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    Mr. Timmie Dugan, formerly one of our prominent farmers, just west of our town, but now living on the old Thomas McAndrews place on Bear Creek, on the Crater Lake Highway just outside of Medford, was smiling on some of his old friends in our town the first of the week.
    Charles Cook, representing the Connor Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, was here for dinner Monday.
    Roy Spencer and John Burns of Butte Falls were here for dinner Wednesday and Earl Miles of Butte Falls came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Chris Beale, who is working on the Edsall contract on the laterals for the canal being built from Butte Falls to Eagle Point, has been spending a few days with friends in Medford, came out Wednesday and went back to work on the job.
    Ralph and Lloyd Stanley called for supper Wednesday evening.
    John Norris, the superintendent of the Wilfley orchard, was in town Thursday morning on business with our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth.
    Mrs. Alice Ferguson and her two children, who have been stopping at the Sunnyside since last fall, started Thursday for Redding, California, to be with her sister, who lives some twenty miles out from Redding.
    Thursday morning Charley Manning came out from the Manning farm on Rogue River near Peyton and brought his father, Frank Manning, his mother and sister Delcy, and after eating their dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel Charley returned home and Mr. Manning and wife and daughter took passage on the Medford-Butte Falls stage for Medford, intending to take passage on the train for Los Angeles, Calif., to visit a sister of Mr. Manning and other relatives. Frank Manning is one of our well-to-do farmers and stockmen and believes in enjoying life as he goes through it.
    Mr. A. E. Hildreth of Oakland, who passed through here about a week ago on his way to Butte Falls to visit his two brothers, Al and Buel Hildreth, came out Thursday on the stage and took dinner. He reports that they had a special election in Butte Falls Wednesday to elect a set of officers, including mayor, treasurer, recorder and town councilmen, but he only mentioned that his brother, Buel, was elected mayor, a good selection. Mr. A. Magasen also came out at the same time and took dinner. He says that he has a contract for grading a part of the way for the railroad and that they have twelve miles of the way graded beyond Butte Falls but have had to suspend work further on account of snow but intend to move camp back to within four miles of Butte Falls and continue work placing ties and rails, and he expressed the opinion that the work would not stop until they crossed over the divide into the Pelican Bay country.
    Glenn Haley and wife of Gold Hill, and her sister, Mrs. A. G. Florey and baby of Eagle Point, were pleasant visitors at the Sunnyside Thursday afternoon. Glenn is working in Gold Hill and he is taking a little layoff, visiting his parents in Central Point and his wife's sister and old-time friends here.
    Mr. Hansen, the foreman on the J. H. Cowley orchard, and Mr. Ward, the foreman on the H. B. Tronson orchard, were trading here Thursday.
    Mr. H. R. Bush and two of his assistants, Fred and H. A. Smith, who have a contract for clearing the right of way on the canal from Big Butte to Eagle Point, were in town Thursday having their stump puller repaired. They seem to have considerable trouble as that is the second time they have had to bring the same part, the main shaft, to the shop for repairs, but when it comes to pulling up the stool of white oak grubs, each as large as a man's arm to the size of his leg and even larger, it requires a very strong machine. They report that they are getting along nicely with the work and will soon have the ground cleared ready for the heavier machinery to do its part. Although there seems to be a hitch in the movement up at Salem with the state board as they seem to have found a flaw so as to postpone confirming the contracts and have decided to readvertise all of the canal for bids, although Mr. C. H. Natwick has his camp fixed, his hay on the ground and has done some considerable work on his unit of the canal.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday noon were C. H. Natwick, Ralph Cowgill, Fred Pettegrew and a youth by the name of Morton, who came in on the stage from Butte Falls.
    Gordon Childreth and a young man by the name of Mitchell of Medford came in for supper and C. H. Natwick came in and spent the night and Chris Beale came in for dinner.
    The continuous rain since Monday night has been such that your correspondent has been closely confined to the house the most of the time, and the result is that items of general interest are not as plentiful as they might be, and it appears to a close observer that I am not the only one who is kept at home but when I am on the street there seems to be a scarcity of men, women and babies, and another reason for the scarcity of news is that the most of the young men are off at work on the different jobs that are on hand in the way of improvements.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1922, page 3


    Mr. J. Esch of Ashland has been up visiting his son, Carl, who is now the owner of the old John Singleton farm, and the present owner is surely a live wire when it comes to business, for a friend of mine visited him and his wife the first of the week and reports that they are milking nine cows and feeding about seventy hogs, getting them ready for the market, and have also forty-seven young pigs still sucking, beside having a fine flock of hens, and in addition to looking after all these things take time to attend church and Sunday school every Sunday and help very materially support the Sunday school and the expenses of upkeeping the church.
    Mrs. John L. Robinson, Sr., the grandmother of Miss Cleo Emma Robinson, who passed on to her reward December 20, is now caring for her grandchildren at the home of her son.
    "Agate Jack" Goin has finally arranged to have his house he has rented from Mrs. Nickell wired up, Ernest Dahack doing the wiring of the house and shop for him, and now is about ready to begin business the first of the year, 1922. I heard him telling parties who were here for dinner that he had already on hand about four or five hundred pounds of choice agates all ready to work on, and while he is resting he will replenish his stock by spending a few hours each week gathering more agates.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reid and two children made a business trip to Medford recently. Mr. Reid is the man who has had charge of the steam roller on the Crater Lake Highway and is now staying here, sending their children to school.
    Mrs. Thomas Abbott has been spending the Xmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russ Moore, who live just this side of the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    I understand that Benj. Brophy, one of our rustling farmers and stock men, has unexpectedly had to take over eleven more cattle and has bought fifteen tons of hay of Ralph Tucker, Brownsboro, to feed them and has been hauling it to his home this week, the last in the year.
    Miss Viva Bradshaw, who is teaching in Talent, has been spending the holidays with her parents near Brownsboro.
    Speaking about the Christmas holidays reminds me that the Brown families had a family reunion Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. They had a Xmas tree at the home of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and there were twenty-seven of the relatives present and the next day they all took dinner at the home of Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. W. H. Brown reports that they had a very pleasant reunion. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carlton of Wellen, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. John Moffatt, nee Mary Holmes of Medford. As near as I can learn they were all related by blood or marriage.
    The reader will excuse the way I am recording the incidents of the past few weeks, as while I have not been very sick I have been so that I could not make my regular rounds and have had to gather items as I could and jot them down in my little book and the result is I have to give them as I find them, but thank the good Lord, I hope to be able to start in the first of the [year] A.D. 1922 on my regular beat again.
    Mr. Walter Marshall and his sister were here on business Wednesday.
    Mrs. S. H. Harnish, who went over to Medford to spend Xmas with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Corney, has returned to her home again.
    Mr. J. H. Murphy of Medford, who is interested with J. S. Owen in a large tract of timber land in the Big Butte country, was a passenger on the stage for Butte Falls about the middle of the week. He said that he was going up to look over the country to see the damage the windstorm had done and see if he could not save a part of the down timber by having it cut up into wood and sell it to the people of Medford, as quite a lot of it is near the railroad track.
    I see in my last letter, published the 28th, that the printer has made me say, I hope that I will not have to be "angered again by having the ladies wear their large hats on an occasion of that kind," when it should have read annoyed, etc. I know I am too old to be angered by a trifling little thing like that.
    George Hilton, federal bank appraiser, and Ed E. Dunning, a traveling companion, were here for dinner Thursday, and so was Charley Terrill, our efficient and accommodating sheriff.
    J. R. Porter and S. H. Olson of Medford came out Thursday evening and spent the night and the next day went to work on the P.&E. railroad. The new company has three gangs of men on the road now and are pushing the work right along so they can move the steam shovel out to the cuts and repair the damage the elements have done in them.
    Joe Phipps and Nelson Nye of Prospect also stayed here Thursday night.
    Mrs. Martha E. Potter, a sister of Mrs. R. C. Farrier of Lake Creek, who is teaching school near Gold Hill, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Friday on her way to Derby to visit the family of W. E. Webb, where she taught last year, and returned today, Saturday, and went on to her present home. Chris Beale also returned on the stage to take charge of his mail route again, also O. Adams, also a passenger [omission] Falls, but now of Medford, was also a passenger.
    Lucius Kincaid, the newly married man, came out Friday evening on the stage, spent the night here and went back to Medford this Saturday morning on the stage.
    W. F. Hoagland of Central Point came out from his ranch near Brownsboro, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1922, page 3


    P. E. Sandoz went to Medford Monday, Dec. 26, on a business trip.
    Elmer Ivey was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis Christmas, also spending Monday at his grandmother's place, Mrs. F. A. Whitley.
    L. A. Whitley and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis. Andy Pool and wife were also guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis.
    Miss Frances Greb returned from taking examinations at Jacksonville.
    Miss Inez Willits and pupils gave a program at the Elk Creek school house Friday, Dec. 23. Saturday she went to Portland to attend the teachers convention. We will have a two weeks' vacation starting Dec. 26.
    Persist school has started again after a week's vacation.
    Trustys had company Christmas. They were the Childreth family.
    Amos Willits is visiting his mother.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1922, page 5


    The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Pritchett gave them a pleasant surprise Thursday evening. The evening was spent in playing games, music and dancing. A bounteous supper was served at midnight after which they departed for their homes. All enjoyed the evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Peterson and little daughters Mildred and Viola and Miss Frances Greb of Persist were New Year's guests at A. T. Poole's; also attended the dance at Trail New Year's Eve.
    Raleigh Mathews of Eagle Point was in our vicinity Monday buying steers.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Middlebusher returned to Prospect Tuesday after spending the holidays with relatives near Trail.
    Frank Holmes spent part of last week on his ranch above Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. Ash and little daughter Betty spent the holidays with the former's parents at Trail.
    The dance New Year's Eve in Trail Hall was well attended and greatly enjoyed by all, as the "scrappers" stayed away. There will be another Feb. 4th.
    Mrs. Lewis Thomason and Miss Velma Avery of Drew attended the New Year's dance at Trail. Mrs. Thomason carried away the ladies' prize while Howard Ash was the lucky man.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Blaess were pleasant callers at the latter's parents' home, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerlee, Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 6, 1922, page 7


    Last Saturday J. R. Averill of Los Angeles came in for dinner. He had been up in the hills near Butte Falls to visit his brother whom he had not seen for about 20 years, George W. Averill, who has spent the most of his life in the U.S. Navy. He finally settled on a homestead on Round Top, a prominent landmark on the east side of Rogue River Valley, and so his brother J. R. Averill located him and succeeded in finding him, and reports having had a very pleasant visit with him and his family.
    Lester L. Smith and Ray Parker of Butte Falls were also here at the same time for dinner. Mr. Parker was on his way to Forest Grove to resume his studies in the Pacific University. Frank Netherland, also of Butte Falls, and C. H. Natwick of Medford and Mrs. Martha E. Potter, who is now teaching near Gold Hill, and four strangers were here for dinner the same day.
    Jack Kerby, one of our old boarders who was stable boss for Charley Delin while he was grading the right of way for the Crater Lake Highway, came from Brookings where he had been in charge of the Delin horses on his contract on a logging railroad near Crescent City, Calif., came in and engaged board for a month.
    J. H. Murphy, one of the timber men referred to in my last letter, was also here for dinner the same day but I did not ask about the damage done by the windstorm as I did not know that it was him until after he was gone, owing to my poor vision.
    Mrs. Thomas Cingcade went to Medford to pay a visit to some of her friends living there.
    Mrs. Sam Coy also paid a visit to relatives in Ashland the same day.
    Those interested in the irrigation project in this section met in the Brown hall last Saturday but owing to my inability to get the facts will say nothing more on the subject at this time but may later.
    Wm. von der Hellen returned Saturday from a business trip to San Francisco.
    George, Henry and Isaac Childreth, all of Ashland, were here Saturday visiting George and Henry's brother, Wesley L. Childreth, Isaac being a son of Henry. Henry tells me that he is troubled with a growth of a bony nature forming in his nose, and that he went to San Francisco to have it removed and on his way took the erysipelas and had to come home without having it done so has to make another trip in the near future.
    Saturday night there was a grand masked ball, given with the usual prizes, etc., but I have heard but little about it as such little things as that do not seem to act very effectively on the public mind in Eagle Point anymore, although I understand that Ernest Dahack, our barber, took the prize for being the most grotesquely dressed man in the company. I did not learn who took the best prize among the ladies but learned that Mrs. T. F. Nichols and one of the Walch girls each took prizes but was unable to learn who took the first prize. Since writing the foregoing I have found a lady who reports that there was a perfect "mob" there, that they were so thick that they could not dance.
    There was a reunion of the Edsall-Bishop families at the residence of Mrs. Jack O'Conner, nee Cecil Edsall of Phoenix, a sister of the mail contractor of this place, last Sunday, Jan. 1st, 1922. There were 31 present and all were related by blood or marriage except three, and one of them was a brother-in-law to one of the Bishops, Truman McClelland. They had a very fine social time as well as a fine dinner and after dinner the group was taken in different bunches and three of the twelve children were taken in a separate group. They made as fine picture as anyone could wish, the twin boys of Mrs. O'Connor showing in them to good advantage.
    We had a very fine Sunday school Sunday morning. The Bible class was led by our new minister, Rev. H. G. Adams, and he after Sunday school went to Sams Valley and preached. He had a good audience, about 60, to hear him and then preached again at night here, but as it was so disagreeable I did not venture out, but he said that his congregation was not very large, owing perhaps to the weather. He will preach here again next Sunday evening at 7:30. His subject will be "War or Peace." Everybody is invited to come and hear him. He will also preach at Brownsboro at 11 o'clock a.m.
    There was also another shooting match here for chickens, and so far as I know everything passed pleasantly.
    There were only a few people came into the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday, but Raymond Reter and family, Mr. Chauncey Florey, our county clerk, and C. L. Cofer of Sacramento, Calif.
    E. A. Hildreth, Jr., and his brother Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls came in a little later for dinner and went on to Medford. Hildreth was on his way to Cottage Grove to be at the bedside of his father who was reported as being very sick, and Buel returned to the Sunnyside to await word from his brother as to his father's condition, and the next day the message came that he was improving and Buel went on up to Butte Falls.
    Lucius Kincaid and wife came out Monday morning and in the afternoon Mrs. Kincaid went up to Dupray's mill to resume her duties in the Crater Lake school. There were four other teachers and a teacher's wife went up to Butte Falls at the same time on the George Albert motor on the P.&E. railroad.
    Miss Hay, who is teaching in the Brophy school district, was a passenger on the stage on her way to her school Monday.
    Mrs. John Allen of Derby was here for dinner Monday and so was Geo. M. Lane and James Hansen of Medford. They were here posting bills for the Foster & Kleiser, successors to Klum & Co.
    O. W. Depasent of the Medford post office force was also here for dinner. He was simply taking a little joyride over the mail route from Medford to Derby over our beautiful muddy roads with the mail contractor.
    Mrs. Geo. W. Averill of Round Top also came in for lunch and went on out to Medford.
    Millard Robinson and Buster Mathews came in for late dinner.
    Lewis Robinson and family have moved into the house with his brother, John L. Robinson, Jr., to help to care for the two children he has left on his hands.
    Fred McPherson, Mrs. Fred Dutton, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Haskins and wife and her sister, Miss Velma Hannah of Trail, were in town Tuesday. Miss Hannah took passage on the stage for Butte Falls, where she is attending the high school.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1922, page 2


    J. F. Downes of Butte Falls, who has a homestead on Four-Bit Creek, came out on the stage Tuesday afternoon, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on in the stage that same afternoon. He says that he has a fine body of yellow pine timber on his claim and that the extension of the P.&E. railroad will run very close to his home; in fact there is as fine a body of sugar pine, yellow pine and fir in that section of the county as can be found anywhere.
    Mrs. S. Albright, formerly of Trail but now of Medford, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday on her way up to her old home near Trail, and Ezra Whitley and Frank Netherland of Butte Falls, and Marshall Minter of Eagle Point and Inez Willits of Persist were also passengers on the same stage on their way to their homes or places of business. Miss Inez Willits was just returning from Portland, where she had been to attend the teachers' state convention and reports having had a very interesting and profitable association.
    Messrs. Carey, Faber and Robert Edmondson and wife of Butte Falls were among the callers Wednesday for dinner on their way to Medford.
    J. W. Johnson of Medford, who is the representative of the Kirtland farm situated on Bear Creek between Central Point and Gold Hill, came in Wednesday evening on the stage and spent the night and Thursday hired a car and chauffeur and canvassed the country above here on Little Butte Creek. His object was to dispose of a fine imported Percheron stallion that they have used on the farm as long as advisable. He spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside Hotel and reported that he thought that the prospect was good for disposing of him.
    We have had a little excitement in our little town. Deputy Sheriff I. B. Millard of Medford came out Thursday afternoon and arrested Mark Winkle, a young man who has been raised in this vicinity, and took him to Jacksonville, but came out later in charge of the same deputy to try to secure bondsmen for five hundred dollars but failed and returned again Thursday and to last accounts failed in his efforts to secure the necessary bondsmen. I see in the Medford Mail Tribune that he is listed as Jack Winkle. There seems to be more than one charge against him, for issuing a check for money when he had no money in the bank and forging a check with Jack Mayham's name. The deputy sheriff turned him over while here to our town marshal while he was here trying to secure bondsmen and Mr. Millard and Mr. C. W. Sarrett, who was with him, and Mark's wife and sister Ethyl were here for dinner.
    Mrs. G. W. Averill, who lives with her husband on their homestead, came out on the Butte Falls stage Thursday and went on up home. She says that after staying up there awhile she gets lonesome and then comes out and visits Medford but soon gets tired of city life and longs for her good mountain home.
    Eli Dahack and son Everett came in Thursday morning from Seattle, Wash.
    The Ladies' Civic Improvement Club met at Mrs. J. F. Brown's Thursday instead of Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen's on account of the sickness of her daughter Miss Joyce who has been confined to her bed for the past week or so, but I am glad to be able to state that she is recovering, and hopes are entertained that she will soon resume her place in her classes in the high school in Medford again.
    Ray Harnish and family have been spreading a few days visiting Wm. Holman and family. Mrs. Holman is a sister of Mrs. Ray Harnish and are now living on the Gus Nichols ranch on Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office.
    Robert Harnish and family of Phoenix have been visiting his father, S. H. Harnish of this place.
    A. C. Spencer of Brownsboro was transacting business with our merchants Thursday.
    Foster and Kleiser, the successors to Klum & Co., of Medford, have had a force of five men out here putting up bulletin boards in different parts of our town, and the prospect is that they will do quite an extensive business in that line as they claim that they have all kinds of advertising on their lists. All five of them were here for dinner Thursday.
    Brennan Welcher was here for dinner Thursday. He is a representative of Gates Auto Co., Medford
    O. Adams, formerly of Butte Falls, but now of Medford, came out from Butte Falls on the stage Friday, took dinner here and went on to Medford.
    J. M. Hurley, O. A. Manning and Mark Perry, all of Medford, were here for dinner Thursday. They are the land appraisers for the Federal Farm Loan Association and were on their way out in the country to look at a farm. They report that they are doing considerable business in that line.
    William Holman of Lake Creek came in Friday morning to have his saddle horse shod.
    T. T. Taylor and wife, who are looking after the interests of Marsh Garrett on his Lake Creek ranch, came in Saturday and they took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    The railroad company have had to lay off their force of men who have been relaying line on account of the scarcity of time, although they expect to resume operations again Monday. Mr. Whaley, the section boss, went up to his home in Butte Falls Thursday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 9, 1922, page 3


    BROWNSBORO, Jan. 12.--(Special) Friday evening at 7:30 at the Brownsboro school house the county school superintendent, with a speaker from Douglas County, will talk to the taxpayers and patrons of this and surrounding schools on "Consolidation."
    There are four districts around here keeping up small schools and a number of the voters have been considering consolidation for several years.
    These school people will talk on the cost, the saving of money and energy, and the efficiency of the proposition. The consolidated schools are proving a success all over the state, and everyone is invited and urged to come and hear the talks.
    Rev. Adams of the Congregational Church held services here Sunday. One of the largest crowds that has ever been to Sunday school attended. There were a good many men present. They decided to have choir practice every Friday night. Will those interested in it come out next Friday night? They will have choir practice here next Friday night, and while here they will decide where next to have it.
    We have been having hot lunches at school since cold weather set in. The school board are going to help us out. They are going to buy the material which we need.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Myers of Lake Creek made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Mrs. R. E. Tucker, who has been in Medford for medical treatment, returned Saturday.
    Mr. L. D. Tucker, who has been running the East Side meat market in Medford, has closed it up and returned to his home in Brownsboro.
    Miss Kubli went to Medford Friday and returned Saturday.
    Henry Myers is in Medford taking medical treatment.
    Mr. and Mrs. Orin Maxfield of Ashland have decided to stay with his brother, Joe Maxfield, for the rest of the winter.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1922, page 5




    Saturday evening Mrs. Joseph Geppert of Butte Falls came in answer to a telephone call from Medford and took supper and went to Medford in order to be at the bedside of her little grandson, who was reported to be very sick at the time.
    Fred Thomsen also called and took supper.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Conley of Butte Falls came out on the Sunday morning stage from Medford, where Mrs. Conley had been and underwent an operation at the Dow hospital. She was on her way home making short drives, remaining here until Monday morning when she went on the auto stage as far as the John Allen place where she remained overnight and her husband went on up home for a team and sleigh to take her the rest of the way.
    Mr. Conley reports that he had sold his sawmill back to Mr. Haak and with the deal also sold 8,500,000 feet of standing timber. That when he bought the mill from Mr. Haak he simply bought it to secure the Clark Creek water right, that Mr. Haak has moved the mill onto the tract of timber he sold to him and is getting ready to cut timber in earnest.
    Rev. H. G. Adams started up to Brownsboro on foot Sunday morning to preach for the people up there but was picked up and taken on to his destination and after attending Sunday school preached to an attentive congregation of about 30 people, retuning in the afternoon in about the same way, walking and riding reached his room in time for supper and then preached here at 7:30 p.m. to a fair-sized congregation. He will be at Butte Falls next Sunday with Rev. C. C. Hulett and they expect to hold services there all of the following week.
    Sunday evening Geo. Lewis, Louis Marton and Adin Haselton came in for supper.
    J. H. Cooley, one of the big lumber dealers of Medford, came out and took dinner on his way up to his ranch and orchard.
    There have been and are being made several important business changes in our little town. The first of note is the transfer of the old G. W. Grover place that has changed hands several times since it went out of his hands and now Mr. Muskopf, the last owner, has disposed of it to one of the Medford attorneys, Mr. Newman, and Mr. Muskopf after selling out his farm located a house belonging to a Mr. McQuoid of Oakland and on preparing to move into it was notified by the agent here, Mr. Wm. Perry, that the property had been sold to Fred Thomsen and that he would have to hunt another home, so his next move was to interview Mr. Sheibley, our school janitor, and succeeded in renting his house, where he is living, and he intends to move into the house with James Jordan, and by having two old widowers live together succeeded in arranging business so as to keep all parties here in our town.
    The next move of interest is a deal whereby Wm. von der Hellen has sold his hardware and drug store to our other hardware man, Roy Ashpole and Thomas F. Nichols, and they will consolidate the two stocks of goods and carry on the business in the old von der Hellen building as that went with the goods and fixtures. Mr. von der Hellen has not given out for publication his plans for the future.
    Last week the train on the P.&E. railroad had considerable trouble trying to haul ties over the road to repair the weakest places on the road and the result was that the section boss, Mr. Whaley, discontinued operations on the road on Thursday afternoon with the understanding that they would resume work again Monday, and some of the men who have homes in Medford went home and returned Monday morning to be informed that there was a serious shortage of ties and that they had had trouble in getting them down from Butte Falls and that they would have to lay off until Tuesday, so Tuesday morning came and the section boss informed them that he could not get ties enough to keep them all, sixteen, at work so laid off seven of them and started to work again. The trouble seems to be that the company cannot get men to get the ties out, hew them out of small trees so as to make them 7 x 9 in. by 8 feet. Another thing that is working against the company is that there is a kind of epidemic going through the country and several of the men who have been making ties have been on the sick list and had to lay off on that account, but we live in hopes that when the weather changes and the sunshine comes back that we will all improve in health, in feelings, and that the work will progress right along.
    George W. Averill of Round Top, Butte Falls post office, came in Monday night on his way to Medford and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Theodore Florey, a brother of our townsman, A. J. Florey, was a business caller the first of the week.
    Mrs. M. E. Richardson, Everett Abbott and Harry Heryford were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning on their way to their homes in Butte Falls and vicinity.
    Mr. Phipps, who owns a farm and orchard four or five miles north of Medford and is engaged in the sheep business to a limited extent, was here to the Muskopf ranch to recover a few head of sheep he lost on the road and had been cared for by Mr. Muskopf.
    Chas. Browne, representing Leslie-Judge Co., New York, was here for dinner Tuesday.
    Born to the wife of J. D. Arnes, foreman on the Edsall orchard, Jan. 11, a fine baby boy.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1922, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDonald of the Elk Resort on Rogue River, who had been looking after business interests in Medford, came on the Butte Falls stage last Wednesday and went up home on the Persist stage. Mrs. McDonald reports that they have had a very good run of business during the summer and fall and are anticipating another prosperous season as there will likely be more work done on the unit of the Crater Lake Highway between Trail and Prospect.
    Hern Thornton was also a passenger on the same stage at the same time,; he going on up to his home in Persist. He had been down to Ashland to visit his folks. He reports that the senior Thornton, a near relative, is in very critical condition as he is quite aged, over ninety years of age.
    T. Taylor, who is on the Marsh Garrett farm on Lake Creek, went up on the Lake Creek stage Wednesday, and his wife, who has been visiting relatives in the valley, went out Friday morning.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt, formerly of this place but now of Medford, called for dinner Wednesday noon. He reports that he has still considerable business in Butte Falls, one of his old fields of operation. The doctor is quite popular here although as a rule it is so distressingly healthy right around Eagle Point, looking at it from a professional man's viewpoint, that he thought he would do more business in Medford and vicinity than here so moved to Medford some time ago.
    L. B. Talken, a hardware salesman of Grants Pass, Wm. von der Hellen and his wife's brother, Theodore Florey of Jacksonville, were here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mrs. H. E. McNichol, the woman who lost her husband last fall, was around Wednesday afternoon bidding her old neighbors farewell as she has left us and gone to California, intending to stop off and visit friends and relatives along the route to Los Angeles.
    Wm. Lewis, son of our confectionery man and the Eagle Point-Medford jitney driver, who went to visit his sister, Mrs. Dr. Arbell of San Jose, California, about a month ago, has returned to the parental roof and reports that times are fairly good down there but living is high, but speaks in high terms of that locality.
    Nick Young, another one of our progressive and well-to-do young men, who has been visiting different parts of California to see more of the world has returned home to his farm. I have not seen him since his return so can say but little on the subject, although suppose that he is like almost everyone who has [been] living here in the "Italy of the Pacific Coast" for a year or more, when they go away almost always return.
    Business has quieted down again, the two stocks of hardware have been invoiced and Ashpole and Nichols (I don't know if that is the way the firm will be known) are now doing business in the old von der Hellen hardware store, and Mr. Muskopf has moved into the Sheibley house and Mr. Sheibley has moved into the house with Mr. James Jordan, and all are happy and contented to all outward appearances.
    Clarence Robinett, a son of Mrs. W. L. Childreth and son-in-law of Wm. Perry, is here visiting relatives.
    J. W. Johnson, representative of the Kirtland farm of Medford, was here Thursday on his way up beyond Brownsboro. He seems to be quite sanguine that he will make the deal so as to have another fine stallion in that section of the country. He came in Friday and spent the night.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby and Mrs. Carson of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage Thursday and after taking dinner at the Sunnyside went on to Medford on the same stage.
    Edward Frey of Lake Creek came in from Medford on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning and went on up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mr. Cox, the superintendent of the work on the P.&E.R.R., and Mr. Burman, the general manager of the entire work under the supervision of Mr. Olds, the head of the whole concern, were also here for dinner Thursday and also a man and woman who were selling cigarettes, tobacco, etc.
    J. Jordahl, a traveling salesman for the Independent Cracker Co., Portland, was here for dinner Friday. He seemed to be soliciting for cookies exclusively, and in conversation on the subject I remarked that there must be a very large profit made on cookies to justify the expense of employing a man to travel over the country and in addition to his wages or commission his traveling expenses and other incidentals such as cigars, cigarettes, etc., but he claimed that the sale was so extensive as to justify the expense. It seems to be a fact that our modern housewives have drifted into the habit of buying not only cookies but everything else in the eatable line already prepared, and still cry hard times and high cost of living. It is not an uncommon thing here in our little town to see from three to five traveling salesmen in a day soliciting for the sale of all the necessities of life.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 16, 1922, page 3


    Last Friday forenoon Miss Alwell Randall, Miss Ella Pettyman and Miss Anna Ray Conley, three of the Butte Falls teachers, called for dinner on their way to Rogue River to witness a game of basketball between the Butte Falls team and the Rogue River teams, and on Monday forenoon there were four young men came in, Prof. Ward Lawrence O'Brien, Ernest Abbott and Harold Patton, members of the Butte Falls high school, and remained until about noon and then went to the railroad track to meet Mr. George Albert, who is running an accommodation train for the benefit of people who wish to travel in that way. He has a small motor car that he uses in that way and the people of Butte Falls and vicinity find it a very great convenience. They report that the Butte Falls team carried off the honors of five of the games out of seven, and in addition to other pleasures connected with the trip they had a very social time while in Rogue River.
    It seems as though S. H. Harnish, one of our neighbors, has his share of troubles, for just a very short time ago I had to record the loss of a dwelling house by fire. He had it rented to two young men and he supposed that they were living in it, and no insurance, but he has not heard of or seen either of them since. And then last week he got up a cow to furnish milk for the family and tied her up by the neck, leaving the calf beside her with a partition between them, and in the morning when he went out to milk [and] found her tumbled over with her neck broken.
    In looking around for items of interest to write up for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I met Ray and Robert Harnish, just going over to their father's to move two mammoth Chester White hogs, taking them to better pasture. They are surely fine specimens of hogs, but the most attractive part of the outfit was the nine little rustling white pigs that Mr. Harnish had just weaned. I should judge that they would weigh about 25 or 30 pounds each and were as round as a barrel, but not so large. I am glad to see that the farmers are waking up to the necessity of raising a better breed of stock of all kinds, for a few years ago if a man wanted a hog to fatten he would buy one a year old or such a matter and have to feed it for weeks or perhaps months before it would be ready for the block, whereas one can take one of almost any of the improved stock, the Chester White, Duroc Red, Poland China and after feeding it properly for a week or so can make it take on from two to three pounds of flesh a day. I know of one instance when the late John W. Smith, who lived on Big Sticky on the edge of the desert on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road, took a small Duroc Jersey pig and made it gain at first ¾ to a pound a day and then two pounds and later three pounds a day until he got to be as large as he wanted him to be, weighing him every day. With a little care and attention one can improve their stock, I care not what kind or breed it is, and by crossing and breeding up can soon get rid of the old razorback breed of hogs, or the old degenerate stock of cattle and bring out a breed of beef or dairy stock.
    Thomas Vestal and wife of Reese Creek were transacting business with our merchants Saturday, and so was Fred Arnes and W. C. Pool.
    J. W. Johnson of Medford, the business manager of the Kirtland farm, came in and spent Monday and Tuesday at the Sunnyside. He seems to be on a deal with parties above here on Little Butte Creek to introduce a fine Percheron stallion in that section of the country. He went back to Medford this Wednesday afternoon.
    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols went to Medford Saturday and her husband took his supper at the Sunnyside and so did Adin Haselton.
    I understand that the dance was not very well attended and there was evidence that there was some moonshine around, as it became necessary for our town marshal to use his billy on one man who became too boisterous. This is the second time the same man has had trouble at a dance at Trail and been knocked on the head for his conduct. He may learn to behave himself properly after a while. Ladies who wish to take part and enjoy a social dance don't want to be harangued by a half-crazy drunken nuisance. There were a few dancers came to the Sunnyside to spend the latter part of the night, and among them was Mr. Hayman, formerly on the J. H. Cooley orchard but now of Phoenix, and Hurst Charley and Miss Nora Pankey of Medford.
    G. E. Merrill of Derby also spent the night, went to Medford, returning Tuesday night, and left here on the Butte Falls stage for his home. He is doing some trapping up in his neighborhood and meeting with some success.
    The railroad men are having some trouble in repairing the road, as when they ran over it a short time ago with their small locomotive they found the old ties were so rotten that the rails gave way, with the result that when they were coming out with two or three small flat cars behind a Ford loaded with ties the rails gave way the second time and the result was they had to leave the ties and one of the flat cars and go to the repair shop, but they put on some more cars and are pushing the work right along and hope to be able to secure ties soon so that they can put on a full force.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 20, 1922, page 10


    Eugene Howell, superintendent of Rogue River Fisheries, and his wife entertained at a sumptuous dinner Friday evening. Guest were Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Todd, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald, and Miss Gladys McDonald. The occasion was most enjoyable.
    Last Saturday being the birthday of our neighbor, Geo. Weeks, a surprise was tendered him in the evening. A goodly crowd of friends gathered in, and games played, and dancing occupied the evening. Generous refreshments were served and when the guests departed all expressed themselves as having a splendid time.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDonald of the Rogue Elk Resort entertained some friends and neighbors Monday evening around the big fireplace. There was music and games and fun galore. At a late hour ice cream, cake and coffee was served.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald, who was ill with pneumonia, is recovering nicely.
    Mrs. L. N. Phillips left Monday for a visit with her son and daughter at Eugene.
    J. E. McDonald visited Medford this week on business.
    We learn with sincere regret of the illness of Ralph Dunlop and hope he will recover soon and come back again.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 21, 1922, page 3


    There seems to be a general lull in business here from what I can learn from persons who come and go, as that seems to be about the only way I have to gather items for the readers of the Mail Tribune, as I have been confined to the house and yard now for over a week and have been unable to go out on my regular beat for considerably longer than that and consequently find it hard to get up a readable article but am living in hopes of being able to go around again in a few days.
    Last Tuesday afternoon Lee Farlow, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Jacksonville, came out on the Butte Falls stage from Butte Falls and took dinner here and went on home on the same stage. The same day Misses F. Perry, J. Hurley and O. A. Manning, representatives of the Federal Farm Association, were here for dinner on their way up to the Lake Creek country to set a valuation on land in that section. They report that they are doing considerable business in that line. I know of several farmers who are taking advantage of the opportunity to secure money at a low rate of interest on long-time loans and have it arranged so that they can pay the interest and a part of the principal at the same time and the first thing they know they have the debt paid and hardly know how it was done.
    William P. LaRito of Trail and G. E. Merrill of Derby came in and spent the night. Mr. LaRito has taken up a homestead on the headwaters of Elk Creek and had come out to the valley to try to get work. The section boss, Mr. Whaley, who boards here said that he could not use any more men at present, so he started up to where the Fish Lake Ditch Co. are enlarging their canal to try to find a job, and Mr. Merrill went on up home.
    Henry Trusty, one of our prosperous and progressive young men at Elk Creek (Trail), was a pleasant caller for dinner Thursday. He had come out on a business venture and returned home the same day.
    Miss Falldine, the county public health nurse, called for dinner the same day on her way from Butte Falls where she had been on official business.
    D. Brown of Chiloquin, Klamath County, and H. S. Pond, salesman for the Remington Typewriter Co., were also here the same day for dinner.
    Frank Ditsworth and Uriah Vaughn of Peyton called for dinner the same day. Mr. Ditsworth heard of one of his cattle being at Ed Dutton's so came out with his truck to take him home, a very handy way to move a cow instead of taking two days and two men and a dog and tiring the animal out on a long journey.
    Mrs. Carl Jackson, who had been spending a few days in Medford, came out Thursday evening on the Eagle Point stage and spent the night at the Sunnyside and the next morning went on up home at 9:30 on the same stage.
    J. W. Johnson, the manager of the Kirtland farm, has been here for the past few days and employed Sherman Wooley to handle and care for the stallion referred to in a former article and has brought the horse out here as there seem to be quite a number of men around here who wished to see him but did not feel justified in riding four miles below Central Point to look at him.
    C. H. Natwick, one of the leading contractors, especially on road, ditch or railroad work, was here and spent Friday night with us.
    Rev. H. G. Adams, the minister who has charge of this field, spent last Sunday till Tuesday at Butte Falls. He was to have been met here by Rev. Chas. C. Hulett but when he reached there found that he was somewhere else so had to conduct the meeting without him but reports that he had very good congregations and also good attention. He started from there on Thursday afternoon, visiting on his way, and reached his room Friday evening.
    Miss Burr, one of the school supervisors (if there is more than one), called for a few minutes Saturday and reported that they had had a very interesting and enthusiastic meeting of several of the school districts at Brownsboro Friday night at which Miss Holmes, our county school superintendent, was present and discussed the question of consolidation of the Little Butte, Wellen, Antelope and Brownsboro schools and have the children transferred from their homes, an expensive luxury, to the central school, but no decision was reached.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 23, 1922, page 3


    Miss Holmes and Miss Burr talked to quite a representative crowd of voters from the three districts, Brownsboro, Antelope and Butte Creek, Districts 39, 12, and 65 respectively, recently. The two speakers had actual figures to illustrate to the crowd that by the three districts consolidating schools they could build a new two-room school house, pay two teachers and convey the teachers from and to school and this could all be done by only a levy of a six-mill tax, while all of the districts but 12 are paying more than that now. This was planning on a nine-month school and at present districts No. 65 and 12 only have eight months' school.
    In Miss Holmes' figures she did not count one hundred dollars interest that Brownsboro has coming in every year.
    At Sunday school Sunday they decided to have choir practice every Sunday after services.
    Mrs. Stalkford came to Brownsboro Monday after her son Carl, who has been staying with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry.
    Mrs. Ella Maxfield went to her sister's home at Eagle Point Sunday. Her sister, Mrs. Lillian Cingcade, is going to the Sacred Heart Hospital at Medford to have a serious operation and Mrs. Maxfield is going to stay there until her sister returns.
    Mr. Walch is dehorning his cattle this week.
    Mr. Adams of the Congregational church held services after Sunday school Sunday.
    William Staub made a business trip to Medford Friday.
    Miss Olga Bieberstedt went to Medford Saturday.
    Carl Stanley has returned from the mountains, where he has been riding for cattle.
    Tom Stanley was a visitor at Carl Stanley's home Thursday.
    Maggie McDonald, who has been ill, is getting along nicely.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1922, page 7


    Richard Muskopf made a business trip last Saturday to Medford.
    J. W. Anderson and family called Saturday morning in quest of a jitney to take them to Medford. They had been up on Little Butte Creek visiting his brother.
    Miss Elizabeth Burr, school supervisor, was also here at the same time and went on up to Butte Falls as near as I could learn.
    E. R. Tedrick, I understand, has moved onto the farm recently occupied by Richard Muskopf in the lower end of our town.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Caveally, representatives of R. J. Reynolds Co., Eugene, were here for dinner Saturday.
    Mr. Pickett, meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Co., was here for dinner Saturday and while here told us of the proposed plan of the company to put in another power plant on Rogue River, some five miles below the one near Prospect, then they will extend the electric line to Eugene of 110,000 volts. The plant will be located at the Hole in the Ground just after leaving the Flounce Rock grade, where they will have a perpendicular drop of 1000 feet. They expect to take the water from the reservoir at the Prospect plant and bring it down in an eight-foot iron or steel pipe, having a tremendous fall from the reservoir to the Hole in the Ground and there with a drop of a thousand feet to the river one can hardly imagine the amount of force or power they can control. There is also another thought connected with the undertaking and that is the amount of labor that will be necessary to accomplish the job and how it will help the men who are now looking for employment.
    Roy Ashpole, of the Eagle Point Hardware Co., was also here at the same time for dinner and reports that his wife is in Medford caring for their little son Donald, who at that time was quite sick with pneumonia but is at this writing improving very materially. Roy is taking his dinners here regularly.
    Wm. T. La Rita, Wm. von der Hellen and son Boyd and Mr. Rynning, formerly chief civil engineer on the Crater Lake Highway but now of Medford, were here Saturday night for supper and so was George Holmes, our garage man, and his brother-in-law, Thomas Riley of Wellen, and Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, who is teaching school in the Crater Lake school district. After supper she went on out to Medford, returning the same night, and the next day went back to her school.
    Sunday morning was one of those lovely, cool, crisp mornings such as we so often have here in January and February, here in Southern Oregon, such as makes one thankful that their lot has fallen in such a desirable place.
    There was nothing remarkable going on. Rev. H. G. Adams had an appointment to preach in Brownsboro and started out on foot thinking that perhaps he would meet with a chance to ride, but no such luck, so he kept on walking until he reached the school house and after preaching to a small congregation--he said that they had had a dance the night before, and a school meeting the one before that so there were not many out--so after partaking of dinner with some of his friends started on the return trip with the same result, walked all the way, and had a real taste of what some of us older ministers used to undergo in our mountain charges, but he came through all OK and went to the church and fired up, just as we used to do in bygone days, and when time came for preaching found that he had to be organist, chorister, leader and preacher but he will get used to our way soon. He will preach in Butte Falls next Sunday, Jan. 29, morning and evening.
    Among those who called Sunday for dinner and for other reasons were J. D. Patrick, one of the carpenters who is in the employ of the Fish Lake Ditch Co., Planey F. Leabo, Thomas Lewis, Thomas F. Nichols, wife and half-sister, Miss Myrtle Smith, J. W. Smith, who lives on the old J. W. Smith farm on Big Sticky, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hinman and daughter June Hinman, and Mrs. L. B. Rawley of Medford, the four last named coming for supper and an evening's visit with the hostess and family. Also Wm. von der Hellen, son Boyd and Mr. Rynning.
    Gus Ditsworth and two of the Vaughn men, Roy and Uriah, were here for dinner Monday. They came out from their Flounce Rock homes with a truck to take some cattle home.
    Mrs. C. H. Natwick was also here for dinner and informed me that her husband had secured a contract to do a lot of grading on the new railroad from Butte Falls to the Four-bit country and expects to put his teams and men at work right away.
    We have lost one of our pleasant and entertaining boarders, Mr. Whaley, the section boss on the railroad. He has been transferred to Butte Falls, his home, to take charge of another gang of men, but his place has been filled by another man, J. A. Durnfew of Central Point, who has taken charge of the men in this section.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1922, page 10


    George F. Fendall, formerly of Hilt, Calif., but now of Butte Falls, came in on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday afternoon on his way to Medford to meet his son-in-law, Buel Hildreth and wife, who were coming from Cottage Grove with the body of his father, E. A. Hildreth, who passed away at his home there, Jan. 23, 1922, aged 80 years and a half. He was with two of his sons, A. E., Jr., and Buel and wife who went from their homes in Butte Falls to care for him. He leaves a wife and the two sons referred to above and his oldest son Delbert of Oakland, Calif., and a number of friends in Ashland, Central Point and Butte Falls, where he made his home for some time. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon in the Central Point cemetery.
    Friday morning word came to me over the phone that Mrs. Mary Severance had passed away in Merrill, Calif. [sic] at the home of her son, Alfred Stricklin, aged 95 years. Mrs. Severance was for a number of years a citizen of our town and after selling their property here to James Jordan, who is still living here, she and her husband moved to Central Point, and after the death of her husband, H. T. Severance, she was taken care of by her son until death came at the ripe old age of 95. She had quite a number of very warm friends here and at Central Point who esteemed her very highly on account of her Christian virtues.
    Last Tuesday in addition to Mr. Fendale being here for dinner we had Frank Netherland and Mrs. M. E. Richardson of Butte Falls, and her daughter, Gladys, who was afflicted with an abscess on the underpart of her knee and that seemed to be caused by a simple chafed place on her heel. Mrs. Richardson and daughter remained here overnight as the stage was so full that the driver refused to take not only them but another lady who wanted to go to town the same afternoon, but Mrs. Richardson went Wednesday morning on the 7:30 stage.
    Sam H. Oeser, one of the men who is boarding here and working on the section gang, took a layoff Wednesday and made a business trip to Medford, and Friday the whole gang was laid off in the morning on account of the snow as it made it so very disagreeable removing old rotten ties and replacing them with new ones, so he made a business trip up to Lake Creek that day.
    Rev. H. G. Adams went to Medford to attend the Sunday school convention last Tuesday.
    J. W. Johnson, who is here in the interest of the Kirtland farm and seems to be attracting considerable attention among the horsemen, is not the manager of the Kirtland farm as announced in a former article, but a salesman for the blooded horses on the farm.
    Frank Rhodes, who has a contract to do some grading on the road from Grants Pass to the Oregon Caves, moved a lot of his machinery up there about the middle of the week to go to work.
    Benj. Whetstone, who worked all summer and fall for Charley Delin, has come in to visit his father-in-law, Joe Riley and family.
    George Turnbow of Central Point, a son of the present section foreman, came out Thursday and joined the force of railroad men and also took board and lodging at the Sunnyside.
    O. C. Eblen came in Thursday evening some time after dark with a bunch of work horses on his way to Butte Falls to work on the extension of the P.&E. railroad and when he reached our town he met midnight darkness with the exception of what light our street lamps afforded, and in addition to that we were having a driving snow storm and about the first thing he did was to inquire where he could get hay and stable room for his horses and he phoned to the Sunnyside about hay, etc., and was informed that we don't feed horses, but finally he found hay and stable room with W. P. Morgan and then came to the Sunnyside for supper and bed. It seems that there is no one here in our town to accommodate the travel in that line and persons coming here to stay overnight or who wish to feed their horses at noon, to be on the safe side better bring their feed with them. It appears that Mr. Eblen has a contract to do a lot of work for the P.&E.R.R. Co., in the way of getting out and delivering ties along the old track and the new right of way, as well as clearing the right of way of the saw logs along the track.
    Thursday afternoon after the funeral of Mr. E. A. Hildreth, Sr., his son Buel, wife and her father, Mr. Fendale and the widow of the late E. A. Hildreth came in to spend the night on their way home to Butte Falls.
    Frank Manning and Percy Boothby of Flounce Rock came up from Ashland where they had been to visit Percy's parents, A. H. Boothby and wife and were on their way up home but stopped here for dinner Friday.
    F. S. Brandon of the Snowy Butte mills, Central Point, was also here for dinner the same day. He and his brother George own the old original Snowy Butte mills here and came over to look after their property. He intends to move back and operate the mill here as soon as the P.&E.R.R. is opened up for business again. The only reason for their shutting down was the P.&E. suspending business so that they could not bring wheat in or ship the flour out.
    John Allen of Derby came out Friday to look after some of his cattle but turned aside long enough to take a look at the fine black Percheron stallion that Mr. Johnson has here for sale and seemed to be very favorably impressed with his appearance. Mr. Allen is a horseman and knows a good thing when he sees it.
    C. H. Natwick, the railroad contractor who has a contract to do some grading on the Butte Falls extension of the P.&E., took his tools, etc. up on the P.&E.R.R. Friday and expects to start in on his contract the first of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 30, 1922, page 2


    "The state highway commission is committed without reservation to the completion of the Crater Lake Highway between Trail and Prospect, every foot of it, with a standard grade and rock macadam surface," reported Ben C. Sheldon upon his return from Portland yesterday. This piece of construction will be a "cooperative contract" between the state and the Forest Service.
    There are several circumstances at both ends of the matter--the state and the federal government--that have made it difficult to work this project out satisfactorily. The state highway commission is near the end of its present authorized finances. Next year's work will practically scrape the bottom of the pot. And we all feel that the time has about come for a letup in expenditures and to keep taxes at the lowest possible point until conditions in the state have undergone a radical improvement. The members of the commission agree to this.
    But with the bottom of the pot in sight, there comes an immense pressure from every section of the state for a little more work in that locality. The commission has ten demands for every dollar at its command. But they have promised that our Crater Lake road will be among those to be finished.
    On the forestry department's end of the question, there is a very sharp, determined controversy at Washington over the question of a policy for the department respecting the expenditure of the forestry road funds. One faction wants the bulk of these funds spent within the forests, having in mind the protection of the timber from fires. The other faction says that the policy should recognize the fact that these immense federal forest areas pay no taxes and that the forest road funds should go on state roads leading into the forests, somewhat in the nature of a compensation for the lack of taxes on the forest lands. While this controversy is running, Mr. Cecil and his superiors are unable to say just how far they can go toward cooperating in these projects.
    However, the agreement worked out is as follows: There will be a contract or contracts let this spring for all the grading of the road between Trail and Prospect, covering the expenditure of a bit more than $300,000. That work will be done during the coming summer. They have agreed to require of the contractors such a handling of the work as will interrupt the travel, especially during the Crater Lake season, to the smallest extent possible. The matter of the federal cooperation for the rocking of the road is left up in the air temporarily, but the highway commission has obligated itself to see that the work is done.
    Both the highway commission and the forestry bureau evidence a disposition to go as far as they possibly can to help us with this road, and I feel certain the road will be completed promptly and in fine shape.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 30, 1922, page 6


    Frank E. Trefren of Butte Falls died this morning at nine o'clock as a result of injuries received yesterday afternoon when he was struck by a falling limb while working in the timber near Butte Falls.
    The injury occurred about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and after being hurt Trefren was conscious for more than an hour and was able to converse with friends. He then lapsed into unconsciousness and a doctor was called from Medford to attend him. Trefren was brought to this city via the Pacific and Eastern railroad and arrived about 10 o'clock last night accompanied by several friends and a brother, George Trefren of Butte Falls. He was immediately rushed to the Sacred Heart Hospital where it was discovered that he had suffered a very serious fracture of the skull, extending from the top of his head to the base of the skull in front of and beneath his eye.
    An operation was performed in an effort to save his life but due to the seriousness of the injury practically no hope of his recovery was entertained. He died without regaining consciousness.
    The body is in charge of Weeks and Conger of this city. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1922, page 1


    The school board had a meeting at the school house Thursday.
    Claus Charley spent the weekend in Medford.
    Lou Walch was a visitor at the Tucker home Sunday. While there he purchased a horse.
    Mrs. Lewis Rohrer of Lake Creek spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Sr. While here she visited the school and led us in singing.
    Raymond Hoagland fell on a rock and cut his leg at school Monday. He has not been able to come to school.
    Mrs. Charles Cingcade, who is in the hospital at Medford, was very low as a result of an operation. She is better now.
    Mr. C. E. Stanley went to Medford Friday to work in his butcher shop.
    Our school had 98 percent in attendance last month and there were thirteen who were neither absent nor tardy.
    Stella Adams, who is ill, has not attended school lately.
    Mr. Ralph Bieberstedt and Mr. Ed Cowden are gathering cattle from the range.
    Mr. Sam Hoagland bought some hay from Ralph Tucker.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stanley and son Merrill visited our school Thursday.
    Roscoe Hulse butchered his hogs Monday.
    Mr. William Hoagland returned to his home in Central Point last week.
    Mr. Dupray was a visitor at the Tucker home Saturday. He returned home Sunday.
    Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and two sons, John and Cecil, visited the Hansen, Jr., family Sunday.
    Mr. Simmons made a trip to Medford Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 3, 1922, page 6


    Last Friday, Dr. Holt was summoned from Medford to the bedside of William Lewis and the result was that he was taken to Medford and upon examination I understand the case was pronounced a serious case of kidney trouble, but I have not heard further particulars, but hope that it is nothing very serious.
    Mrs. Dupray, the wife of the owner of the Dupray & Son mill on the line of the P.&E., came in Friday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford on the 7:15 stage.
    C. H. Natwick, the contractor, after shipping a part of his outfit for road work to Butte Falls last Saturday, remained here at the Sunnyside until Monday, looking after getting his teams shod up and getting ready to go to work on his contract. He and his son, Carlyle, have been here for their meals up to this writing.
    Buel Hildreth and his father-in-law, Mr. Fendale, who were here after the funeral of Mr. Hildreth, Sr., went on up home Friday on the stage, but his wife and mother have remained here up to this writing, as the weather has been so inclement that it was not thought prudent for them to undertake the trip by stage as the auto can only go as far as Derby and the rest of the route is in an open hack.
    Clarence Charley of Brownsboro called Saturday for dinner and remained overnight to attend the Saturday night dance.
    In addition to Mr. Charley, Roy Conley of Butte Falls and Charley Hanscom, J. W. Isbell, Planey Leabo and Charley Winkle were here for dinner Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz and a neighbor of theirs, Mr. Chris Bergman were also in town the same day, but I did not see them as I am still confined to the Sunnyside of the creek.
    There was some four or five of the young men who attended the dance came in to spend the last end of the night and some of them took beds and breakfast while others simply enjoyed the good warm room and laid on the lounge and rockers, but that was better than leaning against a lamppost.
    Jack Kerby, who has been boarding at the Sunnyside for the last month, resting up, for he has been for the past year or more in charge of Charley Delin's horses as stable boss, has been making several trips to Medford recently, but he is a man who keeps his own counsel, but a more pleasant companion will be hard to find in any country. A great reader and seems to be well informed on all general subjects.
    Albert Hill, who is working for Mr. Natwick, came in Monday noon for dinner and spent the night. He has been having some of the Natwick horses shod up, getting ready to start moving dirt as soon as the snow is gone at Butte Falls.
    Sam H. Oeser, the young man referred to in my last letter as having gone to Lake Creek on business, returned Monday and went to work again on the railroad station.
    W. G. Smith, who has been living here in town and a constant reader of the Mail Tribune, came in Monday evening and enjoyed room and board for a few days, while his wife is visiting her parents out in the country. He is working on the railroad.
    J. J. Simmons of Trail came in Monday evening and spent the night.
    Robert Harnish and Carlyle Natwick came in for dinner Tuesday on their way to Butte Falls with a truckload of fixtures for the Natwick road work.
    In addition to the above we had as guests for dinner Thos. F. Nichols, one of the new firm of the Eagle Point Hardware Company, as his wife was away visiting her relatives, and Clarence Luy of Wellen, Alfred Robinson of Trail, Buster Mathews and Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls. Mrs. Doubleday came out on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage and after dinner went on to Medford.
    Mrs. Sam Coy was also a visitor at the Sunnyside the same afternoon.
    W. D. Butler and E. E. Wilson, representatives of the Medford Furniture and Hardware Co. of Medford, called for dinner and left one of their beautiful, large calendars for 1922.
    The P.&E. railroad company are still pushing away, although they occasionally meet with a little setback, on account of the condition of the track, as many of the ties are among the first that were placed in the roadbed and of course are badly decayed and every once in awhile the track spreads and lets the engine go through, but then they raise it up, repair the break and go on and now are getting out a nice lot of ties and expect soon to have a good force of men at work repairing the old track [and] will soon have it in shape so as to work to advantage and soon have the road in shape to get their machinery in place along the route.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 4, 1922, page 4


    Among the noted arrivals Wednesday at the Sunnyside were Mr. and Mrs. James Grieve and son Heston. They were on the return trip from Portland and Astoria, where they had been combining business with pleasure. They traveled in their own car and when they came in after the first greeting James remarked that they had just come from Portland and that he was almost starved, that he had been gaunting up in anticipation of a good square meal at the Sunnyside. And as he made the remark I naturally run my eye over the immense frame, at least 190 lbs. avoirdupois, and mentally measured his girth and decided that it would require, at that time at least, a sixty-inch belt to encircle that bread basket and wondered how long it would have to be if he was not gaunted up. He related his experience on the road and speaks in glowing terms of the great Pacific Highway that is now almost completed from the northern to the southern line of our great state. As it is it is not completed as yet, although the most of it is and hard surfaced, with the exception of a few places. But he does not think that the cooking along the route will compare with our hotels in Southern Oregon--the reader will bear in mind that the hostess of the Prospect Hotel is recognized as one of the best cooks in the state. They did not have any time to spend visiting as they were homeward bound and the nearer they got to their destination the more eager they were to get home. But they promised to come again when James was not so gaunt.
    Fred Pettegrew was also a diner at the Sunnyside at the same time and owing to the fact that he was here afoot concluded to remain overnight.
    Thomas F. McCabe also was here for dinner and so was George Albert. Mr. Albert is a very important factor in his line of business as he has a small motor car that he runs on the track of the P.&E. and by that means renders good service to the people back in the hills who wish to come out or are out here and wish to go to their homes in Butte Falls or beyond. When he came out he took Mrs. Buel Hildreth and her mother-in-law up with him to their homes in Butte Falls. They had been stopping at the Sunnyside for a week waiting for the weather to moderate, as there was and still is considerable snow along the track.
    Mrs. James Watkins of Central Point was out the middle of the week to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. N. E. Watkins, and daughter Anna.
    R. D. Henson and E. J. Thomas were here for dinner Thursday. They are in the employ of Foster and Kleiser, successors to Klum & Co., in the advertising business. Mr. Henson under the old company was acting as general superintendent and seems to be occupying the same position under the present company. His field extends from the California and Oregon line to beyond Roseburg.
    Mrs. C. R. Farrier of Lake Creek came out on the Lake Creek stage Friday morning and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Friday morning when the men who are working on the P.&E.R.R. went to work they were informed that their services were not required as there was so much snow on the track that they could not run the motor car to move the ties from where they were unloaded along the track to where they were needed, so they began to scatter. Mr. W. G. Smith went to join his family out on the Crater Lake Highway about eight miles out, and Sam Oeser procured a job splitting stovewood and others went to their homes, but when the snow melted off and the foreman decided to go to work in the afternoon he found that he was short several men.
    The continued showers that we are having greatly interfere with the work not only on the railroad but to a great extent with all kinds of work, and where men are depending on their day's wages to keep up expenses, paying board, and then have to lay off every few days it works a great hardship on them. On the other hand it is hard on the railroad owners or contractors as they are also losing on their jobs, but it appears as though the employers are doing their best, and hopes are entertained that there will be a change for the better soon.
    Fred Frideger, who owns a twenty-acre orchard just east of our town, came in Thursday night for supper and bed. He is cleaning up his orchard and getting ready for the spring work.
    Lawrence Luy of Wellen, one of our prosperous and promising young men, called Friday night for supper.
    Rev. H. G. King, the Sunday school evangelist who is looking after the interests of the American Sunday School Union, called on your correspondent this Saturday morning and told me that Rev. F. A. Phelps of Talent would conduct services here tomorrow. I am glad to learn that our little town is attracting attention in that direction.
    Today C. H. Natwick, the railroad contractor on the Butte Falls extension of the P.&E. railroad, was here for dinner and tells me that he is getting his tools, machinery and teams all ready to go to work on his contract in a few days. We also had John Butler and F. W. Reid, who have been employed on the job enlarging the Fish Lake Ditch Co. canal to take water up the valley above Medford, and they report that the continuous showers of rain and snow interfere greatly with the work as the ground is so soft that they have difficulty in carting the dirt away from the steam shovels.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 6, 1922, page 4


    Mr. Henry Morgan has been very ill. He was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital January 23. We all hope he will recover, as nothing definite has been learned of the origin of his illness, except a bad cold and a run-down condition.
    Seems as though quite a few people living along Elk Creek have been stricken with the cold that is going around.
    Howard Ash hauled a load of hay the other day.
    Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ashcraft visited their homestead Monday. Their dog does not take to motoring, as it makes him sick. Wonder what he would think of aviation.
    Weston Miller and his brothers are making shakes with the intention to cover a barn they intend to build.
    Hazel Pence attended the party at Hutchinson's.
    Mrs. W. Willits returned from a visit of two weeks in Medford Sunday. Her son, Merrill, brought her up in a car.
    It has been kind of nippy up along the creek. It has been zero at the school house. That's the lowest we have found yet. People are not anxious to ride such mornings. We have had some snow. Four inches is about the deepest along the roads.
    A slight tremble was felt at Persist and Trail between 5 and 6 o'clock Tuesday morning.
    P. E. Sandoz rode after cattle Wednesday, February 1. His son, Peter, helped him.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1922, page 3


    Edna Petersen returned to her home at Persist after a couple weeks visit with friends near Trail.
    We are glad to say Mrs. Chester Pritchett is better at this writing.
    Miss Frances Greb and Miss Dorothy Peterson of Persist attended the dance at Trail Saturday night.
    Mrs. Irwin Howe and Miss Wanda spent a few days last week with friends near Central Point.
    Charlie Dunlap cut wood for E. E. Ash this week.
    There will be a parent-teacher educational meeting at Trail Saturday. Everyone invited. Bring your dinner and enjoy yourselves.
    Enid Middlebusher is a Medford visitor this week.
    Mr. Mechem of upper Trail went to Ashland last week and was operated on. He is doing nicely.
    Geo. Fisher returned to Sugar Pine Tuesday.
    Mrs. Howard Ash and Mrs. Joe Heberling had dental work done in Medford Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1922, page 4


    Sunday morning came warm and pleasant, considering that it was the first Sunday in February and there was nothing unusual occurred. It had been announced the day before that Rev. F. A. Phelps would preach at the close of Sunday school and also at night, but an announcement of that kind does not cause any special excitement in our quiet little town and there were only about the usual number that attend Sunday school present, and during the afternoon he and Rev. H. G. King, the Sunday school evangelist for the Sunday school union, called on your correspondent and inquired something about Rev. H. G. Adams, the minister in charge of the work here. They only remained a short time, but the next day I learned that there were abut the usual number of people out Sunday night. Mr. Phelps represented himself as a traveling evangelist from Idaho, but I did not learn anything of his plans or purpose, as I was not in a condition to entertain company.
    Last week J. W. Johnson, who has charge of the selling of the blooded horses on the Kirtland farm, bade farewell to your correspondent and family, took the stallion, Ketab, that he brought over here to sell, back to the farm as he had failed thus far to accomplish a sale, although there were quite a number of horsemen around here who wanted to have an interest in him but could not agree in the organization of a company, so he gave it up as a failure, but after he took him home Fred Pettegrew, after trying to secure a third interest in him, concluded to buy him himself so went over to the farm and made the deal and Monday the horse was brought back, the deal perfected and now Fred Pettegrew has him on his own place. It seems to be a general opinion among horsemen that it is a fine thing for the entire community that he is left in this section of the country, as his colts are said to be among the best in the country. I heard Mr. Pettegrew say the day he received him that he had quite a number of mares already engaged and anticipates having all that he can serve.
    Last Monday I mustered up courage to try to go to the post office for the first time in five weeks, lacking one day, and after crossing our wire suspension bridge I began to look around to see what I could that would be of interest to the general reader of the Medford Mail Tribune and the first place of interest that I came to was the old Eagle Point hardware store, where so many of the farmers resorted to, not only to buy what they needed in that line, but to spend a few minutes with the genial proprietor, Roy Ashpole, it being one of the old landmarks where hundreds of autos stopped en route to the different parts of the country for gasoline, oil and other things necessary for their outfit, but when I reached the old store building found it locked and looking through the windows saw only a few of the many articles that were on exhibit a few weeks ago as the rest had been sold or moved to the new headquarters of the new firm of Ashpole and Nichols in the old von der Hellen hardware store. And it was with a feeling of sadness that I look around and think of the changes that are continually taking place in this busy world of ours.
    Passing on my way, but somewhat worried with my work, in passing the Lewis confectionery store I began to meet some of the old timers but hurried on as best I could to the next station, W. L. Childreth's blacksmith shop. I squared myself on the end of a horseshoe keg about tired out. While en route to my resting place Frank Brown, one of our prosperous and affable merchants, passed me and expressed his joy on seeing me on the street again, and at the shop I found our old standby, W. L. Childreth, hammering away on horse shoes, and one of Charley Delin's young bustling teamsters, Dale Shelley, who was working on the Crater Lake Highway, having him fit the shoe just to his notion and he was putting it on a horse for Ed Dutton, but there was quite a group around the shop who seemed to be there for the same reason that I was, to see and be seen, although there were some who were on business. But it looked good to see so many of our old neighbors and friends enjoying the warm sunshine.
    Among those I met there was our old road supervisor, Wm. Perry, and W. P. Hurst and another man sitting on a pile of lumber outside of the shop enjoying the morning sun, and L. P. Terrill of Big Sticky, who was having his horses shod, and Frank Roberts, also of Big Sticky, looking as though he was enjoying his usual health, and John Smith, the old standby, who reported that his son Polk while working on the railroad had had one of his fingers badly jammed, besides several others. After resting awhile I started again for the post office and after inspecting my post office box turned across the street for Nichols' store and on the way met the saleslady who has charge of the store, Mrs. R. A. Weidman, rushing to the post office to mail a package by parcel post, and soon was seated by a warm stove taking a good and much-needed rest, and as I entered the store found our old reliable creamery and egg man, C. E. Bellows, interviewing the creamery truck driver regarding more cream cans, and Mrs. Weidman about that time was calling on him for egg crates, which he failed to have on hand. I did not feel strong enough to proceed on down to the Brown store or to visit the Ashpole & Nichols new stand but soon started on the return trip for home.
    R. H. G. Adams, the preacher in charge of this field, started for Butte Falls the 28th of last month to hold a meeting there and the only word from him up to date, Feb. 8th, was that he was to continue the meeting over last Sunday, Feb. 5th, and that he would preach in Brownsboro in the forenoon next Sunday and here at night the same Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1922, page 5


    Mrs. E. J. Murphy and daughter of Wellen came in early Tuesday morning, calculating to take passage on a jitney for Medford, on their way to Ashland to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. E. B. Holman, who had the misfortune to be thrown from a buggy and had her leg broken between the ankle and the knee and some of her ribs broken, but how many Mrs. Murphy did not know. After she reached here, she learned that the jitney service had been discontinued, owing to the high tax that has been exacted since the passage of the new law enacted by the special session of the legislature. Mr. Frank Lewis, who has been operating a jitney between here and Medford for some time, told me that he could not afford to pay $290.00 tax in addition to the other taxes, license as the business will not begin to justify the expense. So Mrs. Murphy had to wait until 2:25 p.m. before she could go out on the regular stage. It appears that Mrs. Holman was riding in an old buggy and that some parts of it were wired together and the wire had given way and the horses pulled her over the dashboard and dragged her some distance. There was another person, I think her granddaughter, in the buggy with her, but she escaped unhurt.
    Oliver Holmes of Wellen came in town also Tuesday on his way out to look after his sheep.
    W. L. Valentin, who has been working in one of the banks in Klamath Falls, was here for dinner Tuesday. He reported that the bank where he had been working had been forced to close its doors on account of the slump in the stock market.
    Among the guests Wednesday noon for dinner were Mr. G. Faske and Eleanor Faske, Mrs. Chester Fleury, H. L. Heryford, all of Butte Falls. They came out on the motor truck on the P.&E. railroad and after dinner went on to Medford on the stage. We also had as diners at the Sunnyside, Mr. Guy Trunte of Medford, who came in from Butte Falls on the motor truck, W. L. Merritt of Reese Creek and Dale Shelley, recently from Brookings, Oregon and E. J. Murphy.
    Thursday Mr. E. J. Murphy of Wellen came in expecting to meet his wife and daughter here from their visit to Ashland, but owing to there being no jitney service they could not come unless they came out on the 8:30 a.m. stage from Medford, so he had to stay until the 5:15 p.m. stage. Miss Margaret Mansfield of Portland and Hobart Ditsworth of Flounce Rock and Denny Hall of Derby were here for dinner Thursday.
    Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath came in and after supper disappeared and the next I heard of him he had bought eight dairy cows of Brittsan Bros., and five of Wm. Butler to take to Fort Klamath. He says that he has twenty-five hundred sheep out there and wants milk to feed the young lambs when they need attention. He kept his cows at the R. A. Weidman dairy ranch just in the west side of our town. He took them on to Ashland Friday.
    We had some excitement in our quiet little town the other day. The soot took fire in Gus Nichols' flue and that caused the smoke to fill the house, and Mr. Nichols and wife were both sick in bed with the flu and snow on the roof of the house, but notwithstanding the orders from the doctor for them both to stay in bed, Gus jumped out of bed, climbed onto the roof and tore off a lot of the shingles, when he discovered that it was nothing more than the flue burning out. Whether the exposure caused any damage or not I have not heard. And while on the subject of the flu, will say that there is considerable of sickness here just now and the directors closed the school Thursday on account of it.
    Another item of news I have picked up since I have been able to go over to the post office is that Mrs. George Holmes has purchased the P. H. Daily property, one of the neatest residences in our town. Mrs. Holmes is the principal of our school and her husband, George Holmes, is our garage man, who owns and operates the Eagle Point garage.
    Another item [is] that Mr. R. A. Weidman has had his electric light system extended from his dwelling to his cow and horse barn, three lights in the barn and one midway from the house to the barn, thus having light to and from the barn, as well as in the barn, a great convenience, without the risk of fire from lanterns.
    A. M. Gay of Butte Falls has been out looking after his pear orchard here.
    John Gore was out buying up hogs [that] Green Mathews and the von der Hellens of Wellen had for sale.
    The next meeting of the E.P.C.C. will be on Thursday February 16, at the home of Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. Macdonald as assistant hostess.
    Ed Cowden, Fred McPherson, Charles Mathews, Earl Campbell of Medford, Lester Bradshaw, Brownsboro, Jeff and Alvin Conover were business callers on our merchants Wednesday and Thursday.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Smith February 8, a daughter. Mr. Smith is our town marshal and believes in replenishing the earth.
    Mrs. Wiley Jones of Talent is here visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten.
    Carl Bergman, Adin Haselton and Buster Mathews were here for supper Thursday evening and Adin Haselton and Carl Bergman remained here overnight, and Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath was here for breakfast Friday morning and Carl Bergman went on down to Ashland in the car with Mr. Loosley.
    Mrs. A. L. Simmons of Central Point, who has been spending a month in Butte Falls, and Mrs. M. E. Richardson of Butte Falls came out on the stage Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside. They had quite an experience on the way out, as the roads from Derby are so very bad that it is to say the least of it very difficult to get through with an auto, so have to carry the mail from Derby to Butte Falls in a hack, and on the new road. The Vestal cutoff, the ground has frozen and then thawed and the result was that the horses and hack broke through axle deep and the ladies had to get out and walk up the hill as they were both large women, but they didn't mind that, but took it as a matter of no consequence.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 14, 1922, page 5


    Last Saturday Pearl Stowell and Thomas Givan called in for dinner and when the Butte Falls stage came in there was an elderly lady came in on it and after taking dinner went on her way to Medford. She was on her way to her home in Portland and had been on a business visit to Butte Falls. I did not learn her name as she was very much averse to talking
    Saturday afternoon Rev. H. G. Adams came in from Butte Falls where he had been holding meetings the two weeks before, at least the two Sundays before, and the most of the time during that time he reports that he had a good attendance although there was no special interest manifest. He expects to preach here next Sunday, Feb. 19, both morning and evening at the usual hour. He preached at Brownsboro last Sunday morning and here at night but his congregations at each were not very large owing, perhaps in part, to the prevalence of the flu.
    F. A. Phelps and H. G. Kinney, who were mentioned in my last letter as having held services here from Sunday, Feb. 5th, continued until Thursday night, but I understand that the last night they had no one to attend, but Mr. Phelps remained until Sunday and preached to a very small crowd and left for other parts in the afternoon thinking that Eagle Point was a hard place to tackle.
    I omitted to state in my last letter that Truman (Buster) McLellan came in last Thursday and is here at this writing.
    Sunday we had quite a number of people here for dinner although most of them were people who live here and near town that come in quite often for a meal. But later in the day John Foster and Mrs. True of Medford called for supper. Mr. Foster, who is working at carpentering for the Fish Lake Canal Company, had been up to one of the camps along the canal for his tools and the lady simply went along for the ride and to see something of our fine Little Butte Creek country and stopped from force of habit at the Sunnyside for supper and to renew acquaintance.
    Monday afternoon I ventured out and went as far as the post office for my mail and on, and in my rounds met John Long of Derby. He had come out with a team for a few necessary supplies and was just ready to start for home and someone asked about what time he would get there and he said about 11 o'clock, and it was then near 2 p.m. Only think of a man having to take nine hours to travel over fourteen miles of one of our county roads when the U.S. Mail is carried over six days in each week.
    He was the only man from the country I met that day. I also met Mr. Muskopf and Clifford Hickson and Mrs. Radcliffe, who lives just above town, and her son passed me as I was on my way. I also met Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley. I also met Mrs. J. Rigsby formerly of Brownsboro, in T. E. Nichols' store. Mr. Rigsby and family were just in from Eastern Oregon, where they had been for the past few years. Mr. Rigsby, wife and six children have moved into a suite of rooms in the upper part of the Nichols store building and are planning to settle in this part of the country and we give them a cordial greeting, as they seem to be people who will help build up the country.
    Among the callers Monday night for supper and bed was Ira Tungate of Butte Falls. He had been to Medford and came out this far on the afternoon stage, spent the night and went on up home Tuesday morning. We also had Sam Courtney, our paperhanger and painter. He is engaged at this writing in repapering the Sunnyside Hotel. He has adopted a novel plan to secure business; he buys his wallpaper in quantities at wholesale prices and sells it to those who patronize him at cost, thus saving the profit of the middleman. Mr. William Coy, a brother-in-law of our banker, H. E. Campbell, was also a guest for supper Monday night.
    W. H. Roch, who is the traveling agent for Watkins remedies and extracts, came in for dinner Monday and supper and spent the night.
    F. J. Ayres and wife, who live on the P.&E.R.R. about six miles from here, drove in with his team Tuesday to look after his interests here and do some trading with our merchants.
    As I was crossing our footbridge Tuesday I met Mr. Turnbow, the section boss on the P.&E., and Wayne Moore, and Mr. Turnbow told me that they had moved their camp up the track about five miles and that they were pushing the work right along. Mr. Moore said that he had left his car in the old Daley barn and that some sneak thief had broken the lock on his toolbox and taken all of his tools and taken the radiator off his car, but that he had a clue to who it was, and unless he returns them right away that he will be prosecuted. I hear of several instances where people have had articles taken without leave, and more than once where machines have been robbed of the gasoline out of their machines.
    Among the guests here Tuesday for dinner were George Holmes, our garage man, and on inquiry learned that his wife was away on a visit, but he didn't say where. We also had a traveling agent for the Standard Oil Co., but I did not learn his name.
    Mr. Peterson, the present mail contractor carrying the mail from here to Persist via Trail, came in Tuesday evening with the mail, ate his supper and started back for Trail to take Mr. Chappell up as he had been sent for to come up and care for one of his large work horses. He is interested in a sawmill with Mr. Adamson and another man and Mr. Adamson had charge of the team but he and his wife and some of the children were sick in bed with the flu and the horse had been down in the barn and could not get up so Mr. Chappell was called to care for him, necessitating his going up in the night, but before he reached there some of the neighbors had come to the rescue and got him up.
    Mr. Peterson also brought me two dollars to pay for the subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune for George F. Hall of Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 17, 1922, page 8


    Mr. Jack Kerby, who came in from where he had been looking after the horses of Mr. Charley Delin, on his contract for grading a logging railroad near Brookings, Oregon near Crescent City, California, came in and engaged a month's board at the Sunnyside December 31, left us last Wednesday, going to Spokane, Wash., to meet Mr. Walt Hurst, who will be remembered as one of our Eagle Point-raised boys by many of our old settlers, who has a contract to put up a large power line for an electric power company in British Columbia, and Mr. Kerby, having had five years' experience in that line of work, will assist in the work. Mr. Kerby leaves a number of warm friends in this section of the county.
    Henry Morgan, a man who lives alone on his homestead on the headwaters of Elk Creek, [and] was taken out to the Sacred Heart Hospital some time ago by his neighbors, came in on the Medford-Eagle Point stage and spent the night on his way home. He has greatly improved in health but is far from being in a condition to live alone in the wilds of the Elk Creek hills.
    Mrs. J. Monia and son of Brownsboro came in Wednesday, and Mrs. Monia went on up to Butte Falls on the regular stage and her son returned home in his car.
    Mr. Stuart McKessie, the civil engineer who has been employed on the survey and location of our irrigation project to bring water from above Butte Falls through the Derby District to Eagle Point and vicinity, passed through here Wednesday on his way to Derby to try to secure a few hundred acres of land, so as to have an abundance to be sure to satisfy the bond buyers. He seemed to think that he could secure four or five hundred acres with very little trouble, but I have not heard the result of his undertaking as yet.
    Frank Lewis, our confectionery and billiard and pool man, appears to be doing a lively business, as he has just installed another billiard table, making two billiard and two pool tables in the upper part of his confectionery store.
    Charley Brown, salesman for C. E. Gates, Ford cars and Fordson farming implements, was here for dinner Wednesday and so was Dale Shelley.
    We have had a wonderful transformation in our post office here. Last Wednesday our popular and accommodating post office clerk, Miss Nellie Coy, tendered her resignation to our postmaster, W. C. Clements, although she had given him notice some time before of her intention to resign, and her resignation was accepted and she retired from the service and our townsman, S. B. (Gov.) Holmes was employed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Holmes has had considerable experience in that line and is considered fully competent as he is a thorough accountant and no doubt will fill the place and serve the patrons of the office satisfactorily.
    O. Adams, formerly of Medford, but now of Butte Falls, where he has lived for several years, went up to Butte Falls on the stage and I heard today, Saturday, that he had secured a business position there.
    W. L. Childreth's blacksmith shop has been closed most of the time the past week, owing to the prevalence of the flu, but I am glad to be able to say that, so far as I can learn, in most of the cases, they are improving and many of the patients are able to be out in town, although there is scarcely anyone from the country comes in, owing to the sickness in the country, and fear of taking the disease while here in town.
    Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was a passenger on the Lake Creek stage coming here on business.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wyant came in Thursday night from Eugene City and spent the night and the next morning was met here by his brother-in-law, Eugene Bellows, Mr. Wyant being a brother to Mrs. Bellows, and was taken to the Bellows home. Mr. Wyant expects to go to work on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, but I did not learn if he was to act as foreman or not.
    D. R. Patrick, who has been working for months, if not years, for the F.L.D. Company, came in for dinner Thursday and so did a stranger from Butte Falls. Mr. Patrick found a job here at the Sunnyside in his line, carpentering, and was kept busy until noon the next day and Mr. Sam Courtney is still busy paper hanging and painting on the interior of the hotel up to this hour, 4 o'clock p.m. Saturday.
    Mrs. Nettie Grover of Medford has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten and helping to care for Mrs. Knighten, who has been on the sick list for years.
    Sam H. Oeser, who has been working on the P.&E. railroad, came in Thursday evening with his eye bandaged up and on inquiry learned that when he was cranking his car, the crank flew back and struck him just below the eye on the nose, inflicting a painful would. He had just received a telegram from Berkeley, Cal., announcing the serious illness of his sister and was on his way to be with her, but later in the evening, received another telegram telling of her death--notice already in the Daily Mail Tribune of the 17th.
    Mr. Eblen, now of Butte Falls, came in on the stage Friday evening and spent the night. He has a number of horses at work on the P.&E. railroad in Butte Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 20, 1922, page 5


    Brownsboro, Feb. 24.--The pupils of this district, number 39, gave a delightful surprise party on February 22, in honor of their teacher, Edith Kubli.
    In the forenoon the school gave a Washington Day program and after the program was over Miss Kubli went home. The children found a pretext to have Miss Kubli return in about an hour, and they had tables set for a full course dinner.
    The ladies who served were Mrs. Roscoe Hulse, Mrs. Walter Marshall, Mrs. W. P. Hansen, Nellie Butler, Mrs. W. M. Hansen and Mrs. Hessler.
    Mr. Hulse and Mr. Hansen were toast masters.
    After the dinner, outdoor games were played, followed by an exciting arithmetic match in which Viola Hoagland proved to be champion.
    Mr. Wm. Hansen, Sr., made a business trip to Medford last week.
    Miss Velka Monia spent the weekend at home.
    Mr. Walter Marshall went to Eagle Point Saturday.
    Mr. Henry Mayor came to Brownsboro last week after supplies.
    Mr. J. F. Maxfield went to Eagle Point Sunday to see his wife, Mrs. Ella Maxfield, who is staying at her sister's, Mrs. Lillie Cingcade.
    Lewis Walch and wife spent the weekend with the latter's parents, in Lake Creek.
    Walter Radcliffe was a visitor at the Brownsboro school Monday.
    Mr. Dupray of Butte Falls came down to Mr. Carl Stanley's Sunday.
    Mr. Carl Stanley made a business trip to Lake Creek Monday.
    The roads up this way are good considering the weather we have been having. The Antelope Hill road is in bad condition. Several machines have been stuck in the mud along there.
    On up toward Lake Creek the roads are not being traveled with automobiles. Mr. VanDyke, in charge of the mail route, drives his car only from the Lake Creek store and makes the rest of the trip up Lake Creek on horseback.
    Mrs. Nygren and Olga Bieberstedt visited Mrs. Nygren's mother last week.
    Mr. McCallister, who is butchering his goats, is marketing them at the Medford butcher shops.
    William Hoagland returned to Brownsboro Tuesday.
    Mr. Floyd Charley went to Ashland Saturday.
    The people on the sick list are Mr. Roscoe Hulse, Mr. Ahrens, Mr. Wm. Staub, John Stanley, the Tucker and George Hansen families.
    The Lost Creek and Eagle Point schools have closed on account of so much flu. There are at present 17 going to school. We are in hopes that the rest will be able to be with us soon.
    Sunday school was not held at the school house Sunday because of the prevailing epidemic.
    Rev. Adams of the First Congregational Church was a visitor at the Brownsboro school Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1922, page 7


    M. E. and Denzil Middlebusher motored to Medford Monday.
    Miss Maud Rose of San Francisco arrived Thursday for a few weeks visit with her father Sam Rose. This is her first trip up here and she is enjoying many new adventures.
    There will be an entertainment and box social at Trail Hall Friday night, for the benefit of the school. Everyone invited.
    We have had a very small school the past two weeks on account of the flu, but the scholars are all on the mend now and gradually coming back.
    Mr. Jones, our new ranger, is making the annual round of counting the cattle.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ray Vaughn and little son Donald of Prospect are visiting Mrs. Vaughn's parents on Elk Creek.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole and Mrs. R. R. Dawson are among the flu victims.
    Mrs. T. Todd returned home from Medford last week, where she underwent an operation. She is improving rapidly.
    Fred Warner is looking for cattle for sale these days.
    C. Owings was a Medford visitor a few days this week
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1922, page 7


    Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller have returned home after a long visit to Medford, where their daughter resides.
    Miss Frances Greb, teacher of Persist School District 80, and Miss Inez Willits, teacher of Elk Creek School District 74, attended the O.S.T.A., which was held at Trail. There will be a field meet in April.
    L. A. Whitley and his stepsons have been leveling the field he intends to plant this spring.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Flame have been ill with the flu. Also Wayne and Irma Ash have been stricken. They claim they have a "dickens of a headache," but are recovering.
    Claude Moore is sawing wood for P. E. Sandoz with his gasoline draw saw.
    The attendance of the Elk Creek school has been very good for this month.
    Howard Ash hauled a load of hay Friday.
    Jim Miller made a trip to Persist.
    The roads are very muddy up this way. It is like plowing through a small river to get through. It has been mild and raining frequently. The snow has mostly all melted along the lower part of the creek. But up at Persist it is pretty deep.
    George Hall has built a very good-looking shed for his horses. He is also interested in the Mail Tribune.
    P. E. Sandoz has caught quite a number of varmints in his traps.
    Miss Inez visited Mrs. Deliah Wagner overnight Tuesday 14.
    A few pupils have enrolled in club work of District 74.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1922, page 10


    Last Saturday just after noon Prof. Chester L. Ward, athletic coach of Butte Falls basketball and teacher of the sixth and seventh grades in the Butte Falls school, came in on the regular stage from Butte Falls and took dinner and went on out to Medford on his way to Portland to be gone for a week, and I have heard since that he had gone to receive medical treatment by nerve specialists.
    Millard Robinson, the young man mentioned as having cut his hand quite seriously, was here for supper the same day. He says that his hand is very sore yet but thinks that he will be able to use it again in the course of a few weeks.
    Mr. P. F. Leabo, who left the hotel some time ago and started in to batch, has returned to his room in the Sunnyside.
    Last Saturday night there was the regular dance here and there was only a very few in attendance and there was, according to reports, one of the most disgraceful affairs we have had here for some time. I heard one of our prominent business men, in speaking of the conduct there, say that almost every one of the young men and larger boys were drunk and that moonshine was there in abundance and another reported that one of the boys put a bottle of moonshine in the center of the room and commenced to dance around it, but finally one of them kicked it over, spilling it over the floor. The conduct has reached the point where many of our young people treat our laws as a burlesque and defy our officers and make sport of the idea of enforcing any of the prohibiting statutes. For instance, I saw a small group of young men busily engaged at something on the sidewalk and I heard them laughing after the gathering dispersed, and one of them remarked, "Well, I skinned him out of six dollars," but who the man was who spoke or who he referred to as having been skinned I do not know. But what else can we expect of our youths, when men are arrested and brought to trial for violation of the law and men are selected to sit as jurors to try a case and will hang a jury and then admit that they were satisfied that the man was guilty, but that the principal witness for the state, in a bootlegging case, assigned as a reason that the witness was drunk himself. It is a common thing to hear men and in some instances women express their approval of the fact that certain ones are acquitted of a charge of crime simply because they object to certain laws that have been enacted by our representatives in the lawmaking bodies of our country.
    Last Sunday was rather a disagreeable day for people who have been troubled with or exposed to the flu or grippe and the result was that our minister, Rev. H. G. Adams, reports small attendance and there was not the usual number of guests for dinner at the Sunnyside, although, while there is considerable sickness, [with] many of those who have been afflicted with it there seems to be some improvement, but the universal complaint seems to be a general weakened condition. But we had Lyle Van Scoy and Thomas F. Nichols, George and Harry Lewis and Carlyle Natwick as diners and late in the afternoon, Mr. R. B. Parkham, head railway clerk, O.W.R.&N. Co., Portland and F. C. Drew, chief timekeeper, O.W.R.&N., Portland, came in to remain until this Wednesday afternoon. They have been in the habit of spending Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22, with us, this being the fourth year. They came down here to gather agates and have them cut and polished and through exchange with friends in different parts of the country, thus securing a fine selection of stones of all kinds
    W. P. Holbrook, who owns a small farm and orchard west of town, about a couple of miles, has returned from Oakland, California and was here Monday.
    Last Monday morning when I went to the post office as I passed the Childreth blacksmith shop I found that it was open again. Although the proprietor, W. L. Childreth, was able to be out again, he was very weak and did not attempt to do any work, but it looked good to see him around again.
    I also noticed that there seemed to be quite a demand for wood, as our town is being filled up, and there seems to be no empty houses, although there has been several changes in the line of moving. A. M. Gay and Ed Spencer, who have been living in a house belonging to Mrs. M. S. Woods, have moved out and are going to Butte Falls. They have leased a tract of Beaverdam land from Mr. Stanley for three years and intend to clear it and turn their attention to raising garden truck and Mr. Groves vacated the house recently purchased by Mrs. George Holmes and moved into the house, and Mr. Holmes is putting in a water system so as to have plenty of good, pure water, both hot and cold, in their house, and also have water to irrigate a garden and Mr. J. Rigsby, mentioned in a former letter as having moved into the upper part of the T. E. Nichols store, has moved to Butte Falls, where he expects to work on the C. H. Natwick contract on the extension of the P.&E. railroad.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Hotel Monday were C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle, Everett Dahack, George Holmes and wife and Ed Spencer.
    J. H. Carlton of Wellen was among the few business callers Monday.
    Rev. H. G. Adams expects to preach here both morning and evening next Sunday, the 26th.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. J. Monia and son of Brownsboro were among the business callers last Tuesday. The same day the stage from Medford was loaded to capacity this far and four passengers went from here on up toward Derby, Prospect and Butte Falls.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., one of our leading farmers in this section, and one of our frequent visitors as a general thing, for he acts as chore boy, running to the blacksmith shop and keeping things in place, was in town about midweek, the first time for some time. He has several boys helping with his work but the flu had kept him at home as it has most of the people in the country for the past month or six weeks.
    W. S. Hoagland, who owns a farm and orchard near Central Point, and another farm near Brownsboro, was a passenger on the stage Tuesday from Medford and went up to Brownsboro on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mrs. Cadzow was also a passenger for Butte Falls on the stage Tuesday and so was Roy Davis of Derby and son. Our town mayor has been helping their way home
    Mrs. Mattie Brown, one of the members of the town council and a member of the street commission, has been putting out or rather replacing those trees that were put out last season and died, not for want of proper attention, but on account of having too much water, as where the water has been taken across the street it has been necessary to dam it up in some places and that caused the water to stand in ponds and seeped through onto the roots thus causing the damage, but she trusts that she will be able to obviate the difficulty this season [omission] along in the good work. Her attention has been called to a needed improvement on the street running from the main street past the post office to the railroad track.
    J. W. Isbell, who lives on the Wm. von der Hellen farm and stock ranch on Reese Creek, went to Medford Tuesday and came out in the night with Wm. von der Hellen and spent the latter part of the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. A. L. Simmons of Central Point came out on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday morning and went on up to Butte Falls where her husband is working on the extension of the P.&E. railroad.
    Miss Rose Whaley, who has been working as an assistant in the Sunnyside Hotel, also went up to Butte Falls Wednesday morning to visit her parents for a few days and expects to be back again today, Saturday.
    George Holmes, who has moved into their new home, has laid water pipe and connected with the Sunnyside water system as his well does not furnish enough water at all times.
    Sam Coy was among the business callers Wednesday.
    J. Jordahl of the Independent Cracker Company, Portland was a diner at the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday.
    W. G. McDonald, proprietor of the [Rogue] Elk Resort, was here Wednesday morning on his way up home.
    C. E. Bellows and son and his brother-in-law, W. H. Wyant, were here for dinner Wednesday and so was Carlyle Natwick. He reports that the snow at Butte Falls interferes with the work on their contract very materially.
    In speaking of Mr. Rigsby moving to Butte Falls in my last letter I stated that he was going to work for Mr. Natwick on the extension of the P.&E. railroad, etc., but in that I was misinformed and since have learned that he had taken a contract of Mr. Cowley to cut sawlogs for the Haak mill near Butte Falls.
    W. E. Lewis, with H. S. Brack Co., Seattle, calendars and stationery, was here Thursday for dinner. He reports that there has been from 9 to 21 percent gain for January 1922 over January 1921. These are facts secured from the post offices, banks and other sources in his investigations throughout the state.
    Dr. J. E. Spatz and wife of Fairfield, Nebraska and son, Ward, of Medford, called on your Eagle Point correspondent Thursday forenoon simply to meet him and assigned as a reason that the doctor and his wife had been reading the Eagle Point Eaglets regularly for the past five years and wished to meet him. The doctor asked how long I had been writing for the Mail Tribune and being told that it was about 36 years, first it was the Medford Monitor, the first paper started in Medford, and then the name and ownership was changed to Bliton and York, and the name changed to the Medford Mail and later sold again to a company and several papers consolidated and the name changed to the Medford Mail Tribune under the editorial management of George Putnam, now of the Capital Journal of Salem and under the business management of S. S. Smith and now under the editorial management of Robert W. Ruhl, and that I had continued to write regularly all the time. He then inquired how long I had been in the business as a newspaper correspondent and I told him 63 years last September and that I had not missed a week but that I had written from one to four letters each week for 45 years. He then asked my age and was told that I only lacked less than a month of being 90 years of age and Mrs. Spatz remarked that my appearance so far as longevity was concerned was a recommendation for the healthfulness of the country. I then told her that I had just been in company with three men who were each past 85 years of age.
    Arthur Pool of Trail, one of the Forest Service men, came in and spent Thursday and Friday nights at the Sunnyside Hotel. He has been up in the Lake Creek district counting the stock to be turned on the reserve and spent Friday and a part of today, Saturday, Feb. 25, in this section
Medford Mail Tribune, March 1, 1922, page 6


