor Danielson, Howard Raymond, Walter Steel and Ralph Watson.
    Weatonka Tribe owns its wigwam, which is all paid for, and has money on interest. The tribe is contemplating building an addition to its present home in the near future to make more room for the increase in membership.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. Alice Parr and wife of Reese Creek motored through our town last Friday.
    I omitted to state in my last that the stork had visited the home of William Holman of Lake Creek on the morning of the tenth of June, a general surprise to their many friends, not only here but also in the Lake Creek country. The parents are rejoicing over the fact that it is a fine healthy boy.
    Miss Winifred Haak and Miss Bertha Hayman, two of our promising young ladies, and Earl Tucker of Brownsboro were transacting business in our town Friday.
    L. K. Haak, one of our prominent farmers, dairymen and orchardists, was also here with a team. He had started for Medford, but after arriving here decided to postpone his trip until another day. Mrs. Haak, who has been back to their old home in Michigan, attending to business affairs and visiting relatives, is expected home today, Wednesday.
    J. L. Robinson, one of our hustling farmers, and one of his sons motored to Medford and brought a five-foot hay fork. They were just christening their new Ford.
    The two Corum girls from near Butte Falls spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
    George W. Stowell and J. W. Hovey were also business callers Saturday morning.
    F. J. Ayres of Reese Creek was in town Saturday and reports that his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Newport of the office force of the S.P.R.R., Portland, had arrived at the home of his brother in Illinois.
    Mrs. Martin Vanham, Mrs. Ed Morgan's mother, were here last week visiting her. They were on their way to Willow Springs, where Mr. Morgan has a contract to cut a large lot of wood.
    Miss Grace Lane and Mrs. Ruth Wallace of Butte Falls, who had been out to Jacksonville to take the teacher's examination, passed through here Saturday morning in the stage on their way home.
    John Blaess was a business caller Saturday, and so was A. C. Edler of Lake Creek and Frank Foster of Reese Creek.
    In my last I stated that the next meeting of the L.C.C. of Eagle Point was to be at the home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett and omitted to state who would be the hostess. It will be Mrs. Pruett herself, and they expect to have a good attendance and I will vouch for it that they will have a fine dinner.
    As I could find no way to be sure to go to the Sunday school meeting on Rogue River last Sunday, I decided to take the 7:15 stage and start for Ashland to hear Dr. Bulgin preach. So I started and soon after reaching Medford started on for Ashland in the regular Medford-Ashland auto stage, but when I reached there, learned that Dr. Bulgin was to preach in Talent that forenoon, so not to be disappointed altogether, went to the Congregational Church and heard the pastor, Rev. Judson Oldfield, preach. He preached a good logical sermon and had a good audience. I also attended the Sunday school before preaching and there was quite a number of people there, but many of them were old people and quite a number of girls, but very few boys, and but two young men. It is a sad fact that so few of the boys after they reach their "teens" attend church or Sunday school. After hearing two fine sermons by Dr. Bulgin and having a good night's rest at the Columbia Hotel I took passage for home, reaching there about 10 o'clock a.m., and there learned that Rev. M. C. Davis, formerly traveling evangelist for the Congregational Sunday school society, and family had come down from Wolf Creek to make us a visit and of course I was greatly disappointed because I did not meet him but he and his family had a good visit with the family.
    While I was riding along the roads going to and from Ashland, I was noticing the crops all along the route, and although I have been living in this valley for the last fifty years and have been familiar with the crop prospect I don't remember of ever seeing a better prospect for bountiful crops of everything unless it is in some of the early fruits, cherries, plums, peaches, etc., that the late frost killed. When I met the auto stage and its trailer from Eagle Point, I found that there was quite a number of passengers and among them was Miss Bellfield and Mrs. Ed Cowden, Ed Spencer, A. M. Gay, beside quite a number of strangers, and going back there were seven passengers in the car beside some on the trailer, and among the passengers was Mr. Barry, who has a homestead about three miles beyond Brownsboro and Mrs. McDonald of the [Rogue] Elks resort near the mouth of Elk Creek, and she informed me that Dr. Bulgin had promised to come up and visit the resort and arrange to preach for them while there, and she expects to have a large crowd there that day.
    Mrs. McDonald has just returned from Portland, where she has been visiting friends and also witnessing the Rose Festival, and while she was there she had the experience of riding in an aeroplane. Asked how she enjoyed the ride, she said that the experience was wonderful, said that she went so high that everything on the earth looked like little specks, that she greatly enjoyed the entire trip. She went on up home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan went over to Central Point to visit her mother Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 17, 1921, page 9


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers not mentioned in my last was E. V. Brittsan and Mrs. Guy Pruett.
    Mrs. Gus Nichols motored to Medford to meet her daughter and grandchild, who came up from California.
    G. W. Garrett and his brother W. O. Garrett of Brownsboro were visitors to our town. They have leased the Charley Terrill farm a short distance above Brownsboro and were here having some blacksmithing done. Frank Caster of Reese Creek was also patronizing our blacksmith the same day.
    W. H. Buskirk of Portland came in and spent the night and a part of the next day. He is an old Civil War veteran and is very much interested in the agate industry, and while his home is in Portland he spends his winter in the soldier's home near Los Angeles and in making his regular trips each fall and spring generally spends a few days at the Sunnyside Hotel and while here spends his time gathering agates, but this time he said that there was so much green vegetation that it was difficult to find them. He does not seem to care for the commercial value of them, but has them cut and mounted for the satisfaction of looking at them and occasionally gives them away to his friends.
    W. W. Haas of Oakland, Calif., was also a guest at the Sunnyside Hotel during the week.
    Robert B. Warner, one of the clerks in the Ashland post office, and W. E. Bolton, also of Ashland, were here for dinner.
    Miss Inez Willits of Persist and her little niece, Miss Dorothy Willits, daughter of the late Roy Willits, came out Thursday morning on the Eagle Point-Persist stage and went on to Medford on the Eagle Point-Medford stage.
    Jeff Conover, A. M. Gay and Ed Spencer started Thursday afternoon to the headwaters of the South Umpqua River to develop a sulfur mine that has been discovered and only partially developed. Their plan is to open it up so that they can show what they have and by that means induce capitalists to invest money and thus bring it to the market. It is located about eight miles from any wagon road, but if the sulfur proves as good as the samples they have brought out it will probably mean something to Southern Oregon.
    F. L. Landes, representing the meat house, Seattle, Wash., and A. M. Wiswell, representing Security Remedy Co., Minnesota, were here for dinner Thursday.
    Two men came in Thursday evening for the night. They had their hay baling machine along, and were on their way to Green Mathews'. As I was on the sick list Thursday and Friday and was confined to the house, I did not gather very many Eaglets during the two days.
    O. O. Wingfield of Hilt, Calif., came in and spent the day with friends in town.
    Mrs. Denton, one of our newly made citizens from town, motored to Medford about the middle of the week.
    Mr. E. H. Hurd and Mr. G. W. Launspach, representing the farm loan, were here for dinner Thursday. They came out to set an appraisement on some land in this neighborhood.
    A man who is hauling wood for R. B. Pierce, who had the contract with Frank Rhodes to clear the right-of-way and do the grading on the unit between Hog Creek and where the new bridge will span Rogue River, has been hauling in a lot of wood for some of our citizens and taking his dinner at the Sunnyside.
    A. G. Spence of Brownsboro was a business caller. He reports that they had a terrific hail and rain storm at his place about the middle of the week.
    Charles Gillette of Ashland and Mr. Phearson, the former who has charge of the rock work for Wm. von der Hellen, the contractor for placing the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway between the David Cingcade place on Antelope Creek and Trail. Mr. von der Hellen is now fixing up his camp on Butte Creek where he is putting up a rock crusher and preparing to bring the electricity from the main line on the west side of Rogue River. He is rushing his work and expects to have the crusher in operation in a short time. He will use the stones out of the bed of the creek and by the time they are crushed, [they] will be fine material to make a good solid roadbed. G. Mitchell, the man who has had charge of the horses on the unit between the Rogue River bridge and Trail for Wm. von der Hellen, brought out the last of the horses that they have been using on the work and turned them over to the owner, Charley Delin.
    The reader will excuse a little brevity in my letter today, as I am getting tired and will stop for this time.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 20, 1921, page 5
ELK CREEK
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and family.
    Mr. and Mrs. Emerson McDonald and family are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Will McDonald at the Rogue Elk Hotel. Their mother, who has been poorly for a long time, is much worse.
    Mrs. W. G. Hale, and daughter Ruth of Ashland, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Clary, who have lately purchased a ranch on Vine Maple Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Clary and son Ralph and Mrs. W. G. Hale and daughter Ruth visited with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson Sunday.
    There was a school meeting at the Rogue River school Monday afternoon. Will McDonald was re-elected on the school board; Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson is chairman of the board this year, the third member being Oscar Stewart. Those present were Messrs. Will, Norman, Emerson and Fred McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and F. L. Hutchinson.
    Dr. Van Scoyoc and daughter Margaret spent Sunday at their summer home on Elk Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 22, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. C. Brooks and wife, a piano tuner of Medford, were here for dinner last Friday. Mr. Brooks is connected with the Palmer Piano House of Medford. He came out to do some work in his line for parties in Eagle Point.
    J. Heckner, the official who is trying to rid the country of the digger squirrel, is making his regular trips through our town and seems to be accomplishing his purpose, for our farmers don't seem to be troubled with them as in the past.
    F. J. Ayres of Reese Creek and Carl Stanley were among the business callers last Saturday. Mr. Stanley, who has been troubled with his tonsils for some time past, had just had them removed and consequently could not eat with any satisfaction.
    Mr. Cummings, the water boss of Jackson County, and Bernard Roberts of Medford were here for dinner Saturday.
    Mrs. Merrit of Reese Creek and J. W. Maxwell, now of Brownsboro but formerly of Reese Creek, were doing their week's trading here Saturday and Alex Vestal and T. F. McCabe, one of our substantial farmers and orchardists who lives near the mouth of Reese Creek, and Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of Rogue River Valley, who owns a farm on Rogue River near Debenger Gap, was also among the business callers Saturday. Asked if he came in with his son-in-law, J. H. French, he said, "No, I came in with the old gray mare, and when I start with her I know that I will get there without any blowouts or punctures." Mr. Foster has a daughter in Philadelphia, Pa., who takes the Medford Mail Tribune just to hear from her old Oregon home.
    W. H. Isbell was in town also Saturday and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside. Mr. Isbell has charge of the Wm. von der Hellen ranch on Reese Creek and has his goats on shares, says that he has quite a lot of mohair on hand but there seems to be no market for mohair or wool either.
    George Singwald of Oakland, Calif., and wife nee Hattie Cingcade, one of our townsmen, David Cingcade arrived here by private car last week to visit Mrs. Cingcade's parents, brothers Thomas and Charles Cingcade and a number of her old friends who are still here. Mr. Singwald is engaged in the art picture business making the plates used in printing the pictures in newspapers, books, etc. He has a shop of his own and keeps eight men employed all the time and then can hardly keep up with the demand. They remained until Tuesday morning.
    Carl Bergman of the upper Rogue River country and Leonard and Carl Mitchell of the Meadows called for supper Saturday night.
    Mrs. Hildred Smith of Butte Falls and Everett Abbott, also of Butte Falls, came in Saturday evening and remained until Sunday afternoon.
    Sunday morning was one of those lively mornings such as we have nowhere else except in Southern Oregon, and the result was that the road was kept dusty by the various vehicles from a one-horse buggy to a large passenger truck filled with people going in quest of pleasure, and a few of them stopped at the Sunnyside for lunch, among whom were Joe Moomaw and wife, Perry Haley and wife, Miss Fern Lewis and her sister, Mrs. Chauncey Florey and daughter Miss Dorothy recently from Santa Barbara, Calif., Mrs. F. D. Wagner and Mrs. Wagner's mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Day of Ashland. Also a little later David and son, Lola Coney, Irwin Porter, Jewel Morris, Ed Coney, Pauline Clift, all of Ashland.
    H. G. Wanner of LaSalle, Ill., came in and called for a room for a few days. He is another of those traveling men who enjoy spending their time and money traveling over the country gathering agates, specimens of the different kinds of wood, etc. He stopped until Monday afternoon and started for other fields as there is too much vegetation on the ground to make a success of gathering agates at this time of the year, although he found quite a number of very fine agates while here.
    C. A. Doolittle and wife of Cottage Grove came in Sunday night. He had come in from Crater Lake that day, meeting his wife at Prospect. He had been working out on the Crater Lake road and had come in to spend a short time in Medford when he expected to return and work during the summer. He reported the snow at White Horse to be four feet deep and between there and the lake in some places as much as twenty feet deep, that the crust was so hard that the horses walked right on top of the snow, but that they were using powder and loosening it up so as to push it out of the road. He and his wife have a large roomy car and carry their household effects right along with them. They expect to camp and care for themselves while he works on the government works.
    In looking around for items of news since I have recovered from my little sick spell I notice that our energetic barber, Ernest Dahack, has not only fenced in the long narrow strip of ground he recently purchased along the bank of the creek, but has his 1650-gal. tank up and properly piped so as to supply his shop and bathtub with an abundant supply of pure water but has also extended the pipe on to his house some hundred yards below the wagon bridge and has one of the finest gardens in the entire community. He also is putting up an addition to his dwelling house and has it ready for the roof and in addition to all this, for he does the work himself, he is attending to his barbering business and seems to be doing quite a business in that line. He is surely a human live wire.
    I am sending the following clipping from the Medford Sun of Sunday the 19th:
    "A quiet wedding took place at the Episcopal rectory on Thursday afternoon, the 17th. Earl E. Tucker and Miss Winifred Haak were married by the Rev. Wm. B. Hamilton, vicar of St. Mark's church. A few relatives were present to witness the happy event. The bride and groom departed immediately upon their honeymoon."
    The groom is one of the prosperous, energetic young farmers and stockmen of Brownsboro and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak, one of our well-to-do farmers and orchardists and dairymen. Mrs. Haak had just returned from an extended visit to Michigan where she has been visiting relatives and friends and probably looking after business interests. The many friends of the young bride and groom are wishing them a long and happy voyage through life and a reunion where the wicked will cease to trouble and the weary will be at rest.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 23, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    In my last I omitted to mention the fact that there was a general meeting of the members of the Farm Bureau throughout the county and that there was quite a delegation went from this section of the country. Among those whose names I have secured as members who attended the meeting were J. H. French, Roy Stanley, John and Carl Brittsan, George W. Stowell, R. A. Weidman, Gene Bellows, all of the Eagle Point vicinity, and Carl Stanley of Lake Creek. There are others who have been holding membership in the Farm Bureau in the community whose names are not on the list and were probabley detained from attending. In addition to the list here presented there were also the wives and daughters of those mentioned in the list who were also in attendance, for there are several lady members who take a great deal of interest in the workings of the institution.
    John L. Robinson Jr., and Mr. Muskopf, formerly of the power plant near Prospect, but having purchased what is known as the Grover place in the lower part of our town, have been working on the flume that is used to carry water across the creek to irrigate the land on the south side of the creek, have it completed at last and now they have a bountiful supply of that much-needed element.
    At the annual school meeting held here the first of the week Floyd Pearce was elected to fill out the unexpired term of Wm. von der Hellen as a director, and Mrs. T. E. Nichols was elected for the three-year term and Mrs. Clem McDonald was re-elected as clerk.
    Marsh Garrett was among the business callers during the week.
    I understand that the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tucker of Brownsboro gave them an old-fashioned charivari after they returned from their trip to Hornbrook.
    I understand that Mrs. J. Montgomery of this place, one of the pioneer women of the valley, went to Jacksonville to attend the funeral of the late Oliver Harbaugh.
    Lyle Carlton and two of his nieces, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carlton of Wellen, motored to our town Wednesday.
    W. J. Caraway, an auto salesman, and J. F. Hittson, a dealer in autos, were here for dinner Wednesday.
    The Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point was entertained at the beautiful home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett, assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Mabel Stanley, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Guy Pruett, nee Verta Grover. There were twenty-six of the members in attendance.
    The arrangement had been previously made to have those who had cars and could meet at the post office and take any who wished to attend and the result was there were quite a number took advantage of the offer and participated in the pleasure of the occasion.
    After spending an hour or two in a social way the president of the club, Mrs. Mattie Brown, called the meeting. A motion was made and carried to have a big picnic dinner in the Eagle Point park on July 15th, 1921, for the entertainment of the Scenic Society of Jackson County, who will hold their monthly meeting here on that day, and a general invitation is extended to the public to come and bring well-filled baskets.
    After the business meeting was over a bountiful lunch was served, and it is not necessary for me to even hint that the lunch was up to date, for everyone who knows Mrs. Pruett and her daughters are ready to agree with me that it was first class. I heard one of the ladies who has attended about all of the meetings of the club remark that it was decidedly the best one they have had.
    The entertainment was out on Mrs. Pruett's beautiful lawn where the guests could have a fine view of the surrounding country as well as the fine farms lying out in view.
    Geo. Albert, who lives at the Dupray mill and supplies the people of this section with lumber, was a business caller Thursday.
    Timmie Duggan, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, who owns a fine farm a short distance southwest of our town, was here Wednesday on business. Speaking of people coming to town from the country, nowadays it is a very rare thing to see a farmer of any note on the streets now for the crops are so good that it takes the most of them about all of their time to look after affairs at home. Occasionally a farmer will come in to have some repair work done and while our blacksmith is doing his job will attend to other business matters unless it will detain him too long and if it does [line of type cut off] door and he will come in after supper and get it, so off he rushes home to do something else. I tell you we are living in a fast age.
    George A. Hyde of Grants Pass and F. L. Bailey of Portland, one of the pioneer timber cruisers, and Ernest Carpenter of Medford called for dinner Thursday.
    Walter Marshall and family of Brownsboro were trading with our merchants Thursday.
    Jas. Millard, one of the speed cops, and Sheriff Charley Terrill were out here for dinner Friday and were accompanied by J. R. O'Donovan. They seemed to be on the track of a Portland joyrider who had butted into a car in Ashland, backed off and skipped out without reporting. I understand they found the car number at the Eagle Point garage.
    Mr. and Mrs. James T. Chinnock and G. P. Alloway and daughter, Miss Norma Chinnock of Grants Pass, called for dinner the same day. They were on their way to Prospect for an outing.
    Miss Mildred Patton, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Central Point, came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday and went out to her home.
    Married, at the home of the bride's brother-in-law, Joe Maxfield, by Rev. A. C. Howlett, June 24th, Mr. James A. Coe of Klamath Falls and Miss Florence Milligan of Medford.   
Medford Mail Tribune, June 29, 1921, page 9
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    M. S. Woods, one of the old pioneers of the valley, as well as one of the veterans of the Civil War, who owns his beautiful home in the lower part of our town, and is rejoicing to think that he owns what he has and "owes no man," is re-roofing a part of his house, and having the rest of the roof scraped clean and repainted. He says that from now on he and his aged companions intend to enjoy life, and their many friends here are wishing that their last days may be their best and happiest.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who was with her husband at the Dead Indian Soda Springs (he has to live there on account of his health as he cannot live in a low altitude) passed through here last Friday morning on her way home. She owns a fine farm on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road and her son is tending it; she had been out visiting him and looking after business interests.
    Charles Dahack and wife of San Francisco, Calif., were here visiting his cousin, Ernest Dahack, and other relatives Saturday of last week.
    Mrs. Frank Neil passed through here Saturday morning on her way to her home near Derby.
    L. A. Richter of Richter, Montana, called at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday.
    Mr. Ireland of Portland called and engaged a room the last of the week. He has come down to install a large rock crusher for Wm. von der Hellen, the contractor who has the job of putting the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway between the D. Cingcade place and Trail. He is having a crusher installed and the electricity brought from the main line on the west side of Rogue River, has his camp fixed up and is getting ready to rush business as soon as the crusher can be started.
    Charles Boussum, who is running the tractor on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, and John Norris, the foreman on the orchard, were each doing business here Saturday afternoon.
    Miss Effie Whaley of Butte Falls, who is working in Medford, came out Saturday to visit her sister, Miss Rosa, who is an assistant at the Sunnyside, and to attend the dance here Saturday night.
    E. H. Hurd, one of the Medford attorneys, and Mr. J. N. Carlton of Medford called for supper Saturday evening. They had been out appraising land in the interest of Rogue River Farm Bank Association. Mr. Hurd says that since the Supreme Court has wiped away the obstacles, they are doing a good business.
    Mr. Heirg reports that Bert Higinbotham has sold his Evergreen ranch on the Crater Lake Highway, just this side of Flounce Rock, to H. C. Head, Carl Beebe and W. J. Atkins, consideration, $11,000.
    Dr. R. W. Stearns and wife of Medford were also here for supper Saturday evening on their way to Prospect for an outing and so was Homer Randall of Trail.
    I see by the handbills around our town that the people of Butte Falls are planning on having a grand celebration there the coming July 4th.
    Last Sunday morning our banker and wife, H. E. Campbell, Gus Nichols and family and Frank Brown and wife started on a trip to Prospect and further on as the case might be. Frank reports that he and Gus went about to the summit, but encountered deep snow at Whitehorse, although the road had been blown open with powder, and part of the snow removed, said that they could step from the car onto snow from four to ten feet deep. He went until he found a place where he could turn around with his car. He reports that the men are getting along finely rocking the road and that they intend to move the crusher farther up the hill so they can have a downhill pull with the crushed rock.
    Among the callers Sunday for dinner were S. R. Derby, wife and three small children, Barney Coleman, Charles Hash, Hazel Ward and Gladys Farron, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hayes. Mr. Hayes and wife have had the Fred Pelouze dairy ranch leased and have been carrying on the dairy business since last winter, but have sold out their lease and their own dairy stock to Mr. Charles Hash and are moving to Medford. They have a small farm of their own, but have it rented out until next fall, so are going to Medford for the present.
    Later in the day, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Barnum, Clyde Barnum, Mrs. E. N. Warner, Ruth Warner, Esther Warner, Edward Warner, and B. Barnum called for supper and after eating and apparently enjoying a hearty meal remained and spent the evening having a good social time, playing the organ and phonograph. There was a large number of selections to choose from and the little boy entertained the entire company for quite a while, but finally Miss Ruth Warner was asked to go to the organ and she favored us with quite a number of selections, accompanying the organ with some fine singing, and one thing I noticed with regard to her singing was that I could understand the words as well as the music, something very rare in modern times.
    D. W. Hutches and two of his nephews, John and Harold Hutches, also called for supper. Everett Abbott and Mrs. Hildred Smith, Thomas F. Nichols were also guests at the Sunnyside Sunday.
    Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Smith are working on the John Rader ranch and came over Saturday evening to attend the dance and remained until Sunday evening, when they were called for by Harvey Stanley and taken to their destination.
    Our count court, Judge Gardner, James Owens and Victor Bursell, accompanied by Mr. Hamilton, the general road superintendent, passed through our town on their way to Butte Falls, looking over the road and planning for the summer work on that section.
    They have moved the rock crusher that was used last summer on Rogue River to crush rock to use on the Reese Creek school house Derby unit, over onto the Commercial Orchard to rock the unit known as the Jim Owen road that was not completed last fall, and are planning to use shale on the Reese Creek-Derby road. They also decided to open up an old street, running from the old wagon bridge to intersect the Crater Lake Highway, near the new bridge.
    Ed W. Frey and family of Lake Creek passed through here on their way to Medford Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 1, 1921, page 5 
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    H. L. Cox and wife of the California-Oregon Power Company were here for dinner on their way to the Butte Falls country for a few days' outing, and Fred Cummings, the superintendent of the water system, was here for dinner Tuesday.
    In writing an account of what a fine time the lady members on the Civic Improvement Club had while they had their meeting at the home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett, there was one very interesting feature that was omitted by the lady friend who handed me the report that I happened to pick up later and that was that Mrs. R. A. Weidman, one of the active and influential members had her camera along and took pictures of the members as they were collected in different groups, and some of the photos are very fine and show up several of the beauty spots of Mrs. Pruett's lawn and surroundings.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt, formerly of this place but now of Medford, passed through here Tuesday with Mrs. Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro, taking her into Medford to be placed in the hospital for treatment. There seemed to be no very serious trouble but a find of general breaking down caused by too close confinement and overwork.
    Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown have taken a trip down to San Jose to visit their daughter, Miss Hazel, who is engaged in business in that city.
    Mrs. Anna Brophy and her sister, Mrs. Olie McPherson, went to Portland Tuesday night on the train but expect to return with a car over the Pacific Highway.
    Messrs. Adamson and Chappell, who own and operate a sawmill near the town of Trail, came out Tuesday and brought out two small lots of lumber, one for W. L. Childreth and the other for Geo. Brown & Sons. They report that they are getting along quite well with their work, although they have had to work to disadvantage on account of having to hurry up orders for the Rogue River bridge as soon as they got their mill started before they could have tracks and runways fixed, but now they are putting them in and expect to do a good business yet this summer and fall.
    J. W. Learned of the Oregon Life Insurance Company was here for dinner and so were George Givan, his son Charles, who live on their farm on Rogue River about three miles west of our town and W. A. Crane of Applegate, who were out canvassing the country in the interest of the Farm Bureau Exchange. Mr. Crane returned and spent Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Sunnyside. It appears that there is an arrangement made between the members of the Farm Bureau to have one man who is authorized to solicit names and issue certificates of membership to canvass a certain section of the county and someone who is acquainted with the country and people volunteers to take him around, one each day. Thursday he was taken around by Lloyd French. Mr. Crane reports that he was having good success except when he got into the German settlement up in the Lake Creek country.
    Carlyle Natwick, one of the subcontractors on the unit between Hog Creek and the new Rogue River bridge, was here Tuesday for dinner. Carlyle Natwick and Loris Martin have taken a contract from the original contractors, Messrs. Rhodes and Price, to do a certain job on the Crater Lake Highway and are working like beavers to get it completed.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro and Mrs. Harvey Stanley and Miss Meda Marshall, a sister of Mr. Marshall, were transacting business here Tuesday.
    J. W. Berrian of Medford, who has charge of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, passed through here Tuesday on his way home Tuesday evening. He says that the fish are doing fine in the hatchery this season.
    Mr. Millard, the speed cop, was out here hunting up delinquents. He found a car here on the street without a license tag and watched around until he found the owner, Dennie Zimmerlee of Trail, but when he came to question him it appeared that he had applied but there was a mistake made in the number of the car so he was all right. He went to see another man who had a California license but he had his car in the garage and was trying to get his license so accomplished nothing in that line.
    W. H. Brown and wife of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons, and two traveling salesmen, were here for dinner Thursday, and so was J. M. Leonard of the Oregon Life Insurance Company.
    Among the business callers was Bert Clarno of Eagle Point, J. W. Barry of Brownsboro, John Welch of Lake Creek, John Greb, Jr., for intelligence from his sister who was in the hospital, I learned after they went to Medford.
    W. G. Averill and his little niece, both of Medford, came out and spent Thursday night on their way up to his ranch on the P.&E.R.R. five miles this side of Butte Falls. He was taking the little girl up to try to get some color in her face by breathing the pure mountain air and drinking good pure mountain water.
    Prof. H. H. Lowe and wife passed through here Thursday on their way to Butte Falls. Prof. Lowe is to be the principal of the Butte Falls high school the coming season and he seems to be greatly encouraged over the prospect, for he with others shares the opinion that Butte Falls will wake up and that they will have a flourishing business center there yet.
    A. M. Gay and Jeff Conover were here Thursday and report that they found so much snow at their sulfur mine that they could not work to advantage but they brought out some specimens of rock that looks good. They claim that they have powdered up some of it and found gold, silver, copper and another mineral that they could not name.
    W. E. Hammel of Reese Creek was also in town Friday and reports there will be another bond election held July 9th at the Reese Creek school house by the Eagle Point Irrigation District for the purpose of voting more bonds as they have added as much more land to the district as there was originally. A full attendance is expected.
    Cliff Hickson and wife were here on business Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Chris Natwick with their two granddaughters passed through town Friday on their way up to where their son Carlyle is working on his contract.
    R. D. Henson and W. R. Smith, foreman and helper of the Klum Adv. Co., were out Friday putting up new advertisements. They took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    H. F. Buchter, C. S. Cole, J. H. Jones and Wm. Stinson, who are in the employ of the California-Oregon Power Company, were here Thursday and Friday morning moving some of the light poles out of the middle of the street the county court is opening and having graded.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 5, 1921, page 3
TRAIL CITIZENS REQUEST RELIEF FROM COUNTY C'T.
    A delegation of upper Trail citizens headed by Tom Gaines appeared before the county court this morning and beseeched that body to repair the road in that section before the winter rains set in. They recounted the condition of the road last winter, when the mud was saddle blanket deep on a horse; the havoc that had been wrought upon it by the passage of herds of cows and sheep, and its general chuckholed condition. The county court decided that it would order the road supervisor of the district to take steps to have it put in shape before fall. The upper Trail people claim it is impossible to do any hauling on the road, and need it to keep from being "holed in." Over 100 taxpayers are affected.
    C. Carr, V. W. Birdseye, Mrs. William Carle and Ernest Roland, residents of Josephine County living near the Jackson County line, filed affidavits with the county, seeking to be reimbursed for loss of cows and sheep said to have died from devouring the wrappings of stump powder used in constructing the county road in Road District No. 6, in the Foots Creek country. They charged in their affidavits that road foreman Van Houten left the wrappings lying around carelessly where the stock could get hold of it.
    One of the petitioners suggested "that Van Houten pay for the losses, as he did not like to see the taxpayers hooped." The court told the petitioners to present their claim to the county clerk for further action.
    The county court transacted routine business, and signed bills for the month, including one for the Standard Oil that was audited by expert accountant E. M. Wilson, and has been hanging fire for some time.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 6, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Friday afternoon I took a trip to Medford and was greatly surprised to see how bright a prospect we have for an abundant harvest of not only grain but everything else the farmer produces, especially the wheat and hay crops. Of course I could not tell so much about the fruit, for in a car going at the rate of 25 miles an hour I could not distinguish between leaves and fruit, but from all reports the fruit crop will be up to date. Well, after making a few purchases I naturally turned my course to pay my compliments to the Mail Tribune office and had just got inside the door when who should I meet but that rip-roaring Smudge Pot man, Mr. Perry, and by way of introduction he bawled out: "Well, they have your picture in the Tribune this afternoon." At first I was so surprised that I hardly knew what to say, but finally suggested that the farmers could use it to frighten the digger squirrels away. But that will obviate the necessity of my having a lot of photos struck off, for since it has become known that I am the oldest acting correspondent in the state I have had several requests for "brief mentions of my career as a correspondent during the past sixty-two years," and in a few cases requests have been made for my picture.
    Ed Cowden and family came in early to take passage on the stage for Butte Falls, although Ed didn't go until later, but his wife and children went. In fact there was quite a stir in our little town Saturday as there were quite a number of people here getting things ready to start Sunday morning for a two or three days' outing in the hills, and Sunday morning the road through town was thronged with cars headed for different pleasure resorts, but the most of them seemed bound for Butte Falls as they advertised extensively that there would be a grand celebration there on the Fourth and have everything in the way of sport that heart could wish--big ball game, free swimming in Big Butte, fine music and dancing, good fishing and almost everything that would conduce to the happiness of those who wished to attend. And then there were quite a number who went to the two soda springs on the north and south forks of Little Butte, while others went up toward Crater Lake, camping at the different places of interest, while some remained until Monday and started in different directions but the most of those who were left went to Ashland.
    Thomas Cingcade and wife and H. E. Campbell and wife started Monday morning at 5 o'clock to spend the day at the Brittsan Bros. dairy ranch on Rogue River and after arranging the camp for the day ate their breakfast and then tried their hand at fishing in the river and the result was they soon captured two nice large salmon and report having had a very pleasant time, returning at night tired but feeling well paid for their trouble.
    Roy Ashpole and wife and son started early Sunday morning for the McAllister Soda Springs for a three days' outing and report having a nice time, catching a nice lot of fish and feeling greatly refreshed. But I have not space to mention the names of those who attended the different resorts, but everyone who went reports having had a good time, but those who went to Ashland all join in praising the wonderful time they had there. While I was sitting reading in my home Monday evening one of our lodgers, Mr. H. W. Ireland, came rushing in an without any formality remarked that he had been to Ashland and saw the grandest, the most systematically arranged and best parade he had ever seen. Mr. Ireland is a Portland man and is here superintending the erection of a large rock crusher for Wm. von der Hellen, the man who has the contract for putting the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway between the D. Cingcade place and Trail, and he said that he had witnessed three of the Rose Festival parades in Portland and one of the grand parades in Kansas City, and taking everything into account, the advantages they had in the larger cities over Ashland, that the one in Ashland on July 4th was far ahead of anything he had ever seen. And he is not alone, for about all who I have met seem to hold the same opinion.
    Joseph Riley was among the business callers and reports that the grasshoppers have visited his farm and are cleaning up everything green as they go.
    Miss Eva Tonn of Lake Creek, who is employed in one of the Medford stores, took a layoff and went up home to spend the Fourth with her parents.
    Roy Cobleigh, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Phoenix, spent the night here on his way up to visit his parents.
    Mrs. Anna Brophy and her sister, Olie McPherson, who went to Portland about the first of last week by rail, returned Sunday evening with a car via the Pacific Highway. They left Portland at 2 p.m. Saturday, drove to Albany, leaving there Sunday morning and arrived here at 9 p.m.--pretty good driving for two women, but that is the kind of women we raise in Jackson County.
    There were quite a number of people came in Sunday for dinner. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gustine and his nephew, F. H. Gustine of Pensa [Plevna? Plains?], Montana, who is here on a visit and to see the country. Mr. and Mrs. Evensizer, Pearson Evensizer and Mrs. Susie Smith, John Robert Smith and Mr. Lowell of Ashland, who came in from Butte Falls with a load of shakes and stopped for dinner.
    John W. Smith and family, who live on the old John Smith place on the edge of what is wrongly called the desert, passed through here Sunday morning on their way to the soda springs for an outing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown, Emily Brown and Leonard Brown of Medford, Fred Neil and wife of Ashland were also here for dinner July Fourth, and there were fifteen or more young men came in during the night from Butte Falls and other places for bed and breakfast.
    The Butte Falls celebration proved to be very fine as it was a kind of free-for-all affair, a kind of general picnic gathering. The ball game between the Butte Falls and Eagle Point ball teams was a very pleasant affair although the Butte Falls boys came out second best, the score standing 7 to 13 in favor of Eagle Point.
    John Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, was here for dinner Tuesday and so was H. H. Williams, representing hardware men of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fuller, who live on a small farm and orchard on the Eagle Point-Brownsboro road, were Medford visitors Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 8, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Henry Thornton of Persist, one of the early pioneers of Ashland, but who has made his home with his uncle W. W. Willits for the past several years, was a passenger on the Medford stage on his way home last Wednesday.
    Mr. Merritt and his mother of Reese Creek, Ernest Culbertson, Lake Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Skillman, San Francisco, F. M. Amy, Prospect, and H. H. Williams of Medford were diners at the Sunnyside last Wednesday.
    Everett Edsall and wife of Nevada took a trip to Butte Falls on the Butte Falls stage and on their return stopped for supper at the Sunnyside, going from here to Phoenix to visit his sister Mrs. Jack O'Connor. Everett Edsall is a brother of the mail contractor on the Medford-Butte Falls route and came out from his home in Nevada to visit him, also his mother and sister referred to above.
    Ty Ragsdale of Trail was also a guest at the Sunnyside Wednesday night.
    L. H. Swink and J. H. Morrow of Butte Falls passed through our town Wednesday evening on their way home. Mr. Swink is in the mercantile business in Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Charles Cingcade, wife of one of our prominent stockmen and farmers, who went to Portland some time ago to have a goiter removed from her neck, returned to her home last Thursday, after having the operation successfully performed and at last accounts was on the road to recovery.
    Mrs. Margaret Reter, a sister of Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, was out Thursday visiting her sister and brother, A. J. Florey, Jr.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen were shopping here Thursday and so was Mr. Isbell, who is the foreman on the Wm. von der Hellen ranch on Reese Creek.
    Alvin Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous German-American citizens, was transacting business here Thursday.
    Mrs. J. H. French and Mrs. C. E. Bellows were also shopping here Thursday.
    Miss Minter, Miss Ethel Hughes and T. P. Beaulin of Medford passed through our town on the way out to her father's, R. R. Minter's, farm. Asked if she intended to return to Medford she replied she intended to remain a while with her father, as he has his new house about completed. The reader will remember that he was burned out some time ago and lost all his household goods and has just rebuilt.
    There was a grass fire started out north of the Green Mathews place Thursday afternoon, but there was a force of men working on the Crater Lake Highway besides the neighbors who successfully put it out without doing any damage.
    G. W. Frey and his son Edward of Lake Creek passed through here Thursday evening to their home, but while Ed was doing his trading Mr. Frey, Sr., and I had a nice visit. Mr. Frey is one of the pioneers of the valley, having lived in Jacksonville in the early '60s and in the run of conversation he remarked that the valley did not look natural. Asked why, he said that it used to be the valley was covered with grain fields and the mills were filled with wheat but now the mills were idle and the best of the land was used for orchards or hay and we have to send off to Washington and other distant lands for our flour and that it does not look right to him.
    Chas. Bergman, who lives on the new Crater Lake Highway, was in town Friday morning and related how they were getting along with the work up in his section. He said that in blowing the stumps out of the road they had pretty well riddled Grant Mathew's house, tearing several holes in the roof, and that when they blew a large stump out just in front of the house it went clear over the house, landing on the kitchen, tearing a hole clear through and landed on the floor doing no damage except to the roof and ceiling, although it barely missed the cream separator.
    Frank Knutzen of Applegate, and W. A. Crane, representative of the Farm Bureau Exchange, were here Friday on their way to Lake Creek.
    Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby was a passenger on the stage Friday going home. She reported that her father, E. D. Hill, had purchased the lot and old hay scales belonging to Mrs. Rose Potter and that he was going to fix up the scales and keep them in order for the benefit of the public. If he succeeds in putting them in order it will prove a great blessing to the general public, for the nearest hay scales available was at the Esch farm nearly three and a half miles away.
    Remember that the Civic Club of Eagle Point is to meet in the park next Friday, July 15th, and entertain the Scenic Society of Jackson County, who will hold their meeting in the park on that date. Everybody is invited to come and bring well-filled baskets and have a good old-fashioned picnic dinner.
    Carl von der Hellen and J. H. Heckner, the official squirrel poisoner, were business callers Friday and so was Guy Pruett, Thos. Stanley and Robert Minter, Henry French and son Lloyd.
    Miss Ethel Dunlap of Derby was a guest for dinner Friday.
    Mr. Hillis, one of the members of the Society of Christian Workers, called on me Friday evening and arranged to have a meeting of the society at the Baptist church here in Eagle Point on Sunday, July 17th at 7:30 p.m. It is expected that there will be about forty of the members at the meeting and among them will be the noted Hillis Sisters, who favored us with some fine singing a little over a year ago. They will have a fine program and will be a treat to the people of Eagle Point and vicinity. Everybody come and bring the children.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 11, 1921, page 2
ROGUE ELK RESORT SPLENDIDLY LOCATED
    W. G. McDonald of the Rogue Elk resort, located on the Rogue River and the mouth of Elk Creek, was in Medford Wednesday. He says the water is fine, the fish are biting and that people who do not take the river road to Crater Lake miss the best scenery, do not have as good roads, drive farther, and miss the 15-mile ride along the Rogue.
    Mr. McDonald says the roads are good, and he made arrangements with the county court to level, sprinkle and roll the road.
    The resort is a specially nice place for people to spend a few days or several weeks.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 14, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers last Saturday was Mr. Launspach and Mr. Hilton. Mr. Launspach is one of the land appraisers for the Federal Loan Association and Mr. Hilton is one of the appointees of the association, who renders final valuation of the land inspected, owned by the applicants for financial aid from the federal banks. They had been out here making the final appraisement on land in this section.
    Last Saturday there was a general rush at the Sunnyside for dinner. In addition to the twenty-two road men who are working on the Crater Lake Highway and boarding here, we had twenty-six transients here for dinner, among whom was George West, Mr. and Mrs. Gribble and two children, Mr. Cambres, Ed. D. Cooke, Allen Walker, a man who goes by the name of "Montana," F. E. Bylow and nine men and one woman. The first lot were some of the forest rangers, who were putting up a telephone line between Medford and Butte Falls, and the nine men were one of the gang of county road workers on their way over to Antelope with the camping and road working outfit on their way to work on what is known as the Jim Owens road on Antelope and Dry Creek.
    I omitted to state in my last that J. H. Carlton of Wellen had the misfortune to have his dwelling house burned Friday afternoon. It appears that there was no one at home, as Harry and his brother had gone to the hill to look after some stock and Mrs. Carlton and the children had gone to visit Mrs. John Rader, one of her neighbors, and the first information of a fire was one of the neighbors discovered it bursting out from the kitchen and before anyone reached the house it was a solid mass of flames on the inside. A crowd of men rushed there as soon as the word was sent by telephone, and among them a number from here. They reached there in time to save the barn and most of the outbuildings, although the hay caught fire several times, but by using wet sacks they managed to put it out and thus saved not only the barn, but the silos, machine house and a small living house, but it was a narrow escape. They had the house well furnished, and it as well as the house was well insured. I met Mr. and Mrs. Carlton this Wednesday morning. Mrs. Carlton is stopping here with her relatives doing up some sewing, as they lost all of the clothes except what they had on. The house and furniture were insured, but that will not help to provide clothes, bedding, etc. They are receiving material help from their many friends in our town and vicinity, as Mrs. Carlton is of the George Brown family and was raised in our midst, and has many friends all around here.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Greer and his mother, Mrs. Viola Hale, and Miss Elbert Greer, all of Ashland were among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday. Mr. Greer is the editor and publisher of the Ashland Tidings, and they simply drove up from Ashland for the ride and renew the acquaintance of the Sunnyside force.
    O. J. Getzen of Seattle, Washington, Miss Margaret Mansfield and Miss Edith Creed of Medford, Jesse L. Richardson, wife and daughter, Miss Christina of Central Point and wife's sister, Mrs. Emma Demaris of Sonora, Calif. They had been out riding over the country, where they had formerly lived and Mrs. Demaris said that she had not been up in that country, Trail, for over twenty years. Mr. Richards is a son of the late Harvey Richards, and is now in business in Central Point.
    Mrs. W. G. Averill, and her niece, Miss Ruth Boussum of Medford, came in from Butte Falls, or rather Mr. Averill's homestead, where they had been stopping for a while, and spent Sunday night, going to Medford Monday morning on the 7:15 stage.
    I had a relief Monday from the regular humdrum of walking the streets of Eagle Point searching for items to try to interest the readers of the Mail Tribune, by accepting an invitation from Wm. von der Hellen, the contractor who is putting the rock surface on the Crater Lake Highway between the Cingcade place and Trail, to ride with him down to where he was installing a rock crusher. And while riding along I noticed that Pete Young had one of the pioneers of this section, Frank Simpson, framing the timbers to build a new barn on his place. The crusher is located on Mr. Young's farm. When we arrived Mr. Ireland, the machinist, was just giving the crusher the finishing touches, but found some little things that did not exactly suit him, so he readjusted that and by the time he had that fixed to suit him, dinner was called and on the invitation of the foreman, Mr. Thresher, I took dinner. Now, talk about good eats. I did not learn the name of the chief cook, but the dinner was fully up to date and everybody seemed happy and contented, and the cook knows just how to cook and Mr. von der Hellen knows how to provide and does it.
    The camp is situated in a beautiful grove and looks more like a picnic camp ground than like a laboring outfit, good tents, board floors, comfortable seats and beds all arranged for the comfort of the men, and there are several families already camped there. Everything is arranged to assist the cook, ice to keep the meat and butter cool and fresh and ice lemonade to drink--but I was going to tell about the crusher.
    They have a 100-H.P. motor and 1000 feet of cable to draw the rock and gravel into the crusher with, a large bucket or scraper that is supposed to bring in a yard of rock and gravel every minute while it is handy, and when at the extreme distance every two minutes. They did not have it ready to run to capacity when I left in the afternoon, as they had to go slow while the machinery is new, but the prospect is that by the time this is in type, the crushed rock will be being scattered on the road in good shape.
    Mr. Swem, who has been working at Trail, came in Monday and remained until this Wednesday morning.
    The election on the bond question to fund the Eagle Point water district for $200,000 more was carried by a large vote.
    There was three young men came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside Monday night.
    Timmie Ongan, one of our prosperous farmers, was here Tuesday trying to find a drive chain for his binder. J. M. Wilfley was also a business caller Tuesday and so was Fred Pettegrew, and Mrs. Tungate of Jacksonville was a passenger on the stage for Butte Falls to visit her son, Ira, of that place.
    Married June 29, in Woodburn, Dr. Edward Schoor of that place and Miss Lenore Walker, daughter of Mrs. E. S. Wolfer. Mr. Wolfer married her mother while they were living here and Mrs. Schoor has many friends in this section. She is a granddaughter of our townsman, Mr. James Jordan.
    Mr. Whilleg of Butte Falls called Tuesday to see his daughter, Miss Rose, who is assistant at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Remember the big meeting Sunday night at the Baptist church. We expect a rousing time.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 15, 1921, page 10
SCENIC BOOSTERS AT EAGLE POINT
    The Scenic Preservation Society of Jackson County is holding its regular meeting at Eagle Point today with a large attendance. The ladies of Eagle Point served an old-fashioned country chicken dinner, with all the trimmings at noon, which was a drawing card for dozens of Medford people. A program of speaking and music will be given this afternoon, including addresses by Irving E. Vining of Ashland, and B. F. Lindas of this city. A. C. Howlett is scheduled to give reminiscences of pioneer days, with remarks by other old settlers in that section.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 15, 1921, page 5
CHAUNCEY FLOREY AND MILDRED NEIL MARRIED JULY 8
    Chauncey Florey, county clerk, and Miss Mildred Neil, his chief deputy, were quietly married Friday, July 8, 1921, at the home of the bride's parents, 719 West Eleventh Street, this city. It was a quiet wedding, only a few of the near relatives of the contracting parties being present. The Rev. Jouett P. Bray officiated. The wedding came as a surprise to the many friends of the newlyweds. The nuptials were not exactly kept secret, but the usual publicity for such occasions was not given out.
    Both the bride and groom are members of pioneer families of Southern Oregon, and both are well known to scores of people. Mrs. Florey is a granddaughter of the late Judge J. R. Neil. She has been a courthouse employee for several years, and has a wide circle of friends.
    By an odd twist of luck, the groom contracted a case of mumps and is confined to his home recovering from the ailment.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 15, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    F. W. Reid, wife and son came in Tuesday and remained until Friday night. Mr. Reid is in the employ of the state department and is engaged in running a steam roller on the C.L.H. getting it ready for the crushed rock as well as rolling the crushed rock after it is put on the road. He and his family have moved into the house belonging to Mrs. Argalee Green here in town. Mrs. Green having come up from Los Angeles about the same time, he moved over to go to work on the highway. Mrs. Green was accompanied from Los Angeles by Marce Newel, Mrs. Gertie Hill and Mr. R. W. Judy of Los Angeles. They all went on up to Seattle, Wash., to visit Mrs. Green's sister, Mrs. Charles Jones, but stopped here for a day to visit a sister she has here, Mrs. Hazel Reeser.
    I noticed in my wanderings that Mr. Mittelstaedt has been making some very decided improvements on his home since he purchased it, he having put porches around the front and one side and put in a fireplace and neat brick chimney in addition to his flue had already, greatly improving the appearance as well as the comfort of the home.
    Mr. Marshall Minter and Miss Ethel Hughes and Mr. F. E. Beaulin and Miss Diehless Minter passed through town Thursday afternoon on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen, a daughter of W. C. Daley, who had been over to Scotts Valley, California, to take her brother, George W. Daley, home, returned Thursday evening. Her brother and wife came over from Scotts Valley to visit his parents and while here broke some part of his car and the garage men here, Mr. George Holmes, had to send off for the necessary part, so Mrs. D. went home on the train and George waited a little longer to see if he could take his car home, but finally had his sister take him home.
    John C. Newlands, Mrs. Charles Beck and Miss Ida Seis of San Francisco came in Thursday evening for supper. They had been out to Crater Lake and were on their return trip. They reported the road in fine condition and that the sights along the C.L.H. as being beyond description, as the scenery is simply wonderful to behold.
    Eli Dahack, one of our progressive farmers, was in town Thursday and reported that he had installed a water system and put up a 1650-gallon water tank so that he could irrigate his garden and that after he had filled the tank it sprang a leak and the force of the water was such that it burst one side open all the way down. But he is like his son Ernest, our barber, quite a genius, and will soon have the breach repaired, as he took home with him five pounds of solder in a coil.
    Charles W. Phelps of Weed, Calif. was here Thursday night.
    Fred Frideger of Medford has been out here the past few days working in his orchard and boarding at the Sunnyside.
    Clem McDonald has sold out his interest in the Eagle Point garage to his partner, George Holmes, and he and his wife intend to start for Idaho the first of next week, that will be about Monday or Tuesday. They intend to go out via Nevada, Utah, etc. He and his estimable wife will be greatly missed as he is a member of the town council and his wife is our town recorder and school clerk beside being always ready to assist in any public enterprise.
    A. R. MacDonald and wife and son A. C. MacDonald (that is Clem Mac.) and wife and a lady friend, whose name I omitted to procure, have taken a trip out via all the scenery along the route, not only to and including Crater Lake, but went on out and took in all there was to be seen along the south way home via Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Ashland, etc., and are now telling the wonderful things they saw along the route, but say that one must see it for themselves to be able to appreciate it, for it is beyond description.
    W. G. Tait and wife of New York passed through here Wednesday on their way to Crater Lake.
    Floyd Pearce has accepted a position in the Eagle Point garage.
    Mrs. Laura A. King, Mr. D. W. Watt and Mrs. Russell R. Watt of Phoenix were here interviewing the ladies with regard to a greatly improved corset that Mrs. King is introducing.
    Mrs. M. L. Berwith and her daughter Mabel, Mrs. Thos. Stanley, passed through here Wednesday on their way to the Thos. Stanley ranch out beyond Butte Falls.
    Wash Chapsen and Bill McMillan of Eugene were among the guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    Speaking about W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, he is turning his attention to the hog business as he has bought a registered Duroc Jersey sow eight months old and weighing 300 pounds. She is a sow that [belonged to] Mr. Hurst, the man spoken of some weeks ago, who came from Missouri, and brought his stock with him, and he has decided to go elsewhere and has sold the hog. She is a beauty.
    Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman and Miss Claire Zimmerman of Los Angeles arrived at the Sunnyside Thursday evening and after spending the night with us, started Friday morning up to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, 10 or 12 miles beyond Butte Falls. They came up from Los Angeles in their car in three days' time, about 900 miles.
    John Nichols has had his house wired and electric lights put in and now he is wondering how he got along without them.
    L. A. Howell, wife and son of Medford came up from C.L. Thursday and stopped and visited our barber, Ernest Dahack and family, awhile. Mr. Howell is engaged in the barbering business in Medford and says that he had Ernest work for him for six years in his shop and that is the reason he is such a good barber.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter, Miss Joyce, and Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols drove to Ashland Thursday to visit friends and relatives.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moses, Mrs. John Dill, Mrs. O. Winter and son Francis, and Miss Lucille Brundage of Ashland called on your correspondent to renew and become acquainted, for Mrs. Dill had been here before. Mr. Moses and Mrs. Dill are newspaper and magazine correspondents, and as "birds of a feather flock together" they were interested in meeting with the Howlett family. They came up to take part in the meeting of the Scenic Preservation Society that was held here under the management of the Ladies' Civic Club of Eagle Point. But I see that my letter is already too long so will have to hold the account of that meeting for my next letter.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 18, 1921, page 8
COUNTY COURT ORDERS SPRINKLER ON C. LAKE ROAD
    At a meeting of the county court Tuesday, a sprinkler was ordered placed on the Crater Lake Highway between Dodge bridge and Long bridge to settle the dust. This is a new stretch of road and has been the source of some complaint from tourists, being the dustiest stretch on the way to the scenic wonder. By use of water this will be eliminated, and the road material hardened.
    A new road was ordered established between Dodge's bridge [and] the new Crater Lake Highway, in the Eagle Point district, producing a direct route for Bybee's bridge to the highway, and doing away with some hill climbing.
    A contract was granted Chris Natwick for the hauling of gravel from Reese Creek to put on the Reese Creek road. This will be finished before winter.
    The supervisor was ordered to make the necessary repairs on the Trail road at once, and before the winter rains. Citizens of that section recently appeared before the court and testified that the road was in bad shape, and that they risked their life and limb in attempting to travel over it in bad weather. The repairs will be temporary.
    A large batch of bills were considered, approved and disapproved.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 20, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    When I stopped writing last Saturday I had just about reached the point where I was to say something about the meeting of the Scenic Preservation Society. I have already mentioned the names of some half a dozen who came up from Ashland to take part in and enjoy the social part of the meeting as well as enjoy the fine picnic dinner that was served by the ladies of Eagle Point.
    And as that seemed to be the uppermost thought in the mind of one of the most prominent and important personages, the Hon. Ben Sheldon, for when he commenced his speech the first thing he spoke of was the wonderful dinner that he had just eaten, as though he was astonished to discover a self-evident fact, and that was that whenever the ladies of Eagle Point or Reese Creek undertake to have a picnic dinner that it is always right up to date and of the very best that the country affords and they are noted as being first-class experts in the culinary art. The meeting, dinner, etc., was under the supervision of the Ladies Civic Club of Eagle Point and after partaking of the dinner the Scenic Society was called to order by Mr. H. O. Frobach, the vice president of the society, and he presented the object of the society, that is, to preserve the beauty spots and attractive things of interest and care for them so that our visitors in future years will have something to admire as well as we of the present time. He, after reading reports and telling of the success of the organization, called on our town mayor, H. E. Campbell, and he favored us with a short address showing his approval of the undertaking and commending the efforts of the society. Then Benj. C. Sheldon was called on for an address and he responded by giving a historical account of the organization of the society, urging the necessary watchfulness on the part of the citizens in general as well as the officials to see that the attractions were conserved, and emphasize the necessity of preserving our beautiful forests along the Crater Lake Highway, and while he was speaking my mind reverted to the magnificent scenery that has been destroyed right around one of the most popular resorts this side of Crater Lake. I refer to the cutting down and in many instances the mammoth sugar pine trees and the unseemly stumps left to mar the beauty of the surrounding country.
    After the speaking a vote of thanks was offered to the Ladies' Civic Club of Eagle Point for their wonderful entertainment.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Clark, a son-in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Nye of Prospect, has been here for several days visiting their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and family, and another cousin, Mrs. Raymond Reter of Medford, came out to meet them here.
    Miss Harriet E. Callaghan and J. H. Moore, both of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, were visitors at the Sunnyside and Miss Callaghan went to the limit of her argumentative powers to introduce an electric ironer into the Sunnyside but so far has failed although her persuasive ability is almost unlimited.
    Mrs. M. C. Mahoney, formerly of Butte Falls but recently of Weed, Cal., came in on the stage Friday evening and went up to Butte Falls on the stage the next day.
    Chris H. Natwick, the road contractor, was with us Friday night.
    Mr. Trusty of Elk Creek came in and spent the day here Friday.
    Miss Viola Bradshaw of Brownsboro spent the day Saturday with us.
    Miss Philena Evans, who has been teaching school in the A. B. Zimmerman district some twenty miles beyond Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Saturday.
    Lemon Charley of Brownsboro was also a passenger on the stage for home.
    George von der Hellen was a visitor on our streets Saturday.
    Walter Sackman, one of the Forest Service men, came out from Butte Falls to have a team shod and stopped with us for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Antle of Lake Creek were here for supper and report that he had traded for a ten-acre tract of land on Eagle Heights.
    Loris Martin, one of the subcontractors on the Rhodes and Price unit on the Crater Lake Highway, was a guest at the Sunnyside Saturday night and Sunday and so was Charles C. Spring of Washington D.C.
    H. N. Wilson came in the last of the week and engaged a room; he is here putting on the finishing touches and surfacing of the four-mile unit for Charles Delin and reports that he had the first half completed and ready for the crushed rock and returned to his home in Eugene, to be back in a few days.
    Sunday there seemed to be considerable travel on the road, especially in the morning, and there were quite a number of our townspeople went away as we missed them from our Sunday school. Among them were Mrs. Denton and her sister, and Mrs. Denton's children. I heard that Mrs. Denton's sister was going away and Mrs. Denton went with her as far as Ashland. Another important member of our Bible class, Miss Nora Childreth, our organist, had gone to Butte Falls to visit friends. Nevertheless we had a very interesting Sunday school service.
    Among those who called at the Sunnyside for dinner were C. E. Gates, mayor of Medford, and wife, Master George E. Gates, Jr., who is considered the most important member of the Gates family, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kerr, all of Medford, besides some of the people of our town.
    As had been announced already in the Medford Mail Tribune, there was a meeting of the Christian Workers of Medford and vicinity here Sunday night. There were about 35 or 40 of them, one division, came out from Medford and the exercises were introduced by singing, with one of the Hillis girls as leader, and also one of the four sisters presiding at the organ, and after singing quite a number of those old-fashioned soul-stirring gospel songs and prayer by one of the company the meeting was turned into a kind of love feast and quite a number spoke of their hopes and desires as well as their religious enjoyments. Then Mrs. Love read and explained the 43rd chapter of 1st Corinthians and gave a very interesting exposition of the lesson. She was followed by Miss Evans and Miss Daley and Mr. Hatch by reading and commenting on scripture lessons, but they spoke so low that I could not understand them. There was one of the ladies who spoke that spoke loud enough so that I could understand a part of what she said, but she wore a broad-brimmed hat and that covered her face, for it was turned down all around, and I think had a tendency to deaden the sound of her voice. If she had removed her hat so as to reveal her face it would not have been so difficult to hear what she said.
    After this the four Hillis girls sang one or more songs and we were dismissed. But the meeting was a success and they will be welcomed here whenever they can arrange to be with us.
    There were two men, J. P. Daum from New York City, and John Manzer of Illinois, camped on the bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek Sunday night on their way to Crater Lake. They are taking their time and intend to see all the wonderful sights along the route.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 22, 1921, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    The Misses Bertha and Marie Applegate of Medford are spending a week with Irma Ash.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mechem of Upper Trail made a business trip to the valley Tuesday.
    Mark Applegate of Medford came down from the mines, where he has been working the past two weeks, on a business trip to Medford, and will return this coming week.
    There was quite a crowd out to church Sunday.
    Two truckloads of girl reserves passed through Trail Tuesday morning on their way to the mountains.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller and little son Raymond of Central Point visited with Mr. and Mrs. Howe Sunday.
    The dance Saturday night was well attended and a good time enjoyed by all. There will be another dance July 30th.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Vincent were Sunday visitors at the Middlebusher home.
    Mr. E. E. Ash left Tuesday for Sugar Pine Lookout, where he expects to be until fire season is over.
    Esther Mechem of Upper Trail is visiting friends at Trail for a few days.
    Floyd Hutchinson and Mr. Howell of [the] U.S. fish hatchery made a business trip to Medford Tuesday.
    The Misses Enid Middlebusher and Molly Clarey attended a dance at Prospect Saturday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 22, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman and son Rudolph started for Portland last Monday, the 18th, to visit her sister and other relatives. Mrs. Weidman is the saleslady in the store of T. E. Nichols as well as bookkeeper and when she is gone there is a decided vacancy, for she is the life of the concern as she is so pleasant and agreeable that she secures the love of the customers and makes them feel so much at home that they feel like lingering.
    Joe Riley, one of the early pioneers of this neighborhood, having been born here some sixty years ago, was in town on Monday, he having been hauling hay for Charles Delin, the subcontractor on the unit between the desert and Hog Creek, and in speaking about his crops he said that he had the best crop of hay this season he has ever had, and he has always lived on the same farm where he was raised. He sowed the land in wheat and vetch and by the use of water it grew to be very tall and thick. He said it turned off three tons to the acre. With the proper use of fertilizers and water there is no telling the amount of stuff of almost every kind that can be produced on our land.
    E. V. Brittsan, one of our prominent farmers and dairy men, came in early Monday morning to bring his cream in for the dairy truck and to meet his father, Rev. Brittsan, but the stage was so crowded that he had to wait until the afternoon stage, so that E. V. Brittsan had to make two trips to town the same day.
    Mrs. W. G. Averill was also a passenger on the same stage Monday morning. There is such a vast amount of mail and parcel post matter in the mails now that it takes about all the room for that so that the mail carrier can't always take the passengers.
    Miss Ella Belford, who is operating the Stewart ranch, came in Monday morning to catch the jitney to go to Medford but it had gone so she took dinner at the Sunnyside and went in the afternoon, remaining overnight and coming out on the 9:15 a.m. stage.
    Welborn Beeson of Talent was here looking for fat stock. He came over to look at some beef cattle belonging to Joe Mayham.
    J. M. Spence of Kerby was also here with Mr. Beeson for dinner.
    H. W. and Thomas Newstrom, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Grants Pass, were business callers Monday.
    We have had another change in real estate in this neighborhood, Mr. Earl Hayes having sold his place of a few acres of choice garden land to George W. Daley, Jr., of Scotts Valley, Calif.
    J. R. Robinson, Sr., the rustling farmer, was in town the first of the week and reports that his wheat and small grain crop is fine but the corn crop will be small as the weather has been unfavorable for corn, nights too cold and not having the usual June and July showers.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Johnson of Reese Creek were shopping here Monday with Alvin Conover.
    Walter Antle, the Lake Creek merchant and postmaster at Lake Creek, went through here Monday afternoon with a truckload of goods for his store. And A. J. Gresham accompanied him.
    John Minter, who came in from Albany a short time ago, was in town Monday afternoon.
    Mrs. Frank Lewis started last week to Santa Barbara, Calif., and before she took the train at Medford was joined by her daughter, Mrs. Gitzen of Medford, and the two went to visit another daughter, Mrs. Jennie Florey.
    Mrs. R. Reter of Medford and sister Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen took dinner at the Sunnyside Thursday and so did Mr. and Mrs. Neil V. Meer and Mr. Elton M. Smith of Portland, who were on their way home from Crater Lake.
    W. R. Coleman and Mr. Mitchell, the fish screen manufacturers, were in town Thursday.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, was here Thursday and reports that he has the job of painting the M. S. Woods house, inside and out.
    P. W. McDonald, editor of the Motor Express of Oakland, Calif., and wife, Miss Selma Jolison of Oakland and Warren Geddings of Merced, on their way to Seattle, were here for supper about the middle of the week.
    Ed Cingcade, son of our townsman and wife, of San Jose, Calif., came in on his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Cingcade, Thursday evening. He has been away from here for three or four years and there at his parents' he met his brother Charles and wife who had just partially recovered from an operation for a goiter. His many friends here give him a hearty greeting. They all three, Ed, Charles, his wife and Mrs. D. Cingcade, went to Medford today, Saturday.
    Chas. Delin, the contractor who is just finishing up the grading on the first unit of the Crater Lake Highway and has a contract to build a logging railroad near Crescent City, and has moved the most of his force down there, came in Thursday and reports that he started with nine fresnos the next day after he reached the place.
    W. Hart Hamilton of San Jose, Cal., came in a few days ago to look after his farming interests here, returning home Friday afternoon.
    James Miller of Trail, and Verna Mathews were business callers Wednesday.
    Rev. H. G. King, the traveling evangelist for the American Sunday School Union, came in Friday from Klamath County where he has been laboring for the last two months.
    Mrs. C. H. Natwick and her daughter, Mrs. W. F. Cooper, and her two twins called Thursday and later in the day Mr. Natwick himself came in and reports that he has taken a contract from the county court to complete what is known as the Vestal cutoff and also to run the rock crusher to crush the rock for the road known as the Reese Creek road that has been such a drawback to everyone who has to travel over it. But the county road work seems to go so slowly, for Alex Vestal was here for dinner the other day [and] reported that the county road force was ready to go to work on the road between the Hill place and the foot of the Rocky Hill but they were waiting for the surveyors to tell them where to do the work.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were business callers Wednesday. I understand that they have agreed to board some of the road men for a part of the time this summer.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 26, 1921, page 5


    MEDFORD, Ore.--Enan H. Pearce passed away July 17 at his home in East Medford. He was born in Brownsboro, Ore., August 15, 1881, and was the son of D. J. S. and Sarah A. Pearce. He leaves to mourn his loss his aged parents, two daughters, Zola and Charlotte, one sister and five brothers, Grave V., Dan M. and Paul E. of Medford, Floyd of Eagle Point, Mel of Juneau, Alaska.
"The Passing of the Pioneers," Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, July 26, 1921, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, was in town the last of the past week buying dynamite, and on being asked what he was going to do with it replied that he was going to blow up some fruit trees that were affected with blight, the safest way to get rid of such trees.
    T. F. McCabe was in town also with a few boxes of early apples.
    L. T. Trefren of Butte Falls and T. E. Berry of Brownsboro were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday.
    F. C. Holibaugh, assistant county agent, and C. M. Speck, his traveling companion, were here for dinner Thursday and so was C. A. Pickel, the meter reader.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Birkholz of Willow Springs stopped here on their way home from Crater Lake.
    Pliney Leabo, who has been working at the Weed mills in California for the past several seasons, is taking his vacation and came in Friday evening intending to go up to Trail to visit his mother but learned that his sister who has been out in Eastern Oregon for several years was in Medford, so returned to visit her returning Sunday on the stage to the Sunnyside and went up to Trail Monday. Pliney is one of the bright young men who saves his money and one day will own a nice home of his own.
    E. V. Peterson, the mail subcontractor on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist route, came out Saturday and went to Ashland on business.
    W. C. Clements, our postmaster and manager of the telephone business as he is the principal owner of the main lines, is doing quite a lot of work on his lines, putting some new poles up and new crossarms with six insulators, thus making room for more wires.
    A. A. Johnston of Siskiyou County, Calif., came in and placed on exhibition some apparently rich specimens of gold, silver and copper ore. The silver was quite prominent. Mr. Johnston is the father-in-law of one of our stockmen in this section, Mr. Joe Mayham.
    Mrs. Ira Tungate, wife of one of the leading business men of Butte Falls, was a passenger on the stage Saturday for Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McAllister and son of Central Point, Miss Anna Lloyd and Miss Katherine Lloyd of Fairmount, W. Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swingle and son Austin of Ashland passed through here Saturday morning on their way to the Dead Indian Soda Springs. The Misses Lloyd are out from their home in West Virginia visiting Mr. and Mrs. McAllister. Mr. and Mrs. Swingle are among the pioneers of this country. For several years Mr. Swingle was a prominent stockman in Eastern Oregon but has partially turned his interests there over to his son and has resided in Ashland for several years.
    Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman, recently from Los Angeles, who went up to visit Mrs. Leidman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, returned the last of the week and are still here. Mr. Leidman is a professional fruit packer and is here looking over the prospect for business.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek was among the diners Saturday. Mr. Lamb of Harney County has been stopping here for the past few days.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, has been taking his dinner at the Sunnyside for the past few days. He has just finished painting M. S. Wood's house and is now painting Mr. Mittelstaedt's house.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sparks and two boys passed through here on their way from Crater Lake to their home in California. They, like all the rest of those who go out to see it, report that it surpasses anything yet discovered.
    One would think that the fruit crop out this way was going to be fully up to date judging from the amount of fruit box material that is going through here.
    Ed Frey and one of his brothers was here Saturday getting material to repair their hay press.
    Mrs. Goodyear of Butte Falls came out on the stage Friday evening and Saturday started to the hills, returning Sunday evening.
    Ed Burgess, the foreman on the Chas. Delin road work here, took a trip out to Wood River Valley taking in the sights all along the route including the natural bridge across Rogue River, the Rogue River Gorge, Crater Lake and the wonderful scenery along the Anna Creek Canyon including the "Garden of the Gods," and pronounces that the most wonderful and beautiful picture along the whole route.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gray of Stockton, Calif., a son-in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McNicoll, arrived here the first of the week and are thinking some of settling among us.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth France and two sons and wife's sister, Miss Gertrude Patterson, stopped with us Friday night, remaining until Sunday morning. Mr. France and family are from Wenatchee and had been down to Los Angeles visiting relatives and were accompanied by his wife's sister on their return trip. He stopped to gather agates.
    Geo. W. Stowell and Thos. Vestal were business callers Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz and John Howard, an old Civil War veteran, and Chris Bergman and wife, all living near the Crater Lake Highway, passed through here on their way to Ashland Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby passed through here Saturday morning on their way home from Medford. They had started from home in the morning, motored to Medford and transacted their business and were this far on their way home by 10:30 a.m.
    W. H. Isbell of Reese Creek was also a diner at the Sunnyside and so was Sam Courtney and he reports that he has taken a contract to paint the Reese Creek school house.
    Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Brownlee and his mother-in-law, Mrs. G. W. Shippey and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Jones of Medford motored out for dinner, also Eddie Carey and Miss Margaret Bulle of Ashland.
    Later in the day G. F. Herrin, formerly of this neighborhood but now of Portland, on his way to attend the California university, was here looking over his old home, the B. F. Fuller place. He was accompanied by Mr. S. Duff and Mr. Seymour of Medford.
    Still later Thos. Merriman and son Francis called for supper.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 29, 1921, page 6
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    Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Weeks are the proud parents of a baby girl born Friday. The baby was operated on Sunday and is doing nicely at this writing.
    Mrs. M. Middlebusher returned home Monday after a short visit with relatives in the valley.
    Floyd Hutchinson was called to Ashland Saturday morning by the illness of his wife. She is reported a little better today.
    Most of the idle men were called to fight fire Wednesday, but it was soon extinguished without much damage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Hanby and Mr. Throwell were among Trail visitors Tuesday.
    Mr. Watson visited the doctor one day last week. He has a bad cold but is better.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis made a business trip to Medford Tuesday.
    Wayne Ash will visit his father at Sugar Pine lookout for a few days this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 29, 1921, page 6
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    The community has been indeed saddened by the death of our dear Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson, following the birth of a little boy at the Granite City Hospital in Ashland Tuesday, the 26th.
    Mrs. Hutchinson was a kind, whole-hearted woman and everyone will feel her untimely death deeply. The three years that she lived in this community she made friends with everyone she came in contact with. She had an unusual musical ability. Was born and raised in Ashland.
    The beautiful floral offerings bespoke the high esteem in which she was held by her friends and acquaintances. She was only twenty-four years of age and besides her husband and little daughter Olive, she leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss.
    Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Ashland, Wednesday at 3 p.m. Beautiful services were rendered by the pastor and choir. She and her little son were laid to rest in the same casket beside her father in the Ashland cemetery.
    Those present to represent this vicinity were: Mr. and Mrs. Jess Clary, Mrs. Frank Clary, Supt. Gene Howell of the hatchery and Mrs. Oscar Stewart. Everyone here joined in a beautiful floral offering designed to extend love and sympathy to the bereaved husband and relatives.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 1, 1921, page 5


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Sunday H. E. Campbell and wife, J. F. Brown and wife, W. C. Clements and wife, Gus Nichols, wife and daughter, Mrs. Gepsen went to the McAllister Soda Springs for an outing.
    John Owens of Wellen, one of the prominent farmers and stockmen of that section, was a visitor the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Izuazman and Madge and Stanley, proprietor of the Medford Exchange, were here on their way to the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    Dan Foeller, one of the pioneers of Trail Creek, was in town patronizing our blacksmith.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. G. West and three children of LaGrande, Oregon, spent the night here on their way from visiting friends in California to see the wonderful Crater Lake. Speaking about Crater Lake, there has been the greatest rush through our town going out this season that we have ever had and many of them stop here for supper on the return trip and express their admiration of not only the lake but the scenery all along the route.
    Dennie Zimmerlee of Trail was a business caller Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer of Hog Creek, the noted poultry raisers, were here visiting Mrs. Meyer's sister, Mrs. Wm. Wright, Tuesday.
    Mrs. M. Foley of Butte Falls spent Tuesday night with her aunt, Mrs. N.E. Watkins.
    Mrs. Henry Childreth and son of Ashland were here Thursday visiting Mr. Childreth's brother, W. L. Childreth, and Isaac was looking around for work.
    Mr. T. F. Thornwell of Trail spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. B. W. Thomas and family passed through here Thursday for their home at McLeod. They had been to Medford for supplies.
    Paul Barnhart and W. N. Caster of Portland and Byron Leabo spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside. Mr. Caster was canvassing for a magazine, Better Fruit, and giving away a map.
    Miss Ella Belford, the lady who has charge of the Stewart farm, was here for dinner Wednesday and told of her putting a classified ad in the Medford Mail Tribune offering two mules and harness for sale and in a day or two the buyer came along and bought them. She believes in advertising in a live, popular paper, for it pays.
    There were also two young men here for dinner at the same time but I did not learn their names.
    R. B. Baker, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Chas. Edmondson of Butte Falls, called on the Sunnyside with their baby that was born here a short time ago to let us see how it was treated.
    Miss Mina Minter and her two sisters, Mrs. Sam Courtney and Mrs. W. E. Hammel of Reese Creek, made a short business call in our town Wednesday afternoon.
    Charles Blaess, who is working on the Wm. von der Hellen contract for putting on the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway, was a business caller Wednesday.
    F. Taylor and wife, who are living on the Marsh Garrett place on Lake Creek, came in Wednesday and went to Trail to visit Mrs. Taylor's parents.
    John Minter, who lives near Forest Grove and has been here visiting his brother, R. R. Minter, came in Thursday and took dinner intending to go to Portland that night but the stage, a Ford, was so crowded that he was left as the driver already had five men and a lady, Mrs. Everett Abbott and two children. Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Hildred Smith of Butte Falls were married July 6th and she was going to meet her husband in Medford and they were going on to Weed, Calif., where he has been working for some time.
    John McNicoll started for Portland Thursday to undergo an operation for what our doctors think is a cancer of the stomach, and his wife and friends here are anxiously waiting to hear the result.
    Charley Delin, who had the subcontract to do the grading of the Crater Lake Highway from the David Cingcade farm to Hog Creek, finished up the job Thursday, July 28th and the balance of his men have gone, the most of them to work on the new contract he has taken to build a logging railroad down near Crescent City, Cal., although I think the road to be built is in Oregon. The last of the men left here this Saturday morning. Mr. Delin has had a long and disagreeable task on account of the continual rain all winter, and that kept the ground [wet] and a very large part of it was sticky, so wet that he could not work to advantage.
    There was a man here who represented himself as a prominent poultry man and offering to sell hen's eggs but required a cash payment in advance of one dollar per setting, but when our barber found out that he did not want me to publish his name in the paper; he became suspicious and decided not to invest.
    J. W. Scott, salesman and collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Co., was here Thursday.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been tending his garden, or rather truck patch, on the Tronson place and keeping "batch," has become tired of that kind of a life and has taken board and room at the Sunnyside.
    Charles Clark of Medford, who at one time had a meat market here, has the contract to make the fruit boxes for the H. B. Tronson orchard and is boarding at the Sunnyside.
    W. R. Marshall of Trail, who is on the W. P. Morgan farm, was a business caller Thursday.
    Perry Foster, one of our old substantial citizens, and his son-in-law and grandson J. H. and Lloyd French, stopped here Thursday on their way to Medford.
    Our county commissioners, James Owens and Victor Bursell, accompanied by Dave Pence of Trail, stopped at the Sunnyside for supper Thursday night. The commissioners had been out looking over the road work in this part of the county and Mr. Bursell had the misfortune to break a wheel off his car so Mr. Pence came to the rescue and brought them here where James Owen had left his car. They report the work is progressing nicely on the roads.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 2, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last Friday Miss Harriet Callaghan of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, was a pleasant caller at the Sunnyside, using all of her persuasive powers to succeed in selling some of the appliances she is handling, but her insistence will not compete with the coming season of "hard times."
    John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, was in town and in the run of conversation mention was made of his using his tractor and I asked him if he was still plowing, and he said no, but he was cultivating the orchard with the tractor; and that led to telling of his cultivator he had made for the occasion--one of his own invention. The teeth are made of steel bars one and a quarter inches square with a very small turn-up like a shovel plow. These teeth are set in a heavy frame of oak and set so that the teeth will go into the ground about four inches, and this is hitched to the tractor and then a drag, made of oak poles fastened together with chains, leaving a space between the poles of about eight inches, and this is hitched to the cultivator and by that means the ground is thoroughly cultivated and pulverized, leaving the orchard in fine shape to hold the moisture and having all the weeds completely destroyed, thus using a homemade cultivator and roller that is of very little expense. Mr. J. M. Wilfley was in town the same day accompanied by a niece of Mr. Wilfley's, Miss Gill of Salt Lake City.
    Carl von der Hellen and family of Wellen were business callers also Friday.
    Mr. Armstrong came out with a big truckload of fruit box material from Conley's mill near Butte Falls.
    George W. Daley, Jr., formerly of Scotts Valley, California, who bought the Earl Ayres farm just above our town, has moved onto the farm and is fixing it up to his and his wife's notion.
    J. M. Berrian, superintendent of B.F.F. Hatchery, passed through here Friday. He had just been up and deposited a quantity of trout, etc., in the North Fork of Little Butte Creek.
    Miss Essie Whaley, who is now working in Medford, went up to her home in Butte Falls to visit her parents Friday, returning Monday.
    Ed Cingcade of San Jose, Calif., who has been here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cingcade, and two brothers, Thomas and Charley, returned to his home Friday evening.
    Welborn Beeson of Talent came in Saturday morning for breakfast.
    The last of the Delin road crew started from here Saturday morning to go to work on a logging railroad near Crescent City, Cal., although the road is in Oregon.
    Mrs. Ed Condon came in Saturday morning to bring her mother, Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls, in so as to have her catch the 9:20 stage for Butte Falls.
    A lady giving her name as Elizabeth Meier of Medford came in and took dinner Saturday. She was inquiring for the directors of the different school districts around and she was armed with a list of the names of the directors and clerks of last year, and they all with one exception have Eagle Point as their post office, although some of them live in the Derby district, some the Antelope, and some in the Reese Creek, but all have their mail come to the Eagle Point post office, so when she came here expecting to find the parties she wished to consult, found that several of them lived from fourteen to sixteen miles from here. Since the post office at Derby has been discontinued there is a large number of people living around here who have their mail come here and then it is distributed by the mail carrier along the different routes.
    Bud Hildreth, wife and his niece, Mrs. Brockley of Ashland, called for dinner Saturday and also so did two strangers.
    William Smith, formerly of this place, but now of Ashland, was in town visiting Mr. and Mr. M. S. Woods.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our popular hardware merchants, and family went to the McAllister soda springs last Saturday and spent Sunday lying around in the shade and drinking soda water and returning Sunday evening feeling greatly refreshed.
    John W. Smith, who with his brother Artie lives on the old John W. Smith place on the south edge of the desert, was here on business Saturday.
    William Holman and family, who are living on the Gus Nichols place, motored into town Saturday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton, who live on their farm near Prospect, were here transacting business Saturday afternoon.
    F. G. Thomas, formerly in the mercantile business at Lake Creek, but now unsettled, was here at the hotel Saturday and Sunday nights.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday for dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, formerly of the Dodge ranch near the Dodge-French bridge on Rogue River, but now of Murphy; W. G. Knighten, one of our neighbors, he had taken his wife to Medford for medical treatment and came in for dinner; Carlyle Natwick and his partner in a subcontract on the C.L.H., Mr. O'Brien and he, Mr. O'Brien was suffering with a felon on his thumb on his left hand; Harold Van Scoy and S. Link.
    Manuel Leidman and wife, who came in from Los Angeles, Cal., some weeks ago and have been stopping at the S.S. Hotel, left Monday morning to take charge of the fruit packing on one of the large orchards in Sams Valley. I have forgotten the name but it begins with "Van" [Van Vleet?]. He is one of the leading orchardists in the valley.
    Miss Cora French was visiting Miss Cleo Robinson last Sunday and Monday and went up home on the E.P.-Trail-Persist stage.
    Thos. F. McCabe and a young man by the name of Anderson drove in Monday morning trying to catch the jitney, but were too slow, but Mr. McC. caught a ride out on a truck to Medford.
    Alfred J. Robinson and his brother Wesley of Oregon City were here for dinner Monday and took the jitney for Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 5, 1921, page 7
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. Peil has quite a crew working on the road on Trail Creek, near Trail.
    Roy Vaughn of Prospect was a Medford visitor Monday.
    Mrs. M. F. Pence of Applegate is visiting relatives at Trail for a few weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Burnham of San Francisco, Cal., who have been staying at the Rogue Elk, left Monday on a business trip to California, but will return in a couple of weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis were Medford visitors Monday.
    Mrs. Ed Peil and children spent Tuesday at her husband's camp on Trail Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. Taylor of Lake Creek are visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Adamson.
    The new bridge across the river below Trail is nearing completion--as they expect to finish by September 1. It is a fine piece of work.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Dawson and family, Minnie Poole and Lowell Ash were among those who visited the swimming pool at the hatchery Sunday.
    Mrs. Poole and daughter, Minnie, left Tuesday for their home near Drew, Ore., where they will look after the harvesting.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mechem and Ruth Mechem spent the weekend with relatives and friends in Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 5, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Russ Moore and family of Lake Creek passed through here last Monday afternoon on their way home. They had been out to Medford and were in such a hurry that they didn't have time to talk.
    The many friends of John McNicoll, who went to Portland a week ago to undergo an operation for cancer of the stomach, will be glad to learn that the ordeal has passed, a successful operation has been performed and the last account, sent by his nurse, was that he was doing as well as could be expected. During his absence his wife, son-in-law Wm. Gray and wife have been putting the house he traded for before he left in order, repapering the walls and ceiling and making it look quite comfortable again.
    H. N. Wilson of Medford was here Monday, Aug. 1st, for dinner and so was Miss Ella Belford of Brownsboro.
    There was a lady here the first of the week who related a rather remarkable circumstance. She said that she had been at work and when she came in dropped down into a rocker and soon was in a doze and while in that state dreamed that she saw a large rattlesnake and on rousing up started to do a chore at the barn and on arriving there saw the identical rattler right before her so seizing a garden hoe made war on his snakeship and succeeded in killing him, and turning to put the hoe away where it belonged she discovered another rattler about the same size but failed to capture him, but she though that she had done pretty well to kill one-half of the bunch.
    Mrs. Mary E. Schurch of Derby drove in last Monday in her buggy bringing in her eggs and cream, a distance of fourteen miles. She reports that her husband is a complete invalid, being afflicted with Bright's disease, so it devolves on her to do about all that there is to be done.
    Walter Myers and family, who live on Hog Creek, on a rented place, were in town Monday on their way to Phoenix, their old home; they tell me that they expect to move there this fall as they have a home of their own there. When asked why they were leaving the ranch they said that everything was so inconvenient there, that it was too much work to get water for domestic use, having to haul it in barrels or else carry it, and the drinking water had to be carried from a spring some hundred yards or more and that the barn and outbuildings were in a very dilapidated condition. If people who own farms who live in the towns or cities are not willing to appropriate a part of the receipts from them to make them comfortable and convenient for the tenants they deserve to be left without tenants. The farm referred to is a good one for a dry farm but the old buildings are in such shape that the tenants live in constant dread of having them collapse and killing their stock.
    Word came to me the first of the week that the old home residence of Mrs. Chauncey Nye, where she has lived in the neighborhood of fifty years, was burned to the ground with all the contents. Mrs. Nye was living with her son-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Phipps, and Joe and his wife had gone over to their own place leaving one of the grandchildren with grandma and late in the afternoon the old lady, who is 86 years of age, concluded to build a fire in the stove and start supper, with the result that sparks from the stove caught in the dry moss on the roof and when the boy came in he found his grandmother in the house so frightened that he could hardly get her out of the house and then she insisted on going back and trying to save some of her things. He managed to save a few bedclothes. The foregoing was given to me Monday afternoon by A. J. Florey, a grandson of Mrs. Nye. He said that he did not know if there was any insurance on the property or not.
    Mr. Florey had his car packed ready to start out on a trip to Union Creek with his wife and two sisters, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter Joyce and Mrs. Margaret Reter of Medford, intending to remain for two or three weeks, but I saw Miss Joyce at the post office Friday morning and she said that they had all come home again.
    Mrs. Eric Nygren of Brownsboro was a business caller Monday.
    Mrs. C. R. Farrier of Lake Creek was a passenger on the stage on her way home from Medford, where she had been visiting friends for a few days.
    Frank Ditsworth and wife of Peyton motored out Tuesday morning.
    Wm. Lewis and wife, the sheep king of this section, called for dinner last Tuesday on their way to their sheep camp beyond Brown's cabin.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, accompanied by Clay Cole, were business callers Wednesday. Mr. Cole and wife are visiting Mrs. Pruett and her daughter, Mrs. Thos. Stanley. Mr. Cole was an engineer on the Pacific and Eastern railway for some time and then moved to California.
    Thomas Stanley was at work in the neighborhood of Fish Lake and his wife was stopping on the farm with her mother.
    There were three large trucks passed through here Wednesday morning loaded with a rock crusher. The men said that it was for Wm. von der Hellen to be used to crush rock higher up the river, on the Crater Lake Highway. It was to be located on the Grant Mathews place.
    Mrs. John Norris, John Rader, C. H. and Carlyle Natwick, H. H. Fox and family of Lake Creek were business callers Wednesday.
    A. R. McDonald of Eagle Point and Bob Neill of Lake Creek, who have been taking a little outing over on the coast at Crescent City, returned full of life and vigor. Mr. McDonald says they had all kinds of fun swimming in the surf, gathering shells, etc., but really suffered with the cold and fog. (Excuse me but we will remain in Jackson County, if it is a little warm in the middle of the day.)
    That same evening Miss Vera Kershaw, Miss Frieda Hanson, Miss Ethel Holman and Carl Hanson called for a few minutes.
    Lee Edmondson and family of Butte Falls, accompanied by Mrs. E. Jones and Mrs. Mary Campbell of Medford, called a few minutes at the Sunnyside Wednesday evening to see Noble Zimmerman on business, then going on up home that night.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman and son Rudolph, who went to Portland to visit her sister some two weeks ago, arrived home Wednesday feeling greatly benefited by the trip, and reports that she had a very pleasant time as the weather was cool and bracing.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Hazel Stoner of Santa Barbara, Calif., and friends in Los Angeles, returned home the middle of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 10, 1921, page 6


TRAIL ITEMS
    A new baby boy arrived at the Ragsdale home Friday. Both mother and babe are doing nicely.
    Mrs. Ash has been visiting her husband at Sugar Pine lookout the past week.
    Wedding bells are ringing in the distance.
    A large wolf attacked Mrs. Van Dyke one day last week while out picking blackberries. She was alone and unarmed so tried to scare it away and as it kept coming nearer and not at all afraid of her, she screamed and ran toward their camp. Her husband came to her assistance but had no gun with him, so Mr. Wolf got away.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and little daughter Lea visited relatives in Medford Sunday and Monday.
    C. Springer is driving a Saxon these days.
    D. Pence and daughters, Zella and Hazel, made a trip to the valley Monday.
    Keva Hutchinson and Medford friends enjoyed an outing at Crater Lake last week.
    Two truckloads of young girls passed through this locality on their way to Crater Lake chaperoned by Mrs. Gore. They were the Camp Fire Girls of Medford. Among the crowd were Miss Charlotte Stewart, niece of Oscar Stewart.
    An auto accident occurred last Wednesday just below Floyd Hutchinson's place, when a Ford loaded with Ashland people en route to the lake went over the grade, narrowly escaping the river. One little girl received a fearful fracture above the knee.
    The tourist travel to Crater Lake will exceed all records this year. From twenty-five to two hundred cars pass every day. Only hard-surfaced roads will hold out under such traffic.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart made a business trip to Medford Sunday returning Monday evening.
    The Rogue Elk Resort is enjoying a houseful these days. Mr. and Mrs. [Fred] Burnham of Southern California are spending the summer here. This is their sixth year at the Rogue Elk, which speaks well for Mr. McDonald's management.
    Church and Sunday school every Sunday at Trail, from 10 to 12. Everyone should take advantage of this opportunity.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mr. Vandenberg, who has been living in our town for the past year or more, has moved to Ashland. He with his estimable family will be greatly missed, especially his three daughters, who have been attending our school.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan, who have been visiting their sick daughter, Grace Rennie, returned to their home about a week ago, but remained but a short time, going to Willow Springs to visit their son Benj. and family.
    Noble Zimmerman, who rented a few acres of land off the Tronson place just above our town, sent a small load of beans to Klamath County, by his uncle, Lee Mondsen, but found that the market price would not justify the venture. He is now selling his beans at the Medford cannery.
    George W. Stowell, the chicken king of this section, was in town last Saturday, having a little work done by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, and reported that his hens are laying as well as could be expected during the hot weather, and that his hay crop this year is fine and is threatening to build a new barn, as he has his present barn space about full, and more hay to cut. He promised to come and take me out to his chicken and dairy ranch in the near future and let me see his fine flock of fowls and fine cattle. He is one of our prosperous business men who believes in keeping nothing but the best grades of all kinds of stock and fowls, but when I see for myself, I will have more to say on the subject.
    John Greb, one of our successful farmers, and a part of his family motored through our town a few days ago on their way to Medford.
    Maybelle Miller and Ed Carcey of Ashland and E. V. Russell of Portland were business callers Friday.
    Mrs. W. J. McMillan and Mrs. Fred Hurst of Weed, Calif. were here for supper last Friday evening. Mr. Hurst is a son of Mart Hurst, who passed away several years ago and lived and owned the farm now owned and occupied by Hon. Thos. Riley near Wellen.
    B. W. Paul and Newton C. Cheney of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, were also here for supper Friday and so was Hurst Charley of Medford, Miss Maud Jones of Ashland and L. L. Lowe, the sheriff of Klamath County. They had just came in via Rogue River from Crater Lake.
    Mrs. L. A. Ibson and son of Nevada were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage on their way to visit her brother, Mr. Parr, who has a homestead on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls road. After visiting her brother they expect to go on to Portland and visit other relatives there.
    Mrs. Dolly Jacks, who has been living in the Fred Frideger house, has moved into the Lottie Van Scoy house, she having rented four rooms.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, of Eagle Point, Clay Cole, wife and son of Roseville, Calif., were callers on some of the old friends of the Cole family last Saturday and among them the Sunnyside family.
    W. H. Crandall and family went to Medford last Saturday and while there Mr. Crandall had his car tire overhauled, having new tires and tubes of an extra size and kind put on, paying the difference in the price and on starting home had gone but a short distance when one of the tubes burst beyond redemption and he is at a loss to understand the cause.
    Wm. Perry, our road supervisor, was here Saturday. He had just finished putting in a bridge on Antelope Creek on the Eagle Point-Wellen road and was starting to put in a much-needed bridge across Hog Creek on the river road to French-Dodge bridge.
    Thomas Carlton of Flounce Rock was a business caller on Roy Ashpole Saturday.
    Clem McDonald and wife started last Saturday for their new home in Idaho. They had about everything ready to go some days previous but unforeseen events appeared that caused the delay.
    F. W. Beck and C. A. Barton, state agents for the New World Life Insurance Company, from Portland, were here for supper Saturday.
    Harry Childs, the time keeper for the Charley Delin road-making crew, and who has been here for the past six months or more, but went to Brookings to where Mr. Delin has a contract to build a logging railroad, returned last Sunday to settle up some unsettled business here, finishing up the job Tuesday p.m., and starting on his return trip to Brookings. He reports they are getting along finely with the new contract.
    John Lester of Medford, who is in the employ of the F.L.D. Co., came out and went up to visit his father, Perry Foster and sister, Mrs. Henry French, and when he reached there, found no one at home, as they had all gone up to the natural bridge on Rogue River on a picnic, so he returned here for supper.
    Harry Lewis and his brother, Thomas and George Holmes, our garage men, started Saturday evening to go to the McAllister Soda Springs, returning Sunday evening and report that there is a large number of campers there, having a good time.
    There was a party returned from Crater Lake Sunday evening, among whom were Fred Frideger of Medford and Miss Rose Whaley of Butte Falls.
    Mrs. M. E. Richardson of Butte Falls, who had been out to visit her mother in Jacksonville, was a passenger on the stage Monday on her way home.
    Mrs. S. E. Inlow Albright and her granddaughter, Miss Ethel Inlow of Trail, came out Monday morning and took dinner at the Sunnyside on their way to Medford. W. C. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, wife and a stranger were also here for dinner Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Joe Moomaw and family have returned from their outing up on the McKenzie River about forty miles above Eugene, where they had been to visit Mrs. Moomaw's sister and other relatives.
    John M. Allen and wife of Derby passed through town last Monday on their way home from Medford where they had been for supplies. He reported that the road men in his district were getting along very well with their work. He is the road supervisor in the Butte Falls district and that he was going up beyond Butte Falls to work as he has five bridges to put in out on the Parker road and that his orders from the "powers that be" is to put in no more pole bridges and that he was bothered to know where to get the lumber, but that he could perhaps get it in Butte Falls. Is it not a pretty comment on the state of affairs that people living in the midst of the finest body of timber on the Pacific Coast can't get lumber to build bridges without having to haul it several miles over such roads as they have beyond Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis of Chico, Calif., and Miss Bertha Howell of Ashland passed through here Monday afternoon on their way up to the Fuller place to look it over as they had been directed to it while in Klamath Falls.
    J. Wattenberg, who is farming the John Rader place, was a visitor Tuesday and reported that he had the threshers on his place and that they had a little breakdown and had to stop for repairs.
    There seems to be considerable travel on the road at this time, on the stages as well as the crowds that are going back and forth to and from the various resorts. It is not an uncommon thing for the Butte Falls stage to be loaded to capacity and sometimes they have to wait until the next trip. Last Tuesday Grandma Tungate and four others, all strangers, came out on the stage and owing to the amount of bread being sent out to places beyond here the stage is so crowded that it is difficult to accommodate the passengers. The bread seems to be sent from Portland instead of Medford and the most of it goes to Butte Falls. I suppose the big demand is caused by the campers who are taking their vacations.
    Joseph Geppert and family, who live three miles this side of Butte Falls, passed through here Tuesday on their way to Medford to visit their son Charles, who was operated on for appendicitis. The last report is that Charley is doing as well as could be expected.
    Last Tuesday forenoon George Stowell, our chicken king, drove up to the Sunnyside to take me out to his farm, as he had promised some time ago, since I had expressed a desire to go and see his beautiful home farm and chicken and dairy ranch. So telling the wife where I was going I crawled in--there is not much jumping about me now--and soon we were on our way passing through some of the old farms that I was familiar with fifty years ago, and some of them have the same old rail fences that were built fifty years ago or more, and calling the attention of mine host to them he remarked that they are the best material we have in use now to make a good substantial fence that will turn any animal.
    Leaving the old rail fences I noticed signs of prosperity all along the route, orchards that were young trees a few years ago, when I used to ride over the country and solicit and collect for the Medford Mail Tribune, are now grown and loaded with fruit and instead of the old shacks of olden times new houses and barns have been erected and everything indicates a good degree of prosperity.
    Just before we reached what used to be the old Newman place, George asked if I remembered it and I soon recalled the place and remarked that it was now the Ringwood orchard owned by A. G. Bishop, and he said that he was going to take me out to see it as it would be but a little out of the way, so turning through a gateway we drove perhaps a quarter of a mile to the house, a fine-appearing residence where we got out of the car and walked to the brow of the hill where we could look over the large tract of land that when I first knew it was a thicket of chaparral and small pine trees, now one of the leading orchards of the valley with water sufficient to irrigate the entire tract.
    Retracing our steps, we went on wending our way through farms and orchards until passing through the lower part of the beautiful farm now owned by Miss Rita Nichols and her brother Thomas F. Nichols, and soon were at our destination where I was cordially met by Mrs. Stowell and in a short time by their little son, William Delbert, who had been out trying his luck fishing and came in with two nice trout. It was too warm to do much exploring so the time was spent in general conversation and having my attention called to the changes that had been made on the place since I was "rousty" for my son-in-law's threshing crew in 1898. And what a change there was, for George was then a very young man and the now beautiful farm was then to a great extent covered with brush and timber but now is covered with fields of alfalfa, orchards and shrubbery and all the land under irrigation. After partaking of a hearty dinner and resting a while to let it settle we, that is, George and Delbert--that is the name he goes by--started out to look over the part of the place I was mostly interested in, the poultry and dairy department, but before we were fairly started Delbert had to call my attention to the nice large stream of water that flowed just above the house, and Mrs. Stowell had to show me where she was going to have a milk house built across the ditch where the cream would keep cool in spite of the hot weather.
    But leaving Mrs. Stowell and Delbert for the time being George and I started to explore the chicken department or rather the hennery for it is strictly a hennery as they keep no roosters or young chicks but buy young pullets to replenish their stock after the present flock of hens have been kept as long as they are profitable, for the plan is to feed them so as to make them continue to lay almost continuously until they are about two years old or less, and then sell them off and replenish the stock with pullets. They have read up and studied the subject of egg production until they have reached the point so that they can tell to a certainty when the hens have about finished their usefulness and then they change them for others. The first place we visited was what he calls his modern hen house, a building about 30x60 or 70 feet with walls about seven feet high and the walls are so constructed that the center all along both sides is made of chicken wire fencing about four or five feet wide that is to ensure plenty of fresh air, and these openings are covered with canvas so as to keep out the cold in winter. But I see that I am making this letter too long so will try to finish it next week.
    Buster Mathews and two strangers were here for supper Monday night and later a stranger came in and spent the night.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 16, 1921, page 4