    Brownsboro, March 2.--Monday the boys and girls of this district organized a Boys' and Girls' Industrial Club and are counting on taking up projects with the idea of a complete school exhibit at the Jackson County Fair next fall.
    Harold Dallas was elected president and Viola Hoagland secretary.
    Ellen Tucker was named girl's leader and Edward Stanley boy's leader.
    They have not decided yet what project they will take up but are considering corn raising and canning. Already they have started work on a school garden and have quite a large plot spaded and fertilized ready for planting early garden truck.
    Gwendolyn Brophy, who has been ill in Eagle Point, is able to be back home now.
    Stella Adams, who has been absent for about a month with the flu, is with us again.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Vida Bradshaw, who is teaching school at Wagner Creek, spent the weekend at home.
    Dr. Holt was called to attend Mildred Hansen, who was quite ill with the flu. Others on the sick list are Mr. William Hoagland and the Brophy family. Most of the people are better now.
    Mr. Joe Maxfield went to Eagle Point to help Mr. Cingcade, who is sick with the flu.
    Fred Stanley helped Carl Stanley take some of his cattle to Eagle Point Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall and son, Bill, went to Medford Monday.
    Mr. William Staub, Mrs. R. E. Tucker and Stella Adams went to Medford Tuesday.
    Mr. C. E. Stanley went to Medford Monday.
    Glenn Marshall was enrolled in the Brownsboro school Monday. This makes a total of 21.
    Mrs. Roscoe Hulse entertained with cards Wednesday night.
    Mrs. Ed Myers, who teaches at Lake Creek, came down to the teacher's council that met at Eagle Point Saturday.
    Mrs. Lee Bradshaw gave a birthday dinner in honor of Lester Bradshaw Friday evening, February 24.
    Ralph and Olga Bieberstedt made a business trip to Medford Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 3, 1922, page B1


    The school program was a splendid success and was greatly enjoyed by all present. There was not a very large crowd on account of so much sickness in the neighborhood, but the program was fine and also the pictures shown by Miss Burr, our supervisor, were splendid and we all enjoyed and appreciated her part very much.
    Mrs. H. L. Ash and little daughter, Betty, of Elk Creek spent a few days visiting at Trail this week. Mrs. Ash is improving rapidly and hopes soon to be able to attend to household duties again.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson were Medford visitors Tuesday and little Olive visited with the Middlebushers during their absence.
    We are glad to say our mail carrier, Mr. Peterson, is on the gain and expects to be able to carry the mail again in a week or so.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Blaess of Medford were Sunday guests at the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Zimmerlee.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher spent the weekend with relatives at Trail.
    Lowell Ash visited at the Cushman home a few days this week.
    Lewis Blaess is hauling hay these days.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 3, 1922, page B6


    W. E. Hammel, Fred Pettegrew, Mike Hyenburger were among the business callers Saturday.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall and two children of Brownsboro came in on the Lake Creek stage on her way out on the Crater Lake Highway to visit some of her husband's relations Saturday.
    Professor Chester L. Ward returned from Portland Saturday and went directly on up to Butte Falls to take charge of his school Monday morning. He was intending to remain here and take part in the teacher's council, but owing to the lack of means of transportation from here to Butte Falls or from Butte Falls here and other reasons, he concluded to go on via the stage that only makes one trip each day and then leaves here about ten o'clock in the forenoon, except Sunday, and leaves there in the early morning, and the two mail carriers meet at Derby and exchange mail and passengers, so he wrote a treatise on "Home Reading By the Pupils," and had it read to those who attended. There was none of the teachers from Butte Falls and vicinity for the reason assigned above. It seemed unfortunate that the time set for the meeting here was at a time when the roads are almost impassable in the rural districts and the result was that only a very few were in attendance from the country, although I understand from Rev. H. G. Adams [omission] Simmons, who assisted me by taking notes of the proceedings. Among the teachers, including our county school superintendent, Miss Susanne Holmes and our school supervisor, Miss Elizabeth Burr, were Mrs. Bessie Murphy of Long Mountain district; Miss Vida Bradshaw, Wagner Creek school; Mrs. Alma C. Meyer, Lake Creek, and Miss Edith Kubli, Brownsboro.
    The program:
    Report of Oregon State Teacher's Association, by County Superintendent Miss Holmes.
    Club Work, by Miss Elizabeth Burr, county school supervisor.
    Recess for luncheon.
    Afternoon session:
    Song by those present.
    Roll call as to standardization of different districts.
    Announcement as to Arbor Day, April 14 and Jackson County School Day, May 27.
    Demonstration uniform Jackson County drill.
    The next was a discussion as to the best method for teaching spelling led by the principal, Mrs. Josephine Holmes.
    Organization of teacher's council, Miss Edith Kubli, chairman; Miss Alma Meyer, secretary-treasurer.
    Paper, "Physical Education," written by Prof. Chester L. Ward of Butte Falls. Remarks on home reading of the pupils.
    Distribution of flower and vegetable seed.
    Teaching geography, by Mrs. Bessie Murphy. Although there was but a few of the teachers from the district which embraces quite a number of schools, there seemed to be considerable interest taken, and I met Miss Elizabeth Burr last Monday on her way to Butte Falls, and she expressed the opinion that the meeting proved to be a grand success.
    The reader will bear in mind that I was unable to be present and have not been able to give as thorough and complete an account of the meeting as though I had attended the proceedings myself and hope that the next one we have here, I will be able to attend and take my own notes.
    Mrs. E. J. Murphy and her daughter of Wellen, Mrs. Sam Coy, and her sister, Mrs. Ray Harnish, were among the business callers Saturday.
    Among those who called at the Sunnyside for supper and beds were Bruce Hayman, C. C. Hayman and Sam Gordon. They came in to attend the dance Saturday evening and report that there was a very good time and good behavior.
    Ed Gomez, who is working on the P.&E. railroad, came in Monday morning from Medford where he had been to look after a lawsuit he has in the divorce court.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatchery business in this section, was also a business caller Monday and so was Mrs. Susan Hart. Mrs. Fellows of Trail came out on the Eagle Point-Medford stage on her way home and when she reached here found that all the room on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist stage was engaged, as Miss Francis Greb, who is teaching the Persist school, had already engaged a seat, but as Mrs. Susan Hart only wanted to go out home, about two miles, she made arrangement with Mr. John Greb to take her out and by that arrangement Mrs. Fellows secured a seat and went home. Mrs. Phillips of Trail was also a passenger on the Trail stage.
    John Nichols and wife of this place, who have been spending the winter with their son, Artie, and family, near Ft. Klamath, came in last Saturday and reports that they have had a very pleasant winter, especially for that section.
    Mr. L. Walter, who has been spending the winter on Reese Creek, was a business caller Monday.
    Robert Harnish and J. O. Patrick were here for dinner and so was Charley Brown, salesman for C. E. Gates, Fordson, G. W. Badyston of Central Point, Pearl Stennett, Charles Foeller, H. L. Wright, Buster Mathews, Geo. Albert and J. H. George of S. Francisco were also here.
    Carl Norris, one of our progressive youths, has installed a shoe polishing parlor in a part of the Ernest [Dahack] barber shop, [and] although he does not keep open all the time, only on Saturday nights, he seems to be doing quite well.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 3, 1922, page B6


    Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Whitley were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence Saturday, February 25.
    Geo. Hall is finishing digging on his ditch.
    L. A. Whitley is repairing his fence on the old Nelson place.
    Inez Willits was a dinner guest of Mrs. J. M. Miller, Sunday, February 26.
    We celebrated Washington's Birthday by singing a few songs, then we had a basket dinner, then we put up a swing and a teeter-totter.
    The young and old joined in an indoor baseball game, which netted very much fun. Mr. Pence was our champion bat breaker, as he broke three bats. We will have another rally like this one some Sunday if the weather will permit. Announcement will appear a few days before date. Everyone is invited to join in the fun. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence, Alberta Pence, Mrs. J. Miller, Mrs. W. Wagner, Mrs. Lucy Moore and boy, also all the pupils were in attendance.
    Claude Moore has been sawing wood for Mr. Miller with his drag saw.
    P. E. Sandoz made a trip to town Monday, returning Wednesday.
    Mr. Peterson, our mail carrier, is ill with the flu. Raymond Schermerhorn is carrying the mail now.
    Mr. Schermerhorn hauled a load of hay the other day.
    Elmer Ivey has an increase in his rabbit industry, as five little rabbits were born Friday, February 24. They are all healthy and the mother rabbit is doing fine. We're going to have some feasting next summer.
    William Ivey visited his relations at Persist, Saturday.
    The Miller boys are completing their job of grubbing for Mr. Fred Sturgis.
    We have had fine sunny weather this week, but at this writing it turned stormy with a little snow and the sun trying to break through the rifts in the clouds. The roads are drying off.
    Mr. W. Wagner has been ill with the flu.
    Antone Ring went down the road the other day and returned Friday. I was not informed as to his destination.
    Howard Ash has built a barn on his place.
    A few strangers passed by on horseback last week. Also the new forest ranger has been visiting these parts counting cattle.
    Hazel Pence and Daisy Wagner have joined a sewing club.
    Lincoln Pence has joined a pig raising club.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 6, 1922, page 6


    P. S. Anderson of Medford, who owns what is known as the Brittsan brothers ranch on Rogue River about six miles north of here, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage aiming to go on up on the Trail stage, but found that it was too much crowded so started on the Crater Lake Highway by the walkers line, hoping that someone would pick him up and save a long walk.
    Frank Farlow of Lake Creek also came out on the same stage from Medford, where he had been to visit his brother, William Lee Farlow, who was at that time in a very critical condition but passed away Wednesday and was buried in the Brownsboro cemetery today, Saturday.
    Charles M. Gilmore of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, Oregon, Mr. Henselman, also the machinist of the same firm, and J. C. Herring, Central Point, deputy assessor for Jackson County who was here assessing the town, were here for dinner last Wednesday and Mr. Herring was here in town for dinner up to and including the time until after noon Friday. While he was here in the discharge of his official duties, just after assessing Mr. Grove's dog the dog grabbed him by the calf of the leg tearing a piece out of his pants and drawers but did no other damage, but he said that he felt his teeth as they scraped against the skin.
    J. W. Hunt and C. Natwick were also here for dinner the same day.
    George Hunter and S. R. Farrell were also here for dinner the same day. They were here in the interest of the Farm Loan Association.
    H. L. Heryford and son George, a boy about 12 or 14 years of age, were here for dinner the same day. They were on their way to their home in Butte Falls where they are living during the term of school, although Mr. Heryford owns a fine farm in Rancheria Prairie some eight miles east of Butte Falls. They had been out to Ashland to have the boy's arm set where he had the misfortune of breaking it. This is the third time he has broken the same arm, the first time he fell off of a low shed and I don't remember how he broke it the second time, and this time he simply fell down and struck it on a rock. He seemed to be suffering considerable with it and complained of suffering very much while he had to ride over the rough road in a wagon, but when he came out and returned he traveled on the P.&E. railroad. S. R. Johnson, a subcontractor on the extension of the P.&E. railroad of Butte Falls, was with Mr. Heryford and son here for dinner.
    George Holmes, our garage man, was also here for dinner the same day, also George Albert, who runs a motor car on the P.&E., was among the diners that day.
    Roy Conley of Butte Falls was here with a four-horse load of rolled barley and other kinds of feed on the way to his home four miles from Butte Falls, the Haak mill, where he is interested in some way in a timber deal with Mr. Haak, and that night Mrs. Conley came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside and the next day went on up home.
    Mrs. Joe Moomaw was also a diner at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    There were quite a number of ladies from the country nearby came in to attend the Improvement Club of Eagle Point. Among them were Mrs. Thos. Cingcade, Mrs. B. F. Fuller, Mrs. Wm. Perry and Mrs. Roy Stanley and Mrs. J. P. Moomaw. They met at the home of Mrs. Mittelstaedt and I understand had as usual a pleasant time.
    Eli Dahack, one of our prosperous farmers, came in Thursday on his way to Medford to consult an eye and ear specialist, as he was suffering with a severe attack on the rim of one of his ears.
    George Fausby came in about the middle of the week from Butte Falls with his team. He had taken a job hauling ties for the P.&E.R.R. but owing to the continuous snow and rain and the difficulty in procuring hay for his teams had to give up the job. He brought Mrs. M. Lammey and her son George out with him and they are all stopping at the Sunnyside.
    Sam H. Oeser and Rob Davison, two young men who are working on the P.&E.R.R., came in this Saturday morning and went on to Medford. They report that there was so much snow on the track that they had to stop work for the day but expect to resume work Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 7, 1922, page 4


    BROWNSBORO, Mar. 8.--Mr. William Hansen, Sr.'s house caught on fire last week during a heavy wind storm. A spark blew out of the chimney and set the roof on fire. The fire had gained quite a headway before Mr. Hansen saw it. The neighbors seeing it came and helped put it out. It was extinguished before much damage was done.
    A stranger who has been working near Butte Falls came through Brownsboro Saturday on his way to Eagle Point. He left camp early Saturday morning and got lost in the low range. He tramped around in the snow all day, and it was late Saturday evening when he arrived in Brownsboro.
    Mrs. R. E. Tucker and daughter Ellen and William Staub went to Medford Saturday.
    George Hansen made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Merrill Stanley was enrolled in the Brownsboro school. This makes a total number of 22 pupils.
    Mr. S. L. Hoagland made a business trip to Central Point Monday.
    Mr. Earl Tucker is helping Walter Marshall haul barley to Fish Lake Ditch Company.
    Mr. Carl Stanley went to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. Spence and son, Archie, came up from Medford Saturday to get some things from their ranch.
    Mr. Walter Marshall went to Lake Creek Sunday.
    Four pupils at the Brownsboro school have received their Palmer Method button. They are now trying for a higher button. They are Edward Stanley, Mary Stanley, George Hoagland and Viola Hoagland.
    Mr. William Hoagland, who was ill, was taken to Central Point Saturday, so he would be near medical treatment.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1922, page B1


    We are having our regular March weather now, wind, snow, sunshine and heavy freezing all about the same time, for one can get up in the morning and find the air cool and bracing and will conclude that our disagreeable weather is about over, and perhaps in the course of two hours there will be a change and a man will need an overcoat and the next change will be warm and he will begin to think of leaving his coat and about that time here comes a snow squall and the next morning the ground will be covered with snow, and the poor old cows who have been anticipating a warm spell and the starting of the grass will droop their heads and almost give up in despair. But then this is our regular March weather, and while it works a hardship on the poor stock that have, if not neglected, not been properly cared for, and on the owners who have been so eager to accumulate a band of stock at small expense and anticipate a warm spring and trusting to Providence instead of forethought, instead of management, but we are glad to state that the most of the cattle have been kept so that they will come out fairly well, although I hear the reports from different directions of quite a number of cattle on the range who are in a very bad condition.
    Mrs. John Allen of Derby came out about the middle of the week and went out to Medford, returning Wednesday, and spent the night. She seemed to have trouble finding a way to get up home as the stage was so loaded that there was no room as there were three passengers who had already engaged passage ahead of her and the driver had all the mail including parcel post that he could put on his car, but she finally went with a friend part way and had her husband meet her with a gig.
    B. H. Williams, a salesman of San Francisco, was here Wednesday for dinner and so was O. Adams, S. King and I. A. Hill, the two last named homesteaders from Butte Falls and William Bunch and wife.
    C. L. Parker of Berkeley, Calif. came in and spent the night. Mr. Parker said that he was just looking over Oregon again as he had been here through Oregon some time ago.
    Joe Pool and family of Butte Falls came in and spent the night. Mr. Pool has been confined to the hospital in Medford for the past six weeks with pneumonia and was on his way home.
    J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the fish hatcheries in Southern Oregon, was here for dinner and reports that he had just taken a fine lot of fish out of the two traps he has in this section, one in Antelope and the other in Butte Creek, and that he had taken 54,000 eggs that day.
    Mrs. Pete Betz, near Trail, and Mrs. Israel Patton of Butte Falls, were here for dinner and Mrs. Patton went on to Medford on the stage, returning Friday morning.
    Benj. Whetstone and W. P. Holbrook were business callers Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson, formerly of Eagle Point, passed through here from Tijuana, Mexico on their way to Yakima, Wash.
    Mrs. F. Stearns of Medford came out Wednesday and remained until the next afternoon with us.
    Died, March 9th, 1922, Mrs. Julia Ann Knighten, at her home in Eagle Point, after a lingering illness of several years. Mrs. Knighten was born in Missouri, Feb. 27, 1846, and died at the advanced age of 76 years and 10 days. About a year after her birth her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas [sic] Dawson, joined a company of forty families who came to and settled in the Willamette Valley near where Forest Grove now stands, in 1848, where she lived until some time in the early '60s. She was married to William Green Knighten September 20, 1860, where they lived until after two children were born, Charles and Arvilla. Shortly after that they moved to Jackson County and settled in Trail, where they kept the travel of what is now known as the Crater Lake Highway, then known as the Fort Klamath road. Their third child, Edward, was born there.
    Disposing of their property there they settled in Talent and later bought property here where they have lived up to the present time. Their three children came to a sudden and tragic death, Charles while working in his shop on what was then the farm, the Evergreen ranch near Flounce Rock, was blown to pieces by dynamite, Arvilla was killed by being thrown from a buggy, and Edward was drowned, so that the poor woman has had her share of trials in this life, in addition to her continuous sickness for the last several years. She was a consistent member of the Baptist Church up to the day of her death. She leaves her husband, a sister, Mrs. A. Mayfield, and three grandchildren, Charles Knighten, Lydia Jones and William Nessler, and a host of friends to mourn her demise. The funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev. H. G. Adams, Saturday forenoon and interment in the Phoenix cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 13, 1922, page 3


    What is said to have been one of the first free and open bidding contests for irrigation work in Oregon for many years was held in Talent yesterday, when the contract for building the Talent Irrigation District dam was awarded to D. M. Stevenson of Portland for $78,595 and the contract for the construction of the 18.3 miles of canal to Wm. von der Hellen of Eagle Point for $67,444. The following 12 contractors from all parts of the coast offered bids.
    C. E. Adams, Los Angeles, Calif., Johnson Contract Co., Portland, Ore., Grant Smith Co., Portland, Ore., Soleim & Gustavson, Astoria, Ore., John Hampshire, Grants Pass, Ore., Wm. von der Hellen, Eagle Point, Ore., Wolke & Schroeder, Grants Pass, Ore., Pacific Coast Paving Co., Tacoma, Wash., Albert Anderson, Grants Pass, Ore., E. J. Cheatham & Sons, Spokane, Wash., V. R. Denis Const. Co., McMinnville, Ore., D. M. Stevenson, Portland, Ore.
    Heretofore the contracts have usually been controlled by the bond houses taking the securities. Both awards were made to the lowest bidders.
    Work is expected to start on the canal about April 1st and on the dam about May 1st. There will be 8,600 acres in the district and the final success of the project comes after years of fighting against heavy odds and a series of disappointments.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1922, page 1


    Miss Frances Greb of Persist, spent the weekend with her parents in Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tucker and son William, Jr., were Medford visitors Saturday. Mrs. Tucker has been quite ill with the flu but did not give up teaching. She is much improved at this writing.
    Irma Ash spent Sunday with Gladys McDonald at the Rogue Elk.
    Harvey Morgan hauled a load of grain from Medford Saturday
    Mr. and Mrs. Jess Ragsdale were called to Medford Saturday by the illness of the former's mother, Mrs. Jane Ragsdale. She was reported a little better Sunday.
    Mrs. Middlebusher attended the funeral of Mrs. Knighten at Phoenix Saturday.
    The Misses Dorothy and Edna Peterson were weekend guests of Miss Minnie Poole.
    The dance at Joe Hoskins' Saturday evening was well attended and enjoyed by all.
    S. Rose was a Trail visitor Tuesday.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher returned home with Fred Middlebusher Sunday and will visit at Prospect a week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Galarneau and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ash and little daughter Betty and Irving Hutchinson of Elk Creek attended the dance Saturday night.
    Ed Cushman visited in Trail Saturday and Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 17, 1922, page 10


    W. S. Chappell, our shoe cobbler, has closed his shop again and gone to Trail to look after his sawmill interests.
    Among the callers Saturday for dinner was J. Jordahl, representing the Independent Cracker Co., of Portland, and L. Polder of George Lawrence Co., harness.
    Art Smith, one of our prosperous bachelor farmers, who has a fine farm and orchard on Big Sticky on the Eagle Point-Phoenix road, was here on business last Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Fred Frideger, another one of our prosperous bachelor friends who owns a fine pear orchard, came out to work in it, getting it ready for spraying Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and so did Mr. Gaines, one of the prosperous stock men of the Trail section. He is one of those men who believe that it pays to feed his cattle and consequently has had a part of his cattle on the A. G. Bishop (Hollywood) orchard and ranch and had that day brought out the rest of them, as his feed was running low at home. He reports that there are now about 400 head of cattle being fed on that ranch besides two bands of sheep belonging to different parties and that they are looking fine. Our stockmen living back in the hills who have small farms and keep considerable stock but have not the necessary amount of cultivated land to raise hay to feed the whole amount arrange during the summer or fall to have them fed and calculate to have to feed them until about March or perhaps a little longer, and by that means have them ready to turn out on the foothills where the grass starts early, thus having the cows in good condition for bringing their calves and having plenty of milk to give them a good start and getting them ready for the more nourishing grass in the higher hills.
    Roy Davis of Derby came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on out to Medford and Wm. Merrill of Reese Creek came in Saturday evening and remained until Tuesday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Fauke of Gazelle, Calif. came up to see Roy Stanley about cattle and Mrs. Fauke visited Mrs. Stanley, thus combining business with pleasure.
    A. B. Shelby, a traveling salesman, Carlyle Natwick and his sister, Mrs. Gladys Cooper of Medford and Mr. Clayton, bookkeeper for C. H. Natwick, railroad contractor of Butte Falls, and M. F. Coleman of Medford. Mr. Coleman came out to see J. D. Patrick on business who was working at the Sunnyside doing some repair work.
    Frank Brandon of Central Point, L. M. Case, C. W. Rose and Frank Haselton, all of Wellen, were also here for dinner Sunday. Mr. Haselton is the foreman on the Antelope orchard. Also Misses Ruby and Mabel Tedrick, who were the guests of Eden Haselton, one of our regular boarders. In addition to them we had quite a number of our town young men here for dinner and supper.
    Benj. Edmondson and wife of Butte Falls came out on the railroad truck Monday, took dinner and went on to Medford in the afternoon to visit her mother, Mrs. John Obenchain, formerly of Butte Falls but now sick in Medford. They returned Monday morning and went up home reporting that her mother was improving.
    John Greb came in Monday morning to bring his daughter Frances in to meet the Persist stage. Miss Frances is teaching the Persist school and came out to see her parents. I mentioned in a former letter that she was here at the time of the teachers council but did not mention her as being present and learned Monday that she came out to attend but found her mother sick so remained with her.
    H. L. Heryford and his son George and his two cousins, Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls and her two children and Mrs. Ed Cowden, who lives on their farm about three miles out of Eagle Point, came in for dinner Monday. Mr. Heryford and son were on their way to Ashland to have George's arm dressed. The reader will perhaps remember that I mentioned some two weeks ago his passing through here with a broken arm and now he was on his way to have the old cast taken off as his arm had shrunk so as to require a new one. Mrs. Cowden had come in to meet her sister's children and take them out home with her for a visit.
    J. Silas, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Central Point, and Miss Hannah, daughter of Jasper Hannah on the road via the French-Dodge Bridge to Trail, were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning. Miss Hannah is attending the Butte Falls high school.
    J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the fish hatcheries in Jackson County, and his assistant, Thomas Cingcade, passed through here Tuesday morning on their way to the Butte Creek fish trap, and Mr. Berrian called for dinner Tuesday and reports that he has had a good catch and up to date has secured 1,000,000 steelhead eggs and 35,000 cutthroat eggs. He shipped a box of eggs to the Butte Falls hatchery Tuesday morning on the stage.
    J. Wattenburg and wife came in Tuesday morning to meet a party who came out on the stage from Medford.
    E. A. Denton and family, who lived here last season for a while and bought the property that belonged to the late A. J. Daley but moved back to Ashland to look after business interests there, have returned to their old home in Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vestal of Reese Creek and Walter Parr, also of Reese Creek, Alex Mathews and Benj. Brophy were also business callers on our merchants Tuesday.
    Our new merchant, F. J. McPherson, has been cutting some of the old war prices he found in the T. E. Nichols store when he took charge of it, and reports business looking up, although it is not so lively as it might be, as there seems to be but very few people coming in from the country.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 17, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. Fred Sturgis entertained Frances Greb Saturday.
    L. A. Whitley hauled a load of hay from Mr. Steward's; also Mr. Schermerhorn and Howard Ash have been hauling hay from different parties.
    Earl Hutchinson is working for P. E. Sandoz.
    Howard Ash, Irvin Hutchinson, Earl Hutchinson and Mrs. H. Ash, also Hazel Pence attended the dance at Trail, Saturday, March 11.
    George Trusty went to town on a business trip in his car last week.
    Weston and Gordon Miller are working for Fred Sturgis.
    Those who were on the Eagle Point-Persist stage Monday, Mar. 13, were: Miss Frances Greb, Mis Viola Peterson and Miss Edna Peterson.
    Harvey Morgan of Coquille, Ore. is taking care of his uncle's place, Henry Morgan, who was stricken with some malady. He was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital and was brought back after a few weeks there. Then he had a relapse and had to go back, so Harvey Morgan has been kind enough to take care of his place.
    Lee Whitley visited Geo. Hall Monday, Mar. 13, to sharpen a few tools
Medford Mail Tribune, March 18, 1922, page 3


    Floyd Charley went to Ashland last week and bought some thoroughbred cattle.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Company have moved another steam shovel to work on the ditch back of Earl Tucker's farm.
    Mr. and Mrs. Cann of Montana are visiting Mrs. Cann's brother, Roscoe Hulse.
    S. L. Hoagland made a business trip to Eagle Point Monday.
    Harold and Thelma Dallas spent the weekend with Cingcades of Eagle Point.
    Carl Stanley came out to his ranch Friday and returned to Medford Saturday.
    Milo Conley is hauling hay from the Loma Linda ranch.
    Vida Bradshaw spent the weekend at her home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Eagle Point were visitors at the Tucker home Friday.
    Mrs. R. E. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Staub went to Medford Wednesday.
    Ralph and Olga Bieberstedt made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Mrs. Yanty Marshall and daughter, Meada, were visitors at the Walter Marshall home Sunday.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden went to Eagle Point Monday.
    Leland and Claus Charley went to Medford Friday.
    J. Monia went to Los Angeles Friday to attend to some business. Later he is going to Long Beach to visit friends and relatives.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 18, 1922, page 3


    Thomas Grigsby of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Wednesday.
    M. S. Woods, one of the old veterans of the Civil War, was a business visitor to Medford about the middle of the week and while there had a sinking spell and fainted while in the Nash Hotel and while on his road home was in a serious if not a critical condition, as he is almost quite helpless at times. A few nights before he went out to the woodshed near morning to gather some kindling to start a fire, as he could not sleep, and fell down and lay there for about an hour and his wife missed him and became uneasy, got up and went to look for him and when she found him, was not strong enough to get him to the house, so had to go and rouse Mr. R. A. Weidman to help him to bed again. He still persists in going around alone, but one of his neighbors remarked as we saw him tottering along the sidewalk that if he should fall down he could not get up without help. But he is still as plucky as he was while in the army fighting for the preservation of the Union.
    H. H. Fox of Lake Creek, the milk goat man of that country, was a business caller. He reports that he is still in that line of business and reports that his neighbors, some of them at least, thought last fall that they would have hay enough to carry them through with their stock and have a hundred tons of hay left but are now putting their cattle on half rations and that the outlook is not good for feed, as the ground is covered with snow almost every morning, and that the past winter has been the hardest we have had up there for years on stock.
    Wm. Cottrell and D. L. Rummel were among the diners Wednesday, beside two strangers whose names I failed to secure who went away on the stage to Medford, and that night Walter Parr, who lives on Reese Creek, came in and spent the night.
    Wednesday afternoon the landlady of the Sunnyside Hotel--she doesn't like to see her name in a newspaper--started for Oregon City and Portland for a visit to her two brothers in Oregon City, two in Portland and one in or near Damascus and our son-in-law and family, Grant Shaw, wife and four children, to be gone until she has her visit out, and take a much needed rest.
    Ernest Dahack, our barber, has been making some substantial improvements on the tract of land where he has his barber shop, by removing the old low wire fence and putting up a neat four-foot Page fence in its place.
    Miss Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, who has been visiting relatives in Medford, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and was met here by her sister, Mrs. Ed Cowden, and taken out home with her for a visit before going home.
    Mr. Rynning, the civil engineer, who, I understand, is appointed by the county court to look after and superintend the work on the roads in the rural districts, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Thursday. He was armed with quite a bundle of survey equipment, as though he was to lay out some work on a road in the hills. I understand that there is to be considerable money applied on the rural routes this season.
    J. Zimmerlee of Trail was a business caller Wednesday, but did not learn anything from him, as I learned some time ago that he had disposed of his interest in the Adamson-Chappell sawmill.
    R. D. Hanson and Gus M. Lowe were here for dinner, they are in the employ of Foster & Kleiser in posting ads on the six bulletin boards, Thursday. And so were Alfred and Westy Robinson of Oregon City, who have been employed up in the Lake Creek country and were on their way to their home in Oregon City.
    Ed Dutton and Ed Cowden were also business callers.
    Mrs. John Rader, who has been here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, returned home Thursday.
    Mrs. George W. Averill of Butte Falls, who has been out to Ashland and had some dental work done, came out Friday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did a lady and little boy of Ashland, who was on her way up to Derby to visit friends. For reasons best known to herself, she requested me to withhold her name. They both went up on the Butte Falls stage.
    Mrs. W. G. McDowell and Mrs. T. F. Todd of Trail came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on up home on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist stage. Mrs. McDowell is the hostess of the Rogue Elk Resort on the Crater Lake Highway on Elk Creek.
    Mrs. F. J. McPherson, the wife of our new merchant in the T. E. Nichols store, made a business trip to Medford Friday.
    The Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point called out the forces of able-bodied men to make some decided improvements in our town park, under the direction of our town mayor, H. E. Campbell, our banker and our lady councilwoman and one of the street commissioners, Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown, and with eight good horses and about sixteen men, some of the men seemed to want to be boss of the job, accomplished quite a lot of work, although the ground was rather wet to work to advantage. They were leveling off some of the high places and filling in some of the low. The work was volunteer work and the ladies gave the men an old-fashioned chicken dinner that was said to be up to date.
    One of our new merchants, Thos. F. Nichols, has been making some decided improvements around his home, having removed the old and rather dilapidated fence and replaced it with a new one.
    There seems to be a scarcity of news as there are but very few people from the country come into town and they who do come, don't brag on our roads. But after the equinox, we are expecting a change in the weather for the better.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1922, page 6


    The firm that has the contract for part of the work on the Crater Lake Highway between Agate Station and the Cingcade ranch have moved their camp to the gravel bar below lower Butte Creek bridge and are making preparations to haul considerable gravel and rock to place on the road.
    Luther Davis and Orville Hamilton, two of our enterprising young men, who are living on the Hamilton ranch near Bybee bridge, are intending to raise a large number of turkeys the coming summer.
    E. G. Whiteside intends to move back to his place soon. T. E. McGraw and family, the present occupants, will move to Medford where Mr. McGraw has purchased a couple of lots and is building a house.
    Messrs. Lemen and Hood and their families have rented the Orr place and have moved thereon.
    On account of the late spring most of the surplus stocks of hay are used up and the stock men are turning their stock on the pastures. The price of hay still ranges from eight to ten dollars a ton.
    There was born to Mr. and Mrs. T. E. McGraw a nine-pound baby boy, on Friday night at the home of Mrs. McGraw's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McCay.
    Mr. Roberts, foreman at the old Davis ranch, which now belongs to the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., is making preparations to sow one hundred and fifty acres to alfalfa this spring. This will make about 300 acres of alfalfa on the ranch, which will be one of the largest alfalfa ranches in this part of the country.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1922, page 7


    Miss Burr was visiting our school (Elk Creek) Wednesday. We were all glad to see her, as it has been a long time since we saw her last
    We have earned nine stars for our card entitled "Requirements for a Standard School," which gives rules for a standard school. We have five more points to secure.
    Miss Burr also visited the Persist school, No. 80.
    Mrs. P. S. Sandoz made a business trip to town Saturday, 18th, returning Wednesday, 22nd. Somebody is going to have a toothache as I noticed a pretty good-sized sack of sweetmeats.
    Arthur Moore went to Trail Monday, 20th. He returned Tuesday with two incubators. Looks like Persist is getting up in the world. Mr. Moore also has a few new lambs.
    Harvey Margard also made a trip to Trail the same date.
    Mrs. Lois Clements and her two children were visiting Mrs. J. M. Milles Tuesday. She came all the way from Medford and intended to stay a little longer than she did but had to rush away before the roads were too slick from the rain we are having. The weather decided her as the sun was shining when she came and it rained during the night, so disappointed her and her relatives.
    Miss Inez Willits visited Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence Wednesday, March 22.
    We have a volleyball outfit at our school and have already derived an abundance of fun out of it.
    L. A. Whitley visited his mother and relatives, Wednesday, March 22 at Persist.
    I was visiting one of my neighbors last week and noticed that one of his calves was sick. I inquired what the trouble was and he replied that it had the colic. I asked him where it was and he said the calf was down in the hay. It sure was, as he was lying down and couldn't get up as he was lying down fairly deep in the hay. Very interesting?
    Irwin Hutchinson attended the dance at Stewart's. People along the creek are getting short on hay on account of the grass not growing as soon as we expected. So consequently we have to feed longer than usual, which makes it bad for those who run out of hay as it has to be hauled pretty far.
    The news is pretty dry to be read but the season is pretty wet to fret.
    Elmer Sperry was a visitor at Mrs. Dave Pence's place Wednesday the 15th. He enjoyed his visit.
    One of the features of the Trail meet will be a game of volleyball, weather permitting.
    Miss Inez Willits visited Mrs. Deliah Wagner last week. She enjoyed her visit.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1922, page 8


    Mrs. W. Zimmerlee and children returned home with Mrs. C. Blaess Sunday and will visit at their home in Medford a few days.
    Miss Edna Petersen is a guest at the Poole home this week.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher was a Sunday caller at J. Zimmerlee's.
    Miss Houston of Central Point spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Houston.
    There was a large crowd at the dance at Stewart's Saturday night but they adjourned early.
    Erving Hutchinson visited Lowell Ash Saturday and Sunday.
    The farmers are sure pleased to see the warm days and hope to see more of them follow.
    R. W. Thomasen of Drew is looking after mining property near Trail.
    Art Moore and Harvey Morgan of Persist made a trip to Trail Monday, hauling potatoes down and grain back. They report the Elk Creek road is very rough.
    Mrs. P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek was a Medford caller Saturday.
    Uriah Vaughn of Prospect passed through Trail on his way to Eugene Saturday, where he has employment.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1922, page 8


    R. A. Petty and W. P. Holbrook were among the business callers Saturday morning and J. P. Clayton, the bookkeeper for C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the extension of the P.&E.R.R. from Butte Falls to near the base of Mt. McLoughlin, and Carlyle Natwick, Buster Mathews, Chris Beals, the mail carrier from Derby to Butte Falls, Mr. Beals came out on the stage and went on to Jacksonville as he had been summoned to serve on jury duty, were here for dinner Saturday.
    John Miller and family, who bought the Dr. W. W. P. Holt property, has moved from his farm on the S. Little Butte Creek into our town.
    After I finished writing my last letter for the Daily Mail Tribune I learned that the ladies E.P.C.I.C. of E.P. concluded that as they had succeeded so well in improving the park that they would hire men and teams and do a lot more work, so had a lot of new soil hauled in and having the ground properly prepared for the planting of trees and I understand that one of our county commissioners, James Owens, has proposed to donate the trees necessary to supply the demand and the prospect now is that if our present mayor and lady street commissioner live that we will soon have a park to be proud of.
    A. Mayfield and wife, who have been here helping to care for Mr. Mayfield's sister, the late Mrs. Wm. G. Knighten, have gone to Ashland to live in their old home.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Reid of this place went to Grants Pass Saturday and to Ashland Sunday. Mr. Reid is the engineer who ran the steam roller on the C.L.H. last summer and says that he expects to run a roller on the road from Grants Pass, putting on the hot stuff, the finishing touches, this season.
    Mrs. W. Mills, who is living on the Fred Pelouze farm, was in town on her way to Ashland, her old home, to visit her daughter, who is there taking lessons in music. She said that her husband was now in the Southern Pacific Hospital, that he had been in the employ of the S.P.R.R. Co., and while in the discharge of his duties was hurt in his spine and while working, moving onto the farm, hurt himself and as a result was taken to San Francisco to be treated. They have a five-year lease on the Pelouze farm.
    Among the callers Sunday for dinner were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, shoe dealers of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Feldman, also of Medford; Wm. Merritt of Reese Creek; Anton Ring of Trail, he and Mr. Merritt spent the night; I. P. Clayton; B. F. Natwick and his sister, Mrs. Gladys Cooker; A. B. Shelby, a traveling salesman for Baker Hamilton Pacific Co., Portland; Wm. Lewis and two brothers, Thomas and George; Thomas F. Nichols and wife; Wm. von der Hellen; Louis Martin and Miss Mabel Tedrick.
    Monday among the business callers were W. E. Hammel, Marshall Minter, Fred Pettegrew, John Blaess, Wm. Butler, J. H. Carlton and his brother Lyle Carlton, Wellen; Benj. Brophy, Ed Cowden, Lem Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, he is now employed in painting and papering for J. F. Brown on his home. Sam is introducing an oilcloth to be used instead of paper, especially in the kitchen and rooms exposed to smoke and slopping of water.
    I met Jesse Hartman, our old bridge builder, and S. M. Hawk at the post office Tuesday morning on their way up to the Big Butte country. Mr. Hartman was on his way to take the measurement and order the timber for a new bridge across Big Butte, so that Mr. Hawk can haul out his lumber. He says that he has a fine lot of lumber ready to haul out as soon as the bridge is completed.
    John Lane of Derby drove in Tuesday morning and while here was giving his listeners an account of some of the hardships of the people in that section on account of the roads. He told us that during the last two years the county have paid out $42,000 on the road between the Reese Creek school house and the Frank Neil corner (Derby) and that there is only one short space but is covered with deep mud from six to sixteen inches deep, and that last year the supervisor spent $1,000 on a piece of road, and then it all had to be dug up and made over in a different way. He said that he helped to build it and helped to dig it up. How long will it be before the authorities will learn the folly of having the county road work done in the way it has been done, instead of letting it out by contract. It is estimated that there has already been money enough appropriated by the county and citizens to make a good road from Reese Creek to Butte Falls, and still the people up there are hemmed in with mud.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hoefft of Butte Falls, and little son, came out Tuesday on the Albert car on the railroad track, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford on the stage.
    Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was a business caller Tuesday.
    S. A. Croshel and E. A. Russell of the Jackson County Creamery were here Tuesday. They were out soliciting for three different makes of silos and claimed that they were quite successful.
    Roy A. Conroy, Butte Falls, came in Tuesday and spent the night and to dinner at the Sunnyside today, Wednesday. He had been out to Medford for a few days having his hand treated where he bruised it, for blood poison. He spent this Wednesday forenoon looking after a load of beef cattle he has being fed on the George Givan ranch and went up home this afternoon.
    Mr. S. King, who has a homestead on the Obenchain mountain, spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    H. G. Adams, the minister in charge here, will preach here Sunday, March 26, both morning and evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1922, page 10


    Mr. Roscoe Hulse and Mr. Cann made a business rip to Medford last week
    Mr. Roscoe Hulse took Albert Hoagland to the Dow Hospital at Medford Saturday and brought him back Monday.
    The eighth grade students are working on an Arbor Day program, in which the entire school will take part.
    Mr. E. C. Stanley returned home Thursday.
    Elmer Hoagland visited school Monday.
    Mrs. Jacob Monia made a business trip to Medford Thursday.
    Mrs. R. E. Tucker and William Staub went to Medford Tuesday.
    Carl and Fred Stanley brought a bunch of cattle down from Rancheria and turned them loose on the low range.
    Mrs. Hulse and Mrs. Cann were visitors at the Brownsboro school Friday.
    Mr. C. E. Stanley made a business trip to Eagle Point Monday.
    Ernest Fluharty of Talent took a horse to Butte Falls Wednesday and spent Wednesday night at the Hoagland home.
    Mr. Ralph Tucker is shearing goats this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Charley and family are moving to the Bradshaw ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewey have taken up their ranch in the Antelope District.
    There was a good attendance at Sunday school Sunday and it was voted to give an Easter program. Mrs. Hulse and Mrs. George Brown were appointed to arrange for the music. They would like to have all interested out next Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 25, 1922, page 3


    Mr. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatcheries in Southern Oregon, has had an electric pump put in near the fish trap on the L. K. Haak place for the purpose of pumping water to be used in developing the fish eggs to prepare them to be carried to the hatchery near Butte Falls.
    Perry Foster of Beagle, one of the pioneers of Jackson County, was a business caller last Wednesday and so was Marsh Garrett, who has a fine stock ranch near Lake Creek and another on the headwaters of South Little Butte.
    Mrs. Willard of Ashland was visiting Mrs. W. Miles on the Fred Pelouze place the first of the week.
    Mr. J. F. Maxfield of Brownsboro passed through here Wednesday and stopped a short time to have our blacksmith do a little repair work on a piece of machinery and then went on to see one of our prominent farmers and stock men, Charley Cingcade, who I understand is afflicted with the rheumatism.
    Mr. Cadzow, one of the leading merchants of Butte Falls, passed through here Thursday on his way up home.
    John Rader, another one of our prominent farmers and stock men, was here on business. I understand, from what I consider good authority, that he is talking of giving up the farm work and purchasing property here in our town.
    J. L. Hovey, foreman on the Alta Vista Orchard, was a business caller Thursday. He reports that he has two families and two single men working most of the time pruning the orchard and was burning the brush when the big rain storm came Wednesday night and Thursday, one of the finest rains we have had for a long time. Mr. J. L. Robinson, one of our leading farmers, was in Thursday and in commenting on the benefits to be derived from it remarked that it would be worth thousands of dollars to this end of Rogue River Valley, although some of our pessimists are predicting that now the rain is over and that we will have no more rain until fall, but who ever heard of a crop failure in Oregon, especially in Rogue River Valley!
    William Burg and son, who are living on the old Caton place between here and Trail near the Crater Lake Highway, were in town Thursday and report the ground thoroughly soaked and prospects fine for a big harvest this season.
    Miss Ella Armstrong of Medford is here visiting Miss Muriel Smith.
    Mr. Wm. L. Hurst and son Louis started for the oil fields of California the first of the week on a prospecting tour, leaving the rest of his family here.
    D. R. Patrick, our general carpenter, came in Thursday and engaged board and room at the Sunnyside for a while. He has been engaged by our postmaster, W. C. Clements, to do a lot of work on the post office and telephone building and make some decided and much-needed improvements in the appearance and comfort, as well as convenience of the two offices.
    Loris Martin, who has spent most of the winter trapping, made a business trip to Medford Thursday and spent the night, returning Friday morning.
    Glen Curtis of Chicago came out from Medford Friday morning and went up to Lake Creek on the stage.
    Ray Davis and his brother Roscoe of Derby came out Friday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on out to Medford.
    Henry Trusty of Elk Creek, Trail post office, was a business caller Friday.
    George Albert, the man who runs the accommodation car on the P.&E. Railroad from Butte Falls to Eagle Point, came in Friday bringing a full load of teachers and others from Butte Falls and vicinity, among whom were Miss Alvkeld Romtnedt, Miss Ella Prettyman and Mrs. Everett E. Hara [Dahack?] of Butte Falls, Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, who is teaching in the Crater Lake School District, Mrs. Graydon Childreth, not a teacher, and five or six others, whose names I omitted to secure, and Mr. S. King, a homesteader. The teachers, all except Mrs. Kincaid mentioned, came to the Sunnyside and rested until their car came to take them to Medford and Mrs. Kincaid met her husband here, and after supper both went on out to Medford. It appears that the Butte Falls teachers are taking a vacation of three days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
    Mr. S. L. Kidder, one of the post office inspectors, came in Friday evening and spent the night and this Saturday morning examined the books, etc., in our post office and went back to Medford.
    Mrs. D. M. Davis of Ashland came in this morning and went up to Lake Creek to visit her son-in-law, one of the Gresham boys, and family near the summit between Butte Creek and Antelope Creek.
    R. A. Petty was the only man I met in my rounds from the country this forenoon, so I guess that the farmers and stock men are getting busy.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 27, 1922, page 3


    Mrs. George Brown of Brownsboro and daughter were transacting business with our merchants last Saturday.
    Walter Wattenberg was here also Saturday and so were Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fuller.
    Alvin Murso of Auburn, Calif. is here visiting his sister, Mrs. Ernest Dahack. He said that he was simply looking over the country and seemed to be favorably impressed with its appearance, although the cold backward spring has kept vegetation back so that the country does not show to advantage as usual.
    An item I picked up Saturday afternoon: The Eagle Point baseball team met Wednesday, March 22nd and organized by electing Fred J. McPherson manager and Lyle Van Scoy as treasurer and secretary and are so anxious to show their skill in that line that they are ready to meet any baseball team north of the Equator outside of New York state. The boys are feeling their oats and are anxious to show their prowess. Suggestion: Suppose that the Medford and Ashland teams unite and re-elect a team out of the two teams and come over and meet the Eagle Point boys and learn a few tricks.
    Wm. Perry, our road supervisor, was here Saturday and reports that his road district has been enlarged so as to take in the country up Rogue River to near Trail, and that he had two graders at work, one on the Persist road by way of the lower bridge across Little Butte Creek up Rogue River to the Dodge-French Bridge, crossing that stream to Trail and the other on the boulevard in the Antelope country and that he did not know how large his road district was until the county court sent him a blueprint of it. But Will is capable of filling the position; in fact, there are a lot of people out here who think that he is good material to make a county commissioner of.
    James Pew of Rogue River came in last Friday to make his annual visit to Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade to take their birthday dinner together, he being 78 years old on Saturday and Mr. Cingcade being 77 years old on the day before, March 24. They have made it a rule to have a birthday dinner together on either one or the other's birthday for the last thirty-eight years, with one exception, and that was when Mrs. Cingcade was in the hospital some years ago.
    John A. Miller and wife and Mr. Wilson Martin, better known as Bill Martin of Lake Creek, were here Saturday night for late supper. Mr. Miller had just got in with his last load, moving out from his ranch on the south fork of Little Butte into our town and Mr. Martin was helping Mr. Miller move, so came in late for supper.
    Sunday morning was warm and pleasant and I ventured out to take my place in our Sunday school for the first time since the 1st of December, to return home before preaching. I noticed that there was quite an addition to the number of scholars, although I was informed that there were not so many as there had been attending, and on looking out of the window I saw quite a company engaged playing baseball and suggested that was the reason for the falling off. But we had a very interesting session and at the close a sermon by our minister, Rev. H. G. Adams. I noticed a very important addition to the literature of our Sunday school and that was a nice large map of the two kingdoms of Israel and Judea hanging on the wall. Rev. Adams will preach next Sunday morning and evening, April 2nd, in Butte Falls.
    Sunday noon when I reached home I found that dinner had already been announced and that there were fourteen busy trying to satisfy their appetites and quite a number in the sitting room and parlor so that I did not succeed in securing the names of many of them, besides many of them were people of our own town and so just left all of them except those from a distance. Among them were L. Deuel, merchant of Medford, Carl Jackson and wife of Butte Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Davis of the Medford Auto Co. and son Charles Davis, Jr., Mrs. J. D. Jackson, Mrs. Anderson, Sidney F. King, Miss Gertrude Fredenburg and Geo. Taylor of Medford.
    Charles Pennington of Butte Falls was here and went on to Medford Monday morning and Ralph Bieberstedt, Raleigh Mathews and Paul Janney of Prospect was on his way to his home on the stage.
    J. Monia of Brownsboro came in on the stage Monday morning. He had been on a business trip to California and was just returning. He went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, March 26, a boy baby.
    C. E. Bellows was here Monday circulating a petition for signers to have George Alford's name put on the Republican ticket as a candidate for county commissioner.
    E. G. High and Kelly Paris of Ashland were among the business callers Monday. They are in the auto business.
    R. B. Faffer came in on the stage Monday from Medford and took passage on the Lake Creek stage for his home at the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden came in Tuesday morning to bring her sister, Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, in so she could go home on the stage.
    Perry Foster and one of his granddaughters, Miss Cora French, and Miss Lillian Cottrell of Debenger Gap were transacting business in our town Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 31, 1922, page 10


Medford Mail Tribune, March 31, 1922, page 6


    The North Teachers' Council meets at Brownsboro April 8 and they will have an all-day program with a picnic dinner. All those interested are invited. Twenty-five teachers are in this council and several talks on the educational problems of this section will be given. Keep the date in mind and come out.
    Our school had an attendance percentage of 99 last month, and nineteen were neither absent nor late.
    A large crowd was out for Sunday school and the church services here Sunday.
    Will those interested volunteer their services for the Easter program.
    Mr. Joe Maxfield made a business trip to Eagle Point Thursday.
    Walter Marshall and family went to Eagle Point last week.
    Mr. Mayon came to Brownsboro Monday to get supplies.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden visited our school Thursday and led us in singing.
    Mr. Irving Bieberstedt is ill with a cold and is under medical care now.
    Carl Stanley drove about three hundred head of cattle from Medford, where they were fed all winter. He took them to Eagle Point.
    Rev. C. C. Hulet was a visitor at the Brownsboro School Friday. He gave a short talk and announced that he would hold services here Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cann went to Trail Sunday.
    Mr. Brown and two daughters, LaVerne and Francis, were visitors at the Hoagland home Sunday.
    Vida Bradshaw spent the weekend at her home in Brownsboro.
    Miss Velda Monia and Miss LaVerne Brown are spending this week at home. They are students of the Butte Falls high schools.
    Mrs. Rhorer of Lake Creek visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Sr., Sunday.
    Business callers at Medford last week were Mr. George Hansen, Mrs. J. Monia, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cann, Frank Simpson, Mr. W. N. Staub and Mr. L. D. Tucker.
    Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and mother were visitors at the Staub home Sunday.
    The last heavy rain has done a great deal of damage to the irrigation ditches.
    Visitors at school last week were Mrs. William Hansen, Sr., Mrs. Geo. Hansen, Mrs. J. Monia and son, Vernon and Mrs. Kubli.
    Miss Velda Monia was a visitor at school Monday and while here she led us in singing.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1922, page 4


    Miss Ester Mechem spent the weekend with friends at Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jess Ragsdale and children, Mabel and Burton, spent Monday with the former's mother near Medford, who is very ill.
    The dance at McDonalds' was well attended and greatly enjoyed by all present. We all appreciate all the trouble Mr. and Mrs. McDonald went to for our benefit and the lovely supper.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daughter, Wanda, and Lowell Ash were Medford visitors Friday.
    Harold McDonald of Eugene is spending his spring vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald.
    There was a large crowd at the Matlock dance Saturday night and all report a fine time.
    Hay hauling is still in vogue around Trail. The farmers are all hoping for good weather soon.
    The Misses Frances Greb, Edna, Dorothy, Viola and Mildred Peterson, Henry Trusty, George Trusty and Clarence Whitley of Persist were among those at the dance at Rogue Elk Saturday night.
    Fred Sturgis and Ezra Whitley made a trip to the valley Tuesday.
    The Misses Edna Peterson and Minnie Poole were Sunday visitors at the Pritchett home.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ash, Dorothy Peterson, Lowell Ash and Irvin Hutchison were Sunday guests at Irwin Howe's.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1922, page 4


    Mrs. Ed Murphy of Wellen was in doing her shopping about the middle of the week.
    There seems to be considerable travel over the road between Medford and Butte Falls and Prospect, as it is not an uncommon thing for the stage to have three and sometimes five passengers on the way to different points above either Lake Creek or Trail, Derby or Butte Falls, and it is getting quite often that there will be as many come out. For instance, last Tuesday there were five ladies came out on the stage, one of them stopping here and starting right off as soon as she could toward Geo. Brown and Sons store and one Mrs. McDaniel, hostess of the Elks resort on Rogue River, changed stages and went up home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage and three went on up to Butte Falls and the same day there was a man and two ladies and two children came out from Butte Falls or Prospect, stopped here for dinner and went on out to Medford.
    Mrs. W. L. Childreth, the wife of our blacksmith, who has been visiting friends and relatives in Medford for a few days, has returned to her home.
    I omitted to state in my last letter that Rev. J. E. Day and wife of Butte Falls came out Monday on their way to Medford, and as she was getting out of the hack that brought her from her home to Derby to take passage on the auto stage she made a misstep and fell, hurting her wrist, and at first fears were entertained that her wrist was broken. Frank Neil, who lives near where the stage changes from the auto to the hack, was just starting away and seeing the accident turned back to his home and procured some cotton, arnica and a splint, dressed the wound and they came on out here for dinner and went on to Medford. On consulting a surgeon, he decided that one bone of the wrist was cracked and reduced the fracture, if there was one, and they both came out to the Sunnyside Wednesday afternoon, spent the night and had George Albert come out Thursday morning with his railroad motor and take them home. Mrs. Day complained but very little, as she seemed to suffer but very little on account of the accident. This is the second time that they have been here during the past few months on account of a broken bone. The other time Mrs. Day had a broken or dislocated shoulder, caused by a fall. Mrs. Day is quite heavy and advanced somewhat in years and not so spry as she was when younger.
    Mrs. H. E. Campbell, the wife of our banker, and Mrs. C. L. Parker of Berkeley, California, called in for dinner Wednesday. Mr. Parker, her husband, was here for a few days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Campbell a short time ago and Mr. Parker gave such a pleasant account of our town and its surroundings that she concluded to come up and see it for herself.
    There was quite a stir in the railroad circle of Eagle Point about midweek when the new locomotive and a train of eighteen flat cars and a box car came out over the road and passed on up onto the desert. The engines used heretofore on the track have been small compared to this one, it weighing sixty-two tons empty, and seeing one so large made us begin to think that there was something going to happen in Eagle Point yet. I understand that Mr. Olds, Mr. Buhrman and Mr. Brownlee came out on the train. They only took it up the hill onto the desert, I understand, to test its capacity for service and returned to Medford the same day.
    Mrs. Lyle Carlton, nee Nellie Coy, our accommodating post office clerk for a long time before her marriage to Lyle Carlton, was a business caller Wednesday.
    E. V. Brittsan and his brother, J. A. Brittsan, made a business trip to Medford Wednesday and stopped here on the way home to do business with T. J. McPherson, our new merchant in the T. E. Nichols store.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls, who had been out to Medford on business, came out and spent the night at the Sunnyside, going on up home on the George Albert motor car Thursday.
    Mrs. W. T. Clark and baby of Weed, Calif., came in Thursday morning on the stage and were met by her father Mr. A. L. Young and a younger sister and taken out to the Frank Rhodes farm. Mr. Young is operating the farm this season.
    Mr. W. G. Knighten and Cliff Hickson made a business trip to Medford Thursday.
    John Laton and Mike Spencer and three ladies with two children and a strange man were here for dinner Thursday. The ladies and children came out on the Butte Falls stage.
    Ira Tungate, Mrs. Barker and her two children of Butte Falls came out on the stage Friday and went from here to their home on the G. Albert motor car.
    In making my rounds Friday morning in search for something to write up for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, I met K. T. Matthews, a salesman of Del Monte can goods, and Mr. Apika Hanson of Medford in the old Nichols store, now under the management of F. J. McPherson and I noticed that he gave them quite an order before they left. They claim that business is looking up in our part of the country.
    H. E. Armstrong, livestock inspector, was here for dinner. While here he inspected our little bunch of sheep and pronounced them all OK. W. C. Pool was also here trading and so was Charles Mathews.
    The latest sensation was this Saturday morning when I started on my rounds. I saw a group of men standing in front of Lewis' store and on arrival learned that the store had been burglarized the night before and $3 in cash and $25 or $30 worth of cigarettes and canned goods taken. The thieves had cut a hole through the back door large enough for a hand to be put through and the spring lock sprung so as to open without any trouble. It is supposed that it is the same gang who have been doing the store breaking and other work in that line in Central Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 3, 1922, page 4


    Sealed proposals for constructing the Trail-Prospect National Forest road project located adjacent to Crater National Forest, state of Oregon, county of Jackson, will be received by the district engineer, Bureau of Public Roads, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at Portland, Oregon, until 10 o'clock a.m. on the 20th day of April, 1922, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids, and none will be considered except those from contractors ascertained to be experienced and responsible.
    The length of the project to be constructed is approximately 13.6 miles.
    The work embraced in this contract shall be completed within 120 weather working days following the execution of the contract by the Secretary of Agriculture.
    The contract form and maps, plans, specifications and estimates of quantities may be examined by responsible contractors at room 316 Post Office Building, Portland, Oregon and at the office of the forest supervisor at Medford, Oregon.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 4, 1922, page 3


    Two houses on the range near Brownsboro have been broken into and quite a bit of damage done. At present neither house is occupied. One house was on Mrs. Belford's homestead. She is at present in Florida for the winter months. The front door was completely smashed in and had been pried open with a heavy timber. Window lights were broken.
    Blood was on the floors and furniture. Some of the local people think that a hunter or trapper might have spent the night here and the blood was from some dead animal.
    The Thomas homestead was also broken into and a great deal of damage done. Some of the outbuildings were knocked down. There was a small chicken house which was dragged away from the house.
    Some people are of the opinion that some of the cattle men who are opposed to sheep on the range might have done the damage.
    Mr. Anderson is now living in the Thomas house and is ranging five hundred head of sheep on this range. Heretofore the Butte Creek range has not been grazed by anything but cattle except when Mr. Phipps ran about a thousand head on the same range a few years ago. Objections to sheep in this district seem to be very strong.
    Lewis Walch and wife visited the latter's parents Saturday.
    Carl Stanley, who has been in Eagle Point, returned home Saturday.
    We had a surprise birthday party last Friday, March 31. It was on the children whose birthdays are in March. They were Gladys and Robert Cowden, Donald Bieberstedt and George Hoagland.
    Miss Velda Monia returned to Butte Falls Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nygren were up to the Brownsboro Butte Sunday looking for some cattle.
    Clarence Cann was riding for Roy Stanley last week.
    Miss La Verne Brown returned to Butte Falls last week.
    The teachers institute will be held here April 8 as before announced and everyone interested is invited. Keep the date in mind.
    R. E. Tucker and William Staub made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Walter Marshall made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Karberg and Mrs. May Underwood were visitors at the Maxfield home Saturday.
    Walter Ratcliffe was a visitor at the Maxfield home Sunday.
    Walter Marshall and family went to Eagle Point Saturday.
    Miss Mildred Tucker went to Eagle Point Saturday.
    Miss Pool will hold an all-day sewing school here Wednesday, April 11. Watch the paper for the details of the meeting.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 5, 1922, page 6


    In my last letter for the readers of the Mail Tribune I omitted to tell of the wonderful improvements that have been made in our town park. The Ladies' Civic Improvement Club donated quite a sum toward the cause and some of the patriotic citizens also donated work and cash and the work is being superintended by our street commissioner, with the result that now our town park begins to look as though there were others besides "old hayseeds" among us, for it is quite well covered with a fine selection of ornamental trees neatly planted, and many of the river boulders that were scattered over the surface have been wheeled together and arranged so as to enclose the trees and shrubbery so that it looks very attractive, and being situated along the bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek and on the other side by the boulevard, and that connected with the Crater Lake Highway will attract the attention of the tourists as they are on their way to and from Crater Lake and also be right in line for those going and coming from the different soda springs that are becoming pleasure resorts during the summer and fall seasons.
    Mrs. Hessler, Mrs. George Brown and Miss Monia, all of Brownsboro, were among the visitors last Saturday. Miss Monia and another young lady started on the stage for Butte Falls to resume their studies in the high school.
    Herman Meyer and wife of Lake Creek and Herman Meyer, Jr., passed through here Saturday with two cars, each having dressed hogs and veal for the Medford market.
    J. F. Brown is having quite a lot of improving done on his residence, he having the house repainted inside and out and new floors laid. He is doing the carpenter work himself, as that is or rather was in his line of business, but now is a member of the mercantile firm of George Brown & Sons.
    There were four passengers on the Butte Falls stage Saturday going to Butte Falls.
    Saturday afternoon there was a company composed of Mr. and Mrs. Hagen, Mrs. Hagen's mother, Mrs. Kanoff, and four or five children passed through here on their way to beyond Butte Falls with two-horse teams and a one-horse buggy leaving here about 5 o'clock and Mrs. Hagen was carrying a babe only three weeks old and no shelter and the weather cold and damp. The next I heard of them they were trying to pull up Rocky Hill about 14 miles from here, Tuesday, a part of four days, and it raining a good part of the time up there. Mrs. Kanoff is a woman sixty years of age and has a homestead four miles beyond Butte Falls and had been up a few days before, walked out to her homestead where she had left plenty of provisions and horse feed, but when she reached there found that the house had been broken open, the grub all taken and the horse feed left exposed to the rats and mice and that about destroyed, so had to walk back to Butte Falls, spend the night and the next day here and two of her children walked out to Talent. That experience tells something of the hardships the homesteaders have to undergo out in the hills. Mr. and Mrs. Hagen are from San Francisco and Mrs. Hagen has been a magazine and movie writer, quite an experience from city life to homesteading in the Butte Falls mountains.
    Mr. W. Burg and daughter, who are on the old Caton Place near Rogue River about six miles above here, were here trading and having his team shod Saturday.
    The Stanley Bros. brought in quite a bunch of mixed cattle Saturday. There were quite a number of young calves among them and they all looked fine.
    Messrs. Ralph Tucker and Staub of Brownsboro were among the business callers Saturday. Mr. Staub is the present mail carrier on the Lake Creek route but he has arranged with Mr. Van Dyke to fill the contract for the rest of the time till June 30th.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek and Clarence Robinett and wife of Medford also came in to visit Mr. Robinett's mother, Mrs. W. L. Childreth and family, and Mrs. Robinett's father and her stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. William Perry.
    W. L. Hurst and son, who went down to the oil fields near Bakersfield, Cal. a short time ago, have returned and report that times are good and plenty of work, also plenty of men to do it.
    Sunday was a passably pleasant day and there was a good attendance at the Sunday school. We had no preaching, as the pastor, H. G. Adams, was holding services in Butte Falls but expects to hold services here both morning and at night next Sunday, April 9th, and the following Sunday, April 14. Easter Sunday there will be a union Sunday school service, as the Reese Creek and Brownsboro schools have been invited to meet with us and have a picnic dinner.
    Among the guests here for dinner Sunday, not counting those of our town who came in for dinner, were H. A. Van Scoyoc, Vera Van Scoyoc, Margaret Van Scoyoc, of Medford, Isabella Wattenbarger, Ashland, Mrs. W. E. Tumy, Mrs. Vilas and son Edward Vilas of the Vilas Ranch on the Eagle Point-Medford Road via the old Big Sticky Road, Carlyle Natwick of Butte Falls and Miss Ruth Nichols.
    Mrs. Vilas and her son were on their way to Wellen to visit the von der Hellen families and came by here for their dinner.
    Earl H. York, of the force in the distributing department in the Medford post office, came in Monday to spend a few days recovering his health. He had an attack of the flu and is taking a week's vacation.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls came in Monday for dinner, left his horse with Sam H. Harnish, went out on the stage to Jacksonville via Medford to procure the assessor's books, etc., to assess his district, returned this Wednesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and started assessing along the foothills via Reese Creek.
    E. T. Hoefft of Butte Falls came out on Saturday's stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on out to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1922, page 8


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"Ye Poet's Corner," Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1922, page 3  Leeda was 16 years old and lived in Eagle Point..


    Gus Pech of Lake Creek, A. Wines, the coal and petroleum prospector of Medford and Chris Beale of Butte Falls, who has been out to Jacksonville as a juryman, were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning. Mr. Beale has been engaged carrying the mail from Butte Falls to Derby, meeting the auto there and exchanging the mail, he taking the mail back to Butte Falls by team.
    G. W. Averill, who is living on his homestead on Round Top, came out Tuesday, spent the night at the Sunnyside, went on to Medford, returning Thursday evening and Friday morning went up home with his load. A. H. Dougherty, representing Rawleigh's Remedies, was with us Wednesday night.
    J. C. Herring, the deputy assessor, was also here for dinner.
    Mr. L. H. Swink of Butte Falls, who had been out to Medford or Jacksonville on business, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner, and so did J. W. King and G. M. Lowe of Foster and Kleiser Advertising Co. He was posting new bills on the bulletin boards.
    "Bum" Neuber of Jacksonville was a passenger on the stage. He had been up in the timber belt for several days, looking over the situation, and stopped here for dinner on his way home. He reports a lot of snow a few miles back of Butte Falls.
    Wm. von der Hellen and wife and two of her brothers, A. J. and Judge Florey, were also here for dinner Thursday. Mrs. Florey has been stopping in Medford the most of the time during the winter and sending her son and daughter to the high school, while William spends part of his time here and in Medford and the rest looking after his contracts.
    John Norris and Mr. Swink were among the passengers coming out from Medford Thursday and there were three strangers also among them.
    Alex Betz, George Holmes and wife and four strangers were among the diners putting in the posts on the Crater Lake Highway between the Agate station and the Cingcade Hill and reports that everything is ready for the fencing wire. Mr. Holmes is our garage man and Mrs. Holmes is the principal of our school.
    I have noticed that there has been an auto standing in front of our school house the last three days and my curiosity led me to make inquiry as to why it was there, who were the persons that were coming and going in it, etc., and the principal gave me the following information: The Misses Leavell and Myrtle Nordwick, who are students in the Medford high school, have been observing in our school Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. She did not explain the object they had in view, but we infer that they are preparing themselves to teach and have adopted that plan to procure some idea of the different ways with the different teachers of imparting instruction in the different schools and summing them all up and then selecting what they consider the best and using them singly or combining two or more and using them.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murphy of Wellen, Guy Pruett and his mother, M. L. Pruett, and Harry von der Hellen of Wellen were among the business callers Thursday.
    Geo. W. Averill, when on his return trip from Medford, spent the night at the Sunnyside and informed me that when I spoke of his wife being out in the valley and having some dental work done, that I made a mistake and stated that she had it done in Ashland, when she stopped in Medford and had it done.
    C. H. Natwick and his son, Carlyle, were also guests Thursday night at the Sunnyside, and Mr. Natwick, who has a contract for grading a short distance on the extension of the P.&E. Railroad, reports that he expects to finish his job in a week or more.
    Russell Harris of Central Point came out Thursday evening and engaged board and room at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Albright of Trail was one of four passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and she went on up home on the Trail stage.
    We have had another change in real estate, John Daley having disposed of his land joining town to his cousin, Linn Daley of Medford.
    Mrs. J. Hodson and two children of Rushmore, Minn., came in Friday, took dinner and went on to Butte Falls. She is on a visiting tour via Los Angeles, where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Spencer, one of the pioneer settlers of the "unsurveyed country" northeast of Butte Falls, and is going up to Albany, Portland, etc., on her return trip home.
    John Rader, one of our leading stock men, was doing business here Friday.
    Professor C. L. Ward of the high school, Butte Falls, and H. P. Rasmussen and Isadore Einstein, special prohibition agents from Washington, D.C., came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday, ate dinner and went on to Medford.
    Mrs. Horn, one of the Butte Falls teachers, came here Friday and was met by her husband and went on to Medford.
    Sam Williamson of Talent came in and spent the night, Friday, and so did Adin Haselton, who has been working on the P.&E. extension for C. H. Natwick.
    Mrs. Sarah Guerin, a sister of the Brown brothers, and Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy of San Francisco is here visiting her relatives.
    There was another case or rather two cases of housebreaking and burglary in our little town Friday night.
    Ashpole & Nichols' hardware store and Geo. Brown and Sons' general merchandise store were broken open and robbed. Ashpole and Nichols' was opened through the back door and but little taken, a few knives and some cheap watches and no damage was done, but the Browns did not fare so well, for there was hundreds of dollars' worth of goods taken off the shelves and thrown on the floor, hats loose and in boxes, shirts, coats, underwear, shoes, groceries, etc. and they even emptied sacks of stuff out on the floor and walked over everything in their sock feet and not satisfied with that, threw water on the goods. They tried the safes in both stores but did not succeed in opening either of them. Frank Brown, one of the firm, estimates that the loss will amount to at least five hundred dollars. Our sheriff, C. Terrill and deputy sheriff, S. Forncrook and a fingerprint detective, Mr. R. B. Markland of Los Angeles, came out but did not tell anything. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. Twinbow and his son, George, and Mr. David Wicks. Mr. Twinbow is the foreman of the section gang repairing the P.&E. railroad and thinks that he will have it patched up in two weeks' more time.
    Mr. W. P. Haak, who is operating a sawmill about four miles from Butte Falls and Mr. S. T. Maefa were among the passengers to Butte Falls and Rob Harnish also went with them.
    Amos Young and wife, recently from Prospect, were trading here this Saturday morning and so was Harry Hawse and wife. He says that he has bought the Stiles Bros. sawmill and is moving it lower down the creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1922, page 10


    Our program, which was held at the Elk Creek schoolhouse Friday the 7th, was a complete success. About 55 persons were in attendance. We did not expect that number as it was storming off and on during the day. The program consisted of a few songs, recitations and three dialogues. After the program Miss Burr showed slides on Oregon scenery, which was interesting as the slides were colored and looked real. She also gave a lecture on each slide.
    The last event of the evening (or morning) was a basket supper which was enjoyed by all.
    A few were unfortunate enough to arrive at the end of the program, as the rain delayed them. But were on time to see the slides and help eat the goodies.
    Dave Pence made a trip to Medford last week. His conveyance was a team and wagon. He also visited Trail during the latter part of the week.
    P. S. Sandoz visited Medford last week.
    Mrs. Deliah Wagner and children Daisy and Elbert visited Mrs. P. E. Sandoz, Sunday the 9th.
    Mr. Fred Sturgis hauled a load of baled hay from Trail Monday the 10th.
    Mrs. Deliah Wagner visited Mrs. J. M. Miller Monday.
    Miss Burr was a guest of Mrs. Dave Pence Saturday.
    Remember that the Trail meet will be held at Trail Saturday the 15th. Everyone try and come.
    Some people along the creek are planting their spring gardens.
    Hazel Pence entertained a few guests Saturday and Sunday, 8-9.
    L. A. Whitley has been sowing alfalfa.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 14, 1922, page 7


    There was a dance at the Hoskin home Saturday night and was enjoyed by a large crowd.
    Mr. and Mrs. Claude Moore of Elk Creek were Medford visitors Monday.
    Enid Middlebusher is visiting with friends and relatives near Prospect this week.
    We are glad to report our teacher, Mrs. Tucker, much improved and expect to have school going again in a few days.
    Mr. McConnie and Mr. James of Seattle and Mr. Reynolds of Medford are in our vicinity looking after mining interests.
    Hoyt Smith and R. Yocum came out from Medford Monday and went on to Prospect Tuesday.
    Claude Ragsdale is hauling wood these wintry days. Guess people will need wood all summer this year.
    Mr. Pritchett and family are enjoying a visit with the former's brother from Nebraska.
    Mrs. S. E. Albright returned to Medford Tuesday after a few days' visit at her home near Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 15, 1922, page 5


    Mrs. Mamie Brown, a daughter of M. S. Wood, arrived last week from Los Angeles, Calif., to visit her father and stepmother.
    Another one of our popular young ladies, Miss Ruth Nichols, has made the hazardous step and joined in wedlock with one of our Eagle Point boys, Carlyle Natwick, in matrimony last Friday. They were so still about being married that but very few knew of the event, or even where they were married or who solemnized the marriage. I understand that they are spending their honeymoon in Portland. Their friends here are waiting to congratulate them.
    The Ladies' Civic Club will meet at the home of Leroy and Rosa Smith on Thursday, April 13th, and begin in earnest to make different kinds of things to put on the market at the bazaar on primary election day, May 13.
    Mr. F. W. Reid and family started last Sunday for Portland to visit friends and attend to business affairs.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our prominent farmers and orchardists, was doing business with our merchants Saturday.
    The school boys have organized a club and are turning their attention to raising different kinds of animals. Heath Childreth is trying his hand at raising purebred pigs. Ralph Herst, thoroughbred chickens, and Rudolph Weidman, purebred Jersey heifer. They have agreed to go strictly according to instructions from the O.A.C., and the professors are to send the boys special instructions as to what to feed and how to feed. Everything is to be weighed or measured that they feed, even to weighing the milk and grain that is fed. That is a fine arrangement, as it teaches the children to be exact and methodical in not only that one thing, but in other acts of life. We wish the three boys whose names I have secured success in their undertaking, but will be glad to have each of them receive a handsome prize.
    Mrs. G. W. Harvey and four children came in Saturday night at a late hour from near Klamath Falls on foot. They had come as far as Medford on the train and started out from there with someone in a car but got bewildered on the way and found themselves at a large white house in the night. I did not learn whose house it was, but they could not get accommodation for the night, and was directed how to come to the Sunnyside, where they remained for the rest of the night, and after breakfast she tried to explain how she came in but all that she knew was that they came over the hill. There is a man boarding here, Loris Martin, who has a house rented and was sleeping in it; it belongs to George and Wm. Lewis, so he proposed to take his things out and let her have it, it being the only available house in town, so she moved into that. Knowing that they had no baggage with them, I met the largest boy and inquired how they managed to sleep and he said, "Oh, we all bunched up together and used our coats to wrap up." They want to get work.
    Henry Edwards of Idaho came in Saturday night and the next morning started for Butte Falls on foot as there is no stage on Sunday. Chas. Manning of Peyton also came in and spent the night, went out to Central Point, returned for dinner and went home the same day. Clarence Pruett was also a guest Saturday night.
    Among the guests Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Drew of the California-Oregon Power Co., L. M. Carr, Olive Hay, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs of the Hub Shoe Store, Medford and Mrs. G. A. Fields, Medford.
    Mr. R. D. Watson and Florence Adamson of Trail were business callers Monday morning. Mr. Watson is the husband of the noted candy manufacturer, and when I asked him if Mrs. Watson had not been engaged in the business a few years ago, replied that she had, and was talking of going into the business again. She gave up the business so they could locate on a homestead up in the Trail country.
    Mr. Ervin McCall, one of the pioneers of Prospect, having lived there for about thirty-five years, and says that he expects to live there as long as he lives anywhere on this earth, came out on the stage Monday, ate dinner at the Sunnyside, went on to Medford, the same day, returned today, Wednesday, and went on up home. While here he met Mr. Wm. G. Knighten, another one of the venerable pioneers, who was at one time a near neighbor, or lived in the same range of country in an early day, a few miles distance between neighbors did not amount to much, so they could get together and take a hunt or meet at the social gatherings. They were neighbors and they had a very pleasant visit together while the stage driver was arranging his mail and lashing on his parcel post and baggage for he had three or four passengers and their baggage, and with only a Ford car--for that is about the only car he can use now between here and Derby. It takes close packing to get it all on and he often has to leave passengers on account of the horrible condition of the roads. In addition to Mr. McCall being here for dinner, we had three others here for dinner.
    We have had another big cattle deal in this section. The Stanley brothers, all except Harvey, and he was not in the company, have disposed of their band of cattle, fifteen hundred head to one of the Dixon brothers of Fort Klamath. I did not learn the price per head or conditions of the sale.
    Mrs. Wm. Burg and her son, who live about six miles from here, near the Crater Lake Highway, was doing a lot of trading with George Brown and sons Saturday. I also met Mr. Moore, the man who had the tools and radiator stolen off of his car some little time ago. He was getting supplies for the culinary department of the P.&E. Railroad camp near Derby. I understand that he is the cook at that camp.
    Mrs. F. J. McPherson, the wife of our new manager of the T. E. Nichols store, went to Portland the first of the week to attend to business affairs. Her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Brophy, was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Compton of Wenatchee, Washington, came in Monday afternoon from Los Angeles, Calif. to spend a few days gathering agates. They had been spending the winter in Los Angeles and are on their way home. About the same time C. B. Ryckman of Newport, Ore., and James Corscut of Albany, Ore., came in to spend a few days in the agate fields and about the same time Charles E. Hart an agate cutter and manufacturer of jewelry of Newport, Ore., came in and they are all here at this date, Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Clark and their families spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Glen L. Terrill, son of our sheriff, was also here for supper. He was on his way up to his father's ranch just above Brownsboro.
    Remember that this Sunday is Easter and that there will be union services and picnic dinner. Sunday school meets at 1:30  p.m. After Sunday school a short address by the superintendent, H. E. Campbell, and followed by a short address by Rev. Mr. King the Sunday school evangelist.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 15, 1922, page 5


    Among the business callers Tuesday were one of our staunch farmers and stockmen, John Rader, and he brought in some of his homemade side bacon for the new manager, F. J. McPherson, at the F. E. Nichols store.
    Walter Allen, son of another one of our prominent stock men of Derby, came in with one of his father's mammoth teams to have them shod, and in speaking of the team the subject came up as to the value of the horses and six hundred dollars was mentioned as a fair price and Mr. Childreth, the man who shod them, remarked that he did not suppose that Mr. Allen would take even that price. He has been devoting his time and attention to raising good stock, both cattle and horses, and the result is he has some of the best horses and cattle in the country if not in the state, and the span referred to is only a small part of them. Mr. L. K. Haak, another one of our prominent farmers and orchardists, who also turns his attention to the dairy business and keeps some of the best dairy cows in the country, was a business caller Tuesday.
    J. M. Conley and E. J. Clark of Butte Falls, and Mrs. J. Hodson and H. A. Haygood were among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Dick Vaughn and his son Ray and wife and baby of Peyton called for a few moments at the Sunnyside but did not stop for dinner as they were trying to meet someone en route.
    Mrs. Steve Rumble of Macdoel, Cal., and Messrs. Selhony, Malaki and Thomas Brocks spent Tuesday night here on their way up near Brownsboro to look after a homestead that Mr. Brocks located some years ago. After spending the night here they went on up on the Lake Creek stage.
    Charles Humphrey of Derby, one of the rustling farmers and stock men of that region who has been hauling hay up home to save his stock, was here for dinner Wednesday.
    J. O'Brian and daughter Mrs. Albert Jack of Butte Falls, Mr. Al Schmidt representing J. E. Haselton & Co., of Portland, and two strangers whose names I failed to procure were also here for dinner Wednesday.
    Thomas Riley and his sister, Mrs. J. C. Hayes of Gold Beach, Ore., were business callers.
    Charley Cingcade, one of our prominent farmers and stockmen who has been afflicted with rheumatism for some time was a business caller Wednesday. And so were Mrs. Jasper Hannah and Mrs. J. F. Mathews of Debenger Gap, and while here handed me the following item: Mrs. Jasper Hannah and son Master Everett and daughter, Mrs. Ralph Haskins and two friends, Mrs. J. F. Mathews and daughter Miss Lillian Cottrell were visiting their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Florence Ferguson of the C. F. Rhodes ranch, Wednesday, April 12.
    I also received the following: Wednesday evening, April 12th, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols were agreeably surprised by fifteen of their friends coming in for the evening. Cards, music and dancing were enjoyed by all. Refreshments were served at midnight and soon all departed having had a very enjoyable time and all hoping to participate in many more such evenings. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Thos. F. Nichols, Miss Beth Farlow of Lake Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley, H. S. Dixon of Fort Klamath, Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols and Miss Lee Halley of Medford, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Lloyd Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols, mine host and hostess and daughter Miss Muriel. Before leaving the subject your Eagle Point correspondent wishes to thank the parties who furnished the two items for the Eaglets and express my appreciation of such favors.
    Henry French and his son Lloyd were doing business with our merchants Thursday, which was the first time that I have seen them for a long time, and when the subject was mentioned Henry said the roads were so bad that they could not get out via Eagle Point, so crossed on the Dodge-French bridge and went to Medford to do their trading.
    Sam Courtney was in town Thursday and reports that in addition to having his car stripped of everything that was loose, that W. E. Hammel and John Caster and Marshall Minter were treated in the same way. It appears that they all four, living as they do off the Crater Lake Highway and the road from their homes being so soft that they could not run their cars from home to the Crater Lake Highway, concluded to leave them parked along the thoroughfare, not thinking of anyone molesting them, but they found out to their sorrow that it is not a good place to leave valuables.
    I met J. W. Berrian Thursday just as he was getting into his car going to the fish trap on Butte Creek, and he excused himself for rushing off as he was going to get a lot of fish eggs to send them up to the Butte Falls hatchery by the railroad truck in charge of Mr. Cox, the head foreman of the construction work on the P.&E.R.R. Mr. Berrian said that he would reach the million mark soon.
    Mr. Cox reports that they are getting along very well with the work of repairing the road, that the new locomotive went over it all right with quite a train of cars, and if I remember right, eight loaded cars and three empty cars.
    Wert Pool, one of our farmers, was here having some new parts put on his plow.
    Mr. Coleman of Climax was here Thursday trading with our new merchant, F. J. McPherson in the old T. E. Nichols store.
    Fred Pettegrew had his fine thoroughbred stallion out here Thursday having him shod. He says that he is waiting for the weather to settle before he starts to make his regular rounds.
    M. E. Hess of Fort Klamath was here for dinner Thursday. I understand that he is in the cattle business and that there is a very great scarcity of cattle in the Klamath country as the cattlemen have been selling off their young calves for veal in the California market.
    H. L. Moore, recently from Wisconsin, came in from Medford on horseback and spent the night and started on the next morning for Butte Falls. He not being used to horseback riding and not used to our cowboy saddles complained of being very sore; said the saddle held him like a vise.
    Minor Jones of Butte Falls came out on the stage Thursday, took dinner and went on to Medford.
    Charles Dexter of Lake Creek was a business caller Thursday.
    Mrs. Flora Kanoff, the sixty-year-old lady mentioned in a former letter as having such a time going from here to Butte Falls, and her granddaughter came out on the stage Friday morning, but owing to the load of mail, parcel post and baggage they decided to go up on the railroad motor. Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby was also a passenger on the stage going up home, and two strange men.
    D. R. Patrick has gone to Benj. Brophy's ranch to do some work for him as he has finished his job on the post office building.
    Alex Vestal came out Friday to do some trading and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Rolland Conley has been hauling a lot of hay up to the sawmill on his place near Butte Falls and that makes the roads still worse than they were.
    T. T. Taylor, who is in charge of Marsh Garrett's stock ranch on Lake Creek, came out and made a trip to Medford Friday.
    Word came in this Saturday morning that Harvey Smith died last night at the home of his brother, Corbett Smith, near Butte Falls. Further mention later.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 18, 1922, page 4


    Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stanley went to their home near Rancheria Sunday. They have been at Eagle Point during the winter.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Co. have put a double shift or night and day crew on the steam shovel.
    Yantz Marshall and family visited the former's son Walter Marshall Saturday.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden made a business trip to Eagle Point Monday.
    The Stanley Bros. have sold their butcher shop, the City Meat Market, at Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Jr. and family were visitors at Walter Marshall's home Sunday.
    L. D. Tucker made a trip to Medford Wednesday.
    R. E. Tucker sold some dairy cows to Mr. Valentine Wednesday.
    Ralph Bieberstedt made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Miss Frances Greb, who is teaching at Persist, spent the weekend at her home in Eagle Point.
    Carl Dressack and friend from San Francisco is here visiting friends and while here is looking after his homestead.
    Mr. Monia, while doing his chores, heard a coyote nearby and upon looking he discovered one chasing the sheep. He got his gun and killed the animal.
    The Brownsboro and Butte Creek schools gave an Arbor Day program Friday. There was a large crowd and after the program Miss Homes, the county superintendent, talked to the patrons about consolidation of rural schools.
    Lloyd Stanley, who has been in Klamath Falls, has returned home.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 21, 1922, page 7


    ELK CREEK, April 19.--The field meet at Trail which was to be held April 15 was about a failure on account of the bad weather. But Mrs. Ash kindly loaned the hall to the public. Miss Holmes called a meeting which all attended. The first number was community singing. Then Mr. Wood, who agreed to take charge of the events, gave a lecture on "The Work and Health of Others." Mr. Wood is secretary of the Y.M.C.A. of Medford. We all enjoyed his speech, as he added a touch of humor once in a while.
    After Mr. Wood's' speech we had a basket dinner which was enjoyed by all.
    In the afternoon Mr. Wood instructed the pupils of the different schools on how to get a good start in foot races. Then all played volleyball.
    While the volleyball game was proceeding Miss Holmes called a council to discuss and decide various subjects. One was to postpone the track events until May 13 to be held at Prospect. It is rumored that a citizen of said vicinity will give prizes to the winners, besides the regular prizes offered by the county. So we hope that everyone possible will be there to witness the fun and take part in the afternoon games. A basket dinner as usual.
    Miss Faldine, the county nurse, examined the pupils of this district Mar. 17. Conditions in the school are fairly good. We are going to have our drinking water tested, which comes from Elk Creek.
    Fred Sturgis has been hauling hay. He secures it from the valley.
    Hazel Pence was the guest of Gladys McDonald Saturday, April 15.
    Lee Whitley visited his mother, Mrs. F. A. Whitley, March 17. He also secured some berry roots from Mrs. Fred Sturgis and Harvey Morgan.
    A high school has been prepared at Prospect and all districts that want to join may do so. We hope it will be a success as there will be plenty of children to attend from the outlying districts. The results will be known at the meeting to be held in the near future.
    Those who attended the Trail meet Saturday the 15th were: Miss Willits, chairman of the council; Miss Greb, teacher in Persist District; Elmer Ivey and Hazel Pence, pupils of Elk Creek School.
    Dave Pence, the chairman, visited Elk Creek school Friday the 14th. He also witnessed a ciphering match, with Hazel Pence the victor.
    Miss Inez Willits enjoyed a visit at the Dave Pence place Tuesday the 18th.
    Some person was mean enough to steal some alfalfa hay from the Nelson cabin, which was stored there last summer. It didn't amount to much but was picked hay saved for a lot of little rabbits. This mean person should have his conscience prick him to show him right from wrong. The place was not broken into by cattle, as certain signs indicate different. The place is owned by L. A. Whitley.
    The weather seems to be changing with the moon as it is pure sunshine all day long.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 21, 1922, page 7


    Just received a note from my wife who is visiting our daughter in Portland in which she said that one of our old neighbors and at one time a student in our school, Robert Pelouze, had called on her while she was in Portland and had a very pleasant visit with him and how glad he was to meet some of the old Eagle Point friends. He sends his regards to his host of old Eagle Point admirers, for notwithstanding the fact that the Medford scribers for the Mail Tribune used to try to make it appear that he was a Medford boy because he was so bright and beat the champion swimmer in a contest when he was a mere boy in his teens, he always claimed Eagle Point as his home. He is now married and the head of a family of three, and his many friends here and elsewhere are glad to hear from him.
    J. W. Hovey, the superintendent of the Alta Vista Orchard and his nearest neighbor, R. A. Petty, were here on business Saturday.
    Mr. Muskopf, one of our enterprising citizens, was patching up the roof of our blacksmith shop Saturday and the next day was helping Rudolph A. Weidman put up some more wire fence. He seems to be able to turn his hand to almost anything to keep things moving.
    Thomas Cook, formerly of Eagle Point but now of Butte Falls, was a passenger on the stage for home, and Sam Oeser, one of the P.&E.R.R. men, was also a passenger on the stage for Derby.
    Lucius Kincaid and wife came out from Butte Falls on the Geo. Albert motor Saturday, took dinner and went on out to Medford to see Mrs. Kincaid's parents, returning Sunday morning and Mrs. Kincaid went on up to Dupray's mill to take charge of her school. Her husband remained until Tuesday.
    J. F. Johnson of Reese Creek was also a business caller Saturday.
    Easter Sunday was a passably fair day and the exercises were well attended, although there was not the general union of the schools that was anticipated as the Brownsboro school failed to unite with the Brownsboro and Eagle Point schools owing in part to the inclemency of the weather and bad roads, but there was a good attendance and the program was very good. The ladies with the assistance they could get from the men and boys had the church beautifully decorated and after the usual Sunday school exercises was followed by a short address by the pastor, Rev. H. G. Adams, he taking for his subject, "Life." This was followed by a bountiful lunch served by the ladies and it is not necessary to add that the only trouble with the lunch was that it was too good, taking in the thought of health and comfort immediately after, for there was more than one person felt like loosening their belt.
    The program: A short address by the superintendent, H. E. Campbell, and this was followed by an address by Rev. H. G. King, the Sunday school evangelist for the American S.S. Union. Song by Eagle Point school, song by four boys, "Easter Blossoms." Then we had a duet by Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. R. A. Weidman. Recitation by Reese Creek school. This was followed by two recitations, one by the Reese Creek school and one by four boys. Then a recitation by Miss Lois Robinson, then another by the Reese Creek school, besides several short exercises by the Reese Creek Sunday school. A song, "Shout and Sing," and a quartet by H. E. Campbell, Mrs. R. G. Brown, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Rev. H. G. Adams. This was followed by a few remarks by the superintendent and the benediction.
    It was universally agreed that the Easter exercises were a glowing success.
    When I reached home at the close of the morning services there were twenty-three seated at the dinner table and among them were several townsfolk, among them Mrs. R. G. Brown, Wm. H. Brown, wife and two of his sisters, Mrs. Sarah Guerin of Oakland, Calif., who is here visiting her brothers, Frank, William and R. G. Brown and her sisters, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Mrs. S. B. Holmes, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. West and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hubbs, Medford, Mrs. Alina Boland, Miss M. E. Lemmon, Mr. I. B. Walther and S. M. Scott of Medford.
    The funeral of Harvey B. Smith, who died at the home of his brother Corbett near Butte Falls, took place at the Butte Falls cemetery Sunday afternoon and the services were conducted by Mr. Jones at the grave. Mr. Smith was 35 years old and leaves a wife and two children besides his father and several brothers and sisters. He has been in very poor health for the past several years.
    Mr. McDougal and A. J. Florey of Medford were among the diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Monday.
    There has been another change in the business management of the T. E. Nichols store. Something like a month ago I announced that F. J. McPherson had taken charge of the store; at that time he took it over with a view of purchasing the stock of goods provided the business proved to be such as would justify the move, and after a month's trial and at the end of the specified time Mr. McPherson decided that he would be justified in making the investment, so took over the stock of goods and entered into the entire management and control of the business on Monday, April 17. He tells me that he has already ordered a full line of groceries and dry goods.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres of Medford came out Monday morning on the Butte Falls stage and went up to Elk Creek to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Trusty, on the Persist stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, who own a farm and orchard on the P.&E.R.R. on Reese Creek, were business callers Monday.
    A. L. Young and his son-in-law, L. V. Ferguson, were among the business callers Monday. They have leased the Frank Rhodes ranch for a term of five years and intend going into the dairy business on quite an extensive scale.
    Everett Culbertson of Lake Creek was trading with our merchants Monday.
    V. Johnson of Medford and George Smith of Derby, C. H. Natwick, the contractor on the Butte Falls extension of the P.&E.R.R. and A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls, the deputy assessor who is assessing the stockmen north and east of here, were here Monday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 21, 1922, page 10


    Last Tuesday I took a stroll down into the lower end of our town to visit one of the old veterans of the Civil War and when I entered the house, who should I meet but one of his daughters, Mrs. Ora Henderson, who spent her girlhood days here but is now a resident of Portland. She had just come in to make her father and stepmother, and her own mother, Mrs. Susan Hart, a visit, also her sister Mrs. Mamie W. Brown of Los Angeles, who came up about a week before. While I was there Mr. Woods took me out to show me a large Poland China sow and her litter of eight pigs. She had thirteen at first, but five of them were killed by the mother lying on them and from other causes, but the eight that she had left were surely beauties. He said that he was going to push them along, feed them all that they could eat until fall and then take them to the county fair, the mother and all, to show what fine pigs can be raised in our section of the country. The sow is two years old and is almost as large as a yearling calf that has been well cared for. I also noticed three large piles of sand and fine gravel in front of his yard and inquired what he was going to do with that and he told me that he was going to have cement walks made back and in front of his house and have the place fixed up; that he and his wife are both getting old, he about 85 and his wife about 80, and that they intend to simply spend the rest of their lives in pleasure.
    Writing about pigs brings to my mind the item that V. E. Peterson, the mail carrier on the Eagle Point-Persist route, came out Tuesday with five fine Hampshire hogs from the McDonald ranch, taking them to a man living on the Jacksonville road, Mr. E. B. Fleming. They are beauties.
    G. W. Isbell, V. E. Peterson and G. M. Lowe were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Lowe is advertising agent for Foster and Kleiser advertisers.
    Charley Patton of Butte Falls came out Thursday evening on the stage, took supper and after supper went on to Medford to consult a doctor about a badly bruised, if not broken, finger. In working with a washing machine, he had his finger caught in the machinery with the result that the doctor thought that he might have a slivered bone. He came back and spent the night here, going back to Medford to see the doctor the next morning.
    George McDonald was in town on his way to Butte Falls to do some rock work for C. H. Natwick on the extension of the P.&E. Railroad last Wednesday. George W. Sanders, formerly foreman on the Antelope Orchard, but now on his own farm near the mouth of Big Butte, was also in town Wednesday.
    A. E. Hildreth, Sam Courtney and a man and a woman were here for dinner Wednesday. Mr. T. A. Whaley of Butte Falls came in the same afternoon, bringing his wife here for medical treatment as she is in poor health. They are both here at this writing. Mrs. Whaley seemed to improve in health as soon as she was comfortably fixed in bed.
    Mr. W. P. Morgan, who owns the old Pool Hotel property and about three acres of land beside in our town, is making some decided improvements in the line of fencing. And Mr. E. A. Denton, who bought the A. J. Daley house and land adjoining it, has been replacing the old fencing on his property.
    As I was looking around for something to write for the Medford Mail Tribune Wednesday, I discovered some stock in the pond, so going across the creek around by the old grist mill, I counted twelve head of cattle there of different marks and brands, that the "powers that be" had gathered, that had strayed inside of the little incorporation for that does not include all of the town, but the next morning noticed that there was none left and then learned that the marshal could get no hay to feed them so had to turn them out again. In one of my recent letters I spoke of Mr. D. R. Patrick putting some new rustic on one side of the post office and telephone building and building a very neat building that will be handy to use as a garage and a place where Mr. Clements can put his fixtures for his telephone, as well as making some very neat changes on the interior of the building and now Sam Courtney, assisted by E. A. Nuting, has covered the new as well as the old with a fine coat of paint, so that one hardly knows "where he is at," when he goes to get his Mail.
    Mrs. Marguerite Reter of Medford came out Wednesday afternoon with her sister, Mrs. Fay von der Hellen, to see some of her old friends and neighbors.
    Mr. Andrew Pool, Trail, one of the Forest Service men, was a business visitor Thursday morning and so was Wm. Coleman on his way up the country. There was a man and woman came into the hotel on business with one of our boarders Thursday noon but went on. They were headed for Butte Falls and were from Central California.
    Bert Clarno and brother, John Brittsan, Ivan Conover and wife and aunt, Mrs. Pukard of Stillwater, Ore., Mrs. Walter Wood and R. Conley of Butte Falls were among the business callers Thursday.
    A. G. Bishop, Wm. Holman, Lake Creek, Perry Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Mathews and Miss Lillian Cotteral were in town Thursday, and Perry Foster remained here for dinner, while Mr. and Mrs. Cotteral went on out to the Frank Rhodes ranch to visit Mr. Young and family.
    L. G. Polman, Butte Falls, and G. F. Little, Klamath Falls, and Mrs. J. F. Colas of Newberg, Ore., who was returning from a visit to her daughter, who is teaching in Butte Falls school, were here for dinner Thursday.
    H. Ditsworth of Medford and Miss Elizabeth Burr, rural school supervisor, were also here for dinner Friday. Miss Burr was on her way to Reese Creek school and was exhibiting some interesting and instructive pictures to the schools, as well as lecturing to the children.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 25, 1922, page 5


    Miss Della Hard, who has been in California and New Mexico for the last three years, is here visiting friends and relatives. She has spent the last three weeks at the Hanscom home in Eagle Point. She is looking after their homestead.
    Miss Faldine, the county nurse, visited school Tuesday and examined the pupils.
    Miss Burr visited the Brownsboro school Friday and talked about club work. Eldred Monia and Robert Cowden have taken up goat raising. Harold Dallas has taken up corn raising. A sewing class was also organized; those enrolled were Thelma Dallas, Ellen Tucker, Stella Adams, Mary Stanley and Viola Hoagland. These people are official members of the Boys' and Girls' Industrial Club.
    Mrs. J. Monia and son Vernon went to Medford last week.
    Mr. William Hoagland has gone to the Old Soldiers' Home in Roseburg to spend a few months.
    Mr. Carl Stanley made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tucker made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
    Mr. Lester Smith, who has been attending the University of Oregon, came back last week. He is going into the Forest Service.
    Mr. Rader of Medford, who owns a ranch back of Earl Tucker's farm, brought some cattle out Sunday to put in his pasture.
    Dr. Barber called on Mr. Monia today. Mr. Monia has a serious case of flu.
    Miss Della Hard and Roy Hanscom were visitors at the Stanley home Saturday.
    Miss Kubli spent the weekend at her home on Applegate.
    Harvey Stanley went to Ranch Rea last week, where he will stay for a few weeks.
    Floyd Charley and Lee Bradshaw went to Eagle Point Sunday to separate some cattle.
    Mr. and Mrs. Geer and two children visited their old home now owned by Hoaglands. They were coming from California en route to Canada.
    Our pupils are gong to take part in the field meet at Talent Friday.
    Vida Bradshaw spent the weekend at her home in Brownsboro. Miss Bradshaw is teaching at Wagner Creek.
    Eleven of our children have earned their knight bannerette or gold pins in their health crusade work. All of the pupils have their first pins and several others are working for the gold pins.
    Ellen Tucker, Viola Hoagland and Harold Dallas have completed their Curtis practice work.
    Miss Kubli, who has taught here for the last year, has accepted a position in the Applegate school for next year. She says she has enjoyed her year here, but that she is taking the school at Applegate because it is her home.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1922, page 7


    Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Nygren and her mother, Mrs. Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek, were here trading with our merchants.
    Geo. McDonald, C. H. Natwick, C. A. Pickel, the electric meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Co., Chris Beale, the man who has been carrying the mail during the time of the winter schedule, three traveling salesmen and two strangers who came in on the Butte Falls stage were here for dinner Saturday.
    Sunday morning as the mail carrier from here to Medford and back (while we have a daily mail from here to Medford and back twice a day we have only one service each way from Eagle Point to Medford), as the car was coming in from Medford just before it reached the Crater Lake Highway, it took fire and the driver had all that he could do to save the mail from the flames. The car, a Cole, was completely consumed. It was partially insured. When W. G. Night [Knighten?] and A. J. Florey were going up the Cingcade Hill they discovered the smoke and hurried on up to see what it was and met the mail carrier with the lock sack on his shoulder, picked him up and went on to where the car was burned, took in the rest of the mail and brought it on to the post office. There was but very little damage done to the mail sacks, two of them being scorched a little. It was fortunate that it was on Sunday morning instead of Monday because the Sunday mail is always light on account of his not bringing out the mail for the other post offices: Butte Falls, Prospect, Trail, Derby (way mail), Persist, Brownsboro, Lake Creek, Wellen and Climax, beside the Eagle Point mail.
    When he has the mail for all of the post offices he has to lash it on often over the front part of the car and on each side with ropes and then packs the mail in the car often so that the passengers could not get out without moving it. We all feel sorry for him, for he has had a hard time getting through with the mail the past winter. He started on his summer schedule last Monday morning for the round trip of 100 miles and seemed to get along very well as he came into Eagle Point post office on time.
    Sunday morning broke upon us bright and clear and we had our regular Sunday school and preaching services with a very fair attendance.
    In the afternoon the Antelope baseball team came over and played a game with the Eagle Point ball team and took the word home with them that they came out second best with the score standing 18 to 7 in favor of Eagle Point.
    There were quite a number of people called for dinner at the Sunnyside. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hissing and son Carroll of Medford, Miss Olive Calnest of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moore, Medford, D. B. Churchill, Miss Grace Churchill, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Neff, Mrs. Nichols, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pruett, Thomas F. Nichols and two children, C. H. Natwick, son Carlyle and wife and our postmaster, W. C. Clements.
    J. H. Carlton and his brother Lyle and Drake Walch of Wellen were also here taking part in the ball game
    Two of our regular boarders who have been with us for a long time left us Monday morning, Geo. H. Wehman and Loris Martin, Mr. Wehman to take charge of the bookkeeping department of the road work from Hole-in-the-Ground to Prospect, and Mr. Martin to have charge of the rock work on the same road for William von der Hellen, the subcontractor. Planey Leabo and F. A. Whaley went back to resume their jobs on the extension of the P.&E.R.R. Mr. Whaley came out with his sick wife from Butte Falls and stopped at the Sunnyside and remained here with her until Monday and as she was gaining so rapidly he thought that it would be safe to leave her in the care of her daughter, Miss Rosa, who has been assisting in the duties in the hotel. Dr. Holt of Medford was called in to see the patient. It appears that the principal trouble with her was the altitude of Butte Falls, as she commenced to improve as soon as she got here.
    Ed Cowden, Leroy Smith, Carl Stanley and Mrs. Fred Dutton were among the business callers on our merchants Monday.
    Wm. Perry, our efficient road supervisor, was in town and while here I had a short interview with him and learned that he is keeping teams on the roads all the time trying to put them in shape so as to be traveled. He spoke of a change to be made on the road between the Crater Lake Highway and the Dodge-French Bridge, a new survey from the bridge to go by the Fred Pettegrew place and thus avoid the Hog Creek Hill and a bad lot of sticky. He said that he did not know whether that piece of road would be built by the county or by contract but seemed to think that it would be a good change as it would be on so much better ground and but very little further.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen was a business caller Monday.
    Alex Vestal and Geo. McDonald were here for dinner Monday.
    John Long of Derby came out with a team Tuesday and took back a load of hay and grain. He is planning to go to work on the county road in a short time. John Allen, the road supervisor for the Derby district, has a force of men with teams working on the roads trying to get them in shape so that people can travel them with some degree of safety. There are a few who are running over the Butte Falls-Eagle Point roads now but report that they are very rough, but the scraping that is being done on them is helping them, they say.
    We have had another change in real estate in our town, Wm. Green Knighten having sold his home place to John Rader, one of our leading stock men and farmers. They took formal possession Tuesday but do not expect to move onto the place until fall. We regret to have Mr. Knighten leave us but resign to the will of Him who does all things right. Since Mr. Knighten has lost his wife he has decided that it will be better for him to go and live with his grandchildren than to try to live alone, as he is now in his eighty-sixth year.
    A. J. Florey, who has had his wife in Medford, has moved back into his home again with their new baby.
    Miss June Hinman of Medford and A. G. Irish of Spokane were here for dinner Tuesday. They are working in the interest of the Earl Fruit Co.
    Rev. H. G. Adams will preach in Brownsboro on Sunday morning and in Eagle Point in the evening at 7:30.
    Warren Lammey, who has been working on the P.&E. Railroad extension, came out Tuesday. He is suffering with an attack of tonsillitis. His mother and younger brother have been living in the house known as the Robinett house.
    Mr. McKissick, the civil engineer who has charge of that line of work on the proposed canal from Big Butte, has moved into the J. F. Boltz house.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1922, page 12


    Geo. Hall and Earl Hutchinson were Trail visitors Sunday. George is still pegging away on his ditch.
    Fred Sturgis has hauled several loads of hay the past week for his stock.
    Gordon Miller brought his sister, Mrs. B. Sement, to see her mother, who resides on Elk Creek. They came in his Ford, which has been recently purchased.
    Inez Willits visited Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence Wednesday the 26th.
    The Elk Creek school has sent a sample of their drinking water which is obtained from Elk Creek to the State Board of Health.
    Mrs. P. E. Sandoz with a few of her boys went to Trail Saturday the 22nd.
    Mrs. Sandoz and Mrs. Wagner were visitors at the school last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1922, page 4


    A new sawmill with a capacity of 10,000 board feet per day has been set up by Harry Hayes on Indian Creek, one mile from the Crater Lake Highway at a point just this side of the new concrete bridge over Rogue River near Trail. The mill is about 18 miles from this city.
    The timber in which the mill is situated is nearly all yellow pine, according to the owner Mr. Hayes, although there is some Douglas fir included in the timber surrounding the mill.
    The mill has just been set up and is now in running order. A small crew of men is at work at present and sawing of logs will begin tomorrow morning. As the work progresses Mr. Hayes intends to enlarge the number of men at work. The lumber will be brought to this city by truck and will also be for sale at the mill. The entire process, from the woods to the finished product, is being handled by Mr. Hayes, the logging and mill crews being under his direction.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1922, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Houston of Trail were among the business callers Wednesday morning on their way to Medford.
    J. D. Patrick, who has been doing some carpentering around town, was engaged Wednesday putting in some shelving in the residence of F. J. McPherson, making it more convenient for Mrs. McPherson, and now he is engaged putting in some flumes in a irrigating ditch on Thomas F. Nichols' farm on Rogue River a short distance below the Dodge-French bridge.
    Stanley G. Jewett of Portland and L. A. Jones of Medford were here for dinner Wednesday. Mr. Jewett is predatory animal inspector of the U.S. Biological Survey.
    Judge E. D. Briggs of Ashland, Ralph Cowgill of Central Point and V. H. Vawter of Medford were also here for dinner at the same time. They were out working in the interest of our soldier boys. J. D. Jones and son, M. J. Jones, F. A. Hill and H. H. Smith of Butte Falls were here for dinner Wednesday and so was J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatchery. He reports that he has already seven hundred and fifty thousand fish hatched out of the eggs he has taken out of Little Butte Creek here and that they are doing fine.
    F. J. Ayres and wife, who live on their farm on the P.&E.R.R., were visiting their niece and nephew, Mrs. and Mr. George Phillips of this place Sunday, April 23.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. Conover were trading here Wednesday.
    J. W. Hover, superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, was also here on business and tells me that the prospect for a fine crop was never better. That he has it well pruned up and in fine shape. That he has also been making some substantial improvements in the line of new buildings and is getting it up in fine shape again.
    Mrs. J. Wattenberg and her daughter, Miss Evelyn, were also among the business callers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wattenberg are the lessees of one of the best farms along the banks of Rogue River, belonging to Thomas F. Nichols and his sister, Mrs. Carlyle Natwick and Mr. Wattenberg is considered one of the best farmers in the county and that is saying a great deal. The ditch and flume will soon be completed so as to put water all over it, and a large part of it is already set in alfalfa.
    Harvey Stanley of Wellen was here with his team cultivating a part of the place his father-in-law, John Rader, bought of Wm. G. Knighten. It was already set to alfalfa and was plowed up just a few days before the deal was made with John Rader and I predict that there will be a fine crop next season if not sooner.
    Frank Haselton, the foreman on the Antelope orchard, was in town Thursday morning and reports that the prospect is bright for a big fruit crop this season and that the frost had done no damage so far.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Wood of Medford passed through here on their way to Butte Falls Thursday morning, and the lady walked through the town and distributed religious literature as she went and some of it was very interesting. They were accompanied by a man named Hughes.
    I received a note from Rev. C. C. Hulet, the Sunday school evangelist for the Presbyterian Sunday School Society, Thursday too late for my Wednesday letter requesting me to announce that he and Rev. Harrison would hold services in Butte Falls Sunday, April 30 and each day up to and including May 12th.
    There were two strangers here for dinner Thursday whose names I failed to learn and later Pearl Stowell, F. Myhre, Emil Myhre, Oscar Smith and Wm. Cottrell came in for dinner.
    J. L. Robinson, one of our prominent farmers, who is generally up to date with his work, was here Thursday and I asked him if he had his corn ground plowed, for he generally puts in quite a lot of corn and he replied he was plowing it now and dropping it as he plowed. He is using his tractor and has his harrow attached behind it, thus finishing it up as he goes--quite a departure for him for he generally plows his corn land in December, but the past season has been so wet he could not get on the land so is trying it "the lazy man's way."
    There have been two or three small changes in real estate that I had not heard of in time for my last letter. Wm. G. Knighten sold a small tract of land, a little over an acre, to Floyd Pearce, and the rest of the tract joining the old F. M. Stewart property to Clifford Hickson, about four acres, all of both tracts set in alfalfa and under the irrigation ditch, both good buys. And I understand that there has been a lot sold to a woman but am not able to report it as yet until I learn more definitely.
    George Holmes, our garage man, made a business trip to Portland Wednesday night.
    S. J. Smith of Butte Falls came out Thursday on his way to Medford but stopped at the Sunnyside over night until after dinner and went out then to Medford.
    There were four young men came in for dinner Thursday, Messrs. J. L. Hughes, Ernest O'Riley, Gus Anderson and Ira Love of Berkeley, Calif. They are representatives of International Distributing Co. of choice paintings, of that city, Berkeley, Cal.
    Henry French and son Lloyd went to Medford Thursday and returned via Eagle Point to do their trading.
    Shorty Allen of Wellen was a business caller Thursday and Ralph Tucker and wife and their son-in-law, Wm. Staub of Brownsboro, were transacting business at the Eagle Point State Bank.
    Inez Whillock came in Thursday with the expectation of finding a jitney to take her to Medford but soon learned that there is no jitney service here as our legislature passed a bill exacting a tax or license fee of something like $350 for carrying passengers--a bill worked through by the railroad company--and now the stages are not allowed to carry anyone, but just after she had made the discovery a car came along with only three men so she secured a seat with them and went on, but S. J. Smith was not so fortunate, so had to remain overnight.
    G. E. Merrill of Derby, who has been spending a few days in Medford, came out Friday and went on up to his home.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who spent the most of her time at their home at the Dead Indian Soda Springs, came out Friday and went out to her farm on the Eagle Point-Phoenix Road. Her husband is unable to live with any comfort in the valley on account of the altitude and the result is they live together in the hills.
    G. M. White of Medford passed through here Friday on his way up to George B. Brown's with three large brood sows of the Poland China breed that Mr. Brown had purchased on Applegate. Mr. White said that he was to move Mr. H. L. Young out to Medford on his return trip.
    Miss Carmen Wilson of Medford, R. L. Dixon, a cattle buyer of Fort Klamath, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley and son Bertland and J. Jones of Butte Falls were here for supper Friday, and Mr. Jones was here for dinner and remained overnight.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Spencer, Dr. Wolf, Bessie Burkhart, Ida Magerle of Rogue River, spent Wednesday hunting gates above Eagle Point. They were the guests of Mrs. Frank Lewis.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1922, page 5


    Carl Esch and S. T. Johnson of Eagle Point have purchased some gilt-edge Holstein heifers for a nucleus from which to build up fancy herds of par excellent dairy stock. These men intend to discard all their grade and scrub stock and go into thoroughbred Holsteins exclusively, and they have a start that is surely encouraging.
    These young cattle come from the famous herd of Piet Bergsma at Ferndale, Washington who has produced some of the finest records of dairy production in the world. The dam of one of these heifers produced last year over 21,000 pounds of milk and over 800 pounds of butter fat, and she yielded her owner over $262 clear profit after paying for her feed--not counting her calf.
    H. E. Campbell, the banker at Eagle Point, has purchased a sire for these herds from the same Piet Bergsma herd, and he will be maintained at the farm of Carl Esch at the mouth of Antelope Creek two miles this side of Eagle Point. The grandmother of this bull is the famous cow that three years ago gave over 105 pounds of milk per day for thirty days and sold to the Carnation Milk Products Company for $1,100. A half sister of this bull sold as a yearling to the same people for $1,000.
    The American breeders have much improved this breed of cattle, and the Puget Sound dairymen have some of the finest records in America. The Carnation Milk Products Company of Seattle has one of the finest herds of Holsteins in America and they think enough of the breeding of Piet Bergsma that they have purchased breeding stock from him more than once.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 4, 1922, page 3


    Careful plans are being made by Jackson County Y.M.C.A for a big summer camp for boys and men. With the almost ideal conditions existing in the county, there is every prospect that the camp will be largely attended. Different locations are being looked over and early season arrangements attended to so that definite information can be given as soon as possible. A location somewhere on Elk Creek looks promising, as some of the most necessary requisites for a successful camp are to be found there.
    The camp will be extended over a period of at least ten days. The cost of provisions and other expense will be carefully prorated among the campers. Literature accurately designating the necessary equipment of each boy will be put in the hands of the prospects in ample time for them to make all arrangements.
    Quite a number of men have signified their desire to go and to help in the conduct of the camp. Cash Wood, county secretary of the Y.M.C.A., will act as camp director.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 4, 1922, page 3


    BROWNSBORO, May 4.--Friday evening George Brown's house caught fire and burned to the ground. The fire started on the roof early in the afternoon, but it was put out before it got much headway. Mr. Brown stayed up on the roof most of the afternoon watching to see if it would start again. After he left it broke out again and got such a start that it could not be put out. They got most of the household goods and furniture out before it burned down. The woodshed also caught fire and a thousand feet of lumber which was in it had to be moved. They got the lumber out in time to save it. The house was insured for $3300.
    Someone broke into Mr. Jim Jackson's house Monday, while he was herding sheep. They left the door open and tore up some of the furniture, pulled his bed clothing into the middle of the floor. Sunday afternoon they came again. His dog, hearing them around the house, ran to where they were. They took the dog and locked him up in the house and then left. No damage was done on the last visit.
    Mrs. Orin Maxfield and Mrs. A. E. Karberg of Ashland visited the Maxfield home Wednesday and returned Friday.
    Miss Velda Monia spent the weekend at her home.
    The Brownsboro school was expecting to go to Talent to the field meet. But as there were not many people going, we could not get there. Only three got to go, those being Gladys and Robert Cowden and Donald Bieberstedt.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cann went to Medford Monday.
    Miss Della Hand was a visitor at Mrs. Mary Charley's home Sunday.
    Vernon Monia and sister, Velda, went to Medford Saturday.
    Mrs. Ed Tucker's daughter, Mrs. Morse, and son from California, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tucker.
    Rev. Adams of Eagle Point held services here after Sunday school Sunday.
    The Lake Creek pupils gave an all-day May party Saturday, April 29, to all the Butte Creek people. There was a large crowd and everyone reported a good time.
    Carl Stanley went to Rancheria Friday and returned Saturday.
    Mr. Anderson brought ninety more sheep to the Thomas homestead, which he has leased.
    Miss Kubli went on a fishing and camping trip Saturday and Sunday to Squaw Lake.
    Mr. Grigsby of Central Point came through here Thursday on his way to Butte Falls. He returned home Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Tucker and William Staub went to Eagle Point Thursday.
    The Tucker family and Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Staub went to Trail on a picnic Sunday.
    Mr. Berry, who has been working in Medford, came up to his homestead near Brownsboro to spend a few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1922, page 7


    By a little carelessness on my part I neglected to report the arrival of a son to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, our postmaster, on the evening of April 26, 1922, at the hospital in Medford. The fond parents with their many friends are rejoicing over the birth, as it is their first child. Also to know that the proud mother is resting easy and on the way to recovery of normal health.
    H. A. Houston and George Findley of Medford passed through here Saturday morning, Mr. Findley on his way to the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, who has been away all winter, returned to his Jackson County orchard home last Thursday.
    E. R. Oatman and H. E. Warner, two of the orchard inspectors, were here for dinner Saturday.
    Mrs. L. A. Sprague of Medford and N. E. E. Case of New York City were here for dinner Saturday, and Mrs. Bert Clarno and Mrs. Wm. Perry, the wife of our efficient road supervisor, were trading with our merchants.
    Saturday afternoon after I had finished my letter for the Mail Tribune, while I was on my way to the post office to mail it, J. L. Hovey met me and asked me to take a ride out to the Alta Vista orchard as I had not seen it for some time, and I gladly accepted the invitation. So jumping into his car off we went and as I rode along the old road on the west side I noticed how systematically he had arranged the pear trees along the side hill but when we raised the hill so that I could look over the whole of the orchard, almost two hundred acres set to pears and apples, it was truly a grand sight, the pears being in full bloom and the apples getting ready to bloom, it was surely a grand sight.
    I also noticed that since he has returned to take charge of the orchard again, for he was away some four years, and while he was there he did considerable work in the line of improving the buildings, but when he took charge of it again saw that he was cramped for room so has built another dwelling house and several changes for the better.
    He says that the prospect for a fine crop of fruit was never better. He is planning to put in a ram into Butte Creek to carry water up to the house, as the spring does not furnish water enough for spraying, and has men at work now digging the ditch to lay the pipe, about a half mile in length. But I expect to have more to say on that subject later.
    Sunday morning was just as bright and lovely as the most fastidious could have desired, and the announcement that the Jacksonville baseball team was coming out to play against the Eagle Point ball players brought out a large crowd and many of them came in the morning so as to take dinner at the Sunnyside. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Terrill and baby, Leonard Osborne, Connie Hanna, Dalton Terrill, J. B. Coleman and wife, C. E. Mitchell, Ray Coleman and wife, Miss Elva Coleman, Geo. A. Hyde, Earl Hyde, Wm. Blake and wife, Nasada Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Mrs. Margaret Reter and brother, Judge Florey, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Bell and son of Gold Hill, Miss Mabel Tedrick and Adin Haselton, Olive Calvert of Chicago, Vera Jones of Medford, Miss Hattie Johnson, Charles Winkle, Estella Conover, Earl Mathews. There are some mistakes in a few of the names for some of them are written so dim that I am unable to make them out as I am so near blind that it is very difficult for me to read writing at all and I am satisfied that there were some whose names I omitted to secure.
    Later in the afternoon Mrs. Leonard Williams and her daughter, Miss Nora Williams of Central Point, called to visit Mrs. F. A. Whaley of Butte Falls, who is sick and has been here for some time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley called in for supper.
    R. H. G. Adams, who preached in Brownsboro Sunday morning, came in in the afternoon and reported that George B. Brown's house took fire Friday afternoon and they thought that they had succeeded in putting the fire out but about 9 o'clock that night it re-kindled and when it was discovered the roof was all afire. They managed to save considerable out of the house but he could not tell the amount. It was insured but the amount of insurance I did not learn.
    Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley came in for supper Sunday evening.
    The baseball game Sunday afternoon was said to have been very interesting and both teams, the Jacksonville and Eagle Point are said to have done some good playing and the result was our Eagle Point team came out second best and some of the boys seem to think that the umpire had not done them justice in his rulings, but that is not an uncommon thing, but I think they will live over the defeat and be ready for the next game. The score stood 11 to 7 in favor of Jacksonville.
    It was rather remarkable that the Blaess family should meet with two auto wrecks the same day on our Crater Lake Highway. The first was Charles Blaess and his wife and another woman who were riding along when the front wheels seemed to turn under the car causing it to turn over catching the woman's feet, but so far nothing serious, when Mrs. Blaess crawled under the car to help the woman, and just then three men came along and started to raise the car up and in raising it up threw it onto Mrs. Blaess' breast, bruising it quite badly, but not seriously hurt.
    The same evening Lewis Blaess, a brother of Charles, was coming down the Crater Lake Highway and meeting a car said the light from the car blinded him so that he could not see and the result was he ran off a culvert and had his car smashed up considerably and causing him to have an ugly gash in his forehead. He was on his way to the Modoc orchard where he is working. He came to the Sunnyside to spend the night. Mr. O. Adams of Butte Falls also came in Sunday night and started on up home the next morning. Mr. Adams reports that he had leased the hotel building in Butte Falls for two to five years and intends to keep a lunch and confectionery stand below and lodging rooms above, a much-needed establishment.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. Sturgis, one of our prominent society ladies, visited Medford last week. Mrs. Sturgis has also had her sheep sheared.
    Mr. W. Willits and Antone Ring visited Medford Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2 and 3. They also went to Al G. Barnes' circus and report that they had an enjoyable time.
    Jim Miller visited the L. A. Whitley place Monday, May 1.
    A field and track meet will be held at Prospect Saturday, May 13. Events will start at 9:30 a.m. About 13 districts will try and be present. We expect a large crowd, so all try and come so to boost your own district.
    Mrs. Greb came up to get Miss F. Greb, Friday, May 5, and returned to their home at Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis journeyed to Medford in their Baby Grand Chevrolet, Saturday. Mrs. Sturgis obtained a few dozen tomato plants, which were sturdy and had strong thick stalks. They returned the same day.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 9, 1922, page 5


    Miss Vera Kershaw, who is engaged with her brother on their farm on Antelope Creek near Climax in the dairy business, called for a late supper the first of the week and wished to get in the post office, but found that it was closed as it closes at 6 p.m. and could not remain overnight on account of her dairy work.
    T. G. Thompson, at one time the leading merchant at Lake Creek, who bought one of the McQuoid places in our town on the south side of Butte Creek, is going into the poultry business quite extensively and has put up a modern hennery, and we predict that he will make a success of his venture.
    T. C. Barry of Brownsboro, who is improving a homestead in the hills between Brownsboro and Butte Falls, was a passenger through our town the first of the week on his way home from Medford.
    Nick Young, one of our prosperous farmers, who seems to have been either too busy to come to town or away from home, has been in town during the first days of the week on business.
    George Holmes, our garage man, was here for dinner one day about midweek as his wife is the principal of our school, and for some reason best known to herself and since he married such a good cook does not fancy the idea of eating a cold lunch or cook his own dinner, came to the Sunnyside for lunch.
    Jack Doubleday and Joseph Geppert of Butte Falls were passengers for Medford during mid-week.
    Arthur Brown, the traveling agent for the Morning Oregonian, was here also soliciting subscribers and renewals for that publication. He only remained a short time, as he seemed to be in a hurry to get through.
    Mrs. J. B. Plymire and Mrs. Wm. Ellis of Medford came out to bring Mrs. Plymire's mother-in-law, Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who had been out to visit her son and family on her farm so as to catch the Lake Creek stage here so she could go up to her home at the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    Wm. Martin also came out from Medford and went on up to his home in the Lake Creek country.
    E. C. Silliman, the Sugar Bowl man of Medford, and Frank Stoddard, representing the Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, were here for dinner and so was F. Garrettson of Medford and C. A. Cornelius of Ashland. They came up to try their hand at fishing but found the water was too muddy, as the fish would not bite. They were here for dinner.
    Later in the day, past the ordinary supper time, our sheriff, Charlie Terrill and two of his deputies, George Alden and L. D. Forncrook, came in for supper and hurried off as they were headed for Gold Hill that night.
    Perry Gibson, wife and son of Butte Falls passed through here Wednesday on their way home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls and Mrs. Hildreth's father, Mr. Fendall of Hilt, Calif., passed through here on Wednesday going south.
    Lee Bradshaw and family passed through here going on toward Medford.
    Alex Betz was also a business caller Wednesday and so was Mr. Meyer and family who are living on the Fred Pelouze farm.
    Thomas Lewis took the mail from here to Butte Falls for the contractor Wednesday.
    J. H. Cooley, proprietor of one of the lumber yards of Medford, and a man by the name of Ward passed through here Wednesday. They came from Mr. Cooley's orchard a short distance above town.
    Carl Esch, one of our prosperous farmers and dairy men, received two purebred Holstein heifers and his near neighbor, Samuel Johnson, two, and H. E. Campbell, our banker, a thoroughbred Holstein bull, the first of the week. Our farmers are waking up to the fact that it pays to keep the very best kind of stock if they are to keep any at all.
    H. A. Bayward of Medford and Walter O'Brien and his brother, Thomas O'Brien of Butte Falls, came in from the Hilt logging camp Thursday morning on their way home.
    Alfred B. Shelby, salesman for Baker, Hamilton Pacific Co., San Francisco, was here Thursday for dinner.
    Mr. Shaffer of Prospect, one of the prosperous farmers of that place, and three men from Butte Falls passed through here Thursday going to Medford and Mr. Shaffer passed through here Saturday morning on his way home.
    Arthur A. Hersph, Mrs. A. F. Green and two ladies from Los Angeles came in the middle of the week and are located in Mrs. Green's house, the old J. J. Fryer house; they think of remaining all summer.
    J. J. Johnson, who has moved into the house recently vacated by H. L. Young near Brownsboro, was in town Thursday laying in a supply of food at the F. J. McPherson store.
    Geo. W. Averill of Butte Falls came out from Medford and spent Thursday night on his way home.
    C. A. Jelley of Portland and A. J. E. Haseltine's hired man were here for dinner Friday.
    Wm. Coy is painting the picket fence in front of Geo. Holmes' residence.
    Two of the boys at school, Fred McPherson and Harold Denton, became engaged in a quarrel Friday noon and Fred threw a stone at Harold, striking him on the lip, cutting an ugly gash and loosening three of his teeth. I am told by witnesses the Denton boy was taken to Medford for medical treatment the same day and I have not heard anything later. I understand that Mr. and Mrs. Denton started the first of the week for Montana and the boy is staying with his grandmother.
    George Brown and Sons, our leading merchants, shipped 3500 pounds of mohair to Portland Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 10, 1922, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. H. Ash moved to Trail Sunday from their home on Elk Creek. They expect to camp this summer near Mr. Ash's work.
    The road work is starting up on all sides of us and gives the idle men around here employment.
    Irvin Hume and H. Ash are digging ditch for William Cottrell.
    Miss Minnie Poole is visiting this week with friends and relatives near Drew, Oregon.
    George Weeks and Mrs. Emery were business callers in Medford Monday.
    Mrs. Middlebusher and daughter Enid were callers at the Bergman home Friday. Mr. Bergman is very sick and not much hopes for his recovery.
    J. L. Ragsdale hauled wood to Eagle Point and the new road camps this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Galarneau visited the road camp Monday.
    Mrs. Ragsdale and sons Buster and Glen were pleasant callers at the Howe home Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1922, page 7


    The Girls' Industrial Sewing Club will hold a meeting and a sewing class tomorrow, May 13. It will be held at the home of Mrs. Wm. Hansen, Jr.
    Wm. Staub and Mrs. R. E. Tucker made a business trip to Medford, Saturday.
    Mr. Anderson is taking his sheep off the Butte Creek range where he has been ranging them for some time. He is taking them to Tom Riley's ranch near Eagle Point where he will keep them until the reserve range is open.
    Joe Henry made a business trip to Medford Tuesday.
    Isolee Brown and Neita Johnson were enrolled in the Brownsboro school Monday making a total of 24.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Sr. went to Hornbrook Friday to visit their daughter, Mrs. Bloomingcamp and returned Monday.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall and three sons, Lester, Glenn and Bill, visited the latter's grandparents at Eagle Point over the weekend.
    Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tucker made a business trip to Medford last week.
    The Fish Lake Ditch Co. have finished working on the ditch and have turned in a large stream of water.
    Mrs. Ed Tucker and daughter Mildred went to Medford Monday.
    The school garden is getting along nicely. We have had radishes for lunch twice.
    C. E. Stanley went to Medford Friday and returned Sunday.
    Miss Kubli spent the weekend in Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Leland Cantrall of Applegate visited the Johnson home last week.
    Donna Brown has been staying at Reed Charley's for the past week.
    Two eighth grade, two seventh grade and three sixth grade students are going to take the state examinations Thursday and Friday.
    Carl Stanley returned home from Eagle Point Sunday.
    Ralph Stanley went to Fish Lake Sunday to get some horses.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1922, page 12


    Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek was among the business callers Friday afternoon.
    Mrs. Ernest Dahack and Earl Mathews made a business trip to Medford Saturday morning.
    Alex Betz and Pearl Stowell were among the patrons of our merchants Saturday.
    Joe Rader and wife and adopted daughter, Miss Twila Rader of Phoenix, were here Saturday for dinner and so was E. H. Carter of Jacksonville.
    Timmy Dugan and wife were also business callers. It is seldom they are seen on our streets; they are living on and own one of the best sticky farms in this section and are generally too busy to spend much time away from home unless on business, as they always seem to have enough to do to employ all their time. They are in the poultry and dairy business and have partly raised a family of nice children who bid fair to become prominent and useful citizens.
    Mrs. W. E. Butler was in town Saturday but I did not have an opportunity to speak to her as she drove down to the bank and Geo. Brown & Sons' store. I have been waiting ever since I heard of the death of her father-in-law, Wm. C. Butler, one of our pioneer citizens, so that I could state definitely where he died, for one report said that he died in Ashland, while another was that he died at his home near Eagle Point. The last time I saw him he said that he was going to a hospital to undergo surgical treatment. He was a man who was highly respected in this community, where he has lived with his son, Wm. B. Butler.
    Mrs. Radcliff was also a caller or rather passed through our town, going on to Medford.
    Mr. Turnbow, the foreman of the section gang repairing the P.&E. railroad, was also here Saturday headed for Medford.
    Guy Hillman, the mail carrier from Climax to Eagle Point, in coming out Saturday had trouble with his car and had to stay until Tuesday morning to have it fixed at our garage, having the mail brought out by someone else. He ate and slept at the Sunnyside while here.
    The Eagle Point baseball team went across Rogue River Sunday and played against the Sams Valley team and there were quite a number of our citizens went over to witness the game, and the result was that some of our baseball fans were almost wild over the result, 38 to 4 in favor of Eagle Point. I heard one of our boys remark that it looked as though everything seemed to go against the Sams Valley boys, but they must not be discouraged, for they have some good players.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McPherson and son Fred, John Foster of Medford, George and Harry Lewis, F. A. Whaley of Butte Falls, J. D. Patrick, Brownsboro, George Neilson, wife, two sons, Donald and Herbert, and Mrs. Neilson's mother, Mrs. S. F. Moore, and Mrs. Amy Hatch, all of Medford. And later for supper Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and daughter, Miss Myrle and our primary teacher, Miss Alice Train, Geo. Holmes and wife, Clarence Pruett of Wellen, one of the ball players, who had his ankle badly sprained during the game.
    John Rader, the farmer who bought the Wm. G. Knighten home place, was here Monday looking after his interests. He said that town life did not suit him and he was going home and go to plowing. Although they expect to move to town in the fall, I predict that John will spend the most of his time on the farm or riding after his cattle. He will not be content to spend his time in town although he is about sixty years of age.
    We have had another change in the management of our post office. Mr. S. B. Holmes has resigned the clerkship and accepted a position as bookkeeper for Wm. von der Hellen on his contract on the Talent ditch and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Mrs. Estella Haley assisting in the post office and Miss Dorothy von der Hellen assisting in the telephone office, while W. C. Clements, the postmaster, is busy putting up new telephone lines, and Sam Courtney and Ed Netting are making the old post office building look like a new city structure, with putty and paint.
    Mrs. F. M. Tungate of Butte Falls is here and has been for the past few days visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Nancy Watkins.
    George Klingle of Lake Creek was a business caller here Monday.
    Geo. B. Alden, one of our deputy sheriffs, was here Monday on professional business and for dinner.
    George Alford of Phoenix, Republican candidate for county commissioner, was here for dinner Monday and interviewing the voters.
    D. M. Lowe, the bill poster for Foster and Kleiser, was here also and so was Ed Netting.
    R. G. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons reports that they have shipped 2100 lbs. of mohair on Friday, 2400 lbs. Monday and 6500 lbs. on Tuesday.
    Charlie Delin, one of the contractors on the big jobs, was here for dinner Tuesday.
    John Howard, one of the aged veterans of the Civil War, came in Monday night and remained at the Sunnyside until this Wednesday morning.
    George Zanesby, who has four large horses working on the road between the Cingcade hill and Medford, was here for dinner Tuesday. He was having his horses shod by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth.
    There will be preaching on Sunday, May 14th, both morning and evening.
    I just learned Tuesday of the death of a former citizen of our town and a Jackson County-raised girl, Mrs. Emma Stine nee Emma Perry, born June 5, 1871, of Oakland, Calif., who passed away May 3rd at her home. She leaves her mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, for several years a resident of Medford and later of Eagle Point, one brother and six sisters, Wm. Perry, Mrs. Harriet Allen, Seattle, Nellie Boles of Spokane, Wash., Libby Weathers of Oakland, Nellie Grover of Medford, Lottie McQuoid, Libby Day and a number of friends to feel their loss.
    Thos. L. Olson was here for dinner and supper Tuesday and breakfast Wednesday. He is caring for Dr. Helms' horses.
    H. J. Moore of Butte Falls, recently of Wisconsin, was here Tuesday night and so was another man, a stranger.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1922, page 12


    A. M. Gay, who with Ed Spencer has taken a five-year lease of a tract of land in a piece of marsh land near Rancheria Prairie, beyond Butte Falls, is here on business. They have agreed to clear and put in cultivation the entire tract for the use of it for five years. It being close to the route of the extension of the P.&E. railroad they are intending to turn their attention to raising vegetables and berries to feed the men who will be working in the logging camps and will be otherwise employed in that line of business.
    George Pierce of Medford was here on business Wednesday.
    Chief of Police G. S. Timothy, wife and little granddaughter of Medford, were out here on business last Wednesday, to interview Fred Frideger, who is stopping at present at the Sunnyside while he is looking after his orchard and planting the part that is not in fruit trees in corn. His business seemed to be with regard to a town lot that Mr. Frideger had sold some years ago, because he did not think then that it was worth what the street and water assessments on it would amount to, so he sold it at a nominal price, one dollar, and it appeared to the other fellow that it was a good buy so did not have the deed recorded, and so it became delinquent in Mr. Frideger's name, the very thing that Mr. Frideger was trying to avoid. So I guess that the City of Medford will have to take it over for the taxes, the very thing that is happening to a number of our little incorporated towns.
    Hamilton Patton of Medford and C. F. Hamilton of Portland were here for dinner and overnight at the Sunnyside Wednesday. And George Holmes, our garage man and wife, and W. G. Smith were here for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Royal Brown and Miss Gertrude Wiley of Central Point, who have been elected to act as primary teacher during the next school year, were here for dinner Wednesday. Miss Alice Train, who has been in charge of the primary department of our school and has been giving such general satisfaction that the school board was anxious to have her take the school for another year, decided not to accept the offer as her mother, who is living in California, requires her services at home. But Miss Wiley looks as though she might fill the position satisfactorily as she is an experienced teacher and comes well recommended. The school board has also employed our present principal, Mrs. George Holmes, as the principal for the coming year.
    I met a little boy Wednesday walking on a crutch and cane and upon questioning him learned that his name was Jerry Fay and that he had a broken leg, caused by the breaking of a hay rack, that he was living with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Young, who are in charge of the Frank Rhodes dairy and poultry farm about two miles from town.
    And speaking of the Young family brings to mind another incident. There are two families together, Mr. Young and his son-in-law, Mr. Ferguson, on the place and they were so crowded for room that they have divided up and have rented the Frideger house that he recently moved out of town--the James Ringer house. A part of them are living there. I also met three boys in their teens here in town with a mule team that I recognized as belonging to the Rhodes farm and in conversation with them learned that they were sons of Mr. Young and that they had come to town with the team to take out 2100 wee chicks that were coming out from Medford that morning to be taken out to the ranch and that they already had 1000 young chicks hatched out there. And speaking about chicks brings to mind another incident last Sunday. We missed Mrs. Carl Esch from her class in our Sunday school and inquiring of her husband the cause of her absence learned that she had just brought off 500 little chicks and had to stay and care for then, so the reader will see that everybody in this section is not asleep, but Eagle Point is waking up and expects to be up with the foremost.
    I see that Sam Courtney has painted three signs for F. J. McPherson where the old T. E. Nichols signs were and Mr. McPherson is trying to bring about a little revolution in the mercantile business.
    Mrs. Ed Wolfer, daughter of our townsman, James Jordan of Hubbard, Ore., came in about mid-week to visit her father. Her husband, Ed Wolfer, was for some time in the tinner's business in Medford and later went into the strawberry business in this neighborhood and finally married and moved to Hubbard, Ore., where he is now in business.
    Among the diners Thursday were J. W. Snider of the Independence Creamery, Medford, and he reports that he receives during the ten months the grass is green an average of 6500 pounds of cream each week from the Lake Creek country. And the reader will remember that that is only a narrow strip of country up and down Little Butte Creek, and the people in this Butte Creek country are waking up to the necessity of improving their breed of cows and using fertilizers, with the result that the land is producing double the amount of hay and other kinds of cow feed that is enabling them to increase the size of their herds.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Markland of the Medford Sheet Metal Works and D. A. Langacher, San Francisco, representing a cream separator company, were here for dinner and so was Chris Beale of Butte Falls.
    Mrs. P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek came in on the Eagle Point-Persist stage, took dinner and went out to Medford in the afternoon. There were also two strangers here for dinner.
    J. C. Pendleton of Table Rock was a business caller, he being a deputy assessor, was to meet Mr. Herring, another deputy assessor here on business connected with their business.
    A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls spent Thursday night here and went on up home Friday morning.
    The Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point will give a dinner and bazaar at the opera house Friday, May 19. Many useful articles including aprons, pillow cases, bureau scarfs, luncheon sets, library scarfs, handmade underwear, handkerchiefs, etc., will be on sale. The public is cordially invited. Dinner will be served at noon, 50¢ per plate.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 1922, page 6


    F. R. Frey and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adler of Lake Creek were here Friday for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walker of Gold Hill were among the business callers Friday and so was Ed Cowden, one of our enterprising farmers and dairymen.
    Last Friday was a very busy day at our blacksmith shop as there were a bunch of saddle horses brought in to be shod by some cowboys who are getting ready to start across to the Klamath country with a band of cattle for R. L. Bixon Bros. of Klamath County. They finished up the job Monday and expect to start across the mountains as soon as the snow is settled sufficiently.
    I was very agreeably surprised Friday afternoon as I was sitting in the parlor alone, away from the company of men who were waiting for supper, when who should walk in but Misses Bertha Emerick and Mildred Heine. I did not recognize either of them at first but it soon dawned on me that one of the faces looked quite familiar and I ventured to inquire of one of them if she did not at one time work in the Medford Mail Tribune office, and she said she did and finally she asked if I remembered "Mildred," and all at once it dawned on me that she at one time was the bookkeeper in that office. They were on their return trip from a two weeks camping trip on Union Creek. They had quite an experience while going out. They said that they ran their car to within about three miles of the camp and then the road was blocked with snow, so they took what they could, things necessary for camping purposes and walked into camp and later returned and carried in the remainder, so established their camp where they spent two weeks' time in the full enjoyment of camp life. They related one incident that will give the reader some idea of what it means to be out in a snowstorm in that wild region. They were out hunting for something exciting, they did not say what, when they were caught in a driving snowstorm and had to face it for three miles, but like girls of the right kind of stock they marched right on through it and made camp. And when they came in that afternoon they looked the very picture of beauty and health. They were in a hurry to go on home so I did not have the pleasure of their company but a very few minutes as supper was called and they didn't mince over the victuals but ate as though they really enjoyed the meal and hurried off for home, so I did not have an opportunity to learn more of their camp life except that the had one of the finest times of their lives.
    Mr. Adamson, a member of the Trail Lumber Co. of Trail, came in with a load of lumber for Geo. Brown & Sons and three others Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside and had his team shod. He reports that they are getting out a fine lot of lumber ready for the market.
    W. T. York came in Friday afternoon and engaged room and board until Tuesday morning. He had been employed by the authorities to take account of the traffic across the Little Butte Creek bridge on the Crater Lake Highway and was required to remain there from six a.m. to 10 p.m. so had to take his dinner and supper with him. He was not prepared to state the results of his work as he had not finished up his report but reported that there were 470 vehicles crossed the bridge Sunday. In many instances the same one crossed twice, as probably a very large majority were driven by pleasure seekers from the towns and valley. He took account of teams, autos, motorcycles, in fact everything run on wheels. He went out home Tuesday morning on the stage.
    J. A. Lovelady of Klamath Falls came in on the stage looking for employment for his team on some of the contracts and spent the night at the Sunnyside. There were also three other men, strangers, here for supper Friday night.
    George Albert of Duprays' mill came out Saturday on his railroad motor and reports the arrival of a baby girl at his home May 9th and took dinner.
    Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, who is teaching the Crater Lake school, came out on the railroad motor Saturday, took dinner and went out to Medford to visit her parents and was met there by her husband who is working on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect, returning Sunday.
    Rev. G. N. Edwards, the traveling Sunday school evangelist for the Congregational Church, came in Saturday morning on the stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside and preached here after Sunday school and went to Sams Valley and preached in the evening to a good-sized audience. He returned to the Sunnyside Monday and started north on the 2:45 p.m. stage. Rev. H. G. Adams preached Sunday evening here and expects to preach here next Sunday, May 21st, both morning and evening.
    Thos. Vestal of Reese Creek and wife were here Saturday but went on out to Medford.
    E. D. Rose, one of the prominent farmers and stockmen of Yankee Creek, was here Saturday having his team shod.
    Mrs. Amy Brown reports that she has had a hardwood floor put in her house and had it repapered and repainted inside and out so that it looks quite citified. I asked her if she made Frank take off his shoes when he reached the door before entering.
    I met Mrs. Lewis Robinson and her sister, Miss Hattie Hannaford, Saturday afternoon at the Eagle Point public library.
    I understand that A. L. Young and son-in-law intend to plant several acres of sunflowers for ensilage. Speaking of Mr. Young, in my last letter I reported that his boys were in town with a team waiting for 2100 wee chicks but learned later that there were only 1500 came as the eggs did not all hatch. A clear case of counting the chicks before they are hatched, but Mr. Young says that the 2500 they have are doing fine.
    Wm. Bigham, who is on the Joe Rader place, was here Saturday.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby was hauling wood to town Saturday.
    Sunday morning the Eagle Point baseball team went to Antelope (Wellen) to play against the Antelope baseball team and came home Sunday afternoon almost crazy with excitement, for they were on the winning side, the score standing Eagle Point 10 and Antelope only 8.
    Mrs. M. H. Kentner and Mrs. A. F. Green of Los Angeles, who are members of one of the Bible schools there, who arrived here over a week ago, attended our Sunday school and made a start toward starting a Bible class.
    I did not reach home Sunday in time to meet the guests who came in for dinner, but learned that there were quite a number and among them was Charley Clark of the Modoc orchard, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown, and they had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. [Virgil] Strang of Medford. And later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Phipps of Medford, Edward Vilas and his mother, Mrs. Vilas of Medford, Geo. Holman spent Sunday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 19, 1922, page 8


    Mr. Thomas F. Nichols, a member of the firm of Nichols and Ashpole, has been taking his meals at the Sunnyside lately and on inquiry I learned that his wife had gone on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, on the south fork of Little Butte Creek.
    Mr. J. G. Hannaford, who is living on the Chris Natwick farm northeast of here, was a business caller Monday.
    Wm. Coleman and another man passed through here Monday morning on their way up the creek, but did not stop, but I understand that he is connected in some way with the fishery business, either in the state or U.S. government. He always has a soft job, and that is no crime.
    Pete Betz, who owns and operates a fine farm on Rogue River near the Crater Lake Highway, came in early Monday to our garage man, George Holmes, to have his auto doctored up and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Ralph Young of Medford passed through here the first of the week on his way to Prospect.
    Bud Obenchain of Lake Creek came in the first of the week and went on out to Medford.
    Mrs. Schmitt, one of the rustling women of the Crowfoot country near Derby, brought in her produce the [omission].
    O. J. Blackledge and wife and J. M. Fodren and wife of Corvallis, who have been here for the past two weeks, camping in the house known as the Robinett house, and spending their time gathering agates, started for their homes Tuesday morning, well loaded with a fine selection of various kinds of agates and other kinds of stones, among which were several fine specimens of petrified wood, and Mr. Goin, "Agate Jack," has polished up what will compare favorably with some of the best to be found. I suppose that there has been at least over a thousand pounds of choice agates gathered off this section of the country and hauled north to Eugene, Albany, Newport, Marshfield, to say nothing of the amount that has been shipped to Portland.
    Wm. Moore, formerly of Elk Creek, but now of Butte Falls, a professional saw filer, was visiting our town on his way to Medford about the middle of the week.
    Mrs. H. Hinman and her daughter, Miss Jane, were visitors at the Sunnyside Monday.
    George Nichols, Jr. and wife of Medford, who own one of the finest stock farms in the Lake Creek country, were visiting relatives in our town Monday afternoon.
    Bert Clarno, who owns a fine farm on Rogue River about six miles from here, near the Crater Lake Highway, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Mr. P. S. Anderson, owner of what is known as the Brittsan farm, came in on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Tuesday morning and went on up on the stage.
    E. G. High and wife, nee Bessie Haselton, of Ashland, were here Tuesday afternoon combining business with pleasure. Mr. High is in the aviation business in Ashland.
    O. B. Williams of Medford, who is engaged in selling supplementary school works, was here for dinner Tuesday.
    George Cottrell of Beagle was a business caller Wednesday.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists in Rogue River, who has one of the largest and best orchards in the valley, was in town and reports a fine prospect for one of the best crops of fruit ever. The pear crop bids fair to be fully up to date, but the prospect for a bumper apple crop is not quite so good, nevertheless it bids fair to be a heavy one.
    Among the diners Tuesday at the Sunnyside were Nick Young, Cliff Hickman and Thomas Abbott.
    Mr. De Ford of Sams Valley was here on business on his way to Antelope Valley.
    Among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday was H. Stills of the firm of Stills Bros., of Indian Creek, who have been engaged in the saw mill and dairy business but have sold their saw mill out and are preparing to move over into California where their two brothers are living.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Antelope Valley was a business caller Thursday and reports that she has already 63 young turkeys hatched out and several hens setting on turkey eggs and that those already hatched are doing fine.
    Fred and Carl Stanley of Lake Creek were also business callers.
    Seth Dixon of the firm of Dixon Bros. of Klamath County, who have been in this neighborhood for some time buying up cattle, while riding one of the horses designed to be used in driving out the cattle they have bought, was thrown from the horse and was quite badly bruised up and his face badly scratched up, but no bones were broken.
    Mrs. Lammey, the lady who went from here to the von der Hellen camp on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect to cook for the men, came in to the Sunnyside about ten o'clock Thursday night with her little boy, taking him to Medford to have him treated for a bad cut by an ax. She left here Friday morning very early for Medford.
    I met our road supervisor Thursday and in speaking of the prospective water canal from above Butte Falls, he said that everything was about ready to advertise for bids on the bonds, that there was a little more work to be done yet before they were advertised, and he predicts that the canal will be ready for the water to be used next season.
    Mrs. K. Hixon of Butte Falls and Mrs. Johnson of Brownsboro were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage, Mrs. Johnson going up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Roy Conley, the owner of the old Haak saw mill near Butte Falls, came out Friday with a hind wheel of his logging truck for repairs, having broken down. He took dinner here and took it on to Medford, as our wagon maker did not have in stock material heavy enough. F. A. Whaley was also here for dinner.
    Friday morning was just the kind of a morning that most of the farmers were wishing for, so that they could go to the election and have a good time. Although there was quite a number of them did not vote as the Democratic ticket had so few names on it, often only one for an office and he would be the nominee. In fact, there seemed to be but little interest taken and what little there was, was to decide who would be the nominee for circuit judge, and the result here was Thomas 59, Newbury, 15, pretty near four to one for Thomas. But the dinner the ladies of the town put out was said to be fully up to date. Drs. Holt, Green and Stearns of Medford were among the guests and promised in case the ladies of Eagle Point ever gave another dinner they were coming out and bring the ladies with them. As near as I could learn the receipts from the dinner were $45, and from the sales of aprons and other things the ladies had made to sell was about the same or a little more, not far from $100. But the whole affair proved to be a grand success.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 24, 1922, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Best and Miss Brunson from Los Angeles are visiting at the Cowden home, where they expect to stay a few weeks.
    Mike Hanley passed through here Monday with his bunch of thoroughbred Hereford cattle. He is taking them to ranch to pasture through the summer.
    Ralph Stanley made a trip to Fish Lake this week to see if they can get across the mountains with cattle. Recently there has been too much snow to cross.
    Visitors at school last week were Mrs. Butler and daughter Nellie and Olga Bieberstedt and Mrs. Wm. Hansen, Jr.
    Ed Cowden was a business caller at Eagle Point Saturday.
    Drake Walsh is spending a few weeks with his brother Len [Lou?] Walsh of Antelope.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stanley visited Roy Stanley of Eagle Point Thursday.
    Business callers at Medford Monday were Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Hulse and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw.
    Mrs. Henry's brother, Mr. Frideger and family, were visitors at the Henry home Sunday.
    Mrs. McDonald of Lake Creek was a visitor at Ed Tucker's home Sunday.
    Miss Edith Kubli spent the weekend at her home on Applegate.
    Miss Velda Monia spent the weekend at her home in Brownsboro.
    Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miller of Applegate and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Luy of Wellen visited at Brownsboro Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 26, 1922, page 10


    Last Saturday while in my rounds I met our popular and thoroughgoing road supervisor, William Perry, and inquired of him as to how the Big Butte-Eagle Point water canal project was progressing and in response to my question he said all right, that they were about ready to place the bonds on the market, that they had a little more work to do yet and then the bonds would be offered for sale. That the prospect was very encouraging, the few in the district who had refused to be included in the district and who had begged to be left out were now wishing that they had taken more stock since they had realized the advantage of having water to irrigate, and he cited me to a tract of land he sold to the late Wilbur Jacks, quite a large tract and only a small portion of it under the ditch that is taken out of Little Butte Creek about the upper end of the Fred Pelouze place and runs through the tract referred to, that when he sold it to Mr. Jacks he told him that he considered that he was simply giving him the largest part of the land as that above the ditch was scarcely worth the taxes and labor to cultivate and in connected with the subject related to me his experience with it.
    He sowed the tract below the ditch in clover and sowed a part of the land above the ditch in grain and the result was three-quarters of a ton of hay to the acre on the dry land and that he cut two crops the same year off of the land sown to clover and realized an average of five tons of hay to the acre, or two and a half tons to each cutting. He now owns a tract of land that when Dr. Whitney bought it nearly forty years ago and paid twenty-five dollars an acre for it and the general impression in the community seemed to be that he was badly stung, for it was simply a chaparral thicket on a gravel bar that the original owners did not consider worth fencing, but the doctor brought in a small ditch and planted a part of it to fruit and berries, built a neat little house on it and then sold it and moved away. Finally it fell into the hands of Mr. A. L. Haselton, one of the school teachers of some thirty or more years ago, now living in Ashland, and he being a practical gardener and an indomitable worker cleared the rock off of it and made of it one of the finest garden spots in Rogue River Valley and turned his attention to raising beans and onions and soon his onions began to attract attention, many of them three and even four pounds, the land yielding as high as 7200 lbs. to the acre. Finally Mr. Haselton sold about half of the tract to Ed Wolfer and he put a large part of it out to strawberries, which proved a success, but he married, sold out and it fell into the hands of the present owner, and he being a farmer turned about all of the tract into an alfalfa meadow and it is now bringing him an average of eight tons of hay to the acre, the result of work, water and scientific cultivation.
    He told me that he paid three hundred dollars an acre for the Wolfer part in cash and today would not take five hundred dollars an acre for it.
    While some old croakers are lying awake nights and sympathizing with the poor farmers who are having the water put on their land and reaping three-quarters of a ton to the acre, the far-seeing farmers are preparing to care for the bountiful crops the water will enable them to produce.
    I might cite the reader of the Mail Tribune to a number of instances that have come under my observation where the use of water and proper energy has made the farmers independent.
    Dave Rummel, formerly of Trail but now of Big Butte, and Roy Conley, owner of the Conley mill four miles from Butte Falls, and Ed Gomez, now of Butte Falls, were here for dinner Saturday.
    Last Sunday we had our regular Sunday school and Rev. H. G. Adams preached for us both morning and evening. At the Sunday school it was decided to change the time of meeting of the Sunday school from 10:30 to 10 o'clock a.m. Mr. Adams will not be here next Sunday as he has gone to Corvallis to visit his son who is attending the O.A.C. but expects to be here the first Sunday in June.
    It was arranged last Sunday for Mrs. Arglee Green and Mrs. M. H. Kentner of Los Angeles to conduct a singing, praise and prayer service next Sunday, May 28, in the church at 8 o'clock p.m. There will be special song service by some of the noted singers of our community.
    The ball players won their game on the Eagle Point ball grounds between the Sams Valley and the Eagle Point teams and the score stood: Sams Valley 2 and Eagle Point 33.
    When I reached home from church the dinner table was full and about enough in the sitting room to fill it again, so I was unable to secure the names of the guests, but learned that among them was Charley Terrill and wife and Mrs. Smith, a cousin of Mr. Terrill, I. C.  Moore of Ashland and son William of Butte Falls, Mr. Moore, Sr., formerly of Elk Creek but now of Ashland was on his way to Butte Falls to try to recover his health, for he has been afflicted all winter with the flu, having had two sieges, or a relapse. Also there were Buel Hildreth, John W. Smith, wife and two children of Big Sticky, S. K. Amy, wife and three children, Millard Robinson, Henrietta Scheez, Velma Wright, Lester Bigham, besides quite a number of the townspeople who came in for dinner.
    J. Rigsby, who has been cutting saw logs for Roy Conley of Butte Falls, has finally moved into the house formerly occupied by Agate Jack Goin and he (Jack) is sleeping in an outhouse but still eating at the Sunnyside.
    Charley Wilkinson of Dead Indian Soda Springs passed through here Monday on his way home. He says that he has a concession from the U.S. government to keep a supply store at the springs and that it, the government, plans to make a good road through that country on to Lake of the Woods and that will be a near route to Klamath County.
    Mrs. O. M. Goss and daughter were here on business the first of the week and says that they intend to remain in Butte Falls this season.
    In my last letter I stated that the receipts for the dinner, apron sales, etc. amounted to around $100, but I had not learned the result of the sale of homemade candy, the grab-bag, and since I wrote I learn that the total amounts to $179.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 29, 1922, page 3


    Mrs. M. E. Inlow Albright of Trail, and three men besides the driver, came out Monday on the Butte Falls stage and Mrs. Albright went on up to her husband's homestead on the Eagle Point-Persist stage.
    C. H. Natwick, the principal contractor on the extension of the P.&E. railroad from Butte Falls to Fourbit Creek, was also here Monday morning.
    C. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Co., and S. M. Bullis, who is also interested with the same company, were here for dinner the same day and so was Charles Pettegrew.
    Charles Hanscom, who is living on the old J. P. Moomaw farm southeast of our town, was in town.
    Mrs. Cal Thomason, who has been camp cook in the C. H. Natwick camp at Butte Falls, came out on the stage Monday on her way to Medford to spend a few days.
    Mrs. Elizabeth Farlow of Lake Creek came in Sunday afternoon with her granddaughter, Mrs. Thos. F. Nichols, who had been up visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow.
    J. F. Thompson of Oakland, Ore., came in Monday with a dump truck to be used to haul crushed rock onto the Crater Lake Highway between the top of the Cingcade hill and Medford, to have some repair work done by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, and while here spent two nights at the Sunnyside. He said they expected to be able to start putting on the crushed rock by Friday, May 26th.
    When the road from here to Medford is completed it is predicted that many of the country people who have been used to riding over our rough, muddy, rocky roads, when they strike the smooth hard-surfaced highway, will keep right on and will hardly know when or where to stop.
    R. T. Seaman also spent the night here on his way to Butte Falls. Mr. Seaman is one of the civil engineer corps who were engaged on the Crater Lake Highway last summer and expects to move his family here to remain during the season. He did not say where he expected to work but went to Butte Falls to see about it as there is now considerable work in his line, the Big Butte-Eagle Point water canal and the work on the railroad extension.
    Rev. H. G. Adams and James Corsant, the first the Congregational minister here and the latter a retired capitalist who has been stopping at the Sunnyside Hotel for some weeks past gathering agates, left here for Corvallis and Albany, the former to visit his son who is attending the O.A.C., to be gone until the latter part of the first week in June, and the latter to his home in Albany. He succeeded in securing several hundred pounds of fine agates and specimens of petrified wood.
    Guy Pruett was a business caller Tuesday and so was J. B. Cooper, formerly of Trail but now of Butte Falls. He came in on the Butte Falls stage and remained until after dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Mrs. Arglee F. Green, recently from Los Angeles, has two men tearing down a part of her father's old house, the J. J. Fryer house, and making several changes in it and intends to use the lumber to build another house and small barn on land she owns on the opposite side of the creek on the Riverside boulevard.
    L. M. Harris, sales manager for the John Boelman Co., San Francisco, Calif. and C. P. Clouse, representing the same firm, were here for dinner and so was H. H. Connelly of San Joaquin, Cal., and Guy Holman, the mail carrier from Climax to Eagle Point.
    J. H. Hughes of Medford was here putting in a fish screen in the irrigation ditch below the old grist mill.
    I met Mrs. G. R. Brown at the post office, a sister of Wm. Butler, recently from Taft, Calif. She and her husband drove in from Taft making a continuous drive of thirty hours to reach here so as to attend the funeral of her father, William C. Butler, who passed away a short time ago. They have decided to remain and are living on a tract of land she owns between here and Brownsboro.
    Ernest Dahack, our barber, went up to Butte Falls with the mail Wednesday morning.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls was among the diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wymore of Derby came out with a truckload of wood for sale and while here transacted business with our merchants.
    Wm. Pruett of Wellen, who is on the George Stevens farm, was having work done in our blacksmith shop Wednesday.
    I understand that Chris Bergman, who had a stroke of paralysis a short time ago, was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital for treatment a few days ago.
    Fred Pettegrew, our horseman, went to Medford Thursday to look after his interests in that section.
    Wm. Sears, formerly of Butte Falls but more recently in California, came out from Medford on the stage and went up to his old home. He has been away for about three years.
    Our school closed Thursday with a picnic dinner for the children and it seemed to be greatly enjoyed by them. Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, who has been teaching in the Crater Lake district, four miles from Butte Falls, also closed her school the same day and came to the Sunnyside for supper. She was accompanied by an elderly lady whom I did not know who I understand was selling little trinkets and notions. They both went to Medford with one of the Brown brothers.
    Frank Simpson, one of the early pioneers of this valley, was also a visitor here.
    Horace Pelton, another one of the pioneers of the valley and one of the well-to-do farmers and stockmen of Sams Valley, who is also interested in the stock business with his brother James of Fort Klamath, was here for dinner Thursday.
    There was a man came out on the stage who wanted to go up in the Lake Creek country to visit his cousin, Wm. Nickell, but Mr. Van Dyke, the driver, had such a load he decided that he could not take him, so he came to the Sunnyside and remained until Friday morning. When asked his name, after telling that I was a newspaper correspondent, he declined to give it, so I will not give it, although Will's many friends would have been glad to have seen it in the Medford Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1922, page 5


    Arthur Moore made a trip to Medford last week on business.
    Ezra Whitley was helping Elmer Ivey plant his potatoes.
    Geo. Hall is building a flume to carry water to his alfalfa.
    Weston Miller is working for Miss Inez Willits.
    Elmer Ivey and Hazel Pence of the Elk Creek school have successfully passed the eighth grade examination prescribed by the Oregon State Board of Education.
    Mrs. Sturgis visited Mrs. L. A. Whitley Friday.
    Dave Pence has charge of the teams which are working on the road from Trail to Prospect. L. A. Whitley, Howard Ash, George and Harry Trusty are also working on the road. All are from Elk Creek.
    Ezra Whitley and Elmer Ivey made a trip to Ashland to attend the Union County meet, where the certificates were given out in person by Miss Homes.
    W. Willits and Henry Thornton went to Medford Monday.
    Marcel Sandoz has ended his visit at the Willits place and returned to his home Monday. He has had a long visit and reports that he had a good time.
    Ezra Whitley and Elmer Ivey are burning slashing.
    Henry Trusty and George Trusty visited their folks on Elk Creek Saturday. Miss Frances Greb also was visiting at the same time.
    The Persist school is busy fulfilling the directions on their club work, which is camp cooking, as they have made several camping trips.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis have journeyed to town several times in the past week.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miller returned home after a long term of prospecting. They have a very bad cold.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1922, page 6


    Road work pending in Jackson County and now under consideration by the county court includes the opening of a road that will open up the territory at the head of Elk Creek. It will cost approximately $5,000 and will run from the Crater Lake Highway via the Earl Ulrich ranch to Persist. It will be built under the supervision of the forestry service with the county and the California-Oregon Power Company cooperating. Road District No. 9 levied a special tax to build the road. The lines of the California-Oregon Power Company tap the district. The road taps new country and opens up new timber resources. County Commissioners Bursell and Owens visited the section today.
    Bids for the building of the road from the summit of Rocky Hill to Butte Falls and down Reese Creek from the Reese Creek school house to the Crater Lake Highway will be opened June 8th. Some improvements have been made on this road and residents of that section have beseeched the county court for months for relief, claiming the road was impassable in winter.
    The county court Wednesday afternoon journeyed to Coleman Creek in search of a gravel [deposit] with which to repair the mail route road west of Phoenix and finally decided to use the Bear Creek gravel.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 1, 1922, page 3


    Last Friday morning I started for Medford with one of our old pioneers, Wm. Green Knighten, to consult our family doctor, Mr. Holt, on professional business, and after calling him on the phone and waiting a few minutes met him at his office where I met two men and a lady, each waiting their turn. After a careful examination he decided what was the ailment and prescribed what course to follow and, as might be expected of a doctor, prescribed something that would make me sicker but left hope for favorable results, and this Tuesday morning I am able to resume my daily task writing the Eagle Point Eaglets for the Mail Tribune.
    While in Medford I met a few of my acquaintances from this part of the country, but they were too busy to stop and talk and my time was also so limited that I had to hurry up as we were expected to start by 12 o'clock noon but took time to visit the office of the Mail Tribune and have a little chat with the editor and his bookkeeper, Mrs. Blakeley, and congratulated her on her escaping the clutches of the gang of outlaws who appeared to be trying to convict her of wrongdoing to cover up their own doings in the Jacksonville Bank case.
    After my return home I started out to gather material for this letter and found that there were but few people had been in that day and among them was Earl Tucker of Brownsboro and he made a hurried trip in the afternoon to our blacksmith so as to be ready to commence to cut his hay. I also met Wort Pool and he was here on the same errand and while with them learned that the new canal, or rather the old one that has been enlarged, was in some instances causing considerable trouble along the lower side by leaking and more especially from the Bradshaw Drop on, as in one instance the water burst out several feet below the ditch and tore a large piece out of the side of the mountain flooding the land below, and I heard that it had done considerable damage to the Antelope orchard and to the fruit but at a later date I met the foreman, Frank Haselton, and inquired of him and he said that about all the damage done was flooding the orchard so much that he could not do the plowing, but no serious damage.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who own a farm and orchard on the Crater Lake Highway, were in town, and as they are interested in the dairy and poultry business to a considerable extent the question naturally came up as to cow feed, and he said in addition to his splendid hay crop they have planted five acres in sunflowers to make ensilage. Mr. Weidman believes in keeping the very best breed of stock and in having the very best of feed to bring results.
    Miss June Hillman and her mother, Mrs. H. H. Hillman, who is working in the office of the Earl Fruit Co. in Medford, were callers at the Sunnyside Hotel Friday afternoon.
    I received a card from Rev. H. G. Adams, the pastor of this circuit, announcing that he expects to be here and preach both morning and evening, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., next Sunday June 4th.
    There were quite a number of strangers here for dinner last Friday and later in the afternoon four came in late for dinner, but I was not at home to get their names.
    G. A. Hansen of Brownsboro was here Saturday and so was J. M. King of Butte Falls and James Culbertson of Lake Creek. They both came out on the Butte Falls stage and Mr. Culbertson went on up home in the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Mr. Aiken, the superintendent of the water system in Medford District, and four other men and a woman were here for dinner Saturday.
    J. D. Patrick, our boss carpenter, has taken a job tearing away some of the old buildings and a part of the rest on Mrs. Arglee F. Green's place that belonged to her father, the late J. J. Fryer. John Miller, another carpenter, who has been employed on the same job while tearing off the roof of one of the old buildings, fell through the roof, it being so rotten that it would not bear his weight, and hurt his side so that he is unable to work at present.
    I notice that Miss Belford, the lady who has charge of the Stewart Farm about 2½ miles northeast of here who has been spending the winter in the East, has returned to our midst.
    Corbett Smith and his mother, Mrs. Mary Beale of Butte Falls, have been here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sherman Wooley.
    Charlie Cingcade and family, L. Charley, formerly of the Brownsboro country but now of Medford, and his daughter, Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro, passed through here Saturday afternoon for the old home place.
    Herbert L. Sutland of Fort Jones, Calif., was a diner at the Sunnyside Hotel Saturday.
    William Pruett, wife and son Lawrence of Wellen, F. J. McPherson and family, George and Jerry Lewis were among the diners Sunday. Louis Daley, wife and baby and his father, John Daley, all of Medford, were out here Sunday afternoon visiting Mrs. Allie Daley.
    Sig Skavlin, with Wadhams & Kerr Bros. of Portland, was here for supper, and so was Roy Stanley and family and Nick Young.
    There was quite an interesting ball game here Sunday afternoon between the Eagle Point team and the Gold Hill team. The game was closely contested from start to finish and the result was Eagle Point came out with their feathers drooping again as the score stood 8 to 9 in favor of the Gold Hill team.
    O. C. Eblin and family and F. E. Bechdoldt and N. Campbell, Mrs. Chas. Wilkinson of Dead Indian Soda Springs, Ed Netting, A. M. Gay of Butte Falls, were here for dinner Monday and so was Charley Brown, who says that he is selling Fords, Fordson tractors and Ford supplies for the C. E. Gates Co.
    Miss Elsie Whaley of Butte Falls came out Tuesday morning to visit her mother, who has been on the sick list under the treatment of Dr. Holt for several weeks, and sister Rosa, who is assisting at the Sunnyside. I am glad to be able to say that her mother, Mrs. F. A. Whaley, has greatly improved and seems to be on the road to recovery.
    Our town was almost desolated Memorial Day so I only made two trips across to the post office and the first time saw only one man and he was the Butte Falls stage driver who came in, but later in the afternoon Mrs. George Trefren, Mrs. William Abbott, her daughter, Mrs. William Welch, her son, Orbie Abbott and a young man by the name of Beck. Miss Elsie Whaley went home with them.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 2, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. A. E. Hildreth and two sons, A. E. and Buel Hildreth, and wife of Butte Falls, who had been out to Central Point, Medford and Phoenix Memorial Day, called on the Sunnyside family Tuesday afternoon on their way home.
    Henry French, one of our prosperous farmers, poultry and dairy men, was in our town Tuesday and in commenting on the article I wrote on the advantage to be derived from the proper use of water, fertilizers and scientific farming, gave me a little of his experience in that department of agriculture. He said that he had a small farm of forty acres on the bank of Rogue River, about thirty acres in cultivation, where he has been living and has been farming without water to irrigate, for it is not everyone who lives on a running stream who can use the water to irrigate, for it often costs quite a sum to make a ditch so as to take the water out and raise it up so as to utilize it in the way as it did in his case. He said that he had one small piece, about an acre, that looked very good, so he sowed it to grain and it produced about three-quarters of a ton of hay. He next used fertilizer and planted it in potatoes but the result was no more satisfactory, so he went in to a project with some of the neighbors to take water out of the river and the result was he planted it in clover and now cuts two crops a year of five good loads of clover hay a year. And remarked that if he had only 40 acres of land, without water, he would gladly give one-half of it to have the other half supplied with water.
    Another incident occurred a few years ago up in the Lake Creek country, when Herman Meyer, Sr. was telling his experience in using fertilizers on his alfalfa. It appeared that he had his orchard set in alfalfa and the land outside of the trees between the trees and the fence was also set in alfalfa, but he did not realize that the lime and sulfur he was using to spray his trees would prove beneficial to the alfalfa, so omitted to extend the spraying to the fence and the result was that when he cut his hay that stood next to the fence was not more than half as good as that among the trees, so the next year he sprayed it all alike and the result was an increase of about 50 percent in the production of the hay crop next to the fence.
    Speaking of raising alfalfa, I received a letter the other day from Mr. Joseph Mayer, Ephrata, Washington, in which he said that he was reading my Eagle Point Eaglets every week and asked me to give him some idea how we sow and cultivate alfalfa here in Oregon, and if I understand him, he seems to think that the seed is "set out," whereas I use the term "set to" alfalfa. If Mr. Joseph Mayer will write to the O.A.C., Corvallis, he can secure all the information necessary on the subject, although I found when I was up in Northern Oregon and Washington that they were having trouble in some localities with their alfalfa.
    Professor A. L. Haselton of Ashland came up here to meet his son, Frank, who is the foreman on the Antelope orchard Tuesday and went out home with him.
    George Givan, one of our prosperous farmers and dairy men, was here Wednesday morning.
    Dr. J. L. Holmes, a veterinary surgeon, formerly of Medford but now of Grants Pass, and W. A. Scott, also of Grants Pass, were here for dinner Tuesday and so was W. F. Wymore of Derby. They were on their way down below Sacramento, California with a two-ton truck to engage in hauling in fruit.
    S. W. Tracy of Portland, Oregon, representative of Mishawaka-Wesleyan Mfg. Co. and Lucius Kincaid of Prospect were here for dinner and bed and breakfast Tuesday. Mr. Kincaid has the contract for carrying the U.S. mail from here, three times a week, to Persist for the next four years from July first, 1922, also the contract for carrying the U.S. mail from Medford to Crater Lake and back daily during the months of July, August and September for the next four years from July first, next.
    Among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Wednesday were Mr. Hoagland of Central Point on his way to his farm near Brownsboro, Frank Neil, Derby and a stranger.
    Lemon Charley, recently of Medford, was here for dinner Wednesday and he tells me that he has purchased the F. M. Stewart home here in our town and is moving in and Mr. Time, who has been living on the place, has moved on to his farm again.
    One of Henry Meyers boys of Lake Creek and O. M. Tremblay, general agent, representative of Reliance Life Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, of Portland were here for dinner.
    W. P. Holbrook, Mrs. Charles Wilkinson of the Dead Indian Soda Springs, Charley Humphrey and wife, Chris Beale and J. B. Cooper of Trail were among the business callers Wednesday. Mr. Cooper stopped at the Sunnyside and is here up to the present time, Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson and three children of Brownsboro were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Medford.
    W. E. Hammel and Fred Pettegrew were here for dinner Thursday. They were looking over the points of the Fish Lake ditch where the company had made some mistakes so as to avoid them in making the canal from Big Butte to Eagle Point.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen and Mrs. Oscar Higinbotham of Butte Falls, Mrs. J. H. Carlton of Wellen and two girls and Mrs. Herbert Carlton, C. H. Oliver of Ontario, California, were business callers Thursday.
    J. H. Cohnsen, representative of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Medford, was here for dinner Thursday.
    E. V. Peterson, the mail carrier from Persist, and wife spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    A young man giving his name as near as I could understand as Booby of Grants Pass was here Thursday night, canvassing for a Seventh Day Baptist book.
    Mr. E. C. Fawcett, who had a contract with Mr. Campbell to clear the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway on the Eagle Point unit, came in Friday on the stage on his way to Butte Falls.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., of Lake Creek, was a business caller Friday.
    Wm. Cottrell of Eagle Point post office, who lives near Trail, went through here Friday morning with about two hundred head of cattle, taking them to new range.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 6, 1922, page 6


    Among the business callers in our town last Thursday was Joe Riley, one of the early settlers of this community, he having been born on the place where he is now living. Another visitor was Mrs. William Perry, who lives with her husband on their lovely home just outside of our town. She spent the day visiting at the Sunnyside Thursday. Henry Meyer of Lake Creek was here on business and took dinner, and Jack Kerby, one of our old boarders, recently from Spokane, but who spent the winter here, he having secured a job on the von der Hellen contract near Prospect. Mr. C. E. Barr of Medford and Wm. Phillips, also of Medford, representing Dennis, Kimball & Pope were also here for dinner and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro was a business caller Friday.
    Wm. E. Butler was also here on business and in speaking of his sister, Mrs. G. R. Brown, who recently arrived with her husband from Taft, Calif., remarked that they were busily engaged building on their new home back of the Stewart place.
    W. E. Alexander of Freeman Co., Central Point, Wm. G. Knighten, Geo. Albert and Mrs. Clara Spangler of Trail, W. Vose Adams and his father, Rev. H. G. Adams, came in from Corvallis for dinner. Mr. W. Vose Adams had started to take his vacation, having just closed his term in the O.A.C. at Corvallis, and came out with his father and went right on to Butte Falls to commence work on the P.&E. Railroad.
    Ralph Cowgill, at one time civil engineer for the Fish Lake Ditch Co. but now a nominee for the legislature, was also here for dinner, and two strangers were here for the night.
    We had about the usual number in attendance at Sunday school and church but when it came to dinner there was a perfect jam as the ball game in the afternoon was between Eagle Point and Butte Falls teams and from the reports given me the game was very closely contested, the score standing 3 to 4 in favor of Eagle Point. They commenced to eat dinner a few minutes after 12 noon, and came with such a rush and kept coming so fast that I didn't try to secure the names and many of them were strangers from Butte Falls and the surrounding country. I did not even try to keep count of the number who ate dinner as I was so unwell that I simply gave it up as a bad job, but I remember that there was Geo. Barker, wife and two daughters, the Butte Falls banker, Mrs. J. P. Hughes and daughter Viola and son Samuel. After I had written the foregoing I asked Miss Rose Whaley, who has been an assistant in conducting the affairs at the Sunnyside Hotel for the past year and more, and she from memory gave me the following list from Butte Falls: Mr. Johnson, Gus Edmondson and wife, Alice and Charley White, Glen Albert, Essie Whaley, Ernest Albert, Ray Spencer and wife, Charley Patton and wife, Rod Baker, wife and daughter, Elgie Abbott, Ernest Abbott and wife, Prof. Ward, Manuel Poole, Milton Hammersley, Claude (Shorty) Miles, Willard Heryford, Everett Faber, Slim Palmer and wife, Bob Edmondson and wife, Ira Tungate, Chris Beale, besides O. McDonald of Medford and Aden Haselton, F. J. McPherson and family, successor to T. E. Nichols, Thomas F. Nichols and wife, William Perry, wife and his mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Guy Pruett and mother, Mrs. M. E. Pruett and quite a number of others were here to see the ball game, but am not sure [who] were here for dinner. They had a very interesting game, the score standing 5 to 3 in favor of Eagle Point.
    There was preaching service at the church last Sunday morning and evening, and next Sunday, June 11th, there will be a Sunday school picnic at the Reese Creek school house and it is expected that the Trail, Brownsboro, Derby and Eagle Point Sunday schools will be there and all take part in the exercises in the forenoon and there will be preaching in the afternoon. Everybody is cordially invited. Big feed again.
    Rev. M. C. Davis, the popular Sunday school evangelist, formerly of this district but now of Wolf Creek, is to preach here in Eagle Point on Sunday, June 17th at 11 o'clock a.m. and 8 o'clock p.m. and at Trail in the afternoon at 3 o'clock the same day.
    Mrs. M. H. Kentner of Los Angeles has opened a Bible school here for the children. They meet at the church every morning and she gives instruction from the Bible, teaching them biblical accounts of incidents, short bible stories, etc. The first meeting was held Monday morning and there were eleven enrolled, the next seventeen and this morning (Wednesday) there were twenty. The children seem to take considerable interest in the teaching. Mrs. Kentner expects to keep the meetings up most of the month of June.
    Joe Moomaw is having his home papered and painted.
    Lucius Kincaid and four others were here for dinner Monday.
    J. A. Lowther of Agate was here Monday and Tuesday shearing sheep.
    Miss Vida Bradshaw of Brownsboro, one of our popular teachers, called Monday afternoon to visit Miss Rose Whaley.
    Oren Zimmerman of Butte Falls, who has been working here in the valley, went up home Tuesday on the stage and so did Frank Neil of Derby and Charley Eden of Lake, who came out on the stage and went up home on the Lake Creek stage. He was inquiring where he could purchase a place in or near Eagle Point of a few acres with water to irrigate as he wants to move out of the hills.
    C. C. Cate, county agent, his son Leland, and Fred Pettegrew were here for dinner Monday. They were out setting a valuation on the land under the proposed ditch from above Butte Falls to cover the land near Derby, Eagle Point and to cross Little Butte Creek just above the Fred Pelouze place and cover several fine farms and orchards on the south side of the creek including the Alta Vista Orchard of 196 acres.
    Frank Smith of Grants Pass was here for supper Tuesday night and went on to Medford.
    H. L. Evans of Medford was here for dinner Monday and Tuesday. He was engaged plumbing the house for Mr. Mittelsteadt.
    Sam Coy, the new mail contractor for carrying the mail from here via Wellen to Climax, has moved his family up to Climax.
    Sam Harnish was a diner at the Sunnyside Tuesday, and his son Ray Harnish was here Wednesday.
    C. Humphrey and E. M. Schmitt were here Tuesday.
    O. M. Goss has sold his orchard just outside of our town on the Crater Lake Highway to John W. Smith and he expects to build and move onto it this fall.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hickson, a daughter, date not known by writer.
    The Ladies' Club are to meet at the home of Mrs. Amy Brown Thursday, June 15.
    Mrs. Merritt and son of Reese Creek were transacting business here Tuesday.
    Richard Muskopf has been papering Joe Moomaw's home.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 9, 1922, page 28