P.&E. STATION AT EAGLE POINT IS BURNED UP
    Structure Is Completely Destroyed at Estimated Loss of $3000--Barbed Wire and Gasoline Stored in Building--Vandals Suspected.
    EAGLE POINT, Ore., Aug. 16--(Special) The Pacific & Eastern depot at Eagle Point was completely destroyed by fire late Saturday night at an estimated loss of $3000. In addition to the building, 1500 pounds of barbed wire, a barrel of gasoline and sundry other articles stored in the building were destroyed.
    The fire was discovered by E. J. Dietz, who has charge of the Eagle Point water tank, when he went to the station to secure some water. He made an effort to rescue the barrel of gasoline by throwing a rope over it but the flames gained headway too rapidly and he was forced to retire. As there was no hose available and Eagle Point has no fire department, there was no way of saving the structure.
    Dietz found the gasoline tap open and the liquid running on the floor and believes someone was in there stealing gas, and perhaps going out dropped a lighted match on the floor. It is also known that men had been in the habit of playing cards in the station Saturday nights.
    No officials of the Pacific & Eastern, now owned by W. M. Olds, are in Medford so the exact loss, amount of insurance and plans for rebuilding cannot be obtained. L. B. Buhrman, manager of the P.&E., who has been spending the summer in Michigan, will return to Medford about the first of the month.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 16, 1921, page 6
VAWTER AND BILL ISAACS 'ALMOST' FOUND BRUMFIELD
    The chase for Dr. R. M. Brumfield, the Roseburg dentist arrested near Calgary, Canada, last week, after a month's flight, for the murder of Dennis Russell, hermit-laborer, found an echo in the hills adjacent to Prospect last Friday. The hardy mountaineers, 20 strong, were organized into a posse by Jim Grieve and were all ready to start out with their Winchesters oiled when a telegram came from Canada saying that the much-wanted dentist was in jail there.
    The clues that excited the natives and mayor of Prospect were furnished by William F. (Toggery) Isaacs and William Vawter, cashier of the Jackson County Bank, who are on a hunting and fishing trip to Eastern Oregon. They showed up at Jim Grieve's place Friday morning with six fish, and the startling information that Dr. Brumfield had been at their camp. This news was whispered to Jim Grieve in a mysterious whisper, and he telephoned Sheriff Terrill. The sheriff instructed that a posse be formed, and to await his coming.
    The six fish were fried and devoured by Messrs. Isaacs and Vawter, and they went on their way. Mr. Grieve telephoned to Roseburg to verify the description of Dr. Brumfield. The mountaineers, their rifles glistening in the sunshine, anxiously waited the coming of the sheriff. Then came the message from Medford that Dr. Brumfield was caught plowing a wheat field 2700 miles due north of where Messrs. Vawter and Isaacs thought they saw him.
    The posse went back to their cabins. The mountain air was blue with smoke from forest fires and other causes.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 17, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    When I stopped writing last Saturday, I was trying to describe the modern hen house, and had gone as far as to tell about the size of the house and how the sides were arranged for comfort and convenience. The roosts are arranged so that the hens do not have to fly very high to sleep, about four or five feet, and they are arranged along the center of the building lengthways the whole length of the building in rows of about five roosts about sixteen inches apart, having a partition between the two rows of roosts so as to keep them all separate, and under the roosts there is an inclined floor so arranged that all the droppings light on it and every morning the manure is cleaned off, as the roosts are made of pine scantling 2x2 inches and they are so arranged that they are stationary but easily removed for cleaning purposes, and these platforms are arranged so a man takes a box on a wheelbarrow and sweeps everything into it.
    In order to prevent the hens from roosting on the crosspieces used to tie the rafters together there is a strand of chicken wire fencing nailed underneath them. Running all along the length of the house on both sides of the partition he has arranged under the dropping boards rows of electric lights, also electric lights arranged about the center of the room above the roosts, so that when he wants to wake the hens up he simply turns a button and thus turns on the light and the hens will leave the roosts and go to scratching for food. After the hens have gone to roost he goes in and scatters wheat all around on the floor, ready for the birds to commence their daily task. His idea is to keep the hens busy all the time and instead of placing their breakfast before them so that they can gulp down all they can eat at once he has them work for it a grain at a time. Before they go to roost they are fed about all the shelled corn they can eat. During the interval between the breakfast and supper they have free access to all the cracked wheat and oats they want.
    In addition to what I have already mentioned they also have free access to all they want of oyster shell and charcoal and occasionally they are fed a ration of ground bone.
    The house I have been describing is supposed to accommodate about three hundred hens. The other hen houses are not quite so modern but are arranged for the comfort and health of the birds. At the time I was there he had only about 460, as he had sold off some two hundred hens that had accomplished their purpose.
    Mr. Stowell has his ditches so arranged that he has running water in every department so that the fowls can have at all times plenty of good cold pure water to drink. I should have said when speaking of feeding his hens that he gives them a regular ration of curdled milk every day.
    Mr. Stowell has an oil-burning motor that he uses to generate his electricity that enables him to have lights not only in his house but also in his barn, hen houses and yards so that he can turn on or off the lights while in bed. He usually aims to turn on the lights about 6 a.m. in winter. He not only [omission] hennery but all over the barn and other outbuildings.
    After I had seen all there was to see in that department and seen the four hundred and sixty hens, all white Leghorns, fed all in one flock we turned our attention to the dairy department. He is keeping fourteen fine dairy cows besides a fine blooded Guernsey bull and seven thoroughbred heifer calves. These all run on fine pasture in the daytime and at night are put up and fed. Each cow goes to her stanchion and after being fed and milked are turned out again to pasture. Mr. Stowell complains of not having barn room enough, as he has his barn full of hay and another cutting of alfalfa to cut and put away, probably fifty tons.
    I have taken considerable space in giving an account of my visit to the Stowell chicken and dairy ranch, but if the reading of the above proves to be as interesting to the reader as the visit was to me I will feel that I have not written in vain.
    Harry L. Heryford and son George and daughter of Butte Falls came out from Medford a week ago this Wednesday morning on their way home. The little boy, George, had broken his arm and they had been to Medford to have it treated.
    George A. Sanders, formerly of the Antelope orchard but now of Prospect, was a business caller the same day.
    Ralph Dunlap and wife of Trail were also here on business the same day.
    Mrs. L. A. Gibson and son of Nevada, who had been up to visit her brother, Mr. Parr of Derby, came out on the stage on her way to Portland.
    Leland Charley of Brownsboro came in and spent the night. He was on his way to Reese Creek with one of the county rock crushers.
    George W. Daley, Jr., has been getting out lumber from the Dupray mill to build a barn on the place he recently purchased.
    J. Frank Brown and wife started Thursday on a trip to Canada intending to go to. Vancouver, B.C., and from there to Chicago and other cities in the East.
    Mr. Lyons of Yakima, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Farris and daughter Clara were here for dinner on their way from Crater Luke.
    W. H. Fields and C. C. Pierce of Medford were also guests at the Sunnyside.
    Born, Aug. 6th to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Johnson, a son.
    Thomas Pullen and family of California are here visiting Mrs. Pullen's parents, John L. Robinson and family.
    John W. Smith of the old J. W. Smith farm was here on business.
    Ed Cowden, one of our busy farmers and dairy men, went to Medford.
    Mrs. Applegate of the Buzzard mine on Elk Creek was a passenger on the stage Friday morning going home.
    Miss Agnes and Irene Stewart of Medford were passengers on the Eagle Point stage and went out on the Lake Creek stage for Lake Creek.
    Eugene J. Dietz and R. Charles Barrett of Salem came in Aug. 12 and took rooms. They are here running the sprinkler on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Mr. Chaney, Sam Courtney and Miss Ella Belford were guests Thursday noon at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs of Medford, Miss Cabanier Frazier of Oakland, Calif., Miss Esther Silverman of Portland on her way to Honolulu, guests of A. W. Hubbs, were here for dinner Sunday. Also Mr, Guy Mattoon, Mrs. Albert Clements and son Richard Whitley of Prospect, J. W. Frey and O. Ethely of Lake Creek and W. Miller and brother Gordon Miller of Trail.
    I omitted to state in the proper place that our depot here at Eagle Point was burned to the ground Saturday night about 10 o'clock. There is a mystery as to the cause of the fire but it is generally supposed to have been caused by accident. There has already been mention made of the incident in the Mail Tribune so that it is not necessary for me to add more, but we the citizens of Eagle Point and vicinity feel that it is a great loss to the town and community.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 18, 1921, page 5
RIVER AT TRAIL NOW CROWED WITH TOURISTS
    TRAIL, Ore., Aug. 19.--A small fire, started no doubt by careless hunters and fishermen, was fast making its way into the big timber across the river from Floyd Hutchinson's place. The early arrival of Mr. Poole and several helpers put an end to it.
    Every nook and corner along Rogue River from Trail to Prospect are occupied by campers. Many are catching good-sized steelheads and cutthroats.
    Wednesday evening, August 10, a wedding took place in the parlors of the Rogue Elk, when Rev. J. E. McDonald joined in wedlock Mr. Ralph Dunlap and Miss Dolly Hayes, both well-known Trail people.
    Friends and acquaintances extend best wishes for a long, happy and useful wedded life.
    The Thomas family left for a few days' outing. Expect to visit Crater Lake and places of scenic interest along the way.
    Mr. and Mrs. Farrier and daughter were looking over property in this locality. They expect to locate in Jackson County.
    Superintendent Howell of the U.S. Fisheries began taking salmon eggs Thursday. 
    A: party from Roseburg en route to the lake will present the scalp of a coyote for bounty on their return, which they killed in the Rogue River ranch meadows.
    Guests for dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart and daughter Winifred Lee and Miss Enid Middlebusher.
    We are glad to announce that Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn are the proud parents of an eight and a half pound boy.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston are enjoying a visit with their daughter and new granddaughter, Helen Loraine.
    Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and daughter, Gwyn, were pleasant callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday.
    A jolly bunch gathered with Mr. and Mrs. Jess Clary Saturday evening. Games and good "eats" were enjoyed.
    The Rogue Elk is a lively place these days.
    Mr. and Mrs. Haseltine of Southern California left for Portland after six weeks' camping here. They were delighted with Jackson County.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hall and twin sons, Mr. Johnson of Weiser, Idaho, after traveling ever since last December, have decided to make Jackson County their home. They were looking over property in our county Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    C. W. Abbott, Ernest Abbott, Thos. O'Brien and Walter O'Brien. all of Butte Falls, were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Saturday of last week on their way to Blue Canyon for an outing and intend to catch what fish they can eat, as that is said to be one of the best places to fish around here, and after John Allen, the road supervisor for that road district, gets good roads built in that section, will be as great a resort as any of the noted camping grounds in the county.
    Ed Steep and wife stopped here for dinner on their way up Rogue River for an outing.
    R. B. Price, one of the contractors on the unit on the Crater Lake Highway between Hog Creek and the new Rogue River bridge, was in town and reports that they are about through with their part of the road work, and speaking about the road work on the Crater Lake Highway, the work of putting the crushed rock on it is progressing quite well, but the force of sprinklers is entirely too small, as there is but one sprinkler, and although that is kept running twenty hours a day it can hardly make an impression, as they have to haul the water so far, two miles, and the ground and rock is so dry that it hardly makes an impression. There ought to be at least two or three sprinklers in use all the time. I understand that somebody is paying the men who attend to pumping the water and filling the tank for sprinkling six dollars a day and he could just as well fill tree or four of them as the one he does fill and thus save the taxpayers that much extra expense. And while I am on the subject I will call the attention of those who have charge of the job to the condition of the Cingcade hill, for it is so that it is very difficult for two cars to pass, as as soon as either of them gets out of the beaten road so as to pass, the crushed rock and sand and fine gravel simply gives way under the car wheels and they simply spin around, and the car stands still.
    There was two truckloads of shakes came out from Butte Falls Saturday on their way to the valley, and about the same time Mr. Hughes brought out a truckload of shingles, a part for Ernest Dahack, our barber and the rest for David Cingcade, to be used to reroof his house on his farm.
    Sunday was one of those delightful days, as the electric storm in the hills and at Fort Klamath has cooled the air and made it pleasant to ride out and the result was that there was quite a number took advantage of the weather and started out for a ride or fishing excursion. Among those who stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner whose names I secured, for often people come in, eat and after paying the bill start right off so that I do not secure the names, were Mrs. Cook and her daughter, Miss Cook of Jacksonville. Miss Cook is the bookkeeper in the foresters' office in Medford. Frank Rothrock and wife of Central Point; Mrs. C. S. Hall of Albany, Ore.; F. O. Stinson and son, Benjamin, E. G. Finnie, T. E. May, Wayne May and J. H. Jones of Medford, Jerry Lewis, Eagle Point; Mr. Hash, Jr., of the Fred Pelouze place and Ralph Zimmerman of Butte Falls; F. F. White of Ashland and Thomas Long of Climax.
    Mr. and Mrs. East were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage last Monday on their way to Peyton to visit her brothers and families, Frank and Gus Ditsworth and Mrs. Carl Richardson.
    Mr. W. W. Parker and Mrs. M. L. Richardson of Butte Falls spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside, going on up home Sunday morning.
    Mrs. S. E. Inlow, Albright and her granddaughter, Miss Ethel Inlow of Trail, were also passengers on the Medford-Eagle Point stage, bound for home, going on the Eagle Point-Trail stage.
    Fred Stanley of Lake Creek, a brother of Roy Thomas and Carl Stanley, was in town in company with his brother Carl and wife on business Monday.
    John M. Allen, wife and daughter Alta and one of their neighbors, Mr. Marion, all of Derby, were here Tuesday on their way to Medford, Mr. Allen is not only one of the prominent stock men and farmers of Derby, but is also a rustling good road supervisor for the Butte Falls road district.
    Mr. George V. Janis and Lulu Hewlett of Ashland called for supper Tuesday evening.
    C. D. Thomsen, Medford and C. M. Alexander of Corvallis, D. M. Watts and wife were diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. Adams and sister, Mrs. Minnie Potter and son Roscoe and daughter Minnie and Mr. Leo Watson of Modoc County, California, were over here Wednesday afternoon visiting some of their old-time neighbors. Mr. Adams and his sister, Mrs. Potter, lived some twenty or thirty years ago on the place now owned and occupied by our county commissioner, James Owens. They had been visiting a sister now living in Medford, and took a run out to hunt up the writer of the Eagle Point Eaglets, as they were neighbors in an early day. They noted quite a change in our valley since they were here before, and when they began to inquire about their old neighbors found that they had about all passed off or moved to other places, as they could find only Mr. and Mrs. Joe Riley, now living on the old Linksweiler place at the auto camp bridge.
    Last Wednesday I made a trip to Medford and when I had attended to what business I had, while standing on the sidewalk, I heard my name called and on looking around found that it was Mr. John Gore and wife, who are living on the old Gore farm near Phoenix and they invited me to ride out to my home with then, as they were going out to the Fred Pelouze place, so I gladly accepted the invitation and started and had a fine visit with them, talking over the incidents of the past fifty years, and recalled incidents that passed when we were all young, and in the prime of life.
    Born, August 15 to the wife of W. G. Smith, a bright baby girl, and when Mr. Smith gave me the item he also gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun.
    The same day Ernest Dahack, our barber, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 22, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mr, and Mrs. S. B. Woodson of Seattle, Wash., was here last week visiting at the home of our neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the efficient lady saleswoman in the Nichols store, made a business trip to Ashland last Thursday.
    Mrs. Lewis Robertson of Eastern Oregon was here Thursday on business.
    Last Thursday, while Mr. Eugene J. Dietz, one of the men employed running the sprinkler on the C.L.H. now in course of construction, was sprinkling the crushed rock that is being put on it, something gave way about the motor and he had to send to Salem for a new part, delaying the work until Saturday noon.
    Thursday afternoon, as I was sauntering over town in search of items of interest to write for the Daily Mail Tribune, I met Mr. E. G. Eames and brother H. Eames of Chico, Calif, and Cadon Wilson of Gilroy, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Spratt, Gilroy, Calif., and Dr. Wallace and wife of Pomona, Calif., on their way to Crater Lake.
    The travel to see that seventh wonder of the world seems to be increasing, although for a while it seemed to slack up, but now it seems to be on the increase again and people who live on the Bybee bridge road seem to think that most of the travel is on that route. There is quite a number of tourists pass through here who never stop at all unless it happens to be very warm and then occasionally some of them stop to get a soda or ice cream at F. Lewis' confectionery or at Ashpole's hardware store for gas or oil and quite often they stop on their way to Medford at the Sunnyside for supper.
    J. A. Clauson, the Dalles, Oregon, farmer. came in Thursday p.m. to visit his brother, who is boarding and rooming at the Sunnyside. and spent a few days with him. Mr. C. is the engineer who has charge of the construction of the bridges on the C.L.H. including the Antelope, already completed, Little Butte Creek, Hog Creek, Reese Creek, Indian Creek and Rogue River bridges.
    Carl Richardson, wife and son John of Flounce Rock came in Thursday evening and remained until Saturday afternoon. They came out to go to Medford, but had trouble with their car and had to stop here for repairs.
    Miss Viva Town of Lake Creek, who has been working in Medford, came out on the stage and went up home on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    Ray Parker of Butte Falls was a passenger on the M.-B.F. stage on his way home. He has been working at the Weed mill, California, and is taking a vacation. He reports that another one of our Butte Falls citizens who is working over there, Everett Abbott, met with a minor accident, having been caught in the cable in dragging logs, and was scratched up considerable, but not seriously hurt.
    C. E. Bellows was in town Friday of last week, and among other things he purchased was several feet of pipe to be used in bringing water from a spring down to the house.
    Among the tourists passing through here Thursday was Mr. A. Stertman of Merced, Calif., on his way to Crater Lake.
    Henry Childs, the timekeeper for Charles Delin, has been here off and on at the Sunnyside for several days looking after the finishing up the job of the grading of the C.L.H. There is a lot of little things to look after, like finishing up the grading at the end of the bridges, that cannot be done until after the bridges are completed, and he is here to see that that job is properly attended to.
    Thomas F. Nichols and family have moved off of the farm owned by himself and his sister Ruth and moved into his own house, formerly occupied by Mr. Van Hardenburg, and I understand that the farm is now in the care of Clifford Hickson.
    Mrs. Victoria Musso, a sister of Mrs. Ernest Dahack, the wife of our barber, has been visiting the Dahack family.
    Mrs. W. L. Childreth made a business trip to Medford last Saturday.
    Wm. Perry and wife made a business trip to Seattle, Washington, last week.
    W. S. Chappell, who owns and for some time operated a shoe shop here, but finally invested in a sawmill on Trail Creek, came out Saturday to spend a few days and reports that they are disposing of all the lumber they can saw.
    The report reached me Saturday that last Friday, August 19th, the barn and hen house of Mrs. John Warner, living about two and a half miles above Trail, on Trail Creek, was burned and quite a number of chickens were burned in the hen house. Mrs. Warner, the widow of the late John Warner, is living on the old home place with her younger children, and her son John Jr. is managing the affairs of the family. I did not learn the particulars as to the origin of the fire or the amount of the loss.
    E. D. Rose of Wellen, who lives on Yankee Creek, was in town Saturday, having his team shod. Mrs. Harvey (Susie) Smith, and her two children, moved her household goods from here to Rogue River last Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heckner of Brownsboro were here Saturday on their way home.. They had been to Medford preparing poisoned grain to be used to destroy the digger squirrel. He is the agent employed by the U.S. government to destroy the rodents on government land, and also supplies the farmers with the prepared grain at cost, to be used on the farms.
    Miss Vera Kershaw and little Miss Theodosia von der Hellen of Wellen drove in with the mail last Saturday, and while here Miss Kershaw was taken with a fainting spell, but Mrs. Mack Applegate of Elk Creek, the Buzzard mine, was with them, waiting for a way to get to Medford, and administered to her wants and she soon was able to proceed on her way with the Wellen mail.
    M. L. and Dwight Linker, two teamsters from California, passed through here to Crater Lake Saturday.
    Mr. Burdick, formerly of Ashland, but now of California, passed through here with Walter Woods Saturday. Mr. Burdick is a stockman and a few years ago was here considerable buying hogs and cattle.
    Saturday there was quite a number of people at the Sunnyside for dinner, but the most of them were strangers, but among them known to me were Mr. Rynning, the civil engineer who has charge of the road work on the C.L.H., B. R. Price, one of the contractors on the C.L.H., with Mr. F. Rhodes and five strangers.
    Carl Taylor, son of Mrs. Royal G. Brown, and family came in Friday to visit his mother and sister, Mrs. W. H. Brown of this place.
    Donnie McGee and family, including his wife's mother, Mrs. R. Manon, of Glendale, came down to look over his old home and its surroundings. Donnie McGee lived in our town when a youth for several years, and later lived in Medford. He was very much surprised to see such remarkable changes as have taken place in the past 10 or 12 years since he left here. While here inquiry was made about his sister Stella and he said that she has a family and [is] living on Snake River in a canyon where they have to pack in everything except when the boats are running, that they were in the cattle business, and that occasionally they lose a few head when they get too close to the edge of the cliff and the dirt gives way and they tumble over down into the canyon.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 26, 1921, page 7
FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS TRAIL FARM
    A disastrous fire occurred at Mr. Warner's place on Trail Creek. Their barn containing twenty-five tons of hay, one of their best horses and most of their farming implements were destroyed. Their friends and acquaintances hear with regret of their loss.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell of the U.S. Fisheries are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bailey of California. Mrs. Bailey is a sister of Mr. Howell. A niece of Mr. Howell is also visiting them from the Willamette Valley. They will visit the lake before returning home.
    Stewart Brothers are gathering the cattle to take to the Abbott Butte range the first of the week.
    Medford need no longer send travel by way of Eagle Point. The Bybee bridge route as far as Trail has been graded, sprinkled, smoothed down by the grader and again sprinkled. The tourists and Medford camping parties will find this route an enjoyable trip to Crater Lake.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart and little daughter Lee drove to Medford Tuesday.
    Daddy Vaughn passed through Trail Monday. He had been in Medford visiting his wife and getting acquainted with his new son Donald Raymond.
    Mr. Thomas of the Tony ranch hurt his hand quite seriously while working at the Trail sawmill and had to go to Medford for medical treatment.
    James Stewart of the Stewart apiaries of Medford and daughters Fern and Ruth and son George and niece Mildred were picnicking in our locality Sunday and spent a delightful time visiting with the Stewarts.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 26, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Geo. F. Hill of Trail was a business caller the last of the week.
    Sunday Daniel Dorn, Mrs. Dorn, Ernest Dorn, Olive Hogan, Patricia Hogan and Viola Hogan, all of Applegate, called for supper.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hawks and daughter Gladys, a brother-in-law and sister of our saleslady in the T. E. Nichols store, visiting her sister, Mrs. R. A. Weidman, last Monday morning started bright and early for Rogue River to try their luck fishing. Mr. Hawks and family live in Portland and said that they had heard so much about what a fine stream Rogue River was to fish in he could hardly wait until they had their breakfast before they started for the river. I did not learn the result of the excursion.
    John Painter and two sons of Central Point passed through here Monday on their way to the Huckleberry Mountain, to be gone several days.
    Russ Moore and family of Lake Creek and Gus Nichols and family started the last of the week for Crater Lake and the waystations between here and there and returned Thursday evening.
    V. W. Kirkpatrick and E. H. Folson called for dinner on their way up to work on the Rogue River ditch.
    Mrs. H. A. Baker, mother of Mrs. Andrew Poole of Trail, came out Monday morning and went on to Medford to take the northbound train for her home at Canyonville, Ore.
    Messrs. H. A. Baker and A. J. Butler of Reno, Nevada were guests at the Sunnyside the first of the week on their way to visit Crater Lake.
    Lee Bradshaw, one of the prominent and hustling farmers of Brownsboro, was a business caller the first of the week and so was Mrs. O. M. Schutt of Derby.
    Lester Hickson of Bly, Ore., a son of the foreman on the Ringwood orchard, was a guest at the Sunnyside at noon last Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Henry of the Sunny Cliff orchard, Medford, were here Monday for dinner on their way to Crater Lake.
    Mr. and Mrs. Likes of Portland passed through here on their way from the hills and in the journey took a view of Crater Lake and the surrounding country and during the interview I asked Mrs. Likes what she thought of the scenery from Fort Klamath on coming this way and she raised her hands and exclaimed it's wonderful, for the reader will remember that it is not only the lake itself, but the scenery all along the route from here to where Anna Creek empties into Wood River is simply beyond description.
    Sharon Hawk and family of Butte Falls passed through here on their way up home. Mr. Hawk is operating the old Hawk mill on Clarks Creek, now the property of Mr. Conley, who owns and is living on the John Higinbotham place, and I have noticed that they have been sending out a quantity of fruit box material.
    Volney J. Rose, Medford, Marion Stillman, Pete O'Connor, Wallace and Ruth Dixon of Doris and C. H. Natwick were here for supper Monday night. Mr. Natwick has charge of the road work on Reese Creek so far as the crushed rock is concerned and from what he says will have the crusher in operation by the time this is in type. He reports that the Vestal cutoff is already so that it can be used and by using that route will save quite a distance in travel and save going over some steep hills.
    At the school meeting held Saturday, Aug. 20th Mr. J. L. Linn was elected school clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. McDonald.
    R. Hulse of Brownsboro, manager of the Archibald farm just above town, was here for dinner.
    Wm. H. Brown and wife and Mrs. Brown's brother, Carl Taylor, and family started for Crater Lake Tuesday and returned Friday evening.
    When it became known Tuesday that the sheriff and his posse had succeeded in arresting Wilbur (Wig) Jacks on a charge of bootlegging there was a little the most excitement in our usually quiet little town that I have seen for a long time and his friends, ten or twelve of them, had congregated at one of the prominent business centers, Roy Ashpole's, on the sidewalk, and were discussing the probable result, and in case of conviction what the penalty would be, some thinking that he would get off with a light fine while some predicted a sentence of five hundred dollars fine and six months imprisonment.
    Another furor of excitement raised in our quiet little town was the arrest of Mrs. Clarence Robinett, formerly of this place, a daughter of one of our prominent citizens, on orders from Astoria, Ore., on a complaint of a Greek with whom she had business in a picture show. But when her father, Wm. Perry, went up and asked the district attorney when the case would be brought up was told that it could not be before the middle of next week, but when Wm. Perry expressed his opinion of him and his clique and told him that it was a put-up job to extort money from the women, he, Mr. Perry, went and employed a lawyer and told him what the district attorney had said. His lawyer told him to come back in an hour or two and he would tell him when the case would be called, and going to the lawyer's office was told that it would be at 3 o'clock that afternoon and on going to the office of the justice of the peace the district attorney said to the parties that if it would suit them the case would be dismissed. Mr. Perry says that it was a scheme on the part of the only man who has any money to rob Mr. and Mrs. Robinett out of about $250, and got the Greek, an irresponsible man, to swear out the warrant and thus scare him. So Mrs. Robinett is entirely exonerated from all blame, but she and her husband were dragged up there, some 400 miles, and turned loose to find their way back to their home the best way they could. It looks to an ordinary layman as though there should be some provision made so that when the state or county authorities arrest an innocent person and take them away from their home and the charge is not sustained that the least the state could do would be to reimburse the party enough to pay back what money they are out.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 29, 1921, page 3
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ottoman and children of Medford were picnicking Sunday in this vicinity and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart.
    The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Middlebusher will be pleased to hear they are the proud parents of a fine boy.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daughter Wanda Joy were Medford callers last week.
    Miss Mildred and Fern Stewart of Medford returned home Saturday after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
    Mrs. George Thomas and Thel Thomas motored to Medford Saturday evening. Mrs. Thomas will visit for a few days with friends.
    Mrs. Leabo is visiting her daughter, Mrs. George Weeks. They were pleasant callers at the S. W. Hutchinson home Wednesday.
    Gene Howell and F. L. Hutchinson of the United States Fisheries are placing fish racks in Butte Creek preparatory for taking salmon eggs in that creek also.
    Ask Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ottoman about this locality as a place to spend one's vacation. They were interested in the line of cars going and coming all day and the splendid accommodations at the Rogue Elk Resort.
    Thoughtful husbands are relieving their wives of the tiresome task of preparing a picnic lunch by stopping at  the Resort, where splendid dinners are served at a much less cost, and all sorts of refreshing drinks and dainties are there for your comfort.
    Men are seeking a place of absolute rest, away from the daily routine and worry of their business, often forgetting that their wives would enjoy and appreciate the same treat and go home with new interest in preparing those three "squares" or two whichever it is.
    Dr. and Mrs. Thayer of Medford were looking over shady nooks along the river Wednesday for a summer camp. They were pleasant callers at the Rogue River ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. Burnham of Southern California returned from a business trip and are at the Rogue Elk again.
    Guests at the Rogue Elk Monday from other states were: Dr. and Mrs. Claire, Oakland, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Foster, Modesto, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Gill, Woodland, Cal., Dr. and Mrs. Sausa, San Francisco, John Haufman, St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. James Denholm, Portland.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Middlebusher and the former's mother, Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher, are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Olsen at Bend, Ore.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dawson and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson, Minnie Poole, J. D. Pearce, Mrs. F. Sturgis and Mrs. E. E. Ash left for the huckleberry patch Monday.
    Mr. Pelle just finished a fine bridge across West Branch on Elk Creek, which the people will greatly appreciate.
    Esther Mechem spent Tuesday with Irma Ash at Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe spent Friday and Saturday in Medford, where Mrs. Howe was having her eyes treated.
    Roy Vaughn passed through Trail on his way to Medford Tuesday morning. Mrs. Vaughn and little son Donald expect to return home with him.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Poole and Mrs. U. Graham returned from the huckleberry patch Monday with 40 gallons of berries.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Inlow of Beagle were Sunday callers at the Albright home.
    Jesse Ragsdale has been delivering beef for Ray Warner the past few days.
    Mrs. Leabo left Monday for Harrisburg, after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gaines and Mr. and Mrs. M. Applegate of Medford were pleasant callers at the Ash home Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 2, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Wm. Winkle, who moved from here a year or more ago to Bend, concluded that this is a better place to live than Bend so has returned, bringing his wife with him. Some time before he left here he lost his wife and was left with a family of children on his hands and having secured another helpmate came back to his old home.
    There is getting to be considerable travel on all of our local stages and as a rule Lewis' jitney is well loaded, although the traffic to the hills does not seem to be as great as it was earlier in the season, but the regular stages running between Medford and Crater Lake seem to be quite well loaded.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby has started in to supply this section with some fine young beef and expects to keep it up as long as possible.
    Among the business callers at the Sunnyside and business visitors since my last report were H. H. Williams, traveling salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, Wm. Cottrell, one of the leading farmers and stockmen of the Trail country, O. F. Brown of Seattle, F. Camp, representing the Western Sugar Refinery, San Francisco, the last two named were traveling salesmen; Miss May French and her brother Lloyd French, J. H. Cochran and wife were here for dinner.
    Geo. L. Yost was also here trying to introduce some new medical remedies, but this part of the country is so healthy that there is not much demand for anything for the inner man except the regular substantials of life such as we procure from the groceries and meat market.
    E. V. Dahack, our popular barber, had another one of his wife's sisters to visit him from Seattle, Mrs. M. A. Dahack. She only remained a short time and hurried on her journey south to California. Speaking of Mr. Dahack his father Eli Dahack had the misfortune to lose one of his team, a valuable mare, from blood poison. He had a veterinary come out from Medford but found that she was too far gone to help her.
    Mrs. John McPherson, who went to Portland to meet her husband who had just returned from a trip to China, has returned, he having gone to San Francisco.
    Roy Ashpole, Thos. F. Nichols, Harry Lewis and David Smith went out last week to try their luck gathering berries and fishing and spent a few days enjoying the cool mountain air and pure water.
    C. W. Spence, a brother of A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, was in town and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did T. F. McCabe, who brought in a fine lot of plums to the Eagle Point market.
    Mrs. Percy Haley made a business trip to Medford last Thursday.
    Mrs. R. Chas. Parent of Salem, Ore., came in Thursday afternoon to meet her husband, who is running one of the sprinklers on the Crater Lake Highway, who has a room at the Sunnyside. And I will say right here that the county authorities have put two sprinklers on the Crater Lake Highway and that they have wet down and leveled up the Cingcade hill so that cars can pass each other without any trouble.
    The same afternoon that Mrs. Parrott came in Master Reagan Allen of Centralia, Wash., aged 10 years, came in and spent the night. He had ridden a burro from Butte Falls and said that he had an oak club to pound him along with and that he was tired out. He is a relative by marriage to Asahel Hubbard of Medford and about as bright a boy as I have met for some time.
    Mrs. G. E. Armstrong, her daughter, Miss Alice, and her son Warren Armstrong came in during the night and roused up Mrs. Alice Daley, who was in charge of the Sunnyside at that time, as the landlady and her daughter--they don't like to have their names put in print--were away on a trip to Crescent City and took beds for the rest of the night. In trying to pass the sprinkler on the Cingcade hill they turned out to give room for it to pass and when they attempted to pull back into the hard-traveled road broke something about the car so they had to leave it and Mr. Armstrong went to Medford with F. Lewis Monday to get a new piece to repair it.
    Leonard Charley, Henry Trusty, Adin Haselton, C. H. Natwick, Carlyle Natwick, Pliney Leabo and several others whose names I didn't secure or know spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Sometime between 3 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday Miss Josephine Riley and George Holmes, our garage man, were united in marriage and at 6 a.m. Sunday they started for Crater Lake on a honeymoon trip.
    Mr. Holmes is in the garage business here, he having bought out his partner some weeks ago and Mrs. Holmes was the principal of our school here last term, and she has been employed to teach our school to commence the 5th of the coming month, September. The couple have a number of friends here who are congratulating them over their success so far in life and are hoping for the future.
    Miss Anna Klum of Medford was here Saturday visiting her aunt, Mrs. Allen Denton, and Mrs. Denton reports that she has had during the week as visitors J. A. Humphreys and family from Albany, J. W. Humphreys from Wilbur, and William Humphrey and family of Ashland, the latter a sister of Mrs. Allen Denton. The party have been on an outing at Fish Lake.
    Sunday we had as visitors for dinner Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Medley and son John, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Alder and baby Alice of Medford, F. A. Crane of Lake Creek, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Branam and Mrs. Homer Stephenson of Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 2, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. E. Hammond, one of our prominent farmers and orchardists, and Fred Arnes, brother to the foreman on the: Edgell orchard, were business callers the first of the week.
    The work on the different roads throughout this part of tie country seems to be progressing fairly well. The Rogue River bridge on the Crater Lake Highway has been completed and the men who are to do the finishing up of the approaches to the Butte Creek bridge are to move their machinery down from where they have been using it on the Rhodes and Price unit of the Crater Lake Highway are to go to work on the filling in of the approaches on that bridge Friday.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, who brought a fine thoroughbred red Jersey sow some weeks ago from Mr. Hurst, one he brought from Missouri last spring, sold one of her pigs, a boar, for twenty-five dollars to J. E. Mason, manager of a fine stock ranch on Bear Creek near Tolo. In mentioning the sale of the sow to Mr. Childreth I stated that the sow was eight months old when it should have been sixteen months old. Mr. Hurst when he sold her expected to leave here and go to California, but I see that he is still here and is undecided as to where he will settle.
    Carl Bergman and Roy Summers were passengers on the stage on their way to Trail the first of the week.
    William von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, and wife went to Portland on business. Mr. von der Hellen, in addition to being a hardware merchant, is also one of the leading contractors in the construction of roads, he having now on hand the construction of a three-mile unit on the Tiller cutoff between Canyonville and Trail and also has the contract for putting the crushed rock on the unit between the desert beginning at the top of the Cingcade hill and running to Trail.
    Ralph Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous stockmen and farmers, was in town Tuesday.
    Mr. Cummings, the man appointed to look after the water interests of the farmers, was here for supper last Tuesday.
    J. W. Dressler of the Page-Dressler Co. real estate, Medford, and G. W. Barker of the Butte Falls Bank, David Rummels, Prospect and William Cottrell of Trail were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. M. L. Richardson and two girls were passengers on the stage for her home in Butte Falls. She had her children out to Jacksonville with her mother and was taking them home to attend school this winter.
    Speaking on the subject of schools, I was informed by Mr. S. H. Harnish Friday morning that the school board had decided to postpone the commencement of our school for another week so that it will not begin until Monday, Sept. 12th.
    There has been another change in the management of the post office and telephone office business, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Mrs. Estella Haley will be in charge of the telephone department and Miss Nettie Coy will have charge of the bookkeeping and the post office department.
    A. J. Florey and wife, and brother Judge Florey and Mrs. Florey's aunt, Hattie Shadduck of Portland were here for dinner last Wednesday. Mrs. Shadduck is a sister of Mrs. Anderson of Medford, whose husband is in charge of the Standard Oil Co. business in Medford and is down here visiting relatives.
    C. M. Sullivan, salesman for Parks Bros., Portland, and R. B. Price, one of the contractors on the unit between Hog Creek and the new Rogue River bridge, were here for dinner Wednesday and so was Earl Zimmerman of Butte Falls, and five strangers whose names I failed to learn.
    Mr. Zimmerman brought out a load of blackberries from their home near Blue Canyon and took them to Medford.
    Mrs. Wm. Gray, daughter of our neighbor, J. M. Nichols, returned to her home in Stockton, Calif., the first of the week. Her father, Mr. McNicoll, has been to Portland to have an internal cancer removed and she and her husband came up from Stockton to visit him before he went to Portland and remained until he was well enough to return home, and from all appearances he is on the road to recovery.
    Bert Bushey of Derby and S. P. Decker and J. L. Foster of Butte Falls were here for dinner Wednesday on their way home. Mr. Decker said that he had taken up a homestead about four miles beyond Butte Falls.
    J. B. Coleman, our county assessor, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Wednesday on his way to the tall timber.
    Mr. Hayman and family, who have been on the J. H. Cooley orchard for the past two years, have moved onto the Brown Bros. farm on Dry Creek.
    Timmie Dugan, another one of our prosperous farmers, was here on business also and in speaking of his crop remarked that it was better than he anticipated. Mr. Dugan is one of the best farmers in this community and has a good farm and manages to keep cows and hogs to consume a large part of what he raises and his good wife keeps enough hens to supply the family with groceries and other necessaries of life.
    Joe Arnes and wife, foreman and assistant manager on the Corbin Edgell orchard, passed through town on his way home Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. Garrett of Medford, who live on the old Garrett home place, passed through here Wednesday on their way out to visit her father, T. F. McCabe and family and to take Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCabe's children home to their parents. Mr. McCabe and wife had been keeping them while their parents and aunt Ellen McCabe had been out in the huckleberry patch. After jotting down the last item mentioned, Mr. Robert McCabe came in on his way home.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 5, 1921, page 5