    Ed Cowden, one of our far-seeing and enterprising stockman-farmers and dairymen, was in town Wednesday and so was Charley Humphrey, who brought in wood for our townspeople to supply the demand for the coming winter. And while the two were here in town they happened to meet and Mr. Cowden jumped on Mr. Humphrey's truck and had a fine ride over the unspeakable road to Charley's home beyond Derby, and while there made a deal for twenty-one pigs that had just been weaned, and the result was the pigs were transferred from the pen into two large boxes, put onto the truck, and in order to economize in time the truck was moved to a rick of stovewood and two tier of wood put in and the whole load brought out, the wood to the Sunnyside and the pigs to the Cowden farm to be converted into hogs for the fall and winter market. Thus the city folks can see the way the country people have to shift things around to procure money to buy the necessary things of life and pay the taxes to support the higher-ups who ride around in their fine cars, inspecting what the farmers raise, gathering samples of what the farmers raise for exhibition at the county and state fairs to help to boost our country and build up the towns and cities so that the farmers can find a market for what they raise and thus keep the ball moving. The question is often asked how so many people can keep up; we see [them] riding over the country in their fine automobiles, wearing fine clothes, smoking good cigars and not producing a thing, for it is not an uncommon thing to see two or four, for they generally go in pairs, "agents" and hear them telling of their selling four or six autos in a week, thus showing that our country is in a prosperous and healthy condition, and it is all brought about because of the brain work of the farmers.
    Wm. Almy and his mother, Mrs. M. D. Bowles of Lake Creek, were among the business callers Wednesday.
    Our Vacation Bible School is progressing finely under the management of Mrs. M. H. Kentner of Los Angeles, and I had the privilege of attending the session Friday and was surprised to see and hear the progress the children are making in memorizing and repeating the incidents related in the Old Testament and the interest most of the children seem to take in the move.
    Remember that on Sunday, June 18th, that Rev. M. C. Davis, at one time popular and efficient Sunday school evangelist, now of Wolf Creek, is to preach here on Sunday morning, 11 o'clock and in the evening at 8 o'clock and at Trail at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Those in Trail and vicinity who see this notice tell their friends of the Rev. Davis' coming, as he has a host of friends in that community.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday were Wm. Gibson, B. F. Oatman and H. E. Warner, who are working now in the interest of the county and state fairs gathering the different kinds of grasses, alfalfa, clover, timothy, vetch, etc. to be cured properly and placed on exhibit to let the world know the wonderful productivity of Jackson County, Oregon. Ray Harnish and Lloyd Harvey, Ralph Cowgill, who is the civil engineer working on the water canal from Big Butte, beyond Butte Falls to Eagle Point and beyond, and F. A. Deputy, Talent, Oregon.
    Miss Maude Allen of Eugene, a niece of Mrs. A. R. McDonald, is here visiting her uncle and aunt.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Silliman, of the Sugar Bowl Candy manufacturing establishment of Medford, were here for supper. Mr. Silliman makes his own candies but sells at wholesale and delivers. He had been to Trail and Butte Falls that day to deliver a lot of his goods and stopped here on his way home for supper. Claude (Shorty) Miles and his mother, Mrs. J. Doubleday, and James Degan of Beagle were also here for supper.
    Thursday W. Blake of the biological survey, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, was here for supper and Wm. Lichtenberg of Wolf Creek, salesman for North Ridge Brush Co., spent the night. He canvasses a town or community, takes orders and the next week delivers.
    A. G. Bishop, one of our prominent orchardists and farmers, was a business caller Thursday and so was Andrew Poole, one of the forest rangers of Trail.
    Gary Garrett of Medford and Marsh Garrett of Lake Creek, Henry French and son Lloyd passed through here in the morning and went to Medford and returned in the afternoon.
    Mrs. S. R. Johnston and Mrs. G. W. Averill and Charles Martin of Butte Falls were passengers on the stage from Butte Falls Thursday and Fred Arnes of the Edgell orchard was a business caller Thursday.
    Mrs. S. A. Richter of Trail, who lives just beyond the divide on the Douglas County line, came out on the Butte Falls stage Thursday and went on up home on the Persist stage. In speaking of his health remarked that he had the flu last winter but his nearest neighbor was eight miles away and the snow was so deep that he could not get out, and he had no phone so had to get along the best he could alone.
    Mrs. R. McDonald of Brownsboro, Mrs. M. D. Bowles and son, Wm. Almy of Lake Creek, also came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday evening and went on up home.
    Walter Wood, one of our prominent stockmen, was here for dinner Friday.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of the big orchardists of Rogue River Valley, was here Friday afternoon and so was Mrs. Herbert Carlton of Wellen.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1922, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. W. Willits went to Medford last week. Mr. Willits returned but Mrs. Willits remained to visit awhile.
    Miss Francis Greb, teacher of Persist school, assisted by Miss Inez Willits, the misses Dorothy and Edna Peterson and Mr. Elmer Ivey, gave a school program Friday. Miss Burr showed slides entitled "Views of Mexico," and "The Bread Industry of Oregon." Both proved to be interesting. The program was appreciated by all who attended, for it was difficult to try to get up a program with such a small school. In general opinion the pupils did very good. Those in attendance were Mrs. Ashcraft and children, Mr. Willits, Miss Inez Willits, Dorothy Willits, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Whitley, Ezra Whitley, Elmer Ivey, Harvey Morgan, Henry Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. V. Peterson, Edna Peterson, Dorothy Peterson and Miss Burr. After the program we had a bountiful basket supper and dispersed to our respective homes at an early hour in the morning.
    Miss Burr visited Mrs. F. A. Whitley Friday the 9th. Elmer Ivey was also a visitor.
    Those who are haying on our creek are as follows: Mr. George Hall, Mr. P. E. Sandoz, Weston and Boyd Miller. The rain came at the wrong time for the above farmers but did not ruin the hay.
    Mr. Hall has escaped the rain so far.
    Mr. P. E. Sandoz has been shopping in town.
    Miss Inez Willits and Mrs. Fred Sturgis are kept busy boarding the surveyors who have been surveying a right-of-way for the California-Oregon Power Co.
    We are having quite heavy traffic for this mountainous section lately, as people are coming from town to fish.
    Antone Ring has bought an iron horse (motorcycle) and seems to be enjoying himself, by the looks of things.
    The construction work on the road is going on smoothly.
    There will be an annual school meting at the school house Monday, June 19. All are urged to attend.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1922, page 7


    Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro and Myrtle von der Hellen of this place went to Medford Friday to attend the graduating exercises of high school.
    W. H. Crandall and George W. Daley, Jr. were here Friday trading with our merchants.
    Butte Falls is announcing their program for July 3rd and 4th. A barbecue, ball game between Eagle Point and Butte Falls teams, and dance in the evening are among the attractions advertised.
    Mr. Dupray, who lives on the P.&E. railway near Butte Falls, spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside. He reports that he cannot get cars for the delivery of his lumber, of which he has a quantity on hand.
    Russell Harris, returning from California, spent the night here. Also Lloyd Welch of Lake Creek.
    George Fauerby, who has been working with his teams on the highway between here and Medford, has gone to Prospect for highway work.
    Among those who took supper at the Sunnyside Sunday were Earl Mathews, Eli and Everett Dahack, Wm. Knighten, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holmes, Geo. Wehman, bookkeeper for Wm. von der Hellen, and Lucius Kincaid.
    A. L. Haselton and Mrs. A. L. Haselton of Ashland were here Monday accompanying V. W. Haselton of Everett, Wash., a son of A. L. Haselton by his first wife, and who had not seen his father for forty years. They had been trying to locate each other for years and Chauncey Florey, our county clerk, was instrumental in helping them find each other's address. They quickly planned this pleasant reunion. Mr. V. W. Haselton was accompanied on his trip by his wife and his daughter, Miss Julia Haselton. He is a dairyman and could spend but a short time in this county.
    Miss Ella Belford was at the Sunnyside Tuesday noon, also Charles Manning and his mother, Mrs. Frank Manning from Peyton, Roy Vaughn and Charles Foeller were here also.
    H. L. Evans of Medford is putting in the plumbing for Mr. Mittelsteadt.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Morris from California are visiting Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Nuding. Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Nuding are sisters.
    Prof. W. L. Powers of the Soils Department of O.A.C., Corvallis, C. C. Cate, county agent, Ralph Cowgill of Medford, chief engineer on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point irrigation project, accompanied by Fred Pettegrew of Reese Creek were here for dinner Wednesday. They were here to levy an appraisement on the land which is to be under the ditch to be presented to the bondholders.
    Jas. E. Humphrey of Ocean Beach, Calif. is visiting his nephew, Chas. Humphrey of Derby.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1922, page 7


    Another reader of the Eagle Point Eaglets heard from. I received a long letter the other day from G. E. Dennison, Carrollville, Wis., in which he says that he has been a constant reader of the Eagle Point Eaglets for a number of years and that he has a timber claim in the Lake Creek country, and that he has a number of friends there who wish to locate on homesteads or on government timber land and were thinking of going to Montana and that he suggested to them that he thought that it might be better to come to Oregon and wanted to know about homesteads and timber claims here. There is a good chance for the Medford Commercial Club to distribute some of their literature to advantage.
    Lucius Kincaid and wife, who have been at Prospect, took dinner here and went on to Medford.
    Miss Edith Fredenberg, who has been teaching school east of Butte Falls, was here and spent the night on her way home from taking the teachers examinations at Jacksonville.
    Luke Henderson, J. J. Hoagstraat and Norman Merrill of Medford were in Eagle Point last Friday in behalf of the new compulsory education bill and appeared to be succeeding very well as they secured the names of every voter that was at the hotel with the exception of one who left the dinner table before the petition was passed to him.
    L. Ataltanhugen of Grants Pass was here for dinner.
    C. J. Rose and B. J. Oswald of Medford took supper at Sunnyside Saturday on their way home.
    C. E. Terrill, sheriff, and J. A. Cave, night policeman at Medford, stopped here for dinner on their way to Butte Falls on official business.
    John W. Smith of Big Sticky took supper and spent Saturday night here. He was here working in his orchard on the edge of town and getting ready to build.
    A. J. Florey returned Saturday from Portland where he had been to receive medical treatment.
    I took a stroll down toward the railroad track and noticed that Geo. Brown & Sons had a nice pile of lumber which they had shipped in and placed on the market. I also met E. C. Faber, the new Butte Falls merchant who bought out J. P. Hughes of Butte Falls, and while there learned that Mr. Faber had made arrangements with the Geo. Brown & Sons Merchandise Co. here to furnish them with shakes from the vicinity of Butte Falls and to handle their eggs in his store at Butte Falls. Mr. Faber also informed me that they were making elaborate preparations for their celebration July 3 and 4 at Butte Falls, and they are anticipating having a good time at the barbecue and at the ball game between Eagle Point and Butte Falls teams and at the dances.
    Lem Charley is making some changes in the Jacks property, which he recently purchased, and is preparing to move into it.
    Geo. Holmes has bought a fine two- to four-ton White auto bus for the mail route between Medford and Butte Falls.
    Five strangers took dinner here Saturday on their way to work at Fish Lake.
    Rev. Mark Davis and wife of Wolf Creek, Ore. arrived Saturday afternoon and remained until Monday as guests at the Sunnyside and while here favored us with two strong sermons Sunday forenoon and evening at the Eagle Point Church, and in the afternoon we took a ride over the Crater Lake Highway to Trail where he preached to an appreciative congregation at 3 p.m. Rev. Davis and the writer used to preach regularly at Trail for many years until about 1914. He was very much pleased with the new highway. He recounted pushing first his bicycle and later his motorcycle over the almost impassable sticky roads between Eagle Point and Trail.
    I made a trip to Medford Saturday afternoon to have my eyes treated but found Dr. Emmens to be absent. I also called at the Mail Tribune office. The editor was out but I had a pleasant chat with the ladies of the office.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett was in Eagle Point Saturday.
    Mrs. Will Welsh of Central Point was on the stage Saturday on her way to Butte Falls to visit her mother, Mrs. Abbott.
    Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro was in Eagle Point Saturday on business.
    Rob Harnish has moved his family from Phenix to Eagle Point to keep house for his father, S. H. Harnish.
    L. L. Conger was in town having work done by W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith.
    J. W. Isbell of Reese Creek had the misfortune to get his hand caught in some machinery, losing one finger. He was fortunate in finding Dr. Wm. Holt here in Eagle Point and had the injured hand dressed very promptly.
    A. N. Townsend of Eugene, Ore. with the U.S. Rubber Co., was here for dinner Saturday.
    A ball game between Eagle Point and Butte falls was played here Sunday, resulting in a score of 3 to 20 for Eagle Point. There were about sixty at the hotel for dinner Sunday, the majority of them being from Butte Falls.
    Rev. H. G. Adams will preach at Eagle Point next Sunday, June 25, both morning and evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 23, 1922, page 11


    John L. Robertson, Sr., Jack Mayham and two strangers were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Robertson is one of our thoroughgoing and extensive farmers and reports that the hay crop is fully to date and that the prospect for a good crop of grain is very good.
    H. Charley and Miss Bertha Ford of Medford were here for supper Monday evening.
    Mrs. F. A. Whaley and family of Butte Falls came in as guests at the Sunnyside Saturday the 17th and remained until Tuesday afternoon and were taken out to Medford where Mr. Whaley had secured a house and had brought their household goods. Mrs. Whaley has been an invalid at the hotel for several weeks owing to the high altitude at Butte Falls.
    C. A. Pickel, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Co., was here on his regular monthly round Thursday for dinner and so was Charley Brown, salesman for C. E. Gates & Co.
    When the Medford-Butte Falls stage, the Hudson Six, arrived at our post office Wednesday morning it was loaded to its capacity, three men on the rear seat, four on the middle and three, including the chauffeur, on the front and two on the hood over the lamps, beside the mail, parcel post and baggage, and they all seemed to be comfortably seated; they all went on to Butte Falls.
    Our annual school meeting was held at the school house Wednesday and the regular order of business gone through and in addition Mrs. T. E. Nichols tendered her resignation as a member of the school board and it was accepted and the contract was let to haul the high school pupils to and from the Medford high school to the last year's contractor, Sam H. Harnish, for the next year.
    Mrs. R. G. Brown was re-elected to follow herself, and Mrs. Grover was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Nichols, and the old clerk, Mr. John Linn, was re-elected as school clerk.
    H. B. Tronson, one of our leading orchardists, was a business caller Wednesday and reports that the prospect for fruit is fine.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Rader and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stanley of Antelope Valley, made a business trip to Medford Wednesday.
    The following persons were appointed a committee to arrange the school budget for the coming school year: Mrs. F. W. Reid, Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mr. F. J. McPherson.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Singwalt, nee Hattie Cingcade of Oakland, Calif., came in Monday to visit Mrs. Singwalt's parents and her many old-time friends and schoolmates, for Hattie, as many of us still call her, was educated as far as and including the ninth grade here, she then by her persistent efforts attended the business college of Ashland, finishing her course there, then went to San Francisco where she attended night schools until she secured a position in the S.P. Railroad office, and kept climbing until she is capable of filling almost any position in the business world and her folks have reason to feel proud of having such a daughter. Mr. Singwalt is in business in Oakland, Calif., preparing the types to print pictures for books and newspapers and has a force of ten men employed at the present time in his office.
    We have had another change in real estate in our town, John L. Robertson Jr., having bought what is known as the Charley Painter property, a good roomy residence and three acres of choice garden land with water right and a good roomy barn.
    J. D. Patrick, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside Hotel most of the time this spring and summer doing odd jobs carpentering, has gone to work on a job for Frank Rhodes.
    A crew of three men have been at work placing caution and distance signs along the Crater Lake Highway the past few days and making their headquarters a part of the time at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Charley Humphrey was here Wednesday with a load of wood. With him were Mr. Graham of Reese Creek, who owns the old Fred Pettegrew place and J. W. Isbell, who had his finger caught in machinery about a week ago and cut off with the exception of a very small piece of skin. The doctor placed the two parts of the finger together here intending to redress it the next morning when he went to Medford. On examination there he found that they were growing together nicely, so that he will not be under the necessity of losing the finger at all though it will probably be stiff.
    Mrs. J. L. Hanna nee Annie Pankey, formerly of Central Point, and two daughters, Helen and Harriet of U. of O. campus, Eugene, are in the valley visiting her brother and two sisters and friends and called at the Sunnyside where we had a pleasant visit.
    Wm. Cottrell of Eagle Point post office, one of our prominent stockmen, was here for dinner Thursday, also W. H. Brown and wife and B. H. Williams of L. Dunkelspiel & Co., San Francisco. Also G. W. Frey and wife and son J. W. Frey of Lake Creek.
    H. L. Whited and Miss Marjorie Whited of Visalia, Calif., with Mrs. Laura Hosler of Ashland and Mrs. Cora Reimers and Mrs. Sarah Ganiard, both of Alameda, Cal., took dinner at the Sunnyside. E. M. Hosler is superintendent of the water system in Ashland. H. L. Whited is a jeweler in Visalia, Calif.
    Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Riddell of Santa Barbara, Calif., and children Dorothea and Nelson are here visiting Mrs. Riddell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    Dr. W. W. Holt was here for supper Thursday and reported the birth of a son that morning to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tucker of Brownsboro. Mrs. Earl Tucker, nee Winifred Haak, was formerly a school girl of our town.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 26, 1922, page 3


    SALEM, June 28.--Certification of $400,000 in bonds for the Eagle Point irrigation district in Jackson County was approved by the state irrigation securities commission yesterday. The issue will be used in the improvement of the district, including the construction of a canal 18 miles in length, through which water will be diverted from Big Butte Creek to the 6200 acres included in the district. No storage of water will be required.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 28, 1922, page 3


    John Foster, who has been in the employ of the Fish Lake Canal Company as a carpenter for some time, was a guest Saturday night and Sunday at the Sunnyside.
    Noble Zimmerman of Butte Falls came out Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside and went out on the Eagle Point-Persist stage on his way over to Tiller to work for the U.S. government.
    John Hoogstrat and Howard J. Hill of Medford were here for dinner Friday circulating a petition to recall our sheriff, Charley Terrill, but so far as I know failed to secure any names, but possibly may have secured a few as there are always some old croakers who are willing to try to tear down anyone who is trying to do his duty. The only complaint, or the principal one, against Charley has been that he don't catch the bootleggers who attend the Saturday night dances out here, while it appears that as soon as he, himself, or any of his deputies come to town, word is sent by phone, by signs or monosyllables and the booze is all cached or carried out of town and so of course, he finds none.
    Mr. W. M. Rinsol of Medford and Mrs. S. E. Williams of Portland were here Thursday for dinner.
    Charley Clark, the traveling salesman for the Watkins products, was here and spent Friday night.
    Our street committee has had Mr. Muskopf tearing up the old, dilapidated sidewalk between Main Street and the opera house and replacing it with new lumber, a much-needed change.
    Saturday afternoon I met Mr. Macdonald and Mr. Ledwick as they were trying to raise a force of men to repair the dam that forces the water into the old mill race, as it is running to waste while their gardens need it.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her daughter, Joyce, who have been living in Medford during the latter part of the high school term, have returned to their home in Eagle Point, but expect to go to Prospect to spend the summer in a short time. They were diners at the Sunnyside Saturday and so was Charles Humphrey.
    Saturday morning Mr. W. G. Averill, who had spent the night at the Sunnyside, started bright and early for home with a one-horse buggy, and just after noon came in again in a furor of excitement, stating that he had lost his coat and in one of its pockets was money, checks, etc., worth two hundred and fifty dollars, and just then the question came up as to being able to get an ad in the Mail Tribune that afternoon. It so happened that I was just ready to start for Medford to see Dr. Holt, who has been treating my case. Hurriedly he wrote out an ad and off we started, and soon I was in the Mail Tribune office and was told by the affable clerk, Mary, that I was too late, as they were ready to go to press, but nothing daunted, I visited the editor and stated my case to him, and the result was in a few minutes it was in type. After visiting Dr. Holt and having him make out a prescription I then called on Dr. J. J. Emmens to have him treat my eyes, and waited my turn, met the doctor, had him treat my eyes, went on my way and in the course of the afternoon met Mrs. Geppert of Butte Falls, one of Mr. Averill's neighbors, and she told me that she had found the coat and that everything was all safe. On reaching home I found Mr. Averill there, as he thought that his horse was too tired to drive up home that afternoon, and I informed him of the result, greatly to the relief of his mind.
    While I was in the office of Dr. Holt he announced the birth of a fine boy in the family of Theron Taylor of Lake Creek June 23, and I remarked that he seemed to be doing quite a business in that line out in our country, and asked for a list of the births in our neighborhood during the month of June, so he gave the following list: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vestal, boy, June 12, R. Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Merritt, boy, June 14, R.C.; E. L. White, June 15, girl, Derby; Earl Tucker, boy, June 22, Brownsboro and Theron Taylor, Lake Creek, June 23, as above stated. Quite an increase in a thinly settled community for one doctor, and at last accounts the mothers and babies were doing well.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Cope of Medford were here for supper Saturday.
    Among the guests who came in Saturday night for beds were J. M. Spencer, a member of the engineering corps on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point irrigation canal, Russell Harris and Earl (Shorty) Miles, beside a few whose names I omitted to secure.
    Sunday there was a ball game here between the Ruch, Applegate, and the Eagle Point team; they seemed to [be] pretty well matched, as the score stood 14 to 20 in favor of Eagle Point. Among the diners were Mrs. Sarah Kentner, Ashland, Mrs. Ida T. Ward, Oakland, Calif., Stanley Ward, Mrs. Carmine Ward, also of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Ann Fouts of Alameda, Calif., J. M. Spencer, J. F. Brown and wife, T. G. McPherson, wife and son Fred, two of our prominent merchants and their families, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter Miss Joyce, Mrs. R. Reter of Medford and her brother, Judge Florey, Russell Harris, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Lane and Miss Ermine Danford, Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Richardson, Central Point, and the ten members of the Ruch ball team.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 30, 1922, page 7


    Harold Allen Denton, age ten years, son of Elijah Denton of Eagle Point, was killed in an auto accident Friday afternoon about six o'clock on the Crater Lake Highway near his home. With two other boys, Harold was riding on a hay wagon, loaded with hay, being hauled to the barn. When he reached the house, he jumped off to get a drink and was struck by an auto driven by Ray McDonald, age 27 years, a tourist whose home is at Center Lake, Mich. McDonald has been in the valley for about a month and with five others was returning from a trip to Crater Lake. The boy lived for 30 minutes after the accident. Dr. W. P. Holt attended him.
    Coroner Perl made an investigation of the tragedy and from witnesses decided that the accident was unavoidable and that no blame was attached to McDonald, who was deeply affected by the accident. The unfortunate youth stepped directly out in front of the approaching car and there was no time for applying the emergency brakes.
    There will be no inquest and the funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 1, 1922, page 1


    J. M. Spencer of Ashland has established a camp on the bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek for sleeping quarters for himself and his assistants. They are doing surveying on the Big Butte-Eagle Point canal project. They have become members of the Sunnyside family at meal time.
    Mrs. John Lane of Derby came out Monday with Charley Humphrey and went on out to Medford, Mr. Humphrey bringing a load of stovewood to the Sunnyside.
    Robert McCabe and Clifford Hickson were here for dinner Monday.
    Alvin Musso, a brother of Mrs. Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, who has been here visiting her sister, left Monday for his home in California.
    Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols returned from Medford Tuesday where she had been under the care of a doctor for a week or more. Mrs. Nichols is counted as one of the pioneers of the valley and has a host of friends here who are interested in her welfare.
    I took my regular morning stroll Thursday morning and discovered that our town was almost without a visitor, as the farmers are all busy at home haying. I met Benj. Brophy's two little girls, Gwendolyn and Margaret, who had driven in a one-horse buggy to have a sickle mended, and R. A. Petty, a farmer who is waiting for his grain to get ready to cut, and Benj. Whetstone, who while he was waiting for the water to irrigate his ground came in to attend to a little business with our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, and T. F. McCabe of Reese Creek came in on a hurried errand.
    W. G. Averill, the man who lost his coat with money and checks in the pocket, came out on the stage and went to Medford Monday, bought a span of horses and came out Tuesday. He complains that in addition to other troubles he had lost his spectacles and one of his stirrups off his saddle. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have him take his wife along with him to care for him?  He took dinner before he went home.
    Wednesday just as we were eating dinner, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Cardwell and our daughter, Mrs. Hoyt of Fort Klamath, came in, Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell on their way to Gold Hill to visit relatives and attend to business matters, and our daughter to make a short visit. They came out on the Rogue River route and report the road in fine condition except a few places where they are working on the road.
    From all appearances our little town and surrounding country will be practically deserted next Monday and Tuesday, for it seems that almost everyone who can get away is going somewhere, some to Ashland, some to Yreka, Butte Falls, Dead Indian Soda Springs, Lake Creek, some are going fishing and Frank Lewis and your correspondent left to look after the town interests.
    Today, Saturday, will be a day of change in business affairs for the men who have engaged carrying the mail to and from this post office, whose contracts expire June 30. The new men will start on their contracts today, Saturday, and it might be of interest to know who the new contractors are, their rents, the distance to travel and the compensation.    
    George Holmes, our garage man, has secured his contract to carry the mail from Medford via Eagle Point, Derby to Butte Falls daily except Sunday, official distance 33 miles, and from Eagle Point to Medford and back Sunday.  Consideration $3482.40 per year. Samuel F. Coy, Eagle Point-Climax way, twenty and a half miles each way, consideration $935.36. Joseph E. Culbertson, Eagle Point-Lake Creek route, six times a week each way via Brownsboro, consideration $719, twelve and a half miles each way.
    Lucius Kincaid, from Eagle Point to Persist via free ferry and Trail, 33 miles each way, compensation $2250.
    The distance from Medford to Butte Falls is rated at 33 miles, but the carrier has to make the trip from Eagle Point to Medford four times each day except Sunday, and that day two times, making the distance to be traveled each working day 96 miles provided one could run straight all the way, but measured by a speedometer it is 98½ miles.
    I have learned since securing the above figures that Eddie Boothby has secured the contract for carrying the mail from Derby to Prospect but did not learn the particulars.
    D. E. Bernays of Oakland, Calif. came in from Klamath Falls via Fort Klamath and Crater Lake and spent the night. He reports that a number of tourists had already visited the lake. Mr. D. H. Norton of Shasta, Calif. also came in and spent the night.
    The Ladies Improvement Club met at Mrs. R. G. Brown's Thursday, the guests of Mrs. Royal Brown and Mrs. Kentner.
    A very sad accident occurred Friday afternoon in Eagle Point resulting in the death of Harold Denton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Denton of this place. Harold, who was helping his father haul hay, slid down off the back of the load just before his father who was driving turned into his yard off the county road (Main Street) along Little Butte. As Harold, who is about nine years old, started around the load for a drink of water, he came face to face with a touring car from Crater Lake which was, until that instant, hidden from him, and he from its occupants. The driver of the car, who was not driving fast, did his best to avert an accident by turning sharply away from the boy but the bumper struck him and a wheel of the car ran over him, injuring him so that he died within about a half hour, soon after the arrival of Dr. Holt, who was summoned immediately.
    Harold was a very winsome boy, a faithful member of the Sunday school here and one of the regular scholars at the Daily Vacation Bible School, which has been conducted here during June by Mrs. M. H. Kentner of Los Angeles. His death has saddened the whole community.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 3, 1922, page 6


    The California-Oregon Power Company is doing extensive work on a line to run from Prospect, Ore. to Copco, Calif. They have established two camps near Persist, Ore., one employing about 30 men and the other 12 men. A Reo Speed Wagon is being kept busy hauling supplies and tools for the camps. It makes daily trips to Medford. There are several trucks carrying heavy timbers for the poles. Some are destroying to Elk Creek roads by having too heavy loads, as the grades cave out on the sides.
    George Hall is completing his ditch. He has water running in the ditch. This ditch is about one mile in length, between 2 to 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide; some places it is wider. The ditch was difficult to dig, for the survey ran through solid rock. Mr. Hall has also cut some of his grain.
    Miss Francis Greb was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Trusty Sunday, June 25.
    The Persist school was closed for the summer vacation June 23, 1922.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Whitley were visitors at the L. A. Whitley place Sunday the 25th. Ezra Whitley accompanied them. It was quite a trip for Mr. Whitley, as he will be 79 July fourth. He is not able to get around very much as he is weak with old age.
    Fred Sturgis put up some hay Tuesday. Ezra Whitley helped him.
    The annual summer camp for the Y.M.C.A. will have its headquarters on Mr. Dave Pence's place, above Mr. Claud Moore's place. It was formerly known as the Storms place by people in this vicinity. Mr. Wood, who will have charge of the camp, states that between 40 and 50 boys will be present. Some honor to Elk Creek. The camp term will be ten days. The boys will come in cars as far as Trail and hike to camp from Trail, which is a distance of 6½ miles. Elk Creek welcomes them.
    The irrigation dam belonging to L. A. Whitley was completely destroyed Wednesday afternoon, June 28 by having too much water pressure. A new one will be built immediately.
    Dave Pence is having his hay cut.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 3, 1922, page 6


    Hugo G. A. von der Hellen, for many years prominently identified with the political and educational life of Oregon and one of her most widely known and beloved citizens, died at the Portland Surgical Hospital at Portland Wednesday night at 9:30 o'clock, following an operation from which he never fully rallied.
    The funeral services will be held from the Elks Temple tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the body will arrive in the morning. The Rev. W. B. Hamilton will deliver the funeral oration.
    Hundreds of Southern Oregon people who knew the departed will feel a tinge of sorrow at the passing of a charming gentleman of the old school whom they knew affectionately as "Senator." The end was not unexpected owing to the seriousness of the last illness, coupled with advanced years.
    Senator von der Hellen was born at Kiel, Denmark, September 8, 1846, and was in the seventy-fifth year. His busy career took him to many lands. Educated in the schools and university of his home town, at 17 he went to India where he was engaged for 18 years in the rice exporting business. At Rangoon, India he served with distinction in the diplomatic service.
    At the age of 35 years he moved to England following the export and import business and after two years moved to Germany. In 1888 he came to Florida and the following year he came to Southern Oregon, purchasing a farm at Wellen, this county.  He was a charter member of the Medford lodge of Elks.
    Later he entered the field of local politics and served one term in the house of representatives and two terms in the state senate. At various times his name was mentioned for governor and during his legislative career Senator von der Hellen was instrumental in securing the passage of bills that were the forerunner of the present highways and good roads. He was appointed regent of the Oregon Agricultural College and served 12 years in that capacity, being always a staunch advocate of higher education.
    In recent years, Senator von der Hellen retired from public activities and spent his time on his home place near Wellen.
    The predominating trait of the distinguished citizen was his ever-present polished and affable manner and kindliness, and, it was said of him that he never left a friend on any occasion without a handshake at parting.
    Besides his wife, Elizabeth, he is survived by four sons, J. Henry, William W., Carl A., all of this county, Colonel George B. of San Francisco, Calif., and one daughter, Mrs. Agnes B. Evanson of this city. Mr. and Mrs. George V. von der Hellen will arrive from the south this evening.
    The honorary pallbearers will be:  T. E. Daniels, John S. Orth, W. H. Gore, John A. Westerlund, Joe Rader and Emil Mohr, lodge brothers of the departed, and the active pallbearers, T. Slater Johnson, James Owens, Frank Brown, Ned Vilas, George Lindley and F. M. Calkins, all old friends.
    Interment will be in the cemetery at Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 6, 1922, page 1


    J. W. Hovey, foreman of the Alta Vista Orchard, was in town and reports that his wife is gradually improving in health. She has been under the care of the doctors for some considerable time, has had two or three different surgical operations by different doctors and spent much time in the hospital, submitted to X-ray tests, but finally succeeded in finding one of the doctors who located the disease, removed the cause and is now on the road to recovery.
    J. H. Cooley, one of our prominent orchardists as well as one of Medford's leading lumber merchants, made a hurried business call Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Brown, who came in from California some weeks ago and are building a home on a tract of land a few miles northeast of Eagle Point, were here on business last Friday. They report that they are getting along quite well with their building.
    Wm. Perry and Fred Pettegrew, two of our prominent business men, farmers and promoters of the scheme to open up a canal from Big Butte just below Butte Falls to our community, were here Friday on important business. They are greatly encouraged over the way the move is progressing.
    The stage car from Medford to Butte Falls when it came in Friday morning was surely loaded to its utmost capacity, it being a Hudson Six, having 11 grown passengers, their baggage, the mail, parcel post and a quantity of freight. The car was literally covered, goods lashed on both sides, over the radiator, engine, etc., and two men sitting over the headlights, and on the return trip was also well loaded.
    The next day the new contractor, Geo. B. Holmes, started in with his sixteen-passenger car and had, besides the driver and new contractor, sixteen adults and several children going to the different resorts in the little [omission?], but most of them for Butte Falls.
    The subcontractor for carrying the mail from Lake Creek to Eagle Point, Mr. Van Dyke, had his car so badly demoralized Thursday that he notified the contractor, Wm. Stobb, that he would not take the mail out Friday morning so he brought it out himself and brought the new contractor, J. E. Culbertson, with him so he could learn the places where to leave the mail. I asked him how he expected to carry the mail, by car or with a team, and he replied that he expected that he would have to carry it on a wheelbarrow and go barefooted, for he had taken the contract to carry the mail for $719 a year or about $2.30 a day the 113 days per year he has to carry it.
    Harold Van Scoy, son of our accommodating post office clerk, Mrs. Dottie Van Scoy, has accepted the position as mail carrier on the route between Medford and Butte Falls.
    W. H. Buskirk, one of the veterans of the Civil War, who spends his winters at the Soldiers Home near Los Angeles and his summers in Portland, has just made his semiannual trip from Los Angeles to Portland, stopping off here to visit the Sunnyside and secure a few choice agates, for he is quite an agate fancier.
    Luke Ryan of Medford passed through here Monday on his way to his mountain ranch near the mouth of Big Butte Creek.
    There was quite a stir in and around our post office Monday morning, as the new mail contractors and their assistants were being broke, into their new line of business. First, perhaps, in point of importance was Geo. B. Holmes, who has the contract to carry the mail from Medford to Butte Falls comes in with Harold Van Scoy as chauffeur with his big four-seated tourist car loaded to capacity, 18 adult passengers, not counting the children, their baggage, the mail, parcel post and hundreds of pounds of freight for the big celebration the Fourth of July at Butte Falls, and after unloading the mail, etc., for the other post offices, Trail, Persist, Wellen, Climax, Brownsboro and Lake Creek and taking in what was to be taken in here, Mr. Holmes had to put on an extra car to supply the demand.
    J. F. Mathews, who is operating the Perry Foster Ranch and the owner, Perry Foster, were business callers Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cardwell and daughter, Miss Opal, of Ft. Klamath, who were here the first of the week and went on to Gold Hill to visit relatives, returned Saturday accompanied by his niece, Miss Ruth Nichols of Gold Hill, and were joined here by our daughter, Mrs. Millie Hoyt of Ft. Klamath, and all went on their way home Saturday morning.
    Bert Larsen and Geo. Lowe, representing Foster and Kleiser Adv. Agency, were here for dinner Saturday and so was F. Harkness, A. J. Irish and Miss June Hinman, representing Earl Fruit Co. of Spokane.
    Rudolph Weidman, one of our leading dairymen and orchardists, went up to Trail Saturday for a load of lumber to be used in enlarging his barn.
    Glen Hurst, who went to California some time ago to work, has returned to the parental home.
    Miss Ruby Trippett and Miss Arta Bradt, representing Frontier Press Co. of Oakland, Calif., were here for dinner Saturday and were also interviewing some of the ladies of our town during the time between the arrival of the stage in the morning and departure in the afternoon, four and a half hours.
    Mabel Zimmerman of Butte Falls came in and spent Saturday night and Sunday.
    Geo. Albert and Lorene Moore of Butte Falls were here for late dinner Saturday.
    Lucius Kincaid, the new contractor on the Eagle Point-Persist route, was here for dinner Saturday and went on to Ashland to visit his father and mother who have recently located here. Bert Gates of Kerby was also here for dinner.
    Howard Fox, wife and daughter, Miss Vesta and Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hoefs from near Klamath Falls came in Saturday evening for supper and went on up to Butte Falls to visit Mrs. Fox's mother, Mrs. Abbott.
    Mrs. Laramy and two boys came in from near Prospect Saturday night and stopped at the Sunnyside going on to Ashland the next morning.
    Pearl Stowell, Alex Betz and Earl Charley were also guests at the Sunnyside Saturday night. And so was Loris Martin and W. H. Walther of Butte Falls.
    Among the guests Sunday at the Sunnyside were Frank Abbott and wife of Weed, Calif., Cal J. Young of Prospect, J. F. McPherson and family and Ed Notting, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and two sons, Harold and Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Nichols, Lula Carlton, Ruth Farlow, Shorty Miles and Clarence Pruett, Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, C. E. Gates, wife and grandson, W. F. Jamison and C. M. Speck, Harry Morgan, Eli and Everett Dahack, Earl Mathews and Alex Martin.
    The ball game Sunday afternoon between the Medford No. 2 team and Eagle Point was closely contested, resulting in 15 scores to 2 in favor of Eagle Point.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Abbott, July 1st, a girl.
    Preaching 11 o'clock a.m. and 8 p.m., Eagle Point, July 9th, by Hubert G. Adams, pastor.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 7, 1922, page 7


    Very largely attended funeral services over the body of the late Senator Hugo G. von der Hellen were held yesterday afternoon from the Elks temple with the local Elks lodge, of which the deceased was a charter member, in charge of the ceremonies.
    Rev. Wm. B. Hamilton, the lodge chaplain, delivered the funeral oration, and the B.P.O.E. ritual was observed. Active pallbearers were T. Slater Johnson, Leon B. Haskins, Frank Brown, Ned Vilas, George Lindley and F. M. Calkins, all of whom were friends of long acquaintance of the deceased. Honorary pallbearers were T. E. Daniels, John S. Orth, W. H. Gore, John A. Westerlund, Porter J. Neff and Emil Mohr, all lodge brothers of the deceased.
    Beautiful floral pieces surrounded the casket during the ceremony, at which two hundred friends of the deceased were present. The burial was in the Central Point Cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 8, 1922, page 6


    The following relatives of Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen Denton of this place were here to attend the funeral service of their son, Harold, which was held in the Eagle Point church Wednesday forenoon, July 5th:  Mr. and Mrs. E. Denton and Misses Claudia and Anna Clum of Medford, all of whom were near N. Yakima, Wash., at the time of the fatal accident.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Humphreys and Mr. J. W. Humphreys of Roseburg; Mr. W. J. Humphrey and family of Ashland; Mr. Frank Denton and family of Central Point; Mr. and  Mrs. Lee Denton of Fort Klamath, who spent Sunday with the bereaved family here, were unable to stay for the funeral Wednesday. The funeral services were conducted by our coroner, John R. Perl, and the funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. H. G. Adams, our local pastor, he taking for this text a part of the 23rd Psalm and delivering a beautiful and impressive sermon. There was the largest congregation in attendance that has been in the church for some time, there being over a hundred persons there. Mr. Perl selected a number of Harold's schoolmates to act as pallbearers, boys and girls, which made the services very impressive. The floral offerings were simply beyond description. The bereaved parents and relatives have the sympathy of the entire community.
    Our town was almost deserted Monday, as there was a general celebration of our national birthday in several places, although most of those who went from here went to Butte Falls, as they had advertised quite extensively and I  have since learned that there was not only a large crowd there but had a very pleasant time.  While there was quite a number of our citizens went to Ashland and report that the crowd was immense as the park appeared to be jammed all the time. The display of the different orders, as well as the other displays, were highly commended. There was a few went from here to Fort Klamath to witness the four days' performances at that little live town, among whom were the hostess of the Sunnyside Hotel of Eagle Point and her daughter. The reader will bear in mind that they object to seeing their names in print. Miss Rosa Whaley, the assistant in the Sunnyside Hotel, George Lewis, and J. E. Edsall, and they returned Thursday noon and reported that the road was in a fine condition and that they had a very pleasant time and that the riding was fully up to date.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside last Monday were Leland Pettegrew, Nick Young, Earl Miles, Ed Netting and F. A. Whaley, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Walther of Ashland, Calif., J. E. Rosenberg, Prospect; Buster McClelland, Roy A. Ruhn, Klamath Falls, Albert M.. Bruleag, Klamath Falls, and W. A. Hooker and C. E. Burr of Medford and a little later Rev. J. Randolph Sasnett, one of Medford's prominent and popular Methodist ministers, and his traveling companion, B. L. Hunt. I did not learn whether Mr. Hunt was a minister or not. They were on their way to see Oregon's greatest scenic wonder, unless it should prove that the Marble Caves of Josephine County will, when fully developed, be a greater wonder, for as yet that great natural wonder has scarcely been inspected, much less developed.
    I just learned a day or so ago that little Miss Josephine Hurst, daughter of our townsman, had the misfortune to have her arm broken in or near the wrist joint, but did not learn the particulars.
    Chester Young, a son of A. L. Young, who is in charge of the Frank Rhode ranch, came in late Wednesday to have three mules shod, to be used on the Rhodes contract on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls road, as Mr. Rhodes has secured the contract to grade and rock a four-mile stretch between the top of Rocky Hill and Butte Falls. But he, Mr. Young, found that he was too late to have more than one of them shod. He reports that his father has taken a contract to cut into stovewood the best of the timber on the right-of-way on the Wm. von der Hellen contract to clear and grade the unit on the Crater Lake Highway between the Hole in the Ground and Prospect.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Carlton of Wellen were business callers Wednesday afternoon.
    L. A. "Roy" Smith has been getting out rock to be used for the foundation for a barn that his brother, John W. Smith, is building on the orchard he bought of Orn Goss. As soon as he builds his barn, he intends to build a dwelling house and move into it.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wyman and Mrs. W. C. Lenthord of Marshfield, Ore., and their children came in Wednesday evening for supper and then started on for Prospect on their way to Crater Lake.
    C. J. Fry and W. J. Roy also called for supper Wednesday evening on their way to Prospect to work on the Crater Lake Highway. About all of the men and women who are working on the different contracts in the hills laid off for a change and to enjoy the outings of the 3rd, 4th and 5th, but by this time about all have resumed their work and everything is progressing nicely.
    Henry French and his son, Lloyd, passed through here Thursday on their way to Medford.
    Norman McQuoid came out Thursday morning to greet his many old friends in this section where he used to live a few years ago. He reports that there is to be a family reunion of his wife's sisters, brother and mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, nee Mrs. Perry, at her son's, Wm. Perry, soon.
    I see a very interesting article in the last issue of the Mail Tribune Friday, July 7th on the recall of our generally popular sheriff, Charley Terrill, signed by what we are led to suppose are some of the brainiest men and women in the county protesting against holding a special election to try to recall our sheriff, and in talking yesterday with a neighbor on the subject he remarked that "this recall movement was making Charley more friends than anything his enemies could do, and if the move was kept up it would make him so popular that he could be elected to the third term."
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1922, page 3


    Among the callers for meals at the Sunnyside on Thursday of last week were H. W. Dewstrom, P. M. Wood, J. R. Hyde, Mrs. Dorothea White of Oakland, Calif., John Foster and Miss Ella Thornburg of Fort Klamath who came in with the Sunnyside party who went out Sunday afternoon to spend the 3rd, 4th, 5th and a part of the 6th witnessing the proceedings of the roundup and the miss above referred to came in and took the afternoon stage and went out to Medford.
     Mrs. Arglee F. Green and Mrs. M. L. Kentner, of Los Angeles, who have been here for some time, Mrs. Green remodeling her house and Mrs. Kentner teaching the vacation Bible school, started on Thursday for Seattle, taking with them Mrs. Green's sister, Mrs. Floyd Pearce and Mr. Hurst, the young man who came up with them from Los Angeles. He is going as far as Seattle with them and he expects to take his parents as far as Chicago, where they will remain while he makes a trip to Europe. Mrs. Green and Mrs. Pearce are going to visit her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, who are living on the island near Seattle, and Mrs. Kentner is the guest of Mrs. Green. They expect to return to Eagle Point about the first of August and Mrs. Green intends to build a house on a tract of several lots on the Roosevelt Boulevard before returning to her home in Los Angeles to resume her studies in the Bible school.
    Thomas Murray, recently from California, one of the early pioneers of Southern Oregon, came in Thursday to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan, Mrs. Morgan being a niece of Mr. Murray.
    Shorty Allen of Wellen was a business caller Thursday and reports that his father-in-law, W. E. Hensley, formerly of this place but recently of Shasta County, Calif., was here visiting his family.
    Among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Friday morning were Mrs. N. E. Parker and her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Heryford of Butte Falls, who had been down in California visiting relatives and were on the return trip. Grandma Parker is one of the early pioneers of Jackson County, having lived in the state and most of the time in this neighborhood for over fifty years.
    A. G. Bishop, who is interested in and at least a large owner in the Ringwood Orchard, was in town Friday and reports the prospect bright for a fine crop of fruit this season.
    Last Friday there were quite a number of our citizens attended the funeral services of ex-Senator von der Hellen in Medford and followed the remains to the Central Point Cemetery, but as two notices have already been published in the Mail Tribune it seems unnecessary for me to attempt to add anything further, unless it would be that I met quite a number of his old neighbors in Medford who were there to pay respect to his memory.
    E. V. Brittsan of the firm of Brittsan Bros., who live on the P. S. Anderson farm, was a business caller Saturday and so was Geo. Laidley and Fred Garrettson, two of the timber cruisers, and Chester Pennington of Butte Falls, who took dinner at the Sunnyside on his way to Medford, and so did W. G. Averill of Butte Falls and his brother John of Los Angeles, who is trying the mountain air around Butte Falls for his health, and also Marshall Minter of Reese Creek, Ralph Cowgill, chief engineer on the Big Butte-Eagle Point Irrigation project, in fact, he is getting to be quite a regular boarder as he quite often calls for dinner. Also Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Peterson and two of their daughters, Mildred and Vida, of Trail were here for dinner. Mrs. Peterson was on her way to Portland to visit her brothers.
    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, were business callers Saturday and so was Carl Jackson and our superintendent of the fish hatchery business, J. W. Berrian of Butte Falls.
    Harold Nichols and wife of Fort Klamath came in early Sunday morning. They started Saturday evening and came as far as Prospect, taking an early start, and came to the Sunnyside for breakfast. They came in to visit Mr. Nichols' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols of this place.
    There will be preaching after Sunday school Sunday morning, but there will be no preaching in the evening.
    Sunday was a very quiet day at the Sunnyside as there were but very few came in for dinner. There were among the guests two strange men and a woman, and later H. L. Madel, H. G. Wortman of Medford, Mrs. C. H. Newman of Visalia, Calif., Mrs. Florence Pearce of Visalia and Mrs. H. G. Wortman, Jr., of Medford.
    Monday morning Peter Young and Timmie Dugan, two of our prosperous farmers, were early callers but remained but a very short time.
    Mrs. F. E. Trefren of Butte Falls came in for dinner Monday and went right on to Medford.
    J. W. Barry, who has a homestead in the hills above Brownsboro, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage and went up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage. There were five other passengers on the stage besides him.
    W. P. Henson of Brownsboro was a business caller Tuesday.
    J. W. Smith had his barn raising Tuesday, and among those who helped in the undertaking were W. P. Holbrook, Ray Harnish, Clifford Hickson, Art Smith, Henry and Lloyd French, and Pete Stowell, and they all came to the Sunnyside for dinner except the two first named, as they had finished their part of the job. Besides them there was Otto Wyss of Roberts Hardware, Portland, Mrs. Carson of Butte Falls, Mr. Beckdoff, W. G. and John Averill and eleven transients on their way to Prospect.
    I also met on the street that afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Dan Farlow, Mrs. Maud Farlow and Perry Farlow.
    Lucius Kincaid, the new mail contractor on the route from here to Persist via Trail, came in and spent the night on his way up to Persist where they intend to spend the summer camping.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 14, 1922, page 10


    The Y.M.C.A. boys arrived safely at the camp site selected by Cash Wood, their leader. The days were spent in eating, tending camp needs and enjoying sports which only the open air can afford them. Sunday all games were prohibited, in observance of the Sabbath. A hike was enjoyed by all in the afternoon, led by a boy living on the creek. Several visitors were at the camp and each person made a speech to the boys who were gathered around the camp fire in the evening and each one tried to choose a subject which would benefit all. Elmer Ivey, who lives on Elk Creek, visited the camp a few days and states that all the boys were very agreeable and welcomed him with pure and honest greeting.
    Mr. Billings of Ashland was a visitor, also a few others whose names were unknown to the correspondent.
    Thursday evening was devoted to stunts given by the boys, which was enjoyed by all. Friday afternoon they had water sports, racing, diving and different kinds of stunts.
    Saturday they returned to their homes as bronzed as Indians.
    Fred Sturgis from Suntex, Oregon was visiting Fred Sturgis of Trail, Ore., who is his uncle, last week. Both have the same names.
    A small fire broke out on the Nelson place, which is owned by Mrs. L. A. Whitley. Four panels of fence was completely destroyed. A careless smoker is supposed to be the cause.
    P. E. Sandoz visited Medford last week.
    An inspector from O.A.C. was inspecting A. D. Moore's potatoes. He also inspected Elmer Ivey's potatoes and states that they are free from disease.
    Mr. J. Miller, Weston and Boyd Miller have been driving cattle on the range.  Dave Pence has also driven a few on the range.
    Harney Morgan has been helping Fred Sturgis hay.
    Mrs. Della Wagner visited Mrs. J. Miller Tuesday, July 11.
    The wood shed belonging to Millers blew down last week.
    Claud Moore is working for Dave Pence on his ranch.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 17, 1922, page 3


    There was a notable family reunion at the Sunnyside Hotel last Wednesday July 12th, being a family of the mother, one son and six daughters with two of their husbands. But before I divulge the names of any of the party I am going to try to give a brief outline of some of the trials they have had to undergo in this world of trouble, sorrow and woe. The head of the family settled on and took a homestead on a tract of land a few miles from Butte Falls and in the course of human events they were blessed with a family of eight children, one son and seven daughters, and during the time of their early childhood the husband was taken down with Bright's disease that rendered him almost a confirmed invalid and in the course of a short time he succumbed to the dreaded disease leaving a widow to care for, provide for and educate their children. The whole family had been taught to do anything that was to be done in the line of farm industry and the result was those of them who could went to work, their mother taking the lead and the children, catching the spirit of the mother, turned everything they could toward making a living.
    They had accumulated some stock so that they were supplied with milk, and hogs to make their own meat, and at that time the shake (clapboard) industry afforded a very good medium through which they could procure the necessities of life. But what could a widow with eight children do--and if I remember right but very few if any in their teens--but the heroine of this story laughed at impossibilities and went ahead to meet the trials of life. With the assistance she could procure from the oldest children she resorted to the same source of revenue that the sterner sex did; she started with her saw and ax into the timber and soon had a few thousand shakes ready for the market, but to sell them at the stump would bring but a small price, so she loaded them onto her wagon and she and her little boy braved the mountain roads, that at that time were merely cow trails cleared so that a wagon could get through, and it was not an uncommon thing to see her and her little boy trudging along the road during the late summer and fall going to Jacksonville with a load of shakes or returning with the necessities of life, principally flour or seed grain, shoes, dress goods, for she taught the girls to make their own clothes, and the three months they had school they attended school, and thus she provided for, educated and trained them so that she has reason to be proud of such a family, and the family not only feel proud of such a mother but fairly idolize her and make it a rule to have a reunion at least every two or three years although they are widely separated, as the reader will see by perusing the remainder of this article.
    I wish to state here that I have assumed the responsibility of giving the foregoing outline of the family history to show the kind of people we had living in Jackson County at that time--fifty years ago. But before I leave this subject I wish to state that the children all lived to mature years and from all appearances are living happy lives. The reunion was arranged to be held at the Sunnyside including dinner on Tuesday, so that all could meet on Wednesday, and about ten o'clock they began to arrive, among whom were Mrs. F. M. Stewart of Medford, formerly Mrs. Martin Perry, followed by Mrs. Harriet E. Allen of Seattle, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Alfred Bowles, Spokane, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. (Lottie) Norman McQuoid and daughter, Norma, Oakland, Calif., Elizabeth B. Wetters and daughter Eva, Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Della Day, Yakima, Wash., Mrs. Nettie Grover and daughter, Ruth, Medford, William Perry and wife, Eagle Point, Miss Lucile Newport, a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Perry, of Astoria, Ore.
    There was only one thing that threw a shadow over the entire proceedings, and that was the vacant chair that was filled by the daughter and sister, Emma, at the last reunion, who passed away a few months ago.
    But taking everything into account the reunion was as pleasant an affair as one witnesses in an age. Grandpa William Green Knighten was a special honored guest, by special invitation of the families, being a time-honored friend of the six sisters and brother as well as a warm friend of the mother.
    In addition to the foregoing we had as guests on the occasion Carl Narregan and his son, formerly of this place but now I think of Sams Valley, and three fine-looking ladies who boasted of being  able to resist the charms of the sterner sex and rejoice in the fact that they were "old maids." They gave their names as Edna McGraw, Elra McGraw and Geraldine McGraw of Oakland, Calif. They were traveling alone on their way to Crater Lake.
    We also had as guests John R. Hyde, a stranger, besides quite a number of others whose names I failed to secure.    
    W. W. Parker and Mr. Dupray, the sawmill man five miles west of Butte Falls on the P.&E. Railroad, were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday. That day the big sixteen-passenger coach was so loaded as to necessitate putting on an extra car. Mr. Parker had been over to Weed to visit his son and daughter. His son is working at that place.
    W. G. and John Averill came in about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, remained until the cool of the afternoon. They had brought out a load of fir poles for a man in Medford to be used in building a barn, a fine substitute for sawed lumber. And his brother John, being in poor health, went in on the stage. They both spent the night in Medford.
    There is getting to be a vast amount of travel over the road between here and Butte Falls as the stage is generally loaded, seldom less than five, and from that to ten or twelve besides about all the mail, parcel post, freight and baggage, in fact, that rate on parcel post is so low now that the people in the hills can now send their heavy stuff cheaper than they can haul it by team, but it makes it tough on the mail carriers.
    Bert Brittsan was rushing around over town Thursday as though every moment counted dollars.
    Mrs. Helen E. Lange of Eugene, who had been visiting Mrs. Ralph Watkins, came out Thursday morning on the Persist stage from one of the camps along the banks of Rogue River where she had been visiting with friends and stopped at the Sunnyside, going out on the afternoon stage, 2:45, intending to spend the night in Medford and taking the morning train. She is a young lady who has traveled extensively, has a fine memory and can tell in a very interesting manner of what she has seen. She has traveled extensively in Alaska, and her description of the northern lights as they are seen there is truly wonderful.
    We also had the pleasure of the company of Mrs. Smith, the wife of S. S. Smith, the business manager of the Medford Publishing Company, who is an important factor of the Medford Mail Tribune, and Mrs. D. R. Wood of Medford. They are breaking away from the established rule of ladies traveling and travel on horseback and while here related some of the hardships they had to undergo in securing hay for their horses when they reached their summer camp. They rode up to a barn well filled with hay and asked the privilege of having their horses fed overnight but met with a positive refusal, but the owner finally agreed to let them have a grain sack full each so they went to work to fill the sacks while there were husky men sitting about who watched them wait on themselves. After spending the night they started on the return trip and stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner, spending the afternoon along the banks of Little Butte Creek, going home in the cool of the evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 17, 1922, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayfield and son, Miles, of Central Point, called Thursday for dinner on their way to Klamath County. Asked if they were going to Crater Lake, Mr. Mayfield replied that they did not have time as they had cattle interests, both on this side of the mountain and in Klamath and they did not have time to stop over and they had already visited Crater Lake and there would be nothing new for them to see and furthermore they wished to get to their destination as soon as possible. They also intend to visit Silver Lake while in that region, combining business with pleasure.
    While making my regular rounds Thursday, who should I meet but one of my old acquaintances of sixty years. Although we have met several times since, for several years he carried on the pottery business a few miles below Trail, as he is generally known as "Uncle Joe" Hannah. Although he is only about 82 years of age he has retired from business and is living with relatives, Jasper Hannah, on the Bybee bridge road to Trail, but is unable to do much of anything on account of the infirmities of old age. Pete Betz and wife and the old veteran, John Howard, were in the car with him.
    I also had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Wm. Holmes of Medford and her sister, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, two members of the Brown family, who have taken an active part in building up and developing this part of Jackson County.
    I also met Mr. Charles Stall and three of his little boys. They had just come into town in a two-horse wagon with the old-style hoop-pole bows and wagon sheet over them to protect them from the sun, and when he stopped opposite the post office and began to take out first one and then another husky-looking boy until he had three at his heels, taking them to the ice cream parlor of Frank Lewis bent on having something to cool them off. After introducing myself and telling him my object in being so inquisitive he told me that he had a wife, four boys and one girl and was from Goose Lake Valley and was here visiting the Hannaford family, who were living on the C. H. Natwick farm and were thinking of settling in this section.
    That same evening attorney E. D. Briggs, Ashland, Charley E. Terrill and Lee Forncrook, Jacksonville, came in for late supper. Of course, I had to inquire how Charley and the KKK's were getting along with their persecution, for it appears that two of the head men of the Klan were the ones who presented the petition to me with the request that I would sign it, but I promptly told them that Charley had been, so far as I could see, full as good as any sheriff we have had for years, and the question comes if Charley has been such notorious bad egg, why has our district attorney not taken some action. I have seen in the papers where his case was up before the grand jury, but about all it amounted to was not enough to bring the matter before our circuit court, but Charley's enemies, it seems to me, were too cowardly to face the matter in the courts but hire attorneys to come from Portland out here to peddle their gossip such as accusing him of being drunk on a certain day when in fact he has, so far as I know, and I have known him for some twenty years, and the most of the time intimately, and never before heard of his drinking. While if they had been honest and seeking the truth they would have taken the subject into the courts where he could have faced his accusers and had a chance to refute the charges. I did not ask either of them, Mr. Briggs, Charley or Mr. Forncrook, what their business was, as I told Charley never to tell me anything that he did not want published.
    Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls came out Thursday and spent the night with a friend.
    Ivan Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous German-American citizens who lives two miles west of Mt. McLoughlin, in Willow Prairie, was transacting business here last Friday.
    Mr. W. Y. Marshall, who is living on the Wm. Jackson place, it being a part of the old Timmie Duggan place, was also a business caller Friday.
    As I was crossing our wire suspension bridge Friday morning July 14, I was met by Mr. Henry French, one of our old-time citizens, who informed me that his daughter, Bertha May Anderson, aged 22 years 2 months and 8 days, had died that morning. She leaves her husband, Thomas J. Anderson of Medford, a three-day-old daughter, her father and mother, J. H. French and wife, a brother, Lloyd and sister, Cora, and her grandfather, Perry Foster and other relatives and a large circle of friends. The funeral was held at the Antioch cemetery and the services were conducted by our popular coroner, John Perl, in the school house yard, and the religious services were conducted by Rev. Hubert G. Adams of Eagle Point. There was the largest funeral procession in attendance that has been seen in that neighborhood for several years. The deceased, although quite young, had gathered around her a large circle of friends who mourn her sad demise.
     Mr. Cummings, the water superintendent, was out Friday looking after the interests of the water users. It seems as though those who have control of the water in the creek above have been taking out more water than they are entitled to and the result is the hay crops have suffered. I heard Roy Stanley say that his second crop of alfalfa would fall short at least forty tons on account of the shortage of water.
     There were three strangers come in Friday for dinner, but they were in too much of a hurry to tell their names or business.
    Dr. E.P. Geary and wife of Portland and son, Edward of Klamath Falls, came late Friday evening for supper and then went on to the doctor's orchard and vineyard on Griffin Creek.
    George W. Austin and wife of Medford made a hurried call at the Sunnyside the same evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Schuster of Corvallis, Ore., stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday on their way to Crater Lake. William Cottrell and George Albert and Jack Robinson and wife of San Francisco and Albert Sudan and wife of Los Angeles were here for dinner Saturday on their way to Crater Lake.
    I see that I am extending my usual limit, so will have to omit a list of interesting items until my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 21, 1922, page 6


    H. L. Moore of Butte Falls was among the busy callers Saturday.
    I had so much to say in my Wednesday letter, published Friday, that I was forced to omit a quantity of items that I would have been glad to have given the readers in that issue. Among them was a list of the visitors who came in Sunday for dinner, among whom were Mrs. George Lindley of Portland, Charles E. Terrill and wife, our persecuted but still popular sheriff, Mrs. Smith of Jacksonville (the lady friend who wrote the names of the visitors had not had the experience in writing for newspapers I have so omitted to sign the given or Christian names so it is difficult to always tell who the persons referred to are), Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, Mrs. Abbie Thomas, Eugene Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lindas and daughter Anna of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Brown and Cecil, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Collins, Neva Collins and Maxine Collins of Medford, Roy Stanley, wife and little son, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and son had just returned from a week or ten days trip out into Klamath County and Northern California and reported everything out there prosperous but that many of the ranchers out in those regions were pasturing their land instead of cutting the grass for hay. Russell Harris of Central Point also called in the afternoon, but if he told his business at all he told it to someone younger than myself.
    Among the callers for dinner at the Sunnyside Monday were Mr. Stewart and Charley Humphrey of Derby, Chas. Manning, Peyton, William von der Hellen, wife and daughter Joyce, who had been packing up things ready to start for Prospect, where Mr. von der Hellen has a contract to clear and grade a unit of the Crater Lake Highway between Hole in the Ground and Prospect, and Mrs. von der Hellen and daughter expect to spend the summer and early fall in camp life.
    Among business callers were Benj. Whetstone, J. L. Robinson, Sr., and in answer to my question as to the prospect for wheat, for he is one of our best farmers. He replied the heads were splendid and well filled. But that is not the case with all the grain, for I met Dave Pence and family in Medford last Saturday and asked about the crops in his Elk Creek country and he replied that the hot weather had damaged the grain, the barley in particular, that the heads were large but not well filled.
     T. F. Hoagland of Brownsboro was in town. He had just been delivering thirteen shoats and had bought a fine boar hog of  W. L. Childreth and was taking him home.  The people are waking up to the necessity of improving their stock of all kinds, especially hogs and cows, as a man can hardly find a market for little stunted pigs or calves.
    A few nights ago the Sunnyside force, including chief cook and dishwasher, took a notion to go to Medford, not an uncommon occurrence, and left your Eagle Point correspondent in charge of the hotel and they had not been gone more than half an hour when in came two young men and asked if they could be accommodated with beds, and after I had assured them that they could (you see it was several hours after supper time and one of them ventured to remark that they had come out from Medford since five o'clock and were awful hungry). Well that was altogether a different proposition, but I knew that there was generally enough left to feed half a dozen or more so I told them I would try my hand so started to go into the kitchen to see what I could find and just then Mrs. Allie Daley, our old standby when we need help, was just going out of the gate so I hailed her asked her to set the boys their supper and in a very few minutes they were seated at the table, and when in the light I soon had their names in my little book and one of them proved to be Ralph Peyton, an old acquaintance, and the other Ira Carman of Medford. And they had scarcely finished their meal before two more, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Swink of Butte Falls, who had been out to Medford and were on their way home when they had the misfortune to break a front spring on their car and concluded to turn about and come to the Sunnyside for supper and beds and have their car repaired while they could, so after breakfast the following morning they soon had the broken spring replaced with a new one and were on their way home.
    Although the big passenger coach on the route between Medford and Butte Falls was crowded, about as full as it could be, when Harold Van Scoy, the mail carrier reached the post office there was a lady passenger, Mrs. Sherman Wooley and two small children there waiting to go and when she asked him if he could take them to Butte Falls he said yes and she naturally asked where they would sit and he said on the front seat where he had a woman of no small dimensions, and she looked daggers at the driver and then at the woman and two "kids," but a gentleman on the next to the front seat kindly relieved the situation by taking the oldest, a little boy, on his lap and that only made five passengers on that seat, but such is the way of going in the Far West.
    Someone picked up a 50-lb. sack of half-ground salt at the top of the hill on the Reese Creek Road and left it at the Eagle Point post office for the owner.
    T. F. McCabe was transacting business in town last Wednesday and I learned the next day that he had been taken suddenly sick with something like paralysis but hope for the best.
    Irvin Daley and another man, both of Medford, have been out here repairing the large water tank for the P.&E.R.R., but he reports that it is in such condition, the staves have become so decayed, that it will be necessary to replace it with a new one as about all that can be used of the old one is the foundation, which is first class, and the hoops.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Fitzgerald and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Waley of Stockton, Calif., stopped here for dinner Wednesday on their way to Crater Lake and so did A. H. Ruyhart and Ed Spencer of Butte Falls, who is engaged with A. M. Gay in the gardening business near Rancheria Prairie. And so was W. P. Brooks, piano tuner of the Palmer Piano House, Medford. He had been out to clean a piano for Mrs. Gus Nichols. Also S. H. Harnish and his son and Theron Taylor and C. Stillworth and B. M. Barr of Medford, Mrs. Della Day, nee Della Perry, of Yakima, Wash., who remained two or three days visiting, also J. E. McAllister. Some of the above were a little late for dinner.
    W. G. Johnson and son, who bought the W. P. Haley place just above town a few miles, and W. P. Tucker of Butte Falls were also transacting business here Wednesday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 25, 1922, page 4


    EAGLE POINT, July 27.--(By A. C. Howlett). There will be no preaching next Sunday, July 30, as the pastor expects to be in Butte Falls on that date.
    Speaking of Butte Falls brings to my mind an incident that took place here a day or two ago. There was a man came in for breakfast and in the run of conversation the subject came up as to the probable result of the recall election and the question was asked "How will Charley come out?" and the answer was: "O! Butte Falls is going solid for Charley." And about the same day I was met by one of our townsmen and the question was asked as to whether the men who were working on the different public works like Prospect could vote there or would they have to come home to vote, for, said he, they will all lose a day and come in to vote if they have to for they are solid for Charley. And inquiring around in our own town as to the probable result, I have never heard of but one man who signed the petition and he wrote in to have his name stricken from the list. And so far as I have been about to learn, about all of the rural precincts are going solid for Charley, and most of the towns, unless it might be Ashland, will stand solid for Charley.
    There is to be a baseball game here Sunday, July 30th between the Rogue River team and the Eagle Point team, and it is expected that there will be some good work, as it is the understanding that Rogue River is going to turn out in force and clean Eagle Point up to perfection.
    L. J. Mark, who owns and operates a sawmill near Trail and his brother-in-law, Dan Fuller, also of Trail, were transacting business with our banker in the First State Bank of Eagle Point and buying goods of our merchants. Frank Johnson, who lives near the new bridge across Rogue River at the mouth of Indian Creek, was also here trading Monday.
    George N. Needy of Los Angeles was here for dinner Monday taking his vacation and visiting relatives near Medford.
    Rev. S. S. Simmons, wife and single daughter, Miss Melva, and married daughter, Bernice, and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Newman and two boys, Leonard and Lyle of La Conner, Wash., came to our town Monday to visit Mrs. Simmons' father, D. A. Sheibley. Rev. Simmons was pastor of the Baptist church here for four years and has a great many very warm friends here. He is now in charge of the church in La Conner, Wash., 90 miles north of Seattle, and is taking his vacation visiting his father-in-law and old friends. His son-in-law and family expect to continue their journey on to Los Angeles, where they expect to reside.
    Wm. Butler passed through here Tuesday morning with his threshing machine on his way to Medford to have it repaired.
    A. T. Benedict, Galice miner, was here for dinner Tuesday on his way to a logging camp on Pelican Bay. He says he has a quartz mine and is working out to earn money to develop it but hopes to have it in shape soon so it will support him.
    There were several others here for dinner Tuesday but several of them were strangers. Among the guests were Mrs. Della Day of Yakima, Wash., and Mrs. Wm. Perry, Mrs. W. L. Hurst and Miss Vida Bradshaw, who also called but did not take dinner.
    Harvey Stanley and his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Rader, were over from the Rader ranch Thursday of last week looking after the property Mr. and Mrs. Rader purchased recently of Wm. G. Knighten and keeping their garden and alfalfa watered and in shape, especially the weeds.
    J. H. French was also transacting business here Thursday.
    The sad intelligence came to us the same day that William Lewis of Flounce Rock had the misfortune to have his driving horse and barn burned, but fortunately he had not put but one load of hay in so there was no great loss so far as the hay was concerned, but the loss of the barn at this season of the year is no small item, for if I remember right he had a good large barn. I have not been able to learn any of the particulars but heard it stated that there was no insurance but hope that the report is incorrect.
    The following is a partial list of the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday for dinner: Merle Willits of the Union Oil Co., Medford, Ivan Tyrrell, Mrs. Tyrrell of Rainier, Ore., Mrs. J. R. Tyrrell, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Nichols and daughters Marjorie and Gladys, and Miss Beth Farlow, Dr. Gitzen, veterinarian, Medford, Ira Cameron and Ralph Peyton, also of Medford, H. W. Conger, undertaker of the firm of Weeks & Conger, Medford, Enos Conger and James Taylor of the Valley Fuel Co., Medford, E. R. Van Luen, L. E. Hillman.
    Miss Lorraine Brown, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown of Brownsboro, was a business caller Friday trading with our merchants.
    Mr. Marshall, who is improving a homestead near Derby, came out early Friday morning and remained all day transacting business, taking dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Hanson of Oakland, Calif., on their way to Rogue Elk Lodge. Also Kay Loosley of Fort Klamath and four men he was taking out to his farm below Fort Klamath to do his haying were here for dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Snuph of Butte Falls were also here for dinner Friday.
    Saturday morning there were two men came in from Prospect for breakfast on their way to catch the 7:15 a.m. stage for Medford.
    Since Mrs. Sherman Wooley and her two children have gone up to take a vacation with her brother and mother in the region of Butte Falls, her husband, who has a standing job with a surveying party on the Big Butte-Eagle Point canal, he takes his meals regularly at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Cummings, the water superintendent, took dinner Saturday at the Sunnyside and so did Clarence Pruett and J. M. Spencer. Mr. Spencer is one of the civil engineers on the canal project and established a permanent camp on the old park ground, but his duties called him to Big Butte section and he has been up there most of the time since, and Clarence is one of his helpers.
    Sunday was rather a busy day at the Sunnyside as we had quite a number of strangers with us and among them were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Whiting, Mrs. Seymore Shiff, Henry Wagner of Portland, touring California and visiting, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols, Carl von der Hellen, Gus Nichols and wife, Thomas Riley, A. H. Hubbs and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fick, Virginia Fick and Virginia Dorothy, all of Jacksonville; Henry Guy, Percy Wait and Charles Judge of San Francisco, three young men taking their vacation and viewing the wonders of the Pacific Coast, having already visited Crater Lake. They were going via Crescent City to Eureka, Calif., on their way home.
    We also had as guests Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jordan and two daughters, Alan and Lucy, and Robert B. Warner of Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 28, 1922, page 7


    The Eagle Point district, one of the oldest and soundest farming communities of the Rogue River Valley, has acquired adequate water supply from Big Butte Creek for irrigation purposes. The cost of the improvements is figured at about $20.22 per acre of the entire district or $63.48 per acre of the land to be irrigated. The officers of this district are men of well-known standing and include J. H. Cooley of this city as president. Production, prosperity and population are increasing in this valley and are based on a sound foundation.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 29, 1922, page 3


    H. C. Crandall, one of our thriving farmers and orchardists, was in town supplying our town people with apricots and early apples. He was accompanied by two of his neighbors, Lawrence Conger and Frank Smith.
    R. B. Taffer of Lake Creek came out from Medford, where he had been spending a few days attending to business, and went on up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Charley Humphrey, one of the faithful and dependable citizens of Derby, had the misfortune to cripple one of his truck wheels that he has used all of the season hauling wood from his home and his surrounding country to supply our little town and some who live in its suburbs with wood, came out Wednesday, bringing his wife and son, and went on out to Medford to get a new wheel, but did not succeed as he had to send to Portland for it, but he goes on the principle that a half loaf is better than no bread, so comes out with a light load. He buys up all of the wood he can, and by that means manages to keep himself busy hauling.
    Roy Stanley, another one of our rustling farmers and stock men, has at this writing his teams and men cutting and harvesting his second crop of alfalfa hay and as a side issue is supplying the Sunnyside with sufficient hay to feed the four fine milk cows until next season. Owing to the greediness of some who have water rights above him, during his absence, took more than their share of water and the result is his hay crop is rather short. As his wife is away from home on business in Ashland, he is boarding his hands at the Sunnyside at present.
    Charles Manning of Flounce Rock precinct made a business call at the Sunnyside Wednesday and was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Curtis and family from Sadi's Falls, Idaho. They are camped on Rogue River a short distance above the Merriman farm, near Peyton, and have greatly fallen in love with our Oregon climate.
    Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols, accompanied by her husband, who has been seriously afflicted with sciatic rheumatism for a long time, started Wednesday from Medford on the S.P. for the medical hot springs near Willows, California, to try the mud baths as a remedy for her affliction, and her many friends are hoping that she will be restored to health.
    Mrs. W. G. McPherson of Portland, who has been visiting her son, F. J. McPherson, and family, who succeeded his father-in-law, T. E. Nichols, in the mercantile business, returned to her home Sunday.
    Mrs. John Rader is having the house that she and her husband bought of Mr. Knighten repapered. Thomas Riley is doing the job. He has also been doing some painting for his brother-in-law, George Holmes, our garage man. He is having his dwelling house repainted, inside and out, including the roof.
    George Barber, the Butte Falls banker, made our town a business call Wednesday.
    Mrs. Maude Lammey and her two boys, who have been assisting in the culinary department in one of the construction camps near Prospect, gave up her job and started for Bandon Wednesday, stopping at the Sunnyside overnight. She was brought out from the camp by Alex Betz, and they were joined by Pearl Stowell Wednesday evening, and all started Thursday in a Ford on their journey.
    Among the callers Wednesday was Green Mathews, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, was in town, and as I was jotting down the item, there happened to be a man of our thriving town came in the Childreth blacksmith shop and incidentally asked him if the late fire in the timber had damaged him much, and he replied no, very abruptly and noticing that I was writing in my little book, asked if I was putting that down and I answered, no, sir, and he wanted to know if I had forgotten what he had told me several years ago, to wit:  Never to put his name in the Mail Tribune, and I assured him that I had not and furthermore that I had not and never had and never expected to, and he seemed to feel greatly relieved.
    The same day I met a lady friend who gave me an item and remarked that she liked to see her name in the paper and she thought that most of people did, and from my experience as newspaper correspondent for almost sixty-four years I find that she was correct in her conclusion, but there are always exceptions to all general rules.
    The same day I met Lemon Charley and he introduced me to B. F. Hurst, a second cousin of his of Carrington, Indiana, who was here visiting him. And in the run of conversation told me that he had purchased the tract joining his place he had purchased of Mr. Brighton, of Clifford Hickson, about four or five acres set in alfalfa.
    Dr. Kirchgessner of the Debenger Gap was visiting our town the same day. The same day I met Mrs. L. A. (Roy) Smith, Mrs. Wm. Perry and Mrs. Della Day and Mrs. Smith remarked that she and Della had been down and taken dinner with Mrs. W. L. Childreth that day but they had all got together in the afternoon.
    There was a very interesting play party given in honor of Miss Clara Enew of Los Angeles, who was here at that time, Saturday evening, July 22, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pettegrew. There were 42 present and refreshments were served by Mrs. Rose Smith and a very enjoyable time was had.
    Mrs. Haymond, Phoenix, and her daughter, I have forgotten the given name, were here Thursday and Mrs. Haymond informed me of the death of her husband a short time since. Mr. Haymond lived on the J. H. Cooley orchard for some time and the family was highly respected. I asked one of our leading merchants if he could give me his given name or initials and he said no, that they traded with him, but always paid cash and never had their names on the books.
    Mrs. Ella H. Smith of Butte Falls, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ed Cowden, came in Thursday and went up to her home on the Medford-Butte Falls stage.
    Mrs. L. M. Phillips, Trail, and her daughter, Mrs. Bernice, came out Thursday and went on to Medford after taking dinner, remaining overnight, and Mrs. Phillips is the wife of the Free Methodist minister at Trail.
    Up to 11 o'clock today, Saturday a.m., the voters were keeping the election board busy, people coming in by the carload and men and women signing up their registering cards who have not voted for years, and some who have not voted at all, and the result of the election will be anxiously looked for in the Medford Sun Sunday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 1, 1922, page 6


    E. M. Renfro, representing the Douglas County Court and the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, is in the city to confer with the Jackson County Court, the Medford Chamber of Commerce, the California-Oregon Power Company and the Forest Service regarding the immediate repair of the Tiller-Trail road so that the remaining tourist travel will not be diverted to Eastern Oregon.
    It is now necessary to make a detour, owing to construction work under way. This detour is rather difficult. and Mr. Renfro says that by expending some money it can be made safe and easy to negotiate. The contractor has agreed to donate $2,000, the Douglas County Court has agreed to pay its share and give permission and what money they can spare is asked of Jackson County to do the work, the detour being in Jackson County. Mr. Renfro conferred with the County Court Wednesday and they agreed to cooperate.
    Mr. Renfro says he drove over the Tiller-Trail road Sunday and that with the expenditure of a very little money it could be put in good shape.
    It is expected that Supervisor Rankin of the Forest Service will arrive in the city this afternoon and that a meeting will be held at once to settle the matter.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 3, 1922, page 2


    MEDFORD, Aug. 2.--Although $150,000 bonds of this issue were reserved especially for residents of Medford and vicinity, already more than $50,000 of the bonds have been sold. It may be impossible to personally meet all my clients and friends before the balance has been sold. This letter is therefore written to get the facts before as many as possible.
    Nineteen thousand, eight hundred acres are covered under the tax lien of this issue, at the rate of $20.22 per acre. Figured against the choicest land, 6,300 acres, presently to be irrigated, the debt amounts to but $63.49 per acre. The value of these lands is conservatively figured at $1,500,000, while the bond issue amounts to but $400,000. These lands will increase in value and the bonded debt will be reduced by annual payments.
    Big Butte Creek furnishes the water supply, a positive, adequate, reliable supply. No reservoir is required, only a small diversion dam. No difficult engineering problems are presented. A harmonious organization of farmers, who knew what they wanted, the advice of progressive local bankers, cooperation of expert engineers, and the result was attained. Money was not wasted.
    No land under this District can be released until every cent of principal and interest of every fast bond has been paid.
    The lien of these bonds secures the holder in exactly the same way as a school district bond.
    Figure it up. Night and day, year in and year out, these bonds pay interest--there is no period of idle money, no time taken out for reinvestment, no delay in payment of interest, no federal income tax to pay, no expenses and no requests for favors, extensions or delays. Any man who will figure can fully prove this.
    In these bonds you have better than 3 to 1 security and the joint and several obligation of 94 owners and their families (that's what it amounts to). The principal and interest is collected through taxes by the Sheriff and the terms of payment are easy, 6% small annual installments over a 25-year period. Yes, and every dollar loaned goes to add more than a dollar in the way of increased value and earning capacity. Mortgages come after tax liens, as you know.
    All the affairs of the world are not yet settled. Our people have been loaning the world. You cannot afford to go up in the Balkans to collect 8% or 10%, and you cannot afford to pass the best home investment that may be offered in years. You know Eagle Point people. You know they pay their taxes, that they must pay their taxes, and you know that Rogue River Valley land is Gilt Edged Security when so reasonably bonded.
    I have sold bonds for 28 years but have never offered any bond with greater confidence in its security.
    With kindest regards to my friends.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 3, 1922, page 4


    George Albert of Dupray mill has been stopping here for several days to repair the water tank at the P.&E. depot, and I understand that the head man of that department for the company has been out and promises to order material for a new tank, as far as the lumber is concerned, entirely.
    Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Theo Lufer and their son, Jim, and daughter, Eleanor, came in to spend the night. Mr. Lufer is assistant state engineer, Salem, Ore., looking after the interest of the water users from Little Butte Creek. He seemed to be a very busy man and found after he had looked over the field that he had more of a job on his hands than he could accomplish in a day, so leaving his wife and little daughter at the hotel he started out Saturday morning; he kept at work all day. In the meantime Fred Cummings, the water boss for this district, stopped in and learned that Mr. Lufer was here at the hotel, and changed his plans somewhat. He had his family with him and were on the way to Prospect to have the family enjoy a camping season on Rogue River and decided to spend the night at the hotel also, so that the two families had a good visit together, and so Mr. Cummings started quite early to their camp ground he had already selected, so as to enable him to get back to Medford in time for him to vote, reaching here to vote, reaching here in time for supper and meeting. Mr. Lufer was here again and arranging their plans for future work. The next morning, Sunday, they arranged to start on their return journey to Grants Pass, although Mrs. Lufer seemed to regret that the time had come for them to depart, for as she expressed it, it seemed so much like home. There had been some complaints about the improper use of the water in the upper part of the district, but Mr. Lufer seemed to think that they had it all properly arranged again.
    Harvey Stanley and three others, strangers, were here for dinner Friday.
    There were quite a number here Friday beside the regular boarders, and among them was Charley Manning and what I took for his brother. The people come in, sit down to the table, eat in a hurry and pay "Ma," and are gone often before I can learn who they are.
    Saturday, being election day, was a busy day in Eagle Point, and I am satisfied that there was more people in town than any other one day in five years. We polled the largest vote we have had for years--184, and all for Charley to remain sheriff, and there were ten voters reached the polls too late to vote, and as near as I can learn all wanted to vote for Charley. They had been haying, and by the time they worked ten hours, took care of the teams, eat their supper and reached the polling place the time was up.
    As an evidence of the interest taken in the election, while I was resting after I had voted I spent an hour or so in the polling room. There were ten persons, men and women, came in and filled out registration cards who had not voted for years.
    Mrs. George West, whose husband is in the civil service employ and is now in Eastern Oregon, came out and took a room at the Sunnyside, closing her home in Medford.
    Among those who were at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday [were] Lawrence Conger, Walter Wood, Frank Haselton and his brother Oden Haselton, John Greb, and his daughter, Miss Francis A. Y. Florey, Jerry Lewis and W. C. Daley; the last five named were the election board.
    Saturday afternoon I went out to Medford, and the first place I went was to Dr. Emmens' office but found that he was out. That was the second time I had called and both times found him out for that afternoon, but my case with him was not very expert as he had fixed my eyes so that I can see to do my own writing and read it after I have done it, but I sometimes pity the poor printer who has to make the types. The next move was to call on Dr. W. W. P. Holt and found him in and there also met his father, Rev. Dr. Holt, who is canvassing the coast to raise an endowment fund sufficient so that the interest can be applied for the support of old or worn-out ministers of the Presbyterian Church, and all the business I had with him this time was to let him know that I was all O.K. My next move was to visit the office of the Mail Tribune and have a little social chat with the editor and his staff of helpers, procure a copy of the D.M.T. and scan its pages until time for me to start home. This is quite a digression, but I wanted to let my readers know that I was on gaining ground.
    There was another ball game here Sunday afternoon, the B.B.T. from Rogue River came down and played against the E.P.B.B.T., and the result was that the Rogue River boys came out second best, the score standing 6 to 17 in favor of Eagle Point. I heard some of the boys from Rogue River complaining that our pitcher, Harold Van Scoy, was a world-beater when it came to pitching, he gives the ball such a funny twist. But if he happens to see this and you hear of an old man getting rode on a rail, you need not be surprised.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Sunday were Miss Etta Grieve, Earl Ulrich of Prospect, Eli Dahack and son Everett, Earl Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McPherson and son Fred, Ed Wolfer of Hubbard, Ore. He came in Sunday to look after the interests of his father-in-law, James Jordan, who is quite aged and has been in poor health for some time past. His daughter came down about a month ago to take him home with her, but he would not go, but he finally grew worse and sent for Mr. Wolfer to come for him and they started Monday night. Mr. Wolfer was in the tinner and hardware business in Medford for some time and finally bought a tract of land now owned by William Perry and went into the strawberry business, finally married a widowed daughter of Mr. Jordan and eventually moved to Hubbard and is now engaged in the berry business. He has quite a variety of strawberries, 13 different kinds, besides other kinds of berries.
    Buck Hildreth, his wife and mother of Butte Falls, came in the afternoon on their way home and remained until after supper and went on up home in the cool of the evening.
    Monday morning about 1 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. George King and Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smith of Central Point came in and called for beds. They had started Sunday morning to go to Crater Lake, aiming to go there and back in a day, but one can never tell what will happen to a party who are out with an auto. To sum it all up they had tire trouble along the latter part of the trip, and to make a long story short, they had, if I understand them right, 87 punctures and blowouts and when they reached Eagle Point found that they had not enough gas to take them home so ran the car down to the garage and began to look for someone or somewhere to stay the rest of the night, and finally succeeded in finding the Sunnyside and were soon comfortably tucked away in bed. The next morning on passing to see the condition of their car found that they had been running on two flat tires, what was left of them, for they were somewhat scattered, but in a short time they were on their way home.
    There is some changes taking place in Eagle Point in business lines, the B.F.-Eagle Point Irrigation Canal Company having purchased the old racket store building, have fixed it up for their office and moved from the E.P. Hardware Company building into it. But I find that my letter is getting too long so will keep the rest for my Saturday letter.
    Rev. H. G. Adams will preach Sunday morning and evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 4, 1922, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis motored to Medford Wednesday the 26th, returning the same day.
    Mr. Lee Whitley and Harvey Mohay [sic].
    Mrs. W. Willits returned to her home at Persist Sunday, July 30. She has been enjoying a visit with her relations residing in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence were business callers in Medford Saturday, July 29.
    Henry Trusty, who has been employed by Mr. W. von der Hellen, has returned to his home on Elk Creek and is busy looking after their cattle.
    Mr. George Hall mowed his alfalfa Monday, July 31. He also sold five sacks of splendid new potatoes to the California-Oregon Power camp.
    Elmer Ivey enjoyed a visit at the Dave Pence place Sunday, July 30.
    Mr. Miller and his son, Boyd Miller, returned home from a visit to Gold Hill, Wednesday, July 26. Mrs. Miller, who has been ill of late, is reported to be well on the way to recovery. Mrs. Fred Sturgis has also been on the sick list last week, is getting better.
    Claud Moore hauled a load of lumber Monday, August 1.
    Alberta Pence was an all night guest of Mrs. Lucy Moore Saturday.
    Mr. Andy Pool went up to Sugar Pine to stay a while on government duty.
    Mr. E. Ash was up this way with his truck Sunday and took down a load of fence rails.
    Mr. Lee Whitley is working for the California-Oregon Power Co.
    Mr. Ashcraft was visiting on his homestead Sunday, July 30.
    The grasshoppers have been damaging the alfalfa in this vicinity, as they are very numerous.
    A Watkins agent has been selling products in this and surrounding territories.
    Harvey Morgan put up Ezra Whitley's hay.
    Claude Moore shod George Hall's horses last week.
    It has been exceedingly hot along the creek during June and the first part of July. Old timers claim that it has been hotter than they have ever witnessed for such a long duration. We need rain very bad, as the creek is getting low. Flat Creek is drying up very fast and Alco Creek is about dry, something unusual for the mountains.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 4, 1922, page 9


Medford Clarion, August 4, 1922, page 4


    T. B. McDonald, proprietor of the "White Trout" store, has been quite ill for a week and is still confined to the bed.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Burnham of Martinez, Cal., will arrive at the hotel soon for an extended sojourn.
    Work on the Crater Lake Highway is progressing. The roads are improving, bringing increased travel.
    A very pretty wedding was solemnized Sunday evening at seven o'clock at the home of J. E. McDonald, when Miss Violet Annette Hoskins, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins and John Gordon Warner, son of Mrs. Warner of Trail Creek, were united in marriage by Rev. J. E. McDonald in the presence of relatives and friends. The charming bride was daintily gowned in white organdy. They departed amid showers of rice in a gaily decorated car with best wishes for a long, happy life together.
    The Rogue Elk Hotel is a busy place these days with its many guests from far and near. It is an ideal place to spend a vacation.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald were in Medford this week.
    The "old swimmin'" hole is a great attraction this summer and every day finds many enjoying its cooling waters. On Sundays many from Medford and Ashland camp for the day. Two weeks ago there were eight in swimming at once.
    Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Van Scoyoc and family, who have been spending their vacation at their cabin, returned this week to Medford.
    Stanley Boggs of Medford is spending his vacation at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Todd.
    Mrs. Eugene Howell leaves Saturday for a visit with relatives and friends near Portland.
    Mr. Sandoz has purchased a new car.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 7, 1922, page 3


    Charles J. Kafer, formerly a merchant of Brownsboro but now of Glendale, Ore., was a business caller Monday.
    Mrs. Arion McDowell and her sister, Mrs. Geo. Kenneed of Billings, Mon., called at the Sunnyside for dinner and were delighted with our country compared with Montana. They had been out through Eastern Oregon, visited Crater Lake and its surroundings, and while they admitted that some parts of Montana were very attractive, when it came to comparing it with Oregon, the scenery and general productiveness, especially the fruit of almost all kinds and the quantity, they thought that there was no comparison, and if they could have remained until the apples, pears and peaches were ripe so that they could have eaten them when allowed to ripen on the tree instead of having the fruit picked as soon as they begin to get so they will bear to be shipped they would have thought that was no comparison, to say nothing of the frigid cold climate.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Monday were Frank Ditsworth and wife of Peyton, Wm. Coy, the night guardian of the First State Bank of Eagle Point, H. D. Buchanan of Seattle, H.  L. Moore of Butte Falls who has charge of the Owen timber in the north and eastern part of the county. He reported that on his beat through the timber he found two places where fire had been started, close together, but the forest patrol had discovered and extinguished the fire before it had time to do much damage.
    The same day Mrs. C. W. Watkins, her son Clay and daughter Miss Edna of Talent came in and Miss Edna engaged board and room. She has accepted the position of stenographer with the Butte Falls-Eagle Point Irrigation District and is located in the old racket store building and seems to be ready to do the work satisfactorily. She says that they do not keep her very busy. Her mother and brother returned to their home the same afternoon.
    Green Mathews, one of the early pioneers of Jackson County as he has resided here all of his life with the exception of a few years he spent in Montana, and his son-in-law, J. F. Johnson, were trading with our merchants Monday and Mr. Johnson had his wife and one child with him. I asked James how he liked the result of the election on the recall issue and he replied that he did not know there was going to be an election until the Friday night before as he was busy working on the road and someone happened to speak of it about the time they quit for supper, but the result was they all worked all day just the same as if there had been no election.
    Speaking of the recall election and the expense of such moves as well as the expense, which is estimated to be near $3000 or $4000, I have a suggestion to make to the candidates for the legislature, and that is to have the recall law so amended to have it similar to the criminal law in a justice court. In that court if I want to have a warrant issued for the arrest of my neighbor and the justice has his doubts as to the advisability of issuing the warrant, he can require the complainant to give security for the costs in case he fails to produce evidence sufficient to convict, and that recall law could be so amended as to require the promoters of a recall to give security for the cost and then they would stop and weigh the matter well if they thought that the expense would have to be met by the promoters if they failed to win out. If that had been the law in the recall case decided last Saturday, the ministerial association that took such an active part in trying to remove our sheriff, Charley Terrill, would have probably been studying their bibles to try to devise some plan so that they would not have to preach to empty benches, and in conclusion of this subject, I would refer them to the commission of Ezekiel as recorded in Ezekiel 3, chapter 17.21 inclusive.
    There is another material change taking place in our little town. George B. Holmes, our enterprising garage man, is making a very material change in his business plans. He has leased a part of the T. E. Nichols building that was fixed up for a meat market and ice plant and is tearing all of that part out so as to have it all converted into one room and make it into a large roomy garage where there will be less danger from fire and more comfortable both in winter and summer, and nearer the business center, as it is almost right on the main street through town and nearer to the Crater Lake Highway.
    Mrs. Caroline Thomason of Butte Falls and her sister, Mrs. A. B. Ellison, and her daughter Miss Mary Ellison of Portland were passengers on the stage for Butte Falls where Mrs. Thomason is to take charge of the culinary department of the new railroad camp three or four miles beyond Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Arglee Green and her traveling companion, Mrs. M. H. Kentner, who left here about a month ago accompanied by Mrs. Green's sister, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, to go to Seattle to visit with her sister, Mrs. Lelah Jones, returned the first of the week.
    Ray Conley of Butte Falls, who owns and operates a sawmill four miles from Butte Falls, passed through here Monday on his way to Medford. Carl Bieberstedt, one of our prominent citizens, was a business caller Monday.
    John Iseli and wife of Glendale, his son Rudolph, wife and three children, and Miss Iva McCoy of Portland came in Tuesday for dinner on their way to Butte Falls. Mr. Iseli several years ago was a part owner in a sawmill on Round Top that was burned down, and afterward they lived on their homestead near the old mill site and eventually went to Butte Falls where he was head sawyer with the Butte Falls Lumber Company, where he accumulated considerable property, finally settling in Glendale, where he has been ever since. He still owns property in Butte Falls and his old homestead and came out to look after his interests in that region, and his son and family came up from Portland for an outing and to visit his parents and visit the scenes of his and his wife's younger days. Mr. Iseli, Jr. is extensively engaged in the poultry business in Portland, keeping about 1200 to 1500 hens on hand.
    Emanuel Leidman and wife, of Los Angeles, came in the same day, Tuesday, and spent the night, and the next morning started for the Blue Canyon beyond Butte Falls to visit Mrs. Leidman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Zimmerman.
    Mrs. W. H. Brown started a few days ago to visit her husband's aunt, Mrs. Charlotta Brown, who is quite sick, in her home in British Columbia.
    Charley Terrill, our popular sheriff, was here for supper Tuesday. He was out to subpoena witnesses in this neighborhood in a case to decide the ownership of a horse. He was accompanied by H. B. Van Winkle. Carl Anderson was also here for supper with them and so was a man, wife and two strangers.
    F. J. McPherson made a business trip to Portland returning Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 7, 1922, page 4


    Charles Pettegrew, who is working with the civil engineer's crew on the Butte Falls water canal leading not only to the immediate vicinity of Eagle Point but reaching beyond so as to take in a large part of the Alta Vista Orchard but beyond reaching to Antelope Valley, adding thousands of dollars of wealth to that part of the district [sic].
    Well, what I started in to say was that Charley Pettegrew was here Wednesday as the crew was changing their quarters and getting things shaped so as to have everything in shape for the fall and early winter run.
    W. S. Baker and his two boys were also guests at the Sunnyside the same day. He had been over in the big orchard district and bought fifteen hundred pounds of apricots the day before and started to take them to Butte Falls but sold them out on the way and was making the second trip and was succeeding well in disposing of them.
    Mrs. Ed Guches of Central Point, and Mrs. Walter Hawk of Medford, spent Thursday visiting Mrs. N. E. Watkins and her daughter, Miss Anna Watkins.
    There were four strangers took dinner here Thursday and two others spent the night with us, but I failed to learn their names or residence. The reader will bear in mind that my health, hearing and sight are not as good as formerly and consequently I am not even trying to gather all the news but gather all that I can select, what I think to be the best, and forget the rest.
    I met Walter Allen of Derby, a son of one of the very early pioneers of that section, John Allen, at the post office Friday, and noticed that one of his eyes looked weak and asked what the trouble was and he reported that he had got a hayseed in one of them and had been to Medford to have it taken out and I naturally inquired who did the work and he replied Dr. Emmens had done the job.
    Mrs. Geo. H. West, who has taken up quarters at the Sunnyside, missed her Daily Mail Tribune so sent in by me last Saturday to renew her subscription, and I suggested to her the idea of her getting some wrappers and sending the papers to her husband, who is in the Forest Service near Baker City, Austin post office, and she replied that he was having it come to him directly from the office. They both believe in keeping posted on what is going on in the world.
    E. E. Jackson called for dinner Friday, soliciting for Ward's medicines.
    Marshall Minter, who is working with the rock crusher gang as night shift, crushing rock for the Medford-Crater Lake road, is sleeping and taking a part of his meals at the Sunnyside.
    Boyd von der Hellen and a stranger from Prospect were here for dinner Saturday. Boyd's father has the contract to clear and grade the unit of the Crater Lake Highway between Hole-in-the-Ground and Prospect.
    Some lowdown person or persons, Mr. John L. Robinson reports, went into his watermelon patch one night last week and pulled up and destroyed 260 vines just as the melons were getting ripe.
      Last Friday afternoon while I was sitting out in the yard in the shade of the water tower reading with the aid of my large reading glass that was presented to me by my oculist, Dr. Emmens, a car came up to the gate and an elderly, fine-looking old gentleman got out and as he came nearer I recognized our old friend of over fifty years ago, Thomas Collins of Medford, and he was soon followed by two strangers whom I had known in their childhood days, V. D. Plymale of San Francisco and his brother, Dr. D. H. Plymale of Fresno, Calif., and I soon discovered that they were accompanied by their families. Thomas said they would drive out to Eagle Point by his old home about 60 miles below where the town is now located and told of his first visit to where Eagle Point now is located, in 1860, when he came up to the old McDonald grist mill, then situated on the L. K. Haak farm, when with a yoke of oxen and a cart with four sacks of wheat, and it took all day to make the trip and they had just made the drive in an auto in about twenty minutes, calling the attention of his friends to the wonderful change that has taken place. In the meantime the hostess and her daughter came out and a general introduction was had and scenes of our younger days discussed. I see that I have omitted to mention that the two Mr. Plymales were the sons of Hon. Tip Plymale who owned a fine farm nearby, directly across the road from the old Enoch Walker place about two miles north of Medford. We all had a joyful visit and it might have been prolonged but they had a cow at home that had to be milked at a certain hour so had to go home and milk that cow or the sun might stop moving on its axis. Nevertheless we enjoyed the short visit and will be glad to have the pleasure of meeting again when we are not so crowded for time.
    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols, wife of one of our hardware merchants, has been up on Little Butte Creek visiting her parents, and her husband is taking his meals at the Sunnyside during her absence.
    There were quite a number of people who come in for dinner or supper, eat their meals and in the rush I fail to learn who they are, where they are going. Last Saturday there were five came in for dinner I did not know and if I did could not call to mind who they were, besides Wm. H. Brown, one of our leading merchants, and two salesmen, one was B. H. Williams of San Francisco, and L. Older of Portland. Also Charles Clarke of the Modoc Orchard, Marshall Minter, R. D. Henson and Geo. M. Lowe of the Foster & Kleiser Co., Medford.
    Another one of our aged pioneers, Thomas F. McCabe, passed away Saturday morning aged 73 years, 6 months and 10 days. Mr. McCabe was a man who was highly respected. His death was caused from paralysis. As there is already an obituary notice in the Mail Tribune of the 5th it is not necessary for me to make further mention.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Farley of Santa Ana, Calif., came in Saturday and remained until Monday morning. They are taking in the sights of Southern Oregon including Crater Lake.
    There were quite a number of people  came in Saturday and some of them returned early Sunday morning.
    There were five ladies here Monday night, Misses Evaline Mead of New York, Miss Bertha B. Hellson, Portland, Lillian Messner, Portland, L. E. Hausler, Portland, and Anna Hanson, Portland, and Miss Hausler lost her black leather handbag containing money and other valuables. See ad in Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 11, 1922, page 5


    Owing to unavoidable delays I have got behind in this letter and consequently have to report some news that may seem somewhat stale, but I am glad that I am able to resume my work writing the Eagle Point Eaglets. Commencing where I left off will begin with a report of Sunday, Aug. 6th.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner on that occasion were J. A. Westerlund and wife, Miss Sophia Homberg, Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Tengwald and daughter Ellen, M. B. Chase, also Lee Chase, D. H. Gill of Medford, Eva Carlton of Wellen and Miss Fern Lewis of Eagle Point, and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Newsbaum and his mother of Lake Creek came in. They had been out to Crater Lake and called for a bed for the old lady as she was considerably wearied from the long trip to Crater Lake and back and she complained that the mosquitoes were so thick that she could not sleep the night before. Mrs. M. E. Richardson and her little daughter Eva of Butte Falls also spent the night, going home on the stage the next morning.
    C. R. Heimroth and wife were business callers Monday. Mr. Heimroth and wife were canvassing for Black Cat roof paint and seemed to be meeting with some success.
    The same day Earl Zimmerman and his sister Violet, who live some ten miles beyond Butte Falls in the neighborhood of Blue Canyon, came in with a lot of strawberries and called for supper, and went on to Medford the same night.
    Among the callers Tuesday of the same week were Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Whiting, Henry Morgan and Miss Skiff.
    Mrs. M. H. Kentner, who came up from Los Angeles with Mrs. Arglee Green in May and taught a Bible school through the month of June to the children and then went up to Seattle and spent a few weeks with Mrs. Green's sister, spent a few days here and has returned to her home and resumed her duties in one of the Bible schools of Los Angeles.
    W. P. Holbrook, who owns and cultivates an orchard out west of here, was among the business callers Tuesday and reports the prospect fine for fruit in his section.
    Wm. von der Hellen, our leading contractor, his foreman, Mr. McPherson, A. J. Florey and wife, two women and four men, all strangers, and James Anderson, Gold Hill, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    By way of digression I will state that for the past several weeks my health has been such that I have been unable to go around town to gather items of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune, but this Monday morning, Aug. 14th, am feeling somewhat better and hope to be able to resume my regular duties in that line for awhile longer at least.
    Fred Ernes of the Edgell orchard was here on business Tuesday.
    Theo. A. Glass and wife of Medford were here for dinner Wednesday and reported that he is now acting agent for the Kansas City Life Insurance Co., and that he had just been up to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. French to deliver to Mrs. French a draft for one thousand dollars on an insurance policy that his daughter, the late Mrs. Thomas Anderson, she having taken out an insurance policy for $1000 in favor of her mother, Mrs. J. H. French.
    Mrs. Frank Johnson and her daughter of Indian Creek were among the business callers Wednesday.
    There were also a number here for dinner the same day but I did not have enough energy to even try to learn who they were or how many there were.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Culbertson and two sons and daughter of Ashland passed through here Wednesday on their way to Lake Creek to visit his brother, James Culbertson and family.
    Mrs. Thos. Cingcade, who lives with her husband on the David Cingcade farm on Antelope Creek, was in town Wednesday.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls, one of the deputy assessors who had been out to the county seat, went up home on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday.
    Charley Clark, who has been stable boss on the Modoc Orchard for some years, has been stopping at the Sunnyside for several days recuperating.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 15, 1922, page 6


    Rev. A. C. Howlett, the Sunday school evangelist of the Presbyterian Church in the Southern Oregon district, stopped here for dinner last Thursday on his way to Butte Falls. He seems to be kept busy, as he has quite a large field and several different Sunday schools to look after.
    Last Thursday was not only a very busy day in Eagle Point but was a day of more than unusual interest too, not only to the citizens of Eagle Point and vicinity, but the entire community along the proposed canal to be taken from Big Butte just below the falls at the town of Butte Falls and to extend along the foothills above Eagle Point, cross Little Butte and be so arranged as to furnish water to irrigate several valuable farms and orchards along the route. As that was the day set to open the bids for the construction of the canal and the result was that a great many people from the country came in to learn if possible the result of the proceedings thus far, never thinking that proceedings of that nature, that require the investment of such a vast amount of capital, are handled with a great deal of caution and the result is that it is not known up to today noon, Wednesday, what the result has been, at least so far as I can learn. There was only two bids put in. One was by a bonding house of Portland, Ore. and the other by our local contractor, William von der Hellen, and I learned that night when the men, Mr. von der Hellen being among them, that the contract had been awarded to Mr. von der Hellen subject to the approval of the state engineer, but of course the amount of the bids were not given out and so the result perhaps will not be known to the public for some time.
    I understand that if both bids are rejected, which is quite probable, that the "powers that be" may reject both bids and then readvertise for bids, and as a precautionary move, for ninety days and postpone commencement on the work until spring, thus forcing the people who have been planning on using the water next summer to wait another year, which would be a great disappointment as well as financial loss to them. But we are living in hope of having the contract confirmed to Mr. von der Hellen and have the work commence at once. There was quite a number came in for dinner that day, but I was feeling so "cultus," that is a word that you don't find in an ordinary dictionary, but means a cross between laziness and sickness that I did not have energy enough to even try to count the people who came in for dinner, but there were, counting our regular boarders, about 40 and among them were W. E. Hamond [Hammel? Hammond?], president of the company, Fred Pettegrew, secretary, Ralph Cowgill, chief civil engineer, C. M. Thomas, attorney for the company. Mr. Thomas was accompanied by F. C. Dillard, consulting engineer for the district, Mr. G. E. Miller, president of a bond company of Portland, Ore., that bought the bonds some time ago, was present, accompanied by Mr. Cunningham, his engineer.
    Also we had Newton C. Chaney, secretary for the Jackson County Farm Bureau, who is now working for the Jackson County fair and exhibit. He was trying to have Eagle Point have an exhibit to show some of the products of this section. There were two men out here a few weeks ago gathering grasses and other things of the vegetable kingdom to place on exhibit, but suppose that they will be credited to Medford, as usual, but when it comes to our exhibit of what is taken directly from here by the producer and labeled with the name of the producer as well as having it placed among the Eagle Point products that we will be properly credited. We have not forgotten the time when there was a national exhibition of fruit and the carload of apples awarded the first prize by the committee and was raised on the H. B. Tronson orchard situated on Little Butte Creek and irrigated from that stream was credited as being one of the Medford orchards although the fruit was raised two miles above Eagle Point and fourteen miles from Medford. The committee proposes to donate to each community securing 66 points out of 100. He is also working on livestock and individual exhibits, and we do hope that he will prove successful in his undertaking to make the Jackson County fair a glowing success but will also induce our enterprising citizens of this community to get busy and secure the 66 points.
    Last Saturday I made my regular weekly trip to Medford and after calling on my doctor, W. W. P. Holt, my daughter took me out somewhere in the city to visit one of my old-time families, J. B. Welch, wife and daughter, Mrs. Nellie Prock, Mr. Welch being one of the pioneer sawmill men of whom I bought lumber in the early '70s, he being ninety years of age his next birthday, and Nellie, as we always called her, now the mother of five husky children, her oldest being a fine-looking young man just entering the state of manhood. For me to say that we had a royal good time in talking over incidents of former days, the trials and hardships of a pioneer life, the risks and dangers through which we passed and thought but little of them as they passed, but there was one incident that occurred a few years ago with him that causes me to shudder as I recall hearing of it through the Mail Tribune, and that was hearing him tell it as unconcernedly as though it was a matter of no consequence, and that was as he was out riding on horseback in the mountains beyond The Meadows and having his horse fall and he having his leg broke and lying helpless in the cold storm (for he said it rained for fourteen hours out of the thirty-two hours) that he lay there helpless with no prospect of having any relief, for no one had any idea where to go to look for him, suffering not only from the fall but a broken leg, with death staring him in the face. I remarked that I could not see how he ever lived through such an ordeal, and he replied that he simply had determined not to die. And the doctors who attended to his case declared that he could not live a week, still he is a hale and hearty old man and he is talking of going down into the grape-growing part of California where they raise grapes and go to work packing grapes. He says that if he can't get around as well as he used to he can pick them off of the big bunches and pack them as well as the boys and girls.
    We may thank that kind of stock for the wonderful development of our wonderful country.
    When we returned that evening Mrs. Maud Stickel of the Golden Rule Store in Medford, where she has been working for the past five years, came out with us to make a visit, returning Sunday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1922, page 4


    A forest fire broke out in the timber near Alco Rock, Sunday the 13th. It was extinguished by Mr. Poole and a few forest patrolmen.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis motored to Medford Monday the 14th. Mrs. Sturgis' mother returned with them to spend a vacation on their ranch.
    Claude Moore hauled a load of lumber Tuesday.
    Mrs. Lee Whitley and Elmer Ivey were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Sandoz, also Geo. Hall, were Medford visitors the 11th.
    Claud Moore and Elmer Ivey have been putting up Dave Pence's hay.
    Huckleberries are reported to be ripening rapidly; also a good crop is predicted. Hunting is very good this season, as quail and Chinese pheasant are plentiful; deer are also numerous.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 21, 1922, page 3


    Before I reached the report of who came and went to and from the Sunnyside August 13, I found that my letter of Wednesday last was altogether too long, but the items were of such a nature and of seeming importance that I could not divide them and to omit them would make it too short, so I left them for this letter.
    Among the arrivals was Mr. Thos. Hamrick, one of the early settlers of the Bear Creek bottom lands on the east side of that stream about three miles east of Central Point, who sold out some thirty-five years ago and went to California and came back to note the changes made in his old home. The place when he left it was considered a very ordinary Sticky dry farm, but he said that his father selected it so that they could get out to Central Point without going through Sticky, quite an important item in those days, and when he returned found that the old dry farm was now cut up into small farms and irrigated from the waters of Fish Lake and producing not only grains of all kinds but berries and fruit of all kinds, as well as vegetables. He was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Abbott and three children.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Perl, our county coroner, Mr. and Mrs. Charley E. Terrill, our popular sheriff.
    Mrs. A. J. Florey has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Medford, and A. J. Florey is dining at the Sunnyside.
    There was a man, wife and child came in Monday for dinner and gave their name as Jerman. Mr. Jerman claimed to have been here in his younger days, but now is from Grants Pass. They were on their way to Butte Falls to work on the railroad.
    John Miller, one of our local carpenters, has been engaged doing some repair work on the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Wm. Pierce (Bill) the chief mechanic for Hubbard Bros., came out and completed some repair work on the pump used for irrigating and domestic purposes at the Sunnyside Monday.
    I understand that Mrs. Dolley Jack has purchased the house now occupied by Thomas Abbott of Mr. F. J. Ayres and that he will be required to give possession in a few days.
    Mr. and Mrs. Woodsum and Mr. Woodsum's sister, Mrs. Case and Miss Blough, a high school teacher, all of Seattle, have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, our banker, and wife.
    A. C. Cooke and his son, A. E. Cooke of Portland, a brother and nephew of my wife, of Portland, came in on us Tuesday afternoon and announced he was going to make us a short visit, the first time that either of them have been farther south than Eugene, and they were very agreeably disappointed with the general appearance of the country in Southern Oregon, for up in the northern part of the state about all the scenery is confined to the Columbia River and a few other places that have been made attractive by the devices of man, while as they came on from Eugene and began to climb the mountainsides and be able to look up into the dense forests of fir and pine and then turn their eyes downward into the deep canyons and look down into the tops of the tall trees and have the hills and forests interspersed with fine valleys and there interspersed with clear, cold streams of pure water and these valleys covered with fine fields of grain, orchards and vineyards--but what is the use in trying to describe the beauties of Southern Oregon?  The next day they were taken out riding to see the country around Central Point and between there and Jacksonville, so that they could see the old home of their aunt, the late Mrs. Mary Chambers, whose first husband was killed in the Indian war of '55 and then went to view where her remains rest. The next day they were taken through the valley. This time your Eagle Point correspondent accompanied them and after reaching Medford passed on through that beautiful city to be inspected by its thousands of electric lights, and passed on up the valley, viewing the fine farms and orchards, enrapturing their gaze, passing over and admiring our highway and noting the beautiful lawns, buildings and streets and ornamental trees and shrubbery along the street of Ashland, leaving the park until later in the day, going on and on until we reached the California line over one of the finest highways, but when we reached the California line found a change in the nature of the road, but better than it was the first time your correspondent passed over it in October 1861, on horseback, but quite a change from the Jackson County highway, we passed on to the once-noted town of Hornbrook where we stopped and ate lunch and rested a while, [and] began to retrace our steps. There was one incident occurred or rather that we witnessed and that was an old-fashioned threshing machine, threshing wheat by the same old process we used seventy-five or eighty years ago, tramping it out with horses, and still the appearance of everything looked modern.
    We did not stop until we reached the Kingsbury Soda Springs where we all drank our fill, passing on we finally entered the world-renowned Ashland Park, driving up through and looking at its beauties and conveniences and testing the different kinds of water, finally settled down to feast again on fried chicken, etc., finally made another start for home, but when we reached Main Street, Medford, turned our course and went out across the railroad track by the post office building and past Coroner Perl's beautiful home so as to have them view the city by lamp light.
Medford Mail Tribune,  August 22, 1922, page 6


    Misses Margaret Mansfield and Hazel Ditsworth of Trail stopped here for dinner one day last week on their way to Medford.
    Earl Meiling of Medford called for dinner also the same day.
    P. J. Cochran of Medford called looking for our mail contractor, Lucius Kincaid, as he wanted to insure his life while he is driving over our rough mountain roads. He represents the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company at Medford.
     Arthur Ellison and wife of Portland were here visiting his aunt, Mrs. N. E. Watkins.
    Guy Wildey, wife and two daughters, also Mrs. Wildey's aunt, Miss Palmer of Rodon, England, were among the guests at the Sunnyside.
    R. W. Finley of Klamath Falls was among the callers Thursday.
    Mrs. Hamilton Fox, widow of the late Hamilton Fox, who for several years lived in the Lake Creek country and turned his attention to raising milk goats, was here Friday and went out to Medford on the stage. She is living around with her children at present having just come in from her son's in the Lake Creek country who is interested in the milk goat industry. Mrs. W. P. Muskopf and three children were here at the same time.
    George West, who is in the Forest Service and has been in charge of scaling the government timber up in Baker County, came in Friday to visit his wife who is living at the Sunnyside Hotel and remained until Tuesday morning when he started for other fields.
    Manuel Leibman and wife of Los Angeles, nee Claire Zimmerman, formerly hello girl in the telephone office here, and Mr. Leibman has been among the prominent apple packers of this vicinity and Medford, came in Friday and remained until Sunday, starting for their home. He complained that the wages were too low here as he could not make more than sixty cents an hour here while down in his home country he could get a dollar an hour. He seems to be an expert fruit packer. They came up a month or so ago to visit her parents, A. B. Zimmerman of Butte Falls.
    Messrs. A. J. Baker of the Poster Adv. Co., N.Y. City and R. D. Henson of Foster and Kleiser Company, Medford, were among the diners Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Koenig of Derby passed through here Friday afternoon, with E. S. Baker, also of Derby, on their way to Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Koenig intend to go from there to California to remain permanently.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols, pioneer residents of this section, returned Saturday from their trip to the noted health resort, the Willows Mud Springs, where they went some three weeks ago so as to have her try the virtue of that remedy for rheumatism. They make a very favorable report although she is not entirely healed but greatly improved. They expect to return in about another week or ten days, as that seems to be the place to take the treatment, for two weeks, and then lay off about the same length of time, then try it for two weeks more. We are all delighted to know that she is relieved to a certain extent at least.
    Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Hoff and son, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Hoyt of Chico, Cal., came in from Crater Lake Friday evening on their way home. And the same evening two young ladies dressed in their coveralls, each carrying a small knapsack about large enough to hold a lunch, comb, brush and puff bag and a few more small articles, called for supper. They gave their names as Misses Emma Roseman and E. Anna Rudrauff of Los Angeles, on their way to Portland, that they were hiking it although occasionally they caught a ride and were going to Lake Creek to a dance that night. I asked about their baggage and they said they had sent their suitcases on to Portland. The next day they came in and reported that they had secured a ride to Lake Creek and were starting for Crater Lake, that they had started out sightseeing and were having a great time.
    There were three more young men came in the last of the week who have charge as civil engineers of all of the market roads and engaged beds and board during the time they can be here, as their work calls them to be away a part of the time. They gave their names as Polland A. Smith, Fred A. Smith and Everett A. Smith, the last two being brothers of Medford.
    Last Saturday I went to Medford to consult with Dr. Holt with regard to my case and after a short talk with him started out to attend to a few little matters, one of the first being a visit to the Mail Tribune office, where everybody was too busy to talk, and the editor remarked that he was working night and day. In making a little purchase just as I was receiving the change the merchant remarked, "Mr. Howlett, do you know that that article you wrote on the amendment of the recall law is the best thing I have ever seen on the subject."  I thanked him and suggested that there should be some provision made to put a curb on putting the county or state to such an expense and to have the promoters of the recall of an officer to be required to give bonds for the cost in case they failed to gain their point, would be about as efficient a way as I could suggest to put a stop to the abuse of a good law. As I was on my way to another business house I met one of our prominent bankers and he also congratulated me on my thinking of and making such a suggestion, remarking that he was in the office of one of Medford's prominent lawyers and he brought the subject up and remarked that he couldn't see how it ever happened, how the Old Man happened to think of such a plan. I suppose that it happened because some thirty-five or forty years ago I served as justice of the peace in this precinct four years and while in that position had occasion to use the law requiring an applicant for a warrant to give security for the cost in case of failure to convict, with the result that the county was saved expense, and in one instance that I remember the trouble was settled out of court. In addition to the foregoing quite a number have spoken favorably of the suggestion and when I received my copy of the Jacksonville Post I found that the editor had endorsed the suggestion and copied the entire article on the subject.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 26, 1922, page 3


     Sam Harnish and his son Ray and family started for Klamath Falls to look after property belonging to Mrs. Ray Harnish and to have an outing in the mountains. They did not say how long they expected to be gone.
    Among the callers for dinner Sunday were A. R. McDonald and wife, Royal Brown and wife and his brother, Wm. H. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons. His wife, who went to Britch Columbia some weeks ago, had not returned at that date but he thought she would likely be home by the middle of the week. Mrs. S. B. Holmes, a sister, was with them. Also Mrs. M. L. Abbott and son Obia of Butte Falls and Vose Adams, a son of Rev. H. G. Adams, the minister who has charge of this appointment, who has been spending his vacation working with the civil engineers corps on the extension of the P.&E. Railroad beyond Butte Falls. He remained until Monday morning and went out to Medford, intending to take passage on the stage to Roseburg on his way to Corvallis to go to work in the hop fields until the O.A.C. term begins again. He is a bright, promising young man and with his industrial habits bids fair to make his mark in the world. Also C. A. Hansen, C. Gall and Earl Miles of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge of Medford, Earl Bechdolt and Miss Alta Allen of Derby, Floyd Charley of Brownsboro, who was not here for dinner but called later to boost for the county fair and engage my help in the enterprise. He says that if anyone has anything they wish to place on exhibition and have not the means to get it to the fairgrounds if they will notify him he will provide means to have it taken in and arranged in the proper class. From the interest that seems to be taken in the move the prospect is that we will have the best fair we have ever had in Jackson County.
    C. W. McGrew of Ashland also called Sunday evening and spent two nights. He was working in the interest of the oil and gas project of Ashland.
    C. A. Pickel, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, was here for dinner Monday. He always manages to be here for dinner about the 21st of each month and never forgets to read the meters. There are two of them and he always finds them both.
    Mrs. Glenn Haley of Gold Hill, a sister of Mrs. A. J. Florey, was also a visitor at the Sunnyside Monday morning but went back to take dinner with her sister.
    Harold Nichols and wife of Fort Klamath came in Sunday afternoon to visit his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols, and remained until about 10 o'clock and returned home that night, a matter of but a few hours run.
    Carl Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous citizens, who owns a fine farm and orchard a few miles above here, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Wm. Bigham, who is on the J. M. Rader farm on Antelope, Sam Coy, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Climax route, and four other men were here for dinner Tuesday. The four men might have been known to me but I just saw them as they started for the dinner table, and they were too busy to bother about names.
    Mrs. I. M. Stine and son Malcolm of Los Gatos, Calif., were here for dinner Wednesday and so was D. E. Patterson of Talent and A. E. Williams. V. O. N. Smith and J. W. McCoy of Ashland were also here for dinner and C. M. McAlister, Portland, representing the Union Stock Yards at Portland. He and B. C. Chaney, secretary of the Jackson County Farm Bureau, assisting Mr. McAlister on his way to Lake Creek where there was to be a meeting at which moving pictures of the business connected with the Union Stock Yards were to be presented. Mr. McAlister has his own electric lights and all the necessary appliances. He is canvassing our county in that line of business. They ate supper and then went on up to Lake Creek and returned to Medford that night.
    J. J. McMahon, state traffic officer, was here for supper, and Mr. R. Panche and his brother of Pueblo, Calif., came in Tuesday and remained until Wednesday afternoon. They are traveling for the Ornamental Distributing Company of California.
    Wednesday afternoon the family, all except myself, went to Central Point to attend the funeral of Lewis G. Smith's little daughter. I remained at home on account of being unwell and after I had an afternoon nap the following men called for dinner, the provisions all cleared away after feeding twenty or more, most of them regular boarders, and I was at a loss to know what to do but then I would do the best I could, so looking around found the bread, a piece of cold boiled ham, etc., and soon had Messrs. D. E. Patterson, Talent, A. E. Williams, Ashland, V. O. N. Smith, Ashland and J. W. McCoy, Ashland, seated at the table, and a more grateful set of hungry men I have not seen for a long time. They had been up in the Lake Creek country to look after some goats and I referred them to the classified columns of the Medford Mail Tribune for I had just sent in an ad for J. G. McAlister of Lake Creek.
    J. H. Carlton of Wellen called for supper Wednesday night. He was running his threshing machine out to J. L. Robinson's and was on his way home. He reports that the grain is not turning out as well as usual on account of the unusual heat in June but is fairly good. After writing the above item I learned that Mr. Carlton had with him three other men and that they all stayed that and the next night.
    Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. W. DeWitt, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Randall and two children, Ruth and Irving from Westwood, Calif., Lou McCallister of Grants Pass, Joe McCurdy of Grants Pass came in and called for supper. They had come in via Fort Klamath from Ashland, stopping two hours at Crater Lake, and went on down to Ashland.
    Since writing the foregoing Mrs. Wm. H. Brown has returned from British Columbia, where she has been visiting and assisting in caring for her aunt, Mrs. Robert Brown, and reports that she is somewhat improved in health.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 28, 1922, page 3


    State Highway Engineer Herbert Nunn, when in Medford today in route to Crater Lake with Governor Olcott and party, was informed by a representative of the Mail Tribune that there had been much criticism of the new road recently opened between Medford and Agate on the Crater Lake Highway.
    "That is to be expected," said the state highway engineer, "because the road though new is still rough and the people suppose it will get rougher. But it won't. It will get smoother and more firm and in a very short time will be as fine a dirt highway as there is in the state."
    "The cause of this is a new and better system of road building. We used to build dirt or macadam roads as hard as they could be built, watered them down and rolled them and then opened them to traffic. The result was the surface soon rutted out and stayed rutted and became worse and worse until it had to be resurfaced."
    "The present system is to put on the surface loose, have no binder and no wetting down and let the traffic pound the road together. After this has been done for a time, then there is a solid foundation, the surface can be smoothed and rolled and there will be a permanently smooth highway or as smooth as a macadam highway can be, with the tremendous motor traffic that now prevails."
    "We have thousands and thousands of miles of these roads in the state. There is always complaint when the road is first opened, sometimes mass meetings of protest are held. But when the matter is explained the feeling naturally disappears. And when the road develops into a good road there is, as there will be in Jackson County, general satisfaction."
Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1922, page 5


    Those who journeyed to the huckleberry patch this season were as follows:  Art Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Owens, Elmer Ivey, Mr. P. E. Sandoz, George Hall, Peter Sandoz, Marcel Sandoz, E. E. Ash, George Fisher, Wayne Ash, Mrs. Fred Sturgis, Mrs. A. Poole.
    We had two forest fires Saturday the 26th, one at the Buzzard mine and one at the Olson ranch. They were not serious, as they were checked immediately after discovery.
    Four hunters were camped at the Buzzard mine and when the fire broke out they set to work and help came to their aid. Ezra Whitley went up to the mine to help extinguish the fire. Mr. Poole and a few men attended to the fire on the Olson place. Lightning was reported as being responsible for the fires, but authorities are doubtful.
    Art Moore made a trip to Medford Wednesday the 23rd. Weston Miller also went to Medford the same day.
    The United States mail schedule for Trail and Persist has been changed, as Trail gets mail service every day except Sunday and Persist receives mail every other day, but the mail carrier returns to Trail the same day that he brings mail for Persist. Very inconvenient for Persist mail receivers.
    Mr. Trusty was locating cattle last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Todd hauled a load of shakes Wednesday the 30th.
    Mrs. J. Miller visited her daughter, Della Wagner, Tuesday the 29th.
    W. Willits and his daughter, Miss Inez Willits, motored to Medford Wednesday the 30th.
    School opens in Dist. 74, Elk Creek, Sept. 11. Those who will attend as known at the present date are:  Paul Sandoz, 7th grade; Peter Sandoz, 5th; Marcel Sandoz, 5th; Emily Sandoz, 4th; Mabel Sandoz, 4th, Lincoln Pence 4th; Daisy Wagner, 4th, Alberta Pence, 2nd. Miss Erhard will teach.
    Claud Moore has the wood job. A better water system will be provided.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 1, 1922, page 6


    The last time I went to consult with my doctor, W. W. P. Holt, the first thing I did was to hurry up to his office, as I have learned that with him the first come first served, so as I entered the elevator there were two ladies stepped in and I thought that they might be on the same errand that I was so hurried on and found that the consultation room was occupied, but in a few minutes the doctor came out and said that he would be at leisure in a moment. When I entered the waiting room there was a lady waiting for him and just then one of the ladies who came up on the elevator with me came in and about the same time a man came in to see the doctor, so the reader will see the advantage of being on time. In a few minutes he was through with my case and I went on to attend to other matters.
    Rube Johnson, one of our retired capitalists, was in town Monday just looking around and enjoying life. He says that he used to hear me preach in Mendocino County, California in 1861, the year I came to Oregon. John L. Robinson and one of his sons came in Monday morning with a lot of cantaloupes. He says that he has thousands of them and that he will soon be able to ship a carload of watermelons notwithstanding he had two hundred and sixty of his vines pulled up one night.
    I met Mrs. Rudolph Weidman the same day and she said that they were as busy as nailers gathering their pear crop and that they had a fine crop and that they were good. I also met J. M. Wilfley shortly after and he reports that he had gathered his Bartletts and was getting good returns as the prices were good notwithstanding the railroad strike; they went all right.
    Lucius Kincaid, the new mail contractor on the route from Eagle Point to Persist, has had the schedule changed so that he now can make the round trip up to Persist and back the same day and that gives him an extra day, but the move is on foot to have a daily mail from Eagle Point to Trail and back so as to keep him busy all of the time. He also reports that he has bought the house now occupied by Mr. Puleman and his sister, of Wm. von der Hellen.
    George West, one of the old Forest Service men, who has been up in Baker County scaling U.S. timber, who came down a short time ago and had his wife engage room and board at the Sunnyside, has taken his wife and established a camp on Union Creek. He did not say how long he would remain there as he seems to be under orders of higher-ups.
    Ben Brophy, one of our prosperous farmers and stock men, was in town having our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, put a bushing in a part of his machinery.
    J. D. Patrick, one of our leading carpenters, who has been up in Josephine County for the past two and a half months, returned the first of the week. He has been working in the Oregon Caves and reports that it is a wonderful sight and thinks that in a short time it will be as attractive as Crater Lake or any other one of the wonderful parks of the western country.
    John Miller, another one of our prominent carpenters, has been busy working for Mrs. G. Green building a woodshed and garage on her land on the north side of the creek and fixing up around the old home place, the old J. J. Fryer place.
    John W. Smith, who recently bought the O. M. Goss pear orchard and built a commodious barn on it, is having the Dodge Drilling Company drill a well on the place and expects to build a dwelling house for his family soon.
    J. W. Jordan of Allan, Iowa a son of James Jordan, who recently went up to live with his daughter, Mrs. Ed Wolfer of Hubbard, on account of his old age and infirmities, came out to Hubbard to visit his father and sister and came down here to see what his father had in this section.
    W. F. Smith of Vancouver and J. S. Rasmussen and daughter Elsie of Washougal, Wash., and W. E. Webb and his mother-in-law, Mr. Smith's sister, were in town Tuesday. Mr. Smith and Mr. Rasmussen and his daughter are here visiting Mr. Webb and Mrs. Webb's mother-in-law.
    Charley Terrill, our popular sheriff, and his son Glenn and family were here for supper Tuesday.
    W. B. Bradshaw of Fort Klamath, formerly of this section, was here for supper Tuesday.
    Jack Tuggle of Santa Maria, Calif. was here for breakfast and dinner on his way to join his family who are camped near Trail and from there they are going on to Crater Lake. He was looking for a location in this section. He wants to buy a pear orchard and settle here on account of our lovely climate.
    Just before I left home, for I am now at the Wilbur Springs, Colusa County, Calif., I heard of the death of another one of our pioneers, Mrs. Thompson of Climax, but did not learn more than that she died Tuesday and was buried in the Antelope Cemetery Wednesday. She was quite aged and leaves a brother, Thomas Long, and a daughter, Mrs. W. W. Taylor, and three grandchildren, Mrs. Ray Harnish, Mrs. Wm. Holman and Mrs. Sam Coy and several great-grandchildren--I cannot say to mourn her loss, for I feel that it is best where one is so aged and afflicted that it is better for them to pass away and be at rest.
    The next time I write I will have something to say about my trip out here in the hills of California, what I saw, why I am here, how I am treated and whatever I can think of that will interest the reader.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 6, 1922, page 5


    I am putting the usual heading, the Eagle Point Eaglets, although there will not be very many items relating particularly to that thriving little town, as I am taking my vacation for awhile out in the hills in Colusa County, but I am getting the cart before the horse again. Before I left home on Thursday last I had the following items jotted down on my little book:
    H. L. Young and Mr. Whiting, formerly of the Mail Tribune force but now in the employment of the Oregonian, were transient visitors to our town. Mr. Young formerly owned and so far as I know still owns a farm a short distance above Brownsboro and had, I think, come from there when I met them, but they were in a hurry as though they were trying to catch a train, so after shaking hands and the usual questions and answers when friends meet, they went on their way.
    A. J. Florey, wife and a stranger whose name I did not learn were at the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday. I met the same man at the First State Bank of Eagle Point but he was busy in conversation with our banker, Mr. H. E. Campbell, but learned later that he was going up above Brownsboro to look at a piece of property in that section. Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her daughter Joyce were also at dinner at the same time. They had been camping out near Prospect and came out to look after affairs at her home here.
    Ed Cowden and wife were business callers also Thursday.
    B. M. Caples, M.D., medical director Waukesha Springs Sanitarium, Waukesha, Wis., and F. C. Caples, President Columbia City Land Co., Columbia City, Ore., and sister and daughter (there was one other name but I could not make it out it was crowded too close together for my eyes).
    Well, to begin again at the starting place, I started from home early Thursday morning and reached Medford by 8 o'clock a.m. and had to wait until 3:40 p.m. and while I was waiting busying myself writing a part of the letter for the Mail Tribune and the rest of the day I spent reading and visiting, but finally the train came, only a little late, and when I went on board the car I asked the attendant where the chair car was and was informed that there was no chair car so he showed me into a car with straight-backed seats, very uncomfortable for anyone to sit on even for a short time much less to sit there all the afternoon from 4 p.m. until 8 a.m. the next day. But the close observer will say it does not take that long to run from Medford to Williams, but don't be impatient and you will learn why we were so long.
    So after starting we reached Ashland, where the train stopped for dinner and then attaching another engine to the train and taking off two cars we started, and for me to undertake to describe the scenery along the route where we traveled through a fine farming country for several miles and later began to ascend the Siskiyous and occasionally have a fine view of our beautiful state highway that every citizen of Jackson County will feel proud of passing on until we could reach the point where we could look out of the window down the hill upon the railroad we had just passed over, going on we soon reached Hornbrook, the town, or rather one of them, for Hilt was noted as one of the places where the federal prohibition law was laughed at and violated and Hornbrook was a thriving business place, but now appears to be as dead as a dried salmon. After leaving there is nothing more of interest to be seen until you begin to approach near enough to Mt. Shasta and then notice not only the snow-capped mountain itself, but its surroundings, for the surrounding hills are just as attractive to my eyes as the mountain itself.
      In a short time Shasta was announced and there we stopped for quite awhile and at last got started again and ran along in the dark when all at once we stopped again so I looked out of the window but could not see anything so thinking that perhaps they were waiting for another train to pass, a couple of young men went to see the cause of the delay and brought the word that a freight engine had broken down and that we were likely to be detained two or three hours and we would have to sit on those uncomfortable seats there and no chance to lie down or even recline, but we finally got started after being there for over two hours and went dashing on past different stations until we came to Red Bluff and by this time it was light enough to begin to see some of the surrounding country and soon passed Tehama, a town where I used to preach in 1858 and 1859, always Sunday night, after preaching out on Thompson Creek and another school house in the forenoon and afternoon, and when I would reach town and put my horse in the stable, go to the hotel and announce my arrival, go and sweep out the school house and light it up, ring the first bell and then go to each one of the four saloons and personally invite those who were there to go to church and someone would ask if I were going to preach and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, someone would holler to the barkeeper to lock up and all hands go to church and then I would go to another and then another and the result was I would go to church and ring the second bell and the most of them would follow me and I would preach a plain old-fashioned gospel sermon about Christ and Him dying for our sins that we might be saved--no whitewash--and they respected me for telling them what they knew was the gospel truth. The next morning someone of the attendants would start the rounds and take up a collection for my support, and one morning it so happened that my presiding elder was with me and a man came in taking up the collection--that is what we used to call it in those days, but now it is called the offering--and he approached a man and demanded a contribution and he remarked that he could not as he was about broke, so [he] expressed his opinion of him. He asked if he wanted to come and preach to try and save him from hell and not pay him, using language that would be hardly printable. He then turned to another and they had some friendly words and finally he said that he would give as much as he could, and he replied he would give five dollars and that was settled, and then it was proposed that they play the first game of seven-up to see who would pay both, so at it they went and it was soon settled and the loser paid the ten dollars without a word.
    Wilbur Hot Sulfur Springs, Sept. 4, 1922.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1922, page 3


    County Prosecutor Moore has not yet announced whether he will have the case against Everett Dahack retried. The case was tried before a jury in Justice Taylor's court the last of last week, the jury failing to agree, standing three to three. The charge was carrying concealed weapons.
    The case grew out of the arrest recently of Dahack at the Soda Springs in the Dead Indian country by Officer Sandefer and deputies, who in that vicinity found a quantity of mash for a still and Sandefer thinking that Dahack might know something about the still, decided to search him and did so, finding on him a revolver.
    The accused was defended in court by Charles Reames. Rawles Moore looked after the state's end of the case. The jurors voting not guilty, it is reported stated after the trial that they deemed it only right for any man to carry a revolver way up there in the hills.
    The members of the jury were Horace Nicholson, James Bowling, O. L. Harmon, A. M. Lofland, John Kirkpatrick and P. C. Bigham.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1922, page 2


    In my last letter for the Medford Mail Tribune I stopped when I had told how I managed to get my congregation together and how they managed to gather up the dollars for my support. I had been there but a few times before a plan was put on foot by the ladies to raise money for my support, so one day a committee of ladies waited on me and told me that they, the ladies of the congregation, were going to give a dance and donate the proceeds toward my support and invited me to honor them with my presence. Well what was I to do in such a case?  To abruptly refuse would have been altogether out of the question, and to attend the dance would have laid myself liable to be arraigned before the church conference for violating one of the standard rules of the church as well as doing violence to my own conscience, as I was very much opposed to dancing, so I explained to the ladies the situation the best I could and thus made them fast friends, and felt that I had done my duty as a Methodist minister, for at that time I was in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and traveled as a circuit rider until I finally located in 1867 and later took a certificate of withdrawal from the church and later identified myself with the Congregational Church and am still a minister in that connection.
    The ladies had their dance in the school house on Saturday night and I was off in a country school house trying to persuade the people to seek for higher pleasures than simply the gratification of the worldly pleasures.
    Another incident in my career while I was on that circuit, for while I was on the Red Bluff circuit--to show the class of men I had to deal with and preach to, I went into Tehama one Sunday afternoon and on my arrival at the hotel was informed that one of the leading gamblers of the town had been killed the night before in a drunken row in a house of ill fame. I knew him simply as one of the gang. He was as fine-looking a young man as I knew, a true southern gentleman, well-educated and refined. It was often the case that one would meet some of the most polished and refined gentlemen among the profession of gamblers and they would respect a minister who would preach what they called straight goods, they wanted no whitewashing or smoothing over but plain gospel preaching. When I hear of the death from what I knew of his associates I mistrusted that I would be called on to officiate at the funeral the next day, so I made up my mind to show "the white feather" and get out by starting early the next morning, for what could I say with regard to his case, looking at it from a scriptural standpoint: Died in a drunken row, shot dead on the spot, without a moment's warning to prepare to meet the judgment. I trembled at the thought of trying to take charge of such a case, so the next morning after a restless night, for my conscience reproved me for my moral cowardice, I went to get my horse and was just leading him out of the door when I was met by three of his associates while in life, and they requested me to officiate at the grave at 2 p.m. Of course I consented and began to inquire among his friends with regard to who he was, where he came from, etc., but no one knew a thing about his history. It was a common thing in that day and age to be with a man for a year or more and know nothing about him but his name and perhaps not even that but perhaps Jack, Jake, or John, but after I failed to find out anything with regard to his former life I set to work to prepare something to say, and I went to the same source where I had gone many times before for help, prayer, and asked for divine guidance.
    The time came to go to the cemetery, we started a solemn procession, there were between sixty and seventy men, no women, in that gathering that stood around the grave of a stranger, and after reading the church ritual I tried to preach, for the reader will remember that it was my first year in the ministry, taking for my subject the uncertainty of life, the certainty of death and the realities of the judgment. Simply leaving him in the hands of a just and merciful God I spoke for perhaps twenty or perhaps thirty minutes. I assured the hearers that according to the plain teaching of the bible there was no hope for those who lived in sin and died as they lived. I have no doubt but what there are some still living who were there and remember the sad incident.
    Another incident that occurred at Tehama while I was on the Red Bluff circuit, and I will close this letter. Judge Hall, who was at the time referred to [as] probate judge, had a fine residence on the cast side of the Sacramento River, was a bachelor and had a sister to keep house for him. They were of a southern aristocratic family and his sister was refined and educated, but enjoyed a good joke as well as anyone, and there was a young Englishman in the town who became acquainted with her so one Sunday afternoon he hired a span of horses and buggy and took Miss Hall out riding and on their way home saw a beautiful little striped animal running along just ahead of them, and of course she didn't know what it was but fell in love with it, and it seemed so gentle that she concluded that she would like to have it for a pet so asked the young man to get out and catch it for her. It being the first animal of the kind he had ever seen and not suspecting any trick, [he] handed her the lines, jumped out and ran after it and soon overtook it, and just as he was in the act of grabbing it by the tail the pretty little thing resented and the result was the air was filled with the odor and he had his clothes filled with it. So he gave up the chase and returned to the buggy and the result was that her clothing were scented up, but they drove home, going to her room and changing her clothes, and the young man started to go home, but the judge called his attention to some fine hogs he had in a pen close by and while they were looking at the hogs a dog joined them and the judge tapped him with his cane remarking that he had had hold of a skunk, but he explained that he ran over one.
    In the meantime Miss Hall had been busy getting her young brother off on horseback to carry the news to Tehama and by the time the young Englishman reached the ferryboat and drove on, and the boat was loosed from the land a crowd of boys, old and young, were on the other bank of the river to welcome him shouting at the top of their voices. The result was that the young man and Miss Hall never went out riding together anymore and he soon moved to other quarters. Girls will be girls and they were just as mischievous sixty years ago as they are now, but they don't intend to be mean but must have their fun.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1922, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, cashier of the First State Bank of Eagle Point, and Carl Esch and wife, a couple of our successful farmers, for Mrs. Esch is a wonderful help on the farm, she has raised nearly five hundred little chickens, only losing about twenty-five out of five hundred. But what I started to tell was that they, that is the banker and his wife, took advantage of Monday, it being Labor Day and a holiday, and made a visit to the coast going via Grants Pass over the Crescent City Highway, returning Monday.
    Mrs. Arglee Green of Los Angeles, who has just finished a neat and commodious dwelling house, is looking for a suitable renter during the winter. She expects to return to Los Angeles in the near future, returning again in the spring, when she expects to build another house on her property on Riverside Avenue.
    Our son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ed Hoyt of Fort Klamath, came on Friday, Sept 1st, to make us a visit and look after their winter supplies of fruit and other necessaries for the coming winter. They were still at the Sunnyside when the item of news was sent me, Sept. 5th.
    There was a good-sized party went from here to Ashland on Labor Day to attend the celebration and enjoy a picnic dinner in the beautiful park. The landlady of the Sunnyside and our daughter (they don't like to see their names in print) and our son-in-law and daughter Ed and Millie from Fort Klamath, and Jed Edsall were among those who went from here, and for me to say they had a good time would be useless, for they always have a good time on such occasions.
     Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hildreth and Mr. Hildreth's mother took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday on their way home. They had been taking a vacation down in Northern California, combining business and pleasure.
    Charles Humphrey of Derby and Charlie Manking of Peyton were dinner guests, also, at the Sunnyside the same day. Also, Wm. Coy, brother-in-law to H. E. Campbell, our banker, while Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were taking their vacation trip to the coast.
    J. P. Goin (Agate Jack) has had his brother, Mr. T. Goin and wife, of Portland, visiting him here at the Sunnyside for a short time. They have been combining  business with pleasure looking over Klamath and Jackson counties, as he is selling woolen blankets, coats and socks. Agate Jack went with them and expects to remain until after the meeting of the state fair at Salem the last of this month. He took with him about three hundred choice agates that he has already polished ready for the market.
    The Sunday, Sept. 3, guests at the Sunnyside were Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Brown and Mrs. Carl Taylor and a friend from Portland, Mrs. Carl Taylor's husband, a son of Mrs. R. G. Brown by her first husband, and Mrs. Taylor and friend have been here visiting the Brown families. Also Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements and son and three strangers besides J. M. Cooley.
    John Haak, Jr. and wife of Portland came in Sunday afternoon to visit their uncle, L. K. Haak, and family and to spend Labor Day with them.
    Rudolph Weidman reports that they have about fifteen hundred boxes of pears picked by himself and wife and that the pears are A-1, finishing up the job Saturday afternoon, Sept. 2. When it comes to working in an orchard Mr. and Mrs. Weidman will make a full team anywhere.
    The foregoing items were sent to me from home by a friend, and now I will resume my journey on the railroad to Williams where I took the stage for Wilbur Hot Sulfur Springs.
    When we left Tehama there was little to be seen until daylight and we were riding over one of California's noted prairies covered with fine farms where we could see crops of different kinds, but, of course, owing to my poor eyesight I could not tell from the car window what it was but I was told that it was alfalfa and rice principally but there were also other products in some places. There were orchards and vineyards. There is a large canal running through the valley that affords water for irrigating purposes. The prairie is cut up into large farms, and the buildings would indicate that the people were well-to-do, and there are several towns strung along the railroad, but the main through trains do not stop unless it is to let a passenger off except a few places where they will stop if they are flagged and take on passengers. Owing to the wreck of the freight train, referred to in another letter, we were very late reaching Williams, but in time to catch the stage for the Wilbur Springs.
    Among the principal products of that strip of country I passed through, from what I can learn, is rice. I fell in company with a gentleman who had come out to the Wilbur Springs to try its waters for rheumatism who owns a 1200-acre rice farm along the route I had traveled, and the manner in which he described the handling of it from start to finish was so interesting to me that I am going to try to give the readers of the Eaglets the benefit of what I heard, from memory, for we were sitting out on the porch of the men's lodging house after supper. The first thing is to have the ground well plowed and pulverized like a well-prepared garden patch, then a surveyor and two stake men go over the field marking out the detours so as to have the water the same depth all over it. Then a man with a small plow marks out where the stakes are set, then heavy teams are put on and plows, and dikes are turned up so as to confine the water and then the seed is sown and most of the farmers harrow it in, although some leave it lay on top of the ground, and when the water gets the right temperature the entire field is flooded about three inches deep and left there until the seed is well sprouted and then the water is drawn off and the rice is left to grow until it is about three inches high and then it is flooded again but not enough to cover the tops of the grain and left there for five months, raising the water as the rice grows, until it is ready to harvest. (Finish in my next letter.)
Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1922, page 6


    In my last letter I was trying to give an account of how they raised rice in the rice fields of California, and when I left off I was giving an account of how they planted it and sprouted it by flooding the land and keeping it covered with water until it was well sprouted and then the water was drained off and left to grow until it was about three inches high and then it was flooded again, just enough to cover the ground, but not enough to cover the tops of the plants, but enough to cover the tops of the plants thoroughly and soak with water and as the plants grew the water was added and this process was kept up for five months and the tops of the grain began to turn yellow and then the water was all drawn off and the ground was left to dry and as soon as that was accomplished binders were put in and the grain was cut as fast as possible, for from that time on everything was done with a rush, and with a tract of, say one hundred acres, there would be four binders put to work and the bundles would be gathered up and shocked and left to dry and as soon as they were dry enough to thresh then the threshing machines would be put to work about in the same proportion as the binders. It was getting late in the season and they were liable to have early rains, and in that case the entire crop would be ruined. As soon as it was threshed and sacked the sacks were gathered and stored in the warehouse. The gentleman who related the account said that one year he had to burn off six hundred acres on account of the early rain as a little rain on the rice standing in the field or in the shock would ruin it. Now I have tried to give this account purely from memory, as it was so dark that I could not see to take down any notes, but I am satisfied that I am correct in all the main points, so I will resume my journey.
    I reached Williams about 8 a.m. well worn out after sitting in the cars from 4 p.m. Thursday until 8 a.m. At 1 p.m. I took passage on the stage for a twenty-five-mile ride back in the Coast Range over a rough road. A part of the way, perhaps half of the way, over a vast prairie in a heavy three-seated coach, but although I was so tired I could hardly sit up still I had to stand it, but I was interested in what I saw, and among the sights was two large vineyards, the two covering, I should judge, near six hundred and forty acres, but I could not tell whether the grape vines were loaded or not, but they looked very fine from the road. The next thing that attracted my attention was the vast tracts of land that had been plowed already for wheat sowing this fall. A word about the nature of the soil: It is a combination of our black sticky and a yellow sticky, if anything a worse combination that anything we have in the sticky line. The stage driver told me that they could not run the auto stage at all in the winter but use a four-horse coach. Passing on after riding over the prairie for about twelve miles we began to go up a canyon and occasionally would pass a neat-looking ranch until we came to what appeared to be the summit when we dropped down into Bear Valley, a long narrow valley with a nice stream running through it, being so narrow the driver said that above where we entered it widened and was a fine valley, four by eleven miles wide. Just after we crossed the Bear River we came to a place where the sign would indicate they had bored for oil. In a short time we began to climb the hills again and in a short time we reached the Wilbur Hot Sulfur Springs, and I was so tired out that I went to the office and registered and was shown my room and was taken to a bath room and took a bath in what is nicknamed there as "chicken soup," a combination of hot sulfur and salt water, about as salt as a teacup full of hot water with a heaping teaspoonful of salt and then as strong with sulfur in proportion, and after my bath and being rolled in a double blanket for fifteen minutes I sweated all I could, then went to bed and was soon asleep, without any supper, completely worn out.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 20, 1922, page 6




     When I wrote my last letter for the Mail Tribune I had just got home the Saturday evening before and when I reached Medford Saturday morning missed the Eagle Point stage, as there had been a change in autos and drivers, and I naturally thought that the driver would stop at the Nash Hotel to see if there was anyone who wanted to go out, but he drove right on as though he did not want to be bothered with anyone, so when I found that I was left, I took my suitcase to Hutchison and Lumsden's store and left it for my daughter to get when she came in to attend the county fair and went to the Palace Rooming House and secured a good comfortable place where I could lay down and rest and sleep where I remained and slept until I was called by Mrs. Henley to go to the post office and catch the stage for home at 4:30 p.m., reaching the Eagle Point post office about 5:10 p.m. completely exhausted. Well, to go back to where I left off in my last letter: The first thing I did after going to bed was to forget all that had transpired during the past two days, not even thinking about the difference in the width of the beds and the Sunnyside and the bed where I was to sleep that night and the succeeding ones for the next two weeks, and the first thing that roused me from my slumbers was my head striking against the small stand containing a small coal oil lamp and a part of a box of matches and me resting on my knees and elbows with a couple of knees and elbows quite badly skinned up, but fortunately for me I had my flashlight with me, soon had a light and gathered up the lamp and chimney etc., and rubbed the skinned and bruised places and crawled back into bed, this time noticing that it was only three feet wide instead of the standard width and resting myself against the wall of the narrow bedroom where I rested and slept until 5 o'clock a.m., but not sleeping until six. When I got up and the old Governor Jake met me and showed me two prominent springs that I would be expected to partake of freely at least three times a day. The first was nicknamed "chicken soup," which was a stream coming from a hot spring. If I was going to describe or give an analysis of it would say that it was composed of salt and sulfur, about as strong as they could be dissolved and about 100 degrees F. in temperature and you are expected to drink a large cupful the first thing, a half hour before breakfast, and then if the stomach will permit take all that you can of the cold lukewarm sulfur water from another spring. You are expected to take at least three quarts a day of this water. And when you take your bath in the "chicken soup" you are expected to take a quart bottle of the cold sulfur water and drink it while in the bath tub, that is to make you sweat and after drinking for 10 or 15 minutes you get out and wrap up in a double blanket and lay in that for 15 minutes longer or until the blanket is completely saturated, then take a coarse towel, there are two of them, and wipe off, but you can't wipe dry, and get into your clothes the best you can, or take your bathrobe instead of your clothes, and go to your room, and that is hot enough to dry you off in a short time. And if you are thirsty go to the sulfur spring and drink all you can, it won't hurt you. And keep this up every day. They also have the hot mud baths. The water, the chicken soup, is mixed with the sticky mud and this bath is used for rheumatism and stiff joints and is used to a great extent.
    The Wilbur Springs is a very popular resort and during the time I was there, there was a crowd coming and going all the time. If a person is full-handed enough they can have first-class fare. There are about eight or ten cottages with two to four rooms and in addition to that there are two large rooming houses that are designed for men, beside rooms in the hotel proper. But I must not leave this subject without mentioning the Mercer, for it is up to date, as good or better than could be expected in a country hotel, and the waiters are very accommodating and attentive to the guests. By the time I had been there ten days my stomach revolted against the smell, taste and looks of sulfur in everything I saw, so when I had tried it for two weeks I decided to start home, so Friday morning I took passage on the stage and started out for home again, reaching Williams by 10 a.m. and at 12 noon the train arrived and we were off again for our lovely Southern Oregon. I did not say anything about the weather down there, but it was so hot that one could hardly sleep, as the bedrooms were so hot that we could not sleep until after 10 o'clock p.m., and then with difficulty. As we were passing through Tehama I asked a man how warm it was and he replied that it was only 108 that day, but the day before it was 111 degrees, but it was getting cooler. But I must hurry on and when we reached Redding and were going up the Sacramento River canyon we were completely enraptured with the scenery, the road following the left-hand bank of the river where we could have a fine view of the cragged rocks and every few minutes the train would stop with no apparent cause, but after a while a train would come in sight and then off we would creep along again and finally another train would come along and pass us going toward San Francisco and then we began to make up lost time until we reached Dunsmuir about 8 p.m. where we remained until midnight, taking the train again. By this time we were beginning to breathe cooler air and could sleep a little in those miserable seats, and by the time we reached Hornbrook it was beginning to get light enough so that we could see some of the surroundings and after crossing the Siskiyous we soon reached Ashland, where we stopped for breakfast and in a very short time were in Medford.
    I have quite a lot of items that have been gathered for me by my friend, who is helping me with my work that I will have to leave until my next, as I am too tired to write more this (Thursday) afternoon, and think this letter long enough.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 22, 1922, page 6


    When I arrived home from the Wilbur Hot Sulfur Springs last Saturday afternoon, Sept. 6, I found quite a batch of items that had been picked up for me by a friend and since then have picked up a number myself although the trip home has left me so dilapidated that I have been confined to the house almost all the time since.
    One of the most important as well as one of the first on the list is an auto band of gospel singers and speakers, six in number, who came to Eagle Point just before closing time for the stores Wednesday, Sept. 13 and sang in our streets inviting everyone to come to a gospel meeting in front of Lewis' confectionery store at 7:30 p.m. A large number of our citizens gathered on their invitation and very attentively and appreciatively listened to the gospel singing and speaking. They came from Medford and invited any who were interested to attend their regular services there.
    A band of Christian workers from Ashland and vicinity will conduct a free church program at the Eagle Point church Sunday morning, Oct. 1 at the close of the Sunday school to which all are invited. They will visit the Sunday school at 10 o'clock a.m. under the direction of Mr. Robison, president of the Jackson County Sunday School Association, and will give a free program of sacred songs and speaking at 11 o'clock a.m. A general invitation is extended. There will be something out of the ordinary.
    Our school opened on Monday, Sept. 11th with an enrollment of 57, pupils of which 24 were in the higher grades, with Mrs. Josephine Holmes as principal and Miss Gertrude Wiley in charge of the primary department. The school was closed Friday so that the children could all attend the Jackson County Fair. There are nine high school pupils from this district transported from here daily to the Medford high school by Sam H. Harnish, who secured the contract another year.
    The Brownlee and Olds train crew took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel Tuesday, Sept. 19. There was trouble on the way, as the men reported that a part of the cars of the logging train were off the tracks not far from here. They didn't go through here until about 3 o'clock p.m. and returned with a trainload of logs the next forenoon.
     Rudolph Weidman, one of our hustling farmers, dairymen and orchardists, finished filling his silo Wednesday, Sept. 15th and Carl Esch, who has erected a new silo this season, has succeeded in filling his silo also Tuesday, the 19th inst. Rawleigh Mathews and Ed Dahack have been filling their silos this week also. The reader can perhaps form some idea of the way the cream industry is developing by the number of silos there are out in our section of the county.
    E. A. Denton was hauling his alfalfa hay from the field and running it through Mr. Weidman's ensilage cutter, thus putting it into his barn with a blower, in good shape for feeding to his dairy cows.
    When I reached home Saturday the 16th I learned that the family were all in Medford and that in addition to them our son-in-law and his wife, Ed and Millie Hoyt and his mother, Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Edna Pomeroy and little daughter, all from Fort Klamath, were here attending the county fair. They remained until Monday morning, when they started for their homes.
    I noticed also that our postmaster has had a new sign painted for the post office and also for the telephone business. Also a neat garage sign has been put up over the office and one over the entrance to the shop in the new home for George Holmes' garage.
    That the Butte Falls stage was filled with passengers when it came in from Medford Monday morning and that there were quite a number in from the country; also that there were a large number of people at the Sunnyside. There were four men who were working on the telephone line between here and out in the Butte Falls and Prospect lines. They finished up the job today, Sept. 25th. Also a number of men who are working on the Crater Lake Highway between here and Medford.
    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols, wife of one of our hardware merchants, is up in the Lake Creek country visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, and Thomas Farlow has been taking his meals at the Sunnyside. J. H. Cooley, one of our leading orchardists and a prominent lumber merchant of Medford, was here for dinner Tuesday and so was Wm. Cottrell of Trail, one of our leading stockmen, Charley Humphrey and wife of Derby, and Judge Briggs and son William of Ashland, and Vernon Vawter of Medford and Mr. Reid of Wellen.
    Mrs. J. S. Lawrence of Coburg, Ore., and Mrs. W. H. Buley of Eugene came in from near Prospect to consult Dr. E. B. Pickel with regard to Mrs. Lawrence's little boy and spent the night here. A. S. Bliton of the California-Oregon Power Company was also here for dinner Tuesday.
    Rev. Gordon C. Griffin of Eugene called on your correspondent about the middle of the week.
    The house known as the Thomas place belonging to John Allen of Derby was burned to the ground Tuesday or Wednesday with no insurance. It was occupied by William Winkle and family. A good part of his household goods was saved.
    J. F. Graves and wife went to Medford Friday to have some dental work done.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Woods went to Ashland to attend the series of meetings that have been held there by a divine healer.
Medford Mail Tribune,  September 25, 1922, page 6


    William von der Hellen was awarded the contract for the construction of the Eagle Point Irrigation District canal to be constructed between Big Butte Creek and Eagle Point, when the bids were opened by the district officers this morning.
    His bid of $140,300 exceeded that of the Johnson Contract Company of Portland by $260.
    The higher bid was accepted by the district because von der Hellen made no distinction between the excavation of earth and rock while the Johnson Contract Company made a distinction, charging more for the excavation of rock than for the excavation of earth. In other words if more rock than expected was encountered and the Johnson Company held the contract the cost of construction might amount to more than the bid submitted. The von der Hellen total, making a uniform price for rock and earth, whatever the construction cost, will be positively limited to the amount of the bid.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1922, page 5


    P. W. Macy of McMinnville, Ore., an undertaker of that city, and Claude Charlie of Brownsboro were among the diners at the Sunnyside last Saturday at noon and so was C. A. Nichol, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company.
    Wm. L. Goodrich, a traveling lecturer, was out here last Saturday night and favored us with a recitation entitled "Rip Van Winkle," and those who heard him pronounced him a very good speaker and had a good entertainment. There was not a very large audience, but he could not expect much of a crowd in a small place like Eagle Point, especially when it was not known that he was to be here only a short time before the meeting. I was unable to attend myself as I had not recovered from my trip from the hot springs.
    M. S. Chappell, our shoemaker, who has been spending the summer at Trail working on his sawmill, came out a few days ago. He says that they have shut down for the present as the mill is not working altogether satisfactorily.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes and his cousin, S. C. Bond of Seattle, who is in the civil service and was off on his vacation and was spending his time visiting his cousins, William of Medford and S. B. Holmes of Eagle Point. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons of Eagle Point, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her daughter, Miss Joyce, Harry and George Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols, one of our hardware merchants and their two children, Miss Lula Carlton, Clarence Pruett, Lyle Van Scoy, Muriel Smith, Miss Beth Farlow, George Florey and wife of Lake Creek.
    I unintentionally omitted to mention in my last letter that Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, the mail contractor who has the contract for carrying the mail from Eagle Point to Persist via Trail, has moved his camp from Persist to Eagle Point and is now in his tent in the Prillaman yard, the property he, Kincaid, has bought of Wm. von der Hellen, as Mr. Prillaman and his sister are not ready to move out yet.
    Monday morning R. A. Petty was among us. He is a renter on a dry farm and seems to be considerably discouraged on account of high rent and heavy taxes and poor crops, although he is considered one of the best farmers in this section of the country.
    W. E. Hammel and Fred Pettegrew, the president and secretary of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, and also Ralph Cowgill, the chief engineer of the company were here on business connected with the company and took dinner at the Sunnyside. He reports that they have already let a contract for excavating a quarter of a mile of work on the main canal at the intake at Butte Falls. The contractor has already started the work. It is also planned to build the intake this fall if possible. Cowgill, who has been employed in the drafting department and was a regular boarder at the Sunnyside, has returned to Corvallis to resume his studies at the O.A.C.
    Walter Marshall of Brownsboro, G. Walch of Wellen and Mr. Hulse of Brownsboro were among the business callers in our town Monday.
    George Brown & Sons, the leading business firm of Eagle Point, sent out a truckload (8000) shakes to Ashland Monday. They are not only up-to-date business men and if there is anything in their line of business in sight they are liable to find it and turn it to profit.
    J. H. Cooley of Medford was out Monday looking after his farm and orchard interests and called at the Sunnyside for dinner and while there your correspondent thought that it would be a good time to secure a ride to Medford, so asked for the ride which was freely given. When I reached Medford I soon boarded the Medford-Ashland jitney and in the course of 45 minutes was landed at the Chautauqua building but soon learned that it was Dr. Price's rest day although he conducted services that night. After I had secured a room at the Columbia Hotel I started in to see what I could of the city but did not visit the park as I am not strong enough to do much walking, but one thing I noticed was that the autos were not as thick in Ashland as they are in Medford; in fact, they seem to be not much more in Ashland as there are quite often in Eagle Point.
    Well, after strolling around looking at the different buildings and their contents I settled down waiting for the time to come when we would assemble at the Chautauqua building to see and hear what I had been told of the wonder works of the Lord Jesus, so about seven o'clock I went to the place of meeting and found that quite a large assemblage had gathered and were spending the time in a prayer and praise meeting and these were interspersed with testimonials telling the wonderful things that God had done for them in healing their bodily infirmities and if I should undertake to tell them I would take up more space than is allotted me. Women telling of how the Christ had healed them of their diseases and left them with no pain and one old woman told of her being examined for tuberculosis by a doctor, he told her that she had an ulcer on her left lung, and two days after she had received the treatment she was examined again by the same doctor, giving his name. One of the Ashland doctors well known here had examined her again and decided that the ulcer had disappeared entirely and that she felt no symptoms of any disease. But about 8 p.m. the meeting changed and Dr. Price came onto the stage and after some announcements gave his text as the 15th chapter of 1st Cor., taking more particularly the word love, and he preached for fifty minutes and seemed to hold the audience spellbound, when he called for those who had infirmities and desired to be healed to come forward, but impressing upon their minds the fact that he had no healing powers and that it must come alone through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that they must give their hearts to God in entire consecration before they could expect to be healed.
    He has established the old-fashioned mourners' bench and it extends from one side of the entire platform to the other and when he made the call the mourners' bench was filled and more room taken from the regular seats, old men and women, boys and girls, mothers and fathers coming and bringing their children with them. One old man told me that he had brought his son three hundred miles to try to have him cured.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 29, 1922, page 6


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I was in Ashland attending the meetings conducted by Rev. Dr. Price of Lodi, California, and about all of the Eaglets I have at this time, Friday p.m., have been picked up and jotted down for me by a good friend, whose name is withheld at his request. And by that means I can, to a certain extent, keep posted on what is going on in and around Eagle Point.
    Mr. Ralph Cowgill, the chief engineer of the Eagle Point-Butte Falls project to make a canal from Butte Falls to bring water for irrigating purposes in the country north, northeast and south of our town, [omission] in the company's office Tuesday the 26th inst., and took supper at the Sunnyside and Chris Natwick, one of the contractors of this section, was also here looking over the project with an idea of trying to secure at least a part of the job.
    In speaking of the recital of Rip Van Winkle by Mr. Wm. Lee Greenleaf, I unintentionally omitted to state that he donated a part of the receipts of the evening to our school, thus helping along the cause of education.
    Mrs. Robert Harnish has been spending a part of the week visiting her mother the past week at Butte Falls, and during her absence Robert and his father S. H. Harnish have been taking their meals at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Palmer of Butte Falls came out and went to Medford to have his eye treated that he had the misfortune to have hurt. On his way he spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Harry Howard of Ashland and his helper drove over a band of one hundred sheep from Johnson's Prairie to Roy Stewart's Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, spending the night at the Sunnyside Hotel. Frank Simpson took supper here.
    Prospective judge C. M. Thomas of Medford, one of the prominent candidates for circuit judge of this judicial district, was out here on business connected with the opening of bids on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point irrigation project Thursday, and took dinner at the Sunnyside. Horace Geppert was here also.
    The foregoing items were gathered up for me during my absence from home from Monday morning until Friday morning, quite a help.
    On arriving at the post office here, among the first men I met was Dr. Kirchgessner of Debenger Gap, but I was too near worn out from being up four nights in succession and attending religious services three times a day. for I came up from Ashland Thursday morning and attended the three services the divine healer held in Medford, but I am getting ahead of my story again.
    Before I try to give a few points of interest with regard to the meetings, I will give a few items I have picked up here since my return. There was quite a number of people here for dinner Friday, but I was too much exhausted to try to gather items or ask names but noticed that there was two men and their wives and one little girl beside several men and among them was Ralph Cowgill and he informed me.that Wm. von der Hellen had secured the contract to dig the canal from Butte Falls to its end, not counting the laterals or flumes. He told the amount of the bid, but as I did not write it down, will not try to give it but it was something over one hundred and forty thousand dollars, some six hundred dollars less than his former bid, but I have not learned when he will go to work on the job.
    Mr. S. C. Bond. of Seattle and Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Clarence Pruett, were also here for dinner.
    An ambulance passed through here this Saturday going toward Medford, and I understand from Mr. Culbertson of the Lake Creek-Eagle Point mail contractor, that it was Ray McComie, the wife of the track walker along the pipe line of the Medford water system.
    Herb Grissom of Lake Creek came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went up home on the Lake Creek stage. I noticed that Lemon Charley, who recently bought the Wilbur Jack place, has in the course of construction a quite commodious barn.
    I notice that S. H. Harnish has made a very decided improvement in his car that he was to carry the high school pupils to and from Medford, having put a step and door on the back part of the car so that there will be no climbing over the front seat to get in and out.
    I also noticed that George Holmes, our garage man, after he has torn away his water tank and the water tower, has moved his woodshed up close to the residence building, greatly improving the appearance of the place.
    And now I will resume my writeup of what I saw and heard and enjoyed while in Ashland.
    First, I met quite a number of old friends, notably the Ashland postmaster, E. J. Kiser, for whom I wrote regularly for eight consecutive years once a week [for his Valley Record, 1888-1895]. There was no daily newspapers in Southern Oregon that I knew of south of Portland. I also called on another old newspaper man, Mr. Bert Greer, the publisher and editor of the Ashland Tidings, but he was out at the time, although I met him later and had a little social chat with him. Also I met Mr. Day, who contributes daily in the Medford Mail Tribune besides quite a number who are not so prominent in the business and literary world, but when I entered the Chautauqua building I seemed to enter a different atmosphere, a religious atmosphere where it seemed as though the spirit of love prevailed, and after the first service I began to see and feel the effect of the services, men and women telling of what the Christ had done for them and seeing some of the remarkable cures wrought through the agency of man for the minister insisted that it was not through any power he had but simply that the work was done through Christ Jesus, and in order to derive any benefit the applicant must be a believer in the Christ and know him as a sin-pardoning savior, and the result was that there was a host who submitted and gave their hearts to God. But I see that my letter is already long enough and I wanted to say something about the kind of preaching we had. It was just the kind of preaching we had in the days of John and Charles Wesley and Whitfield and Knox and Spurgeon and Gough and Moody. and a host of others who preached Christ and his power to save from sin, but also to heal their bodily diseases and anyone who was there and could see men and women who were bent over with rheumatism, or with palsy or cancer or female troubles or almost any complaint, made whole and testify to the power of Christ to heal, timid women stood up and told an audience of four or five thousand about how they were healed. But I must call a halt but the next letter will try to give some idea of Dr. Price's manner of preaching, a severe undertaking.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 2, 1922, page 6


    Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Stella and three children, recently from Lake County, were doing business with our merchants the last of the week. They have settled on a tract of land northeast of our town belonging to Eli Dahack.
    They have revived the custom of having dances in our town on Saturday night again, and last Saturday night there were a few of the young folk came in for supper and among them were Clarence Pruett of Wellen, Miss Viola Hughes and Miss Venita Fox, Sam Hughes and Harold Patten of Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Tinker of Ashland came in about 10 o'clock p.m. and spent the night at the Sunnyside. They came on business and not to attend the dance.
    We did not hold our regular Sunday school and preaching service Sunday morning, but the county Sunday school association and Christian workers band of Ashland came up and according to previous announcement took charge of the meeting and the result was that a very interesting program was rendered, consisting of songs and instrumental music, five instruments; prayer, reading the Scripture and several addresses by different members of the band. The meeting was led by Mr. W. W. Robison, the secretary of the association. Mr. F. A. Taber of Central Point reviewed the Sunday school lesson and introduced Rev. G. C. Birtchet of Bogota, Colombia, South America. The names given me by one of the workers are as follows: Miss Edith Robison, Misses Minnie and Eva Poley, Miss Edith Plummer, Miss Lenore Angell, Miss Evelyn Hulet, Misses Margaret and Eula McCoy, Miss Josephine Barber, Miss Ruth Freheld, Miss Lucile Gilmore, Mr. J. O. Rigg, Mr. Wallace Maxwell, Howard Gear, Ralph Robison, Frederick Johnson, Marshall Barber, Chester and Marcus Weeds, Luther McCoy, Raymond Carson, Floyd and Gene Putnam, William R. Clary, Paul Koehler. Accompanying them were Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cary and daughter of Medford. When Mr. Faber introduced Rev. G. C. Birtchet of Bogota, Colombia, he gave us a very interesting account of his labors as a missionary in that far-off land. He has spent six years of his life there, and among the difficulties he labored under was the gross ignorance there is among the people, as there is about seven out of every ten of them who can neither read nor write, and are completely under the control of the priests, and what little education they give them is to learn to read and write, add and subtract, etc. They are not allowed to read the Bible and if the priest finds one in a house he takes it to the public square and burns it, but he has succeeded in organizing a school and is teaching them about the Lord Jesus Christ. He is now visiting his brother in Central Point while his wife is trying to recover her health. At the close of the services it was announced that dinner had been prepared and would be served in the park. So the most of us repaired to the park and found the tables already spread with what shall I say--well, it is the same old story when it comes to picnic in or near Eagle Point. There was almost everything that was good, but us poor creatures who have to leave such things as cold boiled ham, hard-boiled eggs, beans, rich pastry, and to be pitied on such occasions, but it did us good to see others who could eat and enjoy such a feast of good things.
    After the dinner was over there was quite a number of the band went out to Reese Creek Sunday School and conducted services there. Some of the band intend to go to Butte Falls next Sunday, October 8th and hold a service in the forenoon and return to Derby and hold another at 2:30 p.m.
    There were about 30 guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday, but as I was not at home did not try to learn who they were. At night there was Lucius Kincaid, Everett Dahack, Earl and Nye Mathews here for supper.
    Mrs. G. H. West of Medford came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Lyle Van Scoy was also among the diners Monday noon.
    In my wanderings around town I met William Perry, our road supervisor, Monday, and he told me that he had just finished repairing a piece of road along the William Cottrell farm that has been a vast amount of trouble to the traveling people, especially to the mail carriers, using shale in the place of crushed rock. He says that there is a vast quantity of it near there and that it is first-class for road work; as soon as it is packed a little it becomes hard like cement and makes a first-class road. Lloyd Stanley, recently of Fort Klamath, was in company with Mr. Perry.
    Mr. Carl Stanley and her sister of Lake Creek were also in town at the same time.
    James Hannaford, recently from Eastern Oregon and his cousin, Philip Hannaford of this section, were in town Monday, and James had his arm in a sling and on inquiry [I] learned that last spring his horse fell with him and broke his arm, and that one of the doctors out there set the arm but in such a shape as to bring his hand in a twist so he came in to Medford and had the fracture rebroke and reset, and it seems to be getting along all right now.
    Orvil Childreth, son of our blacksmith, came in Monday evening from Salem to visit his parents and old friends and neighbors.
    M. V. Newell of Clackamas County and J. Cadzow, one of the merchants of Butte Falls, came in Monday night for supper, beds and breakfast. Mr. Cadzow was on his way to Medford to act as a juror, but he was excused by the court when he reached there and returned here for dinner and went on up home that afternoon. Perry Farlow of Lake Creek and his friends, J. D. Johnson of Brownsboro were guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday for dinner, and so were E. E. Dinnert and J. C. Williams of Rogue River; also Charles Pennington of Butte Falls and a stranger whose name I failed to learn.
    I see that Charley Hanscom has brought his wood saw to town and is sawing wood for a number of people.
    Word came over the phone Tuesday that one of our highly respected citizens, W. S. Baker, who lived on Reese Creek near Derby, had been crushed with his truck that forenoon. He had the truck standing on a slight slope at Mr. King's place where he had unloaded some hay for him and when he cranked the truck the ratchet that held the brake gave way, the truck starting, knocking him down, running over his body, breaking his spine and dislocating his neck, paralyzing his lower parts. Dr. W. W. P. Holt was called and he was taken to Medford where he passed away. He leaves a wife and four children and a number of friends.
    I did want to say something more about the healer's meeting at Ashland, but find that my letter is already too long.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1922, page 10


    John A. Brittsan and his brother, V. E. Brittsan, passed through here Wednesday morning on their way to Jacksonville to settle their account with the county for the privilege of living in our beautiful Rogue River Valley. They returned and were in our town Thursday morning and report that there was a crowd lined up in the sheriff's office waiting to pay their taxes and take their receipt therefor.
     Mr. and Mrs. Charley Humphrey and Mrs. O. M. Schmidt of Derby also passed through here Wednesday on their way to Medford.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday were Cecil M. Jennings, who was also a great at the dinner table on Thursday, and Everett Dahack and Lawrence Pruett, who has become a permanent boarder, Glen Holstock and R. Cook, G. W. Flink and W. J. James of Portland, who said they were down here looking over the country, also Charley Brown of Medford.
    An item of interest I had failed to record is that Roy Stanley has sold his home place, the old John Mathews place, just above our town to Frank Ditsworth of Peyton, and he expects to move his family onto it about the 10th of this month, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley and little son are stopping at the Sunnyside until they can get settled again. Mrs. Stanley is engaged teaching the school in Brownsboro, but [they] have not decided where they will locate as yet. Roy is engaged at present buying sheep, principally lambs, and shipping them to Idaho to feed.
    There was a large crowd attended the funeral of W. S. Baker, who was run over and killed near his home in the Derby district last Tuesday. It was in the Presbyterian church in Central Point, Thursday. The funeral was conducted by John Perl of Medford and the funeral services were conducted by Rev. E. P. Lawrence, the pastor, of Medford. Almost everyone in the vicinity of Derby and along Reese Creek was in attendance. The bereaved wife and four children have the sympathy of all who knew him, for he was a good citizen and Christian, and met his fate with Christian fortitude and was conscious up to the last moment.
    Thursday evening Clarence Robinett, a son-in-law of our neighbor, Wm. Perry, and one of our town boys, who is now a citizen of Medford, came in for supper. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley, Mrs. Estelle Haley being a stepdaughter by his first wife, and while he is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Haley he also was visiting his father-in-law and stepmother. His wife was at Roseburg on business at the time.
    Mrs. Thomas Smith and a man whose name I failed to learn were passengers on the stage headed for Butte Falls Friday morning.
    Earl Taylor, a son of Mrs. Royal Brown by her first husband, of Portland, came down Thursday and met his wife in Medford, who had just arrived from the southern part of California where she had been visiting relatives, and came out and visited his mother and relatives. They started home Friday afternoon.
    Wm. Cottrell of near Trail was here for dinner Friday, and so was Cecil M. Jennings of Medford, who is out here overhauling a tractor.
    Ray Davis, one of the ranchers and stockmen of the Derby section, came in Friday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He was bringing out a bunch of beef cattle for Ashpole and Nichols meat market of Medford. He was accompanied by Earl Ulrich and one of the Carltons who live on Rogue River above Elk Creek.
    Now I will resume my task of trying to tell the readers of the Eaglets in the Mail Tribune of what I saw, heard and enjoyed while I was in Ashland the three days I was there. If I remember right in one of my letters I promised to tell something of Dr. C. S. Price's style and manner of preaching. About the time appointed for preaching he comes onto the platform right in the midst of the prayer and praise services and his very presence seems to put new life into almost everyone and he changes the exercises somewhat and puts more enthusiasm into the people and they seem to sing with more energy and spirit and after a few minutes spent in singing someone will lead in prayer. He then reads a short scripture lesson and announces his text and commences to unfold its meaning. He never seems to take a long text, sometimes only a word or two, enlarging on and developing until he makes one feel astonished to find so much in it. He always seemed to have but the one idea and that was to confine himself to the word of God, not dealing with generalities but confining his preaching to the plain teaching of the word. I remarked to a friend that I had heard more real gospel preaching the short time I was in Ashland than I had heard within the last five years. One of his main points was to have a certain absolute knowledge of sins forgiven and then have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. In the meantime he urged upon the ministers the necessity of a whole-souled consecration to the work for God to save sinners. While he would teach and insist on those who wanted to take advantage of the occasion to be healed of their bodily infirmities, he insisted on their entire consecration to the service of God and a personal knowledge of sin forgiven before they could expect to be healed, for it is done through faith in Jesus Christ. And when in conclusion of his sermon and he would call for penitents the altar would often be filled with those who were seeking not relief from bodily ailments but release from sin, and there were scores who testified to the power of God to save. One beautiful feature in his preaching is he never finds fault with anyone or tries to tear down any church organization but insists that we love one another as Christ loved us and gave himself for us.
    Among the diners Friday were Charley Manning of Peyton, Ray Davis of Derby, C. E. Moore of Elk Creek, and S. W. Newell of Seattle, who is interested in the machinery business.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1922, page 5


    People who like outdoor life and are interested in securing location for a summer home, or rather an all-year-round home away from the city, should read the announcement of Edgewood Park in this paper.
    This park is located 20 miles from Medford, and only a quarter of a mile off the Crater Lake Highway, making about an hour's trip on this splendid highway. It is about a half mile this side of the big new cement bridge across the Rogue and is located on one of the most beautiful stretches of this famous stream, with good fishing and nice bathing.
    There is plenty of nice fir and pine timber on the lots to erect log cabins if the purchasers desire, and leave plenty for shade.
    The property is owned by D. E. Millard, who is selling the same with restrictions that will make it pleasant for those who buy.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1922, page 3


    Dave Pence and family motored to Medford last week.
    The California-Oregon Power Company has been putting a power line from Prospect to Roseburg and have nearly completed their work, but are keeping a few men busy. They are building a cabin for the winter crew who will keep the line in good condition.
    Elmer Ivey spent a week's vacation with his folks on Elk Creek. He has been attending high school at Butte Falls and is well pleased with the school.
    The Persist school opened for this term, Oct. 2nd, with Miss Inez Willits as teacher. Four pupils will attend.
    P. C. Sandoz is building a fence between L. A. Whitley's homestead and his place.
    Dave Pence and Weston Miller were looking for cattle the first of this week. Mr. Pence and Mr. Miller have been unfortunate in having their hay wet during the rainy weather.
    Ezra Whitley made a business trip to town Oct. 5.
    Miss Inez Willits motored to Medford Saturday the 7th where she will attend institute and visit her relatives.
    The Hill Construction Company is completing their construction work on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Hunters coming up the creek for deer seem to be successful as they have been seen to take out quite a number.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1922, page 7


    There is a move on foot to open up another confectionery store and pool room in our little town. The promoters of the move are Thomas F. Nichols and Clarence Pruett. They have closed the old Roy Ashpole hardware store building and are making several changes, tearing out a lot of the shelving and changing the location of some of it, partitioning off a part of the front part of it for a sales room where they will sell their soft drinks, candy, cigars and ice cream, leaving room for one our two pool tables and any other accessories they may think best to put in and they have divided up the front room and cut off a neat room for a barber shop and have proposed to our barber, Earnest Dahack, who is already established here in his own building, to have him vacate his own shop, giving him the use of the building and electric lights free, but he declines the offer as he owns the building where he is and has his hot and cold water system, bath room, tub and all the necessary equipment. Mr. Nichols is furnishing the capital for the undertaking and they are planning to have a large increase in our population in the next two or three years and have business enough to sustain two barber shops, and pay a good interest on the investment. Thomas M. Riley, our handyman, is doing the carpentering work, painting and papering in making the changes and fitting up the rooms.
    Another change noticeable is that since the town was incorporated and the promoters of this scheme contrived in every way to draw all the business away from the old town and built the three brick buildings in the neighborhood of the depot, and prevailed on Frank Lewis to move his confectionery store and pool and billiard hall down there and also prevailed on a man to build a bakery and another to build a racket store and others to build residence buildings, etc., that Frank Lewis has had his building moved back onto Main Street and he told me at the time, a short time after he moved back, that he made more in two weeks on the stand where he is than he made in two months down next to the depot, and the racket store was closed out and the building sold for a very small figure with the understanding that the purchasers were to pay the delinquent taxes, and the bakery was sold to John W. Smith, torn down and moved away, and another building that was built has been sold to the same party and is being torn down to be moved away leaving the taxes on the lots unpaid, and the principal promoter who built one of the brick stores has disposed of that and about all the rest of his property here except his dwelling. house, thus showing conclusively that it is bad business policy to listen to promoters of wildcat schemes.
    John Greb, one of our prominent farmers and orchardists, was in town last Saturday.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside last Sunday were Judge E. D. Briggs and wife, Judge Dunn, wife and son and Joe Connelly, all of Ashland, and while they were here the subject came up as to the advisability of having the recall law changed so as to require the promoters of the recall of an officer requiring them to give bonds for the cost, in case that the recall fails to pass. If we had had such a law as that, there would have been no recall election, so far as our popular sheriff, C. E. Terrill, is concerned and the taxpayers saved at least $4000, and they all three decided that it would be a fine thing for the taxpayers of the state if our legislators would get their heads together and change the law to that effect, and as Judge Dunn is a prominent candidate for the state senate and a majority in this part of the county expect to have him elected, I am glad to have the opinion of three such men as those just named to sanction the move. There were also here at the same time attorney B. F. Lindas and wife, Anna Lindas and Leonard Lindas of Medford: Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her daughter Miss Joyce, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and son Lyle, J. F. McPherson, wife and son, Eagle Point and Mr. and Mrs. Seth M. Bullis, Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Bailey and son, Ralph Jackson, Medford, Mrs. J. Kannelle, A. Lebo, San Francisco, Calif.
    I met John Rader on the street Monday and asked him if he had moved into his new home. The reader will remember that he bought the Wm. G. Knighten property here, and he said that the womenfolk had moved, but he was still on the farm, that he could not let that go, not that they are separated, but that he loves to work on the dear old sticky farm.
    Two men came in with a band of sheep, 1068, and camped here Sunday night. The sheep looked fine, but the lambs did not fare so well.
    Fred Dutton, one of our prominent stock men, was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Brainard and two children came into the Sunnyside Hotel Monday morning about three o'clock and asked for beds. They had started from Camp 2, Weed, Calif., about mid-afternoon to go to Butte Falls to visit Mrs. Brainard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Parker, and were caught in a driving rain storm and had considerable trouble, so did not reach here until three a.m. but that morning went on their way to Butte Falls.
    There have been some more changes made in our town, so far as residences are concerned. Mr. J. Prillaman and his sister, Miss Prillaman, have moved out of the von der Hellen house into three rooms in the upper part of the Geo. Brown and sons store and Lucius Kincaid has moved into the one vacated by the Prillaman, he having bought the building some time ago and by the way, when you want to find a real live wire, a man that is always up and going, you need not go any farther than Eagle Point, for to begin with Mr. Kincaid secured the mail contract to carry the mail to Persist via Trail, going up one day and returning the next and he soon had the route changed so as to have him make the round trip in one day, giving him an extra day to do something more, and he has been improving it by running a truck for Geo. Brown & Sons, or carrying the mail from Medford to Butte Falls, while the regular mail carrier, Harold Van Scoy, was off hunting and in the interval getting things ready for the coming winter. He will make a success anywhere he goes.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1922, page 9


    Rankin Estes, local barber, had the misfortune to lose his purse containing $110 and some checks Sunday while on his way to his ranch near Trail.
    Yesterday morning he went back to look for the wallet and while on the road near Trail met the young Fry boy who resides near Trail and told him of the lost purse. The boy was on his way to school and informed Estes that he would keep on the lookout for the wallet.
    This morning the Fry boy's father came into town and returned the wallet to Estes with the contents intact. The boy found it yesterday near a small bridge on the road.
    In consideration of the lad's honesty Estes gave him a $20 reward for returning the pocketbook and considered it a stroke of fortune that the boy had found it.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1922, page 5