Wilbur (Wig) Ashpole
    It took me a week hoeing for Dick Dailey out at Eagle Point to get ahold of my first dollar, and when I did I went right downtown and spent it for candy. You could get a lot of candy for a dollar in those days, and I ate so much it made me sick, and to tell you the truth I ain't been feeling right since.
"How I Earned My First Dollar," Medford Mail Tribune, September 6, 1921, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Harvey Stanley and wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Rader, and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, his wife's sister and son Donald started last week on an outing to spend a week or more at Rancheria Prairie. Mr. Stanley had been up there and built a house to stop in, and he will spend his time looking after their cattle. The women contemplate having a fine time rusticating in the hills, and the only fear entertained by their friends is that Mrs. Rader and Mrs. Ashpole will get homesick and come home too soon, so that they will not receive the full benefit of the trip.
    We have had another change in real estate, Mr. Benjamin Brophy having sold his farm of eighty acres to Mr. Charles Hash. Mr. Hash has been living on the Fred Pelouze place, but I understand that he intends to leave it and move onto the farm he has purchased. It is on Big Butte Creek a short distance below Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was a business caller last Wednesday.
    Mr. Lewis Tonn of Lake Creek, who owns a fine farm on our Little Butte Creek, was a business caller on his way home from Medford Wednesday.
    Miss Ella Belford and Mrs. Ed Condon, who live on their farms a few miles northeast of here, were doing business in Medford and came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Wednesday afternoon.
    The pump at the P.&E.R.R. station was out of commission a few days last week, so that the sprinklers on the Crater Lake Highway had to stop for repairing it, but ii is all right now and the sprinklers are both running night and day.
    Mrs. Wm. Merrian, child and brother of Derby, are visiting near Albany, Oregon.
    Mrs. R. L. Riddle of Lake Creek came out on the Lake Creek stage on her way to Klamath Falls. They are living on the J. P. Coleman place and are on a deal to purchase it.
    J. Wattenberg and family, who have been living on the Joe Rader place on Antelope Creek, started for the hills the first of the present week for an outing to rest up. I do not know definitely where they will settle at present, but hope they will not leave this neighborhood.
    Mrs. Rosa Smith, wife of Roy Smith, has been out in the huckleberry patch for several days.
    Mr. R. A. Weidman, one of our prominent dairymen and poultrymen, as well as orchardist, went over to the von der Hellen farm, Wellen post office, with his machinery to fill a silo for the von der Hellen brothers last Thursday. Mr. Weidman is very much interested in introducing fine milk stock and reports that Professor Engelhardt is bringing in a carload, fourteen head of thoroughbred Jersey cows to put on his dairy ranch. He said that Professor Engelhardt had made the deal for them through our county agent, C. C. Cate.
    C. H. Natwick, the man who has charge of the county rock crusher, is filling in at the ends of the Butte Creek bridge on the Crater Lake Highway, and he and his force are boarding at the Sunnyside.
    Bremen Eslitcher of Gates Auto Co. was here for dinner Thursday of last week.
    C. E. Meith of Portland, Oregon, president of the Portland Bridge Co., who has the contract to build the Rogue River bridge on the Crater Lake Highway below Trail, was here for dinner Friday and to meet Mr. Clawson the engineer, who has charge of the construction of the bridge on the Crater Lake Highway from the Cingcade hill to Trail. Mr. Meith came in from Klamath Falls to meet Mr. Clawson.
    Friday morning when the mail carrier started from Medford he had to put on an extra car to carry the load of mail, parcel post packages and passengers, among whom was Mrs. H. B. Fox and three children and two children for her brother Everett Abbott and wife, Mrs. Roy Spencer, Glen Abbott, Mrs. Wampler and Miss Verna Fox. They were all from Weed, California, where their men had been working in the timber, and were on their way to Butte Falls so as to send the children to school. In addition to those already named, there was Miss Ella E. Prettyman of Newberg, Oregon, who was going to take charge of one of the departments of the Butte Falls school, and Walter J. Parr, who has taken a homestead this side of Derby on the headwaters of Reese Creek.
    R. E. Blairs of San Francisco was a diner at the Sunnyside Friday.
    There has been several truckloads of light railroad rails go through here for Fish Lake to be used in the construction of a large dam, being put up by the Fish Lake Ditch Co.
    Mr. Lewis C. Raimey of Beagle, one of the pioneers of Jackson County, was a business caller Friday on his way home. And a man giving his name as K. O. Barnes was also here Friday.
    I see that Mr. Mittelstaedt is putting up a fine large barn on the place he recently purchased.
    There were several new men came in Friday to board at the Sunnyside. They are working under C. H. Natwick, filling in at the approaches of the Butte Creek bridge.
    J. V. McIntyre and family, formerly our town recorder and cashier of the First State Bank of Eagle Point, but interested in a large bonding [sic] house in Los Angeles, Calif., came in Friday afternoon to look over our town and meet a host of their old friends here. They remained until Sunday evening, intending to start home Monday morning.
    J. Meyers and Miss Richardson, a daughter of Mrs. M. L. Richardson of Butte Falls, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Saturday morning on their way to Butte Falls.
    Leo Bradshaw and family of Brownsboro were business callers Saturday morning.
    T. F. Throwell of Trail was a passenger on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Saturday morning and went on up to his home that afternoon.
    J. W. Prillaman, one of our honored citizens, made a business trip to Medford Saturday morning.
    Lyle Carlton and Lester Bradshaw were among the diners at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Mr. Radcliff had a little excitement Saturday. He left his team standing hitched to his wagon and it took a notion to run, so started and ran down from the Fred Pelouze farm down into town and during the excitement lost one tire off a wheel, but did no damage except to wear off the edge of the rim of the wheel.
    Francis G. Meyers of Central Point, Bruce Hayman of Eagle Point and Harvey W. Oliver of Sanger, Fresno County, California, were here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1921, page 7
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess enjoyed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson. Their friends were pleased to see them looking so well and happy. Mrs. Blaess made a trip to the mountains for huckleberries.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence and daughters Alberta and Hazel visited their daughter Mrs. Roy Vaughn Sunday.
    Jesse Clary is engaged in work on the Ryan place at present.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart started to Stewart Week's place Sunday, but had car trouble and had to return.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and little daughter started for home Sunday. They have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell of the United States Fisheries. F. L. Hutchinson of the hatchery helped them to Medford, as they were having car trouble.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Clary spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clary.
    Mr. and Mrs. Murt Daily and little daughter Patsy passed here on their way to Crater Lake.
    We understand from good authority that bids are to be let next month for completion of the highway between Trail and Prospect.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Childers of Medford, formerly of Klamath County, spent Wednesday visiting with friends. Mr. Childers succeeded in catching several good-sized trout.
    Roy Vaughn returned Wednesday from a business trip to Medford. Mrs. Vaughn and little son Donald Raymond also accompanied him home. They were the guest of Mr. and Mes. Dave Pence Tuesday and also pleasant callers at the Rogue River ranch.
    Miss Mamie Clark of Medford was calling on old friends in this neighborhood last: week. She has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher several days.
    George Thomas and Oren Train made a business trip to the Rogue River ranch Wednesday to talk over the possibility of having school and being transferred to our district.
    Mrs. Fred Middlebusher came down from their summer camp at Prospect to spend the day with her people, Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston.
    Winifred Stewart spent a delightful afternoon at the Rogue Elk resort Monday and enjoyed a social chat with friends and one of those splendid milkshakes. She says she was particularly interested in the great number of cars stopping for refreshments to and from their way to Crater Lake.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    George Holmes, our garage man, and bride, after their honeymoon trip to Crater Lake, on their return went to housekeeping in the Dr. Holt house, and have settled down to business, he working in his garage and Mrs. Holmes arranging to take charge of our school as principal next Monday morning, September 12.
    Mr. Schorbly, the school janitor, has been making some badly needed changes, or rather improvements, around the school house, replacing some of the foundations for the steps and putting in new lumber in the approach from the sidewalk to the vestibule.
    Another needed improvement being made is having the inside of the rooms repainted and desks and other furniture revarnished. The school board have engaged Sam Courtney to do the painting and varnishing, and now when our school starts next Monday everything will be in shipshape order, ready for the teachers and pupils to start in for another prosperous year.
    Frank Haselton, the foreman on the Antelope orchard, was a business visitor Saturday and reports that they have a fine crop of fruit this season.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls was also a business caller Saturday.
    There was quite a number of our well-to-do citizens and friends started Saturday afternoon to Crater Lake, intending to go as far as Prospect that night and then going to the lake Sunday and spending Sunday and Monday until noon, taking in the sights, returning via Klamath Falls and Ashland. Among the number was our banker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell and their two friends Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Woodsum of Seattle, Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Rynning, the chief engineer on the Crater Lake Highway, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and her two sons, Harold and Lyle, Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols and granddaughter, Miss Ruth Nichols. They report having had a very pleasant time and having seen some of the most wonderful scenery in the world.
    About the same time F. F. Nichols and his father Gus Nichols and John Cox started on a hunting excursion to Diamond Lake.
    Master Rudolph Weidman made a trip to Medford to visit some of his schoolmates.
    Some time ago, perhaps two weeks, Mr. A. B. MacDonald started a subscription to raise money to macadam a new street running from the Crater Lake Highway near the new bridge running directly up Butte Creek to enter the old county road at the county bridge, but I have intentionally omitted saying anything about it until I learned the result. And now I take pleasure in announcing that in a short time there was subscribed five hundred and twenty .dollars in cash and work and the matter was presented to the county court and it agreed to put the job through and make us a good road and have it properly covered with crushed rock. And the result has been that the road supervisor, Wm. Parry, has had a number of teams hauling crushed rock from the von der Hellen crusher and now it looks as though it was going to be one of the finest streets in our town. Thursday afternoon, Mr. MacDonald, David Cingcade, Mrs. W. C. Clements and your Eagle Point correspondent met by chance on the corner of the street, near the blacksmith shop and the question came up as to what name we should give to the new street and one suggested to call it MacDonald Street, while another suggested Butte Creek Street, another Riverside and another Boulevard, so we decided to give it the name of Riverside Boulevard Street, and it extends from the bridge on the Crater Lake Highway, directly up Butte Creek to intersect Main Street, and from the appearance of it now it will be one of the most attractive drives in this section of the country.
    Ed Morgan. who has been working all spring and summer over in the Willow Springs district, has decided to move his family so as they may be with him.
    Henry Trusty, who is working on the night shift on the von der Hellen rock crusher, came in Saturday night and spent the night and Sunday at the Sunnyside.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Sunday for dinner were Ed C. Fisher and wife of Burr Oak, Kan., Wm. G. Knighten and wife of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kyle of Central Point, Oregon; Charles Clark of the Modoc orchard; S. P. Decker, Dr. A. R. Hedges and wife and two children of Medford.
    Among the callers Monday were J. M. Wilfley, owner of the Wilfley orchard, and he reports that he had gathered his Bartlett pears and expected to commence to gather his later varieties the coming week. This is Saturday, September 10, and that his fruit crop is fully up to date.
    Walter Meyer and wife of Hog Creek were early callers Sunday morning, but went on through to Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Watt of Phoenix, Fred and Sam Courtney, who have been painting our school house, were among the diners Monday.
    Last Tuesday, R. A. Weidman took his ensilage cutting machine up to Rollie Mathews and filled his silo, Mr. J. L. Robinson furnishing the motor power with his Fordson tractor. The dairymen and stockmen out in this section are beginning to realize the advantage of using ensilage for their cows, and by that means find that they can utilize almost everything that grows on the place and by keeping a number of cows can make farming a profitable business, as they can use the skimmed milk and keep a few pigs that soon come into market and find that the milk is one of the best feeds that can be fed to the hens to make them produce eggs.
    The Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point will renew their meetings September 15, the meeting to be held at the residence of Mrs. R. G. Brown.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 13, 1921, page 8
George W. Nichols, Sr.
    About 64 years ago, a cowman came to our house on Butte Creek, and stayed for a week. When he got ready to go my pa refused to take any money for his keep so he up and gave me $2.50 for feeding his horse. I was six years old, and running around the ranch with one gallus. I was feeling so good with so much money that I went out and played in the straw stack. The money dropped out of my britches and the next spring we found it all but fifty cents. It is still there, and one of these days I am going back to look for it.
"How I Earned My First Dollar," Medford Mail Tribune, September 15, 1921, page 10


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. Mattie Brown, one of the active members of our town council and street commissioner, manages to keep the trees alive along the street leading from Main Street to the railroad track. She manages to enlist the services of a few of the small boys and has them carry the water from a ditch nearby where the trees are so situated that she cannot run the water by them and the boys seem to enjoy the work.
    Mr. Sheibley, our school janitor, has everything in readiness for our school and Monday morning called the attention of the children to the fact that the hour had arrived to assemble once more at the school house to take the preparatory steps for another term of school. The teachers this term are Mrs. Josephine Holmes, wife of one of our leading business men and proprietor of the Eagle Point garage, as principal and Miss Alice Train of Medford as primary teacher. It will be remembered that Mrs. Holmes, nee Miss Josephine Riley, was principal of our school last season and gave such general satisfaction that the school board as well as the patrons were anxious to secure her services for another term.
    J. D. Pierce of Trail came out Monday and took dinner and went to Medford in the Lewis jitney on his way to Tacoma, Wash., to visit his sister and intends to go from there to Honolulu to visit a brother and from there through the Panama Canal to Pennsylvania and Virginia to visit his parents and other relatives. Mr. Pierce is one of the substantial citizens of the Trail Creek country, owning a farm and having lived there for several years, and now is going to spend some of his time and money visiting relatives, seeing the world and attending to business, for he owns a farm in Pennsylvania, and in the rounds will also look after his interests there.
    Lee Edmondson of Butte Falls was here for dinner and to see his nephew, Noble Zimmerman, who is a regular boarder, and has been engaged this season cultivating a few acres of land he rented of H. B. Tronson, having raised a fine lot of beans, tomatoes, etc., and has been selling them to the Medford cannery.
    Robert Harnish of Medford was also here at the same time.
    H. G. Tonn of Lake Creek was a business caller.
    Frank Manning of Flounce Rock district, J. H. Daugherty, who is selling Raleigh extracts and general supplies, and Wm. Rummel of Trail called [line of text cut off] was on his way home. He had been up to Wyoming, Denver, Colo., and Los Angeles to settle up the business of his father's estate.
    Mr. Weeks of the firm of Weeks & Orr, furniture dealers, Medford, was here for dinner.
    Clive S. Beebe of Safford, Arizona, and E. A. Elder of Salt Lake City, Utah, were here and spent the night. They are traveling evangelists for the Church of Jesus Christ, Utah.
    Among the business callers Thursday last were Mrs. Fred Dutton, Dave Rummel and Wm. Cottrell, Ed Fisher and Ed Nilson, the two last named being here for dinner. Mr. Nilson had just finished up a subcontract he had taken from Rhodes and Price on the Crater Lake Highway and was on his way to Medford, going out with Frank Lewis' jitney. That day he had his car packed full.
    Thursday Miss Edna Whitley of Walla Walla, Wash., and three children of her sister, Mrs. Powell, came in to visit one of her old schoolmates, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, and they were all here for dinner and supper. Miss Whitley and children had been up in Flounce Rock district to visit her parents.
    H. W. Webb of Derby passed through here Friday on his way to Medford with a lot of chickens.
    Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was a business caller Friday.
    H. H. Williams, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, was here for dinner.
    Mrs. Floy von der Hellen and her cousin, Miss Flora Richter, recently from Germany, who is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Hugo von der Hellen and family, and Miss Joyce von der Hellen and Miss Ruth Nichols were here for dinner last Friday.
    Miss Ruth Grover of Medford was out here visiting Miss Nora Childreth the latter part of the week.
    E. A. Denton and W. Miles of Ashland were here Saturday morning for late breakfast. They had come up from Ashland to take a load of household goods and other stuff down to Ashland and were a little tardy coming to breakfast. Mr. Denton had traded for the old A. J. Daley property here [and] moved his family here, but found that his business in Ashland confined him there and thus concluded to move back to Ashland.
    Emma A. Wilson and Ed Frey of Lake Creek were business callers Saturday.
    John Quackenbush, formerly on his farm on Big Sticky but now on what is known as the Col. Washburn orchard at Table Rock, was here on business Saturday. He was accompanied by his brother, W. J. Quackenbush.
    Frank Ditsworth of Peyton came out Saturday with a truckload of potatoes, disposing of some of them here and taking the rest of them to Medford.
    H. W. Wilson, who has had a subcontract from Rhodes and Price on the Crater Lake Highway, was here for dinner Saturday and so was Joe M. Rader and wife of Phoenix and G. M. Loomis of Medford.
    J. A. Grove, who is engaged working on the Crater Lake Highway, has moved into the house known as the Tom Coy place but now owned by Mrs. James Owens.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Woods, two of the veterans of the Civil War, returned from attending the meeting of the G.A.R. at Ashland Saturday.
    Sunday among the diners were Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Coleman and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mitchell of Medford and Chris Bergman, one of our substantial farmers, who lives on the Eagle Point-Trail road via the ferry. He was on his way to Ashland, returning Monday evening and spending the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Frank Lewis, wife of our confectionery man and owner and driver of the Lewis jitney, came home after an extended visit with her daughter Jennie and brings the report that while she was there visiting that Jennie was married to Dr. Ed D. Riddell of Santa Barbara, and that they had gone on a honeymoon trip to New York City. Her many friends here are wishing her a long and prosperous life.
    Among the passengers on the stage Monday were Miss Brown and Mrs. Lottie Hash of Ashland, [and] Miss Alice Train of Medford. Miss Brown was on her way to Butte Falls to take charge of one of the rooms in the Butte Falls school, and Miss Train is our primary teacher here in Eagle Point. H. H. Burgle, a Butte Falls homesteader, was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1921, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    Ray Clary arrived from Ashland Saturday to spend a few days on his ranch and visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clary. He was accompanied by his mother.
    Miss Pearl Thomas went to Medford Saturday to enter high school for the school year.
    Miss Marie Smallhausen of Prospect spent Wednesday with her grandfather, Mr. J. T. Adams.
    The Misses Gladys, Virginia and Dorothy McDonald of the Rogue Elk Resort spent Monday afternoon visiting with Mrs. Stewart and Winnifred Lee.
    Keva Hutchinson of Trail is among the high school students registered at Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart spent [line of text cut off] run down condition for years and is being turned into a beautiful home. A modern bungalow is being built on the rustic order to correspond with the log cabin built by A. J. Stewart many years ago.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Vincent, Miss Fern and Miss Clara Gordon were pleasant callers at the Stewart home Sunday evening.
    The pear and apple orchard is loaded with fruit of the nicest kind. Under the new management of Stewart Weeks, grandson of the late A. J. Stewart, this place promises to be one of Jackson County's most productive fruit ranches.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher were Central Point visitors Sunday.
    Miss Gwyn Houston took up her sophomore year in the Central Point high school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Salzman of Medford visited Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher spent several days in Medford last week and spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess.
    Mrs. E. Ash returned from the mountains Saturday with the big sum of seventy-five gallons of huckleberries.
    Denzil Middlebusher is visiting his sister, Mrs. Olson of Bend.
    We are glad to report Mrs. Thomas Carlton is better and able to be home again.
    Thel Thomas in company with two other men leave Saturday for the mountains to get a deer.
    George Thomas is assisting with the work of the third cutting of hay on the Rogue River ranch.
    Mr. Mitchell, supt. of government fish hatcheries, is here on business and also to get a buck. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell and F. L. Hutchinson made a pleasure trip to Crater Lake the first of the week.
    This section of the country has been visited by a heavy frost every night this week, which put an end to the excellent gardens. Such an event was not anticipated, for it was never known to frost so early here.
    J. L. Ragsdale and two sons, Frank and Wilmer, returned from the berry patch Monday with 40 gallons of berries.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson were visitors at the Middlebusher home Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ash and little daughter Betty are spending a few days with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash, at Trail.
    Mrs. John Fry is very sick with walking typhoid fever.
    Mrs. S. E. Albright is improving slowly.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. Stewart were Sunday visitors at Trail.
    R. D. Watson is cutting wood at the U.S. Fish Hatchery.
    Irma Ash spent Sunday night with Zella and Hazel Pence.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Fry and son Earl spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Ash at their camp on Elk Creek.
    Lucy and Eula Foeller returned to Medford Sunday after a visit at their home near Trail. They expect to start to high school again Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the business callers last Monday not mentioned in my last were Fred Pettegrew, Eagle Point, H. G. Boesser, who at present is located on the Butte Creek orchard generally known as the Corbin orchard, and Fred Frideger of Medford, who owns a twenty-acre tract of land just outside of Eagle Point and a part of which is planted to pears, and he has been out and has gathered his Bosc and D'Anjou pears and expects that they are of a very fine quality. While he was out here he made the Sunnyside his headquarters.
    W. F. Henderson and Frank Faber also have taken board and rooms at the Sunnyside. They are engaged putting in a dam on the L. K. Haak place, a short distance above town, for the state of Oregon for the purpose of catching fish for their eggs to be taken to the Butte Falls Hatchery, and I understand that the intention is to put in a different variety of fish in Butte Creek as well as to try to increase the supply of trout and steelhead.
    Chris Bergman of Reese Creek, and Bert Higinbotham, now of Ashland, but formerly of Flounce Rock district, were here and spent Monday night at the Sunnyside Hotel. Mr. Higinbotham had been up to his former home after a span of horses and wagon he reserved when he sold his farm, the Evergreen ranch on the Crater Lake Highway about eight miles this side of Prospect. Bert is one of our wide-awake citizens and says that he is going to procure more land where he is in Ashland, get him some good milk cows and a lot of hens and by that means manage to keep the wolf from the door.
    P. S. Anderson, the owner of the Anderson dairy and poultry ranch on Rogue River, about six miles above here, now held by lease by the Brittsan brothers, and Robert R. Minter were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning, both going on up to their farms. Mr. Minter had been to the county seat transacting business, and Mr. Anderson had just returned from an extended trip to Denmark, France, Germany, Belgium and England. Asked how things looked in that country--he left there twenty-one years ago--and his reply was that everything had changed and that about all they seemed to care for was to get your money, as their money, especially in all of the states except England, was not worth much, as when he had to pay in our money he got a whole pocketful of this money in change, and he said that in France it seemed as though they wanted to skin one of all they had, but he spoke in high terms of the way they do business in England.
    Mrs. T. L. Trunnell of Grants Pass came in and spent the night Tuesday.
    Lee Edmondson of Medford is here helping his nephew, Noble Zimmerman, gather his beans and tomatoes for the Medford cannery and stopping at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    A. J. Florey and wife and sister Floy were here for dinner Tuesday.
    J. L. Robinson, who is farming the W. Hart Hamilton farm was in town and had his Weekly Mail Tribune discontinued and gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune, as he wants to keep posted on the markets and news in general.
    Amos Wagner Marion and wife were here for dinner Tuesday.
    L. K. Haak, one of our prominent orchardists, dairymen and poultry raisers of this section of Rogue River Valley, and son, were business callers Tuesday. Mrs. Haak was among the first in this neighborhood to make a specialty of raising the purebred hens and demonstrated the fact that it pays to keep the best breed of hens, and Mr. Haak is keeping a line of the best breed of milk cows, and seems to be attending his orchard as a kind of side issue.
    Pete Young, another one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, living near the Crater Lake Highway which runs through his place, was in town also Tuesday and in speaking of his new barn I asked him if he had it filled yet and he replied no, but he had enough hay to fill it and then would have to leave one large stack outside, remarking that he wished he had taken my advice and built the barn higher, but he already had the timbers out for the posts and that it was too late when we talked about it. A difference of a very few feet in height of an ordinary-sized barn, say 30x50 feet in area, makes a difference of several tons in the storage capacity.
    Miss Ruth Young, the young lady who taught in the primary department of our school the two last terms, came in last Wednesday morning to visit our school and meet some of her old friends. She is not intending to teach this winter but expects to take a course in the University of California, and thus prepare herself for teaching in the higher grades. Her friends here gave her a cordial greeting.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday noon in addition to the regular boarders were P. S. Anderson, Medford, Mrs. T. L. Trunnell, Grants Pass, George Alberts of the Dupray mill on the P.&.E.R.R., four miles this side of Butte Falls, Charles Humphrey, Frank Faber, Ollie McPherson, Eagle Point, Buel Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby was also here for supper. He came out with fresh beef to help feed the people of Eagle Point, and the next morning he passed through here with a truckload of fine porkers for Pete Betz, who lives about eight miles above here on Rogue River, taking them to the Medford market.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the saleslady and business manager in the T. E. Nichols store, made a business trip to Medford Thursday.
    F. K. Wymore, who has a homestead on McNeil Creek, was a caller Tuesday and took dinner, and Robert Gillergil of Medford and George Albert also spent the night at the Sunnyside and Mr. Albert went out to Medford on the early morning stage Wednesday.
    Ira Tungate and son of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage on their way home.
    R. A. Weidman finished filling his silo Wednesday. He had the von der Hellen tractor to furnish the power and five teams hauling and thirteen men otherwise employed on the job. The principal ingredient used in filling the silo this time was sunflowers, and after giving it a fair trial for two or three years pronounces it one of the best feeds he can get for ensilage, especially where it is mixed with corn fodder. Mr. Weidman seems to be making a success not only of the dairy business but also of the poultry and hay business.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 19, 1921, page 5
JACKS PASSES AWAY RESULT SHOOTING
MATTHEWS IS CHARGED WITH CRIME
Death of Eagle Point Resident at 10:30 This Morning
Results in Filing Charge of Murder--Sheriff Leaves
to Arrest Matthews, Who Was Released on Bail.
    Deputy Sheriff Forncrook returned this afternoon from Eagle Point where he went to rearrest Rollie Matthews, and reported that he had left his home with his father in a new Maxwell car. They are supposed to be en route to this city, but a watch is being maintained on the Pacific Highway and other roads to block any attempt at escape.
    Surprise was expressed in this city that Matthews should have been allowed his liberty on bonds pending the outcome of the shooting scrape, and many insist that he should have been kept in jail until it was definitely known whether Jacks was going to live or die.
    Mrs. Jacks is grief-stricken by the death of her husband, and issued a statement in which she fixed the responsibility for the shooting upon Matthews, and insists that Jacks was not armed. Mrs. Jacks was a witness of the shooting.
    Wilbur (Wig) Jacks died at Sacred Heart Hospital this morning about 10:30 o'clock from gunshot wounds sustained in a shooting affray with Rollie Matthews in Eagle Point Tuesday morning. His wife was at the bedside, and Matthews, who is at liberty on $5,000 bonds on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, will be arrested at once on a charge of murder in the first degree and held without bail. Sheriff Terrill left about noon for the Matthews home to serve the new warrant.
    A coroner's jury, under the law, will be impaneled to fix the cause of death and responsibility therefor, as a formality of the law. Attorney Charles Reames has been retained as counsel by Matthews.
    Immediately following the shooting an operation was performed at Sacred Heart Hospital by Drs. J. W. Sweeney and Henry Hart. There were 13 perforations of the intestines. Jacks was of robust constitution and iron will, and fought a valiant battle for life, but the chances from the first were against him.
    In a deathbed statement secured by District Attorney Rawles Moore in the presence of witnesses and nurses, Jacks declared that Matthews rode up on horseback in front of the John Nichols place in Eagle Point, and after an exchange of words invited him "to come out on the desert and shoot it out."
Deathbed Statement
    Jacks then declared that he told Matthews he had no gun, and said, "Shoot, you ------ ------, if you've got the nerve, I don't care."
    With these words, he alleged Matthews put spurs to his horse and began shooting, and that he, Jacks, started to run, leaping over a wire fence, and that the shot in the back, near the hip, was sustained in this manner. He denied that he had a gun.
    District Attorney Rawles Moore spent this morning in Eagle Point, securing depositions from witnesses.
    Matthews when arrested at his home by the sheriff and deputies handed over two guns, claiming one was his property and the other belonged to Jacks. Out of the gun belonging to Jacks one shell had been fired and cartridge snapped but did not explode. This is a mysterious feature of the case, and an important link in the defense that will no doubt be thoroughly probed.
Deny Jacks Had Gun.
    Friends of Jacks maintain that if he had a gun, which they strenuously deny, he would have fired every cartridge at his enemy, instead of running for cover. The authorities are also mystified as to how Matthews secured possession of the gun claimed as belonging to Jacks, as all witnesses agree he never dismounted from his horse before, during or after the shooting. Immediately after the shooting Matthews returned to his home and made ready for the coming of the officers.
    The grudge that terminated in the tragedy of yesterday has been raging for five years, and was a matter of common gossip in Eagle Point. Threats were made by both men to kill each other, and friends of Jacks say he often expressed a disregard of his own life in his dealings with Matthews. In the bitter quarrel the name of Mrs. Jacks was often mentioned, and her husband openly charged "that Matthews was breaking up his home." Last winter the men engaged in a fist fight at a dance in Eagle Point. Since then the flames of hatred have leaped high between the two, and the shooting of Tuesday caused no unusual surprise.
Asked to Carry Gun.
    A sidelight on the case is the statement of Sheriff Terrill that Matthews last spring requested of him and the district attorney for a permit to carry a gun, and his plea was denied on the grounds that it would cause trouble, and Matthews also attempted to have Jacks placed under bonds to keep the peace. This also was refused.
    After this a general campaign of nagging and aggravation and gossip was begun by both sides of the feud, according to report, and they sought each other's company, in which criminations and recriminations were hurled back and forth.
    According to Jacks' friends, when he was bound over to the grand jury for alleged possession of intoxicating liquor Matthews, knowing he was already under bonds, became bolder and more defiant. All this time, it is claimed, Jacks was driven to the point of distraction by alleged derelictions of his wife, and that three or four days before the shooting a close friend of Jacks, who went on his bond in the bootlegging case, showed him tracks of a pinto pony that had been tied near his back gate, and this added fuel to the mountain of bitterness.
    Monday afternoon, according to Matthews, he was riding horseback on the desert when he met Jacks in his auto, and charges that Jacks attempted to run over him at that time, and the authorities believe that it was this incident that impelled Matthews to ride into Eagle Point Tuesday morning. Friends of Matthews claim it was a chance meeting that resulted in the shooting.
    Friends of Jacks and relatives of Mrs. Jacks have feared for months the fatal culmination of the quarrel, and have interceded in an effort to patch up the differences, even advising Jacks to move away from Eagle Point and start life anew, but the dead man always maintained that his love for his wife was too strong. Upon such occasions the domestic troubles would be patched up, only to flare up again with new intensity. In this feature of the case, idle gossips and wagging tongues sowed the usual harvest.
Jacks 40 Years Old.
    Jacks was a man of about 40 years of age, well built, and husky. He is survived by a twin brother and a mother, and lived all his life in the Eagle Point district. Friends say that a few years ago he was on the road to a fortune, but that the feud that terminated in his death impelled him to dissipate a fortune of $10,000 or $15,000 recklessly. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
    Matthews, over whose head hangs a charge of first-degree murder, is about 23 years of age and a typical cowboy--a crack shot and an expert horseman. He was born and raised in the Eagle Point district and comes of a pioneer family, well and favorably known, described by all who know them "as the nicest folks in the world, but poor people to pick a quarrel with."
    The trial, which will come up at the October term of the circuit court, gives promise of being hard fought throughout. Matthews, according to his friends, will plead self-defense.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 21, 1921, page 1
WOUNDS FATAL TO EAGLE POINT MAN; KILLED OVER WIFE
    Medford, Or., Sept. 21.--Wilbur "Wig" Jacks, well known here, was shot and fatally wounded by Raleigh Mathews during a quarrel said to be over domestic affairs. Mathews is a farmer of the Eagle Point district. The shooting occurred Tuesday morning on the main street of Eagle Point. Jacks was recently convicted of being a bootlegger.
    Jacks died at 10:30 o'clock this morning at Sacred Heart Hospital. Examination disclosed that Jacks' intestines were punctured in 25 places by two bullets.
    Mathews, at preliminary hearing before the justice of peace, asserted that he shot Jacks in self-defense and that after shooting he took a gun from Jacks. He showed bruises which he claimed were caused by Jacks hitting him with rocks and a club. He delivered two guns to the sheriff when he was arrested at his ranch, saying that he took one from Jacks. He was released on $5000 bond.
    Jacks said that he had no gun and that Mathews, being on horseback, had no right to claim self-defense. Jacks and his wife had been separated for several months and Jacks had repeatedly charged Mathews with undue attention to her. Mrs. Jacks was at her husband's bedside.
Oregon Journal, Portland, September 21, 1921, page 4
MATTHEWS JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE
IT'S HELL TO SHOOT A MAN, SAYS YOUTH
Raleigh Matthews Arrested on 2nd Degree Murder Charge,
Makes but Brief Comment on Case--Coroner's Jury Makes Expected
Report--Four Bullet Wounds in Body.
    Raleigh Matthews, the 23-year-old youth accused of shooting Wilbur (Wig) Jacks, was arrested by the sheriff's office late Wednesday evening at his home near Eagle Point, and is held in the county jail. A charge of second-degree murder was filed against him by District Attorney Rawles Moore. He was arraigned last night before Justice of the Peace Glenn O. Taylor. A preliminary hearing will be held in the morning.
    "It's hell to shoot a fellow," was Matthews' only comment on the fatal shooting, while en route to the county jail with Sheriff Terrill.
    Matthews spent Tuesday shocking corn, and was arrested when he returned to his home in the evening. He said he was waiting for the sheriff to come after him, and had no thought of flight.
    A coroner's jury this morning returned a verdict in the case as follows:
    "We, the coroner's jury impaneled to investigate the cause of death of Wilbur Leroy Jacks, find the said Wilbur Leroy Jacks came to his death at Sacred Heart Hospital, Medford, Oregon, on September 21, 1921, from gunshot wounds inflicted by one R. Matthews at Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, on the 20th of September, 1921, at about 9 o'clock a.m."
    The verdict was signed by L. E. Wakeman as foreman, and H. C. Burgess, Ed White, William Bays, H. D. Spencer and O. L. Harmon, as members thereof.
    Two witnesses were examined, Dr. Charles T. Sweeney, the attending physician, who described the nature of the wounds, and the causes of death. He testified there were four bullet wounds, and 12 perforations of the intestines, and the severing of a large artery in the abdominal cavity.
    Sheriff Terrill testified to the arrest of Matthews, his admission of firing the fatal shots, and Matthews' revolver--a .32-caliber Savage automatic--was introduced in evidence.
    The coroner's jury viewed the body of the slain man. The inquest was called by Coroner John A. Perl, to observe the formalities of the law.
    The second-degree murder filed against Matthews does not admit of bail. The next grand jury meeting in October may lessen or increase the offense charged, as they see fit, after hearing the evidence in the case.
Matthews Loses Jaunty Air
    The carefree attitude that marked the demeanor of the youth after the shooting has changed to a serious mien. He admits the shooting, but insists that it was in self-defense. His attorney, Charles Reames, endeavored to have his client released to him for appearance, but this request was denied.
    The funeral services of Wilbur Jacks will be held from the Perl Funeral Home Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock, the Rev. Millard of the Christian church officiating. Interment will be in Central Point cemetery.
    Wilbur Jacks was born in Kansas, August 26, 1886. He is survived by his wife and three children, Edna, aged 14 years, Kenneth, aged seven years, and Wilbur, Jr., aged nine years. His mother, Mrs. Francis E. Mimmick, lives in Central Point, and a brother, Wilfred, lives at Lower Ridge, California. A sister, Mrs. Ruby Hayden, lives at Yakima, Wash., as does Charles Mowrey, a half brother, and Mrs. Laura Nees and Mrs. R. Grant, half sisters.
To Call 50 Witnesses
    District Attorney Rawles Moore said this morning that there would be a half hundred witnesses called in the circuit court trial, and that all the varied ramifications of the case would be thoroughly aired. Practically all of these will be from the Eagle Point districts, where both the principals were well known, and lived for years. Many depositions have been secured by the state.
    There seems to have been no actual witness to the entire affray, but the loud talk and shots were heard by Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols. John Nichols was attracted by the loud and angry words, and Mrs. Nichols looked out from the kitchen when she heard the shots. Mrs. Jacks is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols. Another who heard the shots and talk is Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, at whose home Jacks roomed, and where he was taken after being wounded.
Went for Binding Twine
    According to Sheriff Terrill, there is no wide divergence in the stories of both Matthews and Jacks, except the denial that Jacks had a gun. Matthews says his mission in Eagle Point Tuesday morning was to procure binding twine for corn he was shocking, and that he carried his gun because he feared Jacks, who he charges attempted to run over him with his auto when they met on the desert Monday afternoon. Friends of the accused say he was in constant fear of Jacks. It also develops that the fight at the Eagle Point dance last spring was not over Mrs. Jacks but over another woman, whose name has not been brought into the case to date.
    Harry Childs of this city, who has been employed by Charles Delin on road work near Eagle Point all summer, says he talked to Jacks last Saturday night, and that his trouble with Matthews came into the conversation. Childs says Jacks told him that "he just couldn't get mad at him (meaning Matthews), and I let him beat me, so he would make me mad." This was in reference to the Eagle Point fight. Childs says he commented that he "sure got a beating," and Jacks agreed with him, but bore no particular resentment towards Matthews.
    Childs says Jacks also told him, "a few years ago my word was good for $15,000 in this town, and now I couldn't borrow a dime."
    Jacks, on what proved to be his deathbed, evinced a disregard for death and talked calmly of the shooting to the sheriff and friends, saying he didn't care whether he lived or not. It also became known that after Jacks knocked off Matthews' hat with a rock just before he was shot, he jumped on the hat and with his knife cut it to pieces.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 22, 1921, page 1


TRAIL ITEMS
    Homer Randall had the misfortune to lose his home, clothes and everything by fire. The cause of it starting is unknown and about two weeks ago he lost about 25 tier of wood the same way.
    The Misses Thrush and Minnie Poole were Sunday callers at Trail.
    E. E. Ash made a business trip to Medford Monday from his station at Sugar Pine. The rains will relieve the fire fighters and lookout men.
    The rumor is that the Skyrman ranch on Trail Creek has been sold to Harry Banks and that the new owner will take possession right away.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mechem motored to Ashland and spent the night with relatives there, returning to their home on Trail Creek Sunday.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher was a Sunday guest at the Houston home.
    Joe Hall returned to his home this week from Indiana after an absence of several years. He brought home a wife, also his wife's brother and family came with him. They drove through in a truck, taking six weeks for the trip.
    A. Albright spent the weekend at his home near Trail.
    Fred Sturgis and wife of Elk Creek were Medford callers Monday.
    Wilmer Ragsdale left for the valley Monday, where he expects to work in the fruit.
    R. R. Dawson went to look after cattle on upper Trail Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    County Commissioners James Owens and Victor Bursell stopped here last Wednesday for dinner on their way to Lake Creek. They seem to be busy all the time riding over our rough roads and have become so accustomed to being jolted and shaken up that they do not realize the condition of the road, especially between Agate and Medford, but there seems to be a great deal of fault found with them and Judge Gardner because they don't have a few thousand dollars spent on it, making it passable at least, but if those who are kicking about the actions of the county court's work on the road had to appropriate the funds set apart for road work, they might not do as well as the present members of that body, but it is hard for those who have to travel over them every day from twice to four times each day to have to endure such bumps and jolts as they do, and then in addition to what they have to endure physically, have to receive all the anathemas and other criticisms about their careless driving, and the worst feature of all is they realize that they have to keep it up all winter, with no prospect for an improvement. Suggestion, with an apology, could the court not spare a little of the taxpayers' money and apply it toward repairing some of the bridges and deep chuckholes along the main road between Agate station on the P.&E. railroad and Medford, and thus relieve the situation to a certain extent. I understand that the state has already taken over the road between here and Medford as the State C.L.H., with the exception of the strip from Agate to the edge of the desert, where it will connect with the C.L.H. already worked, and intend to change the route from Agate station and run straight across the F.L. Co. pasture diagonally so as to connect with the C.L.H. at the point above mentioned, and that that is the reason the C.C. is not doing anything toward repairing it, as it is the intention of the authorities to grade and macadam the road from Medford next summer.
    J. A. West and Charles Woods, both of Phoenix, although Mr. Woods is a recent arrival from Idaho, and has settled temporarily in Phoenix. They were business callers last Friday.
    Fritz Pech of L.C. passed through here Friday on his way home with a load of lumber. He has it brought down on the P.&E. railroad track from the Dupray mill and is taking it up home to build a new barn. There seems to be quite a craze among the farmers to build new barns as so many of them have turned their attention to raising hay, especially alfalfa. They find that it becomes necessary to either build new barns or else raise their old ones higher so as to give more storage capacity.
    Fred Dutton, one of our stockmen of Wellen, was a business caller Friday and so was E. V. Brittsan of the Brittsan brothers dairy ranch.
    W. C. Butler went to Medford Thursday, spent the night and came out Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    R. B. Price and wife were here at the Sunnyside for supper. Mr. Price is one of the contractors on the C.L.H. between Hog Creek and the new bridge at the mouth of Indian Creek across Rogue River, and reports that they have completed the contract for grading that unit of the road and that the bridges are all completed across Reese Creek, Hog Creek and Indian Creek, also the bridge across Rogue River, and as soon as the filling in at the ends of the bridges and the crushed rock is put on the C.L.H. will be ready for travel.
    W. W. Parker of Butte Falls came out and brought out 6000 shakes for Verna Mathews to cover a new barn he is building, and he also had our blacksmith shoe up his team for him while he was out here.
    R. Hulse, who is living on the Archibald place just above Brownsboro, he having bought the place and has added to it, cleaned up more land and set it in alfalfa, and the result is he now complains that although he has two barns that they are too small and too low, the general complaint. He has one of the finest hay farms in the Butte Creek country. He is turning his attention to raising hogs and says that he has on hand about 40 head, running on alfalfa and feeding them on rolled barley and making them put on about two pounds of meat a day.
    George Cottrell of Butte Falls passed through here on his way to Medford Saturday and reports that his mill on the headwaters of Clarks Creek is kept busy all the time.
    Dan Foeller of Trail was also another visitor on his way to Medford.
    Saturday night a large hay stack belonging to E. C. Denton of Ashland was burned. I understand that it was insured for $300. Suspicion is that it was the work on an incendiary.
    Saturday forenoon Rev. H. C. King the Sunday school evangelist, called on your correspondent, and had arranged to have preaching services Sunday at the close of the Sunday school. There was but a small attendance.
    I met J. Wattenberg and wife in Medford Monday. He is the man who has been farming the Joe Rader farm on Antelope Creek and he said that he had not decided where he would live the coming year, and told me that Joe Rader had rented his farm to a man by the name of Bigham, but I did not learn which one of the Bighams it was as just then I was called to start home.
    There was quite a number of strangers here for dinner Sunday, but I did not secure their names.
    Ralph Peyton and family of Peyton passed through here Monday on their way from Medford home with some new furniture.
    Charley Klingle of Lake Creek also passed through here on his way home from Medford where he had been to visit his mother, who is in the hospital with a broken hip.
    Mrs. M. L. Heryford and son Williard of Butte Falls were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday morning on their way home. William Heryford had just come out of the hospital in Ashland. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls was also a passenger on the same stage on his way home.
    The ten men who have been boarding at the Sunnyside for some time working on the approaches to the Butte Creek bridge on the C.L.H. finished the job and moved to the Green Spring mountain road to work. They are in the employ of C. H. Natwick, contractor.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 24, 1921, page 3


TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson made a pleasant call at the Rogue River ranch Thursday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dunlap have built a cozy tent house near the United States fish hatcheries where they will make their home while Mr. Dunlap is employed at the hatchery.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jess Clary made a business trip to Medford Friday.
    Earl Ulrich, progressive stock man of Prospect, stopped while on his way to Medford, to chat with friends.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred McDonald and family of the Rogue Elk Resort are closing out their stock of supplies and will leave for Southern California to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald won a host of friends while here and they will be greatly missed. We earnestly hope for their return again next season.
    Oren Train made a trip to Eagle Point the first of the week for seed grain.
    The rain of the last two days was not welcome by the hay men of this section. No damage has been done so far.
    Mrs. Frank Clary and little son, Ralph, returned from Ashland Saturday where they have been visiting for a week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Clary are moving this week. They will stay with the family of Frank Clary this winter.
    J. T. Adams returned from Medford the first of the week with a load of supplies for his store.
    William Cottrell and Dave Rummell stopped overnight at the Rogue River ranch, en route to the Red Blanket ranch with a bunch of cattle, which he bought of Will Houston.
    F. L. Hutchinson of the U.S. fish hatcheries makes a trip once a day to Butte Creek fishing station. He reports fishing good now.
    Wednesday, the 21st, the District Boundary Board acts on a petition which applies for a portion of the Derby district number 31 and the Brophy district number 86 to be annexed to the hatchery district number 84. If passed on favorably this will about double the valuation of the district.
    A good standard school is being planned by the school board for the children.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson and family were callers at the Stewart home Monday.
    The big steam roller which has been used on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect passed through Trail Tuesday. It will be used on the lower part of the Crater Lake Highway.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 24, 1921, page 3
LETTERS TO PLAY ROLE IN JACKS SHOOTING AFFRAY
Pioneer to Be Witness--Threats of Slain Man to Be Told--
Mathews Is Bound Over to Grand Jury at Hearing Saturday.
    Letters alleged to have been written by the principals in the Wig Jacks-Raleigh Mathews shooting tragedy at Eagle Point last Tuesday will be a link in the state's chain of evidence, and John Nichols, pioneer and father-in-law of the slain man, will be one of the chief witnesses in the coming trial.
    Nichols is said to have been a witness to part of the quarrel, and to have viewed it from his front porch, corroborating in general detail the testimony of Harry Lewis, who saw the fatal fight while driving a wagon and team down the main street of Eagle Point. Nichols saw the shooting, and when Jacks leaped over the fence in his yard, is said to have raised his hand as a protest against any further shooting by Mathews, whereupon the latter stopped and rode home.
    Witnesses will also be called by the state to prove that Jacks, worried over the trend of his home life, appealed to Mathews to leave. The defense will likely produce witnesses to show that Jacks had threatened to shoot Mathews unless he "left the country in three days," and also show that others, including the sheriff, were among those he threatened. There will also be witnesses to show that he threatened to take his own life.
    The sentiment in Eagle Point in favor of Mathews is very strong, and it is openly stated that if he is convicted a petition will be circulated at once, asking for his pardon.
    Raleigh Mathews was bound over to await the action of the grand jury at his preliminary hearing in Justice of the Peace Glenn O. Taylor's court Saturday afternoon after attorney Charles Reames requested that the charge be reduced from second degree murder to manslaughter, so the defendant could be admitted to bail. Mathews [was] charged with the shooting of Wilbur (Wig) Jacks, at Eagle Point, last Tuesday morning, and his attorney pleaded that if at liberty on bonds he could "get evidence for his trial." None of his immediate relatives were in court, but many friends were present and extended a friendly greeting when he returned to the county jail in the custody of the sheriff.
    Harry Lewis of Eagle Point, who witnessed the shooting from a wagon he was driving, testified that he heard the first shot, after he had passed the two men in the road, opposite John Nichols' home, and that he saw Mathews riding his horse, seven or eight feet from Jacks, and shooting, while the latter was running down the sidewalk with both hands clasped in his stomach. He said he saw Jacks jump over the Nichols fence, light on his back, and immediately jump up and run again, after which a shot was fired. He was positive that Jacks had no gun.
    The defense tried hard to discredit the testimony of Lewis and questioned him at great length. Lewis admitted that he had told a crowd of friends he had "put the hud to his team" with the first shot, but that it was not true, being said in a spirit of banter, when Eagle Pointers were joshing him about his desire to get away from the scene of the shooting. The defense tried to show that Lewis was too frightened to see what actually happened.
    Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, at whose home Jacks roomed, was called by the state, but turned out to be a good witness for the defense. She testified that she was in her back yard, when she heard loud talking and cursing, and immediately went to the front of the house. She said she saw Jacks on the sidewalk, and Mathews on his horse, and that Jacks was throwing rocks and swearing in a loud voice.
    "I'm not looking for trouble," Mrs. Van Scoy testified she heard Mathews say.
    "I'm the man that is looking for trouble. I ran you eight miles yesterday and I'll get you yet," Jacks replied, she testified, and then continued, "Go ahead and shoot, you're too big a coward."
    To this defy, she said, Mathews replied: "Get out from in front of that house and I'll show you whether I'm afraid to shoot."
    She then heard shots fired and saw Mathews ride away from the scene.
    The testimony of Mrs. Van Scoy came as a surprise to the state, and District Attorney Rawles Moore asked the witness if she bore any dislike to Jacks. Her answer was that she always spoke to him, and neither liked or disliked him.
    Mrs. Eva Nichols testified she heard Jacks cursing in the street and brought in her little girl from the yard where she was playing. When she reached her front porch she heard shots but the men were out of sight.
    Mrs. Frank Lewis testified that she saw Mathews riding away towards his home after the shooting.
    The defense introduced no witnesses, and the state only [witnesses] sufficient to prove a case to hold Mathews to the grand jury. His plea will be self-defense.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 26, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Alvin Anderson, who has been working on the rock crusher on Reese Creek, was a business caller last Monday on his way to Medford.
    Mrs. Kiddle, who lives on the C. P. Coleman farm on Lake Creek and passed through here some ten days ago on her way to Klamath Falls, returned Monday on the Butte Falls stage and went on up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Roy Stanley has been hauling lumber past the Sunnyside to cover a large stack of hay he has on the south side of the creek to feed this winter.
    Ed Cowden, one of our prominent farmers and stock and dairy men, came out and went to Medford Monday.
    Green Mathews, another one of our well-to-do farmers and stock men, was a business caller Saturday.
    Geo. W. Hastings, manager of the motor transportation of the Associated Oil Co., looking over the roads and highways with W. C. Hames, agent for the said oil company of San Francisco, and found fault with our roads on account of the wearing of the tires on their trucks, but felt better after they had dinner at the Sunnyside.
    David Keys, who has been working for C. H. Natwick on the Crater Lake Highway, is boarding at the Sunnyside.
    I met with the principal of our schools, Mrs. Geo. Holmes, last Monday at the post office and was told that there were 38 names of children enrolled in our school and that everything was progressing nicely. Our primary teacher, Miss Alice Train, is proving to be the right person in that department.
    Nick Young and R. A. Petty, Artie Vestal and F. J. Ayres were business callers Tuesday. Mrs. L. M. Abbott of Butte Falls came out on the stage and went on up home Tuesday.
    Tuesday morning our town was thrown into a stage of excitement when the news was carried from house to house announcing the shooting of Wilbur Leroy Jacks by Raleigh Mathews in the street near the old grist mill, a very sad affair. It was the result of an old feud that has been brewing for a year or more. But as there have already been a number of different statements published in different papers throughout the state and the statements very conflicting, evidently designed to influence the minds of the public one way or the other, I propose to let the matter rest until the case is decided by the courts.
    Dr. Sweeney of Medford was called and upon examination found that Mr. Jacks had been shot in two places, both bullets penetrating the bowels, so the doctor took him in his own car to the hospital in Medford and he passed away the next day about 9 o'clock a.m. He leaves his wife and three children, Edna aged 14, Kenneth aged 7, and Wilbur, Jr., aged 9; his mother Mrs. F. E. Minnick of Central Point, a twin brother Wilfred who is living at Lima Ridge, Calif., and a sister, Ruby Hayden of Yakima, Wash.
    There were four men, Messrs. A. L. Edgerine, G. W. Potts, Wilbur Berass and Albert Randall, all of Grants Pass. They have been putting up the guard rails on the approaches to the different bridges that have been built along the Crater Lake Highway, and painting them. They remained from Monday until Thursday night, then going home, but engaged their rooms for next Monday, when they expect to return and apply another coat of paint.
    Ben J. Trowbridge and C. B. Watkins of Medford were here for supper Tuesday evening.
    Grant Mathews, wife and son Earl, who live on the Crater Lake Highway about a mile south of the Rogue River bridge, were here Wednesday morning on their way to Medford. Mrs. Mathews in speaking of the work done on the Crater Lake Highway related how their house was shattered by the blasting on the highway. She said that they were compelled to unroof their house entirely and one stump came through the roof that was so large that it took three or four men to work it out. The road runs right through their yard and has necessitated several changes in their plans, but they are rejoicing to think that they will have such a fine thoroughfare from their place to Medford when it is completed, for the way it has been in the winter time it has been almost impossible for them to get out in any other way than on horseback.
    R. DeArmond and son of Beagle were here last Wednesday with a fine lot of hams, shoulders and side meat that he was selling to our townspeople.
    F. C. Bell, the present owner of the Butte Creek (Corbin) orchard, was a business caller also Wednesday and reports that his fruit crop is up to date.
    Mrs. John Welch of Lake Creek was also transacting business here Wednesday.
    Henry Meyers of Baker Flat, some five miles northeast of Brownsboro, was here on business Wednesday.
    S. P. Decker of Medford, and Charles Hash, formerly of the Pelouze ranch but now living on the farm he purchased from Benj. Brophy just below Butte Falls on Big Butte Creek, were passengers on the Medford stage and Mr. Hash went on up home. I understand that Mr. Hash is going into the dairy business quite extensively.
    Harvey Peyton brought out a load of spuds for our market Thursday.
    Israel Patton of Butte Falls was among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday morning on his way home.
    Lawrence Farlow of Lake Creek is stopping with his sister, Mrs. T. F. Nichols, and is a handy man around town.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby, the principal rustler of that section, passed through here Thursday morning with another load of hogs for the Medford market. They belonged to Mr. Clark of Derby.
    Charley Brown, one of the auto steering works, and Wesley, that is the salesmen of Medford, was here for dinner Thursday.
    Walter Marshall and family of Brownsboro were in town Thursday and while they were here gave me his subscription for the Medford Daily Mail Tribune. The same afternoon I met Frank Johnson, who lives at the location of the new bridge across Rogue River on the east side, and while here he gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune, and the same afternoon Mrs. F. W. Reid, wife of one of the men who are operating the steam rollers on the Crater Lake Highway, met me at the post office and gave me her subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Thursday evening Mrs. P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek, Trail post office, spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Josephine Dowd of Jacksonville came out on the Butte Falls stage as far as Eagle Point and went on up on the Lake Creek stage to visit her sister, Mrs. Newsbaum, who was recently married.
    Mrs. R. K. Riddle of Lake Creek, who has been out to Klamath Falls on business, came out Thursday and went on up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    It becomes my painful duty to record another sad death in our community, that of William Wesley Butler, who lived a short distance above here. It appears that he was riding in a car with a man by the name of Cox and that something went wrong with the [omission] name he went by, asked him to stand on the running board and watch to see what was wrong and in making a turn in the road the wheels turned so as to overturn the car, catching him under it and crushing him to death. He leaves a wife and two-year-old son, father, mother, two brothers, half brother, sister and grandfather and a host of friends to suffer the bereavement. He was 26 years and 11 months old and was born on his grandfather's old homestead near Ashland, Oregon. The funeral will take place Sunday from the Perl Funeral Home in Medford, the burial to be in Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 29, 1921, page 4


TRAIL ITEMS
    Glass brothers spent Monday night at Trail on their way to the valley with beef.
    R. D. Watson made a trip to Prospect Monday for shake bolts.
    Denzil Middlebusher arrived home Saturday after an extended visit with relatives at Bend.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher of Prospect, are visiting relatives at Trail this week.
    Mrs. Roy Vaughn and little son Donald are visiting the parental home on Elk Creek.
    Lowell Ash and Geo. Fisher spent the past week with the former's father, E. E. Ash, at his lookout at Sugar Pine.
    Mrs. Sandry of Elk Creek, returned home Friday after a few days shopping in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1921, page 12
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Ralph Stanley and J. D. Patrick were passengers on the Eagle Point stage last Friday morning, and after taking dinner at the Sunnyside Mr. Patrick went on up to Fish Lake. He is working for the Fish Lake Ditch Co. at the carpenter business and has been engaged putting in a siphon for the company on the line of their new ditch they are constructing.
    Mr. Barrett of Trail came in Thursday and went out to Medford.
    Frank Manning and his son Charles were here for dinner and supper and afterwards went on up home near Peyton.
    Chester E. Baer of Dennis, Kimble & Pope, Inc., Medford, was also here for dinner Thursday and so was William Hooker, Bob Brophy, Mrs. E. C. Nygren, Mrs. Rudolph Gardner of Lake Creek, Mrs. M. L. Bowles, Lake Creek, Earl Zimmerman, A. L. Aauth and J. T. Fleming, representatives of Liggett & Meyer Tobacco Co., James Owens and Victor Bursell, our county commissioners, John M. Nichols, wife and daughter, Mrs. Dolly Jacks and three children and Mrs. Allie Daley.
    Mr. Nichols and family and Mrs. Allie Daley had just returned from the funeral of Mrs. Jacks' husband, who was killed the Wednesday before by Raleigh Mathews.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel and Mrs. J. S. Vestal, all of Reese Creek, were also business callers.
    Thursday, the day that William W. Butler was killed by the turning over of his car and crushing him to death, our carrier, accompanied by Dr. W. W. P. Holt, came out and took the corpse to Medford to prepare for burial, and the funeral services and burial were in the Ashland cemetery on Sunday afternoon. The funeral was conducted by the American Legion, of which he was a member, he having served in the U.S. Navy during 1916 and 1917, and the religious services were conducted by your Eagle Point correspondent. There was a very fair attendance, but not so many as there would have been if it had been known in Ashland, but the Ashland papers did not mention the circumstances of his death, and another reason for the small attendance was that there were two picnic parties went out from Medford that day, Sunday, the Elks holding their annual picnic and K. of P. holding another on Klamath River.
    Mr. Clauson, who has charge of the bridge construction work in this district and has been boarding and lodging at the Sunnyside this past summer, had a business call to Josephine County and was gone a few days, and Harry Childers, also another one of our regular boarders, has been away but has returned for a short stay.
    Our sheriff, Charley Terrill, and our district attorney, Rawles Moore, and his deputy, George Codding, were out looking up evidence and subpoenaing witnesses in the Mathews-Jacks case and stopped here for dinner Friday.
    Artie Nichols and son Harold of Fort Klamath came in Saturday morning at 2 o'clock and called for beds. They had come in from Fort Klamath at 9 o'clock the evening before to attend the funeral of Wilbur Jacks but found that he had been buried the day before, Friday. Artie Nichols is a brother of Mrs. Jacks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hulse and Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro, and Mrs. Bowles of Lake Creek, stopped at the Sunnyside Saturday morning on business on their way to Medford to attend the circus. Miss Kubli of Jacksonville, who is teaching the Brownsboro school, was also with the above-named party.
    J. P. Goin, our agate man, who has been up in the Marshfield country since last spring, returned Saturday night and has taken his room again. He brought a fine collection of agates he took with him and has dressed up and is now showing them to our patrons.
    Nick Young, one of our prosperous bachelor farmers, was here for supper Saturday evening.
    Mrs. Alice Daley was left in charge of the Sunnyside Hotel Saturday while we all went to Medford to see and be seen, and while I was there I saw quite a number of the citizens of this section of the country and several of them were either witnesses in the Mathews-Jacks case or friends who were interested in the case. There seems to be a general feeling of disappointment because the court did not lower the charge of manslaughter so that Mathews could have been let out on bail, as he could have given bonds for any reasonable amount.
    There was a little thrill of excitement in our town Saturday night on account of a fire starting in the rear end of the Nichols store about 7:30 p.m. The store had been closed by Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the saleslady and business manager, when she went home, but the owner, T. E. Nichols, had reopened it and waited on a customer and as Mr. Nichols is an inveterate smoker it is the general opinion in the community that he had lit a match and threw it down before the fire was entirely extinguished or else that fire had dropped out of his pipe, a common corncob pipe, and caught in some old paper or rubbish. A man happened to be riding across the bridge and discovered the light in the back room and gave the alarm and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy was at the switchboard and telephoned to the people in town with the result that soon there were a number of men and women collected and the store was soon cleared of its contents. Fortunately the coal oil barrel that stood in the room where the fire originated had but little oil in it and when that burned out there was not much left to burn. Mr. Nichols estimates that there was probably $150 or $200 worth of goods destroyed and the damage to the goods in carrying them out of the store was not very much.
    As it was he was very fortunate to get off as well as he did, as he was not carrying any insurance. He had let his insurance run out some months before, and refused to renew on account of the hard times and scarcity of money. His wife asked me to express her thanks to those who came to the rescue and did such noble work for them.
    Rev. George N. Edwards of Walla Walla, Wash., and Rev. W. J. Oldfield, pastor of the Congregational church of Ashland, called last Monday and left an appointment for preaching here on Sunday, Oct. 9th at 7:30 p.m.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1921, page 10


     MEDFORD, Ore.--Margaret Ann Klingle, aged 82 years, a pioneer of Jackson County, who lived for 60 years on Lake Creek, died at Sacred Heart Hospital September 21 of Bright's disease. She was born in Ireland and came to America when 13 years of age. She was married 50 years ago to Samuel Klingle at Jacksonville. She leaves a son, Charles Klingle, and a daughter, Mrs. Ella Myers, both residents of the Lake Creek district.
"The Passing of the Pioneers," Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, September 30, 1921, page 4
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    W. H. Crandall, one of our prominent citizens and orchardists, and Green Mathews, another one of our well-to-do citizens and capitalists, were transacting business in our town Monday and so was C. E. Bellows and wife, who came in to bring their cream. I have noticed that there is a marked difference in the way of doing business now and the way it was done a few years ago before the dairy and poultry business started on a business basis, when the farmer kept a few common scrub cows and a few common mixed-breed hens with no reference to the milking quality of the cows or the laying quality of the hens, but now there seems to be a general feeling of pride to be sure to get the best of everything in these lines and the result is that under this system those who have been devoting their energies in that direction are out of debt and are on the high tide of prosperity, and now it is a very common sight to see our farmers come in on the set days for the creamery men to be here to gather the cream and eggs, a half dozen or more at a time to meet them, take their checks, go to the bank and get the cash, or else deposit it and have it drawing interest, and instead of being forced to patronize a certain store or firm, because they have a bill there they can go and trade where they please. I can remember from ten to fifty years ago when if a man owed a bill at a store and went to another store to buy goods that he was soon notified to come and settle up and if he didn't [he] would be sued and put to cost. I full well remember some years ago when a merchant who was then doing business in Jacksonville elected a man to an important office, assessor, because he held his note for six hundred dollars by forcing his customers who were in his debt to vote for him; that was under our old system of voting viva voce. And he made so many mistakes that it took a long time to straighten his work out. I remember one instance where he assessed a man on Foots Creek and the assessment should have been three thousand dollars and he reported it as three million and a friend of his discovered the mistake, and let him, the man assessed, know in time to correct it before it was turned over to the sheriff.
    J. W. Miller of Elk Creek, Trail post office, Fred Dunlap of Derby, Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, and Miss Josephine Dowd of Jacksonville were passengers on the stage. Miss Dowd was on her return trip from up in the Lake Creek country and took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday and so did Fort Hubbard, Dr. J. D. Rickert of Medford, who had been out in the high hills hunting but procured no meat.
    Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman and her son Earl of the Blue Canyon country beyond Butte Falls, who had been repairing the large pump that belongs to the P.&E.R.R. Co. so as to furnish sufficient water for the two sprinklers that are sprinkling the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway, as the other pump was too small to meet the demand.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, and Miss Ruth Nichols of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Farrier of Lake Creek and W. D. Steadman of Medford were also here for dinner Monday and a stranger whose name I failed to secure.
    J. H. Cutler, the Lake Creek merchant, who bought out the Thomson Bros. passed through our town with a load of merchandise Monday on his way home.
    Fred McPherson came in from Los Angeles a few days ago to visit his wife and son, who have been living on the farm while he was taking a trip to China.
    John Allen and son Walter of Derby passed through here the first of the week with a thoroughbred roan Durham bull that he had purchased, another evidence of the progress of the people of Southern Oregon. Mr. Allen is one of our leading stockmen and for years has been improving not only his cattle but also his horses and a few years ago kept some of the best stallions and mares to be found in the country.
    A. C. Nininger of Ashland passed through here with a team of horses and had to stop here and shoe his team, as one of his horses had lost a shoe and became so footsore he could hardly travel.
    Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls also passed through here on his way home from Medford, where he had been trading.
    Mrs. J. W. Merritt and son of Reese Creek were among the business callers and so was Wm. H. Crandall of the Hog Creek country. He is one of the farmers and orchardists who will be greatly benefited by the Crater Lake Highway.
    C. H. Tolson was here for dinner Thursday and so was John W. and Roy Smith. They have been doing some carpenter work, reflooring and ceiling the portico on the Sunnyside. Also among the guests were Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman and son Earl of Butte Falls, who came out to help Mrs. Zimmerman's son Noble gather and market his tomatoes and beans; he has been supplying the cannery in Medford with a fine lot of vegetables this season.
    Mrs. Dora Harbaugh and John B. Renault of Jacksonville were here for dinner last Wednesday. They had been up on the Tiller cutoff looking after Mrs. Harbaugh's interests in the road work.
    Charles Brown of Medford, who owns a fine pear orchard a few miles this side of Medford, was here Wednesday for dinner and so was Mrs. Zimmerman, Chas. Humphrey of Derby, who was bringing in some fresh meat to feed the hungry people of our town.
    Art Vestal of Reese Creek and Thos. Perdue of Medford, and R. R. Chartraw of Gold Hill, who have been working at Fish Lake, K. D. Jones of Butte Falls were here for dinner Tuesday, and a man who gave his name as Mr. Rone came out on the Eagle Point stage and spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside and went up home on the stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bergman and Henry Trusty were here also. Henry reports that the von der Hellen crew have finished the job of putting the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway as far as Reese Creek and are taking the crusher to pieces to move it up on the Grant Mathews place a mile or so this side of the new Rogue River bridge.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 1921, page 6


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    M. E. Rosa of Rogue River came in Thursday evening and enjoyed a room and board for a limited time. He has the contract to pack the apples on the Tronson and Edgell orchards, and commenced to work Monday morning the 3rd, and from what I can learn of his plans intends to put on quite a force and push the job through as fast as possible. I have not heard of the prospect on the Tronson orchard but met Mr. Edgell a day or so ago and he reports that the prospect for a crop are considerably better than they were last year, and last year he had a fine crop and they were of a fine variety, large and luscious.
    F. C. Bell, the present owner of the Butte Creek (the old Corbin) orchard, reports that he has a fine crop of apples again this season and commenced to pick and pack the latter part of last week, and from what I can learn the prospect is very good for as good, if not better, crop as we have ever had in this Butte Creek country, and where there is water to irrigate the trees it is almost a certainty to have a good crop, although once in a great while the late frosts damage the fruit to a greater or less extent.
    There is a considerable quantity of lumber, shakes and fence posts being brought out of the hills just now by team and trucks, as the parties who have been bringing out such things on the railroad track have discontinued that line of business for some reason.
    I met Verna Mathews a day or so ago and he said that he was hauling out his lumber to put up a large barn, with teams. It seems so slow a process to go nearly twenty miles to a mill, and that laying right on the P.&E. railroad, when it could be done with trucks or on the railroad so much easier, but such is life in the Far West when a few men control the business affairs.
    Rudolph Pech, the king potato raiser on Little Butte Creek, has been hauling out his spuds to supply the Medford market and last Monday morning I saw a man loading on a half truckload of potatoes, taking them up right past Pech's place for the Fish Lake Ditch Co., that had been brought out of the hills and stored here for them and I thought at the time that that looked like poor business on the part of somebody to handle them three or four times extra and haul them perhaps over the same road.
    I met J. Wattenberg the other day and he told me that he had rented the farm known as the T. E. Ruth place lying along the banks of Rogue River some six miles above here. Mr. Wattenberg is fortunate in securing such a valuable place for it is not only good land but a good part of it is set in alfalfa and they have recently opened up a ditch bringing water from Rogue River so as to irrigate almost the entire place.
    Carl Ahlstrom of Butte Falls was one of the passengers on the Butte Falls stage last Friday on his way home and he attracted my attention more particularly on account of his having strips of adhesive plaster across his nose and my curiosity let me to inquire the cause of his trouble and he said that he had it broke playing football.
    Among the city dads and the lady members of the town council there have been some very material improvements made in the streets of our town between the private citizens and the county; they have succeeded in making Riverside Boulevard one of the finest streets in the town and the county has had the county road commencing at the railroad track and running in a westerly direction to intersect the Crater Lake Highway covered with a good supply of crushed rock, rolled and well watered so that those who wish to go either way can have a good road to drive on, and in addition to that the town is having a lot of sand and gravel dumped into some of the holes that have been worn in our streets, and had a new crosswalk put at the intersection of Rogue River Avenue with Main Street and on the county road on the Sunnyside of Butte Creek private enterprise has put a fine lot of sand and gravel all along from the county bridge to the corner of Lot 1, Block 1, D.&E. addition, facing the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Rev. Geo. N. Edwards, field worker for Washington, Oregon and Idaho for the Congregational Church will hold services in the Antioch school house on Sunday, Oct. 9th, at 10:30 Sunday morning and at Brownsboro at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at Eagle Point at 7:30 p.m. Everybody is invited to attend and hear him.
    Pete Young was a business caller last Friday. He is generally too busy to take time to visit our town but has to come in occasionally to have blacksmithing done, as he has a good farm to care for and that keeps him busy.
    Mrs. Chas. Ray, Mabel Ray and Mr. J. F. Mundy of Medford were here for dinner Friday.
    Orbie Abbott of Butte Falls was a passenger on the stage for Butte Falls Friday, and Frank Miller, formerly of the Lake Creek country but now of Eastern Oregon, and Thos. F. Nichols were here for dinner.
    Frank Courtney and his brother Sam are at this writing repairing the damage done by the fire at the Nichols store.
    Mrs. Cummings of Central Point was here looking after her property and while here rented it to O. M. Goss.
    There was a big truckload of furniture and general supplies went through here for the citizens of Butte Falls. The furniture was for M. C. Mahoney.
    Among the callers Saturday were Frank Miller, Ralph Bieberstedt, John Miller and wife and Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Miller's sister of Portland, Thomas Swem, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Codding, deputy district attorney were here and were on the stages, Mr. Miller and family for their home at Lake Creek, and Mr. and Mrs. Codding and Mr. Swem were on their way to Butte Falls.
    G. W. Van Dyke of Lake Creek has taken over the job, not the contract, of carrying the mail from here to Lake Creek from Mr. Staub of Brownsboro, the contractor.
    Cliff Hickson and wife have moved into the F. J. Ayres house on Riverside Boulevard.
    Wm. Butler has started up his wood saw and is sawing up the wood for the people in town who have such work to do.
    Misses Vera Kershaw and Ethel Holman of Climax came in with the mail from Climax and Wellen on horseback.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Billings and son and J. R. McCracken of Ashland were here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 7, 1921, page 12


ELK CREEK
    A Sunday school has been organized in District 74 on Elk Creek. The community of district 74 met in the Elk Creek school house Sunday, Oct. 1, and elected officers and teachers as follows: Superintendent, D. E. Pence; asst. superintendent, Miss Inez Willits; secretary and treasurer, J. E. Elmer Ivey; Bible class teacher, Mrs. J. M. Miller; primary teacher, Mrs. P. E. Sandoz.
    Edna Whitley passed through Trail Wednesday the 5th, as she is going to Walla Walla, Wash., where she came to visit her mother, Mrs. F. A. Whitley, also her relatives. She had dinner at her brother and sister-in-law's place whom she had not seen for eight years.
    L. A. Whitley had a piece of bad luck when he went to town three weeks ago and injured the flues in the boiler of his steam car. He thinks he can fix it but will take a long time. If he cannot fix the flues he will be out from $400 to $600, as that is the cost of a new boiler.
    Mr. Peterson has taken the mail route out of the hands of Raymond Schermerhorn, to the joy of Elk Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 8, 1921, page 3
TRAIL ITEMS
    Dan Foeller was a business caller in Medford the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Yocum of Washington are looking for a home along Rogue River. They like Southern Oregon very much.
    R. R. Dawson and Irwin Howe are gathering beef cattle this week.
    Denzil Middlebusher has returned from his visit with his sister and family at Tumalo, Oregon.
    H. Randall is preparing to build a new house in place of the one lost by fire a short time ago.
    Mr. and Mrs. Owings and Mrs. Ash and daughter Irma and little granddaughter Wanda Howe were Sunday callers at Howard Ash's on Elk Creek.
    The Trail school is still without a teacher. Won't someone take a sudden notion to teach school and apply?
    Mrs. R. Dawson visited at the Weeks home Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 8, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Jeff Wilson and wife of Klamath Falls were here Saturday night and Sunday morning started on their homeward journey.
    There were services in the Catholic church Sunday morning and there was a good attendance. Among those from the country were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer, son and daughter of Lake Creek, and later they came to the Sunnyside for dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bergman also came out and Mr. Bergman attended the services in the Catholic church and his wife attended our Sunday school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Kath, recently of Colorado, but now of Medford, were here for dinner Sunday and a stranger whose name I failed to secure, also James Watkins, Central Point, and L. A. Nesler of Medford. Mr. Watkins brought his daughter out with him but she took dinner with her aunt, Mrs. Nancy Watkins and cousin Miss Anna Watkins.
    John Foster was also a visitor at the Sunnyside Sunday afternoon and so was Mrs. James Davis, nee Lula Emery, formerly in her girlhood days a resident of our town, her foster parents having lived on the site of the present Sunnyside Hotel. Mrs. Davis is now a resident of Gold Hill. She was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker. They also were former residents of our town but now are living in Gold Hill. Mr. Cook and family, also of Gold Hill, were here Sunday.
    Mr. A. Bishop of Portland, a contractor who has a subcontract to put the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway, came in Sunday evening and remained for a few days, and so did Harvey Taylor of Ashland.
    Wm. von der Hellen, the contractor who has the job of putting the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway and has had his crusher located on Nick Young's field, has finished putting the rock on as far as Reese Creek and has been moving the crusher up the river onto Grant Mathews' place. From all appearances they will succeed in getting through with the job before the wet weather sets in. During the time they were moving the crusher and the necessary machinery up there most of the men, some ten or fifteen, took their meals at the Sunnyside, but now they are about all gone and business is settling down to a normal state again.
    Wm. F. Smith and wife of Ashland were here Sunday and Monday visiting Mrs. Smith's daughter, Mrs. Gus Nichols and family.
    There was quite a rush here Monday of people going to Jacksonville to pay their rent--that is the way that C. E. Bellows expressed the idea, that is to pay the last half of their taxes. And speaking about taxes, the question naturally comes up, when will the continual drain cease? For now we are taxed on everything we eat, drink and wear, and if we are sick we are taxed on every box of pills or bottle of medicine we use, and if we should happen to die and leave a little property that is taxed to pay our funeral expenses, and still whenever our legislature meets it seems to be the first thing that after the members have tried to raise their own salaries, to see how much they can increase our tax burdens. But what is the use in complaining, for there is a certain class of people who have to live and know of no other way to make it easy except to draw it from the taxpayer.
    James Merritt of Reese Creek was a business caller Monday.
    David Ball and family of Crescent City have been here visiting Mrs. Ball's sister, Mrs. Frank Lewis and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ball are of the old pioneer stock of Jackson County as David was born and partially raised on the old Ball farm near Phoenix and his wife was of the old Heckathorn stock and her mother is now living on Elk Creek, one of the early pioneers of this country.
    Mrs. McDonald of the [Rogue] Elk Resort was a passenger on the Eagle Point stage on her way home last Monday, taking passage on the Persist stage for home.
    Mrs. Frank True, Mrs. A. G. Smith and John Foster of Medford were business callers at the Sunnyside.
    Will S. Cooper, a son-in-law of C. H. Natwick, one of our leading road contractors and grandfather of the prize twins of Southern Oregon, was among the diners here Monday and there were eight other transients took dinner at the same time.
    G. B. Plitchett of Medford passed through here with a load for Joe Hoskins near Trail Monday.
    Frank Brown and wife, one of our leading merchants, who has been on an extended trip up through British Columbia and through some of the middle states, Illinois in particular, where he visited his brother Merritt, returned the first of the week.
    Earl and Sam Courtney, two brothers, took the contract to reroof and repair the damage caused by the fire in the back room of T. E. Nichols' store and have finished the job and at this time are engaged making apple boxes for Mr. Edgell on the Edgell orchard.
    Frank Haselton, the foreman on the Antelope orchard, was a business caller Tuesday.
    From the amount of hay and coal that is being hauled up the country by the big trucks for the Rogue River Canal Company they must be expecting to work all winter and spring. Speaking of hauling loads of coal, since they have been hauling such heavy loads, five and a half tons at a load on a truck weighing five or six tons, there are complaints coming in that they are racking the county bridge here in town, and in places the two floors are worn through so that it is hardly safe to run over it with an ordinary auto, and if they do there are so many nails or spikes left in the planks that there is danger of tearing the auto tires all to pieces.
    Mrs. Joe Moomaw, who went to Medford a short time ago to be operated on for appendicitis, has recovered and returned home again.
    Our neighbor, Mrs. N. Watkins, has had her kitchen reroofed. Her son-in-law George Phillips did the work.
    Mrs. Henry Wendt of Eastern Oregon came out on the stage and went up to visit her sister, Mrs. Newstrom of Lake Creek.
    Fred Pettegrew, who is engaged running the caterpillar that draws the grader on the Crater Lake Highway, was here for dinner Wednesday and so was Wm. von der Hellen, Lucius Kincaid of Prospect, J. W. [Antle], the Lake Creek merchant, and the lessee of the Eagle Point opera house was here for dinner.
    Thursday evening when I returned from Medford I heard that the house belonging to Mr. Granam and occupied by Alvin Conover on Reese Creek had burned down but have not learned what the damage was or whether it was insured.
    Thomas Vestal was also a business caller of Reese Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1921, page 2
ELK CREEK
    Mrs. George Weeks and family were pleasant callers at the D. W. Pence home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence were called to Applegate last week, where his mother is very ill.
    Mr. and Mrs. Owens, Mrs. E. E. Ash and daughter, Irma, visited at the Howard Ash home Sunday.
    Miss Inez Willits spent Wednesday evening with three of her pupils, Hazel Lincoln and Alberta Pence.
    Miss Mary Weeks visited the Elk Creek school on Friday last week.
    Mr. E. E. Ash returned home from Sugar Pine, where he has spent his summer as a ranger.
    Mr. P. E. Sandoz returned to his home Wednesday after a three-day trip to Medford.
    Howard Ash and Tom Weeks have been haying for Dave Pence while he is absent.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ashcraft went to Ashland Sunday, returning to their home on Elk Creek on Tuesday. Mr. Ashcraft's mother came with them.
    Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Trusty and family, and Mrs. Henry Childreth and family spent the weekend with parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Trusty.
    Mr. Jesse Richardson has been up for a hunt on Upper Elk Creek.
    The following farmers are burning their slashings since October 1: Mr. J. Trusty, Mr. J. W. Miller, Mr. George Hall, Mr. Willits and Mr. D. W. Pence, consequently the atmosphere is quite smoky.
    Mr. and Mrs. Sturgis made a business trip to Medford last week.
    The first month of the Elk Creek school closed Friday with 100 percent attendance. The following pupils are enrolled: Hazel Pence, Lincoln Pence, Alberta Pence, Daisy Wagner, Elmer Ivey, Paul Sandoz, Peter Sandoz, Marcel Sandoz, Emile Sandoz, Mabel Sandoz.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1921, page 3


R. MATHEWS, A MODEL PRISONER, GAINS WEIGHT
    Raleigh Mathews, the Eagle Point youth held in the county jail awaiting action of the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter, resulting from the fatal shooting of Wilbur (Wig) Jack in the street at Eagle Point, September 9th, is gaining weight and has scores of visitors who bring him good things to eat.
    "I've gained 10 or 12 pounds in here," said Mathews Tuesday. "I was working night and day but now I get all the sleep and rest I want in here, and am getting rested up fine. I'd like to be out though enjoying the fine weather."
    Since his incarceration, Mathews has almost daily visits from friends and relatives, who bring him home-cooked dainties. These he shares with his prison mates. If Mathews has any foreboding about the future, or the outcome of his present trouble, it does not show in his smile and manner. Mathews takes part in the county jail activities and the "kangaroo court," and is a model prisoner. He occupies a cell by himself on the upper tier.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 12, 1921, page 3


TRAIL ITEMS
    Mr. H. L. Kelly, who is in charge of fisheries in the Hawaiian Islands, visited with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Howell October 28.
    Mr. Kelly came to this station in 1905 and spent five years here, after which he went to South America and later to Honolulu. He has also been visiting friends in Medford.
    Miss Helen Howell of Oregon City arrived in Medford Tuesday and will spent the winter with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Howell of the United States fisheries. Miss Howell is a niece of Mr. Howell.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson made a business trip to Prospect Tuesday.
    Mrs. O. R. Stewart is the happiest woman on Rogue River, for her mother, Mrs. O. S. Hodsdon of Walla Walla, Wash., and little grandson, Olin Smith, are visiting her. Mrs. Hodsdon was a resident of Jackson County 20 years ago and, of course, noted many progressive changes.
    Grandma Watson returned home Monday. She has spent a delightful time visiting with her son, R. D. Watson, and family.
    John Hockersmith of the Meadows district visited at the Stewart home.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson Sunday.
    The parents and children of the Hatchery district expected school to begin Monday, the 17th, but institute will be held the first three days of the week, so that will delay school until Thursday.
    Earl Ulrich and Carton Bros. weighed a nice bunch of beef at the Rogue River ranch to Ashpole and Nichol.
    Mrs. Phillips and daughter Violet visited Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Hodsdon Monday.
    Mrs. A. Hollenbeck and little son Lester spent several days at McLeod, while Mr. Adams went to Medford for supplies.
    The men folks around Trail are putting Homer Randall's house up this week.
    D. W. Pence and Howard Ash were Trail visitors Friday.
    R. R. Dawson and I. H. Howe returned from the hills Saturday with what beef cattle they could find. They seem to be very hard to locate this fall.
    The Misses Minnie Poole, Dorothy and Edna Peterson, Claude Ragsdale, Ed and Charles Cushman and John Warner enjoyed a movie in Medford Saturday night.
    T. C. Gaines drove beef cattle to Medford Monday.
    Denzil Middlebusher, Mr. Smith, Mr. Yocum and Elmer Dawson were Medford callers Monday.
    J. C. Mechem spent the weekend visiting his wife and relatives in Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 14, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    James Owens, our county commissioner, made a hurried trip through here to Reese Creek Friday to look after the road work in that section.
    G. W. Barker, the popular and accommodating Butte Falls banker, was transacting business in our town Friday.
    Miss Ruth Nichols, who has been spending several days in Medford, returned home Friday.
    Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro was a business caller and among other things came to meet her daughter, Ethel, who is attending the high school in Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls stopped at the Sunnyside for supper on their way home from Medford.
    Shorty Allen and family of Wellen were here shoeing up the little folks Saturday, and laying in the necessary supplies for the winter. Shorty is one of our wide-awake citizens who has bought a tract of land on Antelope and cleared it and [is] making a fine home for himself and family.
    Ed Spencer and A. M. Gay took passage on the B.F. stage Saturday on the way to some mines they have discovered in the hills beyond Butte Falls.
    Curtis Nichols and wife of Fort Klamath were here Saturday visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols, on their way to visit their son-in-law and daughter in Gold Hill.
    R. W. Green, a traveling salesman representing the Aluminum Company of Portland, offering his ware for sale to be delivered later, and from the number of orders he exhibits as taken, is doing a lively business as he claims to have engaged several lots carrying from 40 to 100 at $9 each and the amount of business he reports as being done would indicate that money is not so very scarce in this Butte Creek country--the result of the chicken and dairy business.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz, Mr. and Mrs. William Bigelow, Mr. B. is now working on the crusher on the C.L.H., Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, shoe dealer of Medford, F. W. Reid, wife, son Hill and daughter Virginia. Mr. Reid is the man who operates the steam roller on the C.L.H. and took a layoff that day to move out of the Arlie Green--the old J. J. Fryer house--into the home formerly used as the Geo. Brown and Son store, now belonging to Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy. Mrs. Dolly Jacks has very recently vacated the house and moved into the home with her father and mother, thus vacating the Green house. There has been a great demand for houses here this fall and they seem to be hard to find in our town.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Saturday were R. M. Green of Portland, E. V. Peterson, Trail; J. H. Howard, C. H. Natwick, Adin Haselton, Harold Van Scoyoc, Alfred Robinson and eight strangers, who are working on the von der Hellen crusher.
    Rev. George N. Edwards, field worker for Washington, Oregon and Idaho for the Congregational Sunday School Extension Society, was here and preached for us Sunday evening. He had preached in Antioch school house in the forenoon and at Brownsboro in the afternoon and so had his appointment at night here. Mr. H. E. Campbell and wife took him from here. He stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, our banker, to Antioch and in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Carl Esch, who own the old John Singleton farm, took him to Brownsboro and back and I accompanied them. He had a small congregation at Brownsboro owing in part to the appointment not being generally known, and another reason was that one of the leading families in the community, that has always seemed to take interest in religious services there, had an invitation out to dinner that day, thus keeping two families away from church. He had a very fair congregation here, and a move was started to arrange to have Eagle Point as the center and have the minister have appointments around in different places. But nothing definite was decided. Mr. Edwards went to Butte Falls Monday on the stage to see what could be done in that line up there.
    Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen made a business trip to Medford, returning Monday morning on the M.-B.F. stage. Miss Alice Train, our popular primary teacher, came out on the same stage.
    Mr. Sherman Wooley and her two children went up to Butte Falls to visit her mother, Mrs. William Beale, on the same stage. And there were also four passengers on the same stage bound for Prospect or Butte Falls. There seems to be quite a number of people going and coming over the road to the timber regions.
    J. W. Barry of Brownsboro came in Monday morning, and went up home on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    J. D. Patrick, who is working at his trade, carpentering, on the Fish Lake dam, came out and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. W. H. Newsbaum of Lake Creek came out Monday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went to Medford on the Lewis jitney.
    Artie Nichols of Fort Klamath and his father, John Nichols, went to Medford Monday morning, and when John returned he was toothless.
    William Holman and family of Lake Creek and R. A. Weidman, one of our leading dairymen, and Miss B. Noise of Portland, who is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Merritt of Reese Creek, went into Medford on business, returning the same afternoon on the Lewis jitney.
    W. S. Baker and C. Humphrey of Derby and Alex Vestal, W. E. Hammel of Reese Creek and J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, were business callers Monday.
    The L.I.C. of Eagle Point gave the supper at the dance last Saturday night and took in $33.85. There seemed to be a good attendance and those in attendance report having had a good time.
    Among the diners here Monday were Mr. H. G. Paisley of Portland, W. S. Henderson, W. S. Olett, who are working on the fish dam just above town, Charles Terrill, our sheriff, our district attorney, Rawles Moore, and a deaf man whose name I failed to secure. The three last mentioned were out drawing a plat of the ground where Wilbur Jacks was shot to be used as evidence in the trial of Raleigh Mathews.
    Mildred Van Slyke of Tacoma, Washington and L. Bishop and Mr. Rynning, the civil engineer who has charge of the construction work on the C.L.H., were all here for dinner Monday.
    There will be a school meeting Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at the school house for the purpose of voting on the subject of a special tax, and every voter is especially urged to be there and vote.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 14, 1921, page 7
BROWNSBORO TO HAVE CLEANUP DAY OCTOBER 22
    BROWNSBORO, Oct. 14.--Saturday, October 22, the Brownsboro school is going to have an all-day picnic and general cleanup around the grounds and school house. The men are going to bring teams, wagons and tools. They are going to gravel the front part of the school grounds, build new barns in the yard, mend and make new play apparatus, oil the floors in the school house, and do several other odd jobs that need to be done.
    The women are going to bring the eats. The Brownsboro women have a reputation for good cooking, so the schoolchildren feel sure that many will come in the forenoon and visit and eat as well as work. Parents and patrons all come; wear work clothes.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Co. are hauling baled hay through here to the different camps that they have set up.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Henry went to Medford Monday.
    Rev. George N. Edwards held service at the school house Sunday. Mr. A. C. Howlett and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Esch from Eagle Point came up here with him. He wanted to organize a Sunday school but found that one had already been organized.
    William Hoagland returned to Brownsboro. He has been visiting his wife in Central Point, who is ill.
    The Stanley brothers took several head of beef cattle to Eagle Point last week to pasture here.
    A number of upper Brownsboro people came down to our Sunday school. We are in hopes that more of them will come, as we want a large crowd.
    Walter Marshall is working for the Fish Lake Ditch Co.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Barker and two daughters, Loraine and Eleanor, visited the Cowden home Sunday.
    Mrs. Wm. Hansen, Jr., visited Mrs. Carl Stanley Thursday.
    Fifteen pupils in our school had perfect attendance the first month of school and there were not any tardy marks.
    Joe Henry has almost finished his new five-room house.
    Mr. and Mrs. Karberg and daughter Dorothy, from Ashland, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Maxfield. Mrs. Karberg is Mr. Maxfield's sister.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Co. have started one of their steam shovels enlarging and cleaning the ditch near Walter Marshall's ranch.
    Carl Stanley and Robert Neil made a business trip to the county court house Wednesday.
    S. L. Hoagland went to Medford with Mr. and Mrs. Hulse Monday.
    The Monias found one of their kid goats with a coyote wound in the neck. The coyote had evidently set his teeth for a morning breakfast when Mr. Monia shot and frightened the animal away. These animals furnish the Brownsboro people with regular nightly serenades.
    Ralph Tucker, S. L. Hoagland and several other ranchers are fall sowing their wheat.
    Roscoe Hulse is cutting wood for Mr. Hansen, with his new gasoline woodsaw.
    The statement in our items last week that Ralph Tucker was in Medford for medical treatment was a misprint. We meant Mr. Ralph Tucker. Mrs. Tucker is doing nicely.
    Edward Stanley is making a new chimney for the school.
    The Brownsboro schoolchildren are glad so many parents are visiting us and observing our work from day to day. Mrs. Roscoe Hulse visited us this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 14, 1921, page 7