    Miss Ella Belford, who resides on what is known as the Stewart farm, came in Monday and remained a guest at the Sunnyside until Wednesday morning, going to Medford that afternoon on the Butte Falls stage.
    J. M. King, who has a homestead on Reese Creek between here and Derby, came in on Monday and engaged board. He went to Medford the same day, remaining overnight and Tuesday, returning Wednesday, and Thursday morning started work on the railroad bridge to repair it, getting it ready to push the work of hauling logs out from the Butte Falls timber belt. I understand that the company has quite a force at work on the extension of the P.&E. railroad beyond Butte Falls and expect to be moving sawlogs from the two townships they purchased near the base of Mt. McLoughlin, and that and the digging of the canal from Butte Falls to Eagle Point will make the two towns, Butte Falls and Eagle Point, two lively business places, and the introduction of water into the country between Butte Falls and here and the extension of the project so as to cover several hundred acres of orchard already bearing fruit and the land, now practically good for little else than grazing purposes, will make a very material difference in this part of Rogue River Valley, for with the water and the change of owners, for that will naturally come with the water, we will see as great a change as was made when Mr. Stewart bought the old Frank Ball farm near Phoenix and paid twenty-five dollars an acre for it, when it was producing five or six bushels of wheat to the acre and the old settlers called him a tenderfoot and sucker, and he, Mr. Stewart, after he had plowed it up thoroughly, let it rest a year, and then raised forty bushels of wheat to the acre and then set out the place to fruit, realizing a handsome profit on the investment, for we have just as good land in this neighborhood as they have there and some of the children of the old settlers will see and derive a benefit from the projects that are now being developed.
    Among the callers Tuesday were Carl Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen.
    Frank Manning, who owns and operates a fine farm up on Rogue River, came in Tuesday for dinner and remained until Wednesday afternoon.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatcheries in Southern Oregon, was out here Tuesday making some new changes in the fish trap and dam just above town and getting ready to build a house there so as to protect the men who have to work there taking the eggs from the fish and caring for them. He tells me that he is planning to put traps and dams in all the small streams that dry up in the summer so as to save the fish eggs, as the small fish die when the water dries up and are a total loss.
    Mr. Hovey, superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, was in town Tuesday and reports that he has about half of the apples gathered in the orchard, but the crop is.considerably short of the average.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Wattenberg, one of the most successful farmers in this neighborhood, were business callers Tuesday, but were too busy to spend time visiting.
    M. L. Hughes of Butte Falls was a guest at the Sunnyside Tuesday night on his way from [his] Medford home, and John Foster of Medford, who is working on the rock crusher on the von der Hellen contract to grade and rock the road between the Hole in the Ground and Prospect, was here the same night for supper and so was Earl Zimmerman of Butte Falls.
    Wm. Cottrell came in Wednesday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stanley for breakfast, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley taking their meals at the Sunnyside until they can get located again.
    Harvey Stanley and wife were business callers Wednesday. Mrs. Stanley comes over quite frequently to help her mother, Mrs. Rader, arrange her new home just to her notion. Mrs. Rader has had the house repapered, and has made several changes in the arrangement, making the whole place mere convenient although it looked about as much so as possible.
    Rube Johnson, one of our retired capitalists, Alex Mathews, who is living on the Rube Johnson farm, and Mr. J. W. Isbell were all here in town Wednesday, but I did not learn their business.
    Mrs. Israel Patton, Mrs. John Cook and Mrs. Carter, all of Butte Falls, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday morning. There was a man came with them, but I did not learn who he was, and there were two strange women came out on the Lake Creek-Eagle Point stage at the same time and went up on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist stage.
    Mrs. George Holmes, who is the principal of our school, and Miss Wiley of Central Point, who is teaching the primary department of our school, and Mrs. Roy Stanley, who is teaching in the Brownsboro school district, all went to Medford to attend the institute Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs. Staley has been coming out here in the afternoon of each day except Thursday and reports that everything is going off finely.
    Mrs. Wm. Perry and her mother-in-law, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, who is out here visiting the Perry family, and friends were at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday.
    While I was looking around for something to write for the readers of the Eaglets, I met Mr. Charles Hanscom and Mr. Fred Armes, brother of J. D. Armes, superintendent of the Edgell orchard, and naturally asked how the fruit was on that, and the Butte Creek orchard and be replied that he guessed that it was all right but did not know, and the way he answered me led me to ask where are you living now and he pointed toward Mrs. Hanscom, remarking that he was married now, and that led to two more questions, who was the lucky girl and where were you married and he again pointed to Mrs. Hanscom, remarking his girl Hazel [was born] September 26, 1922. So the reader will see there is another item I missed while I was away from home in California.
    Mrs. John Ashpole of Medford came out to visit her son, Roy, Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1922, page 7


    Benj. Moomaw and wife of Bandon and his brother Joe and wife were here for dinner Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Moomaw had been up in Josephine County visiting his parents and came here to visit his brother Joe and family.
    Miss Dorothy Baughman of Medford was here visiting Miss Virginia Rice, one of our school girls, during the institute week.
    W. P. Holbrook, one of our successful farmers and orchardists, was a business caller Thursday of last week looking after his business interests in our town.
    W. H. Brown and wife and her mother, Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and Mrs. Graves all went to Medford Friday morning on various lines of business. Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy said when she came home that she had been to visit a dentist. It is so seldom that she is away from the post office, as she has been there for the last six years, that when she is out it causes the question to come up, "Where is Lottie?" for everyone knows her and she always has a good word and a cheerful smile for all she meets. She and Mrs. Holmes are sisters of Mr. Brown.
    The passenger traffic on the stage lines between Medford is getting to be so great that occasionally, in fact quite often lately, some are left for want of room. Last Friday there were four lady passengers and one man and the next day there were just four passengers, three of them Butte Falls school teachers, and one man, and one man left.
    Although Mr. Holmes, the contractor, runs a large four-seated car to and from Medford, he does not try to take it any further than here as the road between here and Butte Falls is so bad, especially the four miles this side of Butte Faille, where it has just been graded, is almost as bad as it can be and the rest of the road is bad enough, so he has decided not to try to run the big car any further than here, and in case he has more mail and parcel post than he can take in one car he says he will take two.
    George W. Stowell, one of our successful farmers, stock and dairy men, as well as one of the poultry men, was in town Friday on business and reports that the price of hens has dropped so low that he has had a man come out from Medford and had a lot of his old hens dressed and put in cold storage waiting for better prices, that his young pullets are just commencing to lay, and that means an abundant supply of eggs this fall and winter.
    Joe Riley, who lives on Antelope Creek on the Crater Lake Highway, was also a business caller the same day.
    Samuel Greenwood, the present proprietor of the Butte Creek orchard, was also in town Friday but I did not meet him as he was on the run when I saw him, although I asked Frank Brown, one of the firm of G. Brown & Sons, who he was as he darted out of the store and he gave me the name.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek was also a business caller Friday.
    As Mrs. R. G. Brown was away from home, her husband, Mr. Brown, came in for dinner remarking that he was not raised to eat a cold lunch. Frank Ditsworth of Peyton also came in for dinner the same day, and four strangers whose names I failed to learn.
    There was a stranger came in with a heavy truck loaded with road-working machinery on his way to Lakeview, and called for supper and bed as he wanted to take an early start and I did not get up in time to get his name before he started at 4 a.m.
    Mrs. Baughman and Charley Manning of Peyton were among the diners Saturday.
    Mrs. Louis M. Miller of Portland came in Saturday on the morning stage from Medford expecting to find the Trail stage running that day, but on finding that it only goes three times a week came to the Sunnyside and remained until Monday.
    Saturday morning word came to us that Robert Riley Minter had died the night before very suddenly, having been sick about an hour. He was born in Hillsboro, Ore., March 25, 1857 and died Oct. 13th, 1922, aged 65 years, six months and 18 days. He was married Dec. 25, 1884 to Beatrice Wood of Alturas City. There were seven children, six girls and one boy born and he leaves one brother and one sister. His wife died 21 years ago. In addition to his children and brother and sister to feel the loss he also leaves a host of warm friends and neighbors who feel saddened by his death. He was a strict business man and was dearly loved by his family, one of the girls remarking that he was not only a father but also filled the place of a mother as but few could.
    Among the guests Saturday evening was George Turnbow and Clarence Pruett. I stated a short time ago that he had become a permanent boarder at the Sunnyside but about that time he went into partnership with T. F. Nichols and commenced to board with him. Jerry Lewis and two strangers came in for bed and breakfast.
    Among the guests here Sunday were M. C. Smallwood, Wilford Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Natwick, Miss Carlton, Thomas F. Nichols, wife and two children, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ward, a couple traveling through the county and representing themselves as soliciting for the cause of foreign missions, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Neilson and two boys, Donald and Herbert, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Neilson's mother, and Mrs. Hactle. These came in after the first table were through eating as I did not get home from church until after they had eaten dinner and gone.
    Mrs. F. Watker of Central Point and Mrs. J. B. Jackson of Butte Falls came out on the stage on their way to Butte Falls. Mrs. Jackson had just returned from Yakima, Wn., where she had been to attend the funeral of her sister's husband who died very suddenly, and Mrs. Walker went up to Butte Falls to move their household goods out here so as to be with her husband, who is working on the railroad.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Lake Creek came in for dinner Monday.
    John P. Gabber came in Monday evening with his effects in a one-horse buggy and spent the night at the Sunnyside and the next morning went to work on the railroad.
    Mrs. Piper is visiting Mrs. Tedrick.
    Mrs. E. Denton of Medford came out to visit her son, E. A. Denton, Sunday.
    Miss Ruby Haley of Central Point is out here visiting some of her old friends and neighbors, stopping with Mrs. Leroy Smith.
    I see by looking over my letter for the Mail Tribune that I omitted to make mention of the funeral of our highly esteemed citizen, Robert Riley Minter, so will add this as a P.S. The funeral services were conducted at the Perl Funeral Home by Rev. John Stille of Indian Creek in the presence of a very large number of his old friends and neighbors and the remains ware laid to rest in the Medford cemetery. The floral offerings were very beautiful and the sermon was impressive and a large number of his old neighbors expressed their sympathy for the bereaved.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 20, 1922, page 7


    John Nichols and wife, who went up to Yakima to visit their son Frank while I was down in Colusa County, Calif., trying the baths at the Wilbur hot sulfur springs, an item I failed to procure before, returned the first of the week and report that the fruit crop up there is badly infected with worms and that the estimated loss to the orchardists on account of it will amount to millions of dollars. There are various opinions as to the cause of the fruit being so wormy, some attributing it to the quality of the preparation furnished by the officials and claim that there is a big graft and that the dope is lacking in strength, while others claim that the officer who fixes the dates when they are to spray failed to give notice at the right time, and are talking about commencing suit against the state for the damage by the mistake, if it was a mistake has caused [it].
    Last Tuesday afternoon I met John Greb, one of our leading orchardists, and asked him if his apples were wormy and he said that they were somewhat wormy but not as wormy as he had seen them other years. I then related to him what Mr. Nichols had told me about the fruit up in Washington, and he expressed the opinion that it was caused by the unusually warm weather, especially the warm nights, enabling the insects to do their work. But be that as it may, it has been a great loss to the orchardists not only there in Washington but over the entire coast, and the fact that the apple crop is falling short as there is a fearful shortage in the quantity, and that in connection with the wormy condition of the fruit brings a terrible hardship on the producer, and also on the ones who have depended on working in the orchards to secure money to tide them over a long winter, for a half crop means with them only half as many days work, all the way through from the picker on to the teamsters, packer, the man who makes the boxes, the mill men and to the railroad and commission man who sells them, and to the consumer, for they will have to pay more on account of the scarcity.
    Mrs. Dollie Jack has finally succeeded in getting a clear title to a place (the old schoolhouse property) she purchased from F. J. Ayres, and moved onto it. She had been staying on her father's place while he and wife were up in Washington.
    The stage was so crowded Tuesday that the driver had to leave one man, Chris Beale, as he had four ladies, with the understanding that he was to go up the next day, and the next day he had to leave other men. There is so much parcel post goes through the mail now that it takes up a large part of the room in the car, as a good part of  the space is taken up with boxes of bread.
    Speaking of bread, I was down to Geo. Brown & Sons' store Wednesday and noticed a large pasteboard sign with the word bread on it, so asked if they were selling bread, addressing Frank Brown, and he replied yes, that they had so many orders from the outside customers that they had to keep it for them notwithstanding there were two other stores handling it, it is not always that one can get it. And that shows how few of our citizens indulge in the old-fashioned luxury, hot biscuits for breakfast.
    J. P. Hughes, a retired merchant of Butte Falls, passed through here on his way home from a visit to his brother in California. He said that everything had changed except the old statehouse in Sacramento, that he hardly knew where anything was, the places where he used to go and hunt ducks in 1877 are now covered with rice fields and orchards with hard-surfaced roads and streets that then were covered with tules.
    T. F. Nichols, Clarence Pruett, Chris Beale, Herbert Davis and two ladies were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Rev. John Stille of Indian Creek, near Crater Lake Highway, was in town Tuesday having his horses shod.
    Rudolph Pech and wife were in town Wednesday with a load of spuds and report they are cheaper than they have been for six years.
    E. G. High of Ashland was here for dinner Wednesday. He says that he is still engaged selling autos. J. D. Patrick was also here for dinner. He had just returned from Nevada and California, where he was engaged putting in steel flumes for a contractor.
    J. I. Graves of this place has purchased a tract of land lying along the Crater Lake Highway and Riverside Avenue and is putting up a residence and intends to move into it as soon as finished. John Miller is doing the carpenter work.
    Wm. Nichols of Lake Creek, C. Humphrey, William Ness, G. H. Vinson and G. Troji and William O. Farrell, the four last named having just finished up picking apples on the Tronson orchard, were all here for dinner Thursday.
    G. A. Hansen of Brownsboro was a business caller Thursday.
    Ed Gomez of Butte Falls spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside and went up to Butte Falls on the stage Friday morning.
    Peter Fenke and wife, who have been spending the fall with their son-in-law, Mr. Wyman, came out from his home on Rocky Hill near Derby Friday morning on their way to their home in California, and Mr. Wyman brought out a load of stove wood and stored it for sale the coming winter.
    Ted Clark of Derby went up home on the stage Friday.
    T. F. Nichols and Clarence Pruett have opened up with a pool table and two billiard tables and two card tables, cigars and tobacco.
    Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, has added to his line of goods a stock of groceries and hardware. Competition is the life of trade.
    There is a family by the name of Brickman moved into the upper story of the Eagle Point hardware store building.
    Thursday night about five o'clock the roof of Thomas M. Riley's house on Antelope Creek took fire and his father phoned over here and a party of men rushed over there and put the fire out. There is a man living on the place by the name of McCoy who kept the fire down by throwing water on the roof until help came. There was but little damage done.
    Word came to me Friday evening at supper that Eleanor Hansen of Brownsboro died that day after a brief illness, aged about nine years. She is a daughter of William Hansen of that place.
    Joseph Wattenberg, who has been on the T. E. Nichols ranch, has moved off and the Davis Bros. of Derby have moved onto it.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 24, 1922, page 6


    Another sale of consequence [that] just became known is the purchase of the Frederick Pelouze ranch three miles east of Eagle Point by two well-known Medford men, George T. Collins and Dr. J. J. Emmens, who will operate it as a livestock ranch. The consideration is not made known, but large figures are involved. The present tenant has been given notice to move at once to other quarters, as the new owners will take hold as soon as possible.
    This ranch constitutes one of the finest gentleman's homes in the county with its prettily located and comfortable dwelling house, alongside a running stream, and its 162 acres of land, 72 of which are under irrigation. The water right of the property is sufficient to supply water for the entire ranch.
    Neither of the two owners will reside on the property, so far as can be learned, and it is understood that they will place a skilled manager in charge to operate it as a livestock ranch.
    Jackson County is more and more coming into prominence as a favorable livestock country, and for some time past there have been ten or eleven stockmen here from other parts of the Pacific Coast looking for locations, where there was one here on that errand last fall, the local real estate men report.
"W. Vawter Buys Dr. Page Home, Big Ranch Sold," Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1922, page 16


    There was a meeting of the members of the Red Cross Society here in the church last Friday afternoon and Mrs. Noblet, Mrs. C. R. Farrier and Miss Haines and a strange lady who was visiting one or more of the above-named ladies came out from Medford and addressed the meeting. I plead guilty to being absent as I was not feeling as well as usual and thought I would rest a while after dinner and forgot all about the meeting until my attention was called to it after I woke up so am not able to give any account of what was said or done, but learned that there was to be a drive in a day or two to raise money to help along the cause and about the first thing I knew the next day I met Mrs. R. A. Weidman and she notified me that she wanted a dollar for helping those in need; that the funds were to be used by the local society for those in our own neighborhood who needed help, so I took a receipt for the dollar with that understanding and she fastened a Red Cross pin on the lapel of my coat to keep me from being raided again.
    The same day I met Mrs. R. G. Brown, one of our school directors, and she told me that our school was growing so fast under the management of Mrs. Geo. Holmes and Miss Wiley that it had become necessary to have more seats in the primary department and at the time referred to there was one of the little girls of the primary department joined us and remarked that she had to sit on a little chair, and in connection with this subject will say that our school is getting along nicely. Mrs. Brown reports that there are now thirty-four pupils in the primary school and twenty-nine in the principal's room.
    Last Friday we had as guests for dinner O. C. Ellen of Butte Falls [and] B. M. Bush of Ashland, who is in the employ of the Paul's Electric Shop, Medford.
    Joe Pool, Claude (Shorty) Miles, and Ralph Stanley were here Friday night.
    F. J. Mansfield came out on the Brownsboro stage and went on to Medford on his way home in California.
    George Trusty also came out from his home Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and John Foster, now working with the von der Hellen rock crusher, was here Saturday night.
    Perry Foster and two of his grandchildren, Lloyd French and his sister, Miss Cora French, Miss Butler and Gladys Harvey were in the barber shop having their hair bobbed and curled.
    C. A. Pickel, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, was making his monthly rounds Saturday and took dinner at the Sunnyside, as did Frank Ditsworth, who has bought the Roy Stanley farm just above our town, and Mrs. Gus Nichols, a neighbor, just happened to come in and took dinner and later two strangers came in.
    E. N. and O. R. Abbott, T. F. Nichols' wife and two children, and Miss Lula Carlton were here for dinner.
    Luke Ryan, formerly of Medford but now on his Big Butte farm, was a business caller Saturday.
    Edward Spencer, time clerk on the S.P. at Ashland, was here visiting his brother who is a regular boarder at the Sunnyside and is one of the civil engineers on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point canal project to bring water from Big Butte Creek into this section. He took breakfast Monday morning and started home.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday for dinner, counting them as they were seated at the tables, there were forty-five, but included a few regular boarders. When I reached home from church the sitting room was well filled and quite a number in the yard so that I could not secure all their names, as I find that I am not able to remember them. But I did secure the names of Miss Mollie Britt, her brother Emil, John F. Miller of Jacksonville, F. E. Edwards of San Francisco, George W. Neilson and wife and sons Donald and Herbert, Mrs. Neilson's mother, Mrs. M. Moore, and a friend of the family, Mrs. Hatch of Medford, Fred Pettegrew, secretary of the Butte Falls and Eagle Point Irrigation Co., and Wm. von der Hellen, our big contractor, of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Garnett, A. H. Soukup and Mrs. Soukup of Medford, and Irvin Frey of Lake Creek.
    John L. Robinson, Sr., one of our prosperous farmers, came in early Monday morning with two large watermelons, one on each arm, and took them to the post office, but forgot to put stamps on them so they fell to the care of the lady clerk, who is a special favorite of all the patrons of the office, and some of us accused him of leaving the stamps off on purpose.
    In a former letter I stated that the new firm that is opening a confectionery store, billiard and pool hall had been trying to arrange to have our barber move his shop into the room arranged for a barber shop but that he had declined to accept their offer, but since I wrote they have made him a better offer and he has accepted it and is now arranging to move into the new quarters.
    P. S. Anderson of Medford, who owns a fine farm on Rogue River some six or seven miles above here, came out Monday morning on the stage and went up to the ranch (Brittsan Bros.) and reports that everything is in a flourishing condition. G. A. Gall, B. F. Haymond, Bert Gates of Kerby and Perry Farlow of Lake Creek came out on the stage at the same time. Hugh Johnson and James Carey of Medford also came out Monday morning and went on the phone line to work for W. C. Clements, who is the principal owner and manager of our system here.
    I met W. Miles, who is on the Fred Pelouze place, and he tells me that the place has been sold to Dr. J. J. Emmens and a Mr. Collins of Medford.
    John L. Robinson was in town the first of the week and gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, as he is a live wire and wants to keep posted as to what is going on in the world and said his paper was stopped. And about the same time one of the Nygren brothers came in for me to send him the Daily Mail Tribune, as it seems hard to get along without it.
    D. B. Lyons and wife of Medford and John Holden and wife of Ontario, Cal., were here for dinner Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Slater of Ferndale, Wash., were here Sunday the guests of our banker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell.
    George W. Stowell, our chicken king, and wife were doing business with our merchants and report that the chicken business is up to date.
    Wm. Cottrell was also a business caller Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 27, 1922, page 12


    On Tuesday the 24th inst. G. W. Dunn, the regular nominee of the Republican Party, was around among the voters of our town and vicinity. He does not appear to be of the mud-slinging class of candidates as he says nothing against his opponent but stands on his record as county judge, and it was so straight that the Jacksonville-Medford political ring combined to keep him from receiving the nomination again. He was a pleasant caller at the Sunnyside for dinner and we spent a very pleasant hour together and then went out to see some more of his old friends, who can be counted by the score. A. H. Daugherty, the traveling agent for Raleigh's medicines, and Earl Mathews were also here for dinner the same day.
    Mr. Fernlund and wife, two newcomers who have moved into our community, were in town trading with George Brown & Sons the first of the week, and while I was there Frank Brown asked me to take a ride with him over to his Antelope Creek farm, and when we reached there found a man harrowing a large tract of plowed land that had been plowed early in the season with a tractor quite deep, sowed with wheat and harrowed down, but the ground was quite rough, but Frank told the man to keep on harrowing until it was thoroughly pulverized. He seems to have the right idea of putting in grain, but what attracted my attention most was a small tract of desert land of perhaps fifteen acres he had sowed to clover where he had cut two crops of hay, realizing about seventy tons of hay, and then pastured some eighty head of beef cattle for Frank Bybee this fall. He intends to put the entire place in hay, the desert part of some twenty-five acres in clover and the bottom land in alfalfa. And that brings another thought to my mind and that is that Mr. W. H. Hamilton, who owns a large tract of land just north of our town, came in from Crescent City a day or two ago and in conversation with him the subject of our canal from Big Butte just below Butte Falls came up and he asked what I thought of the idea of having a creamery established here and I assured him that I thought it would be a fine project, especially after we have the water in and the thousands of acres of land that is now useless except a little spring pasture was brought into cultivation and the large tracts cut up into small tracts, sowed in different kinds of grasses and grains and families settled around us, and those who can keep a few good milk cows, a few pigs and chickens will make this Butte Creek country one of the richest spots in Oregon, for the farmers here are not in their swaddling clothes.
    Wm. Holman and wife, who live on Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, passed through here the first of the week. They had been down to Ashland to attend the funeral of his uncle.
    Wm. Lewis, the sheep king of this section, was in town this week and when asked about his sheep said that they were all right now but [he] had had a hard fight to get these through but that the price of sheep and wool was looking up.
    Roy Stanley has rented one of the houses belonging to Mrs. James Owens, wife of our county commissioner, and is having it fixed up to make it more comfortable for the winter. Thomas Riley is repapering and repainting the interior.
    Our two hardware merchants, T. F. Nichols and Roy Ashpole, started out about midweek on a hunting expedition and had not returned up to Thursday evening.
    F. C. Drew, head timekeeper, and R. B. Parkman, head A.B.A. clerk of O.W.R.&N.R.R., Portland, came in for a few days Tuesday and have been looking for agates most of th» time since. They started home Friday afternoon, intending to take the train Saturday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lee Whitley of Elk Creek spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    F. F. Howard, formerly of Rancheria Prairie, but now living near Sacramento, Calif., was a passenger on the stage for his farm eight miles from Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. John Slater, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, were here for dinner Wednesday. Earl Mathews and Mrs. Muskopf and three children were also here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mr. Hannaford, who lives on the C. H. Natwick ranch, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Mr. Conley is sending some very fine lumber from the old Haak mill since he moved and repaired it.
    Mrs. Lawrence Ferguson and two children spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside. Mr. Ferguson was called to Medford on business for Frank Rhodes, who owns the farm they are on, and while they were here in town Mr. Ferguson was called on the phone by Mr. Rhodes so he had to leave his wife and children at the Sunnyside while he was away.
    Mrs. Hill of Derby was a business caller Wednesday, and so was O. E. Thien of Butte Falls.
    Wednesday the handbills that had been distributed around town announcing that there would be public speaking at the dance halt that night by Hon. E. E. Kelly, Judge Colvig, A. E. Reames and Miss Alice Hanley caused a large number of our citizens to collect to hear them, as almost everyone is interested in hearing the issues of the campaign discussed, especially as there were two prominent hard-boiled Democrats and one half-bolled Republican, Judge Colvig, for the first time I heard him he was advocating the election of Sam J. Tilden for President of the United States, and the next time I heard him he spent most of his time trying to explain to the voters why he had left the Democratic Party and flopped over to the Republican, and so I don't know how hard-boiled he is, and Miss Alice Hanley, also a Republican, and we had reason to believe that we would hear something worth while, but--well I will not find fault, although many of us were disappointed. Col. Kelly opened the meeting by accusing his opponent of playing dirty tricks at their meeting in Talent, and if the charge against Mr. Thomas, his opponent for circuit judge, was strictly correct he should be shut out entirely, but I see in the Friday Daily Mail Tribune the names of twenty-three prominent citizens of that section denying the correctness of the statement--that is that Mr. Thomas had packed the house with K.K.K. and hoodlums to break up the meeting, etc. Well, I confess that I was surprised to hear such a speech from such a man as Hon. E. E. Kelly, for it only added to the friends of C. M. Thomas, for I met an old hard-boiled Democrat the next morning who was a Kelly man and he told me that he and several of his neighbors who were going to vote for Kelly would vote for Thomas Nov. 7th.
    Mr. Kelly was followed by Mr. Colvig with a spicy speech telling us to scratch our tickets and vote for the best men but be sure to vote for Gov. Olcott and F. Tou Velle, the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer and for Alice Hanley for the legislature, and by way of a little pep he referred to a remark made by Ralph Cowgill, Miss Hanley's opponent, something detrimental to his standing for truth, that if he met Mr. Cowgill on the street, and he repeated it, that he would knock him down, etc.
    Mr. Colvig was followed by Hon. A. E. Reames, in his soft and polite manner, giving us an insight, as far as it was expedient, into the workings of the K.K.K., but he kept back what he wants to use in the trial, but cautioned us not to vote for C. M. Thomas and be sure to vote for Miss Hanley. Miss Alice Hanley then came forward and in a very few words told us that she was a candidate for a seat in the legislature and desired to go there to help reduce the taxes. Everything passed off very pleasantly, and at the close the floor was cleared for a dance and your Eagle Point correspondent started for home.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 30, 1922, page 6


    Mrs. R. A. Rowley, whose water rights on Butte Creek have come up for discussion in the city election, has through her son requested the following explanation of the matter from her point of view:
    "Having read the article published in your paper under the heading of 'Nigger in the Wood Pile' under date of October 26th, 1922, referring to the Butte Creek water right of Mrs. R. A. Rowley, would kindly ask space in your paper for my statement of the facts.
    "Some years ago my husband, R. A. Rowley, now deceased, acquired certain water rights in the waters of Big Butte Creek and received from the state of Oregon permits to these waters in over two hundred second-feet of water, part of which was under a special permit of certain of these waters solely for municipal purposes. These waters, or a part of them, is what the City of Medford now wish to secure for Medford's water supply.
    "After my husband had secured these permits from the state of Oregon, in the manner provided by law, and had become the legal possessor of these water rights, there was an arrangement entered into by the state of Oregon and the United States government whereby both the state and government undertook to investigate the water in this section for the purpose of ascertaining what water could be used for the best advantage for the greatest number of people, especially along irrigation lines. However, before the government would start active operations it required that all the waters to be investigated should be out of the hands of individuals and under the sole control of the state of Oregon.
    "These water rights secured by my husband were very valuable rights and he was actively engaged in developing the same, but in order that this section of Oregon could have the aid of the federal government in surveys and in the investigation of the water my husband turned back to the state of Oregon all of these valuable rights without any valuable consideration of any kind ever being paid to him and delivered back the permits to these waters, but the same was done upon the agreement and with the understanding and under a written contract with the state of Oregon, that these water rights which he had acquired and was possessed of before he surrendered back the permits to the state should be protected for him and that whoever sought to use these waters in the future should pay to Mr. Rowley the value of the water.
    "I am now a widow and with meager means, but my husband's rights in and to these waters were deeded to me prior to his death and I cannot see why the terms upon which these permits were delivered back to the state of Oregon should not be lived up to now, after my husband is dead, the same as they were intended to be lived up to when he delivered back the permits to the state of Oregon under the contract that they should protect him and that whoever used the water should pay for the same to Mr. Rowley."
Medford Mail Tribune, November 2, 1922, page B1


    Last Tuesday Carl and Jack Thomas, the Vaudeville Kids of Chicago, came into our town and announced that they would give an entertainment that night in the opera hall, four acts, taking a room and meals at the Sunnyside. During their stay they gave me the following interesting item: They started in the early part of the season with their knapsacks on their backs with their business printed on them as kid artists in the line of showmen. They reported that they had walked from Chicago to Portland, stopping on their way and giving entertainments on the way to pay expenses, but from Portland they occasionally got a ride but did not say how so the reader can do as I did, guess as to how they procured them. They made a fine impression on the citizens of our town and the result was that they had a good audience, charging forty cents for admission, so I was told, for I did not attend, and the next morning they seemed to be well pleased with the result of their undertaking so I asked a lady who boosted for them what kind of an entertainment they had and she exclaimed, rotten, but continued that she had forty cents worth of fun, and if those kids were smart enough to pull off such a stunt let them go and work their way through the world. They started on their way Wednesday morning headed for Ashland. They were headed for Los Angeles.
    Wm. Lewis of Fort Klamath and H. U. Ellis of Kerby and L. N. Heart of Portland, George McDonald of Butte Falls, who is with Frank Rhodes, the contractor on the unit of the county road from Eagle Point to Butte Falls, who has the contract for making four miles out from Butte Falls to Rocky Hill, were here for dinner Saturday and Truman McLelland, who is with the crew who are working on the Crater Lake Highway from the Hole in the Ground to Prospect came in Saturday night and stayed until Monday.
    George Wehman of the same camp, who has charge of the bookkeeping department of the camp, came in for supper and went on to Medford.
    Roy Stanley, who has been living for some time on the old John Mathews farm, and sold it, has rented what is known as the old Purdin place and commenced to move into it last Saturday, but he and his family are still boarding at the Sunnyside.
    Lloyd Stanley, who has been living with his brother Roy, but taking his meals at the Sunnyside, has been complaining of feeling unwell and was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital Monday night. His condition was reported as favorable.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our hustling farmers and orchardists, was a business caller Saturday evening.
    Sunday morning our Sunday school was unusually interesting, the subject being Prohibition, and while all who were in attendance were advocates of the enforcement of the prohibition amendment, there were some who believe that it will eventually lead up to more strict enforcement of the anti-tobacco law, or having it amended so as to have a heavy penalty for anyone to sell or give tobacco to any person, male or female, under twenty-one years of age, for it is a common thing to see boys, some of them just in their teens, smoking cigarettes or a pipe.
    We did not have as many guests at the Sunnyside as usual last Sunday but those who did come had a very pleasant time and a lovely day to ride out over our good roads. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, shoe dealers of Medford, Earl Mathews and Miss Joyce von der Hellen, H. A. Fredenburg of Sams Valley, Corbin Edgell, who owns a fine orchard in this section but since his marriage lives in Medford. He was out here superintending loading a car of apples. Also Phil Butler of Medford, Jake Jonas of Merlin, John Foster, at present of Prospect, Wm. Perry and wife and three strangers.
    Charley Manning of Peyton and Charley Clark, formerly of the Modoc orchard, but recently of Fort Klamath, came in Monday and is here at this writing, Tuesday afternoon.
    John Miller, one of our citizens, came near being seriously hurt the other day; he had a cow with a young calf and he aimed to attend to her and she turned on him crowding him against the manger and catching him under the ribs, tearing his clothes and touching the skin with her horns but bringing no blood. He finally crawled into the manger and got away from her with little damage. He then dehorned her and that cooled her down, or at least made her less dangerous. He was not seriously hurt.
    Ben Brophy was a business caller Monday.
    J. W. Berrian. the superintendent of the fish hatcheries in Southern Oregon, has been making some substantial improvements in the fish dam and trap. He has built a small house at the dam to protect the men who are engaged taking and caring for the eggs, and has drilled out a place in the rock where he can keep the fish he catches and keep them until they are ready to spawn, as they often catch them before the time, and has it arranged so as to have a stream of water running so as to have it constantly changing and by that means can keep them as long as he wishes. He expects to take many more eggs than he did last season, as he has everything ready when the time comes.
    J. I. Grove, who has been building a new house on the tract of land he bought from the county alongside the Crater Lake Highway just below our town so he misses the town tax, has moved into it, thus saving paying rent, which is quite an item.
    Miss Caroline Pool, who recently secured a divorce from her second husband and took the name of her first husband again, was a passenger on the stage Friday on her way to her old home at Butte Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 3, 1922, page B2


    According to a report from James Grieve at Prospect, C. W. Drake was killed, an unknown man was fatally injured and Shorty Mann was slightly injured at the von der Hellen road camp near there this morning when they failed to take to cover while a blast was being set off.
    An emergency call was sent to Dr. R. J. Conroy and he left about nine o'clock this morning for the scene of the accident followed by Daily's Taxi and Perl's ambulance. The man who was killed died shortly after 12 today as the result of a fractured skull. The unknown man is being brought to Medford in the ambulance as quickly as possible for medical attention.
    Little is known concerning the accident as communication with Prospect by telephone is difficult, and it is not expected the injured men will reach the city until late this afternoon. Dr. Conroy returned to Medford just before press time, but knew very little concerning the disaster. He gave first aid to the injured men, but holds out little hope for recovery of the unknown worker who was seriously injured.
    Nothing here is known concerning the victims of the accident other than they were members of von der Hellen's road gang.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 6, 1922, page 1


    Mrs. C. S. Antle of Medford and Geo. L. Neale of Central Point were among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday and Mrs. Antle went on up to Lake Creek on the Lake Creek stage to visit her son, who is the merchant at that place, and Mr. Neale continued on to Butte Falls and from there he went out to the Howard ranch to conduct an auction sale of a lot of stock, household goods, furniture, farm implements, hay etc., returning Thursday, taking dinner at the Sunnyside and going on out to Medford on the stage. He reports that the sale was satisfactory and brought good prices, the hay in the barn bringing $11 a ton. He was fortunate enough to come out from Butte Falls to Derby on a hack, as the stage auto has stopped running over or rather through that route as the roads are so bad as to necessitate putting on a team to carry the mail matter out, so from now on until the roads dry up in the spring the mail will start from Butte Falls at 9 o'clock a.m. and meet the auto stage at Derby.
    It is understood that the first unit of the Butte Falls-Eagle Point irrigation system has been let to our principal contractor, Wm. von der Hellen, about six miles, beginning at Butte Falls, and that he already has a gasoline shovel on the way from an eastern manufacturing plant and intends to commence work on the job as soon as it arrives.
    The Ladies' Improvement Club of Eagle Point met at the home of Mrs. T. F. Nichols Thursday afternoon and were the guests of Mrs. R. A. Weidman.
    Ed Coy, a son-in-law of our blacksmith, is making regular trips six times a week hauling a truckload of men from Medford to where the Fish Lake Canal Company have been working along the canal.
    Artie Vestal, one of our enterprising bachelor Reese Creek farmers, was a guest at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    R. A. Seman, who is running a truck between Medford and this side of Butte Falls, has been here for supper Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and went on up to his camp afterward.
    C. H. Natwick, one of the leading contractors of Medford, was a guest at the Sunnyside Tuesday and Wednesday. He is planning on taking a part of the canal from Butte Falls out to this section of the country.
    The following gentlemen came out Tuesday evening with the understanding that there was to be a public meeting here and have the school bill discussed, but on account of a confusion of dates there had been no notice sent out anymore than that someone had told Will Staub of Brownsboro to announce it in Eagle Point, but he must have forgotten it, so someone phoned out about 4:30 p.m. that there was to be a meeting here and that there would be five here for supper, so about 6 p.m. N. W. Borden, Medford, the Democratic candidate for the state senate, J. O. Riggs of Ashland, Democratic candidate for the assembly, W. D. Hughes, Medford [and] Wm. Bradley came in in time for supper, and after supper were asked where they were to speak etc. They soon learned that the Bradshaw hall was rented for the year and that there was not time at that hour to give notice, so two of them started out in search of W. L. Childreth and soon returned and settled down for the evening. There were a few guests remained and the visitors told us why they wanted the education bill should be adopted, and about 8:15 started for home after expressing their satisfaction at the way the evening had been spent.
    Halloween eve passed off very quietly, as there was but very little mischief done.
    Rey. J. E. Day and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Lian of Butte Falls came out on the stage Wednesday and went on up home. Mr. Day reports that he has sold his stock of goods he had in his store to Paul Calder.
    J. W. Prillaman started Wednesday on the Medford stage to go to Canada via Vancouver, B.C. He intends to go to Aberdeen and from there to North Dakota and visit friends there before he returns.
    Charley Humphrey has hauled all of the wood he had on hand and all he could buy at the stump, and now is hauling out telephone poles for our phone manager, W. C. Clements.
    Earl Mathews, Charley Winkle and Jack Mayham spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Arthur J. Weeks, formerly of Medford but now of Oakland, Calif., was a passenger on the stage on his way to an orchard he owns on Rogue River near Peyton. He remarked that forty years ago that day he planted the Bear Creek orchard.
    G. W. Nelle, the auctioneer of Central Point, came out from Butte Falls and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Thursday evening Hon. T. L. Thuemler of Grants Pass spoke here in opposition to the educational bill, but he had a small audience, I am told, but made a good, clean talk. Friday night Ralph Cowgill, the regular Republican candidate for the legislature, and Hon. C. M. Thomas, spoke here. Mr. Cowgill opened the meeting and explained how he came to be accused of being a Klansman, that it was by five members of the Loyal League who were angry because he thwarted their designs in trying to pass a resolution in the league three times and were defeated each time and finally left the hall in disgust. His speech was clean and not a word said against his opponents, no mud-slinging. He was followed by Mr. Thomas with a clear statement refuting the statements made here a few days ago by Reames, Colvig and Kelly, with regard to the Talent irrigation canal, and showed that the water taken from the Applegate River had been used in the Talent district for the last three years. He exposed the way the gang had tried to trap him into signing the statement condemning the act of someone slipping the note under Judge Calkins' door by having him put his name on the ninth line instead of the fourth. He made many friends and gained several votes that night, for he spoke as a gentleman should speak, no mud-slinging. The next morning almost every man I met was praising Mr. Thomas for his speech and several who had been boosting for Kelly were boosting for Thomas.
    I should have said in the beginning of this account of the meeting that notwithstanding it was a cold and disagreeable evening there was a large crowd, and no orchestra to call the people together, and there were fully as many as there were when the others had their meeting and it is stated that at least half of the audience came with the Reames, Kelly, Colvig speakers from Medford. We will all be glad when the election is over.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 6, 1922, page 9


    C. W. Drake, about 55, and William McTeague, about 45, are both dead as the result of being struck by rocks flying from a blast at the von der Hellen road camp on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect, yesterday.
    The accident occurred yesterday morning and Drake died at Prospect yesterday afternoon at 12:15. McTeague died last night at the Sacred Heart Hospital in this city at 9 o'clock, never having regained consciousness. Both men suffered severe fractures of the skull.
    E. R. Mann, the third man who was injured by the blast, was not seriously injured, having no bones broken, but being painfully cut and bruised. He was brought to Medford yesterday afternoon and then taken to his home.
    The men were blasting in the rock quarry, according to Wm. von der Hellen, superintendent of the camp, and as usual after lighting the fuse took refuge under the gravel bunkers, about 200 feet away. The powder, as a usual thing, blows the rocks straight up in the air and by standing under the bunkers the men secured protection from any pieces of rock that might fall from above.
    The fatal blast, however, did not blow the rock straight up. Its force was exerted in a lateral direction and evidently a weak spot in the combustion chamber was found by the expanding gases. The rock was projected sideways and pieces of it struck five men who were standing under the bunkers. Two were practically uninjured, one of them being Mr. von der Hellen, who was struck on the shin by a flying fragment. Two others were fatally injured, while the third escaped painfully bruised and cut.
    Mr. von der Hellen said this morning that he knew not how many times they had stood in the same place while blasting was going on and had never thought of possible danger.
    An inquest was held this morning and the coroner's jury, consisting of Frank Amy, Wm. Bays, J. J. Osenbrugge, John Haertle, J. H. Atwell and C. F. Bowman, rendered the verdict that the death of the men was accidental and that no one was to blame.
    No relatives of either of the men can be found, although it is understood that McTeague has a sister-in-law living somewhere in Nevada.
    Both men will be buried Thursday afternoon at 2:30 in the Medford cemetery, their pals and Mr. von der Hellen arranging the funeral and acting as pallbearers. It is expected that Rev. Father Powers will officiate at the services.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 7, 1922, page 1


    J. H. George, a beef buyer of San Francisco, came in Friday and was met here by Wm. Cottrell, one of our prominent cattle men, and I learned later that he made a deal to secure a nice lot of beef stock from him. Mr. Cottrell was among the guests that night at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    In my meanderings around town looking for material to mold into Eaglets, I discovered quite a pile of iron pipe lying outside of the George Holmes garage and on inquiry learned from Floyd Pearce, the assistant in that popular institution, that it was for himself, that he already had 800 feet down to his house, that he was planning to put a ram in Butte Creek, take water out so as to irrigate his garden, berries and meadow. People are learning more and more the value of water, especially in trying to raise a garden and berries, and Mr. Pearce himself being a mechanic, can do the work between jobs and at odd times with but little expense.
    Mr. O. C. Eblen has taken a contract to carry the mail from Derby to Butte Falls and back daily except Sunday in a hack leaving Butte Falls at nine o'clock a.m. and meeting the Medford-Butte Falls auto stage at the J. R. Neil place (Derby) where also he will meet the Prospect mail earlier and exchange mail and each of the three mail carriers return to their respective post offices. One very serious difficulty they all three labor under is that there is no place where either of them can leave the mail for the other man, but will have to wait until they can all get together, and in case either of the three should get stuck in the mud or have trouble the other two will have to wait until they get together or in case two of them should meet then that would be help the case for each one is liable to leave mail for each of the offices, a very poor arrangement for the U.S. mail.
    Harty Hayes of Indian Creek was in town Friday and reports that he intends to move the sawmill from where it is now located on Indian Creek up to the Dave Pence place on Elk Creek.
    John Foster, one of the mechanics in the Wm. von der Hellen force near Prospect, came out Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside. H. A. Dunn of Portland was also a guest at the Sunnyside at the same time.
    Mr. A. Dupray, owner of a sawmill on the northeast side of Round Top, was a passenger on the Butte Falls-Medford stage on his way to Medford. He met with quite an accident about ten days ago and was confined to his bed, he having been mixed up with a lot of logs and became caught among them, fortunately not seriously hurt, as there were no bones broken.
    Mr. M. D. Rowles of Lake Creek came out Friday and spent the night with us. He had been in Jacksonville serving as a juror for some time, but was finally discharged.
    Charley Clark was here for supper Friday night. I only saw him just as he was going to supper and disappeared, going on further, I suppose to Central Point, his home. He was formerly selling Watkins Remedies but did not learn what he was doing this fall but is busy at something, for he is a live wire.
    W. E. Hammel and wife and Mrs. Hammel's sister, Mrs. Sam Courtney, were doing business with our merchants Saturday.
    Carl Hanscom and his sister, Miss Freida Hanscom of Climax, were trading with our merchants Saturday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls came out from Medford Saturday and took dinner, going on up home that evening.
    There was a local institute held here last Saturday, November 4th, and was presided over by our county school superintendent, Mrs. Susanne Homes Carter, assisted by Miss Elizabeth Burr, rural  supervisor. Mr. E. H. French, president of the humane society of Jackson County, was also in attendance. Among the teachers in attendance were principal of our school Mrs. Josephine Homes and her assistant Miss Wiley of Central Point, Prof. Lowe and Prof. Ray Parker of Butte Falls and Prof. Glen Hale, the teachers of Reese Creek, Mrs. Roy Stanley, teacher of Brownsboro, beside a few others, whose names I failed to secure. At noon lunch was served by Mrs. Homes. They had a very pleasant and profitable meeting.
    Ed Cowden, one of our progressive farmers and stockmen, was in town Saturday and reports that he has stopped the dairy business as the price of hay will not justify feeding it to milk cows, especially where one has to feed all they can eat, and at the present price of butterfat.
    We did not have as many here for dinner last Sunday as usual, but when I reached home from church I found Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Nichols and two children and Mrs. Nichols' sister, Miss Beth Farlow, and a few young men, although the first table had already eaten and gone, but later in the day George West and wife and J. W. Smith came in from Medford.
    Frank Johnson, who owns a farm on Rogue River near the bridge that spans that stream, was doing business here Monday.
    Lucius Kincaid, our mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Persist route, via Trail, tells me that there is another change in that route and that there will be a daily mail to Trail beginning on Monday next, November 13th.
    F. Earl Bechdolt of Butte Falls came in for supper Saturday p.m., and someone came for him to go to his home.
    John Rader has been having a new roof put on the main building of his new home. John Miller, who bought the Dr. Wm. P. Holt property here, has been doing the carpenter work.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 13, 1922, page 4


    Lewis Sager of Trail was a business caller and took dinner and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Nick Young, one of our native sons, and W. P. Holbrook were among the guests at the Sunnyside. Mr. Young was delivering a couple of tons of corn at the Sunnyside Hotel for Mr. Holbrook that he had raised on Mr. Young's land in the Butte Creek bottom, and it is as fine a lot of corn as I remember seeing for a number of years. Mr. Holbrook reports that the average per acre was right around seventy bushels, and it was raised without irrigation. The farmers are beginning to realize the necessity of observing scientific rules for farming, not only in agricultural lines but in the line of raising fruit and in the matter of raising stock and poultry. It used to be a common thing to see the farmers come in with a load of razorback hogs two or more years old that would weigh one hundred and fifty pounds or perhaps a little more, for the market, but now one of them is scarcely ever seen and if seen at all it will be back in the hills, and when seen or if they hear you will give a boo and be off in the brush. Now we find the farmers are taking pride in raising the pureblood breeds that will weigh two hundred pounds by the time they are five or six months old. I remember that during the life of John W. Smith, who lived on the same farm where his son Art Smith now lives, that he sent back east and had a Jersey Red sent out and kept an account of how much he gained each day, weighing daily, and he reported to me that his average gain in weight for a month was three pounds daily and he finally became so fat that he could hardly get up when he was down.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. Marlan of Derby were transacting business with our merchants about mid-week.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, who is at present stopping in Medford, came and took dinner. W. M. Thompson of Grants Pass and a stranger came in for dinner from Central Point. He came in with a truckload of household goods for a man by the name of Thomas Smith who moved into the house owned by F. J. Ayres, and formerly occupied by Clifford Hickson, who has moved to Ashland. It is the rule here now if a family moves in another must move out, go to the hotel or camp out in a tent, for every house in town is occupied, even the upper part of Geo. Brown & Sons store and the hardware store. There were also five strangers here for dinner the same day.
    B. M. Bushm whose home is in Ashland, but in the employ of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, was here and spent the night, and reports that he is on a deal to extend the electric line from just above the town where the rock crusher stood up to the Lemon Charley farm about three miles above Brownsboro, and that he would close the deal very soon.
    Henry Debbs of Central Point also came in later for dinner the same day and later Mr. Luke Walker and Wm. Cottrell came in for dinner. Mr. Walker is a stockman from Klamath Falls and was on a deal with Mr. Cottrell for beef cattle.
    I see that I have omitted to say anything about our election. Well, it passed so quietly that it scarcely caused a ripple, for there seemed to be a fixed determination on the part of the voters to vote regardless of party lines, for instance in one neighborhood, where they were noted as being solid Republicans, I understand went solid for Kelly, while scores of Democrats, and many of them lifelong Democrats, voted and worked for C. M. Thomas, and it was the same way with regard to other names on the tickets. There was a general turnout, as there were two hundred and seventeen votes polled.
    We cannot tell who were elected for the town offices, as we have to wait until the council meets next Tuesday evening before the result will be known, but it is the general opinion that our present mayor, H. E. Campbell, is re-elected by almost a unanimous vote. The entire board of election officers, W. C. Daley, T. F. Nichols, A. J. Florey, H. E. Campbell and Jerry Lewis, were at the Sunnyside for dinner and made arrangements with the hostess to serve supper for them in the election hall. It took them until 5 a.m. to count the votes.
    James Jackson of Butte Falls has been spending a few days in the valley and taken a few meals at the Sunnyside.
    James McKey and Thomas Riley, Jr. came in for supper Tuesday evening. Mr. McKey is a professional poultry raiser and has charge of Thos. Riley, Jr.'s poultry yard on his farm on Antelope Creek.
    Wm. Brown and wife and B. H. Williams of San Francisco were here for dinner Thursday.
    George Averill, one of our old navy veterans, who lived on his homestead on the north side of Round Top near the P.&E.R.R., while he and his wife were away from home had the misfortune to have their home and all of its contents burned to the ground and left them with nothing more than what they had on, and all of their winter provisions destroyed.
    Among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday morning were Mr. Palmer of Butte Falls, R. V. Telfer and Frank Simpson of Brownsboro. Mr. Telfer is from Medford and is now the architect and chief mechanic on the new house being built for George B. Brown of Brownsboro.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Thursday were Earl Miles and his mother, Mrs. J. Doubleday of Butte Falls, who were on their way to Medford, and Mr. Smith, who is one of our orchardists and successful farmers on Big Sticky, and later in the afternoon Mr. Cadzow and four others from Butte Falls came in and called for dinner.
    O. C. Eblen of Butte Falls also came in later. He had just come in from Trail with a bunch of his horses that had been working on the Crater Lake Highway above Trail.
    Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, came in Thursday evening and took supper, then went on out to Medford.
    There were three men came in from Fish Lake for late supper and beds and report that the snow was fifteen inches deep when they left that morning. They went on to Medford next morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 16, 1922, page 6


    J. M. Wilfley, one of the big orchardists, was in town Saturday shaking hands with some of his many warm friends and bidding them farewell. He had disposed of his fruit crop and had his business here all settled up, and was on his way to Los Angeles, Cal., and to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is carrying on an extensive business. I was talking the other day with one of our prominent farmers who had been out to his orchard to get a load of apples, and he remarked that it was the neatest kept orchard that he had seen for years. Mr. John Norris is his foreman and with his ability to keep everything in proper shape and Mr. Wilfley's fine ideas and liberality, so far as the expense is concerned, it is made one of the most attractive orchards in the valley.
    Wert Pool, one of our progressive farmers, was doing business with our business men last Saturday.
    Porter J. Neff and Prof. Emmens of Medford were out here Saturday morning on their way up to the Pelouze place a short distance above here.
    Miss Middlebusher of Trail was a business caller the same morning on her way up home.
    Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, is enlarging his business, or rather adding another line, for he has added a line of groceries, almost that is kept in any first-class grocery store and seems to be getting his share of the trade. Mr. Lewis is one of our old settlers and had been in the confectionery, soft drink and pool and billiard business for several years, and has quite a number of warm friends here.
    Claus Charley and five others who attended the dance here Saturday night came in for beds and some of them for breakfast.
    Thomas Carlton, who has a fine stock farm on Rogue River, called for dinner Saturday p.m.
    Our Sunday school coming at 10:30 o'clock a.m. and preaching at 11:30 a.m. makes it difficult for me to get the names of the people who call for dinner Sundays, as I have no way to secure them, but there was not very many here that day, although John W. Smith, wife and two children were here for supper. They had been moving the day before from the old Smith farm on Big Sticky, where they had been living with his brother, Arthur, and had just finished up Sunday afternoon and came to here for supper, so they are now in their own home.
    Since we have had such an upheaval in the political realm, our genial Democratic postmaster has been making some very much needed changes in our post office. He has cut off a small part of the old post office department of the building and attached it to the main waiting room and cut off a large part of the old waiting room by partitioning it off and adding it to a part of the old post office room, thus making a nice, large, roomy office room, and leaving the waiting room nice and convenient and having the boxes facing the entrance. In making these changes he has also made a new entrance and put in a new window in the side of the post office, part of what was a part of the old entrance to the building. He has also put in a new set of boxes for the convenience of the rural mail carriers, making everything inside much more handy, and the ladies who work in the office will feel thankful for the Republicans and few Democrats for electing Walter Pierce to be governor of our great state of Oregon.
    E. V. Brittsan and family, who live on the P. S. Anderson ranch, up Rogue River, came in from Medford Saturday afternoon. Speaking about Mr. Brittsan and family brings to mind that fact that last Saturday was Armistice Day and that there was but very few people in our little town, except as they whizzed through so fast that I could net know them.
    Perl Stowell was also helping John W. Smith move Saturday and Sunday and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Ed Hoyt, our son-in-law of Ft. Klamath, came in on business Sunday evening and remained two days.
    I omitted to mention that Mr. Paul Robinson and Miss Nara Childreth were guests at the Sunnyside Sunday, and so were Harry Lewis and Miss Rosa Whaley of Medford. She came out on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Saturday and remained until Monday morning, going on up to Butte Falls on the stage. Thomas F. Nichols and his partner in the new pool and confectionery store, Clarence Pruett, and Harold Van Scoy were here for dinner Sunday, and George Holmes, wife and sister, Miss Ruth Holmes and Thomas Riley were guests at the Sunnyside Sunday eve.
    The partnership in the sawmill business between W. S. Chappell and George Adamson of Trail has been dissolved, Mr. Chappell having bought his partner out, and then Mr. Chappell sold part of the property to Mr. Harry Morgan and George Stacy, Jr., and the new firm are moving the mill up on Long Branch.
    Mr. W. G. Marshall, who lives a few miles west of Eagle Point, was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. Miller, an old resident of Elk Creek, was discovered missing by his family about the fourth of this month and search was instituted and when he was found, the first of the next week, he had unsaddled his horse and turned him loose, had taken off his shirt and shoes and was almost frozen. He was taken to a nearby house and revived. Dr. Holt was summoned over the phone and found that no serious damage was done, that ail he needed was to be kept warm and fed nourishment sparingly until he gains strength. The surprise is that he lived through the rain and snow, for he is about 70 or 80 years old.
    Died, November 13, Mr. Alva D. Hannaford, aged 53 years and one day. He leaves his wife, two sons and six daughters, Mrs. H. Jerome, Mrs. Gerdon of Lakeview, Ore.; Vivian, Esther, Ruth, Jewell, James and David, the latter aged two years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. H. G. Adams of this place, at the residence and interment in the Central Point cemetery.
    When we held our town election November 7, we were not able to learn who were the lucky ones until this Wednesday morning, as the town council did not meet until last night. H. E. Campbell was re-elected as mayor, councilmen for one year, Roy Ashpole, L. C. Charley, T. F. Nichols, councilmen for two years, Mattie Brown, F. J. McPherson, A. H. Thompson. Treasurer, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Recorder, Floyd Pearce.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1922, page 4


    Mrs. Israel Patton of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday on her way here.
    M. S. Chappell, our shoe cobbler, who has been up in the Trail country a good part of the summer and fall, engaged with his sawmill business, came out and reopened his shop, and the people of our town and vicinity were thinking that we were to have him here among us again, but as he has bought out his old partner and taken in two more, he has left us again to assist in moving the mill, so we will have to wear our old shoes unmended, go barefooted or buy new ones.
    Rev. John Day and wife and Mrs. Wm. N. Anderson, all of Butte Falls, called for dinner Tuesday and went on out to Medford that afternoon. They were on their way to Phoenix to attend a Sunday school convention.
    B. F. Fuller, one of our orchardists on a small scale, although he has a nice orchard, has just shipped 300 boxes of apples to Klamath Falls through the U.S. mail from this post office. It means business for our postmaster, but work for the mail carrier.
    I see that our confectionery man, Frank Lewis, is filling up a warehouse back of his main store building to be used for storing such goods as will be out of date such as pitchforks, shovels, nails, etc., for he is going into business all O.K., and is building up quite a trade in his new line of business.
    John M. Rennie, representing J. K. Gill & Co., Portland, Ore., and McLeod-May Co., San Francisco, Calif., was here for the night Tuesday and dinner Wednesday.
    Wednesday Roy Stanley gave me his subscription for the Medford Mail Tribune and the same day I took the subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune from Mrs. G. M. Stedman of Grants Pass, and also from O. W. Train of Eagle Point, Ore., although he lives near McLeod. The people seem to be hungry for the news and are calling for the Medford Mail Tribune to get it. I am also sending today, Friday, a card of thanks from the family of Mr. Alvah D. Hannaford, deceased, and his brother James G. Hannaford for publication.
    Wednesday we had as guests for dinner, Jack Stewart of Grants Pass, Mrs. George Stidham, also of Grants Pass and Mrs. Minnie Nussbaum of Lake Creek.
    Mrs. W. S. Baker and her brother, Wm. Pepper, were in town Wednesday afternoon on their way home with two cows in her truck she had been pasturing in Mr. R. A. Weidman's alfalfa pasture. She seems to be getting her business settled up quite well, although she says that there are a few debts that she has not been able to collect yet.
    In strolling around town Thursday I discovered a lot of timber, sand and gravel alongside and back of the offices of the Eagle Point and Butte Falls Canal Co., and found Mr. John Miller and Thomas Riley at work and approaching them, learned that they were building a garage for the company 40x20 feet with a sloping front. They had the foundation already made, blocks of cement and were sawing out the timbers, but Mr. Riley remarked that they would have to wait until the cement hardened before they could proceed, but in the meantime they would build an addition to the new barber shop, a room cut out of the old Roy Ashpole hardware store building, now fixed up for a soft drink, cigar and confectionery, pool and billiard and card room for a bathroom for our barber. They are working on it today, Friday, and in a short time, probably by the time this is in print, Earnest Dahack, our popular barber, will be giving those who desire one a good wash-off. Our carpenters are kept so busy that they have jobs always ahead.
    Lucius Kincaid, the mail contractor on the route from Eagle Point to Trail six times a week and to Persist, along the same route, has accomplished another change over his route so instead of crossing over the Dodge-French bridge going up over a dirt road with his heavy load, now goes over the Crater Lake Highway to Trail and returns via the Dodge bridge while he has but little or no load, quite a saving, especially in the winter.
    Henry Hayes and Joe Hoskins were business callers Thursday. They are living at the Haskins mill near McLeod.
    L. C. Falkenhagen, representing Marshall-Wells Company. Grants Pass, was here for dinner Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Boraker have moved into a part of the old Pool hotel, now owned by Mr. Morgan and occupied by him, he keeping the front part of the building, as every place where a person or family can live in is occupied by someone, and I think that the advice to the people of Jacksonville by the editor of that live little paper, the Jacksonville Post, is also applicable to our own town that is for those who have a little surplus cash to use it to build more houses, for there has been a constant demand for houses to rent for the past two or three months, and now the families are dividing up so as to accommodate the newcomers.
    Mr. Mathews, who is on the Perry Foster place near Debenger Gap, was a business caller this week, working on his auto in the Childreth blacksmith shop.
    The Ladies Improvement Society met at the home of Mrs. T. F. Nichols Thursday and I understand that there was a fine attendance and had a very pleasant time as well as a fine lunch.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 21, 1922, page 6


    Mrs. Maude H. Bunnell of Rancheria Prairie, Butte Falls, came out on the stage last Friday, took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel and went out to Medford remaining until Monday. She does not seem to appreciate the kind of roads we have between here and Butte Falls as they are beyond description.
    J. H. Rigsby, who has a family living here while he is working on the von der Hellen contract on the Crater Lake Highway, came out to visit his family and took two of his boys to Medford and treated them to a new suit each. He is one of our sterling citizens that came in from Eastern Oregon about a year ago and has managed to keep busy ever since. Some people complain that they can't find anything to do but he always does. They are of the class, perhaps, such as I heard complaining a few days ago about the wages offered for work, three dollars and forty cents a day and board yourself. They would rather lay around and go in debt for their board. There is no excuse now for anyone to be out of a job, if they are able to work, for work has now commenced on the main canal for the Eagle Point Irrigation Co., and if the weather will permit, work will be obtainable for the next year or more, as not only the canal is to be dug, but the laterals, and they, several miles in length, will be dug and that is no small job, and the contractors are already at work on them.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stille, who are living on the old Lane place west of Eagle Point, were trading with our merchants Thursday.
    Charley Humphrey and wife and Mrs. Ward Dunlap and daughter Miss Ada Dunlap, all of Derby, came out and went to Medford Thursday and on the homeward trip brought out a load of goods for the F. J. McPherson store. Charley is one of the live wires of the Derby country that never gets cold, for he is always up and going.
    Will C. Counter of Ashland, salesman for Parksmen, Portland, was here Thursday for the night and so was Millard Robinson and Earl Wood.
    Lee Edmondson of Butte Falls was a passenger on the stage on his way home. He had been out to Medford on business.
    Mr. Kingery of Antelope was doing business here last Saturday.
    Mrs. James Grieve, the hostess of the Prospect Hotel, was a passenger on the stage from Medford to her home Saturday.
    S. G. Palmer of Butte Falls was a passenger for his home also and Rev. J. E. Bay and wife were also homeward bound on the same stage. Mrs. Wm. N. Anderson, who came out with Mr. and Mrs. Day, had already gone up home the day before.
    Pearl Stowell and Joe Hoskins of McLeod were here for dinner and J. F. Johnson and family, Theo. A. Glass and Thos. L. Timmons of Kansas City, Earl Bechdolt and Ed Gomez were here Saturday for dinner.
    Among the callers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Callaghan, agents for the Vacuette Distributing Co. Medford, Ore., John Wilkinson, B. S. Moomaw, three children, and sister Mrs. Dusic Wilkinson, Frank Worth and his brother-in-law, Carl Richardson, night and dinner.
    Charles Clark of Medford, traveling agent for Watkins Products, was here Monday for dinner, and Ed Gomez spent the night.
    The road district meeting held at the home of the road supervisor, Wm. Perry, resulted in levying a special tax of five mills. At first the proposition was to make it an eight-mill levy but that was voted down and they finally agreed on a five-mill tax. In the Butte Falls district they voted a five-mill tax, which will mean raising about $10,000 for that district.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Monday noon were Mr. and Mrs. William Perry, he being our popular road supervisor, and he reports that the work is going on quite satisfactorily although there are several places where work is much needed, but owing to the fact that the people at the last election voted down the bill to levy an additional tax of $100,000 for road work the county court appropriated as much money as usual to our roads in this end of the county, so instead of having $10,000 to apply to his district the coming year there will be but five thousand dollars plus the amount raised from the general road fund so we will have to put up with what we will get, and the reader will bear in mind that five thousand dollars will not go very far in as large a district as the one he has to care for.
    In addition to those mentioned who were here for dinner Monday there were also Mrs. Rosa Smith, Mrs. Perry's sister, W. E. Hammel, one of the directors of the Eagle Point Canal Co., and Mr. Perry, who is also one of the directors. Fred Pettegrew, the secretary of the district, Joe Hoskins, Geo. Lewis, Wm. Bigham, Perry Foster and Oliver Adams of Butte Falls.
    The contracts are being let to clear the right of way for the canal from Big Butte to the terminal, the Nichols Gap, and also the different laterals, as well as the digging of the laterals, and some of the contractors are establishing their camps. Mr. Pettegrew told me this Wednesday morning that the company was establishing a camp at the C. H. Natwick place and were going to make some of the laterals themselves, so by the time I write my next letter the dirt will be flying in earnest.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 24, 1922, page 10


    L. J. Lee of Tillamook County, Ore., called for dinner Tuesday. He was looking over the county, and in the run of conversation remarked that he was going to spend one winter in Oregon where it does not rain all of the time. He was simply delighted with our climate as well as the general appearance of the valley, especially the productiveness of our soil.
    O. C. Eblen of Butte Falls moved his family and household goods over from Butte Falls, coming this far for dinner, then going on to Medford. He tried to secure a house here to move into but failed. There was one house that he could have rented but it required some little changes but the owner would not go to any expense in that line so he had to go on to Medford and occupy apartments in a rooming house. There is a call every day for houses to live in and none to be found. Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of Rogue River Valley, who owns a farm on Rogue River near the Debenger Gap, was also a diner at the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday.
    John Prillaman, who lives in the upper part of the Brown Bros. store building, and made a business trip up into Alberta, Canada, to look after his land interests there, returned last Tuesday morning. On his return trip he came by way of North Dakota to look after his land interests there. He reports the most of the time he was gone the weather was ideal, about like it was here, and in speaking of the crops in North Dakota he says that they were the best they have had for years, but if I should stop at that I would fail to tell what to some would be the most interesting part of the narrative, for while he tells of the bountiful crops he also tells of the failure of a market for them. He reports the corn crop is so plentiful and the price so low that the farmers simply cut it up, shock it in the field and turn the cattle to it to help themselves; that it will not pay for shucking out, and that beef is selling, when there is a demand for beef on foot, at two cents a pound, and that the choicest steaks are selling in the shops at 11 cents per lb.; and that the potato crop is almost beyond description, that they grow to an enormous size but also the very best quality, and so far as quantity is concerned the ground is covered with them, but no market. He stated that the farmers were giving them away to anyone who would dig them. That he saw a forty-acre field just covered with them and the owner offered to give the entire crop to anyone who would dig them and take them away, and that hay was offered for four dollars a ton in the stack, but no buyers. He also was giving an account of how the grafters manage who are speculating in the oil fields up in the Montana country. The promoters of the scheme will lease a farmer's land and have him pick the place where he wants the well bored, and they will go to work and bore the well until they strike the sand; that is a sure indication of oil, and then stop and tell the owner that there is no sign of oil, and so give it up, and as the land is good for nothing without oil, some agent will come along and offer to buy the land for a low price and after he or one of his pals have bought up all the land they can they will reset the machinery and bore a little deeper, strike oil and thus rob the owner and make a fortune.
    There was a family by the name of Cowgill came in Tuesday looking for a home, so I am informed by one of our merchants, F. J. McPherson, and he seemed to think that they wanted to buy a farm, in fact there are quite a number of inquiries for places to rent or buy, and a number of strangers who are simply inquiring about the price of land, and when the water will be ready to use in the new canal, but that is a question that is easier asked than answered, although the promoters seem to think that if it is an open winter that the canal will be completed early next season, as the contractors are already starting up their work. The von der Hellen gasoline shovel is already up at the head of the canal, and Chris Natwick is ready to push his job there and the contracts are let to clear the brush and timber off of the right of way. H. R. Bush of Colorado, and H. A. Smith of Sams Valley were here for dinner Tuesday and reported that they had a contract to clear the right of way on a good part of the laterals. There is about fifty miles of that kind of work to be done.
    S. A. Pickel, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, was here for dinner Wednesday and later in the afternoon Dr. W. H. Heckman and wife of Central Point called for dinner. They had been up to the T. F. Nichols place on Rogue River to examine one of the Davis boys so that he could take out a life insurance policy.
    H. A. Hanscom, father of our townsman Charley Hanscom, and son W. V. Hanscom, R. Waddell and C. E. Redden, all of California, were here Wednesday visiting H. A. Hansom's son Charley.
    The Cowgill brothers, three of them of Lakeview, came in on the stage from Medford Wednesday morning and started right off in search of Lewis Robinson, so I did not learn the particulars but learned later that there were three families of them and that they were seeking homes here among us.
    Mrs. T. F. Nichols, wife of one of the hardware merchants, who has been up above Lake Creek visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, returned the first of the week.
    Owen Conover, Edward Cook and F. E. Bechdolt of Butte Falls went out to Medford Wednesday with a bunch of beef cattle, returning to the Sunnyside Hotel that evening to spend the night.
    Wm. von der Hellen, Ralph Cowgill, Fred Pettegrew and Alex Betz were here for dinner Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 27, 1922, page 4


    The new concrete bridge at Trail is nearly completed and is certainly a fine piece of work.
    Mr. J. L. Ragsdale returned from Medford one day last week with a new Ford.
    Ester Mechem of upper Trail spent the weekend with Irma Ash.
    Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fry and son, Earl, were Sunday guests at Irwin Howe's.
    We are glad to hear Mrs. M. Middlebusher is improving rapidly and expects to return to her home soon.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole, daughter Minnie and Claude Ragsdale returned home Monday from a few days visit on the Umpqua side.
    The teacher and pupils will enjoy a few days vacation this week, as there will be no school for the week after Wednesday on account of Thanksgiving.
    Wallace Cushman was in town selling turkeys Saturday.
    The work on the highway above Trail is progressing rapidly. They expect to have it completed in a few weeks, if the weather doesn't get too bad.
    Mr. T. L. Ragsdale and sons Claude, Wilmer and Wesley were repairing fence on their place in Upper Trail district the first of the week.
    Enid Middlebusher and Irma Ash were Eagle Point callers Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1922, page 6


    Mrs. Guy Pruett, Henry French and his son Lloyd were among the business callers last Thursday. Mr. French, before the Crater Lake Highway was established, used to bring his eggs, cream and other kinds of marketable farm products to our little town, but now since he has a nice smooth road to travel and it takes but a few moments to run the ten miles, for since the new highway was laid out across what is improperly called the desert, it has shortened the distance from here to Medford, so that it now takes but a few minutes to make the run to Medford, and it is such a pleasure to ride over a smooth road, especially  after riding over some of our dirt roads is mixed with water enough to make it soft. I heard a man who was here at the Sunnyside Hotel telling about how the people of Butte Falls had had to cut out a new route to get out of that city since the contractor had plowed up the main street from near the Butte Falls bank building out toward Derby and the people had wallowed through it until it had become with the utmost difficulty that the light hack with a heavy team could hardly get through with the mail. If our county court or the state commission would let the contracts to make the market roads in the winter and have them commence working in the spring and have the contractors bonded to have the job finished by the first of December there would be none of the trouble of wallowing through the plowed ground after the fall rains.
    There was a report came to me that there was a collision on the Cingcade hill between an auto and a wagon last Thursday but no serious damage done that a woman had her face scratched up some but fortunately no special damage done.
    I am sorry to see that the work on our railroad is getting along so slowly, for I see the men who have been working on the track around town and report that they are laid off on account of lack of material, especially ties. One of the men was here the other day and reports that they have the grading about completed out as far as Four-Bit Creek, about into the large (two townships) body of fine yellow pine and sugar pine timber equal to any body of timber on the coast, for the timber further north is mostly fir while this is considered the very best timber for manufacturing purposes to be found anywhere, and still they have to lay off for want of ties and rails.
    The work on the Eagle Point irrigation canal is getting started, the gasoline shovel is already unloaded from the car and by the last account was moving on its way to commence digging its way through the roots, rocks and dirt to open up a way for the water to come from Big Butte Creek to the alluvial soil around Eagle Point, and strangers are coming in asking all kinds of questions about the price and quality of land in this section.
    Our old contractor, C. H. Natwick, who has a contract to dig 19,000 yards of the main canal, is establishing his camp at the Thomsen homestead and started up with. two loads of machinery; and Jed Edsall, another contractor, who has a contract for digging 10,183 yards of laterals, has established his camp at the Ernest Dahack homestead and I have not learned just where the Wm. von der Hellen camp is being located yet.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Humphrey of Derby and Mrs. James Merritt of Reese Creek came out Friday and went out to Medford, Mr. Merritt taking a fine lot of turkeys to the market.
    Chris Beale, a prominent citizen of Butte Falls, who carried the mail from Butte Falls to Derby last winter, came out last week and has gone to work on the contract with Jed Edsall.
    J. M. Conley and Jesse Marshall of Butte Falls were here for dinner Friday on their way to Medford.
    Fred Pelouze, formerly of this neighborhood, but more recently in California, was here Friday and called on your Eagle Point correspondent on his way up to Portland to visit his son Bob and family. When asked where he was living, [he] replied that he had been living in California but they expected to live in Portland near Bob, as life was too short for them to live apart.
    E. W. Frey and Mrs. Thomas Abbott, both of Lake Creek, were here Friday evening on their way home. They had been out to see a doctor, as Mrs. Abbott's baby was ill. While they were here Mrs. Abbott gave me her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Geo. W. Averill of Butte Falls, near Round Top, was here the last of the week to spend the night. It does look as though his troubles don't come singly, for shortly after he had his house and contents burned, including their entire winter supplies of provisions of all kinds, their year's supply of canned and preserved fruit, clothing, etc., then when they returned they found that some dogs had been left in the neighborhood to starve and they had killed forty blooded White Leghorn and Plymouth Rock hens and ducks and left them scattered over the yard, and a few days later he found his best horse dead and the other so lame that it took him all day to bring him down this far, on his way to Medford to see a veterinary. Now if anyone can report a longer string of misfortunes just let me know and the account will be duly reported.
    E. M. Best of Medford and Uriah Gordon of Fort Klamath, Loris Martin, who has had charge of the rock work (blasting) on the von der Hellen contract, on the Crater Lake Highway, G. H. Wehman, the bookkeeper on the same job, and Truman McClelland were here for dinner, supper and beds last Friday and so were J. H. and W. W. Jones of Portland.
    F. J. Ayres and wife of Reese Creek passed through our town Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1922, page 6


    A short time ago I gave an account of John Prillaman's trip up into Canada where has a land interest in the Alberta section and also of his experience in North Dakota and of the wonderful crops they raised there the past season, etc., and in speaking of the price of beef cattle, I made a mistake and stated that the price of beef cattle there had dropped down to two cents a pound. gross or live weight, where it should have been that the drop in cattle was in the Alberta country. Mr. Prillaman called my attention to the mistake and remarked that as soon as the new tariff law went into effect so that the Canadians could not ship their cattle into the United States, that the price dropped to two cents a pound, remarking that he could not see as that had raised the price of cattle here, for they are so low here now that it will not pay to feed twenty-dollar hay.
    I see that I am getting behind in my writing so far as dates are concerned.
    Mrs. L. Jennings and Mr. F. C. Johnson of Medford came in for late supper Sunday evening. They had started to go to Butte Falls, but took the wrong road and traveled for a long time before they discovered their mistake. Mrs. Jennings is a daughter-in-law of the man by that name who was in charge of the Sterling mine when it was in its prime and her husband and his brother have it leased at the present time, but the mining ground has reached such an altitude that they do not have the necessary drop for the water so as to wash the dirt off from the gold so that it is not producing the gold it did in former days, for it was at one time producing as much, if not more, gold than any other mine in Southern Oregon.
    Mrs. James Fry of Trail came out on the stage Monday and went on up home on the Eagle Point-Trail stage. She had been visiting in Ashland.
    Miss Edith Turnbow of Butte Falls came out on the P.&E. train Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel and so did Mr. R. Cummings of the Earl Fruit Co., Spokane, Wn., and Mr. A. G. Irish, also of the same company of Medford; Mr. S. Stephenson, Medford; W. L. Jones, Butte Falls of the forest reserve service; R. C. Cambers, H. A. Smith, H. L. Buck, George West, F. Pettegrew, Ralph Cowgill, two of the officers of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Eagle Point canal, H. L. Cox, manager of the construction work on the extension of the P.&E. railroad, and he reports that they have the new roadbed graded as far as Four-Bit Creek, ready for the ties and rails; Mr. Trikham Abbott, Salem, or assistant bank examiner and C. M. Sims, state bank examiner, Salem; George Gray and H. Down, the two last named for dinner and overnight and Mr. Dusham.
    R. M. Conley and a stranger of Butte Falls were here for dinner and so was Mrs. Raymond Phillips of Squaw Lake, Jacksonville post office, was here for dinner. She had been up to Butte Falls to visit her daughter, who is attending school at that place.
    C. H. Natwick, who is arranging his camp on the Eagle Point canal, has been stopping here for a few days.
    Mrs. Ralph Gardner and son, Ralph, Jr., brought out some beef for the Sunnyside and took dinner Tuesday.
    Miss Viola Zimmerman, of Butte Falls, who makes her home with her parents near Blue Canyon, went up home on the stage Tuesday.
    H. B. Tronson, one of our prominent orchardists, was horse trading with F. J. McPherson, one of our successful merchants, last Tuesday, and while here said that he had disposed of all of his marketable apples, but has some of his culls left on his hands, that he had bargained them off to one of the cull buyers, but he found that he was getting so many from the packing houses that he refused to take any more, and he thought that it was a dirty trick. S. M. Hawk and A. L. Hildreth of Butte Falls and Frank Miller of Medford were here Wednesday for dinner.
    Fred Dutton, one of our successful farmers and stock men, was here last Wednesday trading with our garage man, George L. Holmes.
    Mrs, Alvah Hannaford, who lost her husband a short time ago, passed through here with her household goods, moving from the old Moomaw place that her husband had rented a short time before his death, to her brother-in-law, James G. Hannaford. She expects to live with her mother this winter.
    Alvin Bieberstedt, one of our successful German citizens, who lives back of Butte Falls, near the foot of Mt. Pitt, was here on business last Wednesday. Charley Givan and a younger brother were also business callers Wednesday, and so was W. O. Johnson of Wellen. He was trying to buy loose hay.
    Fred Frideger of Medford is out in these parts, pruning his orchard and stopping at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Laura C. Atkins, who is teaching school in the Lost Creek district, came in early Wednesday morning for breakfast, on her way to her home on Applegate River.
    George F. Fendall came in from Hilt, Calif., on his way home above Trail.
    John Foster of Medford was here to dinner Thursday and reported that his father, Perry Foster, has gone down to Gates, Calif., to visit his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Morrison.
    Other guests who were here Thanksgiving day were Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ralston and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, one of the principal shoe dealers in Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holmes, Mrs. Robert Harnish and her sister, Esther Nichols of Phoenix. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley, Mr. S. H. Harnish and later in the day Perry Haley and wife, Mrs. Clarence Robinett and Miss Ruth Grover.
    Word reached here Thursday that another one of our prominent citizens, James Jordan, had passed away on Wednesday at the home of his son-in-law, Ed Wolfer, in Hubbard, Ore., aged 30 years, 8 months and 10 days. He has been a citizen of our town for several years, but his health failed him and he finally consented to go and live with his daughter. I suppose the remains will be shipped back to Iowa, his old home, to be buried by the side of his wife. He leaves several children and many friends to bear the loss.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 5, 1922, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Poole, Minnie and Luther Poole, were Thanksgiving guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Colvig of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher of Prospect spent the weekend with relatives at Trail.
    R. R. Dawson laid off a few days this week from his work on the crusher to gather his cattle.
    Mr. and Mrs. Stalley Watson of Attalia, Wash., are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Watson.
    The Misses Nina Blakeley and Minnie Pool and C. Ragsdale were Medford visitors Sunday.
    Mr. James and Mr. Reynolds of Medford were in our vicinity Thursday looking over mining interests.
    The Dale brothers from Central Point are boarding with Ashes at Trail and working for Hill Construction Company.
    W. R. Thomason and E. E. Ash were transacting business in Medford Saturday.
    Miss Mae Mordoff, teacher at Trail, spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1922, page 6


    Last Friday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Swink, one of our prominent business men of Butte Falls, Miss Lorena Lowe of Central Point, A. S. Turnbow of Eugene, Ore., and Amos Turnbow of Butte Falls came out from Butte Falls to the Sunnyside for dinner. All of them had been up to Butte Falls combining business with pleasure, and came out on the stage as far as here and took passage on the stage for Medford.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Friday, Dec. 1st in addition to those named above were Millard Robinson, Buster McClelland, George Lewis and the Smith boys, who are located at Four-Bit Creek where they have located on homesteads.
    H. C. Mechem of Trail was here on business Saturday.
    There were four young men came out on the Butte Falls stage Saturday on their way to Medford and one of them, Barney Hogan, was on his way to Seattle to work in a hospital until spring, when he expects to return to his old job in Butte Falls.
    Since the work has been suspended on the von der Hellen canal contract on an irrigation project above Talent, where S. B. Holmes was bookkeeper, he has resumed his place in our post office as clerk.
    It is a good thing for the readers of the Eaglets that the author does not attend the dances here, for if he did he might be compelled to record incidents that take place Saturday nights that would be considered a disgrace to our town; for instance, Sunday morning as one of the late sleepers came into the sitting room another one of the boarders asked, "You had lots of moonshine over there last night, didn't you?" And that after there were several ladies called and in the run of conversation one of them related how she was disturbed by their drunken carousals and could see small groups of men and women walking along the sidewalk and one of the men would take what appeared to be a bottle out from under the sidewalk and he would apparently take a drink, and then they would take a drink all around, ladies and all, and soon act as though they were drunk, at least they seemed to be very boisterous. But what I started in to tell was about someone stealing Eli Dahack's car and running it off of the old wagon bridge. It appears that the man or men or women, for there is no clue to who it was, at any rate the party who did the act deliberately tore the  railing off one side of the bridge and took a long pole and stretched it quartering across the bridge so that when the front wheel would strike it would hit the car so as to run it off the side of the bridge where it would drop twelve or fifteen feet, but whether that can be attributed to the moonshine or to some other cause is a question to be settled, but the car was not so badly damaged as one would suppose. The top was badly smashed, the radiator and shields were badly bent up but the machinery was but little damaged. I would suggest that if this defiance of law is not stopped that when the new council is organized the first of January they repeal the ordinance allowing the promoters of the dancing here to continue the dancing after midnight, for the opinion is very prevalent that some of the people who are doing the mischief go to the dances in Medford and get steamed up and then after the dances close in Medford and Central Point come out here and do their dirty work where they can keep up all night. "A word to the wise is sufficient."
    There were but few guests at the Sunnyside Sunday, but those who ventured out seemed to enjoy themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Van Leewin and Mrs. Anna Hinman of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Natwick, also of Medford, besides a number of our neighbors.
    Monday was one of our lovely winter days, just cold enough to make a person feel comfortable when out of the house, in fact the first four days of December proved to be ideal, but Monday night the December rain began to come down in earnest and this Tuesday afternoon the rain is coming down in sheets and the ground is covered with water and Butte Creek is beginning to make us think of the kind of winters we used to have back in the seventies when where the Crater Lake Highway crosses Butte Creek the water was spread all over the lowlands and where the embankment on the north side of the creek and where the railroad bridge now stands was all over the banks, but since the channel is deeper and wider perhaps there is not so much danger, at least we hope that there will not be such a flood again, for there is no telling the amount of damage that may be done, but those of us who saw the floods of the winter of '61 and '62 always dread to see the heavy December rains and snowstorms.
    Robert Neile, who has a stock ranch near the head of Salt Creek, was a business caller last Monday and remarked that he wanted to sell his farm and move to Eagle Point, as he thought that it has a bright future, and in the run of conversation asked if I knew how many retired farmers there were located in our town, and when I come to think of it I am surprised to see how many there are.
    Monday when the Butte Falls stage came in from Medford there were three lovely, sweet-looking girls and three extremely happy-looking boys came out as passengers and the boys acted as though they were afraid that the girls might get away from them and get lost in our city, and they succeeded so well that I did not learn their names or residences, but I hope that they succeeded in reaching their destination all O.K.
    Thomas Stanley and Charley Cingcade were business callers Monday.
    Mrs. Ella G. Barnes of Derby, but formerly of Shelton, Wash., who is stopping at the Hill Hotel on the Butte Falls road for her health, came out on the stage Monday and stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner on her way to consult her physician. Chas. Brown, Roy Ashpole, one of the firm of Nichols & Ashpole, Harold Van Scoy, our mail carrier between Medford and Butte Falls, Leland Pettegrew, Clarence Pruett were here for dinner and breakfast, and later in the afternoon Hon. Judge Geo. Dunn of Ashland, our representative in the state senate, and Arthur Kleinhammer of Little Applegate and Mr. Dunford, also of Little Applegate, came in for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 8, 1922, page 10


    Last Tuesday there was quite a rush of hungry people collected at the Sunnyside about noon, and among them was W. E. Hammond, one of the directors of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, Fred Pettegrew, the secretary of the company; Ralph Cowgill, the chief engineer of the company and W. L. Jones, N. Cowski, R. Cambers, Mr. Nason, G. H. West, C. H. Natwick, Mr. Matz, J. H. Faswell, Cliff Heckman and Harold Van Scoy.
    We have been called upon to consign another member of our community to her last resting place in the Central Point cemetery, Mrs. Eliza E. Stille, wife of J. H. Stille, who passed away December 4 at her home near Eagle Point, aged 35 years, 7 months and 25 days. Mrs. Stille has been a devoted Christian for the last 35 years. She is the mother of five children, two boys and three girls, one of her granddaughters being the wife of Mr. Lewis Robinson of this place. She leaves her husband, two sons and three daughters. Interment was solemnized Wednesday, December 6, Rev. Hurburt G. Adams officiating.
    Miss Mable Clary was a passenger of the Medford-Butte Falls stage to Eagle Point and went on up to Rogue Resort on the Trail-Persist stage Wednesday morning. Al Hildreth came out on the same stage and went on up to his home in Butte Falls.
    Arthur J. Anderson and Steve Parif of Medford were here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mrs. Charles Paige of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls-Medford stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford the same day.
    Thursday morning I received two copies of the Pacific Record Herald, editor, Delbert Fehl, associate editor, B. F. Lindas, in which is published a part of a very readable article by the editor-in-chief boosting Medford as the center of the universe, which was very proper, but then on the next page was an anonymous article, "Thoughts from the Chimney Corner," giving Medford such an overhauling as if it was true would make those who live there feel a terrible nausea of the stomach on account of having to drink the water that is brought from Fish Lake after it has been spread over the land above the dam, that is, contaminated. After the arrangements were made to supply Medford with pure water from Little Butte Creek it was discovered that a company had practically preempted the water supply of Medford and was building a dam across Fish Lake and when too late to remedy the evil the citizens of Medford discovered that the dam was backing the water over the adjacent country, covered by "old barns, manure piles, discarded garbage, decayed trees and other vegetable matter, and this polluted water was going into the pipe that supplied the city with drinking water." In a short time after this was discovered a howl was raised, but soon the administration in the city affairs was changed and everything went on smoothly, but now there is another change in the political affairs of the city and who knows but the "Old Pioneer" who wrote the article may not be an old sorehead that has been disappointed by the election the 7th day of November. But at any rate the publication of such an article will not be an drawing card for Medford. I suppose that the author thinks that he can hide behind a nom de plume and go unsuspected, but "murder will out."
    J. W. Hovey, the superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, was in town last Wednesday and reports that he is getting along nicely with his work, that he had quite a tract of land that had not been cleared of stones and that he has been clearing them off and used them to build a good road over a low place over the route they have to travel from the house out to the county road, the Crater Lake Highway, and that he has put dirt from the side of the newly built road over the rocks and gravel over that so that now he has a good graveled road all the way out.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgan came in from their home near Trail to visit his parents Thursday and Mrs. W. P. Morgan and Mrs. A. J. Florey were already in a car ready to start for Medford to visit a sick friend of theirs so they talked the matter over and Mrs. Morgan went in with her father-in-law and the two ladies went on to Medford.
    I see that we have another sign up in our town, Nichols and Pruett having a neatly lettered one in front of their pool room. From all appearances they intend to attract the attention of the public.
    L. E. Neuber of Jacksonville came out on the stage Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside. He had been up to the Butte Falls country looking after his homestead and Mrs. Nellie Trefren, also of Butte Falls, came out on the same stage and took dinner. They were both on their way to Medford.
    John E. Rinehart and Fred Frideger came in to spend the night. Mr. Rinehart is an old friend of Mr. Frideger from Ohio and concluded that he wanted to see some of the West so came out to visit his old friend. They have been stopping at the Sunnyside for several days. He seems to be well pleased with our country, but is rather reticent when it comes to expressing his opinion.
    Paul Jennings and Paul F. Anderson of Big Applegate came in Thursday night and called for supper, bed and breakfast, and horse feed, but as we do not keep horses, sent them to our neighbor, Sam Harnish. They had come over to gut a lot of Jersey cows at the Fred Pelouze farm.
    Al Clements of Medford came out on the stage and went up on the Trail stage, and Mrs. Sherman Wooley of Butte Falls also was here and went up home on the Medford-Butte Falls stage the same day.
    Benjamin Whetstone was in town Friday morning, having his horses shod up, as he has a job of hauling lumber out from the Hayes sawmill on Indian Creek out to the Crater Lake Highway.
    Our popular sheriff, Charley Terrill and wife, were here for dinner and they were accompanied by Miss Mabel R. Haynes, secretary of the Red Cross of Jackson County. They were on their way up to see a family in the Derby region who were reported as needing help, as the husband was in the county jail.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1922, page 6


    Dist. 74 has been in fear of losing a few weeks school, as the teacher who contracted to teach this school was forced to resign on account of illness Mr. Davis has taken the school. He came from Medford in a taxi yesterday (Sunday) in order to teach school Monday. There are clever pupils. Our efficient chairman was responsible for securing a teacher immediately without interruption of the school.
    The coming of a sawmill will be a great boon to "little ol' Elk Creek," as Mr. Hayes has been busy establishing a sawmill on Dave Pence's property. We have been in need of a sawmill for a long time as lumber is a long way off, and it isn't very easy to haul it on roads which are not in good condition.
    Persist is having their dose of Old Man Winter, as it was reported that 8 inches of snow covered the ground up to Sunday morning the 10th.
    Mr. MacDonald, who runs the confectionery store at the Rogue Elk Resort, is selling out his stock of groceries and periodicals.
    Harvey Morgan went to town last week in his limousine (horse power).
    L. A. Whitley went to Eagle Point Monday for a load of hay.
    Mrs. P. S. Sandoz was a visitor at the school Thursday.
    Claud Moor went after his horses, which were on his homestead at Persist.
    Wm. Ivey visited at his home for a few weeks; also at his grandmother's place, Mrs. F. A. Whitley. He returned to his work Sunday.
    Howard Ash and family returned to their place on Elk Creek Saturday. Mr. Ash was accompanied by Wayne Ash, his brother.
    Elmer Ivey has been spending a short visit from high school.
    A postal inspector was up in this territory inspecting the post office.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1922, page 6


    A few days ago Charley Terrill and wife accompanied by Miss Mabel Haines, the secretary of the Red Cross Society, stopped on their way up to Derby to look after the condition of a family whose husband and father was confined in the county jail for bootlegging, and in the run of conversation Charley remarked that he had only eighteen in the jail at that time, although he had had twenty-one in there a few days before but that some of them were turned out, that they come and go, and that they were mostly in for violating the prohibition law, and that brought up the subject of the expense of their keep. It is a very common thing to hear one remark that one can bootleg a little, while there is good money in it and if they get caught that the justice of the peace will fine them only about ten dollars and ten to twenty days in jail where they will have good warm quarters and free grub during the winter and that there is no disgrace to go to jail for breaking that law, and we don't wonder at their making such a remark as that when the older ones are teaching them that very idea, especially when they can spend the winter in jail and save the expense of board, come out in the spring and get a job and go to work again. While their reasoning is very good so far as the upkeep and comfort of the jail is concerned, there is a way to meet just such cases, and by that means act as a motive for them to look on that kind of a life from a different standpoint altogether.
    Our legislature is to convene in Salem in a short time, about three weeks, and if it be not considered out of place I would suggest that the law regarding such cases be so amended as to add to the jail sentence the provision that the convicted persons be required to work at least eight hours each working day at some kind of labor that will pay the taxpayers for their board and keep. I notice almost every week in the Oregon Journal accounts of men being sent to the rock pile to work out their sentence for misdemeanors, and why can't we have some provision similar to protect the taxpayers of our county.
    I don't intend by making the suggestion to inflict a heavier penalty on the poor unfortunates, but it might prove a blessing to them, for you take a man who has been living an active life or perhaps accustomed to labor and confine him where he would have but little exercise and his system will soon be disordered and all out of sorts, whereas if he were required to saw a certain amount.of wood each day, that would give him an appetite so that he would relish his meals, and furthermore if he should happen to have a family that needed help, and that often happens, let the county court allow a certain amount per day and apply it toward the support of the family. As we have no rock pile for them to work on I would suggest that the county buy a lot of cordwood and have it delivered at a convenient place and then put them to work, if not at that then at something else, so as to occupy the mind and keep them healthy. But the objector says, how would you make them work? That would be an easy matter. Adopt the Scripture rule, "He that worketh not neither let him eat," and that would soon bring him to his senses. I knew of a case in Siskiyou County when I was teaching school on Greenhorn Creek about three miles from Yreka when the county required people of that class to work on the roads. A man by the name of Ned Schwaky was the boss of the "chain gang" and that was composed of all kinds of the lesser criminals, and one man he had turned over to him decided that he would not work, and he was a young giant to look at. Ned Schwaky was a man who weighed right around two hundred pounds (he had a deputy who also was some scrapper by the name of Nels Morey), and he reasoned the case with him for a moment, and finally walked off; in a few minutes he came back and the young giant was still standing where he left him, and when the boss came be brought with him a bunch of ugly-looking hazel switches and he addressed the giant thus: Now you can go to work or take a flogging and then go to work. He stood and looked at the boss for a moment and remarked, "Well I guess I'll go to work," and he went to work and had no more trouble.
    Another amusing incident that occurred while I was there was close to where I lived. Mr. Schwaky had in his chain gang at the time I refer to fourteen Chinamen and as it was most too far to take the prisoners to Yreka to the jail he secured a log house to keep them in, it having a partition and only one outside door, so he put the whole bunch in the back room and left his helper and son to guard them. They made their bed on the floor in the outside room so that the door could not be opened without pushing them both out of the way, and Mr. Schwaky went down to "his wife's house" resting easy, but when you get ahead of a Chinaman you have done something. Mark you, they each one had a chain about for feet long and a ball of iron attached to it, and that fastened around the ankle. Well, while everyone was resting nicely, by some means the fireplace was torn out and two of the Chinese, the worst ones in the bunch, got out and the next morning the giant missed them. Well, that day they went to work as usual but that night when they went to bed Mr. Schwaky took a heavy padlock and ran the clasp through each Chinaman's chain and securely locked it, putting the key in his pocket, and went as usual home leaving all of them prisoners fastened together. The next morning when the guard called them to get their breakfast, for they had do their own cooking, he found that the key was in Mrs. Schwaky's pocket and the scene was so laughable that Tobe, one of my school boys, came and called my wife and I to witness the performance. When one wanted water the whole bunch went; when one made bread they all took a hand at it, the same way cutting meat, making tea, etc., and when Ned woke up and found that he had forgotten to leave the key with the guard he laughed and remarked that Nels would have a time with them getting their own breakfast, but that didn't bother him, so after he had eaten his breakfast he came on up and found they were all ready to go to work, but the next time he left the key with his helper.
    Well this is quite a digression, but will add a few smaller items of interest to the general reader. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Boyer of Reese Creek, Mr. Anderson, P. W. Trefren of Butte Falls, J. A. Black of the Medford Grocery Co. and H. Campbell of Butte Falls were among the diners last Friday.
    Wm. Pierce, the master mechanic for Hubbard Bros., was out here assisting in arranging for the funeral of a sister Rebekah who died in Medford.
    Miss Susan Cornell, who is teaching in the Brophy district, came out with Charley Manning and they both took dinner here Saturday.
    Mrs. E. Northrup and her daughter, Miss Nellie Northrup, came out from Butte Falls on the stage Saturday and took dinner. They are recently from Yakima, Wash. They went on out to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 15, 1922, page 8


    Among the guests at the Sunnyside last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, and Mr. and Mrs. John Moffett and Miss Jane Moffett, guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown; H. E. Campbell and wife, our banker, for they both work in the First Bank of Eagle Point; T. B. Scroggs and S. D. Balch of Arizona. They are engaged in the real estate business and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell; Mrs. Fort Hubbard and Mrs. Murt Daily, Mrs. Nettie Grover and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Pruett and Leland Hutchins.
    Miss Susan Cornell, who is teaching in the Brophy district and came out last week with Charley Manning, went out to Medford the same day, returning Monday morning on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went back up to her school Monday via the Prospect stage that connects with the stage from here at Derby.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Coghill, who have rented the old J. P. Moomaw farm, were business callers in our town.
    Mrs. Elizabeth Hannaford, the lady who recently lost her husband while on the Moomaw place, has traded a span of horses to W. P. Morgan for a house and lot known as the Finley place and will become a resident of our town, adding to the list of school children in our school.
    Thomas Stanley, who with his wife are spending the winter with his mother-in-law on her farm a little below our town, and his brother-in-law Guy Pruett, were in town having some repair work done on their hay press.
    We are glad to see the smiling face of Lloyd Stanley, who was confined to the hospital in Medford for some six weeks with typhoid fever, on our streets again.
    T. C. Barfry, formerly of Brownsboro, but now the janitor of the M.E. church in Medford, was in town Thursday on his way to Medford. He had been up to his homestead looking after his interests there.
    I learned through the grandfather of the bride, William C. Daley, that his granddaughter, Miss Dorothy von der Hellen, of this neighborhood, and Harold Zundel of Lake Creek, were married last Friday, Dec. 8th, and by that arrangement we have lost another one of our popular telephone girls, as well as society one of its popular members, and for me to say that she will be greatly missed will hardly express the idea. We, as a small part of our community, are wishing them a long and happy life and joyful reunion in the realms of eternal bliss.
    George Albert of Butte Falls, and L. F. Picket and O. C. Holmes of Central Point, were here for dinner Tuesday and Mr. Albert remained overnight.
    A. M. Gay of Butte Falls also came in and spent the night, attending to business here Wednesday and Thursday, went to Medford and had his teeth extracted and is still here at this writing, Friday afternoon.
    George McDonald, who is one of the leading rock workers on the highway job, came out from Medford Thursday and went up to the Jed Edsall camp.
    Henry Meyer and wife of Lake Creek came out Thursday and went on out to Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons were here for dinner Thursday. They were accompanied by B. H. Williams, salesman of San Francisco.
    Mrs. Cadzow and daughter of Butte Falls and J. H. Husch of Medford were here Wednesday.
    Mrs. George Nichols of Medford was out here visiting her sister, Mrs. Thos. E. Nichols, wife of one of our returned capitalists Thursday, returning home in the afternoon.
    Alex Vestal of Reese Creek came out Thursday afternoon and went to Medford, returning Friday morning, and Mrs. Cadzow, wife of one of the Butte Falls merchants, was also a passenger on the same stage.
    A. J. Krock of Medford came in Thursday night inquiring for the Edsall camp, and spent the night.
    Guy Pruett was also an early visitor Friday morning. 
    Charley Hanscom went to Medford early this, Friday, morning on important business.
    Friday morning in making my regular rounds looking for items of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune, I called at the office of the Eagle Point Irrigation Co., as I heard what appeared to me as the sound of a hammer, and on entering found John Miller and Thomas Riley busily engaged putting in the work for a cement vault for the company so as to have the books and papers safe in case of fire. I also met Miss Edna Watkins, the stenographer for the company, as busy as a cricket, Ralph Cowgill, the chief civil engineer for the company and John W. Cunningham, consulting engineer of Portland and F. C. Dillard of Ashland, also one of the consulting engineers on the same job, William von der Hellen, one of the contractors on the canal and Fred Pettegrew, the secretary of the company, all having a friendly talk so I retired as I thought that my room was more desirable than my company as I would likely get all the news that would be for publication in the proper time.
    I noticed when Frank Lewis and his daughter, Mrs. Verbick, returned home from Medford yesterday afternoon, that he had his car well loaded with hardware and other kinds of merchandise. He is laying in quite a stock of different kinds of goods including several varieties of medicines so that his shop begins to look like a general grocery and hardware store.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 18, 1922, page 3


    Among the callers at the Sunnyside last Friday were George Stevens, formerly a resident of this community  but now living on a part of the old Col. Ross place on Ross Lane. He was at one time quite an orchardist in this section, and if I am not mistaken now owns considerable land near Wellen. John Howard, one of the old Civil War veterans, who makes his home with one of his old neighbors, Pete Betz, was also here for dinner and remained overnight, going up home Saturday morning on the Trail stage. Thomas F. Nichols, principal owner in the Eagle Point hardware store and the Eagle Point pool room, and his partner in  the pool room, Clarence Pruett, and two strangers, and I learned that one of them was a representative of the Medford Grocery Co.
    Saturday was a remarkably dull day so far as business is concerned as there was scarcely anyone in from the country. Late in the afternoon I met Mrs. Sam Klingle, and her son George, who live on their own farm on Little Butte Creek between Brownsboro and Lake Creek.
    I also noticed that Eli Dahack and his son Everett were at work raising the old store building standing between the F. J. McPherson store building and the town hall, getting it ready to move. I understand that they are going to move it onto a lot joining the new pool building, but what use they intend to turn it to I am unable to say at present.
    I understand that Lawrence Stowell, a half brother of George W. Stowell, arrived in town Saturday from Canada and went on out to visit his brothers. I did not have the pleasure of meeting him as he had gone on out in the country before I reached McPherson's store.
    Mrs. Allen Underwood of Grants Pass, a daughter of our townspeople Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Reid, has been here visiting her parents during the past week.
    There were four strange men came in for dinner Sunday. It seems as though the weather is most too inclement for the people to venture out unless they have urgent business as we have rain, a little sleet but no snow up to today, Monday, but we can't tell what kind of weather we will have before I finish this letter but up to this time our winter has been very fine, a little wet but not enough to cause any trouble.
    The last time I saw Royal G. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons, he told me that he expected that he and his wife would start for San Jose, Calif., to visit their daughter Hazel, to spend Christmas with them and I suppose they are there by this time as they intended to start last Friday, the 15th.
    Wm. Perry, who has charge of W. Hart Hamilton's business here, reports that he has just put up a half-mile of new wire fence on his place along the Crater Lake Highway, and that J. L. Groves has been appointed to care for said highway and keep it in repair as in some of the soft places it needs to have more crushed rock put on it to fill up the places where it is giving way.
    Charles W. Long, who is in charge of a dump truck and a grader attached, called for dinner Monday noon and remained overnight, is employed by the state to look after the Crater Lake Highway to keep the soft places filled up and to look after the road generally and keep it in repair, a very judicious provision.
    Among the passengers on the stage Monday were J. M. Haak, who is operating the Conley sawmill about four miles beyond Butte Falls, and one other man. Mr. Haak was on his way up home.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brittsan, who are living on the P. S. Anderson place on Rogue River, were among the business callers Monday afternoon and Mrs. B. told me that her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Long of Derby, were spending the winter at Long Beach, California.
    Among the lodgers at the Sunnyside Monday night were L. C. Farris, of Grants Pass, Arthur Dailey, Burns Ferry, Idaho, George Slagle of Medford.
    There were five passengers on the Butte Falls stage Monday morning on their way to Butte Falls and Prospect. Among them was a man by the name of Joe Gablis from Montana, and while he was waiting while changing the mail I engaged him in conversation and he gave me an account of the kind of climate they have up where he came from. He spoke of one morning they had just before he left when at 7 a.m. the temperature was 7 below zero, by 9 a.m. it was 14 below, at noon 20 below and a heavy wind with it and that when he started there was a heavy storm raging and that it lasted until he reached Portland and was greatly surprised to find the vegetation looking so fresh and the grass still green.
    Monday as I was making my regular rounds looking for items of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune I dropped into the Brown Bros. store and Frank Brown, one of the first, remarked that he was just putting up a bill of goods for a family out in the hills at the expense of the Red Cross Society, whose husband and father was spending his time in jail for bootlegging, and he remarked: "Say, Mr. Howlett, that article you wrote for the Mail Tribune, suggesting that a provision be made to have the convicted prisoners who are kept in jail be put to work and thus help to defray the expense of their keep while in jail instead of being kept up at the expense of the taxpayers, while it would be a benefit to the taxpayers it would also be a benefit to the prisoners themselves, and another advantage would be that those who are sentenced to pay a fine and decide to 'eat it out' at the expense of the county, and are turned out because the county can't afford to feed them if they had to work the fine out would look at it in a different light, and not make a joke of law violations."
    Mrs. W. L. Childreth, wife of our blacksmith, went to Medford last Monday shopping.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 22, 1922, page 7


    P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek was here for dinner Tuesday. He came out with some fresh meat to sell.
    E. H. High of Ashland and Mrs. Frank Stone, one of the teachers in the Butte Falls school, and Oliver Adams, also of Butte Falls, were here for dinner also.
    Judge Florey (Judge is his given name; he is not a judicial officer) took the mail from here to Trail Tuesday for the contractor, Lucius Kincaid, and Mr. Kincaid drove a truck for George Holmes, the garage man, and made five trips to Medford for flour for George Brown and Sons.
    Ira Hensley, who was here a few years ago and went from here up into Washington, has returned and is stopping with his brother-in-law, Shorty Allen, near Wellen, was trading at the McPherson store Wednesday. He was accompanied by G. E. Barnes.
    Fred Frideger of Medford, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside Hotel, and his friend, John E. Rinehart, recently from Ohio, who have been working in Mr. Frideger's orchard, finished up the job Wednesday and returned to Medford. Mr. Frideger has put out five acres more of the Bosc variety of pears, and when he left Wednesday morning said that if his friend who had returned to Medford the day before a little unwell was able to stand the trip they were both going to Mr. Frideger's old home in Ohio to visit his old mother. They intend to go up through Canada so that they both can see that country and have taste of the Canadian climate. They will experience quite a change in that respect, from around 36 degrees above zero to, well, judging from the reports in our own country along the Canadian border, around twenty to thirty below zero. They won't find any green grass up there, I suppose.
    C. P. Thomerson of Idaho came out from Medford on the stage Wednesday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and Charles W. Long, mentioned a few days ago as being here with a state truck keeping the Crater Lake Highway in repair, has taken up board by the month as he expects to be here most of the winter.
    John Foster of Medford was among the diners Wednesday.
    R. A. Petty, who lives south of here, W. E. Webb of Derby, Wm. Nickell, who lives on Salt Creek near Lake Creek, were business callers Wednesday, and Messrs. Thos. L. Timmons of Portland and Theo. A. Glass were late diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday. Mr. Glass is the district manager of the R.C. Life of Central Point.
    F. E. Bechdolt of Butte Falls, and O. L. Samuelson, a salesman from Portland, and Wm. Lewis, now of Medford but formerly of the Flounce Rock ranch, were passengers on the stage Thursday. Mr. Lewis was on his way up to his former home to look after his interests there and Mr. Samuelson remained and took dinner here.
    Wm. Holman of Salt Creek passed through here late Wednesday afternoon, and Fred Nolan of Klamath Falls came in on the stage from Medford and spent the night at the Sunnyside Hotel, going on up to Butte Falls Thursday morning.
    In making my rounds Thursday morning I met Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith in the Geo. Brown store laying in their Christmas supplies and I noticed that they seemed to be kept quite busy waiting on customers although most of them were our townspeople as there seems to be but few of our country people coming into town, or if they do they go on through to Central Point or Medford, and they go so fast that I cannot recognize them.
    A. J. Florey and wife, who have been absent for a few days, he having been up to Portland on business, and his wife was staying with her parents to Medford during the absence of her husband, returned to their home Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, two of our prominent citizens who live on the line of the P.&E.R.R., were doing their Christmas trading here Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Huson and daughter, who live on the J. M. Cooley orchard, were laying in their their Xmas supplies at the McPherson store Thursday afternoon.
    J. C. Gaines and wife of Trail Creek came out Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford. They have a beautiful home up on Trail Creek where he is engaged in the stock business. I asked how his cattle were doing this winter and he replied all right, that he had been feeding them for about a month; he don't believe in letting his stock go hungry.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 26, 1922, page 3


    TRAIL, Dec. 28.--(Special)--Little Wanda Howe had the misfortune to get badly burned with boiling water Sunday evening of last week. The worst burns are on her forehead and head and is, of course, very hard to treat, but is doing as well as could be expected.
    Miss Ester Mechem of Upper Trail spent the weekend with Irma Ash, and also attended the school program Saturday evening.
    Denzil Middlebusher and sister, Enid, were shopping in Medford Wednesday of last week and returned with a fine Victrola, which was much appreciated by their mother, who is as yet unable to walk without crutches.
    Elmer Moore of Tiller, Ore., is spending the Xmas holidays with friends near Trail.
    Miss Evans left Saturday for Roseburg to spend her vacation with friends at that city.
    Kenneth Blumkall returned from California Monday, where he has been visiting friends and relatives the past week.
    The Misses Lucy and Eula Foeller were pleasant callers at the Howe home Saturday evening on their way home, where they will spend the holidays.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis attended the banquet in Medford, given by the Copco.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher of Prospect spent the holidays with relatives in and near Trail.
    The school program given by Miss Mordoff's school was not as well attended as we expected, owing to so much sickness in our vicinity, but was greatly enjoyed by all present.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Porter left Sunday for Grants Pass, where they expect to spend the balance of the winter. We are all very sorry to see them leave our vicinity.
    The Misses Eileen and Lorraine Mordoff of Medford spent the weekend with their sister at Trail, Miss Mordoff returning home with them for a vacation of two weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash and Irma and Wayne Ash spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. Foellers and daughters Lucy, Eula and Sadie and son, Charles, motored to Medford Christmas.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 29, 1922, page 6


    Among the diners at the Sunnyside last Friday were J. A. Black of the Medford Grocery Co., Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor and one of the leading contractors, John Howard, one of the Civil War veterans, who stayed overnight and went up to his home on the stage the next morning; Loris Martin of Trail, one of the leading stock workers in the force engaged in the canal and laterals now being constructed by the Eagle Point Irrigation District; Miss Lorena Law of Central Point, and Miss Irene Green of Butte Falls, two of the high school girls who came out to spend their vacation.
    The Eagle Point enterprising citizens, assisted very materially by the school children under the direction of our two teachers, Mrs. Josephine Holmes and Miss Ruth Wiley, gave a Christmas entertainment Friday evening. Although I was unable to be there myself through the kindness of a friend I secured a copy of the program, and from what I can learn from friends who were present and judging from the program that lies before me, they must have had one of the finest entertainments we have ever had here, and we have had some that would have put to shame some of the larger towns. Omitting the introductory part of the program will call attention to the play, Mrs. Santa Claus' Christmas Reception.
    Verna Mathews and family, one of our well-to-do farmers and stockmen, were here trading Friday afternoon. Charles Pettegrew was here for supper and bed.
    Act 1, Children's Home. Act 2, Mrs. Santa's Workshop.
    Cast of characters: Mrs. Santa Claus, Virginia Reid; Good Will, Gwendolyn Brophy; fairies, Lois Robinson; Bertha Winkle, Margaret Brophy, Reva Davidson and Loomis Davidson. Brownies: Rudolph Weidman, Dorothy Pierce, Dorothy Tedrick, Ira Winkle, Hall Reid, Myrtle Rigsby, Zetta Rigsby, Wilbur Jacks and Kenneth Jacks. After the play which was greeted by signs of approval, there was unveiled the Christmas tree and the numerous presents distributed by five girls. The whole school joined in singing Silent Night and the audience was dismissed. Those who were there report that it was one of the finest entertainments we have had in our little town for several months.
    Among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Saturday were A. E. Hildreth of Oakland, Calif., a brother of Al and Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls. He was on his way up to visit his two brothers and family. Other passengers were Mrs. Caroline Pool, Mrs. Maymie Tucker, one of the teachers in the Butte Falls school. The following were in Eagle Point on business: Elsa Betz, W. C. McKinnis of Butte Falls, W. W. Driscoll, Butte Falls, Fred Nolan of Butte Falls, Claud Hutchinson, Thomas Givan and Pearl Stowell, W. P. Holbrook. Miss Susan Cornell, who is teaching in the Brophy district, came out on the stage [and] took dinner on her way to her home on the Applegate to spend her vacation.
    Last Saturday evening as I stepped out of the post office, it was a little dark so that I could not see to distinguish who they were. I was met by a group of boys and young men and a tall young man approached me with the remark: Say, Mr. Howlett, those fellows over there in the jail in Jacksonville say that they want you to quit writing about having them put to work, for sawing wood would make them tired and Mr. ------, one of the inmates of the jail, says he wants you to quit putting his name in the paper, calling him by name, and after reflecting a moment I replied that I had made the suggestion to have those who were convicted of a violation of the law put to work on account of their health, for a husky young man, especially those who are accustomed to work, to lay in jail for any length of time with little or no exercise, they would become unhealthy, and so far as Mr. ------ is concerned that I had never mentioned his name in any of my letters, out of respect for his family, and for the same reason withhold giving the name of the young men who delivered the message, as I considered him an object of pity and entitled to our sympathy, and sincerely hope that the experience that he and his associates have had will influence them to change their habits and in the future become law-abiding citizens.
    George A. Sanders, who for several years was in charge of the Antelope orchard but now living on his own place near McLeod on Rogue River, came out Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays with his sister, Mrs. Muskopf and family.
    Mr. and Mrs. Leutha Hazelwood of Central Point were among the guests Sunday and so was J. D. Patrick, formerly of this section but now of Ashland, who came up to look after his landed interests here.
    Sunday morning the teachers and superintendent of our Sunday school treated the school to candy and oranges as a Christmas present.
    Among the guests Christmas Day were A. W. Hubbs and wife, shoe dealers of Medford, Loris Martin, Geo. H. Wehman, Nye Matthews, Chas. Winkle, Mrs. Harvey and family, Mrs. Laurel Davis, one of the high school teachers of Butte Falls, John Simon and Mr. McCoy of Butte Falls.
    W. E. Boraker and wife gave a Christmas dinner to the following personal friends: S. E. Cowgill of Eagle Point, Howard Cowgill and family of Medford, Leonard Cowgill and family of Medford, J. F. Stille and J. H. Stille of Eagle Point, making twenty-four in all. These six families just named came in last fall to settle here, but two of them went to Medford on account of being unable to secure houses here to live in.
    As we had a Merry Christmas I will finish this letter by wishing the readers of the Mail Tribune a happy New Year.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 30, 1922, page 4


    Mr. Timmie Dugan, formerly one of our prominent farmers, just west of our town, but now living on the old Thomas McAndrews place on Bear Creek, on the Crater Lake Highway just outside of Medford, was smiling on some of his old friends in our town the first of the week.
    Charles Cook, representing the Connor Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, was here for dinner Monday.
    Roy Spencer and John Burns of Butte Falls were here for dinner Wednesday and Earl Miles of Butte Falls came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Chris Beale, who is working on the Edsall contract on the laterals for the canal being built from Butte Falls to Eagle Point, has been spending a few days with friends in Medford, came out Wednesday and went back to work on the job.
    Ralph and Lloyd Stanley called for supper Wednesday evening.
    John Norris, the superintendent of the Wilfley orchard, was in town Thursday morning on business with our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth.
    Mrs. Alice Ferguson and her two children, who have been stopping at the Sunnyside since last fall started Thursday for Redding, California, to be with her sister, who lives some twenty miles out from Redding.
    Thursday morning Charley Manning came out from the Manning farm on Rogue River, near Peyton, and brought his father, Frank Manning, his mother and sister Dency and after eating their dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel, Charley returned home and Mr. Manning and wife and daughter took passage on the Medford-Butte Falls stage for Medford, intending to take passage on the train for Los Angeles, Calif., to visit a sister of Mr. Manning and other relatives. Frank Manning is one of our well-to-do farmers and stockmen, and believes in enjoying life as he goes through it.
    Mr. A. E. Hildreth of Oakland, Calif., who passed through here about a week ago on his way to Butte Falls to visit his two brothers, Al and Buel Hildreth, came out Thursday on the stage and took dinner. He reports that they had a special election in Butte Falls Wednesday to elect a set of officers, including mayor, treasurer, recorder and town councilmen, but he only mentioned that his brother, Buel, was elected mayor, a good selection. Mr. A. Magasen also came out at the same time and took dinner. He says that he has a contract for grading a part of the way for the railroad and that they have twelve miles of the way graded beyond Butte Falls, but have had to suspend work further on account of snow, but intend to move camp back to within four miles of Butte Falls and continue work placing ties and rails, and he expressed the opinion that the work would not stop until they crossed over the divide into the Pelican Bay country.
    Glenn Haley and wife of Gold Hill, and her sister, Mrs. A. G. Florey, and baby of Eagle Point were pleasant visitors at the Sunnyside Thursday afternoon. Glenn is working in Gold Hill and he is taking a little layoff, visiting his parents in Central Point and his wife's sister, and old-time friends here.
    Mr. Hansen, the foreman on the J. H. Cowley orchard, and Mr. Ward, the foreman on the H. B. Tronson orchard, were trading here Thursday.
    Mr. H. R. Bush and two of his assistants, Fred and H. A. Smith, who have a contract for clearing the right of way on the canal from Big Butte to Eagle Point, were in town Thursday, having their stump puller repaired. They seem to have considerable trouble as that is the second time they have had to bring the same part, the main shaft, to the shop for repairs, but when it comes to pulling up the stool of white oak grubs, each as large as a man's arm, to the size of his leg and even larger it requires a very strong machine. They report that they are getting along nicely with the work and will soon have the ground cleared ready for the heavier machinery to do its part. Although there seems to be a hitch in the movement up at Salem with the state board, as they seem to have found a flaw so as to postpone confirming the contracts and have decided to re-advertise all of the canal for bids, although Mr. C. H. Natwick has his camp fixed, his hay on the ground and has done some considerable work on his unit of the canal.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday noon were C. H. Natwick, Ralph Cowgill, Fred Pettegrew and a youth by the name of Morton, who came in on the stage from Butte Falls.
    Gordon Childreth and a young man by the name of Mitchel of Medford came in for supper and C. H. Natwick came in and spent the night and Chris Beale came in for dinner.
    The continuous rain since Monday night has been such that your correspondent has been closely confined to the house the most of the time and the result is that items of general interest are not as plentiful as they might be, and it appears to a close observer that I am not the only one who is kept at home but when I am on the street there seems to be a scarcity of men, women and babies, and another reason for the scarcity of news is that most of the young men are off at work on different jobs that are on hand in the way of improvements.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1923, page 3


    Art Smith, one of our progressive farmers, orchardists and stockmen, was a business caller at the Sunnyside last Saturday. He was accompanied by Vernon Turpin.
    Robert Schleichert of Medford was visiting at the home of John Robinson Thursday and Friday during the holidays.
    Harry Brown of Medford was a guest at the Sunnyside Saturday, Dec. 30th.
    L. K. Haak, one of our progressive farmers and orchardists, made a trip to Portland last of the week to visit his father and two brothers to be gone about a week. His father, I understand, is in poor health. During the heavy rains we have had for the past few days the water came dangerously near the Haak residence, but so far as I can learn did no damage, but I understand that it undermined the ends of the railroad bridge that crosses Butte Creek a short distance below town. The bridge was built in a low bottom where it was a common thing to see the water flow all over the entire flat and if the civil engineers had looked along the banks of the creek a little more closely they could have found plenty of evidence that it was not a suitable place to build a railroad bridge. If my memory is correct, it was planned to move the location of the bridge and put it up higher on the creek near where the Crater Lake Highway bridge is located, before the road went from under the management of the old P.&E. company, and probably the change will be made sooner or later, for the managers of the road have always had more or less trouble with the bridge whenever we have our old-fashioned rains such as we had years ago.
    Our new year came in with a bright sunshiny morning, and the prospect was that we were going to have a time of clear warm weather, and New Year's Day was one of the loveliest days of the season and most of the business houses were closed and the day was given up to the pleasures of life, but that night it commenced to rain and it rained just like it used to in the '50s and '60s and even later until the last few years when we have had a shortage of rain. The little downpour of the past few days brings vividly to my mind my first year's experience in Oregon. I was at that time a circuit rider in the Methodist Church, South and a member of the Pacific Conference and was sent as a missionary from California to take charge of Eugene City circuit with a young man, a local preacher by the name of John Smith as a helper. I reached my field of labor in October, after a long, tedious ride on horseback of some six hundred miles, and when I arrived at Eugene found Mr. Smith already at work in the field, and arranged to make my headquarters with a family by the name of McCord, although I soon found that I had but little time to devote at any one particular place for I found that the men who preceded me had laid out a circuit embracing about one hundred and fifty miles, counting the zigzags, with thirty-two regular appointments to be filled each month beside the pastoral visiting. But by the time I had gone over the field a few times I made several changes in the list of appointments and cut them down from thirty-two to sixteen, and by this time Mr. Smith decided that he could not live on the meager income that we were receiving, for the man who laid out the work told the people that the gospel was free, just like the salvation he preached and by going from house to house we got our board and lodging and the sisters did our washing free, but what I started in to tell about the rain was my experience in an Oregon storm. It so happened that I was in Eugene the night of the beginning of the first flood in the latter part of December, 1861, and about 11 o'clock p.m. the night watchman called Mr. McCord to get up as the water was covering the town so we got up and he waded and I climbed along on the fence to the barn and found the horses standing in water about knee deep. Mr. McCord harnessed his team and I saddled my horse and started out to relieve those who needed help, I carrying a lantern and going ahead of the team so as to have them miss the driftwood, moving the families into the courthouse as a house of refuge, keeping that up until daylight and then I started to go to the Matlock schoolhouse where I had an appointment to preach at 11 o'clock, but when I reached the schoolhouse found no one there and going to a nearby house inquired why there was no one out to church and learned that everybody had gone to the river to rescue the people in the river bottom lands, so changing my plans, for I had another appointment for the afternoon and also for night, for in those days it was customary for a man to preach three times on Sunday. I see that I have omitted to tell my experience in getting out of Eugene to the Matlock schoolhouse. Before I got fairly out of Eugene I had to swim two sloughs, but it so happened that my horse proved to be a good swimmer and he took me through all right. I had supplied myself with a rubber suit so that I kept dry and when I had to swim I took my saddlebags on my shoulders and got up into the saddle on my knees and got along all right without getting wet. During that flood it was a common thing to see houses going down the stream with chickens on the roof, and one house went by with a dog on the roof, and it was a very common thing to see cattle and occasionally a horse floating down. It was one of the most distressing scenes I have ever witnessed.
    Leaving the Matlock settlement the next day I wended my way through the foothills preaching in the schoolhouses in the foothills, for the bottom lands were swept almost clean and the next Saturday found me down near where Junction City now stands.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 5, 1923, page 7


    The Misses Eula and Lucy Foeller returned to Medford and their school duties Monday evening after spending the holidays with their parents near Trail.
    We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Wm. Cushman, one of our oldest residents. He passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joe Roe at Gold Hill.
    We were glad to see Mrs. Sam Geary again after so many years. She arrived at her brother's (Dave Pence) Wednesday evening from Canada. She expects to settle in our community again. Her daughter, Clara, and little grandson accompanied her.
    Mrs. Irwin Howe is slowly recovering from her illness and hopes to soon be up again.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher attended the dance at Eagle Point Saturday night and was a guest of Miss Frances Greb.
    We are glad to say Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher has recovered sufficient to discard her crutches.
    Claude Ragsdale left Saturday for Corvallis to attend school. He plans to take up forestry work.
    K. V. Blunkall left Saturday for Chico, Cal., his old home, after spending the past six months in Southern Oregon.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Poole and daughter, Minnie, were Medford callers Monday. Minnie expects to attend high school at that place the balance of the year.
    Enid Middlebusher, Mrs. Owen, and Mrs. E. E. Ash were very pleasant callers at the Howe home Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 6, 1923, page 3


    Among the guests at the Sunnyside New Year's Day for dinner was Nick Young, one of our Jackson County native sons, who cultivates a fine farm on the Butte Creek bottom and is one of our prosperous bachelor citizens; Ralph Cowgill, the chief engineer on the irrigation canal from Big Butte to this section; E. Summer, the engineer who has charge of the construction work on the unit already allotted to Wm. von der Hellen; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Soukup, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Garnett, C. Garnett, Mrs. L. Bernard, all of Medford; W. C. Clements, our postmaster as well as our telephone owner and manager, and wife, and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. George W. Austin and wife of Medford and Mrs. M. L. Pruett, who lives on and owns one of the fine farms on Little Butte Creek, and among the business callers were Shorty Allen, who a few years ago purchased a twelve-acre tract of timber and brush land off of the von der Hellen tract of Antelope Creek bottom when it was simply a jungle, and he now tells me that he has it all cleared, plowed and sowed to winter wheat. A year or so ago he told me that he was working for Mr. von der Hellen his regular eight hours a day and cutting the wood off the land, clearing the brush out at intervals while he was resting. Such men as that never become a burden on society. His brother-in-law, Ira Hensley, was also in town with him.
    Henry Trusty and Wesley Miller of Elk Creek were among the guests Monday night. Mr. Trusty was bringing out a bunch (sixty-four head) of cattle, taking them down to the neighborhood of Talent to feed and Mr. Miller was helping him. C. H. Natwick also spent Monday night with us. Mr. Natwick is one of our contractors and was here looking after his interests in that line.
    Among the business callers last Tuesday were Jeff Conover, one of the pioneers of Rogue River Valley, W. H. Crandall, one of our hustling farmers, orchardists and general wide-awake citizens, who called at the Sunnyside to try to dispose of some of the products of his farm. He seems to be considerably disappointed over the way the new road has been laid out and opened from the Dodge-French bridge to intersect the Crater Lake Highway, as there is nothing to be seen on the entire route expect chaparral brush and desert land; not a house or fence to be seen, but by making the change a very bad hill is avoided. Wert Pool and Alex Anderson, who is living on the Charley Terrill place near Brownsboro, was among the business callers and he reports that he has a band of 1200 sheep and that he has not had to feed any so far, and that on the second day of January, 1923 and that the grass was good, fresh and green. What will the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune up in Idaho or Montana or even the state of Washington think of hearing [of] a band of twelve hundred head of sheep living and doing well on the range the first of the year, but so it is this year in Southern Oregon.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Tuesday for dinner were Mrs. C. H. (Nick) Caster of Butte Falls, who came out on the stage and came here for dinner. Her husband is engaged in the meat market business in Butte Falls and Mrs. Caster was on her way out to Medford.
    W. E. Hammel was also among the diners and so was E. Ross, state irrigation accountant. Mr. Ross and Mrs. Hammel were here attending a meeting of the board of directors of the Eagle Point Irrigation District. Charley Clark, who is selling the Watkins products, also called for dinner and J. A. Turnbow, the foreman on the repair work on the P.&E. railroad, and J. P. Niles, his assistant, were here for the night. They were repairing the railroad bridge on Butte Creek where the high water had undermined the approaches, and so was E. Summer, the engineer who has charge of the construction work of the unit allocated to Wm. von der Hellen to build.
    As my health is not as good as it was years ago and I am not able to get out and hustle for news, I in my last letter inserted a chapter of my experiences as a circuit rider the first year I was in Oregon, and as the obliging editor graciously admitted it to the columns of the Mail Tribune I will venture to trespass on his good nature again.
    When I closed my story I was located for the night with a family by the name of Caughman and there I met my co-laborer, and if it will not be considered out of place will remark that Mr. and Mrs. Caughman had two very attractive daughters, about sixteen and eighteen years of age, and Mr. Smith was not unlike the rest of the young men of his age, [and] did not object to good company. Well, after spending the night with the family when we got up for breakfast we found that it was raining in torrents and I had an appointment to preach at the Liberty school house on the north side of Long Tom Creek, a stream about as large as Butte Creek, and the prospect was good for another freshet. We decided that we would try to meet the engagement, as Mr. Smith was familiar with the country. The reader will bear in mind that the flood of a week before had washed the fences and bridges all away but we heard that the Taylor bridge was still so it could be crossed, so we started, but we soon found that we were in the midst of the second flood, but we kept on our course, swimming the sloughs as we came to them, and finally we reached the bridge, or rather was was left of it, for the water of the first flood had washing the approach to the bridge off, leaving the timbers intact on the southern side; but how were we to to get our horses across [was] the question and the water had raised so that there was no retreat. Our only alternative as to go ahead, so we tied our ropes together and took one horse at a time and made them swim across below the bridge and by that means got our horses across and we walked on the stringers and were safe so far as this bridge was concerned, but there was yet an ugly little stream to cross and when we reached it found the bridge was gone, but Mr. Smith knew the country and he suggested that we go up the creek a few miles and he thought that we could cross, which we did, but we had to swim our horses but we had succeeded in making the trip so we rode along leisurely until we finally reached the house where we intended to go and when we reached there found not only the house but the yard full of people, for the man and wife who lived there had a family of sixteen children and many of them were married and had children of their own and they were all or about all who had come in from the low bottom land and when we rode up we met scores of faces wondering how we had ever reached there, for by that time the water was as high or higher than it was at the place a week before.
    I see that I have not given the name of the family but it used to be a familiar name in Southern Oregon. The name was Baird, and he was killed on Grave Creek by a grizzly bear.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 8, 1923, page 3


    Of interest to many in this valley is the news of the death at her home in Victoria, B.C., of Mrs. R. H. Brown, familiarly known to early settlers of Jackson County two decades ago as "Aunt Charlotte," relict of Robert H. Brown, an uncle of Brown Bros., of Eagle Point, still engaged in business there. The Daily Colonist of Victoria give the details of her later years, she having lost her husband nearly 25 years ago. She and her husband parted with their holdings at Eagle Point to a brother, the late George Brown, about 1886, and at once removed to Victoria, Mr. Brown later being quite prominent in business circles there.
    When the recent war broke out, Aunt Charlotte was for a time confined to her bed, but proved to be one of the most patriotic citizens of the Dominion and unceasingly knitted socks for the soldier boys, completing many hundred pairs of this useful portion of the war supplies. As she wrote to friends here, the war was very cruel in its treatment of her, and her means were dissipated, securities became worthless and no interest was paid her on several loans. With a fortitude and cheerfulness characteristic of her earlier years, she enjoyed life to its close as few, pioneers or moderns, are able to do. A woman of singular force of character, able to adapt herself to changing conditions and cherishing the correct ideas of service to her fellow man, generous and just in her judgment, all who knew her will drop a tear of regret at her demise even though it be at the close of a well-spent life.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 9, 1923, page 6


    Prof. Ray Parker, one of the teachers in the high school of Butte Falls, C. Brown, Medford; Mr. E. Ross of Portland were among the diners at the Sunnyside last Wednesday and the next day there was with us as guests Mr. Dillard of Portland, one of the civil engineers connected with the irrigation project to bring water from Big Butte Creek to this section of the country, C. H. Natwick, a prominent contractor of this section and H. Stevenson, who is helping Mr. Natwick on his contract on the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal here for dinner Thursday and Paul S. Schaubel of Portland was here for the night Thursday. He is a machinist and came out here to try to secure employment in the Eagle Point Garage but Mr. George B. Holmes, the proprietor, decided that there was no business at this season of the year to justify the employment of another man as he already has a good machinist, Mr. Luke Kincaid, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist route, and he has so arranged his work that he only takes about one hour one day, the day he goes to Trail, and when he has to take the mail to Persist he has a man bring the mail down as far as the Trusty ranch and he meets him there and that trip only consumes about two and a half hours, leaving him all the rest of the days to do something else.
    George McDonald, a professional road builder, who is in the employ of Jed Edsall, working on the laterals of the Eagle Point irrigation canal, was here and spent the night Friday and so did Mr. Edward B. Nichol of B.F.
    Rev. Herbert G. Adams, who has been preaching for us during the past year and has been boarding at the Sunnyside during the time of his stay here, left here last Friday afternoon for Corvallis to visit his son who is a student in the Corvallis college. We will add that Rev. Adams is one of the pleasantest men we have met for a long time and makes friends wherever he goes and will be greatly missed by his many friends here. Since writing the foregoing I have received a card from Mr. Adams dated Corvallis, Jan 7th, before breakfast. He says "I got here safely in the rain, came yesterday p.m. and there was still some land in sight though the Willamette was raising a foot every three hours." His many friends will be glad to learn that he has got safely through.
    There were five strangers came out on the B.F. stage Friday and report that the road between Reese Creek and B.F. are in a horrible condition.
    Lester Batcher, Carl Bergman and his mother, Mrs. Bert Clarno, were among the business callers Saturday.
    Among the passengers on the M.-B.F. stage were Prof. Ray Parker of the B.F. high school and Miss Lorene Green, one of the pupils of the B.F. school, an elderly lady and two young ladies, and one of them went out on the Trail stage and the rest went up to B.F.
    Wm. Butler, one of our prosperous farmers, made a trip to Medford Saturday.
    I see that our townsman, W. P. Morgan, has been making some decided improvements in the sidewalk along his property.
    Ray Warner and Louis Martin, Trail, Alex Betz were business callers in our town Saturday.
    There was quite an interesting shooting match here Sunday; the prizes were chickens, turkeys and geese.
    The last time I wrote for the Medford Mail Tribune found Mr. Smith and I at the home of Mr. Beard surrounded by a host of his children and grandchildren and the question came up in our minds how we were going to arrange for all of us to sleep, for the house was not very large and it looked to us as though there was already more people there without us to cover all of the available space, but it was a case of necessity so we rested contentedly waiting results, but ample provisions were made and we all got along nicely and the next morning we were up and ready for another day's work. But before I make another start I must make a change in the story and give an account of the miraculous escape of the family of what proved to be later several of our prominent citizens, Mr. John Lewis and family, wife, five children and Mrs. Lewis' mother. They were living on their farm not far from where the town of Independence is located and he told me that the farm was assessed the summer before at $4,000 and he was feeling quite independent, but the flood of 1861 and '62 came and the first intimation of any real danger was when he woke up and discovered that the water was already in the house, so he jumped out of bed and found that the floor was all afloat and he went on through into a hole that he had dug to get dirt to make his chimney, a mud and stick chimney, a thing that was quite common in those days, so he was thoroughly wet to start with. He then managed to get his wife and five children upstairs and Frank, one of his boys now one of our merchants, is here and although a child remembers the circumstances quite well and Mr. Jeff Bell of Talent is another one of the children, but after getting his direct family out of the water he had his mother-in-law and she was a helpless invalid at the time and remained so until the day of her death, but he managed to get her upstairs, but the water kept rising and when daylight came he saw that the prospect was that the water would soon take the house. He tore a hole in the roof and took the bed cord off of the bedsteads; in those days there were no bed springs but a small rope was used woven across the bedstead each way to lay the beds on. So after he had taken the cords off of the beds he crawled out on the roof and taking the rope wove a platform for a floor among the branches of the trees and then he tore up the floor and took the lumber to make a platform and put his family all of them on it and in the course of a very short time the house was washed away and the eight persons were left to the raging elements for about twenty-four hours when a rescuing party came to their relief, and Mr. Lewis told me in relating the circumstances that when the water would press the trees down he could see that they were giving way and but a short time after their deliverance the trees gave way and washed away and the next spring as I rode over the place that was once a beautiful farm was a sand and debris-covered waste.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 12, 1923, page 10


    Vera Brophy and Horace Geppert came in from Butte Falls Monday to have their horses shod.
    Eli Dahack started in the first of the week to move the old store building formerly used as a store by A. J. Daley and later by Mr. Heath, now in the drug business in Medford, and later moved from the upper end of town down to the business part of the town and used by Mr. Heath after he moved into the T. E. Nichols building as a warehouse, and was afterwards sold to the Dahacks, and they started in several weeks ago to move it, but never got really started at the job until the first of the week. They are moving it back up the street again and intend to place it on the lot joining the Eagle Point pool room. What they intend to use it for, they have not given out as yet.
    Among the business callers last Monday were W. H. O'Brien, Charles Flint, Frank Nolin of Butte Falls; J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fishery business in Southern Oregon, and he reports being quite successful in catching fish for their eggs.
    Ray Davis, formerly of Derby, but now located on the T. F. Nichols farm on Rogue River, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Perl Stowell, who is living just outside of our town, was in town, and reporting finding the skeleton of a man in a gravel pit where he was working in the Butte Creek bottom. He said that the body had the appearance of having been simply thrown in a hole, as the legs were doubled up and crossed, and this brings to mind, to us old settlers, a circumstance that took place some sixty years ago. There was a family lived a few miles below town, and for the sake of any relatives who may be living, I will designate as Mr. and Mrs. B., and they had considerable stock and owned a large donation claim. There was a stock buyer, a stranger, came in, and went to the ranch to buy cattle and was known to have considerable money with him for in those days there were very few banks and people often carried considerable money with them. Well, this man was seen to go to Mr. B.'s just about dark and was never seen afterward. There was nothing thought of that, and the result was it was soon out of mind. In the course of a few years Mr. B. was taken sick and word went out to the few neighbors he had, for in those days one man could own from 320 to 640 acres of land, and the result was neighbors were scarce. Well the result was that there was a gathering of those who were disposed to lend a helping hand and there was Moses Tinkham, an old bachelor; Nick Young, Peter Simon, Charley Linksweiler, myself and wife had collected there to render any assistance we could, and while we were earnestly watching to the the result Mr. B. seemed to rouse up and remarked; "Old woman," addressing his wife, "Jack and me are going hunting and I want you to fix up some bread and meat and a bottle of whiskey," and just then he changed and said, "Why you can find him easy, for Jack and me buried him over there by that big cottonwood log," and just then his wife went to him and shook him, remarking, "What are you talking about, old man; shut up that foolishness," and that broke the spell and we heard no more. The whole family had a hard name. Jack, his oldest son, seemed to be his main helper, and after living the life of a genuine crook in Oregon he went to California, and the word came back here that he was serving a twenty-year sentence in the penitentiary there for robbing a stage, and later that he had died in prison, and Jim was hung out in Harney County, Oregon, by a vigilance committee for horse stealing, and the younger boys were sent to the home for the feeble minded. There were two girls who have married, and I suppose they have passed away by this time, but I never heard of them being accused of any wrongdoing. Mrs. B. died shortly after the death of her husband, and thus ended the career of one of the toughest families in Southern Oregon, and perhaps reveals the last resting place of the stranger who disappeared so mysteriously from this section of the country.
    Among the business callers Tuesday were Grant Abbott, Butte Falls; J. A. Flon, U.S.N., San Diego, Calif., and Wilton Grigsby, Butte Falls; and Wednesday Mr. Palmer, Butte Falls; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Page, Butte Falls; they came out on the stage and went on to Medford. Walter Woods and R. Mathews and Thomas Stenly, also of Butte Falls, but is spending the winter in the valley.
    I see that my letter is so long that I will not renew my account of the hardships that a circuit rider had to undergo during the winter of 1861 and '62.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1923, page 4


    The First State Bank of Eagle Point has made steady progress during the last year.
    The officers recognize that progress must depend on the general prosperity of the community and they are trying to encourage enterprise and ambition among their friends the farmers.
    The First State Bank is prepared to assist any responsible and enterprising farmer tributary to Eagle Point in getting started in really choice dairy cattle. The officers believe that if the dairy farmers of Puget Sound can afford to ship alfalfa hay from Montana and California, the Eagle Point farmers can afford to feed their alfalfa at home.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 17, 1923, page 3


    On Thursday, January eleventh, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. McGee, formerly of Eagle Point and then of Medford, old pioneers of Jackson County, but later settled on a large farm near Glendale, selling out there moved to Washington and bought a farm, living there a few years, selling out again and had started out on a tour visiting his children and friends made us a short call; he was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Shelby Golhem, and her husband and little boy and his wife's sister, Mrs. W. E. Church nee Mrs. George Conley at that time living on Antelope Creek on what is known as the Antelope Orchard of Medford. They only remained a short time as Mr. McGee and wife wanted to visit the old friends who were at that time holding a meeting of the E.P.I. Club at the home of our banker, H. E. Campbell, and by that means they could see a great many of their old neighbors and friends. They had not decided definitely where they will locate.
    Mr. Hoagland, Sr., of Central Point, was here on Saturday on his way up from his ranch two miles out from Brownsboro.
    Ernest Albert of Butte Falls was out to attend the dance Saturday night.
    There were four passengers on the stage Saturday going to Butte Falls and one passenger on the Trail stage.
    Among the business callers were Walter Smith, Robert Neil, who is located on his farm on the headwaters of Salt Creek, S. P. Jackson of Portland; he was on his way to Butte Falls to look after his interest there in the timber industry; he was traveling in his own car and there was four passengers went out on the stage for the same place.
    John Owens and family were also among the business callers Saturday. Mr. Owens is among our prominent farmers and stockmen living on Dry Creek near Wellen.
    Mr. McKissick, C.E., formerly having charge of the C.E. department of the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal and located here, but now located in Jacksonville, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Monday.
    Rose Whaley came out Saturday to spend a few days visiting here.
    Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Albert of Butte Falls came out with his father on his motor car on the railroad track and later in the day Glenn had a taxi come out and take himself and wife to Medford.
    Mr. C. Tucker of Portland was a business caller Sunday p.m.
    Mrs. Katie Swinden Waldron of Medford called Monday morning looking for a situation as a cook in a hotel or camp. She had just come from the Elks resort on Rogue River.
    Nick Young, Marshall Winter, Mike Sidley, Lake Creek; Water Marshall, Brownsboro; Artie Vestal, Frank King, Mr. Goade, who has located a homestead near the Reese Creek school house and Ed. Morgan of Elk Creek were business callers Monday.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stoner, January 13th, in Santa Barbara, Calif., a son. Mrs. Stoner is the daughter of one of our leading merchants, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown, and there seems to be general rejoicing in the Brown family over the safe arrival of the youngster. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown are with their daughter in Santa Barbara and not San Jose as I stated in a former letter.
    Since writing the foregoing I have been asked by some of the old settlers who the people were that I referred to as Mr. and Mrs. B. in my letter in the Mail Tribune of the 15th inst. and this Wednesday morning I received a letter from a man in Central Point asking me to reveal to him confidentially the name of the party referred to as Mr. and Mrs. "B" and gave me the name of the party he thought it was and added another chapter to the history of the family and stated that he had an old clock that came from the family that would start off and strike a hundred times, and that the party from whom he got it, Jim's mother-in-law, and she claimed that the clock was "haunted" so it seems that he is a pretty good guesser this time for he guessed it the first time.
    The last chapter I gave the readers of the Mail Tribune on the experience of a circuit rider I was at the home of my friend, Mr. Beard, with a large collection of his children and grandchildren and many of them left destitute by the floods that had swept the bottom lands of the Willamette River and its tributaries and especially the Long Tom Creek, many of them like the case of John Lewis mentioned in a former letter. Among the most serious losses was that of the feed to keep the stock they had left alive during the rest of that long and severe winter, for it proved one of the hardest winters ever experienced in that section of the country, for a short time after the water had subsided there came a heavy snow storm, the snow being sixteen to twenty inches deep, and that was followed by a heavy sleet and formed a crust on the snow not quite hard enough to bar a horse, but an ordinary man could walk on it with ease making it almost impossible to travel outside of the main traveled roads and hay so scarce that it commanded any price. The stage company who was carrying the mail from Portland on to San Francisco, Calif., paid as high as one hundred dollars a ton for hay to feed their horses. I saw one man in Eugene City make the statement that he had three hundred head of cattle around his barns that he would gladly give to anyone who would take them away and feed them, but his neighbors were in the same condition and had no hay and could not get it. It was not only a scarcity of hay and grain but of many of the necessities of life, sugar, coffee, and in many cases bread and meat. I remember making my meal on boiled wheat, and pounded wheat was a luxury.
    I thought when I commenced this letter that we, Smith and I, would have gotten away from Mr. Beard's, but when I start in to write of the terrible hardships the people had to undergo I find so much to write that the first thing I know I am going beyond the limits of prudence.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 19, 1923, page 3


    There were five passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning, headed for Butte Falls and other points and among them was Glenn Abbott of Butte Falls. He had been to take his wife out to visit her mother, Mrs. Whaley, Medford, and was on his way home again. Mr. O. C. Eblen, the subcontractor on the Butte Falls end of the Eagle Point-Butte Falls mail route from Derby to Butte Falls, Artie Vestal was a passenger from here to Medford, returning the next day. Wert Pool was also a business caller in our town Tuesday and so was J. H. Carlton, one of the prominent farmers and stockmen of the Wellen district.
    Mr. O. Anderson, a transient, came in and remained until Friday morning. He went up to the C. H. Natwick camp on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point canal where he secured a job, as he was known by Mr. Natwick, as he worked for him on a former contract.
    Herbert Davis and J. W. Holk, one of the Butte Falls sawmill men, were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Wednesday on their way home.
    John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, was a business caller. He came in to have a little job of work done by our blacksmith last Wednesday.
    Mr. R. J. Stewart of Medford and a stranger who was with him, whose name I failed to learn, were out here the same day.
    Raymond Schermerhorn of Trail, who was for some time assistant mail carrier on the Eagle Point-Persist route, came out on a business trip Wednesday.
    The three highway commissioners were also business callers in our town. I did not meet them, as just as I saw them, they were starting away, so did not learn their names or destination.
    A man giving his name as Dan Swift from the state of Washington, came in on the stage and inquired for the hotel and then inquired for William Winkle and proved to be an old friend of Mr. Winkle, stopping with him for the time being.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hanscom came out from Medford on a jitney Thursday to visit his brother, Chas. Hanscom, and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    When the stage came in Friday morning from Medford, Mr. Frank Manning, wife and daughter, Dency, of Peyton were passengers on their way home. They were just returning home from Los Angeles, where they had been to visit his sister. He reports that building is going on, not only in Los Angeles, but in all of the surrounding country. They went up to Trail on the Trail stage, where they will be met by his son, Charles, and taken home.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who lives with her husband at the Dead Indian Soda Springs, also came out on the stage from Medford on her way home. She has been spending a couple of weeks visiting her children on the farm east of Medford and at Talent.
    Mr. McKissick, one of the civil engineers who moved from here to Jacksonville, has brought his family back here and is stopping with his brother-in-law, John Prillaman, and he has been engaged dividing up a farm that was left to T. E. Nichols and his sister, Ruth, now Mrs. Carlyle Natwick of Medford, by their mother, and he is now engaged doing some surveying up near Butte Falls for a company.
    I understand that our townsman, Wm. von der Hellen has secured the contract for building another unit of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company Canal, consisting of about eight miles making a total of about fourteen miles altogether that he has contracted for.
    George B. Holmes has purchased the two lots joining the F. E. Nichols store, where now he has his garage and is having it leveled off with gravel and intends to have the most of the ground covered with concrete. He has also bought two lots adjoining his home place, where Wm. Winkle is now living.
    The last time that I gave an account of the experiences of a circuit rider in the early sixties. I had drifted off and told of the sad trials of some of the citizens of that region of the country and still left us, Mr. Smith and I, at the home of Mr. Beard. I have forgotten his given name, but he was one of the most prominent citizens in that section, a true southerner and delighted in rendering assistance to anyone who needed help, and was always ready to help a Southern Methodist preacher and always made them feel at home and Grandma Beard was just as motherly as he was good. I emphasize the word southerner, for I remember that the time of which I am writing was about the beginning of the Civil War and the lines were being drawn and in some future letter I will try to give a hint of what it meant to be a southern minister in those days. Well, after the waters had subsided, Mr. Smith and I concluded that we would try to get back on the Eugene City side of the Long Tom, so we bade our dear friends farewell and started, and inquiring, learned that there was a bridge up the stream several miles, but how we were to get there was a leading question, for all or about all of the bridges had been washed out or damaged so that they were unsafe, but were set on going somewhere where we would feel that we were not a burden, for we were there with those poor people who had been washed out and for some of them had their little stock that they had saved but nothing to feed them on and our two horses were eating the feed that we knew was needed for them, so we started, and after going miles up the creek we found a bridge that was so that we could cross and in a short time we were on the south side of the creek and we headed for the Spencer Creek hills, but found that our troubles were not ended, for before us lay a desolate waste, fences about all washed away and everything the picture of desolation and two large sloughs between us and the hills, but one we went, swimming our horses as we came to the two sloughs and finally we reached the desired haven, the home of another true southern gentleman from Tennessee, Uncle Zara Dunken, where we received a hearty greeting, a hospitable home and plenty of horse feed, where we rested for the night.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 22, 1923, page 3


    Miss Burr and Miss Mordoff of Medford and Mrs. Carter of Jacksonville attended the teachers' meeting at Trail Saturday.
    Mrs. Stewart is driving a new Chevrolet these days.
    Miss D. Peterson was called to Fort Klamath suddenly by the sickness of her sister, Mrs. C. Hutchison of that place.
    Minnie Poole spent the weekend with her parents near Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Pritchett and two little children and Mrs. Cushman and son Charles were visitors at the Hall home Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher and Enid Middlebusher attended a show in Medford Saturday evening. They reported the fog so dense that it was quite difficult to see to drive.
    Mrs. Ralph Watson was a Trail visitor Thursday. Her friends were glad to see her able to be out again.
    Mrs. A. T. Pool is back on the sick list.
    Mr. M. Sienes was a pleasant caller at the Owens home Tuesday.
    Charlie Foeller is hauling hay from Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Ragsdale are recovering from the flu.
    The Pence children are all sick with the whooping cough, also the Morgan children and the Sandry children on Elk Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn and little son, Donald, of Medford were callers at Mrs. Vaughn's parents on Elk Creek Tuesday.
    The work on the Trail Creek bridge was resumed this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 26, 1923, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, who live about six miles out from Eagle Point near the P. and E. R.R. to Butte Falls, were here trading the last of the week.
    Thomas M. Riley finished up the job of putting in the shelves in the new concrete vault that was put in the office of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company and repainting the building and thus improving the appearance of everything around the place.
    Mrs. Ernest Dahack, wife of our popular barber, made a business trip to Medford last Friday coming out on the stage in the afternoon. There were also two boys came out on the stage at the same time; one of them was a son of Mr. John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, and the other was a schoolmate who came out with him; they were met at the post office by Mr. Norris, who took them out to the orchard.
    Gus Ditsworth of Peyton was a business caller Saturday afternoon, and so was Mrs. McDonald of Brownsboro, and Joe Haskins, who has a sawmill near McLeod on Rogue River. There went up a large circular saw on a car just before I met him and I asked if it was for his mill and he said it was. Joe Hittson of the A. G. Bishop orchard was also a business caller and so was Mr. R. A. Petty and Florence Terwilliger and John Blaess, who lives at the old ferry landing. Miss Terwilliger is engaged in teaching school at Trail. Geo. Adams, who is engaged on the Frank Rhodes farm, were all business callers Saturday. There were five passengers came in on the stage.
    Mr. Oscar Anderson, H. C. Davis, C. W. Rose, W. M. Ness and W. K. More came in and spent the night on their way up to go to work on the Natwick unit of the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal from Big Butte to the Nichols gap, where the canal will end and empty into the laterals to irrigate thousands of acres of land in our vicinity. They have taken a subcontract from Mr. C. H. Natwick to dig about a half mile of the canal for him.
    Among the callers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hubbs, shoe dealer of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Feldman, an accountant of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Nichols, hardware merchant of Eagle Point and family, besides a few of the young men of Eagle Point. A. W. Leebaard, manager of the Columbia Tire Company, Medford, and Everett Dahack. He and his father, Eli Dahack, are fixing the old store building that they moved up beside the Eagle Point poolroom and say they are going into business there handling auto tires.
    Mrs. Ira Tungate, Butte Falls; Miss Alta Allen and Mr. Erb Bechdoldt of Derby came out on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point stage Monday and C. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the California and Oregon Light and Power Company, was on his monthly round last Monday.
    Lemon Charley and wife, formerly of Brownsboro but now of Eagle Point, made a business trip to Medford last Tuesday.
    C. H. Natwick one of the contractors on the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal started a truckload of eatables up to his camp Tuesday that he had purchased at one of our local stores, but the train had hardly started before the "tender" jumped the track and the crew and the local road gang were kept busy until ten o'clock the next day getting it back onto the track again to stay, for the roadbed is in such a dilapidated condition that when they would get it back on the track again the rotten ties would give way again and down it would come again. I noticed one place where it had slipped off that the wheel on the back end of the tender cut right through the ties, shaving the ends off just as smooth as though they had been cut off with an ax, and there was one place where everything like ties was pushed from under the rails for a space of four or five feet, but they finally got over the space about thirty feet and started on for Butte Falls and I heard one of the railroad men say that they would likely get off the track again in the next two miles. The ties are so rotten that if they are on a curve the spikes are drawn out and the rails are spread and the result is another wreck. Fortunately there was no special damage done. It appears that the trouble is that they cannot get ties to repair the old road, at least that is the reason the men give for not fixing the road and making it safe to run on. Another difficulty they labor under is the heavy rains we have had this winter has made the ground so soft that that causes the rails to give way with but little trouble.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was a business caller Tuesday.
    Word reached here Monday morning that Rev. J. P. Moomaw, who lived here for several years and preached in this community for us, passed away about midnight Monday at his home near Williamsburg, Josephine County, Oregon. He was highly respected wherever he lived and was one of the lead elders in the Dunkard Church. He was about 85 years of age and leaves a wife and five boys and three girls and quite a number of grandchildren beside a host of friends to continue the trials of life. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1923, page 4


    George Klingle of Lake Creek was a business caller last Thursday.
    Mr. Sam H. Harnish and Robert Harnish, Roy Harnish and Joe Moomaw and wife, and Mrs. Fred Dutton went up to Williamsburg to attend the funeral of Elder J. Moomaw, he being the father of Mr. S. H. Harnish's first wife and Joe Moomaw and grandfather of the Harnish children, last Thursday.
    Mrs. Thomas Stanley and her mother, Mrs. M. L. Burdic, were business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. H. L. Heryford and his mother Mrs. M. L. Heryford of Butte Falls came out with a team Tuesday, via the Obenchain road, via Brownsboro and report that the road is far superior to the road via Reese Creek. They went on to Medford the next day on the stage, leaving the team with S. H. Harnish, returning the same p.m., and spent the night on their way home.
    Mr. J. L. Harvey, who has charge of the Alta Vista orchard, a short distance south of our town, was a business caller Tuesday and in conversation with him, in speaking of the exceptionally warm and pleasant winter, expressed his fears that this warm spell would result disastrously to the fruit men, for the fruit buds were swelling entirely too fast and that unless we had a change to colder weather soon, that the blooms would come out in time to be caught with the spring frosts. Although we are having a little change and there is a little snow in the surrounding hills, and we still have hopes, as I have been here in Rogue River Valley nearly fifty-six years permanently, and most of the time since 1861, and have not seen an entire failure in the fruit crop during my stay here, and never expect to see it in our "Italy of the Pacific Coast."
    M. L. Jones, formerly of Butte Falls, but now of Medford, George Wirt and Mr. Nason, three of the permanent Forest Service men, came out Tuesday from their camp back of Butte Falls with their camp outfit and went on out to Medford.
    George W. Sanders, who has a homestead above McLeod, has been spending a few days visiting his sister here, Mrs. Muskopf.
    Harry Hayes and wife were doing business with our merchants Wednesday. He has his sawmill located on the Dave Pence place on Elk Creek, and I understand that he has taken a contract to furnish the Southern Pacific and a large quantity of ties and I also learned today, Friday, that Joe Haskins, another sawmill man, has taken a contract to furnish the same Southern Pacific Company with several thousand ties. It begins to look as though our Oregon forests were going to be soon stripped of their timber, but it seems as though the S.P. Company could get all the ties they want along their own tracks without going back into the mountains thirty miles off their own road and twenty miles from the P.&E. Railroad and it is as yet not in a condition to do much service for anyone.
    Charley Brown and Carlyle Natwick of Medford were business callers. Charley was trying to sell the stock of Fords that C. E. Gates has on hand and seems to be succeeding quite well, as he sold one last week.
    W. E. Hammond and Fred Pettegrew, one of the directors and the secretary of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Roy Conley, who owns the J. W. Holk sawmill about four miles out from Butte Falls, was here on his way home last Wednesday. He had been to Ashland to attend the funeral of his father, who was for a long series of years a resident of Sams Valley, who died at Ashland at the home of his daughter last Monday, aged ninety years, nine months and sixteen days.
    While I was making my rounds last Thursday, I dropped into the store of the Brown brothers and the first ones I met were Henry French and his son, Lloyd, just as they were getting into their car, starting for home, and they were in a hurry to get home, and the next ones were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw and her father, Lemon Charley, and they were just ready to start for home. Mr. Charley lives in our town, but he is stopping on his ranch above Brownsboro, at present looking after some of his stock, and cutting his wood for next winter. Mr. Bradshaw was here attending to business with our banker, H. E. Campbell and our hardware merchants, Nichols and Ashpole. I also met Harry Hayes, the sawmill man, referred to in the first part of this letter and he was rushing around, and was taking orders from Frank Brown, one of the firm of George Brown & Sons, for a lot of freight to bring from one of the wholesale houses in Medford and off he went. I also met Pete Betz and his wife and her sister, Mrs. Chris Bergman and Mr. John Howard one of the old Civil War veterans who makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Betz and they were just packing their goods into their car, getting ready to start home. The great trouble with me gathering items is I am too slow, for if I had been a little faster I might have seen Mrs. Thomas Cingcade, Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Fred Dutton and Alex Anderson, for they were here trading, but I was too slow.
    Horace Geppert of Butte Falls and Mr. and Mrs. Vern Brophy of Wellen called at the Sunnyside Wednesday evening on business remaining until about bedtime and went on to Mr. Brophy's home that night, so the reader can see what a time I have gathering my Eaglets together.
    I received a letter from Mr. E. C. Faber, secretary-treasurer of the Jackson County Sunday school council announcing that there will be a meeting of the Sunday School Institute here in the Eagle Point church Thursday, February 8, 1923 when there will be a very fine program rendered morning, afternoon and evening, by some of the best talent in the county. Make it a point to have your business arranged so that you can attend and hear something new.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1923, page 4


    The tuberculosis drive is progressing northward, the territory east of Bear Creek being cleaned up as far as Eagle Point.
    Activities will be centered around Central Point and the territory north as far as the Tolo bridge starting Monday.
    Wednesday forenoon between 8:30 and 10 the people of Central Point within the city limits will have a chance to get their cows tested by bringing them to the place of Will Wright near the highway south of Evans' store.
    The percentage of infected animals is still below or near one percent, and everyone should test diligently to dispose of even these few before a greater spread takes place.
    Condemned animals will be shipped to Portland next Tuesday, the car starting for the Farm Bureau Exchange in the afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 1, 1923, page 3


    W. P. Holbrook, one of our successful farmers and orchardists, who has a fine farm and an orchard on the road from the lower Butte Creek bridge to Trail via the Dodge-French bridge, was a business caller last Friday.
    We are anticipating a regular religious and literary treat in our little town on Thursday, Feb. 8, when we are expecting some of the brightest and brainiest men and women in the county to be with us at the Sunday School Institute.
    George W. Averill, who is living on his homestead on the north side of Round Top, came out to get a fresh supply of groceries and horse feed and to have his team shod up, as he expects to go to hauling saw logs to the railroad track very soon.
    J. H. Cooley, one of the leading lumber merchants of Medford and also one of our leading orchardists of this section, called for dinner last Saturday and while here the subject came up in conversation with regard to the lumber business in general and getting out ties for the railroad and he remarked that he had considerable time out in the hills, some in the Big Butte country and some in the hills on the north and west side of Rogue River, and that he was thinking of putting a portable sawmill and cutting it up into lumber and having it hauled to Medford.
    Mrs. William Perry, the wife of our popular road supervisor, who has been visiting her brother Amos Ayres in Medford, returned Saturday on the stage and reports that he is improving in health.
    Leland Charley of Brownsboro was among the guests Saturday night attending the Sat. night dance. Charley Winkle, one of our occasional boarders and lodgers, also attended the dance Sat. night.
    R. S. Dixon, Fort Klamath, and Miss Carmen Hittson of Medford were our here visiting the family of Roy Stanley of this place Sunday evening.
    Frank L. Johnson, who has a fine farm on the Crater Lake Highway near the concrete bridge across Rogue River, was here Monday concerning his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, for he said it had stopped coming and I suggested that perhaps it had stopped on account of it not being renewed, and on looking over the stub on my receipt book found that he was in arrears, so he paid up the amount due, renewed his subscription and went on home contented. I find that when the subscription expires of almost anyone for Mail Tribune they begin to look around to find the cause of the stoppage and renew.
    Mrs. Thomas R. Nichols, the wife of one of the firm of Nichols & Ashpole, hardware merchants, is up on the south fork of Little Butte Creek visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, and Thos., and his partner Clarence Pruett, in the poolroom are taking their meals at the Sunnyside during her absence.
    In my rounds Monday gathering in the Eaglets I met Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Brophy; they had a wreck of their buggy and had it at the Childreth shop for repairs. I also met Eugene Bellows, another one of our enterprising farmers, poultry and dairy men. Also J. H. Carlton of Wellen, also one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen; he is engaged in the sheep business and when I walked into Nichols & Ashpole's hardware store I asked Roy Ashpole about his business and reported that Prof. Engelhardt, Frank Nygren, Brownsboro, Carl Brittsan, Carl Bergman, Frank Ditsworth, John Norris, Robert Rose, Carlyle Natwick and Wm. Perry had been in but I was too slow to meet them.
    Crossing the street, I visited John W. Prillaman, his mother Mrs. Catherine Prillaman and his sister Miss Ella Prillaman; they have been residents of our town for two years or more and they informed me that they expected to start for Ashland Wednesday, Jan. 31st, to make it their home. We dislike to lose them from our community, as they are among our best citizens.
    I also met Mattie Brown, wife of W. H. Brown, one of the Brown Bros., in the store helping Frank Brown, as she expressed the idea, cleaning up the store. It is about the first time she has been able to be out for weeks, for she has been under the treatment of Dr. J. J. Emmens, the oculist. She was troubled with an ulcer in the head, but is now cured and well and we are all glad to know it and trust she will remain well. I should have said that Dr. Emmens is not only an oculist but a specialist in the ear, throat and eye.
    There were four strangers, men, came in Tuesday for dinner who gave their names as Grover Ridley, assistant superintendent of the California Oregon Power Company, Stanley Jones, inspector People's Electric Company, Hendline and W. A. Cormany, also of the People's Electric Company. They had been up to the state fish hatchery installing an electric pump.
    H. L. Cox, who is a general superintendent of the construction and repair work on the P. and E. R.R., was here for dinner Tuesday. He seems to be considerably encouraged over the prospect of getting the railroad straightened up and thinks that by the middle of February they will be ready to start their mill up and run regularly cutting ties and then they will put on a force of men and repair the whole road and put it in shape to do business.
    Frank Neil of Derby was a passenger on the stage Tuesday on his way home.
    Tuesday afternoon I met young Radcliffe, who lives with his parents just above town, and he told me that his father, A. C. Radcliffe, met with an accident recently. His horses became unmanageable and in trying to hold them the front end gate gave way and he was pulled out of the wagon and bruised up quite badly.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1923, page 5


    TRAIL, Feb. 2.--The people on Elk Creek and above Trail along the Rogue are glad to hear the sawmill on Elk Creek is running now, and that they will be able to purchase lumber without having to haul so far. We have long felt the need of a mill in this vicinity.
    Several of the rangers are working on [the] telephone line below Trail.
    Keva Hutchinson of Medford spent the weekend with his parents of the Bar Eight ranch.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher was a pleasant visitor at the Mechem home Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn are spending a few days with Mrs. Vaughn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Pence on Elk Creek.
    Rev. L. M. Phillips has been attending quarterly conference in Ashland, the past few days.
    If anyone reading these items has lost a sorrel horse about 8 or 9 years old, weight about 1000 lbs., one white hind foot and slightly blazed face, unbranded, they may find him at Irwin Howe's near Trail. He seems to be unknown to everyone around Trail.
    Mr. Oscar Stewart, who has been in Medford the past few days, under the doctor's care, is some better at this writing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blaess, Miss Velma Whitlatch and Keva Hutchinson were guests at the Hutchinsons' Sunday, Jan. 14.
    Miss Bernice Phillips, who has been in Portland the past few months, is expected home soon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe were Medford visitors Monday, Jan. 29, and were among those to consult Dr. Mellenthin of Minneapolis at the Holland Hotel that day.
    Walter Oliver of Upper Trail transacted business in Medford Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1923, page 6


    I did think that when I got through January, 1923, that I would resign my position as the Eagle Point correspondent for the Mail Tribune, but when I talked with several of the readers of the Eaglets and they protested so strongly against it, I concluded that I would try to hold out for another month at least, although when it comes to a man of my age tramping over our town and go into a store and inquire of the proprietor about business and he will draw a long breath and reply: "Well, there were a few people in today from the country, but I don't remember who they were. They only stayed a few minutes and went home." And so I have notified some of the business men and women that if they don't put on their thinking cap and help me to gather items for the Eaglets, that I will have to throw up the sponge and quit. And I don't want to have to do that, for that kind-hearted editor, who always meets me with a smile, might not like it and I would not displease him for anything and there is another thought and that is if I should quit I would have nothing to do to occupy my mind or prompt me to move around and I would soon be like an old friend of mine, who is not as old as I am by several years, just sit around and soon be so I could not go out and become helpless and that thought is exceedingly repulsive to me. But I would appreciate very much a little help along that line, especially during the winter.
    J. W. Chester and Lee Edmondson and a stranger, both of Butte Falls, were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage last Wednesday on their way home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ned Vilas, who live on the Vilas farm on the old sticky road from here to Medford, were here Wednesday for dinner and he was inquiring where he could get yew posts, so I suppose he is going to do some fencing on his farm. He reports that his mother is spending the winter in California. Thomas Farlow, formerly of Lake Creek, where he owns one of the best farms in the country, but now has become a citizen of Medford, was also here for dinner Wednesday. H. L. Cox was also here the same day. While here the subject came up of an article that was in the Daily Mail Tribune, speaking of the work in the timber and the addition of a branch line out from the P.&E. Railroad, extending out north into a heavy body of timber, and spoke of a man by the name of Adams being interested in the move and he seemed to think that it was a sensational story, but I was talking with Frank Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons and he said there was a Portland man by that name, Adams, who had been corresponding with him with regard to buying the firm's timber out northeast of Butte Falls and that he had sent him the names of several timber owners who own timber in that section, so there may be more in it than a simple rumor.
    F. J. McPherson, one of our popular merchants, reports that H. U. Ellis and Frank Hill of Derby were trading in town Thursday and that George Barker and Frank Carson of Butte Falls were business callers the same day and that J. Harry Carlton was also here and that he had taken a contract to clear the right of way on one of the laterals to the canal coming from Big Butte, running from the Butte Creek (the Corbin) orchard to the Alta Vista orchard and on through and that the Robison brothers have also taken a contract to clear the right of way on another section of the laterals.
    Thursday was a noted day for the commercial travelers in our little town, for in making my rounds I came to no less than seven, so there must be some business going on here. The first was A. B. Shelby, who is representing Baker, Hamlinton and Pacific Co., San Francisco, Calif. He brought his mother-in-law, Mrs. C. H. Natwick of Medford, out and she had a fine visit with the hostess of the Sunnyside and her daughter. They both took dinner here and so did Walter D. Oliver, formerly of Trail, but now of Portland. He had been spending a month visiting his mother, Mrs. C. Kachy Fiernol of Trail.
    Mrs. Sarah Waldron of Medford, who had been up to the Anderson camp to do the cooking for the men working on the Eagle Point Irrigation Company's canal, but was taken sick and only remained a few days, came out on the stage Thursday.
    I also met Mr. H. L. Buck, who had just finished up his contract to clear the right-of-way on a unit of the canal referred to above.
    While I was in the George Brown & Sons store Thursday looking for Eaglets I met Mr. and Mrs. Masey and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brady, and while the ladies were patiently waiting for their husbands, for they were both commercial travelers, the first one representing Walter N. Moore, dry goods company, San Francisco, and the other Berning Height and C.S.F.J., engaged them in conversation and found them to be very agreeable and interesting entertainers. Mrs. Massey claimed Medford as her home and Mrs. Brady said that she was homeless, as she traveled all the time with her husband. I also met A. G. Knapp, representing Allen and Lewis, Portland. That made three of the salesmen, and Mr. Shelby made the four, and two hardware men, beside Mr. Shelby and a cigar man. That shows how many of that class of men the people who buy the goods have to help keep up.
    When I went to the post office Friday to get my mail I found the following list of items left there by a kind lady friend, and I assure her that I appreciate the help very much and will be glad to receive any suggestion from any of my friends in the community: Those from Eagle Point who attended the Elks Lodge in Medford Thursday night were Thomas F. Nichols, W. C. Clements, Wm. Brown, Roy Ashpole, Gus Nichols, Frank Brown. All report a very enjoyable entertainment.
    Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Leroy Smith, Mrs. Gus Nichols, Mrs. Allen Denton attended the movie "Dr. Jack," and did some shopping in Medford Thursday evening.
    The Ladies Improvement Club met at the home of Mrs. Wm. Brown Thursday evening. Several members were present. A very pleasant time was enjoyed. The old officers were re-elected. Miss Groves was hostess with Mrs. Mattie Brown.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 6, 1923, page 6


    Henry French and his son Lloyd were here last Thursday. They had been to Medford to take their cream and eggs and then returned to our town to do their trading. They seem to be under the impression that they can do just as well trading here, where they have been trading for years, as they can in Medford.
    Joe Haskins, one of the sawmill men from near McLeod, was also here trading with our merchants the same day.
    Mr. L. A. Richter, who lives on the divide between Rogue River and the South Umpqua River, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went on up as far as Trail on the Eagle Point-Persist stage last Friday, and Miss Bernice Phillips of Trail, who had been up to Portland visiting friends and relatives, came out on the same stage and went on up to her home on the Trail stage.
    Mr. Lloyd A. Moss, County Club agent of Medford, was here visiting our school Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    The cow testers are expected out here this week to test the dairy cows in this section of the county.
    George McDonald, who has been working on the Jed Edsall contract on the laterals for the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal Co. canal, was laid off with the rest of the crew until the weather changes for the better and the ground settles, was here for dinner Saturday and went on out to Medford on the stage.
    I see that the printer has made a mistake in my letter giving an account of Mr. John Prillaman and his mother, Mrs. Catharine Prillaman and his sister, Miss, not Mrs., Ella Prillaman. The mistake was made in beginning Mrs. and Miss Prillaman with a B instead of a P and the prefix Mrs. instead of Miss before Ella Prillaman. It was probably due to my bad writing.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her daughter Miss Joyce and Mrs. V's sister, Mrs. Raymond Reiter, and her two children came to visit their brother Jack Florey.
    Roy Ashpole of the firm of Ashpole and Nichols, hardware merchants, report that among the business callers Saturday were Nick Young, R. M. Conley, Butte Falls; Peter Betz, Irene Frey, Lake Creek; Charles Manning, Guy Pruett, Graydon Cox and Wm. Butler were business callers Saturday, and I crossed the street, it was in the afternoon, and met at the Brown store Stacy Hayes.
    The same day I met Mr. A. C. Kent and his brother Dolph Kent, and Lawrence Luy, all of Wellen, at Childreth's blacksmith shop.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro were also in town the same day.
    W. W. Robison and son Ralph Robison, Dr. Joseph B. Webster and Donald Wright of Phoenix were here also advertising the Sunday School Institute to be held here Thursday, Feb. 8th. W. W. Robison is the president of the Jackson County Sunday School Institute and Dr. Webster is the president of the Medford district. They were all here for dinner but failed to meet our Sunday school superintendent, the Eagle Point banker, as he closes the bank at noon Saturday and we could not get him on the phone. Dr. W. W. P. Holt and June Earhart, his professional nurse, came in late for dinner. They had been up to the H. B. Tronson orchard to perform a minor operation on Mrs. Ward. They only stopped here long enough to eat their dinner as the Dr. was called to his office by phone so I did not get to visit with him but a few minutes.
    Eugene Stowell, formerly of this section, but now of Canada, called Saturday afternoon just as I was finishing up my Eaglets for the daily Mail Tribune and we had a fine visit. He came down last fall to spend the winter as he says that 60 degrees below is too cold for him. He is making his home with his brother, George W. Stowell, the chicken king of these parts. He reports that his brother has seven hundred laying hens and takes off several crates every week to Medford. He called the next day, Sunday, to see my wife and daughter, as they had gone to Medford that p.m., and took dinner with us.
    Robert Harnish and family, who had been down to Phoenix to visit Mrs. Harnish's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, returned Sunday.
    Among guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Schuchard, Mr. Schuchard is the manager of the Rialto Theater in Medford, Mr. and Mrs. N. Pringle, one of the high school teachers of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Stewart and son Richard, all of Medford, C. H. Feldman, St. Peter, Minnesota, A. H. Hubbs and wife, Medford.
    Mrs. Wm. Holmes was also out Sunday to visit her brothers, the Brown boys, and sisters, Mr. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoyoc.
    Ralph Cowgill and wife, one of the Jackson County representatives, were out Sunday afternoon.
    Mr. T. F. Nichols, who has been visiting her parents, Frank Farlow and wife, returned Sunday afternoon.
    I received another list of Eaglets by mail from someone, but the writer failed to give the name. We appreciate the act very highly, but anyone sending items please sign your name as it is a rule with newspaper men or correspondents to receive nothing in that line without knowing who the party is. That is for our protection.
    Allen Denton and his brother-in-law, N. Humphrey, spent Saturday afternoon in Medford on business. Mr. Humphrey is from Roseburg.
    There was a good attendance at the Sunday school last Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Robinson from Eagle Point and Mrs. Denton of Medford, who was out visiting her son, were in attendance at the Sunday school and there were several in attendance last Sunday who have not been attending regularly.
    There is one of the teachers who has charge of the little tots who seems to be specially qualified for that duty.
    Carlyle Natwick of Medford came out the first of the week, and he and Charley Winkle are leveling off a tract of land he and his wife have upon Rogue River about six miles from here.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 9, 1923, page 7


    The snow has nearly all disappeared again around Trail and stockmen are wearing smiles once more.
    Mrs. J. T. Zimmerlee, who has been in Medford the past two weeks to be near her daughter, Mrs. C. Blaess, during her sojourn at the hospital, has returned to her home. Mrs. Blaess' many friends will be glad to learn she has recovered from her recent operation sufficient to return to her home in Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson had as Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Houston and Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Freeland spent the weekend visiting friends in Grants Pass.
    J. L. Ragsdale and son Wilmer were Medford visitors Monday. Mr. Ragsdale also visited his mother that day, who is very ill.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Young, who camped near Rogue Elk last summer, are now at Mills City, Ore., on location work. Their many friends around Trail are hoping they will return to this part of the country in the spring.
    Keva Hutchinson and Miss Velma Whitlatch of Medford spent Sunday at the Bar 8.
    Miss Bernice Phillips is staying with the Stewarts, caring for baby Lee, while Mrs. Stewart is in the school room.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pritchett visited at the Howe home Wednesday and Thursday.
    We are sorry to learn Mrs. E. E. Ash is again on the sick list.
    Mrs. Poole entertained Mr. and Mrs. Pritchett, Mr. Simms and Minnie Poole at their home near Trail Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Freeland spent a very pleasant evening at the Hutchinson home on the 28th. Homemade candy and popcorn was a treat which all enjoyed.
    Mr. and Mrs. Brown of Sheridan, Ore., who are spending the winter here for the benefit of their little son's health, report him greatly improved.
    Mrs. Sanburg and Mrs. Tony arrived from Portland during the snow storm Sunday. They came to join their husbands who are engaged in helping construct the bridges on Elk and Trail Creek.
    Miss Mae Mordoff and Irma Ash spent the weekend with the former's parents in Medford.
    Johnnie Ragsdale was a Sunday guest at the Adamson home.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1923, page 4


    O. C. Eblen, Lloyd Stanley and a stranger came out Monday morning on the stage and Mr. Eblen, who owns quite a number of large horses, went out to the J. E. Edsall camp and got five of them that had been used in making the laterals for the Eagle Point-Butte Falls canal company, as the camp has shut down on account of the cold weather.
    Cliff Hickson of Ashland was a business caller the same day.
    Charlie Skeeters and wife of Medford were out the same day combining business with pleasure and visiting old friends and attending to business as well.
    There were quite a number of our newcomers met here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barker and took dinner last Monday.
    H. L. Cox of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad was a diner at the Sunnyside also the same day and so was Carlyle Natwick of Medford.
    Mr. Bond, who lives a short distance from Eagle Point, was here with five others whose names I failed to secure, as they were all just in the act of getting into the car to go home as I came up to them. Too slow again.
    W. O. Johnson was also a business caller Monday.
    In making my rounds looking for Eaglets and subscribers for the Medford Mail Tribune I called at the home of W. P. Morgan, and there I met Thomas Murray of Trail, and Mrs. Kate Chipman of Payette, Idaho, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, and while talking with them about writing the Eaglets Mr. Morgan asked the price of the Weekly Tribune and being told only two dollars a year she gave me her subscription, and then Mrs. Chipman decided that she would subscribe and send it home to her family, as she used to know me some forty-five years ago and used to read my letters then to the Valley Record of Ashland.
    Tuesday morning I met Alex Anderson of Brownsboro, who is on the Charley Terrill place, and in speaking of his sheep, he said they were doing fine and that he had just commenced to feed them the second day of this month, and that they were doing fine. He had just come in on the Lake Creek stage, and turning round I met Mrs. George B. Brown, also of Brownsboro, who came out with him on the stage. I also met Pete Betz, John Howard, a Civil War veteran who lives with Mr. Betz, Ed. Cowden, J. L. Robinson, Sr., two of our prosperous farmers who were here on business.
    A. H. Daugherty, who is selling the Rawleigh products, Perry Foster, W. E. Hammel and Fred Pettegrew were diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    C. W. Conn, who has charge of the Fred Pelouze place now owned by Dr. J. J. Emmens and Mr. Collins, was here having the team of thoroughbred Percheron mares shod, and he reports that in addition to these two he has another mare, that they have fourteen head of thoroughbred dairy cows besides other kinds of fine stock. Such men as these are what build up our country.
    J. H. and Lyle Carlton and J. R. Ahrens, the foreman on the Corbin Edgell orchard of Wellen, and P. S. Anderson of Medford were business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. Dillard of Ashland, consulting civil engineer for the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, took supper at the Sunnyside Tuesday evening. He was here to see Mr. Spencer and Mr. Summer, two of the civil engineers on the canal.
    H. L. Heryford, the road supervisor of the Butte Falls road district, came out from his home at Butte Falls Wednesday, spent the night here, went to Jacksonville to meet the county court, returned and spent another night and went home Thursday morning.
    Mrs. Leroy J. Buckingham and what I took to be her husband of Medford came out Wednesday in a spanking new Star car and she said had started out as the saleslady for that car, and she could almost convince a man against his will that that was the best car on the market. It is a fine car to ride in, for she took me and her husband out riding in it and it made me feel young again and almost want one myself, but how good it is I cannot say for I know nothing about a car myself.
    Henry Caley, an insurance agent of Ashland, called for supper Thursday and went on down home, and V. E. Peterson of Trail also came in and spent the night, went out to Medford, returned and spent another night and went up home on the Trail stage this Saturday morning.
    Our Sunday School Institute proved to be the best one of the series so far as the numbers is concerned; there were just fifty persons in attendance from Eagle Point and vicinity not counting those from Ashland, Medford, Phoenix etc. Those from Ashland were S. D, Taylor, W. W. Robison, Miss Edith Robison, Rev. C. F. Koehler; Central Point, E. C. Faber; Portland, Miss Georgia Parker, Rev. F. M. Jasper; Oregon City, Rev. A. J. Ware; Medford, Rev. E. P. Lawrence. The morning session was opened with singing, reading scripture lesson and prayer by one of the visiting ministers, and then singing, etc., and Rev. F. M. Jasper gave us a regular soul-inspiring talk on the value of vacation Bible schools setting forth the advantages derived from these schools, but pardon the suggestion, for while he told of the many fine things derived, there was one thing I noticed last summer during the vacation Bible school, conducted by a lady from Los Angeles, which was that she managed to get interested children who had never attended Sunday school and they became so interested that they were anxious to be there among the first. Mr. Jasper's lecture was followed by a lecture by Rev. A. J. Ware of Oregon City, on Organized Classes, giving some statistics showing how the work of the Sunday school workers had grown and developed until now it had become a great national institution and the members were now counted by the thousands. At the close of his lecture there were several questions asked and answered and the morning session closed and a sumptuous meal was spread by the ladies.
    The afternoon exercises were opened in the usual way with another good attendance, and Miss Georgia Parker gave us a remarkably interesting and instructive lecture on "Our Objective," holding the audience with her fine flow of language and her appeal to the parents to look after the welfare of the children in early life, and she looked so motherly that I thought the printer had made a mistake and used the wrong prefix, Miss instead of Mrs., so at the close of the services I went to her and asked if it was a mistake and she said no, that she was really an old maid.
    This was followed by another fine lecture by Rev. E. P. Lawrence of Medford, the subject being "Teaching the Word." This was followed by a general discussion.
    The means of reaching our objective, with Miss George Parker as leader. This was followed by a talk by Rev. F. M. Jasper on "Keep the Sand in Place." And then Rev. A. J. Ware followed with one of his soul-cheering talks on "Organized Class Work," and this was followed by another fine talk on "Teachers Training," and this by Miss Mary Spencer. That closed the afternoon session.
    In the evening the exercises were opened in the usual way and Rev. A. J. Ware gave us another one of his fine lectures on "The Adult and Law Enforcement," and this was followed by Rev. P. M. Jasper's crowning lecture on "Perfect Fellowship with the Ever Present Father," and that seemed to be the best of all, for he brought us into such close fellowship with our Heavenly Father that we seemed to be really in the bosom of the Father in deed and in truth.
    I see that my letter is already too long but I cannot close without saying something about the lunch and supper service by the ladies of Eagle Point. Well, all that I can say this time is that there was a bountiful supply of everything that is good to eat, and one of the ladies remarked, after all had eaten supper, that there was enough left to feed twenty more people. In conclusion I will say that the whole institute was a crowning success and the lectures will be remembered for years by the interested audience.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 12, 1923, page 3