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Tuesday morning, while I was waiting for the morning mail from Medford, I took a stroll down Riverside boulevard and stopped in to take a look at the unfinished house of our barber, Ernest Dahack. Early last spring he bought a small two room cottage that had been built by a widow lady for a home, during the boom, and people who knew him wondered what he was thinking to buy such a small unfinished house as that for a family of his size, wife and three children, and the house was not even fenced in and no water on it to use or drink, although it was only a short distance to the creek. But the first thing anyone knew he had the material on the ground to fence it and soon had the fence up, the land heavily coated with barn manure and planted in all kinds of garden truck, a water system established and running all over it so as to irrigate it from a 1600-gallon tank he had put up on the tract of land he had secured from W. Hart Hamilton. And then the next move was to begin changing and enlarging his house, and now it is a neat seven-room house with all modern improvements, and by the time he has it completed he will have one of the best arranged houses in this vicinity and the beauty of it all is that he has done all the work himself, the carpentering, brick mason work and painting, everything ready to use, and attended to his barber shop at the same time, but while his neighbors were asleep or otherwise taking things easy, Ernest was up and at work. My object in writing this item is to encourage others to do away with the "I can't" idea and adopt the "I will" thought instead.
    J. W. Hockersmith of the Meadows was a passenger on the stage on his way to Butte Falls. Mr. Hockersmith was among the early settlers of the valley, he having settled on a homestead on the tract of land now covered by the Hillcrest orchard on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road, when a young man. And speaking of that land I remember that in 1865 that the late George Isaacs and I were riding over it and commenting on the character of that very piece of land and that he remarked "Here is a tract of land that is not worth the taxes being paid on it." And now it is among the best orchards in the valley. That shows how land was valued in an early day.
    Mr. Kershaw and Mr. Austin of Climax came in together and Mr. Kershaw told of some of the trouble they were having up in his road district over the way the money of that district had been taken and applied on another district, but the whole thing will come out in the papers and is likely to be aired in the courts.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Wattenberg, who are now living on the Thomas and Ruth Nichols farm, some six miles above here on Rogue River, were business callers Tuesday.
    W. S. Baker of Derby is engaged in hauling wood to town.
    Joe Riley passed through here with four fine brood sows for Roy Stanley Tuesday.
    Charley Clark, who is making his home on the Modoc orchard, came in from Fort Klamath Tuesday and stopped at the Sunnyside until now, Saturday.
    J. C. Nolan of Portland, representative of Hedman Mfg. Co., of Chicago, and C. D. Bayer, representative of Klein-Simpson Fruit Company, Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Gus Nichols and her daughter Marie, and Miss Ruth Nichols, Mr. Reymming and four strangers were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. Cowden drove in Wednesday to meet her sister, Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, who came in on the morning stage Wednesday. Mr. Graham, who owned the building recently burned on Reese Creek, was also a passenger on the stage and so was J. S. Vestal of Reese Creek. They had been to Jacksonville to interview the tax collector. N. R. Korst of Butte Falls went to Medford Wednesday and returned Thursday.
    George Givan and son were hauling in some fine-looking oak stovewood Tuesday. Among the passengers on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage was Mr. E. McCall of Prospect, John Joy of Reese Creek and Mrs. Lester Ellis and three children, on her way to Butte Falls.
    Among the business callers Wednesday were C. L. Goff of Medford, representing the Oregon Fire Relief Association and George E. Yeo of Ashland, special agent to Oregon Fire Relief Association of McMinnville, Oregon.
    Carlyle Natwick, his mother Mrs. C. H. Natwick and sister Miss Orbie Natwick and Mrs. Jones, Charley Terrill, our accommodating sheriff, Charley Brown, one of our prominent fruit men, Thomas Abbott, wife and two children, and Albert Robinson all took dinner at the Sunnyside last Wednesday, beside five strangers, whose names I failed to secure.
    Mr. John Simon, formerly of this place but now of Gold Hill, came in Wednesday night to visit his sister, Mrs. Allie Daley. Mr. Simon is one of the early pioneers of Jackson County, his father, Peter Simon, having lived on a farm in the 1850s that is now the site of the town of Eagle Point. His son, John, if not born here, was raised here from early childhood, learned the tinner's trade with Kubli and Klippel hardware merchants of Jacksonville, but in an early day turned his attention to mining and spent a number of years in that business in Nevada and Mexico, but had to leave that country on account of the revolutions there, and since then has been engaged in mining in this county, but now is holding a position at the cement works of Gold Hill.
    M. E. Schmitt of Derby came out on the stage from Medford. He had been to Jacksonville to settle up his taxes.
    Mrs. A. C. Speck of Brownsboro was transacting business here Thursday.
    Miss Nellie Coy, our efficient and accommodating post office assistant, made a trip to Medford and consulted a dentist Thursday.
    George W. Stowell, the chicken king of these parts, was a business caller Thursday.
    Rudolph Pech and wife of Lake Creek were trading here Thursday with our merchants. Asked about his potato crop, he said what he had was very good, but the crop was not so plentiful as usual, that he had disposed of about all he had to dispose of.
    Thursday evening our son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hoyt of Fort Klamath, came in and were accompanied by Mrs. Roy Hickman and child and Miss Fern Leever, also of Fort Klamath, and after taking supper at the Sunnyside Hotel, the two ladies went on to Medford that night. They report the road in a fine condition as the late rain had packed it and settled the dust in the ruts and chuckholes.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Averill of Round Top came in and spent the night, going on up home Friday morning.
    I see in my letter in the Mail Tribune that there is quite a serious mistake made. In speaking of Mr. J. W. Antle, the Lake Creek merchant, being here I see that the name of J. W. Cutler is used instead of J. W. Antle, the Lake Creek merchant.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1921, page 6
OBITUARY
    McNICOLL--John McNicoll passed away at his home at Eagle Point early this morning, at the age of 66 years, 2 months.
    Mr. McNicoll was born in Indiana in the year 1855. From there he moved to Burbank, Cal., where he resided for a period of 25 years, and came to Eagle Point a little over a year ago.
    Death was due to cancer of the stomach, for which he underwent an operation two months ago.
    He leaves besides his widow two sons and one daughter, Oscar McNicoll and Hugh McNicoll of Arlington, Cal., and Mrs. Wm. Gray of Stockton, Cal.
    Funeral services will be held at the chapel of Weeks-Conger Co., at 3:00 p.m. Friday. Interment in Central Point cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 20, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Last week I took a ride out over the hill on the old Young place, passing by the old Peter Britt and the Holbrook places and turning in the gate so that I could have a fair view of the Ringwood orchard from the brow of the hill near the residence of A. G. Bishop so that I could have a fair view of the valley along the bench of Rogue River and also have a fair view of the orchard at the foot of the hill, while I was on my way down to the George W. Givan dairy and poultry farm. And when we arrived we found Mr. Givan and Charley out in the yard engaged in conversation with J. H. Carlton and another man who I took to be his sheep herder, for he had his sheep in an adjoining field or rather alfalfa pasture, and they were discussing the subject of "what to do for sheep who had the bloat," for it appeared that after turning the sheep into the alfalfa that they became troubled with the bloat and several of them had died. But this is a diversion. I started in to tell of my trip to the Givan place and to try to tell what I saw while there, and that is easier said than done. Shortly after our arrival we also met Mrs. Givan and her daughter, Miss Ruth, and two men who had been engaged in building a new house, one of them was by the name of Applegate but the other name has slipped my mind, they were just putting on the finishing touches on a beautiful eight-room house with all modern conveniences, lath and plastered all through with an old-fashioned fire place, for George said that when he came in wet, tired and cold he liked to have a good warm fire to sit or stand by. He had bought the best of lumber and the work showed that the workmen understood their business. It is arranged so as to have hot and cold water in the house with bathroom and toilet and wired ready for the electric lights, and it is but a short distance from the main electric line leading to Eagle Point, and Mr. Givan has already made arrangements with our popular and efficient painter, Sam Courtney, to do the painting on the inside of the building.
    After viewing the new building and its immediate surroundings we then turned our attention to the orchard. He does not claim to be an orchardist, or make the orchard business a specialty, but he has some as fine fruit as can be found in the valley and one feature is that it is almost entirely free from worms, and one reason for it is that he keeps some fine-looking hogs running in there on the alfalfa so as to keep all the infected apples cleaned up all the time and thus keep the germs destroyed as the apples fall.
    After inspecting the orchard we, that is George and I, turned our attention to looking over the barn, chicken house and haystacks, and incidentally took a look at his nine fine cows and three hundred white leghorn hens. Speaking of his barn he remarked that he had a hundred and fifty tons of hay in it and I began to look suspiciously at the barn and inquired how large it was and he, reading my thoughts, remarked that it was baled hay, and then he had three large stacks outside and a small stack of baled hay and his cows and horses were feeding in an alfalfa field that looked as though it would yield a half or three-quarters of a ton to the acre and I inquired why he had not cut that and he said that he had so much hay already that he did not know what to do with it. We then turned our attention to the hens as we were retracing our steps for the house, and it was about feeding time and when the call was made for them they came from almost every direction and presented a fine appearance. Asked about the eggs he replied that they were molting and were not laying much but that they were getting quite a lot of eggs considering everything. So turning our course and bidding the family farewell we started for home, returning by the lower Butte Creek bridge and passing by where our road supervisor, Wm. Perry, was putting up a stone crusher, preparatory to fixing the road from the old Britt place to Agate. We went on past Mrs. M. E. Pruett's farm and residence, a lovely place, and soon were on the Crater Lake Highway dashing on towards home.
    Mrs. Henry Wendt, who had been up in the Lake Creek country visiting her sister, Mrs. Newsbaum, came out on the Lake Creek stage and went on to her home at New Pines.
    Pete Young of near Eagle Point and Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, Mrs. M. O. Bowles of Lake Creek came out on the E.P.-L.C. stage and Mrs. Bowles went on out to Medford after taking dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel. E. G. Whitesides and A. Lindsey of the Earl Fruit Co., P. J. Neff and wife, Medford attorney, were also here for dinner last Friday.
    R. A. Weidman, one of our rustling farmer dairymen, orchardist and poultryists, put some fine pork on the market last Saturday, it weighing two hundred and sixty pounds dressed at nine months old. Some pork.
    F. J. Ayres and wife of R.C. were business callers Saturday.
    Gus Nichols had his ranch rented out and took his rent in hay so has been buying up a bunch of cattle to eat it up. He took quite a bunch of cattle up to the ranch last Saturday.
    There was quite a number of the teachers from the rural school districts came out last Saturday to attend and take part in the teachers' institute, and Miss Patricia Hogan of Butte Creek district and Mrs. Laura C. Atkins of L.C. district took dinner at the Sunnyside going out. Charles Manning and two of his nephews, Edwin and Frank Boothby, were here for dinner Saturday.
    Our annual school meeting to vote on the budget was held in the Sunnyside Hotel last Saturday p.m., and although notices had been posted for some three weeks there was a very small attendance. There has been quite a lot of grumbling in the district on account of the high taxes and the clerk, Mr. Lake, urged the voters personally to come, but they forgot about it and the result was there was only nine persons present, the three directors, clerk, janitor and four others and the vote stood eight for the budget as arranged and one blank. The object was to vote a tax so as to pay off all of the outstanding warrants and start on a cash basis and then keep out of debt, and thus stop paying over $125 interest every year.
    Among the diners last Sunday were Mrs. Benj. Fredenburg and two daughters, Ernestine Fredenburg and Miss Ethel Graham, a daughter by her first husband, who was going out to attend the institute. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coffman and Miss Arlene Chambers of B.F., Mr. R. M. Green, the aluminum man, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubb, Miss Taylor and Mrs. Taylor of Medford, Mr. Lyle Carlton, W. J. Hastings, O. V. Hastings and Y. L. Fenimore of Ashland, Mr. R. O. Hale of Medford, Mr. Eugene Hoke, California; A. C. Bevan, cashier of California-Oregon Power Co., Medford. Mrs. R. S. Gleason and child of B.F., they remained until Monday. Nick Young and Mr. Reid, who is running the steam roller on the C.L.H., were here for dinner Sunday.
    Mrs. A. S. Carlton of Ashland was here visiting her brother, T. E. Nichols and other relatives, also visiting her sons, J. H. Lyle, Thos. and Herb Carlton.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1921, page 7
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mrs. Fred Middlebusher, Mrs. W. Stewart and Miss Getsie are among the teachers around Trail attending institute at Ashland this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ash and little daughter Betty are spending the week with the former's parents, E. E. Ash, at Trail. Mr. Ash is hauling his lumber preparatory to building his new house on Elk Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. Claude Moore were Medford visitors Saturday.
    Esther Mechem spent the weekend with friends in Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. Hamby were called to Portland suddenly Saturday a.m. by the serious illness of the former's brother at that place.
    Mrs. S. E. Albright is moving to Medford for the winter.
    Wilmer Ragsdale returned home from Table Rock Saturday where he has been employed the past few weeks.
    Mr. Oscar Stewart was a Trail caller Sunday.
    R. R. Dawson is working for Dave Pence this week.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole made a trip to their ranch on the Umpqua side Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis were Medford visitors Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1921, page 7
ELK CREEK
    Mr. Fred Sturgis has been gathering a few cattle.
    Ezra Whitley has been burning slashings lately.
    Elmer Ivey was a guest at Arthur Moore's place Sunday afternoon.
    School will start in district 80 as soon as the teacher can arrive.
    L. A. Whitley has built a log root house for the storage of his garden crop.
    Mrs. Fred Sturgis was grieved to receive a message Saturday telling her that her dog Chance was poisoned at Central Point, where she had lent it to a prominent citizen of Central Point.
    Claude Moore arrived home safely Sunday evening after a business trip to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    F. G. Maxfield of Douglas County, Ore. was a passenger on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage last Monday morning on his way home. He had been up visiting his son, J. F. Maxfield, near Brownsboro for some weeks.
    Among the business callers last Monday were Rube Johnson, one of our retired capitalists, Alex Mathews, E. V. Brittsan, C. E. Bellows and wife and M. E. Schmitt, three of out dairyists, who came in to bring their cream and eggs.
    W. H. Crandall also was a business caller. He came in with a lot of fine-looking apples that he shipped via parcel post to parties in Fort Klamath.
    Mrs. Ira Tungate and two children of Butte Falls came out on her way to Medford and she was met here by her sister, Mrs. Ed Cowden, and Fred Arnes, a brother of J. D. Arnes, superintendent of the Corbin Edgell orchard, was also a business caller Monday.
    Monday night, Mr. G. E. Merrill of Derby and Earl Zimmerman of Butte Falls were guests at the Sunnyside.
    Last Saturday afternoon I met J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the fish hatchery business in this district, and he invited me to go up and inspect the dam he has put in on the L. K. Haak place just above town in Little Butte Creek for the purpose of taking fish for their eggs to be taken to the Butte Falls hatchery. When we arrived we found that he had selected a place on a ledge of rock that extends across the creek and in order to get a solid foundation he built a cofferdam so as to cut a deep cut and force all the water through it, and then built a solid, reinforced concrete dam at the head of the cut with an opening about 3x4 feet square with an almost watertight door to be raised or lowered at will. The next move was to put in another cofferdam so as to force the water from the main stream through the cut so as to draw the water away from where he wanted to build the main dam, and then he drilled holes in the solid rock and bolted timbers 12x12 in. on top of each other, thus making a solid wall and the timbers are so dovetailed together so as to be absolutely solid. He then placed other timbers fifteen feet above the main dam in the same manner and filled in the space with rock and covered the intervening space with heavy plank making an incline. He then covered the whole dam with fir poles five or six inches in diameter, with the ends projecting over the dam so as to prevent the fish jumping over. He has the dam so arranged that it will be impossible for a fish to pass on up the creek only as he wishes. When there comes a run of the kind he does not want he can open the flood gate and let them all pass on up. He plans to put the fish trap in the cut referred to in the first part of this article, and when he wishes to catch them he can shut the gate and stop the water from coming into the trap so that one can go in and take them without being bothered with water at all. But before finishing this article I must refer to the workmanship of Mr. W. C. Daley, who did the carpenter work where the timbers were joined together. The joints are so complete that they are airtight and everything fits just as though he had been making a piece of fine furniture, but that is the way he does his work.
    Tuesday morning when the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage came in it was loaded to capacity. It was a Ford and then there came a special load in later, and the result was that the driver had exchanged and put on another car, a Hudson Six, and then he put in his passengers first and then packed the mail, parcel post and baggage around them, lashing baggage, freight, etc., on the running boards and over the hood. Some of the passengers had quite a lot of freight in the shape of boxes and bedding, as well as winter supplies they were taking into the hills for winter use.
    Among the passengers were Mrs. S. S. Welch, Prospect, Mrs. F. L. Wymore, Derby, Mrs. Benj. Fredenburg and daughter Miss Ernestine Fredenburg, Mrs. Ira Tungate and two children, Mrs. Gleason and son of Butte Falls and Mr. Merrill of Derby.
    Jack Hickman, the foreman on the Kingwood orchard, was a business caller and reports that they have all of their fruit gathered and under shelter, that they had harvested three thousand and three hundred and fifty boxes of apples off of six acres of orchard and that the fruit was exceptionally fine in size and quality.
    Mr. F. C. Bell, owner of the Butte Creek orchard, was a business caller and he reports that he has his fruit under cover, but that it is not as free from worms as it might be.
    E. A. Hildreth, Jr., of Butte Falls was here and spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    George W. Barker and family, the prosperous banker of Butte Falls, was a business caller Tuesday morning.
    Charley Cingcade and J. F. Johnson, two prominent stockmen, were also here Tuesday and Mr. Williams and family of Medford were here for dinner Tuesday and so was Benj. Edmondson, Jr., of Butte Falls, one of the farmers and stockmen of that section. He remained here overnight.
    Mrs. Seaman, wife of a member of the civil engineer force working on the Crater Lake Highway, has been up at Talent visiting relatives and Mr. Seaman has been taking his dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel during her absence.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Polk Smith of this place, a fine eight-pound boy, October 13th.
    Lewis Conley, Mrs. John Obenchain and Al Hildreth were passengers on the stage for Butte Falls Wednesday.
    Thomas Farlow and wife of Lake Creek passed through here Wednesday on their way home from Medford; they had been out to take one of their girls to attend the Medford high school.
    C. H. Brown, Thos. J. Fish, Jr., L. Kincaid of Prospect; W. Blake of Medford, William Newsbaum and wife of Lake Creek, Mrs. Laura McNicoll and Mrs. Farlow were diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday.
    Died Thursday morning, October 20, after a lingering illness, John Barney McNicoll of Eagle Point. Aged 66 years and 2 months. He leaves his wife, two sons, Oscar and Hugh McNicoll and one daughter, Mrs. Gray of Stockton, California. The remains were interred Friday in the Central Point cemetery. The deceased was a good citizen and highly respected by all who knew him, and as long as his strength lasted was an energetic, industrious, hard-working man. There was quite a number of our citizens followed the remains to their last resting place.
    Mrs. Alice Barry of Portland, a niece of Mrs. W. G. Knighten of this place, has been here the past few days visiting her aunt and uncle.
    Thomas O'Brien of Butte Falls, who has been working over at the Weed sawmill, was a passenger on the stage for home Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 25, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    The Ladies' Improvement Club of Eagle Point met last week at the home of Mrs. B. F. Fuller and report having had a very enjoyable time, although they transacted but very little business. They decided that they, as a society, would not give any more dance suppers here at Eagle Point.
    George Albert, who has been delivering lumber here for some of our citizens, brought out a lot to be used as a crosswalk on the county road at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    J. E. Mason, superintendent of Kirtland Farm, Central Point, was here for dinner Saturday. Mr. Mason was trying to find a good location to keep one of his Percheron stallions.
    The Kirtland Farm is headquarters for fine stock, especially fine horses, cattle, etc. Sid Maner of Denver, Colo. was also here at the same time for dinner.
    R. M. Conley of Butte Falls was a business caller Saturday. He and Ben Fredenburg, also of Butte Falls, came out to bring their beef cattle, taking them to George Givan's to turn them into his alfalfa pasture. Mr. Conley reports that he is taking his sawmill down, the old Hawk mill on Clarks Creek, and moving it onto his land where he is living, the old John Higinbotham place, as he has sawed up and sold about all the lumber on the old site.
    Alexander Lindsey and L. E. Mattison of Earl Fruit Co. of the Northwest, Spokane, Wash., were here Saturday afternoon on business with Mr. Harry Childers.
    Eugene Bellows was here Saturday complaining of the way the beavers were bothering him, damming up his water ditch and otherwise interfering with his irrigation work.
    Harvey Stanley, one of our prosperous stockmen, was here also Saturday.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., was in town also Saturday and was telling of some of the trials that Raleigh Mathews had to undergo before the final conflict he had with Wilbur Jacks, that caused his (Jacks') death. Mr. Robinson told of him accompanying Mr. Mathews to Medford to try to get some legal protection from the county authorities some time before the final shooting affair took place.
    Thomas Culbertson and son Cecil were business callers Saturday.
    Grant Mathews and wife, son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Johnson were among us Saturday and so was E. V. Brittsan and Thos. Long.
    Miss Patricia Hogan called at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday on her way out to Medford. Miss Hogan is engaged teaching the Butte Creek school and was going out on business.
    Saturday night G. W. Averill of Butte Falls, Alex Betz, who lives a short distance west of Eagle Point and Mr. Hollenbeak, who also owns a farm and orchard west of here, were guests at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Lenora McNicoll of Eagle Point and her stepdaughter, Mrs. Gray of Stockton, Calif., who came up to be at the funeral of her father, took breakfast with us Sunday morning, and Mrs. Gray took the 7:15 stage for Medford, going on to her home again.
    There was but little of anything going on here Sunday as it was a remarkably quiet day. We held our Sunday school as usual, although there was not even the usual attendance, for our organist, Miss Nora Childreth, had remained in Medford visiting her sister over Saturday and Sunday, and our janitor and treasurer, the Misses Robinson, had gone to visit their grandmother and attend the Sunday school at Reese Creek, and a prominent member of our Bible class, Mrs. Chas. Cingcade and two children, had gone to visit her sister, Mrs. J. F. Maxfield of Brownsboro, thus taking six of our regular attendants out of a very small Sunday school. It makes quite a difference in the appearance.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been engaged in the business of raising beans and tomatoes on a tract of land he rented from the Tronson farm, got through delivering his product to the cannery at Medford and started up to his father's near Blue Canyon, Sunday morning.
    Miss Frances Greb, one of our popular young lady teachers, went up on the Persist stage to commence teaching school in the Persist district, on the headwaters of Elk Creek, Monday.
    Nick Young, one of our prosperous young bachelors, was among the guests at the Sunnyside Monday and there were also two strangers and H. H. Williams, the popular salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford.
    Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown, who had been up in northeastern Oregon, Baker City, visiting her sister, Mrs. Rippie, returned last Monday and was accompanied by Mrs. T. F. Boltz, formerly of this place but now of Helena, Montana, and is now here visiting some of her old neighbors. Her husband, Thos. F. Boltz, was the civil engineer with the Pacific & Eastern R.R. Co. in the days of its seeming prosperity. Speaking of the P.&E.R.R., there seems to be considerable interest taken here in the prospect of the revival of business on that railroad since the company of civil engineers went through here a few days ago to map out the route for an extension of the road from Butte Falls out to a body of timber that was sold to Mr. Olds, the present reputed owner of the railroad, some months ago, and I understand that parties interested in the railroad move are offering contracts to parties to furnish ties, not only to extend the road but to put that part of the road extending from Medford to Butte Falls in a condition so as to haul the necessary material to construct the new extension of the road. We live in hopes of the final success of the undertaking, as it will revive business all through this section and give employment to hundreds of men and women who are now seeking work to sustain life.
    There were quite a number of strangers here the first of the week "just looking around," but asking all kinds of questions about the country and "when the railroad business will start up." Among them were Messrs. Alex Buff and Al Ness of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Maxfield of Brownsboro and Bert Clarno of Reese Creek, Mrs. Verna Mathews and daughter and John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, were with us Monday.
    Miss Dorothy von der Hellen, who has been down in California for some time, has returned and is now visiting her mother and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Daley.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 1921, page 6


ELK CREEK
    Mrs. Weeks spent Tuesday afternoon at the hotel visiting.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald entertained at dinner Saturday evening, in honor of Dr. Maude Hawley. Covers were laid for eight. The table was beautifully decorated, and a very enjoyable evening spent.
    Miss Gladys McDonald, who has been attending school in Ashland, returned home to take up her studies here.
    Dave Pence, with a crew of men, are working hard to get Elk Creek road in shape for winter.
    George and Ace Weeks brought their cattle down from the mountains this week, and report about three inches of snowfall.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDonald of the Rogue Elk gave a dinner party Monday evening in honor of Dr. Maude Hawley. Eleven guests were present, and a bountiful dinner served.
    Dr. Hawley of Ashland, who has been a guest at the hotel all summer, returned home on Tuesday. She enjoyed very much her outing, and made many friends who will miss her.
    Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ashcraft, and Mrs. J. E. McDonald visited Crater Lake last week. There were several cars at the lake. The weather was ideal and the trip enjoyable.
    School started in the district last Thursday, with Mrs. Stewart teaching.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell and Miss Howell visited at the Rogue Elk this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 1921, page 8
BROWNSBORO ITEMS
    Our school is going to give a Hallowe'en party Saturday night at eight o'clock, for the people of this district and the neighboring districts. Fun and a good time. Ladies bring pies.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joe Maxfield were business callers in Eagle Point Monday.
    Albert Hoagland went to the Dow Hospital at Medford Saturday and returned Monday.
    Fred Arens, who has been troubled with blood poison in his hand, is better now.
    Mrs. Fred Bloomingcamp and three children of Hornbrook is visiting her mother, Mrs. Wm. Hansen, Sr.
    Mr. and Mrs. Starbuck and two girls, June and Helen of Berkeley, California, are visiting Mrs. Starbuck's sister, Mrs. Carl Stanley.
    Joe Henry went to Medford Monday.
    Ruth Arens has been very ill but is improving.
    Mr. Wm. Hoagland went to Central Point Saturday.
    Ellen Tucker went to Medford last week.
    Harold Dallas enrolled in the eighth grade Monday. This makes two eighth graders in our school, Viola Hoagland being the other member.
    Our picnic and cleanup at the school house Saturday was a fine success. Nearly all of the work planned was completed. Miss Burr, the rural supervisor, was with us and spoke to the patrons on standard school and club project work. After Miss Burr spoke a school meeting was held and the new budget voted. The school board decided to buy us new maps and a new globe.
    Henry Mayer and Carl Stanley took two wagonloads of hogs, belonging to the former, to Eagle Point Monday. Mr. Mayer sold the hogs to Roy Stanley.
    Frank and Eric Nygren drove several head of cattle to Medford Monday.
    Roy and Fred Stanley brought about fifty range cattle through Brownsboro Saturday, taking them to Eagle Point to pasture.
    We did not have school last week on account of the teacher's institute.
    Rev. C. C. Hulett, the Presbyterian missionary of Ashland, visited our Sunday school and held short services afterward.
    Wm. Hansen, Jr., has finished hauling our school wood.
    The last of this month, the cattlemen around here are going to gather their cattle from the range.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 29, 1921, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mrs. Hodson of Walla Walla, Wn., is visiting her daughter and family, Mrs. Oscar Stewart. She expects to return in about a week.
    Mrs. S. E. Albright and little granddaughter, Ethel Inlow, left Monday for Medford, where they expect to make their home for the winter.
    Keva Hutchinson spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Enid Middlebusher is visiting at Prospect this week.
    School began Monday with Mrs. Tucker as teacher. Twenty children enrolled.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Blaess of Eagle Point spent a very pleasant day Sunday at the Stewart home.
    The steam roller is working near Trail now. We surely are glad to see the improvement.
    Mr. and Mrs. Yocum and Hoyt Smith returned Monday from the mountains after a week's sojourn there.
    Mr. Stewart is buying the cattle of neighbors around Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 31, 1921, page 5
ELK CREEK
    School started Tuesday, October 25, in District 80. Miss Greb will teach, although it is quite late in the season to start.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis went on a business trip to Central Point Monday, October 24.
    Dave Pence has continued work on the road, after a brief layoff.
    Ezra Whitley paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Whitley Tuesday, October 25.
    Mrs. Edward Houston and her two daughters, Doris and Wilma, also Mrs. Ray Vaughn and baby boy are spending a week's vacation with their mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Pence.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 31, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    There was a man by the name of Miller from Medford went up to Butte Falls last Tuesday, and he said that he was going up to try to get a contract to get out a lot of ties for the P.&E.R.R. extension, as it is the understanding that it is to be extended about 15 miles (about 12 miles as the crow flies, but 15 miles counting the meanderings).
    Bert Clarno of Reese Creek, and Mrs. Alvin Mathews, wife of one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, were trading with our merchants Tuesday.
    John Allen and Charley Humphrey of Derby, with Mr. Humphrey's truck, were on their way to Seven Oaks ranch to get a registered Red Roan bull. This makes seven of that breed of bulls he has on hand up to date. Mr. Allen believes in keeping the very best of stock for breeding purposes regardless of the cost, and his stock shows the result. Walter Allen, a son of John Allen, and Charley Winkle also came out in a bug and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Ethel Winkle, a sister of Charley Winkle, was also shopping here Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hayman, who was formerly in charge of the J. H. Cooley orchard but moved onto the farm on Antelope Creek belonging to the firm of George Brown and Sons, the leading merchants of this place, were here Tuesday looking for a house to rent, as his health is failing so rapidly that he thinks of giving up the farm and moving into town where he can keep a cow, as the doctors have placed him on a bread and milk diet. Speaking of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons reminds me that I was down to the store a few days ago and met J. Frank Brown, the first time I have met him to talk with him since he returned from their trip back to Illinois to visit his brother Merritt. In speaking of that country in comparison with this he says that taking everything into consideration, the climate, health, productiveness of the soil, that Jackson County is as far ahead of that country as day and night. He says that there unless they have rains at least every two weeks the crops, principally corn and oats, will dry up, and it is often the case that there will come what they call a drought, that is doing without rain for two or three weeks, everything in the farming line will dry up and be a failure, but when they do have a good season they have an abundant harvest. And speaking about renting a farm that the owners of the land exact one-half of the crop for the rent, and if there is a house on the place for the renter to live in he must pay rent extra for the use of the buildings.
    In speaking of the roads, he says that we are away ahead of them there for as a rule they are so muddy that one can hardly drive over them, and that you seldom see an automobile, that the proportion of autos, wagons, buggies, etc., is by reversing the order as you would meet a wagon, etc., there about in proportion as you would meet an auto here. He says that the farm houses there are not kept up and if a renter wants any repairs on the place he will generally have to do it himself as the owner can't afford to go to so much expense. And that so far as health is concerned that Jackson County will compare favorably with anywhere in America.
    Geo. H. Yeo of Ashland, and C. L. Goff of Medford, two men representing the Fire Relief Assn., were here for dinner Tuesday and report that they are doing a good business in their line. Since the experience Mr. T. E. Nichols had while uninsured has put the uninsured to thinking and so they are having their property insured.
    W. Schundering and little son of Prospect were also here for dinner Tuesday on their way to Medford, returning on the stage and going on up home Wednesday.
    Mrs. T. T. Taylor, whose husband has charge of George Nichols, Jr.'s farm and stock ranch on Lake Creek, has been visiting relatives and friends in and near Eagle Point, went up home on the Lake Creek stage, and while talking with the stage driver, Mr. Van Dyke, learned that while he is engaged with the mail business that his son Oran has complete charge of the farm in the Lake Creek district, and he only eleven years of age.
    L. L. Conger, who formerly lived on the Ewen place, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Joe Dietz, one of the men who have been engaged working on the Crater Lake Highway running one of the sprinklers, and has been boarding at the Sunnyside Hotel during the summer and fall, left for his home in Salem last Wednesday morning on the 7:15 stage.
    Mrs. Graydon Childreth was the only passenger on the stage Wednesday morning for Butte Falls, and still the car was loaded with mail and parcel post packages and the driver had to refuse to take a man who wanted to go to Butte Falls very badly. There are parties in Butte Falls and vicinity who are in business there who have about all their goods delivered to them by parcel post.
    Eli Dahack, father of our barber, has bought the building standing between the Nichols store and the town hall and I understand that he intends to move it onto the tract of land that Ernest Dahack bought of W. Hart Hamilton near the barber shop, but he has not disclosed to me what use he is going to put it to.
    John Rader and Lee Walch of Wellen were here on business last Wednesday. They are each of them interested in the stock business to a great extent and each has fine farms and good homes and consequently are independent so far as finances go.
    Mrs. Z. M. Brown of Portland, a sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Farlow and Mrs. John Miller of Lake Creek, were here Thursday. Mrs. Brown had been up visiting her two sisters and their families and was on her way home, and Mrs. Farlow came out with her on the Lake Creek stage and Mr. Miller had been in Jacksonville as a juryman.
    Speaking of the jury business, there is a great deal of interest taken here in the Raleigh Mathews case, and all kinds of predictions made as to the result. Several very prominent citizens here have predicted that if he is convicted that a petition will be started and that the first day there can be a hundred names secured, and one very prominent man who knows a great deal about the case says that he doesn't believe that there can be a jury found in the county who will convict him.
    Among the business callers Thursday were Henry French, Joe Mayham, Charley Hanscom and Ray Harnish.
    Died, Oct. 27, Clark Westerly Coy, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Coy of Eagle Point. The funeral services were held at the Perl funeral home, Medford and interment at the Central Point cemetery, Oct. 29, conducted by Rev. Millard, pastor of the Christian church, Medford. There was a general turnout of Mr. and Mrs. Coy's neighbors, and the pallbearers were two little girls and two little boys, Master Carl Norris and Miss Gwendolyn Brophy and Master John Brophy and Miss Lois Robinson. The services were interesting and impressive.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 1, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    John Daley of Josephine County has been here the past few days looking after his interests in this section.
    W. J. Pickler and S. M. Loonan of Medford were here for dinner last Friday. They are working in the interest of the Standard Oil Company.
    Mr. Loren Miller and Wilbur Ashpole were here looking after business interests and stopped at the S.S. for dinner.
    M. S. Chappell, our old shoe cobbler, who closed his shop last spring and went into the sawmill business near Trail with Messrs. Zimmerlee and Adamson has returned to his shop again, and has come to the conclusion that he can do better at cobbling than at the sawmill business.
    L. F. Lozier, who is representing the Oregon Granite Co. of Medford, was out here trying to do business with some of our citizens who have lost their relatives or friends.
    Charles Manning and John Brophy of Peyton were here for dinner last Friday and so was F. S. Wisdom of Medford.
    H. E. Warner of Medford, the blight inspector for this district, was here for dinner Friday also E. V. Peterson and daughter Edna and Miss Mamie Poole of Trail and Mrs. Wm. Perry, wife of our road supervisor, and J. W. Scott of Medford and D. Fuller of Eugene City. They are representatives of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Scott is the local agent and Mr. Fuller the manager for Southern Oregon. This was Mr. Fuller's first trip to Eagle Point and decidedly fell in love with this part of the country and seems to think that our little town has a bright future.
    Mr. J. W. Antle, the L.C. merchant, passed through here on his way home last Friday with a truckload of merchandise for his store.
    Mrs. John Rader and daughter Mrs. Harvey Stanley were also doing business with our merchants Friday.
    Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro came out Friday to meet her husband who came in from a business trip to Colwell, Idaho, and they went on up home that night.
    Friday night Robert Edmondson, T. A. Whaley, Gus Edmondson, Robert Coffman, George Albert and H. L. Cox, all of Butte Falls, spent the night at the S.S. Hotel. All of them except Geo. Albert are working on the Pacific and Eastern R.R., repairing it so as to haul material over it for the extension of the road from B.F. to the timber belt on Four Bit Creek.
    W. H. and E. D. O'Brien of B.F. were passengers on the stage for home Saturday morning.
    Pete Stoddard also of B.F. was a passenger on the stage.
    Mr. Hoagland of C.P., who owns a farm on the old Obenchain road from Brownsboro to B.F., and Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro were here Saturday on his way home from Jacksonville where Tucker had been on jury duty. He was one of the four who was on the jury in the Edwards case but said that the main witness for the state was of such a character that they, the four jurymen who hung the jury in the case, did not believe a word he said so held out for acquittal.
    G. E. Merrill and F. R. Wymore, wife and son and Charles Humphrey, all of Derby, were here for dinner Saturday on their way home.
    James Culbertson and wife and Joe Pool and wife were business callers Saturday also.
    Chas. Anderson and May French and Bert Hukill and Cora French and John Foster, the girl's uncle, were here Sunday and remained until bedtime and Dr. Hayes and family of Medford were also here for late dinner. Wm. Perry and wife and his mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, were guests at the Sunnyside. The three last mentioned are of our old, old acquaintances, having known them for the last forty or fifty years when we were young.
    Zura Dahack, formerly of the Derby country but now of Medford, was here Monday visiting his nephew, Ernest Dahack our barber, and attending to business affairs.
    B. S. Baker was a business caller, having brought in a truckload of wood for some of our townsmen.
    Speaking on the subject of wood, it appears from the amount of wood that has been brought in during the past summer and this fall it seems as though everyone ought to be supplied with wood and yet there is a constant influx of wood of all kinds, stovewood, cordwood, blockwood, and even some of the people are selecting the very rich pitch pine and fir pieces for kindling wood for the cold winter mornings, and it appears that it will not be as it was last winter a serious scarcity of wood, for on account of the early and continuous rains early in the season it caught quite a number of our people without enough to last them until midwinter and if it had not been that arrangements were made to get it out on the P.&E.R.R. there would have been a wood famine.
    Mrs. E. L. Schmidtling of Ashland, who is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Butler, came in from the Butler farm Monday and went to Medford and back on the Lewis jitney.
    J. G. Hannaford, wife and son were in town on business Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Hannaford are tenants on the C. H. Natwick farm on the P.&E.R.R. northeast of here.
    Charles Mathews, recently of Montana, was a business caller Monday and so was Wm. Mussall of L.C.; he was on his way down to Timmy Dugan to get seed wheat.
    E. X. Anderson and F. J. Kingman and Bremond Witcher were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Kingman is a representative of the Medford Exchange and Mr. Witcher is an auto salesman of Medford.
    Chris Beale of our forest rangers, Wm. von der Hellen and son Hugo, Jr., and Mr. Andrew Swanson were here for supper Monday eve.
    Mr. Walter Roth, who is canvassing the country selling Watkins remedies, came in and spent the night and Chris Beale also has remained until late Wednesday. Geo. H. Yeo of Ashland and C. L. Goff of Medford, the two men who represent the Fire Relief Association, were here for dinner Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1921, page 14
FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY SETS FIRE TO HENRY BARN
    BROWNSBORO, Ore., Nov. 4.--A great deal of excitement was created when the four year old grandson of J. D. Henry of Brownsboro started a fire in his grandfather's barn.
    The little boy after starting the fire ran and hid under the house. Mrs. Henry saw the fire and screamed, for she could not find the boy and feared that he was still in the burning building. He would not answer her calls, and Mr. Hoagland, a neighbor, heard her scream and ran to the ranch and looked through the barn in search of the lad. But of course did not find him, and it was not until the barn was nearly gone that the hiding boy answered his grandmother's call.
    The barn was just recently built and there was about eight or nine ton of hay in it.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1921, page 9
BROWNSBORO NEWS
    One of the largest crowds gathered at our school house Saturday night for the Hallowe'en party that has been there for several years. Everyone reported a good time.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Sr., visited their daughter, Mrs. Rohrer of Lake Creek Sunday.
    Carl and Fred Stanley took several head of cattle to Eagle Point last week.
    Sam Hoagland took a load of wood to Central Point Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Hansen and two children were visitors at the Hoagland home Sunday.
    Dean Terrill of Lake Creek drove eleven head of cattle through here Monday, taking them to Medford to Nichols & Ashpole. They were beef cattle.
    The Brownsboro Sunday school enrollment is growing every Sunday. Last Sunday being a pretty Sunday, many people were out for the temperance program. The hour for Sunday school has been changed from 10 to 11.
    Mr. White took a load of meat to camp at the Fish Lake dam.
    Wm. Hoagland returned from Central Point Saturday.
    J. Kafer from Glendale, Ore., visited the Tucker home Sunday. Mr. Kafer used to run the Brownsboro store.
    Mr. Anderson is moving from Eagle Point to Lake Creek on the Charley Terrill place this week.
    Ed Tucker has been sawing the school wood during the past week. He has been sawing wood for several of the ranchers around here.
    Wm. Staub bought sixteen head of pigs from Carl Stanley last week.
    Joe Maxfield sprained his ankle Wednesday and he isn't able to get around yet.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jim Archibald from San Amanarco [sic], Calif., came out to visit friends. They used to own the Green Acre ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and two sons, John and Cecil, went to Eagle Point Saturday.
    The Stanley brothers bought the Warner, Wortman and Gore meat market at Medford last week.
    L. D. Tucker has opened the East Side Meat Market at Medford.
    Earl Hall from California, who was visiting his aunt at Woodville, went up Butte Creek Sunday for a picnic and while on his way back he stopped at the Staub home for a visit.
    Mrs. Ralph Tucker, who has been taking medical treatment in Medford, returned to her home Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry went to Medford last week.
    Roscoe Hulse has been putting sulfur on his alfalfa ground.
    Cecil Culbertson took a load of hogs to Medford Monday.
    The maps and globes that the school board ordered for us have arrived and we are all glad.
    Mary Stanley has been appointed our librarian.
    Some of the people have been asking who reports to the Tribune for the Brownsboro district, and we would like to announce that we are the organized pupils of the upper grades that do the reporting, with Viola Hoagland as our secretary.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1921, page 14
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. Donnie Goodwin, nee Donnie Bell, formerly of Brownsboro, but now of Oakland, Calif., came in on the Butte Falls stage on her way up to Brownsboro to visit her sister, Mrs. George Brown.
    R. T. Davis of Klamath Falls came in on the stage from Medford on his way up to Derby to visit his brother Roy Davis of Derby.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen was here Tuesday shopping.
    R. A. Weidman, one of our leading dairymen, orchardists and farmers, made a business trip to Derby Tuesday.
    Nick Young and Lucius Kincaid were here for dinner Tuesday. They were bringing out one of the county rock crushers that had been in use in the Lake Creek district, and were taking it to Jacksonville.
    F. D. Murray of Central Point was here the same day visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan.
    A. C. Spence of Brownsboro was a business caller Wednesday morning on the way to Yamhill, Ore., to purchase a carload of thoroughbred registered Jersey cows to bring down here to try to supply the market with a better breed of milk cows. Mr. Spence is one of our wide-awake business men and believes in having the very best of stock; in fact our cattle men are waking up to see that in order to make a success of the business that they have to improve their breeds, while some, and many of them, are raising cattle for beef and they are trying to secure the best breeds for that purpose. Others who are handling cattle on a smaller scale, who have not the range to keep a large number, and are willing to devote their time and energies to the dairy business find that it pays best to keep the best. And those who have tried and keep an account of the expense of the dairy business have found that by feeding their hay, generally alfalfa, that they can realize about $20 a ton for their hay and at the same time, as is the case this season, hay is way down as it has been selling as low as five dollars per ton in the shock, and those who had it for sale were glad to put it in the barn or stack for ten dollars a ton.
    T. F. Boltz, of Montana, came in to meet his wife who came in several days ago, while he went on to San Francisco on business. He is engaged in the concrete business at present in Helena, and is here looking after his business interests, for he was formerly a resident of our town and still owns his old home here, and in the meantime renewing acquaintances with old-time friends.
    Lester Smith of Butte Falls and Mrs. F. M. Tungate of Jacksonville were passengers on the Butte Falls stage for Butte Falls Wednesday.
    Henry Tonn of Lake Creek was a business caller Wednesday.
    H. C. Galey of Ashland called Wednesday for dinner and remained until Friday. He is engaged in the life insurance business and seems to be doing a lively business as he starts out early in the morning and comes in about night.
    W. P. Hanson and daughter of Brownsboro were here Wednesday dealing with our hardware merchants.
    Shorty Miles was a business caller Wednesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    As I am always interested in fine stock of any kind and had heard considerable talk about a sow that W. L. Childreth bought of a man by the name of Hurst, who came in last spring from Missouri bringing his household goods and stock with him and among other things a brood sow of the Duroc Jersey stock which he sold to Mr. Childreth for $50 and later she gave birth to six pigs and Mr. Childreth sold them at $25 apiece and has the sow left, and she is a monster to behold and he says that he has already got his money back and has the sow left. I went down with Frank Lewis, our jitney driver, when he went after the one he purchased and saw the sow and two of the pigs, and now Frank says he would not take $50 for her. She is a fine sow and with care he will soon have his money back.
    Thomas Cingcade and one of his boys was in town Wednesday and reports that he has been sawing wood, as his land was not wet deep enough to do good plowing yet but from the appearance of things will be wet enough before this is in type.
    G. M. Lowe and E. T. Cassidy of Medford were here posting bills for Foster & Kleiser, the firm who have bought out the advertising firm of Klum & Co., who have been in that business for several years past [and] were here for dinner Wednesday and so was F. S. Wisdom of Elgin, Ore., also Uriah Gordon of Fort Klamath, Mr. and Mrs. A. Witcher, Edward Johnson, Earl Mathews and Charles Winkle.
    K. O. Jones and Mrs. H. H. Lowe of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage on their way to Medford, and Mrs. Lowe seemed to be considerably interested on the subject of the coming election on contraction of all the high schools in the cities, for fear that Butte Falls would lose their high school, for she thinks that they have one of the best high schools in the state.
    Gordon Miller and Mr. Dixon of Trail, came out on the Persist stage Thursday and went on to Medford.
    Joe Hall of Trail and a woman passed through here Thursday on their way up home with a truckload of household goods.
    Friday evening we had Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Boltz, W. H. Brown and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown here for supper and to spend the evening.
    Friday we went to Medford in the forenoon and consequently I have but little to report for that day, although I met several people from this section of the country but not so many as I generally do. Among them were Geo. W. Stowell, one of our prosperous farmers and poultrymen, and Grant Mathews, the father of the young man who is now in the county jail charged with the killing of Wilbur Jacks. I also met Roll Smith of Tolo, who formerly lived in this neighborhood, and I asked, are you still living on the same place and he replied yes he had it another year. The next inquiry was, has your landlord raised the rent, and he said no, for he had a three-year lease but that he would have to the next year as he was now only about paying the taxes on the farm, that he was paying $560 a year and that the owner was paying $600 a year taxes, and that he could not pay even $560 and keep even. But I may have something to say later on the subject of taxes as this letter is already long enough.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1921, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    We were all glad to hear of the new arrival of little Miss Florence Maxine at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mechem on October 23.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and daughter, Enid, and little granddaughter Genevia Pence, left Thursday for a trip into Washington, where they will visit relatives at Centralia, Seattle and Sultan. They expect to be away a month.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. Ash moved to their new home on Elk Creek Monday.
    George Fisher and Lowell Ash left Wednesday for Sugar Pine, where they plan to spend the winter trapping.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis were callers at the Stewart home Wednesday.
    Mrs. T. Taylor of Eagle Point is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Adamson.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Ditsworth and Roy Vaughn were Medford callers Wednesday. Mrs. Vaughn expects to return home with them.
    Mr. E. E. Ash, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson and D. Middlebusher were Medford visitors Thursday.
    They are now using the new bridge below Trail and expect to have the road completed from Trail to Medford in about ten days, which will mean a big saving in distance for the people going to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1921, page 6
AGATE ITEMS
    The Hallowe'en party and box social at the Agate school house Friday night, October 28, was a decided success: $32 was realized from the sale of the boxes and the money will be spent to supply needed articles for the school
    The Tarbell brothers, former residents of this district, who had been living at Klamath Falls for about 7 years, have returned with their families to make this vicinity their home once more.
    Mr. and Mrs. Reader and little daughter are now residents of the district. Also Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Rogue River, who bought the Brainerd place.
    Mr. and Mrs. Loren McCay have returned from Prospect.
    Mr. and Mrs. Merrill have also returned to their ranch after several [omission] have the neighborhood settled up again, and wish them all a hearty welcome.
    Last, but not the least, is our Sunday school which has been reorganized a few Sundays ago, and showing good interest. We meet every Lord's day at 2:30 p.m., and invite the whole community to come and meet with us. There will be preaching by Charles T. Nahas of Central Point in memory to our unknown dead of the world war at 3 p.m., Sunday, November 6th at the Agate school house. Everyone cordially invited.
    The Agate school children and their teacher, Mrs. Wallace, gave a fine entertainment at the schoolhouse last Friday evening. After the entertainment a number of lunch baskets and cakes were sold. A nice sum of money was realized which will be used for athletic equipment.
    J. D. Welch, the well-known Portland livestock buyer, recently bought quite a few lambs in this vicinity.
    W. E. Merrill is busy putting some substantial improvements on his ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. C. McCay recently returned from a summer's stay at Prospect where Mr. McCay has been working for the U.S.B.P.R. and the C.O.P. Co.
    Wm. Lewis has just returned from the mountains with his large band of sheep.
    A man from California has been around trying to get the farmers to lease their lands for oil development. He claimed that work would start near Agate as soon as enough land had been leased. We have not learned as to whether he had any success in leasing the required amount of land.
    Mr. Arbogast, who recently sold his place near the Bear Creek bridge to Kenneth Beebe, has bought the J. W. Davidson place.
    Mr. Tarbell and family, who were camping near the Whetstone ranch, have moved into the Orr house.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McCay and small sons were visiting at the Prospect power plant last Sunday. Mrs. H. F. Peyton accompanied them home and returned to Prospect on Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1921, page 6
EARLY PIONEER PASSES AWAY AT B. FALLS HOME
    Benjamin Franklin Clark Edmondson, who died at his home in Butte Falls, Ore., November 6th of Bright's disease, aged 89 years, was a native of Georgia, born Aug. 3, 1832, and crossed the plains to California in 1853. On October 7, 1861 deceased was married to Anna Hale. The family came to Oregon in 1871, settling in Jackson County, and to the union were born nine children, of whom six are living, three sons and three daughters--W. L. Edmondson, Medford, Ore.; C. A. Edmondson, Butte Falls, Ore.; Benny Edmondson, Butte Falls, Ore.; Mrs. J. J. Patton, Butte Falls, Ore.; Mrs. J. M. Allen, Eagle Point, Ore.; Mrs. H. J. Gordon, Fort Klamath, and 22 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The funeral service will be held at the grave Tuesday at 1 p.m., Rev. Day of Butte Falls officiating. Interment in Butte Falls cemetery.
    Mr. Edmondson was an honored and highly respected pioneer and leaves a host of friends to mourn his loss.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1921, page 3
TRAIL ITEMS
    Geo. Hall was a Medford caller Monday.
    Warren Tison of Drew came to Trail Monday with cattle that he had sold to I. Stewart; also Fred Sturgis, D. Pence, R. R. Dawson, G. Trusty, J. Houston, Jess Ragsdale, Irwin Howe and R. Moore sold their beef to Stewart.
    Mr. and Mrs. Owings returned to their new home near Trail Tuesday after a few weeks in Medford.
    Paul Wright finished his work near the new bridge Saturday. The road is being traveled now and is a fine piece of work.
    Mrs. E. Ash, Miss Minnie Poole, Mr. and Mrs. I. Howe, Claude and Wesley Ragsdale were callers at the Stewart home Sunday.
    Mrs. Ragsdale and children spent Sunday with Mrs. R. R. Dawson.
    Mrs. Mayme Tucker has moved into their new home near the school house.
    Miss Dorothy Peterson took their horses to their new home on Elk Creek Saturday.
    Mrs. Ellen Hall and Ida Cushman of Gold Hill are visiting their mother Mrs. R. Cushman this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 10, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    On Friday of last week Roy Smith and wife, Mrs. Wm. Perry and her husband's mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, drove to Medford. Mrs. Stewart is living with one of her daughters, Mrs. J. W. Grover, in Medford and has been out here visiting with her son, Mr. Wm. Perry, and some of her old friends and neighbors, for during the life of her second husband they resided here.
    Mr. Stoddard of Butte Falls, one of the prominent business men of the place, who had been out to Jacksonville on jury duty, was one of the passengers on the Butte Falls stage on his way home. There were three other passengers on the same stage, but I did not learn their names or destination.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Cavally of Seattle, a traveling man and his wife, who were here soliciting for the Camel cigarettes, was here for dinner Saturday.
    Miss Patricia Hogan, who is teaching in the Butte Creek district, came out Saturday on the Lake Creek stage and went on to Medford on the Lewis jitney.
    Mrs. Ralph Gardner and her daughter, Mrs. E. C. Nygren of Lake Creek, came out Saturday and brought out some fine beef and also a lot of grapes to sell.
    Porter J. Neff, one of the leading attorneys of Medford, was out here Saturday, and I understand that he was looking up evidence in the Raleigh Mathews murder case. And our sheriff, Charley Terrill, was also out here Friday afternoon and also Saturday on official business.
    Mrs. J. Monia and her daughter, Mrs. R. Charley of Brownsboro, were here Saturday evening trading.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro were also here the same day.
    Pete Young and George W. Daley Jr. were also among the business callers.
    Henry Trusty, who is engaged on the rock crusher on the Crater Lake Highway on the Wm. von der Hellen contract, came down Saturday morning and remained at the Sunnyside until Sunday afternoon. He works on the night shift and Saturday is his Sunday, as he goes to work Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. and works eight hours. He reports that the contractor expects to finish up that job this week.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday noon were George and Harry Lewis, the two brothers who bought the Jonas farm, a part of which is inside of the incorporated part of our town, as when the promoters of the move to incorporate the town they just ran the lines so as to include those who they thought that they could induce to vote for the move, leaving out six families on the upper end of the town and four on the lower end, thus leaving out ten families and that is the reason that only a part of the farm is in the town proper. We also had Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, one of the leading shoe dealers in Medford, and his brother, T. B. Hubbs and wife of Eugene, Ore., Earl Mathews and Charley Winkle, Harry Pellett and son Alex Pellett of the Gold Range orchard. They were on their way up to the Butte Creek (Corbin) orchard. Mr. Pellett expects to have charge of that orchard this season as Joe Pool, the former foreman, has quit the job. Horace Mitchell and Mr. Bolton of Medford were also among the guests, besides four strangers who came in, ate their dinner, paid the hostess and started before I secured their names.
    Our old Bible class teacher in the Sunday school, Mr. J. Esch, who has been back east on a visit, returned last week and was on hand Sunday morning to take charge of his class again. He reports that the weather there has been very much as it has been here, very pleasant, but reports a scarcity of money, as what the farmer has to sell is so low in price that they can hardly live; that corn, one of the staple products of that country, the Middle West, is only worth eighteen cents a bushel and other things the farmer has to sell is in the same ratio, and that taxes are high and rent in proportion.
    One of our neighbors, Mrs. M. E. Watkins, had a little surprise party at her home Sunday morning when her daughter, Mrs. Guches and four children of Central Point and Mr. Elmer Adams, wife and daughter of Medford and Mrs. Watkins' son-in-law, George Phillips of Eagle Point, and C. C. Beale of Butte Falls came in for dinner and they, Mrs. Watkins and daughter Anna, report that they had one of the best times of their lives.
    Another one of our old and highly respected citizens, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Clark Edmondson of Butte Falls, passed on to his reward last Sunday, Nov. 6th, 1921, aged 89 years, three months and three days. He leaves his wife and six children and three of their children have passed on before. The deceased was a man of remarkable constitution, as he was strong and vigorous until the very last of  his life and seemed to enjoy not only life, but was a sociable and entertaining citizen and devoted husband and father and true friend. The interment took place in the Butte Falls cemetery on Tuesday, Nov. 7, Rev. J. E. Daly of Butte Falls officiating at the grave.
    M. D. Foster, who is working in the Lake Creek district, passed through here last Monday with a lot of finishing lumber for Thos. Farlow. He said that Thomas was making quite an addition to his house in the way of screen porches, sleeping rooms, etc.
    I see in looking over what I have written that I have omitted to mention that there was religious services at the Catholic church last Sunday and that W. C. Clements and wife brought the pastor, Rev. Wm. Meghin, to the Sunnyside for dinner. (The reason I did not put the announcement in the proper place was that I did not know how to spell the reverend gentleman's name and waited until I could see Mr. Clements to learn.)
    Mr. and Mrs. John long of Derby were here last Monday on business.
    Leland Pettegrew, son of Fred Pettegrew, passed through here Monday on his way to Medford to see a doctor. He had the misfortune to be thrown from a horse and had his shoulder broken, a serious accident.
    Henry Gordon of Fort Klamath came in Monday night and spent the night with us. He came in to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, Mr. B. F. C. Edmondson at Butte Falls, but had trouble with his machine and had to come here for repairs. His wife was already at Butte Falls. Mr. Gordon came back Tuesday night again to get more work done on his car, starting home this Wednesday morning. He reports that there is but little snow on the road and that the road is in fine shape.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 14, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Edward D. Clark of Medford, N. B. Stoddard of Butte Falls and Harry Gordon of Fort Klamath were here Tuesday and all of them went to Butte Falls.
    J. B. Millard and R. H. Bradshaw, two deputy sheriffs, came in for dinner Tuesday. They were out summoning witnesses in the Raleigh Mathews trial. They seemed to have all they could do as they each had a great roll of subpoenas. They claimed that before the trial was over that there would be a hundred witnesses testify in the case. Since the shooting of Wig Jacks the interest in the case has been increasing until now, Saturday, and as there is no telling what decision a jury of twelve men will reach in a case of that kind, but the consensus of opinion seems to be that the jury can't help but acquit him, but I suppose that by the time that this is published the decision will be rendered and the general desire is that Mathews will be exonerated from all censure.
    T. F. McCabe, who had been to Medford and came out Tuesday morning, went on up toward his home on the Butte Falls stage.
    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter Mrs. Harry Stanley were business callers and visiting Mrs. Rader's daughter, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Wednesday.
    A. B. Shelby of Medford, representative of Baker Hamlin Pacific Co., was here Wednesday for dinner.
    Mrs. Charles Klingle of Lake Creek came out from Medford Thursday morning on the Butte Falls stage and went up home on the Lake Creek stage. Mrs. J. E. McDonald, the hostess of the Elk Resort and Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls also were passengers on the Butte Falls stage and Mrs. McDonald took passage on the Persist stage for her home. Harvey Stanley of Eagle Point also went to Butte Falls on the stage, going to Rancheria Prairie ranch, the Stanley brothers having leased the Rancheria ranch, and had his horses there and was going after them to use on the farm in this neighborhood.
    C. M. Sims of Salem was also a business caller Thursday and so was Cecil Culbertson and Henry Meyer and family of Lake Creek, on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. A. B. Manley of Portland is here visiting Mrs. Roy Stanley and the Eagle Point Improvement Club met at Mrs. Roy Stanley's home Thursday and had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Manley and she gave the ladies present a very interesting account of her travels through some of the foreign countries as well as in the United States.
    Ed High, auto dealer and aviator and another man, both from Ashland, were here Thursday and before they left arranged to take W. L. Childreth's old auto and left a Dort in its place. Harry Hays and his brother of Trail were business callers. Asked how they were getting along with their agate quarry [they] said they had not worked it any this summer as they had been busy on the Crater Lake Highway but intended to go to work on it right away.
    Harry Pellett and C. E. Guthrie were here for supper on their way up to Butte Creek orchard and they returned the next morning for breakfast. Mr. Pellett informs me that Mr. Bell, who bought the orchard of Mr. Corbin, has sold it to a man in Los Angeles by the name of J. A. Hanrahan, and that he, Mr. Pellett, expects to superintend the work this season for the new owner.
    Wednesday evening Dale Bonney and Warren L. Tison of Drew, and O. R. Stewart and W. A. Stewart and G. W. Trusty of Trail, and Thomas Givan of Eagle Point came in for late supper. They came out with a band of over a hundred head of beef cattle taking them to Medford and had to stop at the Geo. Givan farm for pasture and came up to the Sunnyside for supper, beds and breakfast, in a car.
    Rev. Brittsan and wife came out from Medford Thursday morning and was met here by his son, J. A. Brittsan, one of the firm of Brittsan Bros., who are on the P. S. Anderson farm and went out home with him.
    Herb Carlton of Wellen and T. J. Spangler of Prospect were among the business callers Thursday.
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Robinson, Nov. 8th, a ten-pound boy near Eagle Point.
    H. Guebel, Western Farmer representative and poultryman of Portland, was here for dinner Thursday. He seemed to be doing a good business, as many of the farmers seemed to take it.
    Charles Brown, one of the active auto salesmen, was here for dinner Thursday.
    Mrs. J. R. Vincent, Tom Volly, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Tucker and Jacob Conley of Ashland passed through here Thursday on their way to visit R. N. Conley of Butte Falls, who has owned and recently sold the old Hawk sawmill. The two ladies are sisters of Mr. Conley, and Jacob Conley is the father of the three.
    Thursday and Friday our town was almost deserted as Thursday almost everyone was called on to attend court, and those who were not summoned to go went of their own accord to hear the evidence in the Mathews trial, and Friday about everybody went to Medford to see and participate in the grand celebration. Even all the business houses were closed and a man who was on his way to Medford ran out of gasoline and could not find anyone to sell him as the stores were closed, but he found a man who had some in his car who divided with him and sent him on his way rejoicing.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1921, page 2
TRAIL ITEMS
    The work of the hatchery school is progressing nicely. Eleven pupils are enrolled.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charley Blaess were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daughter, Wanda Joy, were callers at the Stewart home Sunday.
    Stewart Brothers sold a large stack of hay to Earl Ulrich last week.
    J. Dunlap and son are sawing wood this week. They just completed 20 tier for the hatchery school district.
    S. W. Hutchinson has been seeding this week.
    John Grieve was looking after business in our community Monday and Tuesday.
    Bert Smith and Delbert Parker of Walla Walla are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart. Mr. Smith is a brother of Mrs. Stewart.
    This community sold about two hundred head of steers Wednesday to Mr. James Campbell of Medford.
    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson is visiting several days in Medford and Ashland.
    Mrs. George Thomas spent the weekend visiting and shopping in Medford.
    The Trail saw mill has resumed work after several days' logging.
    Miss Burr, county school supervisor visited the hatchery district last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Ed Nichols of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage last Saturday on his way home.
    Mrs. E. Waite of Wellen was also a passenger on the Eagle Point stage on her way home from Medford and went out on the Wellen stage.
    Frank Manning of Flounce Rock district and his son Charley and his three sisters, Miss Lucy Manning and Mrs. Tracy Boothby and Mrs. J. L. Grieve, came in Saturday for dinner. They were on their way to take in the sights of Medford. Mr. Manning is one of the highly respected citizens of the Flounce Rock section, and was married at the old free ferry by your correspondent something like a quarter of a century ago to a Miss Phipps, and has lived ever since on his old homestead.
    And Charles Parrant also came in for dinner the same day. Mr. Parrant has been engaged running a sprinkler on the Crater Lake Highway and boarded for a long time with us, but when the crusher was moved he had to move with it but now he is through with that job and expects to start for his home in Salem in a short time.
    Fred Barneburg of Medford and Dave Pence of Elk Creek, who for some years was the road supervisor in the Trail road district, called for dinner Sunday and so did Mr. Isbell, who is managing the Wm. von der Hellen goat ranch on Reese Creek, and Thos. Harry and George Lewis of Eagle Point, Buster McClelland, a young man who has made his home at the Sunnyside for the last eight or ten years, and John Foster of Medford were here for dinner Sunday, and later in the day Artie Nichols and wife of Fort Klamath and John W. Smith and family of Medford, that is their post office although they live on the old John Smith ranch on Big Sticky near the Roosevelt school house, called later in the afternoon for a visit.
    Rev. Charles C. Hulett, a traveling Sunday school evangelist of the Presbyterian Church, called on our Sunday school Sunday morning and gave us a short but very interesting talk on the 23rd Psalm and then went on up to Derby to meet another appointment, and I have learned through Mrs. W. H. Crandall that they had a very interesting service.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith of Ashland were here in town Sunday, visiting relatives. It seems that they were making their rounds visiting different relatives over the valley.
    Chris C. Beale of Butte Falls, who has been making the Sunnyside his home since he came in from the lookout service, started up to his ranch beyond Butte Falls with a team and outfit he recently purchased.
    T. G. Spangler, of Prospect, came out Monday on his way to South Bend, Indiana to visit his daughter and other relatives. He intended to go through the Panama Canal on his way for a change.
    Mrs. Ellen Phillips and son W. B. Phillips of Trail came in from Medford Monday and went on up home on the Trail stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno of Reese Creek were business callers Monday.
    Mrs. A. L. Young of Prospect and son Paul Young of Medford came in from Medford on the stage Sunday on their way to Prospect.
    Sam Courtney, our boss painter and paperhanger, was in town Monday and while here gave me a subscription for the Medford Mail Tribune for his wife. At that time he was doing a job of papering for Wm. von der Hellen.
    Marsh Garrett of Medford and M. C. Murphy of Portland were business callers Monday.
    Wm. Nickell and Charley Klingle of Lake Creek were also business callers Monday.
    John Norris, the foreman on the Wilfley orchard, has moved his family into the T. F. Boltz house in our town so as to have his son attend our school.
    There was another large steam shovel went up through our town to be used on the Fish Lake canal Monday.
    Charles M. Gilmore of Paul's Electric Store and Mr. Paul himself, of Medford, were here for dinner Monday. They had brought out an electric washing machine for Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols, and now she intends to have the washing done without so much work.
    Benj. Edmondson and wife and Mrs. McKinnies of Butte Falls, and W. J. Coggins of Medford and C. M. Sims and S. L. Stewart, state bank examiners, Salem, Ore., George Nichols, Jr., Medford and L. L. Miller and F. B. Miller, stockmen of Roseburg, R. B. Price and Frank Rhodes, the contractors on the unit of the Crater Lake Highway from Reese Creek to the new concrete bridge across Rogue River, Lee Benson and Paul Wright, Frank Ditsworth and wife of Peyton were here at the Sunnyside for dinner Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Hulse, the present owner of the Archibald farm just above Brownsboro, passed through here on their way home from Portland where they had been to attend the stock show and he reports that the stock was fully up to date and he spoke of one sow that was on exhibition that weighed in the neighborhood of 800 pounds and that her pigs, Poland China, sold readily at $50 per head and that all the reason he did not buy some of them was that he was not ready to come home and had no way to care for them there and no provision to care for them at home, but expects to go up again next fall and be prepared to buy at least a pair of them. Mr. Hulse is supplying his farm with some of the best stock he can get, especially cows and hogs. Wm. Staub of Brownsboro was with Mr. and Mrs. Hulse going home.
    E. J. Leitz, one of the men who ran a sprinkler on the Crater Lake Highway this summer and went back to Salem, his home, returned to the Sunnyside Monday and so did Charles Parrant, but they expect to return to Salem in a short time.
    Mrs. Frank Johnson, of Trail, who lives at the site of the new Rogue River bridge, has been visiting her son-in-law, Dave Smith, here for the past few days.
    Thos. Semple, former foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, but now has charge of the Eden Valley orchard, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weidman last Sunday.
    Thos. Vestal of Reese Creek has finished his new house and moved into it last Sunday.
    Thos. E. Nichols and Walter Wood made a business trip to Medford the first of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1921, page 6
TRAIL ITEMS
    Mrs. J. C. Mechem and little daughter Florence Maxine returned home Wednesday. Her many friends are glad to have her back among us again. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Mitchell of California.
    Wallace Cushman, R. R. Dawson and J. L. Ragsdale were Medford callers this week, where they disposed of their turkeys.
    The Misses Lucy and Eula Foeller spent the weekend with their parents, returning to school in Medford Monday.
    Minnie Poole, Mrs. Irwin Howe and Claude Ragsdale were Sunday guests at Howard Ash's on Elk Creek. Mr. Howe returned home with them.
    Mrs. R. R. Dawson spent a couple of days with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Knowles, and family near Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Willits passed through Trail Sunday on their way home from Medford where they had been visiting relatives the past week.
    Clyde Mechem made a trip to Ashland Sunday.
    Miss Burr, county school supervisor, visited our school Wednesday and was real pleased with the progress made so far.
    Mrs. Eva Weeks made a hurried call at Trail Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1921, page 7
BENEFIT DANCE FOR BROWNSBORO SCHOOL, NOV. 23
    A dance for the benefit of the Brownsboro school district No. 39 will be given Thanksgiving eve., Nov. 23.
    The ladies will donate the supper. You know the reputation the Brownsboro women have for good cooking, so enough is said along that line.
    Wm. Staub will have the old Bell house built over and a new floor completed by that time and all will be in fine shape for a real time. Music starts at 9 o'clock sharp. Be there and dance from milking time until morning.
    Phone Mr. Staub about your number. If you don't know the way inquire about the road to the Brownsboro post office. Help yourself to a good time and help us to buy supplies for the school.
    Twenty-five books have arrived from the Medford library, and we can keep them for three months. Anyone wishing to borrow these books can do so. Come and look them over.
    Rev. C. C. Hulett was in this district Thursday. He talked to the school and announced that he would hold services after Sunday school, Sunday, November 20, at the school house. Sunday school will meet at 10 o'clock, Nov. 20.
    We had a large attendance at Sunday school last week and are in hopes that next Sunday it will be larger than ever. A good many have already said they would be present.
    There were a number of Brownsboro people who went to Medford Friday to the Armistice celebration; some of the families were Staubs, Hulses and Tuckers.
    Mrs. Ed Meyers of Lake Creek was up here Sunday and she talked to our teacher about meeting their school in different contests. They would like to play volleyball with us, but at present we haven't a team.
    But some plans are being worked out so that in the near future we can have both an arithmetic and spelling match. We hope to have a volleyball team soon.
    Both Lake Creek and Brownsboro have twenty students enrolled.
    C. E. Stanley, who has been in a butcher shop in Medford, came to his home in Brownsboro Friday. He cannot work in the butcher shop on account of his sore hand. He will stay here until his hand is better.
    Sam Hoagland made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ashpole and son Donald were visitors at the Cowden home Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Orin G. Maxfield and Mrs. A. E. Karberg and daughter Dorothy were visitors at the Maxfield home Sunday.
    C. E. Stanley and family went to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Staub, Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and two sons, John and Cecil, and Viola Hoagland went to Medford Saturday.
    Roscoe Hulse went to Medford Monday to meet Mr. Hulse, who has been attending the stock show at Portland.
    Joe Pool and family have moved to Butte Falls.
    The barn raising at the Henry ranch was quite a success. There were enough men there to do the work planned. At noon Mrs. Henry served dinner for those who were present.
    Mr. Rohrer of Lake Creek came down to Joe Maxfield's Monday and bought a load of corn.
    Joe Henry made a business trip to Eagle Point Tuesday.
    Henry Mayer went to Medford Monday on business.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1921, page 7
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Sam Hoagland of Brownsboro was here for dinner last Tuesday and so was David Galbreath, salesman for U.S. Silos Co. and auto accessories, Portland, Oregon.
    W. H. Crandall and family of Hog Creek, Eagle Point post office, passed through town on their way to Medford and stopped at the Sunnyside long enough to leave a half of a nice fat hog.
    Last Tuesday I met Mrs. J. A. Montgomery and she presented me with a copy of the Oregon Sentinel of Jacksonville, dated May 8, 1878, Vol. 23, No. 18, terms $3.00 a year, editor, Frank Krause, in which the state and county ticket with the name of C. C. Beekman of Jacksonville as candidate for governor on the Republican ticket and C. B. Watson of Lake County as district attorney of Lake County. I remember hearing Mr. C. B. Watson make about his first speech during the campaign and by way of apology for presenting himself before the public, a very young man at that time, he said that he would be under the guidance of older heads; and John E. Ross as the candidate for state senator, and Wm. Kahler and Mr. Fountain, representative, Wm. Bybee, sheriff, E. B. Watson, county clerk, Pat Donegan, treasurer, B. C. Goddard, assessor, C. M. Magruder and Royal Benedict, county commissioners, C. J. Howard, surveyor, J. W. Merritt, county school superintendent, and John Cimborsky, coroner, besides a pithy editorial taken from the Yreka Journal and many other things of interest to some of us old timers.
    Mr. and Mrs. Luke Ryan and children passed through here on their way to their mountain farm on Big Butte last Tuesday.
    Jeff Conover of Trail, was a business caller Wednesday morning.
    Last Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith and Mrs. Wm. Perry of Eagle Point, Noble and Earl Zimmerman of Butte Falls and Charles Manning of Flounce Rock were here for dinner.
    Charles Klingle, his son George and wife of Lake Creek were business callers Wednesday.
    The Ladies' Improvement Club of Eagle Point will hold their next meeting on Thursday, Dec. 1st, at the home of Mrs. T. F. Nichols and will be entertained by Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mrs. T. F. Nichols.
    The Medford house movers came out and hitched onto the old James Ringer house and moved it onto the Fred Frideger place just above town Thursday.
    F. G. Lindstrom of the American Radiator Co., Portland, Arthur H. Tyo of the Modern Plumbing Co., Medford were here for dinner Thursday, and so was Alex and Pete Betz.
    John M. Rader, one of our leading stockmen and farmers, was in town Thursday and reports that his wife and Mrs. Harvey Stanley had gone to Medford to remain overnight.
    Jack Mayham, who has been in California for the past summer, returned to the Sunnyside Thursday eve.
    Friday morning the guests began to arrive at the Sunnyside, in response to invitations sent out to them to come in and take part in a quilting and rag-tacking party given by the hostess and her daughter, and among them was Mrs. S. H. Harnish, Mrs. Maggie Peachey, Mrs. Seaman, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Muskopf, Mrs. Chas. Cingcade, Mrs. Lottie Cingcade, Mrs. Seaman, Mrs. Guy Pruett, Mrs. M. L. Pruett, Mrs. Givan, Miss Clara Young, Mrs. W. L. Childreth, Mrs. M. S. Woods, Mrs. Thos. Cingcade, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, Mrs. Allie Daley, Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Wooley, Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. E. Coy, Miss Ruth Givan, Mrs. Ray Harnish, Mrs. W. L. Hurst, Mrs. R. A. MacDonald, Mrs. Clifford Hickson, Mrs. H. E. Campbell, Mrs. J. A. Montgomery, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Mrs. McNicoll, Mrs. Coy, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Mattie Courtney, Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen, Mrs. Donnie Ashpole, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. R. G. Brown, Mrs. T. F. Nichols, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. Dolly Jacks, Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Joe Moomaw, Mrs. Leroy Smith, Mrs. Linn, Mrs. R. A. Weidman, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mrs. W. C. Daley, Mrs. Estella Haley, Mrs. John Norris, Mrs. A. J. Florey, Mrs. W. H. Brown, Mrs. Geo. Holmes, Mrs. Frank Lewis, Mrs. Ray Stanley, Mrs. Wm. Perry, Mrs. Thos. Stanley, Mrs. Gus Nichols, Mrs. Reid, Miss Train, Mrs. J. H. Carlton, Miss Anna Richter, Miss Florence Richter, Mrs. Gertrude Daley, all from Eagle Point and vicinity, and Mrs. Dr. W. W. P. Holt, Mrs. Pearl and Mrs. Heath of Medford. They all responded to the invitation except seventeen, and several of them lived so far from here that they were unable to be with us as the men were so busy with their farm work they could not take the time to bring their wives and daughters, and others were so engaged that they could not leave it. The company began to arrive about 9 o'clock a.m. and by noon everybody was busy and the quilts and comforters began to be taken out and others put in the frames and soon dinner was announced and the tables were soon filled, and while the first table was being served the rest were busily engaged quilting or tacking, and after all had partaken of dinner they started in to finish up the job, but they did something besides work for sometimes there would be something like a dozen all talking at once and the most of the rest of them laughing and seeming to enjoy the sport for they made play of the work and the result was that by the time they got through they had quilted out and bound three quilts and ten comforters and while some were not able to quilt or tack they amused themselves tacking rags together to make rag carpets. One of the most enjoyable features of the whole proceedings was to see how the three ladies from Medford seemed to enjoy meeting some of their old friends here, for Mrs. Heath and Mrs. Holt formerly lived here and Mrs. Pearl has a host of warm friends in this neighborhood who gave each of them a hearty greeting, but about the best part of the whole proceedings was to see the little children out playing in the street, in the clean sand, for they had clear sailing and were unrestrained and all played together merry and happy.
    The three ladies who came out from Medford came out with Dr. Holt and he was to come after them about 5 p.m., but had so many calls that he did not reach here until 9 o'clock so they had a little extra visit and we all enjoyed their company very much.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 22, 1921, page 7  I count a total of 89 invitees to this quilting party.


EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    E. D. Clark of Butte Falls and C. E. Corchill of Reese Creek and Mrs. Lorene Moore of Prospect were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Saturday.
    E. G. Merrill of Derby went to Medford Friday afternoon on the stage and returned the same day, stopping overnight at the Sunnyside Hotel. He has a homestead near Derby and had been out to Medford for supplies. Talking about supplies, the people who live in the hills away from the business sections are waking up to the fact that the best and cheapest way to get their supplies is to have them come by parcel post or have them brought out by the stage at a very small cost, and when the new arrangement to have packages weighing one hundred pounds sent by parcel post they can have about all of their supplies brought right to their homes at a very small cost, and obviate the necessity of investing so much capital at once, as well as to have everything fresh.
    Saturday morning as I was making my regular rounds trying to write for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune I met W. E. Hurst, who came in from Missouri last spring, and before we separated he gave me two and a quarter dollars and ordered the Daily Mail Tribune and Medford Sun for three months, as he wanted to learn what was going on in the world.
    E. T. Hoefs, who has a home near Brownsboro, was a business caller Saturday and so was Miss Myrtle Minter and G. A. Jackson of Portland, who was on his way up to Butte Falls to look over the country, but did not reveal his business but asked several questions as to the prospect for railroad service, the quality and quantity of timber, etc. Speaking about the railroad, there is a small force of men working, repairing the track and bridges and culverts, and putting in new ties where it is absolutely necessary so that they can run over it with a locomotive and car so as to haul material to repair the roadbed and to keep a larger force of men engaged, as I am informed by what I consider A-1 authority that the entire roadbed will have to be repaired before it can be used to haul heavy timbers or steel for the new road from Butte Falls to Four-Bit Creek, a distance of about fifteen miles, and now that the demand for employment is so great and the price of labor is reduced so that the corporations can afford to pay, it appears as though the time has about come for the railroad company to take advantage of the times and go to work in earnest.
    Alvin Conover and two of his sisters, Mrs. Dennis Zimmerlee and Mrs. Lottie Woods, were business callers Saturday.
    We have had another change in real estate in our town, Mrs. A. M. Abbott of Butte Falls having sold her property here to F. J. Ayres of Reese Creek, consideration ten dollars. When she started to make out an abstract to the property it was found that there was a claim of $123 against it for back taxes, interest and penalty. In speaking to one of her sons about it he explained it by saying that when the property was assessed it was assessed as one lot, but when the town was laid off it was marked off as two lots, with the result that the tax kept going up all the time. Some more carelessness on the part of our county officials or their subordinates.
    John Simon of Gold Hill came in last week to visit his sisters, Mrs. W. L. Childreth and Mrs. Allie Daley.
    Mrs. M. E. Pruett, who has been visiting friends and relatives in California for the past month, also returned to her home last week.
    Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls and son, Shorty Miles of Medford, came out Saturday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside, going on up home Sunday morning.
    Pliney Leabo also came out and spent the night with us and while here gave me his subscription for the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun.
    Sunday morning as soon as I reached the church for Sunday school I met Mr. Carl Esch, our Sunday school superintendent, and he asked if I didn't want to go out to the Reese Creek Sunday school to a picnic dinner and services, as it was planned to have preaching morning and afternoon, as it was planned to take the Sunday school out there, so after the exercises were over in our Sunday school we all piled into the cars and started and reached there just in time to hear a short sermon by Rev. Stille of Indian Creek and then the tables were spread for lunch and the reader knows what that means, for I have tried to draw a pen picture of a Reese Creek picnic dinner and sadly failed, because my descriptive powers are not equal to the task, but after we all had eaten lunch we were favored with another sermon by Rev. Charles C. Hulett, the traveling Sunday school evangelist for the Presbyterian Church, and he gave us a fine discourse on the necessity of attending to the preparation for meeting God. Mr. Hulett is a very pleasant and interesting speaker.
    C. T. Brown of Roseburg came out on the stage Monday morning on his way to visit some of his relatives, the Nyes, old pioneer stock, near Prospect.
    I met W. C. Daley Monday morning and he told me that Mr. Berrian, our fish hatchery superintendent, had finished putting in the traps below and that morning Thomas Cingcade had taken out ten fine steelhead and put them in the receptacle prepared for that purpose, to keep them until the fish are ready to remove the eggs for hatching, and later I saw Mr. Berrian and he told me that he had caught about a hundred and that he was going to take the eggs today, Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 25, 1921, page 7
BROWNSBORO NEWS
    Mr. Lawrence of Medford came to Brownsboro Friday night, Nov. 25, to deliver a Thanksgiving sermon. Mrs. Hessler will entertain him while here.
    Rev. C. C. Hulett was a visitor at the Hulse home last week.
    Wm. Hansen, Sr., is building an addition to our barn.
    Miss Kubli spent the weekend at the Cowden home.
    We are glad that Mrs. Raleigh Tucker, who has been in Medford for medical treatment for some time past, is back among us. Mrs. Tucker expects to be able to stay now.
    All the cattle men are rounding up their cattle on the range now. The roundup started Saturday.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Co. has moved their camp about a mile up the ditch.
    Mr. Hulett left 20 new books here. Anyone wishing to look over them or read them may get them at the school house.
    Carl and Fred Stanley drove 21 head of cattle to Eagle Point Saturday. The next day they drove them on to Medford to their butcher shop.
    Mr. Yantz Marshall visited his son Walter Marshall Thursday and Friday.
    Rev. C. C. Hulett visited our Sunday school Sunday and held services after Sunday school.
    Walter Marshall and family went to Central Point Saturday to ship his turkeys.
    Mr. Van Dyke and two daughters, Florence and Gertrude, from Lake Creek came down to Brownsboro Saturday to get apples from Mr. Staub.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 26, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Lester Smith and D. M. Runyard of Medford and Mr. Rynning, chief civil engineer on the Crater Lake Highway, were here for dinner last Monday. The two young men referred to were assisting Mr. Rynning on finishing up his work on the highway and have been taking their dinners here for some days. Elbert Ryman was also a business caller.
    Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, has started in to build a barn on the sunny side of the creek and by working all day Sunday and Monday has succeeded in getting it in shape so as to cover his corn fodder that has been stacked, and if he is as successful in putting additions to the barn as he has been in adding to the dwelling house he purchased, he will eventually have a very creditable barn. He is one of the few men among us who, if he wants anything done, does it himself without calling on his neighbors.
    John Noud of Medford and another young man, who don't like to see his name in the newspaper, passed through here on their way to Butte Falls the middle of the week on the stage. Mr. Noud said that he was planning to take up a homestead in the neighborhood of Butte Falls.
    G. E. Hollenbeak and wife and Mr. R. A. Welch of Prospect and Mrs. Sears of Reese Creek called for dinner on their way to Medford.
    C. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the electric light company, was here for dinner Tuesday and reported that a gang of men were extending the power line from where the old rock crusher stood just above Eagle Point on up the creek to a point near the Fred Pelouze place where the county authorities expect to put a rock crusher and have the road rocked between here and Brownsboro, something badly needed, but I suppose that our county dads have been doing the best they could under the circumstances.
    I met Mr. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro last Tuesday and asked how he had succeeded in procuring his carload of Jersey milk stock. The reader will remember that a short time ago in one of my letters I spoke of meeting him and of his being on his way to the Willamette Valley to procure a lot of full-blooded milk stock and in response to my question he said that the cattle, when they came to the test on examination as to their health that they would not come up to standard as very many of them were afflicted with tuberculosis, so he came home without any, as they had to have a health certificate before he could move them through in this state. A very great disappointment to some of his neighbors who were hoping he would succeed in bringing in some more fine milk stock into the community.
    Mr. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, and W. R. Coleman of Jacksonville passed through our town Tuesday evening on their way to Medford. They had been up so that Mr. Coleman could see what a fine dam and fish trap Mr. Berrian had put in Little Butte Creek; the whole structure is pronounced the best arrangement for taking fish eggs there is in the state. It is so constructed that it is impossible for a fish to go up the creek, as there is no way for them to go around or over the top of the dam, and is so arranged that when it is desired to take the fish out of the trap, the water can be drawn off so as to not have more than two or three inches of water in the trap.
    Lucius Kincaid, who has been boarding at the Wm. von der Hellen rock crusher camp on the Grant Mathews place, near the new Rogue River bridge on the Crater Lake Highway, since the camp was disbanded has taken up board and lodging at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Shafer, who for years has made his home at Prospect, came out Wednesday evening and spent the night with us. George Trusty of Elk Creek (Trail) and Mr. M. Pech of Phoenix and Mr. W. H. Buskirk of Portland and five other men were here for supper Wednesday night. Mr. Pech is the man who has charge of the government camp at Lake of the Woods and reports that there are something like thirty houses already built there and that it is becoming one of the most popular summer resorts in the country. He was on his way up to Roy Conley's on Big Butte to take a bear hunt. He had his bear dog along with him and remained with us two nights and a day, and Mr. Buskirk was making his annual trip from Portland to the soldiers' home out sixteen miles from Los Angeles. He is one of the veterans of the Civil War and is spending his ripened old age during the summer in Portland and his winters at the home. He has been making regular trips through here about every six months and always stops with us a few days to gather a few agates to take along with him. He is a great admirer of the agates we find in this section of our beautiful valley.
    There was a high old time, from all accounts, at the dance Wednesday night at Trail. Handbills had been posted all around here inviting the dancers to come there and take part in the festivities, and the result was there was a large crowd assembled, and as seems to be a custom on such occasions the bootleggers also went there and the result was what some of the witnesses called a race war, for it was not very long after the dancing commenced that a general fist fight commenced with the result that several black eyes and bloody noses were on display. There was no one seriously hurt, but several of them are swearing vengeance and I heard one of the combatants complaining of one of his fingers being slightly out of commission on account of it coming in contact with another man's head. There was some six or seven of the young men who were in attendance came into the Sunnyside for rest and sleep Thursday morning a little after midnight.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 28, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Thanksgiving day was one of the days to be remembered, for just before we had a badly needed downpour and made the ground so that the farmer could plow his ground, sow his seed and make calculations to raise another crop, but from present appearances few of them stopped long enough to offer a tribute of thanksgiving to the giver of all good, for the much-needed blessing. Hundreds of us are universally blessed with health, strength, homes and loved ones and never an offering of praise to our Great Benefactor for these choice blessings, but it appears as though instead of thanking our Heavenly Father for the many blessings of life we are favored with, the only thought that we have is to try to satisfy our selfish desires by indulging in the gratification of our appetites, and often indulging to such an extent as to violate the laws of health and inflict the penalty upon ourselves and those around us. Thanksgiving day was observed here by a few by giving or preparing extra dinners and inviting in some of their friends, generally relatives and partaking of the meal together, for instance Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols prepared a fine dinner and invited their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols and others, and I understand had a very pleasant time, but many of our people went to Medford to join with others in visiting relatives or friends and take a peep at the movie.
    Everything was very quiet at the Sunnyside, as there were but very few came in for dinner except some of the locals who come in quite often for a lunch. W. H. Buskirk of Portland came in and remained until Monday morning. He spent most of his time while here, when the weather would permit, looking over the agate fields for agates. He took with him quite a nice lot of specimens. He was assisted very materially by J. P. Goin (Agate Jack), as he took him to places where he would be most likely to find them.
    Among those who have been stopping with us since my last letter including some who were here Thanksgiving day were L. R. Dusenbury and G. F. Collie and Charles Fry of Trail. Mr. Fry had been working on the Rogue River canal leading from Fish Lake to the upper end of the valley, the south end, and while at work had the misfortune to be struck on the ball of the eye with the head of a large nail or spike, bursting the ball of his eye open. He had just come out from the hospital in Medford where he had had it treated by Dr. J. J. Emmens. He went on up to the camp that same afternoon.
    W. J. Hoagland of Central Point called late Friday evening to spend the night on his way to his ranch near Brownsboro.
    Lemon C. Charley, formerly of Brownsboro but now a citizen of Medford, passed through here Saturday morning with a load of wood from his ranch to Medford.
    C. T. Brown of Roseburg called Saturday for dinner on his way home from Prospect, where he had been visiting Grandma Nye and some of her children.
    Rosa Whaley, a girl who has been assisting in the work in the Sunnyside Hotel since last spring, went up to Butte Falls last Thursday remaining until Monday visiting her parents and other members of the family. Mrs. Kelsoe and W. S. Baker of Derby went up on the stage at the same time.
    Lucius Kincaid, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for several days, had the misfortune to have his auto burn up last Saturday night while riding on the Crater Lake Highway. Something went wrong with his car and he struck a match to try to see what the trouble was and he had no sooner struck a light than it appeared to be in a solid blaze, and in trying to extinguish the fire he got his hand quite badly burned. From what I can learn the car is a total loss. And to make bad matters worse some miserable sneak thief came along by the wreck Sunday morning and stole a wheel off of it.
    There were a few of the citizens of our town went to Medford to attend the funeral of Mrs. Elba Daley of the old pioneer stock, who died in Portland Nov. 25, 1921. Mrs. Daley had formerly lived in Eagle Point and had many very warm friends in this community.
    J. B. Millard and D. Bradshaw, two of the sheriff's deputies were here for dinner Monday. They were here on official business, and Mr. C. B. Pearson, the man who has been the general foreman in putting the crushed rock on the Crater Lake Highway on the Wm. von der Hellen contract, was also here for dinner Monday, and so was A. H. Isbell, the foreman on the Wm. von der Hellen goat ranch; also Misses Ruth and Myrl Nichols and A. J. Merrill of Reese Creek and O. D. Emathen and J. O. Foote of Butte Falls. They have both taken homesteads in that section and came out on the Butte Falls stage and after dinner went on to Medford on the stage.
    L. A. Decker of Klamath Falls and S. P. Draper of Butte Falls were among the business callers here Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1921, page B3
TRAIL ITEMS
    The party and dance was held in Mrs. F. A. Whitley's house, 25 people being present. The party started with a few games, directed by Miss Francis Greb. Then the dance started at 11 o'clock p.m. The following persons furnished the music: Mr. Clarence Whitley, Elmer Ivey, Henry Trusty, all violins, with Edna Peterson and Henry Trusty accordion. At 1:30 a.m., refreshments were served and at 2:30 a.m. the dance was continued with songs played by Elmer Ivey and sung by the young people. The dance broke up at 4:30 a.m. Miss Francis Greb was responsible for the idea of the party and dance. We all wish to thank her heartily for everyone had a good time even if they had to stay up all night to get it. The party and dance was given as a farewell to Lucy and Claude Moore, as they are moving out of the district.
    Clarence Whitley spent Sunday night at his brother's and sister-in-law's place, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Whitley.
    Mrs. Fred Sturgis' mother is visiting her.
    William and Elmer Ivey were visitors of Mrs. F. A. Whitley the weekend.
    Sunday school was not held last Sunday on account of bad weather.
    Howard Ash is rapidly improving his place.
    P. E. Sandoz has returned from a visit with his brother in Nebraska, where he had a joyful time.
    Lee Whitley has built a log cabin on his homestead.
    A party was given at Middlebusher's Thursday evening, November 24.
    Elmer Ivey was a guest of Ashes the weekend.
    Lowell Ash has returned to Sugar Pine to continue his trapping.
    Miss Francis Greb spent Thanksgiving at her home in Eagle Point.
    A dance was given by Ashes in their dance hall Wednesday, the 23rd. Everybody had a good time. [Compare with A. C. Howlett's report, above.]
    Mr. Ash's barn caught fire Thursday morning after the dance. No damage was done, however, as Stewart Ash, who was visiting his folks, went out to feed the horses and put the fire out before it gained headway.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis and the latter's mother, Mrs. Sullivan of California, were Medford callers Monday. Mrs. Sullivan has been visiting at the Sturgis ranch on Elk Creek the past two weeks and is now leaving for her home.
    Elmer Ivey visited over Thanksgiving at Trail.
    Minnie Poole and C. Ragsdale attended the dance at Nye's Saturday night. They report a large attendance.
    Irwin Howe is driving a Ford roadster.
    Charlie Fry had the misfortune to get his eye badly injured while at work for Fish Lake Ditch Co. A nail head flew loose and struck him in the eye. We are glad to say he is a little better at this writing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher of Prospect attended the Thanksgiving dance at Trail Wednesday evening and visited relatives until Sunday. There was a large crowd at the dance, over eighty numbers being sold. There will be another dance New Year's eve.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Cushman are moving into their new home.
    Mrs. E. Ash, Irma and Wayne Ash, John and Joe Hoskins and Wesley Ragsdale were Sunday guests at Irwin Howe's.
    There was quite a crowd out to the road meeting Friday, but the tax was voted down quickly by a large majority.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1921, page B3
FLOUNCE ROCK FRILLS
    School commenced again Monday after being closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.
    The children were all delighted to be at school again. That is a pretty good sign they like their teacher, Miss Hazel Ditsworth.
    Some of the farmers had commenced their fall plowing, but the rain soon sent them to the fireside.
    Several of the neighbors took in the Thanksgiving dance at Trail. They report a high time. [Compare with A. C. Howlett's report, above.]
    The dance at Nye's last Saturday was well attended. Everybody had a good time, as usual.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ditsworth, also Miss Hazel, were pleasant callers at Dawson's Thursday evening.
    Jack Vaughn has been visiting his children for several days.
    Elmer Dawson and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith at Flounce Rock ranch.
    John Richardson is cutting wood for Frank Ditsworth with his wood saw this week.
    Most all the cattle men around here have finished gathering their cattle. Most of the cattle seem to be in fine condition.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1921, page 3
BROWNSBORO NEWS
    Miss Edith Kubli, our school teacher and who is also the Sunday school superintendent, is preparing a combined Sunday school and school program for Christmas.
    Miss Kubli says that there is a lot of talent in both organizations and by having so much time for preparing the work and combining the two, the program should be exceptionally good.
    Nearly all of the voters of Brownsboro went up to Lake Creek Monday to the road tax meeting. The measure to levy a special road tax from Brownsboro to Lake Creek was beaten. There were only eight for it and 26 against it. The men decided at this meeting to arrest all those traveling this road with trucks weighing over two tons. They appointed a man to enforce the rule.
    Due to the heavy storms and people being away during Thanksgiving vacation, there was not enough attendance for Rev. Lawrence, of the First Presbyterian church, of Medford, to hold services Friday night. Many of the people have expressed their regrets that they could not be here that night. Mr. Lawrence will probably not be here again until the weather is settled.
    Wm. Hoagland, who has been in Central Point, returned to Brownsboro Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Brown and sister Mrs. Goodwin and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fehl of Medford spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse.
    Joe Henry made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    The two Will Hansens, senior and junior, spent Thanksgiving with Rohrers at Lake Creek.
    Mrs. Francis Stockford of Medford spent the weekend with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry.
    Roy and Harvey Stanley and Mr. Geppert went up to the mountains Sunday to gather and bring their cattle down from the range.
    Andrew Grissom of Climax was a visitor at the Maxfield home Monday and Tuesday.
    Many ranchers around here are butchering hogs this week.
    Percy Henry, who has been visiting his sister in Washington, returned to Brownsboro Friday.
    Miss Velda Monia, who spent Thanksgiving vacation at home, returned to Butte Falls, where she is attending high school.
    J. D. Henry brought up a load of furniture from Phoenix Monday.
    Miss Velda Monia, who is a graduate of our school, was a visitor here Friday.
    Mrs. Donna Goodwin, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. George Brown, returned to her home in Oakland, Cal.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1921, page B2
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mr. J. P. Goin (Agate Jack) has rented the house belonging to Mrs. McNicoll and is preparing to fix up a shop to grind out agates. He has the most of the necessary equipment for the business and is planning to cut and polish a large quantity ready for the fair in Portland in 1925. He is recognized by the agate hunters who have been here at the Sunnyside Hotel, where he has been boarding the most of the time for the past three or four years, as one of the most complete experts in that line of anyone around here. He has now already on hand some two or more hundred pounds of stones that he has gathered, all ready to saw up and polish. He does not expect to sell them now, but is preparing to take them up to Portland and dispose of them to the tourists, who come from all over the civilized world to visit the fair and see the wonders of our great state of Oregon.
    Mrs. Mattie Brown, the wife of one of our leading merchants, Mr. W. H. Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, the only lady member of the town council, the street commissioner and the most active and persistent member of the town council, called on your correspondent Tuesday afternoon in her rounds, visiting and consulting with the taxpayers of the town with regard to the best plan to adopt with regard to lighting the streets of our town, for Mrs. Brown, being one of the leading members of the Ladies' Improvement Club of Eagle Point as well as a very active member of the town council, has, with the assistance of other members of the club, worked up a scheme to have our town lighted by electricity, and Mrs. Brown was consulting the citizens as to what they thought was the best plan to adopt of two or three plans, and she intends to submit the plan to the members of the council at their next meeting. There seems to be a unanimity of opinion as to the necessity of having the street lighted, but what she seemed to desire was to adopt a plan with the least expense and at the same time be the most satisfactory and beneficial to the town.
    Carl Jackson of Butte Falls called the same afternoon late, and called for a lunch, although it was some time before supper time. He said that he had been up to the fish trap a mile or so above town and that he had about 150,000 fish eggs and was on his way to the fish hatchery at Butte Falls, and that it would not do to let them stand in the cans, so he wanted to just eat a lunch and be on his way, and of course, he went away satisfied.
    Wednesday afternoon "Agate Jack" came in and ordered me to get out my little book as he had some news for the Eaglets. The reader will understand that I have been on the "grunt" for the last week or more, and have been confined to the home, not very sick, but unable to make my regular rounds. And he informed me that it was an actual fact that the Pacific and Eastern railroad was in operation again, that a train had gone up consisting of a locomotive, three flat cars and a box car loaded with material for construction work, so I suppose that some of the citizens of Butte Falls, who have been waiting as patiently as possible, are beginning to see a prospect for a brighter future.
    Mrs. Fey of Trail, who had just returned from Portland, came in on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Wednesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dodge of Newport, Oregon, came in also on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and spent Wednesday night. They are, as Mrs. Dodge expressed it, both agate fiends, as they are each professional experts in that line of business, being engaged in the agate-cutting business in their home town. They are old friends of "Agate Jack" and have arranged with him to move into his house, and will work with him in the business of cutting and polishing agates, and by way of recreation will spend some of their time hunting agates in the surrounding country.
    W. R. Roth, who is engaged in selling Watkins' Remedies, also came in Wednesday evening and spent the night and returned for dinner Thursday and reported that he had been quite successful in our little town. He is one of our soldier boys who lost an arm in the late war, fighting for the cause of universal freedom.
    December came in mild and pleasant and bid fair to be one of the lovely days of our winter and in the early part of the day was lovely indeed, but soon the dark clouds began to roll up and then showers of rain and by noon the weather had completely changed and one of the most terrific wind and rain storms ever experienced in this section of the country visited us, putting the electric lines out of commission, leaving us in total darkness, so that we had to resort to our old coal oil lamps, and the lights did not come on until after three o'clock a.m. The wind also did considerable damage to the electric light poles and telephone system. I have heard of but one building being blown down and that was Mr. L. L. Conger's barn and I have not been able to learn what damage was done, whether there was any stock in the barn or not, as I have not been able to go out and rustle items as usual, but hope to in the course of a few days.
    C. B. Pearson, referred to in a former letter as the general superintendent of the work of running the rock crusher on the Wm. von der Hellen contract for rocking the Crater Lake Highway and Mrs. Rynning, the wife of the chief engineer on the whole of the construction work on the Crater Lake Highway, have been taking their dinner, noon meal, at the Sunnyside regularly for the past few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 5, 1921, page 2
TRAIL ITEMS
    Both the large fish wheels at the U.S. fishery went out Tuesday. It is almost impossible for anything to stand the current of this angry old river these days.
    Earl Ulrich was a pleasant caller at the Stewart home last Saturday. He motored to Medford to spend a few days.
    The voters of this road district met at J. F. Adams' Saturday, October 26 and voted a five-mill road tax to be applied on the road leading to Earl Ulrich's ranch and continue the road work on the south side of Rogue River.
    Interesting Thanksgiving services were held at Trail Sunday, the 20th by Rev. Phillips. A bountiful lunch was served and everyone reports a pleasant time.
    The teacher, pupils and patrons of the hatchery school district are preparing a Christmas tree to be held Friday, December the 23rd, at the Rogue River ranch garage, O. R. Stewart's. Everyone is cordially invited.
    The work at the hatchery school is progressing nicely. Much praise is due the children for their excellent attendance during this steady rainy weather. Many of the children walk over three miles. The children whose names appear on the roll of honor this month are: Carl Thomas, Glenn Thomas, Walter Thomas, Ralph Train, Audrey Train, Lester Phillips, Beulah Phillip, Lorine Phillip, Violet Phillip.
    Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blaess of Medford spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson. Keva Hutchinson spent Thanksgiving with his parents.
    Miss Beryl Thomas, high school student of Medford, spent Thanksgiving vacation at her home.
    Dr. and Mrs. Thayer and friends of Medford took a joy ride to our locality last week. They were looking over a location for a summer home.
    Miss Falldine, county nurse, visited the hatchery district last week and interested the children in many progressive ideas.
    O. W. Train made a business trip to Eagle Point Thursday.
    J. F. Adams went to Medford Thursday for supplies for his store.
    Miss Bessie Thomas and Winifred Lee visited school Thursday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart and Winifred Lee spent Thanksgiving vacation in Medford.
    Mrs. Frank Clary and son, Ralph Hess, and two little daughters, Mildred and Dorothy, spent Thanksgiving in Ashland. They were accompanied by Jesse Clary.
    George Sanders is helping Mr. Ryan with ranch work.
    Mr. and Mrs. Luke Ryan and family and Miss Edith Corthell, high school student of Medford, motored to their ranch Thursday afternoon and spent the week.
    Uncle Tom Spangler has left for an extensive visit with his son in California. He plans to visit his daughter in the East before returning.
    George Sanders spent Thanksgiving with his sister's family, Mrs. Muskopf of Eagle Point.
    Eugene Childers of Klamath County has bought the Brophy ranch. He will take possession the first of the month.
    We are all proud of our road to Medford this winter. When one can go thirty miles in an hour and a half and free from the feeling of getting mired it is a pleasure to live out here among nature.
    The teacher and pupils of the hatchery district are giving a Christmas tree Thursday, December 22, for themselves and the little tots of the district. All the babies and little tots and their mammas are invited.
    Mrs. George Thomas and sons, James and Robert, spent Wednesday at the Stewart home, visiting her daughter and Mrs. Stewart.
    Fishing is fine along the river. Steelheads and cutthroats are plentiful.
    Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Howell, Miss Helen Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Todd, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald were Thanksgiving guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McDonald, and Gladys McDonald of the Rogue Elk resort.
    O. R. Stewart and W. A. Stewart were business callers in Medford Friday.
    All the little fish at the U.S. Fisheries had to be turned into the river as a result of the high water taking out the two large fish wheels. The 400,000 eggs that are on hand had to be removed to running water as soon as the water supply was cut off.
    Mrs. Herbert Carlton and Thomas Carlton were pleasant callers at the Rogue River ranch Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 5, 1921, page 8
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    A. W. Train of Trail, who has a homestead on Big Butte near its conjunction with Rogue River, was a passenger on the Persist-Trail stage Thursday evening, and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He has been and is operating a sawmill in that section and says that he has a demand for all the lumber he can saw right there at home. In speaking of the effect that the rain had on the streams, he said that the water in Big Butte Creek was so high that it took out all the fish racks they had put in the creek and had taken out the fish wheel at the hatchery in Rogue River besides doing considerable other damage.
    Frank Simpson was also here and spent Thursday night. He reports that he was working on Verna Mathews' barn and had it about ready to raise. It will be about 60 feet square with the post for the main structure twenty-eight feet. People are beginning to realize the advantage of building their barns high, as the way Mr. Simpson figures the cost, it costs as much to cover a barn as it does to build it, that is, the mechanical part of the cost.
    In speaking of building Mr. Mathews' barn brings to mind the item I sent in last week about the wind blowing down Mr. Conger's barn and I stated that I did not know if there was any other damage done or not, but since have learned that there was no stock in the barn at the same time R. R. Minter had his barn blown down, and Mr. M. Pech, of Phoenix, spoken of in a former letter, who went up to Roy Conley's to take a bear hunt, came in and spent the night Friday and reported that the windstorm had done considerable damage to the telephone system between here and Butte Falls. He said, furthermore, that when he came out from Mr. Conley's he had to cut three trees out of the road and bridge one, and by taking his horse loose from the rig and attaching a rope for the horse to pull by he managed to get the rig over it.
    The mail carrier from where he meets the car that leaves here (he leaves Butte Falls in the morning with a team and brings the mail until he meets the auto that leaves here and then they exchange mail, he returning to Butte Falls and the Eagle Point man returns here), but I was going to tell something of the perils he, C. C. Beale, had when the storm struck him. He had just reached the top of Rocky Hill, four miles this side of Butte Falls, when it struck him and from there to Butte Falls was through heavy timber and he soon realized the danger he was in from falling timber and dead limbs, so he drove to an open space where he would be out of danger of trees and limbs and sat there taking the storm until it subsided. In the meantime Mr. Ira Tungate took in the situation he was in and started to his assistance, so he managed to get through with the mail and the next morning a force of men started out from Butte Falls and cleared the way so as to get through with a team. They found large trees twisted off in all shapes, trees uprooted and the road literally covered with obstructions.
    Since writing the last sentence a man, Mr. Whaley of Butte Falls, came in and spent the night and expressed the opinion that the wind had destroyed at least a million dollars worth of timber in the Big Butte country.
    Last Friday Rev. Herbert G. Adams of Corvallis came in and engaged board and room for an indefinite time. He has been sent here by the Cong. Home Missionary Society to see what can be done in the way of organizing Sunday schools and extending the privileges of the gospel by preaching to the people in the outlying districts and organizing Sunday schools where there are none. He preached twice here last Sunday but I was not able to go and hear him, but some who did hear him seemed to be very favorably impressed with his services. He is to preach here again on Sunday, Dec. 18th, both morning and evening.
    Among those who were here for dinner Friday were Frank Rhodes of Eagle Point, Wm. Martin of Lake Creek, Fred Cummings, the water superintendent, G. F. Collie, Charles Pettegrew, L. Walters and John Smith, the four last named were engaged sawing wood for Wm. von der Hellen, and at the same time Eli Dahack, etc., were sawing wood in another part of our town.
    Our town council had a call meeting to arrange the budget for the town for the coming year and report that the indebtedness of our town has been reduced to $6000, and the tax levy is reduced from fourteen mills to eleven mills and the salary of the recorder from $25 per month to $5 per month, and they expect to raise enough the coming year to pay off another $1000 of the indebtedness. They also ordered to have electric lights put in, ten altogether, but the one at the bank will be kept up by private enterprise and one at the Stanley corner outside of the corporation, the expense of which will be met by the Civic Club of Eagle Point and vicinity. With a thoroughly competent man for mayor and the present board on the council it begins to look as though Eagle Point was coming to the front again. The council will meet Dec. 22 at 7:30 p.m. to take final action on the budget and invite all interested to meet with them and if there are any objections to the budget let it be known at that time.
    I managed to walk over to the post office last Monday, and the first man from the country I met was Gus Pech of Lake Creek. He had come out and procured a load of barley to feed his hogs. His ground is too valuable to raise barley, it is potato ground. The next person I met was Miss Agnes Allen of Derby, she had come out to have her saddle horse shod. I also met Geo. W. Stowell, the chicken king, but did not talk to him as he was just ready to start for home. So I started for home, reaching here tired out and found Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons, and B. H. Williams of Dinkelsfield, besides a table full of people who are semi-regular customers.
    Rev. H. G. Adams will preach at Brownsboro Sunday morning at 11 a.m., and in Eagle Point at 7:30 p.m.
    Rev. G. N. Edwards will preach in Butte Falls Sunday morning at 11, and in the evening at 7:30.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1921, page B1
ELK CREEK
    W. Willits made a business trip to Medford, Tuesday, Dec. 6.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis made a business trip to Central Point, also taking their mother to Central Point, where she will visit for a while.
    Geo. Trusty went to town Wednesday.
    Henry Trusty made a trip to town Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ashcraft visited their homestead last week, returning to town the same day.
    P. E. Sandoz hauled a load of lumber Tuesday.
    Howard Ash returned to his place on Elk Creek Sunday after a week's stay at Trail.
    Mr. King, union Sunday school missionary, visited the Elk Creek Sunday school recently. We were all glad to see him.
    Elk Creek school has had a good attendance, although the weather has been disagreeable.
    Claude Moore has moved from Dist. 80 to Dist. 74. The more the better.
    Sunday school has been somewhat irregular on account of weather conditions.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1921, page B2
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Tuesday morning found us surrounded with a dense mantle of fog, one of the very few disagreeable features of our beautiful Southern Oregon climate, but those of our neighbors who live in a little higher region in the foothills within a few miles could boast of clear, sunshiny weather, warm and pleasant, and we have had more or less of that kind of weather ever since; in fact, we might say truthfully that the fog for a few weeks during the winter is the only particular drawback we have so far as climate is concerned, and still that it attended with its blessing, for when it is foggy, although it seems to be cold, it is not so cold as to do any amount of damage and really keeps vegetation growing so that stock that has to depend on rustling for themselves can find green grass enough to half sustain life. The result of the foggy weather seems to be to keep the farmers at home. At any rate, there seems to be but very few of them coming to our town, but in spite of the surroundings there is a class of men traveling over the country who never fail to visit us and that is what we politely call commercial travelers. They drop in, show their goods and disappear again but occasionally call at the Sunnyside for a meal, and that was the case on that day for Mr. Frank Stoddard of the Crescent Merchandise Co. of Seattle and G. C. Cathcart of the American Tobacco Co., Portland, called in for dinner and so did Mr. F. A. Whaley. He is acting as manager of the gangs of men working on the Pacific & Eastern railroad, and while here made arrangements to board and lodge at the Sunnyside. He was also hiring men to work on the railroad. He reports that the most of the ties on the railroad are in a poor condition and that they will have to be replaced with new ones, and that seems to be the principal work they are doing now.
    Rev. George N. Edwards, Sunday school evangelist for the Congregational Church, came in and took dinner. He has been appointed by the missionary society of the Congregational Church to assist in establishing Sunday schools and supplying destitute outlying rural districts with Sunday school literature and where desired looking up a supply for preaching, for there is quite a demand for work in that line in the rural districts. Rev. Herbert G. Adams, who is here now with him, is looking over the field to ascertain if arrangement can be made for him to located in this field and preach at different places in the surrounding country.
    Mrs. Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls also came in Tuesday and is here doing some sewing for the family. The same day there was a lady from Germany came in with her niece by marriage, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, and took dinner, but I did not learn her name.
    I learned the same day that Mrs. Roy Stanley, Mrs. Gus Nichols, Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols and Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols went to Medford to hear a man lecture on Christian Science and that Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Brophy had gone to Medford on that day, Tuesday.
    Nick Young, one of our progressive young bachelors, called in for dinner and Virginia Reid and her brother called for dinner. Their parents were called on a business errand to Medford with the above results. Charley Humphrey of Derby and Paul Zimmerman of Butte Falls was also here spending the night.
    George F. Amerby and Warren S. Amerby came in Wednesday night with a five-horse team and spent the night. They were on the way to Butte Falls to start in on a job of getting out ties to reopen the railroad track between Medford and Butte Falls and to extend the track to the large body of timber on Four-Bit Creek that was purchased of the U.S. government some time ago. It is a fine thing for those who are out of a job, and I understand that the R.R. Co. expect to put on quite a large number of men about the first of the coming year.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who lives with her husband at the Dead Indian Soda Springs, came in Thursday and spent the night, on her way from Portland, where she had been visiting her daughter who was sick, having had to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Wilkinson owns a fine farm on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road, but owing to her husband being afflicted so as to necessitate his living in a high altitude, rents her farm and they live like a king and queen in their mountain home. Before she started home Friday morning she gave me a subscription for the Medford Mail Tribune for Clyde Plymire, who lives in Portland, as he wants to get all the news from his old home, Jackson County.
    Mr. Bert Greer, the editor of the Daily Ashland Tidings, came in just about noon Thursday and left a half dozen copies of the Winter Fair and Jackson County Christmas edition of the Daily Ashland Tidings and left so that I did not have any time to talk with him. He was distributing his papers over town. The paper makes a fine appearance and is not any way backward in advertising the whole community, especially Eagle Point, Medford and Ashland as the three business center of the county, but while he is advertising those three, he also pays respect to Central Point, Talent, Phoenix, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Jacksonville and by no means slights our fine farms and orchards and pays special attention to our fruit industry. It reflects great credit on those who have had charge of planning the work, but the mechanical makeup shows a great deal of taste and business acumen.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1921, page 3
BROWNSBORO NEWS
    The Brownsboro school is giving a Christmas program December 20th at 7 o'clock sharp, and everyone is invited.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Staub is giving a dance at the Brownsboro dance hall December 20th, after the school program. There will be a basket supper.
    Mrs. Sam Hoagland was a visitor at the Hulse home Wednesday.
    Rev. Adams, sent out by the State Missionary Society of the Congregational Church, held services after Sunday school Sunday. There was quite a large attendance at both Sunday school and church.
    Mrs. Roscoe Hulse was a visitor at the Hansen home Tuesday.
    Mrs. J. Monia visited our school Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Orin Maxfield, Mrs. A. E. Harburg and Mrs. Underwood of Ashland were visitors at Joe Mayfield's Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Orin Maxfield will stay a few weeks.
    Mr. Dupery visited the Cowden home Monday and returned to his home in Butte Falls Tuesday.
    Fred Stanley was a visitor at the Cowden home Thursday. While there Fred Stanley and Mr. Cowden went out riding for cattle.
    Walter Marshall helped Mr. Maxfield kill hogs Sunday.
    Since cold weather has started, we have been having hot lunch at school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse went to Medford Monday.
    Milo Conley, who has been getting in cattle for Mike Hanley, returned to his home in Brownsboro Sunday.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Company has been hauling lumber through Monia's place.
    Carl Stanley made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry went to Medford Tuesday.
    A number of people from this community, the Antelope community, and upper Brownsboro district, met at the home of George Brown Sunday evening for choir practice. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. R. M. Hulse, who are in charge of the church music, were very much encouraged by the result of practice. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse.
    Robert Neil visited the Stanley home Sunday.
    Walter Marshall and Mrs. Joe Maxfield went to Medford on business Monday.
    Miss Meadie Marshall, who has been visiting her brother Walter Marshall, returned to her home in Eagle Point.
    Mrs. William Hansen Jr., was a visitor at the Marshall home Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and two sons, John and Cecil, and Miss Kubli, went to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stanley and son Merrill visited our school Tuesday.
    Mr. Dupery from Butte Falls was a visitor at Mr. Ralph Tucker's home Sunday. While there he purchased a horse.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 16, 1921, page B1
TRAIL ITEMS
    The Misses Ruth and Esther Mechem, Miss Getz, and Mr. Mechem spent the weekend in Ashland with relatives and doing Christmas shopping.
    A. T. Poole returned home from Union Creek last week, where they have been working the past month.
    Enid Middlebusher drove the stage Saturday to Eagle Point for V. Peterson.
    Mrs. Eva Weeks and little daughters, Freda and Georgia, were Eagle Point visitors Saturday.
    Mrs. Middlebusher and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson were Sunday guests at Will Houston's.
    We are glad to say Miss Green is much improved.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Middlebusher spent the weekend with the latter's parents. Her brother Orange returned home with them.
    Ralph Watson is sawing wood for Messrs. McDonald and T. Todd.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daughter, Wanda Joy, were Sunday guests at A. T. Poole's.
    Claude Ragsdale is hauling wood and hay these days.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dawson were pleasant callers at the Howe home Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Adamson and family spent Sunday evening at Mr. and Mrs. Pritchett's.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Poole are visiting on the Umpqua side this week.
    R. R. Dawson is hauling hay from Trail.
    Mrs. Foeller was a Trail visitor Friday, also visited school that day.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 16, 1921, page B1
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Thursday Mr. Ed Goins, H. L. Cox, Mr. Cox is the superintendent of the railroad, and F. A. Whaley, men who are working on the P.&E. railroad, spent the night at the Sunnyside and Messrs. Whaley and Goins are making it headquarters while they are repairing the railroad in this immediate vicinity. The trains are coming over the road every few days carrying ties and other material to put it in shape to haul the necessary material to extend the road on from Butte Falls to the main timber belt recently purchased from the U.S. government. And from what I can learn, the prospect is very bright for a general revival of business in the Big Butte country.
    Brennan Welcher, who is in the employ of the Gates Auto Company, was among the diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday.
    C. M. Parsons and J. G. Shotwell of the Shotwell Construction Company, highway builders, Hermiston, Oregon, were here for dinner Friday and also looking over the highway building business in this part of the country. The contract, I understand, is to be let soon to grade and rock the road between the top of the Cingcade hill on the edge of the desert to Medford, and the supposition is that they were having an eye on that job.
    There were two men out from Medford from the People's Electric Store putting up the lights for our town on Friday, and they took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel, and so did George Albert of the Dupray sawmill and two others whose names I failed to secure.
    Louis Lenn and his nephew were trading with our business men Saturday morning.
    Ira Tungate, one of the leading business men of Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Saturday morning on his way home and Rev. George N. Edwards, the Sunday school evangelist, was also a passenger on the same stage from here to Butte Falls and preached for the people of that community both morning and evening on Sunday. And while there made arrangements to have Rev. Hubert G. Adams, the prospective pastor of the work in the preaching and Sunday school work, preach there, in Butte Falls, on Sunday evening, and Rev. G. N. Edwards will preach here in Mr. Adams' place.
    Mr. J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, has replaced the dam that he tore out of Antelope Creek in said creek, and from now on during the season will take fish out of that stream for the eggs. I understand that he has been meeting with good success taking fish from the trap at the new dam just above town.
    There was a place where Riverside Boulevard joins the Crater Lake Highway that was causing trouble as the turn was too abrupt and narrow, so as to cause trouble, so our road superintendent, William Perry, had a gang of men fix it by widening it and otherwise improving it.
    Mr. H. L. Young, Sr., who for a number of years was a member of the Mail Tribune force, but for the past few years is on the Oregon Journal of Portland, but at this time is taking his vacation on his farm near Brownsboro, was here at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday, and so was James H. Jones and William Stinson of the Oregon-California Power Company. They came out to connect up the street lights with the main line and now we have our street lights going at full blast, a very decided improvement. There are eleven lights altogether, although there will be only nine lights charged up to the town, as George Brown and Sons, our leading merchants, have one in front of their store that they keep up, and one at the Eagle Point bank, and that is kept up by the bank and there is one at the Stanley corner outside of the corporation and the expense of that is met by the Ladies' Civic Club, as that is composed of not only the ladies of the town, but also the members of the club who live outside of the town proper.
    Rev. H. G. Adams, one of our new preachers, preached at Brownsboro last Sunday morning and here at night and reports that he had very good congregations at both places, and I am glad to say that those with whom I have talked on the subject express themselves as highly pleased with his preaching. Rev. G. N. Edwards went to Butte Falls Saturday and preached twice for the people on Sunday and reports the prospect quite encouraging and good congregations both morning and evening. The two ministers went over to Antioch S.H. today, Wednesday, to look over the field in that region.
    E. G. Trowbridge and wife of Medford came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside Sunday noon, and Mr. Arthur Perry, the acting editor of the Daily Mail Tribune and the chief cook of the Smudge Pot, a kind of side dish sent out with the D.M.T., and Shortie Mills, also of Medford, were out here for supper Sunday evening.
    Green Mathews and Thomas F. Nichols made a business trip to Medford last week.
    I understand that Charles Hash, who went onto the Benjamin Brophy farm on Big Butte Creek, has decided to give it up and gone to California, and that Benj. B. has taken possession of the place again.
    Mrs. Thomas Vestal and Mrs. Boyne were in town the first of the week.
    Mrs. Roy Ashpole spent Saturday night visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rader.
    Miss Effie Whaley of Butte Falls, but now working in Medford, came out from Medford and spent two nights at the Sunnyside with her sister, Miss Rose Whaley, and went up to her home, Butte Falls, today, and Miss Nida McIntosh of Medford came out on the stage Saturday and spent the night at the Sunnyside Hotel, returning Sunday morning.
    Mrs. Earl Stoner of San Jose, Calif., nee Hazel Brown, surprised her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Saturday night by coming in on them unannounced, a very agreeable surprise.
    And Mrs. Clarence Robinett, nee Fay Perry, also came in on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Perry.
    Mrs. Ralph Gardner and her daughter of Lake Creek were here trading the first of the week.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall and her sister-in-law, Miss Nida Marshall of Brownsboro, were here trading.
    Mr. Rob Baker of Butte Falls took dinner here, went to Medford Monday and came in and spent Monday night, going up home Tuesday morning on the stage.
    Mark Winkle and wife also spent Monday night with us.
    The Rev. Edwards will preach at Antioch Sunday school at 11:30; at Sams Valley 2 p.m., and at Table Rock 3:30 p.m., Sunday, December 18th.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 16, 1921, page B6
TRAIL-PROSPECT ROAD WILL BE FINISHED, 1923
    Word reaches Medford that the matter of improvement of the Crater Lake Highway between Trail and Prospect has been worked through at Portland and most of the work on that link in the road to the lake will be done next summer with the last of the rocking, in all probability the following summer.
    Ben Sheldon, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the members of the county court appeared before the state highway commission twice and in addition had a lengthy session with the district forester and the engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Roads. Under the cooperation provision of the federal law authorizing the expenditure of federal money this road, the contracting will be done under the supervision of the federal authorities. Mr. Cecil, district forester, and Mr. Purcell, the road engineer for the government, assured the Jackson County delegation that contracts would be let just as soon as the surveys made for this section had been checked up and approved and the funds were in hand. It is believed that this can be done so that actual construction work can be commenced early in the spring.
    The importance of keeping the road open to travel during the months of July, August, September and October so as not to interfere with the Crater Lake travel was impressed upon the forestry men by the local speakers, and satisfactory assurances were made that a most earnest effort would be made to so direct the contracting work that those sections where construction work would necessarily block traffic could be worked out during the earlier or later months of next season.
    At the October meeting of the highway commission, Mr. Sheldon obtained assurances of work during the forthcoming season up as far as Cascade Gorge. This last negotiation has increased the work contemplated so as to include the six miles between that point and Prospect. This work, when completed, and taken in conjunction with the work between Eagle Point and Medford, a contract for which was authorized by the commission at Portland last Thursday, will close every gap between this city and the lake so far as a standard grade is concerned and will provide for the macadamizing of the same to a point six miles above Prospect.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 19, 1921, page 3
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Mrs. M. D. Bowles and son, William A. Bowles of Lake Creek, Jack O'Connor of Phoenix and Mrs. Walter Stockman of Butte Falls and A. B. Shelby, salesman for Baker, Hamilton & Co., San Francisco, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. Gladys Cooper, nee Gladys Natwick of Medford, also came out and spent the day with the family at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    W. W. Parker of Butte Falls, one of the pioneers of the Butte Falls region, came in Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He came out to have his team shod up, as he is planning to use it on the railroad extension from Butte Falls to Four-Bit Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carson, formerly of Butte Falls, who left there some two years ago, returned to their old home Wednesday on the stage. There seems to be quite a stir in that once almost depopulated town at this time, as business seems to be looking up and the prospect seems favorable for men who wish employment to secure a job.
    Wm. H. Ziegler of the Western Pump Co., Portland, and Arthur W. Tyo, with Modern Plumbing & Heating Co., Medford were here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mrs. W. E. McDowell of Kansas City, Missouri, who is visiting her brother, O. M. Goss of Butte Falls, came out on the Butte Falls stage and after taking dinner here went on out to Medford to spend a few days. Mrs. McDowell and her husband were out here last season and after remaining here for a short time went back, but after spending even a short time in our Southern Oregon climate decided to return, Mrs. McDonald coming on the train and her husband is now on the road in his car coming to this country. I asked if it would not be difficult to come through at this season of the year and she said that if the weather and roads were too bad he would store his car and come through on the train. As a rule whenever people from the Middle West once come here and have a taste of our Southern Oregon climate it creates a dislike to cold frigid climate back there and a longing for this favored land.
    Our election passed off very quietly, in fact so quietly that one hardly knew that there was an election taking place as there were only 58 votes polled, 34 for the tax and 24 against it. As there seems to be an element among the legal voters who pay no taxes they seem always ready to vote a tax on those who do pay. If our lawmakers had the backbone to introduce and pass a law requiring voters who vote for the continual increase of our taxes to be taxpayers themselves the promoters of the schemes to raise an additional tax would find that they could not succeed quite so well, for it is not an uncommon thing to hear the remark made by the non-taxpayer, "We will vote the tax and make the other fellow dig up, for it don't cost me anything."
    We have voted to tax ourselves the money required to build the buildings on the fairgrounds, but in the call our county court and other promoters of the scheme did not figure the additional tax to be raised to pay the expense of the special election, which will amount to several thousand dollars.
    The day board, John Greb, Roy Ashpole, Thos. Vestal, A. J. Florey and T. F. Nichols, took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Lyle Carlton of Wellen was a business caller Wednesday.
    At the regular meeting of the Ladies Civic Club of Eagle Point held before the one held last Thursday, the arrangement was to have the meeting of the club at the Sunnyside Hotel and the hostess and her daughter to entertain the guests, and it just so happened that they had on hand a number of quilts and comforters ready to quilt or tack out and strange to relate they had three of them already in the quilting frames ready to go to work on. And another unusual occurrence was that the members of the club who, according to custom, went to the designated places, for they meet at different places, in the afternoon but on the particular time under consideration the members commenced to arrive as early as 9 o'clock a.m. and bringing their thimbles and scissors with them. Another strange incident was that there happened to be a half dozen nicely dressed chickens all ready to put in the cooking vessels in the pantry, and a number of cakes, etc. on hand and the first thing your Eagle Point correspondent knew he was almost surrounded by a host of his neighbors and in a few instances a few of his old-time friends from a distance, among them being Mrs. F. M. Stewart and three of her daughters, Mrs. Alfred Bowles, formerly Mrs. Frank Simpson of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Elizabeth Welther, known in this community as Libbie Welther, also of Spokane, Wash., and another daughter, Mrs. Nettie Grover of Medford, Ore., and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Perry of Eagle Point. We also had as a visiting guest Mrs. Hazel Stoner of San Jose, Calif., a daughter of one of our near neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, besides between thirty and forty of our near friends and neighbors. We had also as transients who called for dinner that day H. L. Cox, the superintendent of the P.&E.R.R., Fred Cummings, the superintendent of the water rights, B. L. Wilson of Butte Falls, Emmet and Virginia Reid, Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls, who came out on the Butte Falls stage, ate dinner and went on to Medford returning the next day and spending the night at the Sunnyside Hotel. E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls called for dinner and went on to Medford, and at night Mr. and Mrs. Seaman called in for supper. Mrs. Seaman had just returned from visiting her mother in Talent. Also Mrs. Bennet and son of Butte Falls called for supper and went on to Medford that night. Mrs. Stewart and her three daughters mentioned above and her son, Wm. Perry, also joined the company with his wife and mother and sisters and all spent the evening together and the time was spent very pleasantly interspersed with conversation and singing, with Mrs. Nellie Bowles of Spokane at the organ.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1921, page 10
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Friday noon for dinner were Messrs. J. I. Adams and L. A. Nesler of the Artisto Stone Company of Medford, Mr. Adams having brought out Mr. Nesler's former partner, J. A. Stewart. James Watkins of Central Point was with them, driving them over the country. They were out soliciting business and were on their way over the new Crater Lake Highway and intended while on their rounds to visit the Reese Creek country.
    Fred Pettigrew was also among the diners, and so was William von der Hellen, wife, son Hugo, Jr., and brother-in-law, Judge Florey, Harry Lewis, Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls. She came out on the stage, [omission] diner, went to Medford, attended to her business, returned, spent the night and returned to her home Saturday morning on the Butte Falls stage. Her son, Claude R. Miles, was also with her but returned to Medford that night.
    Lucius Kincaid, who has been working for William von der Hellen and was engaged in tearing up an old bridge that was used to cross Little Butte Creek with the crushed rock to put on the Crater Lake Highway, had the misfortune to have one of the heavy planks slip out of his grasp, tearing one of his fingers quite badly and had it fall on three of his toes and smashing them quite badly, so that he is likely to lose the toenails off of all three of them.
    Roscoe Davis of Klamath Falls came in Saturday and spent the night on his way to visit his brother, Roy Davis of Derby.
    George W. Averill, who has a homestead on Round Top, also came in from Medford, and spent the night.
    Ed Murphy and wife of Wellen were also in town trading Saturday.
    Lawrence Luy of Wellen came in Saturday afternoon and engaged a room for the night.
    Miss Patricia Hogan, who is teaching school in the Lake Creek district, came in on the stage and called for short time and went on to Medford Saturday.
    Miss Hazel Spencer, who is teaching in the Crater Lake district, also came in, took dinner and went on to Medford that afternoon, and later in the day Lucius Kincaid went to Medford also.
    Loris Martin, formerly of Trail, but now of Medford, came in Saturday night, and stayed until Monday morning, going to Medford on the 7:30 stage, returning the same day.
    Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls came out Saturday afternoon and remained until Monday afternoon. Mrs. Hildreth, who has been helping the Sunnyside womenfolk with their sewing, returned to her home with him.
    Buster Mathews came in and spent the night, and so did Charley Winkle.
    Sunday was rather a lively day at Eagle Point as we had our regular Sunday school in the morning and preaching at night by Rev. George N. Edwards; he also preached at Antioch, Sams Valley and Table Rock at the close of the Sunday schools.
    It had been extensively advertised that there would be a shooting match to last all day, for turkeys, chickens and ducks, and that no one would be barred and no guns barred, and the result was that there was quite a crowd collected on the Lewis (George and Harry) farm and as a rule everything passed off pleasantly, as there was but little complaint, so far as I could learn, for I didn't go myself as I don't approve of shooting matches, especially on Sunday, but after the fowls were all disposed of, one of the Lewises, I think it was Frank, put a young beef, already dressed and quartered, to be shot for, and there was so many who wanted to take a chance that they had to reduce the price per chance, and there was a party, some half dozen or more, came out from Medford, and brought with them their target guns, with telescopes, and when Loris Martin of Trail was appointed to shoot for a man who had taken a chance and paid his money, and there was no objection raised to his shooting for the man, and after the Medfordites were beaten by a county jake and they using their target guns, they then raised a howl and claimed that it was not fair to have a substitute shoot in his place and claim the beef, and the result was the man paid his money and the Medfordites carried off the beef, but it appears that everything is fair in love, war and gambling.
    Among these who were here for dinner Sunday were Emil Schmidt, F. Roy Davis, Medford; Earl Ulrich of Flounce Rock; Grover Currin, Claude R. Miles, Luther J. Deuel, Halbert Deuel, Benj. N. Plymale.
    Jack Holloway, recently from Klamath Falls, came in Monday morning and engaged board and room. He had arranged to go to work on the P.&E. railroad and seems to think that he will have a standing job all next summer. The section boss, Mr. Whaley of Butte Falls, who has charge of the gang of men who are working near Eagle Point, says that they are just fixing up the road so as to be able to haul a steam shovel and other machinery over it, so as to commence work on the new road from Butte Falls to the tract of timberland that the present company recently purchased from the U.S. government, and after they get it made strong enough to carry the machinery and building material forward then they will rush the work right along, and even now the company is calling for men to go to work and push it through.
    Monday Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krieger and granddaughter Bernice Krieger of Trail, and Frank Zuccala of Central Point, called for dinner. Mr. Krieger is interested in a sawmill up on Long Bench, a few miles this side of Trail. Ed Higinbotham of Gold Hill and Marshall Minter of Reese Creek and Mrs. Joseph Geppert and George Albert of Butte Falls and Adin Haselton were here for dinner. Mr. Haselton came in Saturday and is here at present writing, Wednesday, and he expects to go in with Loris Martin in the trapping business, near Butte Falls this winter.
    We had a fine Christmas entertainment here Tuesday afternoon, but I see that my letter is already too long so will leave that for my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 23, 1921, page 10
BROWNSBORO NEWS
    The Christmas program at Brownsboro was a great success, as everyone reported. There was a large crowd present.
    Miss Velda Monia, who has been attending high school at Butte Falls, is spending the Christmas vacation at home.
    Mrs. Charley and Mrs. J. Monia helped us with our program. Mrs. Charley played for us.
    Ralph Bieberstedt went to Jacksonville Sunday evening on a visit.
    Mr. Roscoe Hulse killed about 30 turkeys and sent them to Medford Friday.
    Nellie Butler, who is a graduate of this school, is helping us with our Christmas program.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry Myers of Lake Creek and Miss Kubli went to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. and Mr. Joe Henry made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. L. D. Tucker and William Staub made a business trip to Crescent City Thursday and returned home Saturday.
    Mrs. J. Monia went to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. Smith, the cook of the Fish Lake Ditch Co., went to Portland to spend Christmas.
    Mr. Roscoe Hulse took Albert Hoagland to the Dow Hospital in Medford Saturday.
    Alfred Savage of Halsey, Oregon, is a visitor at the Butler home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and two sons, John and Cecil, spent Christmas with friends in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 27, 1921, page 5
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    In my last letter to the Medford Mail Tribune, I simply mentioned the fact that there was a school entertainment given by the teachers of our school and discovered that if I undertook to give an account of it as it deserved that it would make my letter entirely too long, so decided to put it off until a future letter. Well, our teacher, Mrs. Josephine Holmes, and Miss Alice Lorin commenced to prepare the little folk some little while before and when they found that they could not secure the use of the hall for the entertainment, they decided to use the church building and Tuesday afternoon there was a collection of between thirty and forty children and adults enough to fill the building collected, and promptly at two o'clock p.m. the exercise began with singing by the whole school and after singing several songs the little folk gave us some short recitations and songs and from the way they were applauded, suppose they were fully up to date. As I was so far back from the platform I could not hear and some of the ladies who sat just in front of me, although the two who sat directly in front of me, conformed to the rules on such occasions, removed their hats, while others wore their hats, and seemed to try to see how much space they could cover, by moving first to one side and then the other, and the two ladies just ahead of me were kept busy craning their necks first one way and then another, to try to get a glimpse of the children while they were performing their parts, trying to see through or around a very large hat on a woman's head on the front seat that obstructed the view completely, while if she had known that by removing that head ornament, she would have rendered a great service to a number of people who were sitting behind her. But this is a digression and I sincerely hope that I will not have to be thus angered again, or have the ladies reminded that in an audience like the one referred to they are supposed to remove their hats. After the introductory exercises the curtains were drawn and preparations were being made for the main part of the program, but as I had been on the sick list for almost a month, and began to feel quite chilled, for the house was not well heated prior to the commencement and the door was left open quite often so had to return home before the play began, but a friend of mine, Rev. H. G. Adams, who was there, reported that the whole play was fine and well rendered.
    Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rynning, chief engineer on the Crater Lake Highway, who have had rooms over the T. E. [Nichols]store, have gone to Portland to spend Christmas.
    Mr. R. C. Seaman, he also was a member of the engineering corps on the same road, has moved his family to Talent and Mr. Grover, who has been living in the old Coy home, now owned by Mrs. James Owens, have moved into the house they vacated, the P. H. Daily house.
    Fred Pettegrew, who has been having some work done on his auto, has been spending a day or two at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Susan Hart was transacting business with our merchants during midweek.
    George W. Stowell, our chicken king, was a business caller Wednesday. W. H. Crandall and family passed through here Wednesday on their way to Medford and Mr. T. F. McCabe was also in town the same day.
    Miss Francis Greb, who is teaching in the Persist district, came out and went to Jacksonville to take the teachers' examination before the board for state papers, and Miss Alice Train, our primary teacher, also went in for the same purpose.
    Mrs. M. S. Wood went to Central Point to visit her daughter.
    Mrs. John Miller of Lake Creek, who had been out to Medford visiting her two married daughters, came out on the stage Wednesday.
    Fred Strang of Medford, Clayton Long, Corvallis, E. R. Oatman, Medford, H. E. Warner, C. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the C.&O.P. Co., C. C. Cate, J. E. Baker, Medford, were all here for dinner. They were demonstrating pruning in the orchards; they had been working in the Alta Vista orchard and came here for dinner and in the afternoon went to the Vilas orchard.
    The Ladies' Civic Club of Eagle Point will meet the next time at Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen's, and Mrs. Reid and Mrs. von der Hellen will entertain.
    Thursday noon Frank Manning and son, Charles, E. Brown, N. Smith and Miss Allene Johnson, who is teaching in the Brophy district, Bert Higinbotham and wife of Ashland, Mrs. John Allen of Derby, W. F. Wolgamott of Medford called for dinner Thursday and Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby called and waited until time for the Lewis jitney to go to Medford, and went on their way to Napa, Calif. Mrs. Allen went on to Medford and returned that night to the Sunnyside for the night.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Dodge of Newport, Oregon, who have been here at the Sunnyside since the 2nd of December, started for their home Thursday. Mr. Dodge is an agate worker, and has a shop in Newport, and has been here spending the most of his time gathering agates. He has shipped several hundred pounds, beside taking quite a lot with him.
    Mr. E. V. Peterson, the mail contractor for carrying the mail from here to Persist and back, reports that as he was coming in from Trail Thursday, he overtook Mrs. Jasper Hannah and her daughter, Mrs. Odessa Haskins, with a flat tire. He stopped and fixed it up for them and went on his way rejoicing, but had not gone far before he had trouble with his tire, so they passed him and after repairing his puncture, started on and soon overtook them again with a blowout, but a man had come to the rescue, so he drove on and some time after he reached the post office they came in all O.K., but that shows some of the tribulations of those who have to travel over our country roads, and still our legislators will vote to levy a tax of $3,000,000 to pay the expense of a fair in Portland.
    Clarence Middlebusher of Klamath Agency came in Thursday night, spent the night and Friday morning went up to Trail to visit his mother and family.
    It becomes my painful duty to chronicle the death of one of our promising young ladies, Miss Cleo Emma Robertson, daughter of Mr. John Robertson of this place, aged 16 years, 7 months and 3 days. The loss of Miss Robertson seems more especially sad on account of the position she was filling at the time of her death, December 22, 1921. She had been bereaved of her mother in July 1920 and left to care for an infant brother and younger sister about 9 years of age, and to keep house for her father, and notwithstanding her age she assumed the responsibility and cared for the children and attended to the affairs of the household with neatness and cheerfulness. She was a promising member of our Sunday school and a consistent member of the Baptist church and she and her mother were admitted to the church and baptized the same day. She leaves not only her brother and sister and brothers mentioned above, but her grandparents and several uncles and aunts and a host of warm friends and schoolmates behind to battle with the cares of life. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery, Saturday afternoon. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Stille, assisted by Rev. T. G. Adams. There was a very large number of neighbors, friends, schoolmates attended the funeral.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 28, 1921, page 6
EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett
    Leland Pettegrew of Reese Creek, Rev. Charles C. Hulett, the Sunday school evangelist, E. G. High of Ashland, Roy Lewis of Talent were here for dinner Friday. Rev C. C. Hulett was on his way up to Derby to deliver some fixtures for the Sunday school Christmas Eve entertainment at Derby Sunday school, and Rev. H. G. Adams, the minister who is in charge of the work here, Butte Falls, Brownsboro, Sams Valley and Table Rock, who is boarding at the Sunnyside Hotel, accompanied him to Derby, and after supper they returned to Reese Creek schoolhouse where they were having a Christmas entertainment, and Rev. Adams took part in the exercises, Rev. Hulett returned to Derby to assist in the work there, and Mr. Adams returned to his room at the close of the meet on foot, a good introduction to his new field.
    While on the subject of ministerial life will say that Mr. Adams will preach here next Sunday, Jan. 1st, 1922, at 7:30 p.m.
    Mr. E. G. High of Ashland, was here in the interest of the aviators, and Roy Lewis came in Saturday evening with a six-horse team from Fish Lake and spent the night at the Sunnyside on his way to Talent. He had been working on the Fish Lake dam all summer and as the work was shut down for the season, was bringing out some of the things. J. D. Patrick, another member of the force who had been working on the Fish Lake dam, a carpenter, also came out and spent Friday night with us.
    Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby and Miss May Toney came out on the Butte Falls stage and went up home to spend their vacations. They are attending the high school in Medford.
    We had an unusually interesting session of our Sunday school Sunday morning, Rev. Adams leading the Bible class and H. E. Campbell the intermediate class. There were twenty-seven in attendance and Rev. Adams preached the Christmas sermon at night. Before he commenced his sermon he presented the cause of the starving children of Armenia, but I did not learn the amount, but from the appearance in the basket would amount to several dollars.
    At the close of the Sunday school the annual election of officers was held and Mr. Carl Esch, who has held the position of superintendent for the past two years, was reelected by acclamation but refused to hold the position any longer and then our Bible class teacher, H. E. Campbell, was elected superintendent and Carl Esch as assistant and Miss Nora Childreth was elected secretary-treasurer in place of Miss Cleo Robinson, deceased. A committee was appointed to draft memorial resolutions to her memory.
    There were only a few people came in Christmas for dinner beside our regular boarders. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Hubbs, the shoe dealer in Medford, and John W. Smith and family of Medford.
    F. A. Whaley, the section boss on the P.&E.R.R., went up to his home in Butte Falls to spend Christmas with his family, and his daughter, Miss Rose, who has been helping in the Sunnyside Hotel also went home to spend Christmas week with her mother and family.
    Miss Frances Greb, who is teaching in the Persist district, and had been out to take the examination, returned to take charge of her school Monday morning.
    The mail carriers are rejoicing to think that the Christmas season is over as they have been simply loaded down with parcel post.
    Loris Martin and Adin Haselton, who have been stopping at the Sunnyside for the past week or two, have rented the Heckathorn house and gone to batching. They will spend their time trapping this winter along the banks of Butte Creek and Antelope Creek.
    J. D. Patrick since he left Fish Lake has been spending a part of his time with us.
    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols has gone up to her old home to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, and her husband is taking his meals at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Mrs. Wm. Smith of Ashland has been here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gus Nichols.
    Harry Pellett, the foreman on the Butte Creek orchard, was a business caller Tuesday morning and so were John Norris, the foreman on the Wilfley orchard, and Guy Conner, at present at Wellen, who also is one of the fruit men of Jackson County, and A. C. Spence of Brownsboro and J. W. Miller of Lake Creek, also Lew Grissom of Lake Creek was here.
    Gus A. Johnson, a traveling hardware man of Sacramento, Cal., was here for dinner Tuesday. F. W. Thuliless of Honey Lake, Cal., was also here.
    Frank Ditsworth and wife passed through here Tuesday on their way to Medford with five cans of cream.
    Mrs. W. E. McDowell of Kansas City, Mo., who is here visiting her brother, O. M. Goss of Butte Falls, passed through here on the stage Tuesday for Medford.
    Roscoe Davis of Klamath Falls, who is visiting his brothers Roy and Chester, was in town Tuesday and he and his brother Chester took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    This Wednesday afternoon E. G. High came in to the Sunnyside Hotel accompanied by Owen W. Reid and Miss Dorothy Tucker of Ashland, and after introducing them informed me that they wanted to be married and in less time than it takes me to write it I pronounced the ceremony making them man and wife, and they immediately started on their way for their home.
    Chris C. Beale, who is carrying the mail for the contractor from Butte Falls to Derby, came out and took dinner here today.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 30, 1921, page 6
  
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