    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, who owns a fine farm a few miles southwest of Eagle Point, attended the Sunday school institute here last week and was a guest of Mrs. Roy Stanley, who is teaching the Brownsboro school but living here in Eagle Point, and they both came over to the Sunnyside for breakfast Friday morning.
    Albert Swain, U.S. biological survey, and Mr. Lloyd A. Moss, county club agent, were here for dinner Friday noon.
    Edward Guches, wife and son Edward of Medford spent Friday visiting Mrs. Guches' mother, Mrs. N. E. Watkins, and sister Anna Watkins in Eagle Point.
    Edward P. Nochel and a stranger from Butte Falls were here for dinner Friday.
    J. W. Wyman, wife and son of Portland came in Friday evening and engaged rooms, remaining until Monday morning when they moved into one of the houses belonging to the ex-county commissioner, James Owens and wife. Mr. Wyman is a railroad section man and went to work on the P.&E.R.R. Saturday morning. Mrs. Harvey, who has been living in the Owens house, has moved into a small house just across the street.
    Chris Beale, who has been under treatment for stomach trouble by Dr. Swedenburg of Ashland, came out on the stage Saturday morning and went to the Sunnyside where he remained until Monday, returning to Medford. Mrs. Col. Pool also came out Saturday morning with Mr. Beale and went on up to Butte Falls the same day.
    F. J. Jackson, one of the timber owners in the Butte Falls country, of Portland, came in Saturday for dinner on his way up to Butte Falls to look after his timber interests there.
    Ella G. Barnes of Derby came out on the Butte Falls stage, went to the Sunnyside for dinner and continued her journey on to Medford, returning Tuesday morning and went on up to her home.
    S. E. Cowgill, who has been living on the old Moomaw place on the hill above town, has moved into the James Jordan house where it will be much handier for the children to attend school.
    Nothing special took place here Sunday as the weather was rather inclement, and Sunday we had some snow on the ground and Sunday night we had a regular old-fashioned snow storm, leaving us with four inches of snow with a hard crust of sleet between the first and second courses.
    I received a copy of House Bill No. 77, the anti-moonshine bill, from Portland Saturday, and in talking with our popular sheriff about it he said that he thought that every newspaper in the state should print it and let those who are inclined to violate the prohibition law can see what they are up against, for it is no trifling matter for a man or woman, for I see by the papers that some of the women are proved guilty of a violation of the law, and now what used to be punished by a light fine and jail sentence is a fine of three thousand dollars [nearly $50,000 today] and a term in the penitentiary. He suggested that by publishing the bill that it would probably keep someone from violating the law and keep some good family from being disgraced. If any reader of this item wishes to procure a copy of the bill they can procure it free by sending to the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon, 805 Broadway Building, Portland, Oregon.
    Dewey Stowell and Alex Betz, two of our promising young men, were here on business last Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Our school, under the management of Mrs. Josephine Holmes as principal and Miss Ruth Wiley primary teacher, observed Lincoln's Birthday in an appropriate manner. In speaking of our school we feel proud to be able to say that we have one of the best schools here in the county, and the teachers are beloved by all of the children and are proud of the advancement they are making in their studies.
    Lucius Kincaid, our popular mail carrier on the route from here to Persist via Trail, was here for supper Monday evening. Mrs. Kincaid had gone out to Medford to visit her parents and Lucius said that he didn't like to get his supper after working all day, or eat a cold lunch, so he came back to the Sunnyside. I met Mrs. Kincaid Tuesday in the McPherson store so I know that she has returned.
    Lloyd A. Moss of Medford and Dr. George D. Bishop, Salem, federal agent for tuberculosis testing cows, came in Monday and Dr. Bishop engaged a room and board for a week. He has been testing the cows in the valley and reports that out of the five hundred cows he tested in and around Central Point he only found two that were troubled with the disease, and that throughout the state of Oregon so far as tested there was only one percent found so far, a fine showing thus far. He has just commenced in this section of the county, and is here writing up his reports and waiting for some more serum. He will probably be in this neighborhood for several days yet.
    Claud Hutchinson and George Adams, who are on the Frank Rhodes place, came in Monday with 129 dozen eggs that they had gathered since the Thursday before, and Benj. Brophy came in with 90 dozen and three large cans of cream for the Snider Creamery of Medford. By the time our new canal from Big Butte is in operation there will be enough dairy cows in this section of the country to justify the opening up of a creamery here, for with our water power and electric power a creamery could be operated very cheaply, for with the addition of the large volume of water from the canal and the addition of thousands of acres of land that will be brought into use there will be thousands of tons of alfalfa and clover hay added to the already liberal supply we have here.
    Among the business callers I met besides those mentioned were George and John Berg, who are living on the Clarno place between here and Trail near the Crater Lake Highway.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of our big contractors, has moved his family back here from Medford.
    Lou Walch of Wellen was also a business caller Monday and so was Mrs. Frank Johnson, who lives near the new concrete bridge across Rogue River, and Wm. Marshall, who is on the Timmy Dugan farm below here on Butte Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 19, 1923, page 5


    Mrs. George Weeks and children were callers at Mrs. Hart's Thursday.
    Geo. Fisher is down from Elk Creek, helping Mr. Ash cut wood this week.
    Mr. Brown of Fisheries Station, Mr. W. G. McDonald and E. E. Ash were Medford visitors Friday.
    We are glad to report Mr. and Mrs. Sanford's infant baby much improved.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Pence were Trail visitors Saturday. Mr. Pence has recovered from the whooping cough sufficient to be out again.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison were pleasant callers at Middlebushers' Friday.
    Enid Middlebusher and brother Denzil were Medford callers Saturday.
    The rain is sure welcomed by all around Trail, as it is taking the balance of snow fast.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole and Wilmer Ragsdale motored to Medford Saturday. The former's daughter, Minnie, returned with them.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pritchett were visitors at J. J. Hall's Friday.
    The Stewart brothers and I. Howe were looking after cattle down the river Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 20, 1923, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent the weekend in Medford shopping and visiting with friends.
    Mr. John Hill and Burt Gage of the Hill Construction Co. are expected here this week to arrange to remove their rock crusher and settle up their business here.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and son Denzil have returned from the Applegate where they have been visiting the former's daughter, Mrs. M. Pence and family
    S. W. Hutchinson has been hauling lumber from the Elk Creek sawmill to build a small house for the renter on his ranch.
    The steel work on Trail Creek bridge being completed, the men are busy placing the steel on the Elk Creek bridge. The public will be glad when these two bridges are completed as the detours are very muddy to have to travel.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Houston had as Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. Tom Raimey, Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and Mr. and Mrs. S. Houston. A bountiful chicken dinner with all the goodies to go with it was served, which was greatly enjoyed by all.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 22, 1923, page 6


    Our school has an enrollment of six pupils. Five girls and one boy. Our teacher's name is Frances Greb. We are getting along fine in school.
    We have been making a number of improvements in our school. The floor has been oiled. We have two new pictures, new shades and white curtains, and our supplementary readers.
    A surprise party was given in honor of Virginia Anderson, January 20th, that being her 9th birthday. Games and music furnished the evening's entertainment. At midnight dainty refreshments were served. There were about twenty-five present. Everyone departed in the wee hours of morning, after having a delightful time.
    Mrs. Jacob Monia was up last week to visit her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Charley.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw motored to Eagle Point Tuesday on business.
    Isolee and Frances Brown are taking up sewing in club work and like the work very much.
    Leonard Bradshaw is talking up pig raising.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Brown gave a house party in the opening up of their new bungalow, on Friday evening, February 16th. A large program was given by the pupils and people of the community. Miss Greb supervised the program. A large crowd was present. After the program, games were played until midnight after which dainty refreshments were served. A few games and a number of musical selections were rendered after luncheon. Everyone departed in the wee hours of morning, after having had a delightful time.
    We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Alex Anderson is ill at the Sacred Heart Hospital. It is the hope of everyone in the community that she will recover and be able to be with us in a short time.
    Emogene Charley and her sons, Floyd, Claus and Leland, went to Medford Wednesday, February 21, to attend the funeral of Fred Hurst.
    We are glad to learn that Irene Charley, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Charley, has recovered from her illness. She was very ill with bronchitis.
    With sunshiny days and warm weather the farmers are commencing their spring work.
    We have had four 100 percent in attendance this year, and we are going to try and keep that record the rest of the term.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1923, page 3


    Benj. Whetstone, one of our well-to-do farmers and stockmen who lives on a farm on Antelope Creek, was a business caller last Thursday and so was Roy Conley of Butte Falls, who owns the old Haak sawmill, and I asked if he was cutting much lumber now and he said no, that he was feeding his cattle, that he had plenty of hay and that he was just poking it into them and they looked fine.
    Sam H. Harnish, who has the contract to take the high school children to Medford and back, was on the sick list last week so had his son Robert drive in his place, but is now back on his old job again.
    Carlyle Natwick of Medford was here for dinner Saturday and reports that he is building a house on the tract of land that fell to his wife in the division of what is known as the Nichols farm, some six miles north of here on Rogue River. After it was divided between his wife, nee Ruth Nichols, and her brother Thomas F. Nichols, they mutually agreed on the division, had a surveyor run out the lines without the aid of a lawyer, and everything was settled as it should have been between a brother and sister.
    L. G. Palmer of Butte Falls was out Saturday and reported the death of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Spencer's infant son aged 13 months, who died Friday.
    Last Friday, Feb. 16th, being the 49th birthday of our popular road supervisor, just about the time when he was about to retire, having taken off his shoes and everything as quiet as a death chamber, all at once he and his wife were startled by one of those unearthly yells that few could give except Gus Nichols, broke the stillness of the hour, when in rushed about 20 of his neighbors to join with him and his family in celebrating his birthday. So after the excitement was over they all settled down to spending the evening in visiting and social games until bedtime when lunch was served and the visitors retired wishing William many happy returns of Feb. 16th.
    Wm. Butler, one of our well-to-do farmers, and Mr. Van Allen, who is living with Mr. Butler, were in town on business with our postmaster and manager of our telephone business, W. C. Clements.
    Saturday afternoon just as I was starting down to the post office to get my mail, Wm. G. Pierce, the machinist for Hubbard Bros., Medford, drove up on a business errand, and when through drove off and I started right off for the post office again and my daughter called me back saying that someone wanted to know if I was authorized to perform the marriage ceremony and she replied yes. It appeared that he stopped at the McPherson store and asked him if there was a minister in town, being told that Mr. Howlett was a minister he thus called on the phone. He then wanted to know if I could marry a couple about eight o'clock that evening. Being told that I could, not giving any names he again called up and wanted to know if I could go out in the country about half a mile. Again I answered in the affirmative, as he proposed to come after me and bring me home so, that being settled, I again started for the post office and got thirty rods on my way when who should drive up and stop, and I supposing that he had forgotten something I inquired the cause of his returning. He said that he had come after me and I looked at him inquiringly and asked if he was the man who wanted to be married and he said he was, and wanted me to get right in the car, but I protested that I wanted to change my clothes. Finally I thought of my fountain pen and said I would have to get that to fill out the certificate so we started back to the house and I changed my clothes and got ready and we started, and after we started I asked the name of the lady he was going to marry and he said the name was Mrs. Hannaford, and after we had rode a mile or two I remarked that his half mile was rather long then asked where the lady lived and he said on his place, a part of the Everett Dahack place (it was four miles but he was too excited to think). Well, we went on through the sticky mud and finally came to a place near the foot of a hill where the ground seemed to be softer and soon we stuck fast. He tried to back up, but the more he tried the deeper we went into the sticky, so Mr. Pierce took the load off and tried again but every move made it more difficult to get out, so he finally asked if I had on rubbers. I told him I had. Well, said he, I guess we will have to walk and I asked how far it was over to the the house and he replied: O, two or three hundred yards. I still had a mind the length of his "half mile" and figured accordingly, and so we started. Of course I could not walk very fast, especially through the sticky, and after we had walked about three-quarters of a mile and by this time it began to get quite dark for a man past ninety and almost blind. We finally reached the house and on entering met Mrs. Elizabeth Hannaford, her sister-in-law Mrs. Hannaford, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stille, and ten children, Mrs. E. Hannaford's five, one of the other Hannaford family, and four little Stilles, and in the course of a short time Mr. Pierce was ready and brought in the prospective bride and in less time than it takes me to write it, the happy couple were joined in wedlock. And then he and Mr. Stille started to extricate the car from the mudhole.
    But then I came up against another difficulty. I had been used to electric lights, but we were off the line and consequently had to depend on a coal oil lamp for light, and I was unable to see to write or read, but I secured the assistance of one of the ladies and dictated to her and finally managed to make them out. Then supper was called and after partaking of a hearty meal Mr. Pierce announced that the car was at the door ready to take me home. So we, that is Mr. Wm. G. Pierce, his bride and myself started and in a short time I was landed at the Sunnyside safe and sound. So bidding the happy couple good night they went on their way rejoicing.
    Among the Sunday visitors were Dr. M. C. Barker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn W. Smith, all of Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1923, page 4


    J. A. Cooper of Trail, George Lindley, one of the timber cruisers and George Wood, one of the timber owners of San Diego, Calif., were passengers on the Butte Falls stage last Monday. Mr. Cooper went to Trail on the Trail stage and the other two went on up to Butte Falls.
    Eli and Everett Dahack are fixing up the building they moved from between the McPherson store and the town hall for a garage and are installing a gasoline pump and air and water plant and expect to put in a supply of tires and tubes and the necessary accompaniments for a first-class garage and Ernest Dahack, our popular barber, has installed a water system in his dwelling with hot and cold water, bath tub, and in connection with it an irrigation system for his garden and berry vines. He also has the lumber, cement and shingles on the ground to put up a house to install an electric pump in the place of his old gasoline pump and have it arranged automatically so as to ensure a good supply of water for his barbershop and bath room, as well as for domestic use at his home. By the installation of the Dahack gas pump and garage it secures for the town a bountiful supply of gas and auto supplies, as Ashpole & Nichols have a gas pump with their hardware store, F. J. McPherson has one in connection with his general merchandise store, and George B. Holmes has one with his garage and there is also a pump at the Eagle Point pool room, though it is not in operation at present although one of the firm told me when they first opened up that they intended to keep gas when the travel opened up.
    George B. Holmes, our old garage man, has the wires up for a radio plant in his residence and has ordered the necessary machinery so as to be able to hear what is going on in the outside world. George is quite a genius and will soon be able to manipulate the wires.
    Mr. Sheibley, the janitor of our school, who is living at the present in the James Jordan house with Mr. and Mrs. Coghill, took dinner Monday and Tuesday at the Sunnyside. He was helping Ed Wolfer pack up and crate some furniture and household effects that were left of his in the house when his father-in-law, Mr. Jordan, died. Mr. Wolfer remained at the Sunnyside until Thursday afternoon when he started for his home at Hubbard, ten miles north of Salem.
    Frank Carson, the Butte Falls barber, came out on the stage Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Among the business callers Monday were J. E. Haskins and he reports that he has his sawmill about ready for operating. J. H. Carlton, who came in from working on his contract, looking for a barber, for he had a two weeks growth of beard on his face and looked as though he had been working in sticky. Elmer Robinson, another one of our progressive farmers, was also in town Monday and Bert Clarno and Mrs. Tillie Bergman were here trading with our merchants.
    Mrs. Herb Carlton and Ira Hensley of Wellen were here trading with Fred McPherson and Rosa Smith and her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Perry, were trading with George Brown and Sons and Ed Cowden came in the same day to bring in his cream.
    The friends of George Brown and family of Brownsboro gave them a surprise party on Friday, Feb. 16th on the completion of their new house and moving into it, and some of their friends in this community went up to congratulate them on their success in having it completed. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell and Leonard Charley and wife. There were quite a number of their old neighbors as well as some of the new ones joined in the company and after spending the evening until toward midnight lunch was served and the company dispersed after wishing a pleasant good night.
    Among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday were Alex Vestal of Reese Creek, A. W. Gay of Butte Falls and D. T Cornell of Dunsmuir, Calif.
    The following gentlemen were here for dinner Tuesday: Fred Pettegrew, president of the Eagle Point Irrigation District; F. C. Dillard, the consulting engineer of the company, E. G. Rice of Portland, a salesman of machinery for making canals and ditches, and B. W. Paul of the Paul's Electric Store, Medford.
    Dan Swift of Seattle, who has been here visiting, returned home Tuesday. W. S. Chappell, our shoemaker, who has given up the business here and gone into the sawmill business near Trail, came in Tuesday morning. He and his partners have been moving the mill from just above Trail to Long Branch, some four miles below Trail.
    S. M. Hawk, Butte Falls, one of the pioneers in the sawmill business in this country, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage on his way home, and Wm. Palmer, also of Butte Falls, was also a passenger on the same stage. W. T. Wellfanny, also of Butte Falls, was a passenger on his way home.
    Jessie Morris, who is in the employ of George W. Averill, who is getting out saw logs for the Olds & Brownlee Company, was here for dinner Wednesday and so was S. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the power company.
    W. O. Johnson and wife of Wellen, and Ed. Chartsaw, George Adamson of Trail, W. H. Season of the Dodge ranch were business callers Wednesday.
    J. B. Jackson and wife of Butte Falls were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith the mid week. Mrs. Pearl Nichols and her sister Blanche Davis were also visiting Mrs. Lizzie Perry.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith of Eagle Point were visiting his brother, Lou Smith and family of Central Point, Wednesday.
    John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, was a caller Wednesday.
    Roy Ashpole of the firm of Ashpole and Nichols, hardware merchants, gave me the following names of people who came in Wednesday: Wm. Merritt, Robert McCabe, Scott Bayer and wife, Harvey Stanley, Wellen and Roscoe Hult.
    Mrs. Wm. Butler, Roy Davis, who is on the Thos. F. Nichols farm on Rogue River, Lee Bradshaw and wife, and F. J. McPherson report that Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stille, Jas Hannaford, Thos. Abbott and family of Lake Creek were also business callers.
    There seems to be a general cleaning up around town, taking out the old stalks in the gardens, removing the old rubbish and making things look nice, and it is a common thing to hear people say that the lovely sunshine makes them feel as though they were taking the spring fever.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 27, 1923, page 6


    Theodore W. Finley, formerly of this neighborhood, but now of Klamath Falls, called Thursday for dinner and so did Frank Tralton, also of Klamath Falls, and A. B. Shelby, a hardware salesman, and Ed Welch of Medford, who is selling fruit trees and vines, shrubbery, berry vines, etc., for a nursery in Washington, were here for dinner Thursday.
    Frank Hill of Derby and Wm. Lewis, a sheep herder, E. H. Oliver of Trail and Jas. Hannaford, Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen, Mr. Cushman of Trail were trading here Thursday.
    I met B. H. Sears of Reese Creek in the McPherson store Saturday afternoon, and I also met John Gabler and he renewed his subscription with me for the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun.
    Among the guests Sunday for dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel were Mr. and Mrs. Hartrell from Three Oaks, Jackson County, Mrs. Hart from Quincy, Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Speck and little daughter Catherine of Medford, Buel Hildreth, James O'Brien, O. Adams and Mrs. Mary Clevenger of Butte Falls, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Derby and family, Leo J. Miksche, a representative of the Monarch Seed and Feed Store, Medford, and J. D. Bell, proprietor of the Nash Hotel, Medford, Esther Ashcroft, Medford, Miss Joyce von der Hellen, Eagle Point, Geo. W. Austin and wife, Medford, and Loris Martin, formerly of Trail.
    Ray Warner of Trail came out the next day, Monday, and he and Mr. Martin spent the day at the Sunnyside and went up to the Edsall camp to go to work on the laterals for the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal to do some rock work, as the sticky is too wet yet to work to advantage.
    The following list of interesting items was handed me by a lady friend last Monday afternoon to be inserted into the Eaglets, and I am satisfied that the readers will appreciate the favor as much as I do:
    Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. John Rader entertained twenty-five of the members of the Civic Improvement Club at the home of the former, Feb. 15th. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. H. E. Campbell, and quotations from our beloved ex-President, Abraham Lincoln, were read by the members. The club has decided to have a booth at the county fair the coming fall and are already making plans, the president having appointed the following committee on fair work: Mrs. A. R. Macdonald, Mrs. Charles Pruett, Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. L. K. Haak, Mrs. Wm. Perry and Mrs. Cora Smith. The ladies on the visiting committee are Mrs. Allen Denton, Mrs. J. Frank Brown and Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols. Committee for cleanup day, Mrs. George B. Holmes, Mrs. Weidman and Mrs. Grove. The mayor will set the date for cleanup day and everyone will be expected to clean up their yards, alleys, and around their places of business.
    Monday I met our schoolhouse janitor and he gave me his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune for three months. The reading public are becoming more and more satisfied that in order to get all the news and get it quick they must take the Mail Tribune. It is amusing to notice the crestfallen expression on the faces of the strong of men, women, boys and girls who flock to the post office about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when it is announced the Tribune didn't come, for once in a while by some means the papers fail to reach the post office here, but very seldom.
    Among the business callers I met Monday on the streets and different business places were Carl Bergman, Benj. Brophy and wife, James Jones and Earl [sic] (Shorty) Miles of Butte Falls, and Ralph Cowgill, our representative in the lower house of the legislature: Mrs. W. Gagner of Trail, Gordon Cox of Medford, who was moving some of the personal property of the late James Jordan from the house where he lived into the bank building for disposal, and what he didn't sell to store away to be disposed of later. I also met Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dutton and they were trading with George Brown & Sons when I first met them but later they were buying some of the furniture, bedding, etc. that the banker had brought to the bank for safekeeping. I also met Fred's brother Ed, and Ray Ashpole reports as business callers at the Eagle Point Hardware Store Henry Tonn of Lake Creek, John Walch, Lake Creek, Mrs. Wm. Bigham, John Norris and Mrs. Clarno, and F. J. McPherson reports D. L. Zimmerlee and S. W. Reed of Trail and Herb Carlton of Prospect is doing business in his store.
    Mr. Muskopf, one of our prominent citizens, has gone to the Big Butte country to work in a logging camp.
    Mrs. Lorne B. Warren of Medford and her cousin, Mrs. O. S. Chapin of Calgary, Alta., Canada, were out driving looking over the country and took a spin from Medford up as far as the new steel concrete bridge four miles this side of Trail and stopped here for dinner on their way back and seemed to be delighted with the country and the Crater Lake Highway.
    C. H. Natwick, one of our big contractors, came in Tuesday morning intending to go out on the Butte Falls stage, but he was either too slow or the stage was too fast so he was left so spent the night at the Sunnyside and went out this Wednesday morning.
    J. J. McMahon, the state traffic officer and Mr. Tex C. Higginson, both of Medford, called Tuesday for supper and went on their way there is no telling where, for their speed cop is hard to keep track of.
    As Robert Harnish's wife has gone to Central Point to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nickel, Robert and his father, S. H. Harnish, took supper at the Sunnyside Tuesday evening and Chris Beale spent the night here and so did Messrs. J. N. Rennie and his brother of Eugene, traveling salesmen.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 2, 1923, page 8


    Mr. Johnson, superintendent of Hill's construction company, has been here for a few days greeting his many friends in the community. He will leave soon for Klamath County where he has charge of some work.
    Mrs. S. Geary and daughter Clara and grandson Jimmie of Canada are visiting with Mrs. E. E. Ash this week.
    James Wilson's father has arrived from Portland to spend the summer with his son on the Bar-Eight ranch.
    Mr. E. E. Ash and C. Owens, also Mr. Mechem, were Medford visitors Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ash and little daughter Betty and son Gene, Mrs. E. E. Ash and daughter Irma, Mrs. Geary and Miss Mordoff were pleasant visitors at the Howe home Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. George D. Saltzman of Medford spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison.
    Mr. Charles L. Phillips, who has been spending the winter in Los Angeles, is here visiting his brother, L. M. Phillips, and family. He will go from here to his home in Montana.
    Mr. Dave Lynch of Upper Trail was a Trail visitor Wednesday.
    There was an error in the items of last week. Instead of Mr. and Mrs. S. "Houston" it should have been Mr. and Mrs. S. "Hutchison" visiting at Frank Houston's.
    R. R. Dawson is working on the crusher this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 2, 1923, page 10


    Mr. N. B. Stoddard, the hardware merchant of Butte Falls, was a passenger on the stage on his way home last Wednesday morning.
    Dick Daley and little son of Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, California, was over here visiting his relatives Wednesday.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who spends the most of her time with her husband, who has to stay the most of his time at the Dead Indian Soda Springs on account of his health, came out on the Lake Creek stage Wednesday and went out to her farm east of Medford to visit one of her sons, who is running the farm for her.
    Among other callers were Rube Johnson, a retired capitalist, and his nephew, Alex Mathews, John Minter, who came in with his gang plow to have it fixed by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, who was off to Jacksonville on jury duty. It works a great hardship on our farming community to have to come in from one to twenty-five miles to have work done and find out that our blacksmith had been called on to act as a juryman when a large community like this are depending on him to do their work. It does seem as though if our Hon. Judge but knew the number of farmers who are depending on him to do their work so they could do their farming that he might excuse him from jury duty under such circumstances. But I have such faith in his wisdom and justice that he will do what is right in such cases.
    Bert Peachey and family of Ashland have been here for the last week or so with Mrs. Peachey's parents. Her father forbid me putting his name in the Mail Tribune, so I withhold it. And Mr. Peachey has been overhauling his auto in the absence of the blacksmith, as he is an uncle of Mrs. Peachey and so has free access to the shop during Mr. Childreth's absence.
    W. T. Otenglot and F. G. Edsall were here for dinner Thursday.
    Pete Betz and wife and John Howard, an old veteran of the Civil War, George Hanson and Frank Nygren of Brownsboro; Carl Bieberstedt, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen, who lives on the Eagle Point-Brownsboro road; C. W. Conn, who lives on the Meadow Lark ranch, were doing business here Thursday.
    Roy Stanley, who has been down in California in the Alturas country buying cattle for Pauley and Walker of San Francisco, returned to his home here a few days ago and reports that cattle are very low in price, that the bankers have advanced the money for the cattlemen and as the price has dropped are demanding their money and the result is disastrous with some of them.
    Henry Wahler, who lives out about six or seven miles on Dry Creek, came in Thursday to have his horse shod, but had to go home without having it done.
    As I was making my rounds Thursday, I met Mr. Roy C. Wilkensen of Starrriger, Norway, representing the Morse Crown Cannery Co. He is strictly a fish salesman and had his samples on plates, spread on the counter in McPherson's store and they looked good enough to eat. I also met at the same time, A. G. Knapp, distributor of the great Henry George Cigar, two great, large husky men, either of them would pull down 180 lbs., but they were riding over the country in autos, while men of near half their size have to dig out a scant living by the sweat of their brow, simply because they improved their time when young and secured an education and consequently use their brains instead of their muscles. (This is for the benefit of the boys and girls who read the Eaglets.)
    This is moving day in our little town. Mr. Bush, who was living in Mr. S. M. Woods' house, moved away and Will Winkle moved into it. Mr. John L. Robinson, Jr., moved out of the Rev. Simmons home into his own home that he bought of Charley Painter, now of the state of Washington, and Mr. W. L. Hurst moved from the Robinson house into the Cummings house (Wamsley) and D. A. Sheibley moved from the James Jordan house into the Simmons house.
    In my rounds the other day I met one of the members of the council, Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown, and she and our townsman, John Miller, the carpenter, were putting trees along the sidewalks from Main Street to the railroad. If the other five members of the council took as much interest in beautifying our town as Mattie does, we would have one of the most beautiful towns on the Pacific Coast. Our mayor also takes a great deal of pride in beautifying our town.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 7, 1923, page 3


    Gus Nichols and wife made a business trip to Medford on Wednesday of last week, and Mrs. Gus Nichols took dinner at the Sunnyside Thursday, March 1, and so did Carley Manning of Peyton.
    Among the other business callers Thursday were Mrs. Ed Condon, Mrs. John Miller and Wert Pool; also the Hayes brothers, two of the sawmill men who are operating a sawmill upon Long Branch, and Joe Haskins, another sawmill man. The millmen were trading with Brown brothers.
    Henry French and his son Lloyd, who had been to take their eggs and cream [to] Medford, came back here to do their trading and put their checks in our Eagle Point bank. They were also taking out a lot of fertilizer to use on their alfalfa. What we used to call one-horse squirrel ranchers are, since they have gone into the dairy and poultry business, have developed into genuine four-horse farmers and are developing their squirrel ranches into valuable farms and have their bank accounts and are independent so far as money is concerned, and it is not one individual case but I can name several in this district who a few years ago had to go out and work for wages who turned their attention to the poultry and dairy business, and worked and put water on their places who are now independent, and I predict that in the next few years, after our irrigation project is completed and some of the old "mossbacks" have died off or sold out and the large tracts of land that will then be under irrigation, and enterprising men and women take hold of the land, that the Eagle Point District will be one of the beauty spots of the Pacific Coast. But I don't expect to be able at that time to write it up for the readers of the Mail Tribune, for I am now looking around to find someone who is willing to undertake the task.
    Fritz Edler, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen of the Lake Creek country, was here Thursday for dinner with Jack Holloway.
    Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls, who had been out to Jacksonville on jury duty, and was excused for a few days, came out on the stage Friday morning and went up home. Mrs. Miles, also of Butte Falls, was also a passenger; a strange lady and two men went up on the stage at the same time.
    There were nine men came in Friday for dinner but I failed to get the names of any of them; so far as I could see they were all strangers.
    F. J. McPherson, one of our popular merchants, reports that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wymore, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pruett and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Frey, the latter of Lake Creek, were buying goods in his store Friday.
    Mrs. Laura C. Atkins, who is teaching in District 42 in the Lake Creek country, came out and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    The following account of the Parent-Teachers meeting that was reorganized here was handed in by a lady friend: A number of the mothers of Eagle Point met with the teachers at the school house Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a Parent Teachers Association. Mrs. R. A. Weidman was elected president and Mrs. Allen Denton secretary-treasurer for the ensuing school year. It is hoped every parent will give this association loyal support.
    Last Saturday the teachers in the Eagle Point-Butte Falls zone met for the second time in the Eagle Point school house.There were many helpful suggestions given. A delicious lunch was served by the newly organized Parent-Teachers Association. Those present were Mrs. Susanne Holmes Carter, the county school superintendent, and her assistant Elizabeth Burr, Frances Greb, Gertrude Wiley, our primary teacher, Mrs. Josephine R. Holmes, the principal of our school, Mrs. Gertrude Stanley, the teacher of the Brownsboro School, Olive Hogan, Nita Johnson, Sylvia Hukill, Miss Furry, Mrs. Laura C. Atkins and Mrs. Ed Monson. The last meeting of the organization will be held either at Butte Falls or Eagle Point in April. The foregoing report was furnish by the popular principal of our school.
    J. P. Hughes, a retired merchant of Butte Falls, who had been out to Jacksonville on jury duty, and P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek were here Friday night, going home Saturday morning.
    A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage Saturday morning on his way home.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., one of our prosperous farmers, was also a passenger on the stage. He had sold a horse to a man and he paid down ten dollars and was to pay the balance in monthly payments of ten dollars each so taking the horse he skipped out and that was the last he heard of him for some time, so he started out in search of him and heard he was up on the Applegate River near the California line. So off he went and finally found him, and fortunately the horse also and when the man found that Mr. Robinson was going to take the horse he promptly paid the balance and kept the horse.
    E. V. Brittsan, who is on the P. S. Anderson farm with his brother, was in town Saturday having our blacksmith do some repair work.
    Carl von der Hellen of Wellen and A. J. Anderson, the Standard Oil man of Medford, and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro were business visitors here Saturday.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Saturday were Glenn Haley, Gold Hill, and wife, A. J. Florey and wife and their mother-in-law, Mrs. A. J. Anderson, and at night Frank Simpson of Medford came in and spent the night.
    On Sunday there was no one from Medford but quite a number of our regular comers and goers, among whom were George and Harry Lewis, who bought the A. J. Jonas farm, and Harry told me that they had rented the Allen Denton alfalfa field, twenty acres, of Mr. Denton, had been covering it with fertilizer, had taken his six milk cows to milk for one year and that they had procured a registered sow of the Red Duroc breed and with their sheep, cows and hogs expected to come out on top--and so do I, for they are hustlers.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1923, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pritchett had as Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fry and little son, Earl, Mr. and Mrs. Seimes, Oren Adamson and Wesley Ragsdale.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and daughter Enid spent Sunday p.m. with the former's daughter and family on Elk Creek. Mr. and Mrs. M. Pence just recently moved to Elk Creek from Applegate. They were accompanied by Mrs. S. Geary and daughter, Clara.
    R. R. Dawson and I. H. Howe were branding their cattle Wednesday preparatory to turning out.
    Mrs. W. Stewart motored to Medford Saturday. She was accompanied by Mrs. L. M. Phillips and daughter Bernice.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison were very pleasant callers at the Howe home Sunday.
    Mrs. Viola Peterson returned to her home at Persist after a few days' visit at the Poole home.
    N. C. Vaughn and C. Whitley were Medford visitors Thursday.
    Mrs. Sadie Applegate of Medford is visiting her friends at Trail this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. Hutchison motored to Medford Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1923, page 5


    R. D. Henson and son, James Henson, were here for dinner last Monday. They are in the employ of Foster and Kleiser in the advertising business. They were out with their new auto, all equipped for the business. In commenting on their new rig, Mr. Henson remarked that the company had had two others of the same kind put up and that all three of them were kept busy posting advertisements. They have now six advertising or bulletin boards in our little town and about five-sixths of the space is used in advertising tobacco in its various forms of putting it on the market.
    Thomas Riley, one of our prosperous young mechanics, was here Monday and reported that he was turning his attention to painting, as he had the contract to paint John Rader's house and W. C. Daley's house and the bankers', H. E. Campbell's, house. Beside painting, Mr. Riley works at the carpenter business considerable of his time and during his leisure hours has helped his brother-in-law, George B. Holmes, put up a radio system at his residence or rather over it, and they have installed the machinery and have it in operation. They were assisted in putting it in place by one of our high school boys, John Phillips, who has been taking a course in that branch of science, and has so far proceeded in his studies that he has installed a radio of his own, doing all the work himself, except the part that is manufactured in the factory.
    Frank Smith, who lives a short distance from town, told me a few days ago that he called and listened to it and heard a woman preaching in Los Angeles, Calif., heard a basketball game going on in Seattle, Washington, could hear them clap their hands and cheer, and also heard from Denver, Colorado, and he thinks that by the time Johnnie graduates, that he will be complete master of his profession. After Mr. Holmes had his radio installed, he invited a number of his neighbors and they were delighted to hear the different kinds of songs, music, speeches, etc., that were caught on the wire.
    Mrs. G. W. Averill of Butte Falls (Round Top) came out on horseback, about the only way she could come comfortably, to do some trading and took dinner at the Sunnyside. Also Roy Stanley and family who live here in town, but Mrs. Stanley is teaching the Brownsboro school although she has been so unwell as to be unable to meet her school this present week, so far March 10th.
    George B. Holmes and wife, the principal in our school and Rev. J. E. Day of Butte Falls were here for dinner the same day and Mr. E. Summer, civil engineer, who is in charge of the construction of the Butte Falls-Eagle Point Canal, and O. Adams, also of Butte Falls, were here overnight.
    Among the diners here Tuesday were Mr. H. L. Heryford, Chris Beale, Ralph Cowgill, chief engineer on the canal, Fred Pettegrew, secretary of the canal company and Mrs. Miles of Butte Falls and M. M. Willits of the Union Oil Company, California of Medford. Mr. Willits is of the old pioneer stock of Jackson County, being a son of W. W. Willits of Persist, who has resided on his homestead ever since he and his wife, and I think that she was a daughter of Mr. Wrisley, a pioneer of Central Point, were married and they have raised their family and are now grandparents.
    C. R. Stewart, with J. B. Calt Co., New York City, carbide lighting and cooking system, and Henry Morgan of Persist, came in and spent the night and so did George Trusty of Elk Creek. Mr. Stewart engaged room and board and intended to canvass the country out east and north of here, but was unexpectedly called Wednesday afternoon to Grants Pass, but expects to return the first of the week.
    The following report was handed in but too late for my Wednesday's letter. Mrs. Mittelstaedt and Mrs. A. R. MacDonald entertained twenty-three of the members of the Civic Improvement Club at the home of the former Thursday, March 1. The fair committee had a meeting following the regular business meeting, at which it was decided to fence the city park, the park committee made a report of the work in the park, after which a dainty two-course lunch was served by the hostess.
    Lyle and J. Harry Carlton, George Daley, Jr., and Sam Vestal were business callers Wednesday, and Mrs. L. H. Swink of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside the same day. William H. Brown, one of our popular merchants, and B. H. Williams, San Francisco, Calif., representing Dinkelspiel Co., Inc., and Earl W. Moore, salesman for Mason Motor Co., selling Star and Durant cars, were here for dinner Wednesday. Mr. A. Anderson of San Francisco came in from Butte Falls Friday noon and took dinner and so did Chris Johnson, who is working on the new Rocky Hill road for Wm. von der Hellen and reports that they are getting along very nicely with the job and that it will be completed by the first of June.
    In my rounds Friday I met Mrs. Frank Lewis, who was confined to her room at her daughter's, Mrs. Ted Wick, in Medford for several weeks and was brought out home about the first of January, and she said that that was the first time that she had been out in town since she came home, and she showed the effect of her long confinement, but says she feels quite well now and her many friends hope that she will soon regain her normal strength.
    In my meanderings yesterday, a friend of mine, Mr. F. J. McPherson, handed me a subscription to the Mail Tribune that had been left with him by one of his customers, Mr. Huson, the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, for his father-in-law, H. W. Ward, who lives above him on Butte Creek, and this Saturday morning I met our blacksmith W. L. Childreth and he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune for another year and today we had some friends call and one of them was from Portland and he remarked that the first thing he looked for in the Mail Tribune was the Eaglets and a lady asked why I did not write oftener and I referred her to the editor and another explained that she liked to see the names of the people who come and go, as she knew so many of them although they came from the "four corners of the earth."
    T. Nichols, one of our popular merchants, is having a radio put up in his residence.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 13, 1923, page 6


    Patrick L. Daily, district game warden of Jackson County, is at the Community Hospital recovering from a very serious attack of ptomaine poisoning, and owes his life to having had some emergency strychnine tablets in his pockets which he swallowed just before becoming delirious.
    Mr. Daily in the course of his duties far up the Rogue River late last Tuesday started for home in his car and then decided to stop at Kelley's Island and eat a meal, before continuing his journey. After eating some canned food along with other edibles he became very ill--so sick he could not leave.
    Becoming worse he swallowed the tablets which he always carries in case he should run across some coyotes swimming in the river, and made himself as comfortable as possible, lying down. All that night, whenever rational, Pat expected almost every minute to be his last, and ever and anon kept repeating his Elks' oath--too sick to think of anything else eligious.
    Late Wednesday forenoon he had recovered sufficiently so that by exerting all his will power he feebly entered his car and drove to this city, where he was at once taken to the hospital and attended by physicians. This noon he was reported out of danger.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1923, page 6


    TRAIL, Mar. 15--Mr. Ash is remodeling and enlarging his post office this week, getting ready for the daily mail route to Prospect from Trail.
    Mr. James and Mr. Anderson of Portland were looking after mining interests near Trail Saturday.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher had as Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher, the Misses Gwen Houston, Mickey Davis and Clara Geary, Mrs. Geary and little grandson, and Mr. Rose.
    Keva Hutchinson spent the weekend with his parents at the B-8 [ranch].
    Mrs. Clara Blaess and Mrs. Lewis Blaess are visiting friends along the Rogue this week.
    We are very sorry to hear Mrs. W. Houston's granddaughter, Doris Richardson of Central Point, is in the Sacred Heart Hospital to undergo an operation, and all hope for a speedy recovery.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher, the latter's sister Gwen Houston and Miss Mickey Davis spent the weekend with their parents near Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison, Miss Mae Mordoff and Irma Ash were very pleasantly entertained at the Watson home Sunday. The chicken dinner, ice cream, and lovely homemade candy for which Mrs. Watson is noted was greatly enjoyed.
    F. Sturgis, Mr. Sandry, D. Pence, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs. Middlebusher were Medford visitors Saturday.
    Irwin Howe and Clarence Whitley visited the Hayes sawmill on Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. Foellers are visiting at the Zimmerlee home this week.
    Quite a crowd from Trail attended the dance at Hoskin's Saturday evening and report a very nice time.
    Miss Minnie Poole was home from Medford for the weekend.
    Mrs. R. M. Cushman returned home Friday from Gold Hill where she has been visiting her daughters, Mrs. J. Roe, Mrs. J. Hall and Mrs. Edmondson.
    Mr. and Mrs. Graham and little son and Mr. Davis of Elk Creek motored to Medford Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1923, page 7


    W. H. Isbel, Benjamin Brophy and wife, Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro were among the farmers who were patronizing our popular merchant, Fred McPherson, the last of the week.
    J. Frank Guerin of Portland, a nephew of the three Brown brothers of the firm of Geo. Brown and sons, was here the last of the week visiting the three brothers and their sisters, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and other relatives. Mr. Guerin is in the employ of the Southern Pacific Company and makes his headquarters in Portland, but travels a good part of his time.
    Sergeant L. Richardson of the U.S. Marine Corps of Seattle, Washington, and Theodore R. Florey of Portland, son of our late lamented ex-postmaster, J.P., etc. A. J. Florey, also one of the veterans of the Civil War and Theo's sister, Mrs. Floy von der Hellen and her daughter Miss Joyce [were] at the Sunnyside Hotel last Saturday. Mr. Florey is agent for the Commercial Co., Portland. Harold Anderson of Medford, Oscar Hansen and his brother, Carl Hansen, were also here for dinner and remained for supper, bed, breakfast and dinner Sunday and at noon were joined by two of their neighbors from Climax at dinner, Mr. Walter Charley and Ed Holman. Mr. Charley and the Hansen brothers are interested in the sawmill business near Climax and are putting up a new sawmill and report that they have a contract to cut two hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber for the Hartman Company, who are developing a shale mining property a few miles above their mill. They report that the shale is very rich with petroleum, that they have already two steam shovels on the way and have a quantity of pipe and two retorts on the way and are planning to lay pipes from there to the nearest railroad. They seemed to think that the terminus will be about Agate or possibly Eagle Point, as they can procure a water grade from the mills to the railroad here. They already have a small force of men at work opening up the mine and getting ready for the steam shovels. Specimens of the rock are at the store of George Brown & Sons, and those who have tested it say that it burns quite freely. If it proves to be as good as the three men, the Hansens and Walter Charley seem to think it is, it will be a boom for Jackson County.
    Among others who were here for dinner Sunday were Earl Miles and George Albert of Butte Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Bates, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Haskins and daughter Jeanette, and Elma Reid, all of Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley and his brother Glenn and wife of Gold Hill, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Speck, Medford, besides several of our neighbors who call in quite frequently.
    Fred J. McPherson reports that D. L. Immerly and W. S. Smith of Trail, A. C. Radcliffe, Eagle Point, Jasper Hanna of near Trail and Herb Carlton, Wellen, were patronizing his store Saturday.
    Among the business callers Monday were J. H. Steele, who has moved into the James Jordan house with Mr. and Mrs. Cahill, A. G. Bishop, one of our leading orchardists, a part owner of the celebrated Ringwood orchard, west of here, R. A. Petty, who is on the Vermeren farm, John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard and Miss Inez Willits of Persist, one of our popular school teachers.
    Moses D. Vimard, agency manager of the American Central Life Insurance Company, and C. O. Thomas, associate representative, with offices in Medford, Oregon, were here for dinner Monday.
    Among the business callers Monday were C. E. Bellows, wife and baby and Mrs. Robert McCabe, Mr. Barney Goade, who has a homestead of Reese Creek. Ralph Bieberstedt was in with a team, getting lumber of George Brown and sons. Wm. Pruett of Wellen was getting gas of our popular hardware merchant, Ashpole and Nichols, and Roy Ashpole reports that Frank Hill of Derby had been in trading and also Pete Betz and wife, Charles Fallon and Charles Dexter of Trail; Wm. Merritt of Reese Creek; Chris Edler, Lake Creek; Lon and Henry Tonn, Thomas Vestal and family, Mrs. Boyen and Wm. Massiar of Reese Creek.
    Mr. H. G. Smith, proprietor of the Holland Hotel, Medford, was a business caller. I met him in the Brownsboro store and later he called on business at the Sunnyside, but I was out trying to rustle Eaglets for the readers of the Mail Tribune.
    Tuesday morning I met Oscar Higinbotham of Gold Hill in the McPherson store and about the same time I met Rube Johnson, one of our land owners and capitalists, and Mr. R. W. Ruse of Medford was also a business caller.
    H. C. Galey of Ashland, agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Co., came in Tuesday for dinner, canvassed our town, took supper, worked until bed time and then went home, Mrs. Israel Patton and son, Harold of Butte Falls came out on the stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on out to Ashland, Custer Brown of Derby was also here for dinner and went out to Medford. H. B. Shelby of the Baker-Hamilton and Pacific Co., San Francisco, Cal., and M. M. Willits of the Union Oil Company, California, were here for dinner Wednesday and so was Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Swink of Butte Falls. They came out on the stage and went out to Medford on their way to Yakima, Washington, where they intend to make their home. They will be greatly missed from Butte Falls as they have been in the mercantile business for some time, but sold out and went onto a homestead and now have sold out and went onto a homestead and now have sold out and are leaving many warm friends behind them in and around Butte Falls.
    Frank Lewis, our new hardware merchant, received a nice assortment of forks, rakes, etc., Tuesday.
    And now, in concluding this letter, I am sorry to have to announce to the many warm friends among the readers of the Eagle Point Eaglets that I am forced to desist from being a regular semi-weekly contributor to the Mail Tribune on account of my health, for it requires not only brain work, but a vast amount of muscle work, as well to gather, formulate and write, as I have been doing now for several years, about two columns a week for the criticisms by the public. And in concluding this letter I wish to extend my thanks to the many friends who have so ably assisted me in my labors in that time and also acknowledge the courtesies and encouragement I have received from the entire force connected with the Mail Tribune office. In all of my writing now for almost sixty-five years as a newspaper correspondent, I have scrupulously avoided writing anything that would offend anyone or mislead any. That I have made mistakes is natural, for they are unavoidable, but if I have caused anyone trouble or pain of mind, I ask them to remember that it is human to err, but divine to forgive. I don't say farewell, for if my health permits I expect to write occasionally for the readers of the Mail Tribune, for I love the work and realize that my work is appreciated, not only by the readers, but by the editor and publishers of the papers as well. So adieu for the present.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1923, page 10


    Mr. F. D. Hill of Derby, and Owen Conover of Reese Creek were trading with our merchants Wednesday and the same day I met Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Abbott, and Mr. Abbott's father-in-law and wife in the McPherson store; they had been out to Central Point to attend the funeral of Mrs. O. R. Pankey, a near relative, who was buried the day before. I also met Charley Cingcade the same morning, Wednesday morning, at the same store getting seed potatoes, and the same afternoon I met Mrs. Thos. Cingcade and Mrs. M. L. Pruett, the latter was laying in a supply of gas and oil for her car, they were on their way to the meeting of the Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point, one of the most important organizations in this section of the county.
    Mr. A. C. Huson, the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, and Mr. Charles Drexler, and Mr. E. W. Frey, one of the prominent citizens of the Lake Creek country.
    Arthur Phillips, a young man who has been working for John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard, came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did Miss Nettie Young, a traveling saleslady, who was taking orders for socks, ladies hose, etc., on a Portland firm.
    One of our regular visitors of Medford Fred Frideger, who has a twenty-acre orchard just outside of the town limits, came in Wednesday night and called for bed, etc.; he had returned from an extended trip back east, going by the way of Seattle, Vancouver, British Columbia, from here through that foreign country stopping off and visiting friends in Dakota, U.S.A., and going on to visit his mother in Ohio, taking a trip down to Florida and back home via the Southern Pacific route via Los Angeles, San Francisco, reaching his home in Medford Sunday, March 11th. I asked why he did not come through the Panama Canal and he said that he was not ready for that trip but intended the next time he went back to visit his mother to go thru the canal and take in all of the sights along the way. He reports that he had a very fine trip and seen some fine sights. And I predict that he will never regret the investment.
    W. H. Ward, the manager of what is known as the H. B. Tronson orchard, for it has changed hands having been taken over by a Portland firm, and I understand that the new owners are digging up all of the apple trees except a few right around the house and are planning to sow the land to alfalfa.
    Mr. Dewey Hill, who has been off in San Francisco for some time, came in on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday and went on up to his father's near Derby. Mr. Hill informed me that Mr. and Mrs. James Grieve of Prospect, who have been spending the winter in Los Angeles, also returned to Medford at the same time.
    In my rounds Thursday, for when the sun shines and the weather is warm like it was Thursday, I feel pretty well and can go around quite well, I met one of our prosperous young men, Nick Young, and he looks the very picture of health and I often wonder why it is that some of our marriageable young women will let men of that class "keep batch" and they on the verge of becoming old maids.
    E. A. Hildreth, one of the deputy assessors, came in Thursday and engaged a room at the Sunnyside. He has finished up assessing the Butte Falls district and will soon start in assessing Eagle Point.
    Another prominent citizen I met Thursday was George W. Stowell, our chicken king. I asked how his hens were doing and he said that they were keeping them out of the poor house, but that it took a lot of mash and attention to keep them going. He had just bought a new Star truck to use in his business.
    Mrs. B. H. Bryant, Medford, and Mrs. E. V. Maddox of the Medford greenhouse came out Thursday to take dinner at the Sunnyside and to attend the meeting of the C.I.C. of Eagle Point. Mrs. Elmer Wilson of Medford came out with them to visit her sister, Mrs. George B. Holmes, the principal of our school.
    G. W. Medley and Henry Maust came out Thursday to connect the new garage of Eli Dahack and son, Everett, with the main electric wire and took dinner at the Sunnyside. They are in the employ of the California-Oregon Power Company. Ernest Dahack has installed a new electric automatic pump that does away with his old gas pump that has been an eyesore to the whole town for some time. It took half a day to get it started to pump.
    Mr. A. Monia of Brownsboro was in town Thursday with his team and Milton Cowley, also of Brownsboro, was a business caller and so was Charley Blaess of Elk Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hanna, nee Anna Pankey, of Eugene has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Thomas Cingcade, the first of the week.
    Mrs. H. Hornby, nee Emma Matney, who was a girl sixty years ago, now a resident of British Columbia, called on us Thursday for a few moments. They were on their way home from Los Angeles, Calif., where they had been for Mr. Hanby's health.
    Charley Clark, one of the early settlers of this county but now of Chiloquin, Klamath County, came in and spent the night Thursday.
    In my next will try to give an account of the meeting of the C.I.C. of Eagle Point, as this letter is long enough.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 19, 1923, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Poole, Miss Minnie Poole, Miss Clara Geary and Claude Ragsdale attended the dance at Harvey Morgan's near Persist, Saturday night. They report a very nice time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher, Gwen Houston and Mickey Davis were Sunday guests at M. E. Middlebusher's.
    Little Wanda Howe had as guests on her birthday March 17th Miss Irma Ash and Wayne Ash.
    W. T. Houston is in the hospital at Medford as a result of a fall from a load of hay. We are glad to hear he is getting along all right at this writing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Cushman and little son Everett and Mrs. Mary Warner were Sunday visitors at the Dawson home.
    Mrs. R. D. Watson and Mrs. T. C. Gaines were Trail visitors Thursday.
    Mrs. Davis and son Ray motored to Prospect Saturday.
    Claude Ragsdale returned home this week from Corvallis where he has been attending forestry school.
    The Messrs. Christosen and Dale and Miss Mae Mordoff spent the weekend at their homes in Medford.
    A. T. Poole is cruising timber this week on Elk Creek.
    Miss Bernice Phillips accompanied by her brother Lester left last week for Springfield, Ore., to visit a brother and family.
    Miss Velma Whetlatch, Miss Edith Campbell, Wesley Pruett and Keva Hutchinson of Medford spent Sunday with Keva's parents at the Bar-8 ranch.
    S. Emery spent the weekend with his family on the Applegate.
    Rev. Dodge of the Free Methodist Church held quarterly meeting at the Elk Creek school house Sunday.
    Mr. Dunn, the surveyor who has charge of the construction work on the piece of road between McLeod and Cascade Gorge, was in this vicinity last week looking over the work to be done. We understand the work will begin soon.
    The people above Trail, along the river, are enjoying the daily mail service now.
    Mrs. Chas. Blaess is again on the sick list.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 23, 1923, page 8


    The last time I wrote for the Mail Tribune I found that before I reached the principal event of the day Thursday that my letter had already reached the usual limit, a column, so I will simply start off where I left off and resume the incidents of that day, for it was a beautiful day and I felt about twenty years younger than I did when I wrote that blue letter and spoke of throwing up the job of writing the Eagle Point Eaglets.
    It had been arranged among the members of the Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point to hold their meeting at the Sunnyside Hotel on Thursday afternoon, March 15th, 2:30, under the management of Mrs. Tedrick and the hostess of the hotel and by a little after noon the ladies commenced to come in, and through the kindness of the secretary of the club I was furnished with the following list of the members who were in attendance: Mrs. Seaman, Mrs. A. J. Florey, Mrs. Ashpole, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. M. L. Pruett, Mesdames S. B. Holmes, A. R. McDonald, J. W. Smith, W. H. Brown, B. H Bryant, E. V. Maddox, both of Medford; M. S. Wood, Roy Smith, Lottie Van Scoy, Weidman, Fred Pettegrew, Amy Brown Tedwick, H. E. Campbell, Thos. Cingcade, Lizzie Perry, John Rader, Gus Nichols, Lucius Kincaid, Mrs. Reid, Charley, Denton, Roy Stanley, Miss Ruth Wiley, Mrs. Geo. B. Holmes and Mrs. Elmer Wilson, thirty-one members besides five small children, and during the festivities of the afternoon Mrs. Campbell took photos of the babies.
    After spending a few hours in a social way the meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Campbell, and the record of the meeting was read and approved and at the close the members and visitors were invited to the dining room where a lunch was spread. My reporters says a lovely luncheon was served by the hostess and at the close it was announced that on the next day your scribe would be ninety-one years old, and congratulations were given and received from the entire company of warm friends.
    There was a truckload of powder came out for C. H. Natwick to be used on his contract on the Butte Falls-Eagle Point Canal.
    Shorty Allen of Wellen was a business caller Thursday and so was Frank Simpson and E. O. Hildreth. The two spent the night at the Sunnyside and Mr. Hildreth, being a deputy assessor, engaged a room while he is assessing this part of the country.
    There has been another change made in the mail routes; now instead of the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage taking the Prospect mail and having to wait until the carrier arrives at Derby the mail is sent from here direct to Prospect via Trail and the man from Prospect comes to Trail and thus relieves the Eagle Point-Butte Falls carrier of the bother of having to wait until the Prospect man wallows through the mud and snow for him to make the trip.
    Mrs. O. M. Goss of Butte Falls, who has been visiting friends in Fresno, Calif., came in on the stage Saturday on her way home. George Laidley and Harold Patten were also on the stage on their way to Butte Falls.
    The Brown firm report that G. E. Neuber of Medford, who has a homestead in the Butte Falls country, called and laid in a supply of groceries to take up to his homestead. I also met W. H. Crandall at Brown's the same day.
    Among the people from the country trading with Ashpole and Nichols hardware were Robert Rose, Ralph Bieberstedt, L. K. Haak, F. G. Ayres and wife, Alex Anderson, Brownsboro, W. E. Morgan and wife, Trail, and the same day I met Wm. Holman, wife and baby, of Salt Creek, and Mrs. T. T. Taylor of Lake Creek and Clifford Hickson of Ashland.
    Among the callers Saturday for dinner were Ralph Cowgill and another civil engineer, J. W. Cunningham of Portland, representatives of the purchasers of the bonds of the Eagle Point Irrigation District. C. Frey of Lake Creek was also a business caller.
    Among the callers Sunday were Mrs. C. J. Frey, J. L. Bell, C. F. Bell, all of Medford, and Mrs. Wallace of Everett, Wash., Gus Newbury and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Feldman, R. H. Hubbs and wife, Charles E. Terrill, wife and son Glen and Mrs. L. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Farrar, Wm. Berry and wife, and for supper James Taylor of the Valley Fuel Co., and wife, Mrs. Romley and Miss Dunham, all of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Boraker, who are living in the W. P. Morgan house, had a birthday party, it being his 53rd birthday. There were about thirty people there and among them were the Stilles, the Coghills, the Hannafords, who came to that neighborhood last fall at the same time he did. He reports that they had a very pleasant time, all being acquainted.
    At the last meeting of the town council an ordinance was introduced and considered regulating the speed of automobiles and other motor vehicles, also regulating the speed that horses may be rode or driven on the streets; also considering an ordinance establishing a curfew.
    W. E. Boraker gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 24, 1923, page 6


    Mr. R. Muskopf, a citizen of our town, who has been working in the neighborhood of Butte Falls, has gone to Klamath Falls to seek employment, as the climate of Butte Falls does not seem to agree with him, the altitude being too high for him. We dislike the idea of losing so valuable a family as that of Mr. and Mrs. Muskopf, but such is fate.
    Among the business callers Tuesday were Dick Johnson, Reese Creek. I also met Mr. and Mrs. H. U. Ellis of Derby, they are located on a farm near Derby. I also met Mrs. Fred Dutton, the wife of one of our hustling farmers, who married one of our neighbor girls a few years ago and since then, by their industry, has managed to secure a nice band of cattle and other stock, and the result is they are counted among the good livers in the community. Fred Waterbury, a young man who is living with them, came in with Mrs. Dutton. I also met Mr. C. B. Hutchinson. He came in to bring in a lot of eggs. He is in charge of the Frank Rhodes ranch and reports that he is getting thirty-three and a third dozen eggs a day and that he received a shipment of 100 little chicks a few days ago.
    George B. Brown, one of the prosperous farmers and stockmen of Brownsboro, was also a business caller Tuesday. He is interested in thoroughbred stock, and I am glad to be able to state that it is now a common thing among the farmers and stockmen to find them turning their attention to the improvement of their stock of all kinds, especially among their cattle, hogs and poultry, doing away with the old razorback hogs that required two years to grow large enough to market and the old dunghill breed of hens and keeping something that will lay, instead of a dozen eggs and then set and if the eggs are taken from under her, will set for another month on a piece of white china, for a breed that will lay forty or fifty eggs and stop laying and rest a few days and go to laying again.
    Lester Bradshaw and his mother, Mrs. D. Bradshaw, were also here trading with our merchants Tuesday.
    F. L. Terrill, who is located on the Bell ranch (the old sheep ranch) about a mile east of the Agate station, was trading with one of our popular merchants Wednesday, and reports that his wheat is looking fine. He had brought his gang plow in for repairs.
    H. B. Thompson, former owner of one of the orchards just above our town, was a caller of F. J. McPherson Wednesday.
    J. L. Harvey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was a business caller Thursday and reports the prospect fine for a big fruit crop, as the cold nights are keeping the blossoms back so as to miss the late frosts in April, May and sometimes in June.
    D. L. Zimmerlee of Trail was also a business caller on the McPherson store. I also met the same day H. J. Oden of Talent. He had come in with a truckload of goats and said that the man they were for was to meet him here Thursday morning, but didn't know his name, and had forgotten the man's name who sent them, but when he arrived here and stopped his truck in the street, failed to find anyone to receive them, and up to eleven forty-five a.m., the truck was still standing in the street, and no claimant, but before I got back from dinner the truck, goats and men was gone so I did not learn who sold them or who bought them. It looked like a slack way of doing business to send a man off with a truck of goats without giving him the name of the man who was to receive them, and for the truck driver to be ignorant of the man's name who sent them, but it may be all right if it ends well.
    I also met the same day Mr. Tobe Stone and his two nephews, Robert and Harry Stone of Jacksonville. They had started for Butte Falls to try to get employment.
    I also met one of the early pioneers of Jacksonville, Mr. Thomas Riley, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, located on his fine farm on Antelope Creek.
    I also met Mrs. B. L. Kingery, who is living on one of her father's, James Culbertson's, farms near Wellen. I also met Mr. J. Gabric [Fabrick?], Medford and Mr. Dan Seavale, Butte Falls. They were here for dinner. I also met Mr. Frank Sunderstrom of Butte Falls and Burnett Gusdner and R. Gusdner of Salt Creek (Lake Creek).
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Huckson of Ashland were here for dinner.
    Mike Hickelbery was also a business caller on Geo. Brown & Sons Wednesday.
    F. W. Walker, one of the section foremen on the Brownlee-Olds (Pacific & Eastern) railway, was taking a layoff Wednesday, as he was not enjoying his usual health, and in the run of conversation gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun. Since I wrote that letter of March 17, in which I state that I would have to give up the job of gathering and writing the Eagle Point Eaglets, I have found such a strong protest coming from the readers that I have decided to try to keep at it for a while at least, although sometimes after I have made my rounds of the business part of the town and go into first one place of business and then another, and see no one from the country and inquire, "Is there anything new today," and the reply is "nothing doing," it makes me feel a little discouraged, but then I have the promise of help in that line, as some of the business men and women have promised to help me, and some of them have helped me very much already, for which I am very thankful.
    George W. Averill, who has a homestead on the north side of Round Top, near the railroad track, came out and went to Medford to look after a carload of wood he had shipped out on the railroad and came out to the Sunnyside and spent the night on his way home.
    Thomas Riley, son of Joe Riley, whose home is on the Crater Lake Highway near the Antelope bridge, was in town Thursday. He is hauling lumber for cross arms for our telephone manager, W. C. Clements, from the Hayes sawmill on Long Branch.
    Mrs. A. C. Radcliffe was here trading and reports that her husband, who was badly hurt some months ago, is improving so that he can go around a little, but improves very slowly.
    Among the diners Thursday noon were W. C. Clements, Harold Van Scoy, our popular mail carrier on the Medford-Butte Falls route, C. A. Pickle, the meter reader for the California & Oregon Power Co., and A. J. Free [Florey?], who has been working at Butte Falls, but was hunting for a softer and better job.
    Roy Ashpole of the hardware firm of Ashpole and Nichols reports that Gus Ditsworth, W. P. Morgan, Milan Caseley, R. Hulse, Herman Meyer and John Greb were among the business callers Thursday.
    E. V. Brittsan, wife and three sons were trading with F. J. McPherson Thursday and F. M. Amy and Geo. W. Paine with O.&C. Seed Co., Medford, were here for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 28, 1923 page 6


    Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers, who lives on his own farm a short distance below here, was a business caller the latter part of the past week.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dennis, who are on the Grant Mathews farm, came in to bring in Mr. and Mrs. Birch of Glendale, who had been out visiting them. Mr. Birch is one of the conductors on the S.P. railroad.
    Mrs. W. C. Daley and her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen, were pleasant callers at the Sunnyside Thursday. Mrs. Daley is somewhat aged and in poor health owing to a serious accident she met with several years ago when she was thrown from a horse and badly hurt, and her many friends were pleased to see her able to ride out and visit some of her old friends. And I notice that Mrs. von der Hellen has purchased a fine new car, a Durant.
    R. A. Petty, one of our prosperous farmers, was a business caller Thursday.
    Mrs. L. E. Hinman and her daughter Mrs. E. R. Van Leeuwen of Medford, came out Friday to take dinner and to bid us farewell.
    Mrs. Van Leeuwen said that she had her things all packed and expected to start the first of this week to join her husband in Riverton, New Jersey, who is in charge of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory in interest of U.S. Department of Agriculture. Mrs. Van Leeuwen will be greatly missed by her host of friends, not only in Medford where she was in business at the time of her marriage, but by a large circle of friends outside of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fuson, life insurance agents, were out Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Marsh Garrett, one of our big stock men, was a business caller the same day.
    Carl Stanley went to Prospect to arrange the Wm. von der Hellen camp so that he can start up operations on his contract on the Crater Lake Highway again.
    Alvin Conover, wife and two boys were trading with our popular merchant, Fred McPherson, Saturday, and Mrs. Conover promised me that she would subscribe for the Mail Tribune in the near future. Rube Johnson, W. H. Isbel of Reese Creek, T. E. Clark and F. R. Frey of Lake Creek were also trading with him the same day.
    Wert Pool, another one of our farmers, and W. H. Crandall, a prominent orchardist, were here. He brought in a nice lot of dressed turkeys, leaving a couple at the Sunnyside. George Givan, another one of our farmers, was in town on business. I asked him how his cows and chickens were doing and he replied that they only had about three hundred hens and a few cows but they managed to keep them out of the poor house. A few hundred such men as the Givans, Stowells, French, Bellews, Brittsan Bros., and a lot more I could mention in these parts will soon build up a community.
    The contractors on the canal and the laterals have about all resumed work and the result is that business is not so lively as it might be, as most of the men are at work, but when the water comes business will boom and Eagle Point district will be plainly seen on the map.
    Mrs. E. G. Riddell of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Mrs. G. A. Gitzen of Medford, two daughters of our soft drink man and grocery and hardware merchant, Frank Lewis, were out here visiting their parents Saturday. Mrs. Riddell only made a very short visit, two or three days, returning to her home Saturday night.
    Thomas McCabe and son came out on the stage Saturday and went on up to the McCabe ranch the same afternoon.
    Mrs. Robert Harnish and Mrs. Joe Moomaw motored to Medford last Tuesday.
    J. H. Carlton, one of the contractors on the laterals from the Eagle Point-Butte Falls Canal, was a business caller Sunday and so was Loris Martin; he was giving Mr. Carlton some pointers on the use of the different kinds of powder in blasting work in his work on the laterals, as he is considered an expert in that line of business.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. I Stuart and son Gilbert of Medford were among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday. They are among the contractors on the concrete bridge work; H. E. Campbell and wife and Rev. G. N. Edwards, the traveling Sunday school missionary for the Congregational Church in Oregon, and preached here Sunday forenoon, returning to Medford Sunday afternoon; Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and Mr. and Mrs. John Perl, our popular coroner, and J. A. Perry and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, the S.P. railroad agent of Medford, Lucius Kincaid and wife, the contractor who is carrying the mail from here to Persist, and A. J. Florey and wife were here for dinner.
    We also had a very interesting meeting with one of the clubs of the Presbyterian Church of Medford. It appears that there are two of them organized to go out into the outlying districts where they have little or no religious services and one of them go out one place and the other, another, wherever there seems to be an opening. There was a large congregation out and we were favored with some fine instrumental and vocal music and three very interesting talks, one by Ed Gore, who presided and read a scripture lesson and commented on it, and one by Frank Smith, who told what a desperate fight he had before he succeeded in coming off victorious over the terrible curse, the liquor habit; how his Christian wife stayed with him and prayed with and for him and after he had by the grace of God finally succeeded, how she encouraged him and bore him up at the throne of peace until now he is able to fight the battle alone with God's assistance, as he has lost his wife and now he is warning the young against the fearful consequences of the habit.
    The other two members were Dr. Elliott and D. L. Steiner, each of them taking an active part, but as I did not know either of them do not know what part each one took. They will receive a cordial welcome whenever they will favor us with another visit.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1923, page 10


    Mrs. Wm. Holmes of Lake Creek was among the passengers on the stages. She had been out to Medford visiting with friends and was on her way home, taking passage on the Lake Creek stage.
    Charlie Humphrey and wife of Derby came out with a load of wool last Monday but failed to dispose of it here as everyone seemed to have a supply on hand, so they went on out to Medford with it.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls, our deputy assessor, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage on his way home.
    R. W. Rose, the noted hunter and trapper of the Round Top country, was a business caller on Fred McPherson, our popular merchant, and I understand that he succeeded in capturing forty-five coyotes during the past winter besides several bears and other kinds of game. I understand that he keeps ten or twelve dogs to assist him in his work. I met him last Monday in the store but he was in a hurry to get back home and consequently did not have the time to spare to talk to a news reporter. Among others I met the same day were George Klingle of Lake Creek. Miss Neda Marshall, Earl Croft and Henry Carrier, they were doing some work for J. H. Cooley on his orchard and came to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    F. Hill, Mrs. Walter Marshall and Mrs. Joe Arnes were also business callers the same day. Mrs. G. R. Satchwell and Mrs. Rose Schieffelin of Medford were here for dinner the same day.
    J. W. Miller of Elk Creek and Thomas Culler were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and Mr. Miller went on up home on the Persist stage and Mr. Culler went on to Butte Falls to visit the Summerville family.
    G. W. Kincaid and wife of Roseburg, the father and mother of our mail carrier from here to Persist, are here at this writing, Thursday, and they made a trip from here to Trail with their son today. They expect to start home the last of the week. While in the county they visited Ashland, as they are on a deal to trade for Ashland property as he is like hundreds of others who have lived here before who think that Jackson County is the banner county of the coast.
    Gus and Fritz Pech and George Toner of Lake Creek motored into town Wednesday and went on out to Medford. Gus said that he was going to Medford to get a registered Durham bull. He is another progressive farmer and stockman who believes in improving the stock. Anton Ring of Elk Creek also motored into town on a three-wheeled motorcycle. He had been out to Medford to dispose of a lot of furs he had taken the past winter.
    I received a note from Mrs. A. B. Clarno Wednesday notifying me of the death of her brother, William Gipson, formerly a resident of this section, Reese Creek, although he was at the time of his death a resident of Lower Lake, Lake County, California. He was the victim of an automobile accident while out riding with his family. His wife [and] stepson were also injured. He died March 21, 1923.
    As I came down from my room where I had been writing the Eaglets for Friday's paper, Wednesday, when I reached the dining room door I glanced over the dinner table and discovered that there were thirteen persons already seated and soon saw that they were too busy to be bothered with a news reporter, and I could not see who they were, but later learned that among them were H. L. Heryford and his mother, Mrs. M. L. Heryford of Butte Falls, who had come out with a team on their way to Jacksonville. He is the road supervisor of the Butte Falls road district and was on his way to Jacksonville; and his mother came out on the stage and went on out to Medford on the stage after eating dinner and resting until 2:45 p.m., but Mr. Heryford had one of his horses shod here and spent the night. B. W. Paul of the Medford electric store, and B. M. Bush of Medford, George Wehman, the bookkeeper for Wm. von der Hellen, who has been on the canal job and the contract for grading the Rocky Hill road; also a stranger and wife, and the rest I did not know except some of our neighbors who come in quite often for their meals, and among them was one of our old neighbors, Sam H. Harnish. Since his son Robert has bought a house of his own in Medford and moved his family there the father has taken several meals with us.
    Millard Robison and Alex Betz came in Wednesday with a part of a grader to have our blacksmith straighten a warped part, and he soon had it in shape again and they hurried back to work. Alex Vestal of Reese Creek was also a business caller Wednesday.
    I met L. F. Farlow and Lew Walch of Lake Creek and J. R. Linn, our school clerk, in the Ernest Dahack barber shop last Wednesday, all waiting to be served, and in the run of conversation Mr. Linn brought up the subject of the high school question, and expressed his opinion quite freely with regard to why we should have a union high school here in Eagle Point, as there are about nine or ten school districts lying right around us that could be brought into the union high school here and save the expense of the transportation of some eight or nine children from here to Medford at an annual expense of fourteen hundred dollars that this district is paying out now besides the fifty dollars per high school pupil that each child draws from the state, and another item of about a thousand dollars a year that we are, as a district, turning into the Medford high school fund each year, but I will probably have more to say on that subject later.
    W. G. Pierce, the chief machinist for Hubbard Bros., was among the business callers and so was G. A. Gitzen, a veterinary of Medford.
    Miss Edna Wisely and Miss Beth Farlow of the teachers training course of Medford high school were out taking a course in our school during the past week.
    Ray Ulrich of the Associated Oil Co. was out delivering gasoline for our new garage men, the Dahacks, Thursday.
    Mrs. Ella G. Barnes of Seattle, who has been visiting her cousin, Frank Hill of Derby, for some time, came out Thursday on the stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside on her way to her home. While here she gave me a subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune for three months, for her cousin, F. D. Hill of Derby.
    J. B. Jackson of Butte Falls, wife, son-in-law, Harry Young and wife of Yakima, Wash., were among the diners also Thursday. I also met Miss Nellie Butler Friday who lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butler of Brownsboro road. Mr. George Salisbury of the Medford Center Market was out delivering meat to the people of Eagle Point and vicinity, and A. Stephenson of the Medford Grocery Co. were here for dinner the same day.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 2, 1923, page 5


    We have a very hard hail storm up here the 2nd of April, but no damage resulted.
    We have another point toward a standard school. We received our new flag last week.
    We are practicing hard in order to take part in the track meet that is to be held at Talent May 4th.
    Our school when to Brownsboro Friday and won eight games out of nine.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw went to town Saturday.
    Claus and Leland Charley went down to the ball game at Eagle Point Sunday.
    Jacob Monia has been ill with the flu. Mrs. Mary Charley has also been sick with the flu.
    Alex Anderson has moved his sheep down to Eagle Point in Frank Brown's pasture.
    Mr. Anderson went to Dry Creek to visit her cousin.
    Miss Lavern Brown and Miss Ester Turnbow came down from Butte Falls to spend Easter with Mr. and Mrs. George Brown and family.
    The Brown children went to Alex Anderson's Easter Sunday and they had an Easter egg hunt.
    We are sorry Mr. and Mrs. Hulse are leaving our vicinity. They have moved to Medford.
    A surprise party was given in honor of Mrs. Mary Charley at Emogene Charley's Friday eve, Mar. 9, it being Mary's 22nd birthday. Games were played until 2 o'clock. Everyone had a fine time and wished Mary many happy returns of the day.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1923, page 7


    The Eagle Point Civic Club met at the home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett March 27 and after transacting the usual order of business and receiving the report of the committees partook of a delicious lunch. The committee have had the posts set and painted enclosing our town park and it is all ready for the wire fencing.
    Friday I met Mrs. J. T. Gibson of Ashland, daughter of Mrs. Gus Nicholas, who is here visiting her mother.
    Cliff Hickson and wife of Ashland have moved into the house with Sam Harnish, and Cliff will work for him and Mrs. Hickson will attend to the housekeeping department.
    Friday afternoon the Parent-Teachers Association met in the principal's room in our school house and was presided over by Mrs. R. A. Weidman, and after the reading of the minutes of the last meeting was read and approved Mrs. Glen Fabrick of Medford was introduced and favored us with a very interesting and instructive lecture on the necessity and importance of a union high school here in Eagle Point and by way of introduction spoke of the wonderful growth of the Medford high school and of the crowded condition of the school, as the building was only planned to accommodate 250 and that enrollment was now over 500, and that the school board had rented several available places in different parts of the city to be used as recitation rooms. She then told of the necessity of parents taking an interest in school work and in so doing they would encourage the teachers and thus cause the children to take a pride in their schools. She spoke of the advantage of attending and taking part in the Parent-Teachers' Association and of the amount of good that was being done through the association and how they in Medford had labored when there was but a very few who took any interest in the cause, but how the few kept on persisting until now the membership has gone up into hundreds and how they had become a power in the advancement of the cause of education and how the members were working, not only for the betterment of the schools, but for the improvement of the morals of the children in attendance by trying to induce them to read better literature and even gone so far as to try to induce the book and magazine sellers to dispense with the objectionable books and papers of questionable moral influence and help to bring their minds to a higher standard. She also spoke in strong terms of the necessity of a union high school in Eagle Point. But I see I am taking up too much space with Mrs. Fabrick's lecture, but will say that it was as fine a lecture as has ever been delivered in Eagle Point, is the universal decision of the large audience that filled the room, composed entirely of women, except two men beside myself, and when speaking to some of the men on the street about what they missed by their absence, said "Why I thought that these meetings were only for the women," just as though the fathers of the children were not included among the parents.
    Mrs. B. H. Bryant of Medford was then introduced and she gave us a short but interesting talk on the subject of an entertainment that is being given by the Medford Parent-Teacher Association and proposed to the association here to have them come out here and give it for the benefit of our Parent-Teacher Association and it was decided by a unanimous vote to invite them to come out April 14 in the opera house at 8 o'clock p.m., and in behalf of the Eagle Point association I invite every man, woman and child to come.
    Mr. J. R. Linn, our school clerk, was introduced and gave us a short talk on the subject of having a union high school here, showing on a map he exhibited how our district is surrounded by some nine districts that could be brought into the union high school, increasing the valuation of the property to near a million dollars worth of taxable property so that, instead of this district turning over to Medford high school some three thousand dollars per year, that money could be used to pay teachers, [and] buy the necessary equipment for our high school. He also spoke of another decided advantage there will be, to have the children kept from the temptations there is in a city like Medford to have them "play hooky" and the parents cannot tell what kind of company they are in, making a strong plea for a union high school here on the ground of encouraging protection of morals and the general welfare of the entire community. The question was then put to the members of the association whether they were in favor of such a move and the motion carried unanimously in its favor, and since then I have talked with some of our leading business men who have not taken any interest in school affairs for the rule has been the last few years for about five or six to attend the annual school meeting and have everything be ruled by one or two persons, and they are planning to attend the next school meeting and take part and see that something was done to improve our school system.
    At the close of the discussion on that subject Miss Fern Daley of Medford was introduced and she gave us a very interesting talk describing a trip with five other young ladies to the Philippine Islands, telling of the manners and customs of the natives, how and what they ate, how they dressed, the scenery, etc., exhibiting a number of pictures, but she was so limited for time that she was forced to talk as fast as she could and then in showing the pictures only could hand them out to the audience to be passed around.
    There was nothing of special interest occurred Saturday that came to my notice and Sunday either. There was quite a number of people come in for dinner, among whom were James D. Ball, Charles F. Ball, Charles J. Fry, Mrs. Charles J. Fry, all of Medford, and Mrs. L. B. Wallace of Everett, Washington. A. H. Hubbs and wife, the shoe dealers of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Conger, one of the leading undertakers of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moran and child, Mr. and Mrs. Brophy, Medford and Sylvia Hukill and Nate Johnson of Wellen; E. E. Gore, wife and three children, Beulah, Rose and Dorothy and Miss Ida C. Robinson and I. A. Holmback of Medford, Wm. L. Wright and Geo. Stacy.
    Mrs. Reid, one of our neighbors, lost a brown velvet handbag on the Cingcade hill on Thursday, March 29.
    My letter is now too long, but I will have to stop for this time and rest until Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1923, page 6


    In my last letter I announced that there would be an entertainment given here in the opera house on the 14th inst., but since that was written and mailed Wednesday afternoon I have received a note from the president of the Parent-Teachers Association notifying me that the Parent-Teachers Association of Medford would give the entertainment on Friday, April 13th at 8 o'clock p.m. Tell your friends to come and come yourself and bring the children and have a good old-fashioned good time. Don't forget the date, April 13th 1923.
    Last Monday H. G. Wimer of San Francisco, formerly of this place, having charge of the lumber yard in the days of the Butte Falls Lumber Co., came in and is stopping with Wert Pool and J. L. Hovey, superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, and reports that Mrs. Lydia Arnold of Hood River is staying at the Alta Vista orchard for a few weeks, being an old friend of his. Other business callers the same day were Charlie Humphrey, Ed Dutton, H. W. Ward and wife, J. Wattenberg and son T. Wattenberg, Frank Ditsworth and Floyd Pearce of Eagle Point, who had just returned from Applegate where he had been developing a quartz mine and exhibited some of the ore that appeared to be very rich with gold. All of those just named I met in the store of Fred McPherson last Monday morning, and outside of the store I met R. A. Petty, who reported the arrival at his home of his brother and family, and the next morning I met him again with his brother Tom of Larkinsville, Alabama. R. A. Petty has been keeping batch for several years, and to have his brother and wife and five romping children come in on him has rendered him almost wild with joy. I asked how they managed to get along in his small house and he said just fine. His brother has come out intending to locate in Oregon and is going to stay awhile in this part of the country and look around before he decided to settle down. R. A. Petty is in the turkey business and reports that he has three hundred eggs setting now. He has sixty turkey hens to lay the eggs.
    Mr. Salisbury of the Center Meat Market and Ernest H. Benton, who is in charge of the repair department of the Medford Center jewelry shop, were here for dinner Monday and so was Thomas Farlow, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Medford selling automobiles, and so was Ed Nichols of Butte Falls.
    Ed Cowden and family came in and Mrs. Cowden and the children went up to Butte Falls on the stage to be at the bedside of her grandmother, Mrs. Parker, a venerable old lady who passed over the age of near ninety years Wednesday, April 4. I understand that all of her children and the most of her grandchildren were with her at the time of her death. She was sick only about a week and had enjoyed good health up to that time. She did not suffer any pain and said that she was ready to go, as she had outlived her usefulness. I have not learned her exact age or further particulars but one thing I do know and that is that she was loved and respected by all who knew her.
    Harry Young and wife and F. J. McPherson, wife and son Fred Jr., were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Young and wife were the guests of Fred McPherson and Mr. Young and wife were on their way to Prospect intending to start for their home in Yakima, Wash., on their return from Prospect.
    I also met Mrs. M. L. Pruett and her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Stanley and Mr. Hutchinson, who has charge of the Frank Rhodes ranch. He says that he has 600 hens on the place and is getting over 500 eggs a day. Asked if he sold all of them to our local merchant, for I saw him bring in a case of eggs, and he said no, but put them in cold storage. Mrs. Thomas Stanley reports that J. R. Kline, whose house was burned over a year ago, while occupied by some Japs, is rebuilding on his farm on the road from Medford to the lower bridge on Butte Creek.
    Ezra Whitley of Persist was a business caller Tuesday.
    Mark Barker and Lee Edmondson of Butte Falls were here for dinner Tuesday and Mr. Edmondson remained overnight with us. W. E. Hammel also was here looking after the interests of the Eagle Point Canal Co. business and took dinner here.
    In my rounds looking for Eaglets and subscribers for the Mail Tribune and Medford Sun I met Clarence Pruett, the manager and part owner of the Eagle Point pool room, who is in partnership with T. F. Nichols in the business and he gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune for six months and received his paper the next day. That shows how rapidly they do business in the Mail Tribune office.
    Other business callers I met the same day were Mrs. J. H. Carlton, W. P. Holbrook and H. Stanley.
    Ernest Smith and wife of Ashland were passengers on the Butte Falls stage on their way to Butte Falls to attend the funeral services of their grandmother, Mrs. N. E. Parker, who died at the advanced age of 88 years, 8 months and 24 days, mentioned in another part of this letter. I also met the same day John Greb, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists and C. W. Taylor.
    Frank Manning and son Charles of Flounce Rock district were here for dinner Thursday.
    Drape Walch, Thos. Carlton of Wellen and Frank Johnson, who owns a fine farm near the new concrete bridge across Rogue River, were trading with our merchants during the first part of the week.
    W. C. Thurlow, manager of the Thurlow and O'Brien Co.'s business of Portland, was also here for dinner the same day.
    I see that I have omitted to say anything about the fine rains we have had during the past week, something we needed very much, as the farmers were beginning to feel uneasy for fear of a drought, something that we have not had for the last sixty years that I know of, but with the fine rain we also had a regular downpour of hail but from what I can learn it did but little damage except to pound up some of the early garden truck.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 9, 1923, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison, Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher, Enid and Denzil Middlebusher and Miss Mae Mordoff were among those from Trail to attend the high school play "Gypsy Rover" at the Page Theater in Medford Wednesday evening.
    Miss Burr, county supervisor, visited the Pence school Thursday. Mrs. S. Geary and little grandson, Jimmy, accompanied her as far as the Pence home and visited there.
    Mr. LeBar and nephew, Allen Jay, are in the vicinity again, after spending the winter near Portland. They are overseeing the work of finishing the highway for Hills Con. Co.
    Mr. C. Owens has been working for the Davis brothers, but has returned to his ranch this week.
    The farmers looked with delight on the rain, but all wish it could cease now that it has done its good work.
    Keva Hutchinson, accompanied by a number of friends from Medford, spent Sunday with his parents at the Bar 8.
    Miss Clara Geary is assisting with the work at the Howe home.
    The many friends of Mr. C. O. Young are glad to see him back in this neighborhood. Mrs. Young expects to soon join him.
    Mrs. Whitlatch and daughter Velma Whitlatch and Keva Hutchinson motored out to the Hutchinson home Thursday afternoon and spent several pleasant hours visiting.
    Mrs. S. Geary and daughter, Clara, returned to Trail Sunday after a week's visit with friends and relatives near Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 10, 1923, page 6


    The Eagle Point Irrigation District has issued a neat folder describing, in a brief way, some of the advantages of the Eagle Point country as a horticultural, agricultural, stock and fruit raising district as well as the beautiful scenery, abundance of pure water, splendid fishing and hunting, wonderful climate.
    The folder contains a picture of an orchard and a Little Butte Creek scene while the cover page, printed in colors, shows snow-capped Mt. Pitt, and an eagle carrying a pear.
    It also calls particular attention to the increased advantages of the district under the irrigation system which supplies water for 6000 acres.
    The people of Eagle Point have a delightful country in every way and will no doubt get their share of the new settlers in Oregon because they are going after it.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1923, page 8


    Ralph Watson left last week for Klamath Falls, where he has employment for the spring and summer. Mrs. Watson accompanied him, and returned on the stage later in the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn are moving on Elk Creek from Medford this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison entertained Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Young Saturday evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ash are visiting at the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash, for a few days.
    Mr. and Mrs. Smyth of Gold Hill were Trail visitors Wednesday.
    Mrs. Ralph Watson spent a pleasant day at the Hutchison home Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Young were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Freeland Sunday.
    Jimmie Francis and a friend from Applegate were visiting in the hatchery community Sunday.
    Fred Warner is the proud possessor of a new Ford.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 13, 1923, page 7


    This Tuesday morning, April 10, I met H. W. Ward, who has charge of what is known as the H. B. Tronson orchard, and he gave me the following particulars with regard to a disastrous fire that took place March 31, 1923. The fire originated in the roof from defective wiring or a defect in the flue, while the foreman, Mr. Ward, and family were at the supper table. The property had been taken over by Portland parties and the furniture by H. W. Ward to satisfy his claim for services. The property was insured for $3000 on the house and $1000 on the furniture. The house was a total loss, but only a part of the furniture was destroyed. Mr. Ward said that the Eagle Point boys did splendid as firemen, for which he and his wife feel grateful. He says that he intends to pull up all of the fruit trees and sow the entire tract in alfalfa; has forty acres already in alfalfa and by next year will have seventy-five acres ready for the mower.
    I should have mentioned this incident in my letter of April 4th but Mr. Ward requested me to say nothing about it until the insurance agent had been to see the damage done.
    Mr. Ward also reports that Rev. Howe, the Christian minister of Medford, wife and Mr. Driscoll; also Prof. and Mrs. Hanby, all of Medford, were visiting him Monday of this week.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside last Thursday were Raleigh Mathews, Earl Mathews, Everett Dahack, Geo. McDonald, L. Matney and F. L. Farlow.
    The same day I met Wm. Coy, a brother-in-law of H. E. Campbell, our banker. He had just returned from Los Angeles where he had been spending the winter and Dr. Kirchgessner of Trail, who had just arrived in his car from San Francisco, and they both report heavy rains all through California, thus securing good crops in that country.
    I also met J. G. Hannaford, who is located near Derby Station on the P.&E. Railway.
    G. A. Hansen of Brownsboro was here trading with our merchants.
    A. Stevenson and wife and child, salesman for Medford Grocery Co., were here for dinner Friday, and so was C. L. Buhrman and A. T. Jondreau of Olds and Brownlee railroad. Mr. Buhrman is the general superintendent of the road.
    Fred McPherson reports that Owen Conover, R. C. and George Hansen of Brownsboro, Benj. Brophy, W. R. Johnson, W. H. Isbell, Mrs. A. C. Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, Mrs. M. L. Pruett and Charles Drexler were among his customers Saturday.
    Eugene Stowell, who has been working in a logging camp near Butte Falls, came out Saturday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Thomas F. Nichols, of the hardware firm of Nichols and Ashpole, his wife and brother-in-law, F. L. Farlow and sister, Miss Beth Farlow were all here for supper Saturday night.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday were Miss Jeanette Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hastings, Miss Hazel Smith, Harvey Clift, J. D. Bell, proprietor of the Nash Hotel, Medford, Charles Bell, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hamilton and daughter Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick, William Parsons, Mrs. Fay Robinett, William Coy, T. F. Nichols and family. Mrs. Nichols has been having some changes made in her kitchen, and they have been taking most of their meals at the Sunnyside in the meantime. Wm. Perry and wife were also here for supper Sunday night.
    There was quite an interesting ball game on the Antelope ball ground between the Eagle Point and Antelope teams Sunday afternoon resulting in the Eagle Point team coming out ahead, the score being 9 to 13. There was near a very serious accident occurred during the game: the ball went wild, going through the windshield of Earl Mathews' car shattering the glass and Nye Mathews, son of Green Mathews, who was sitting in the back seat and was struck by the ball in the eye and scattered the broken glass over his face, cutting his eyelid quite badly. They phone for Dr. Pickel to come out and started with him to meet the doctor at the same time, meeting at the Butte Creek bridge. After the doctor made an examination he decided that the eye was uninjured and I saw his father this Wednesday morning and he said that his face and eye was badly cut but that he was getting along very well.
    I met E. V. Brittsan and Frank Johnson and his son Monday morning and Frank reports that parties are laying out a camp for a summer resort and putting up houses on a tract of land lying between his place near the new concrete bridge four miles below Trail, but I did not learn who the promoters are. They have named the camp Edgewood.
    I also met J. H. and L. H. Carlton in the McPherson store at the same time. They were getting supplies to take to their camp where they were finishing up their contract for clearing the right of way for four miles of laterals. I also met Mr. James McCoy, who is engaged in the poultry business on the Wm. Riley farm.
    C. E. Stille and family, the foreman on the railroad at Derby, and T. E. Clark, Derby, were here on business Sunday.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Monday were E. R. Oatman and H. E. Warner of Medford, Mrs. J. Earl of Butte Falls, C. C. Bunn and wife, Nick Carter of Butte Falls, L. A. Mass of Medford. He is engaged in organizing boys' and girls' clubs. A pig club has been organized here.
    Our meat men, Mr. Salisbury and Mr. Benton and Charley Humphrey, were here for dinner Monday. Charley is becoming quite a factor in the business community. Monday he came out with his truck from his home at Derby, made two trips to Medford, brought out five thousand lbs. for the McPherson store, went home, came back Tuesday and made two trips to Medford, another for feed, a full load, 2500 lbs., went back and brought out a part of a load for Fred McPherson and the balance for the Brown boys and other business places. The grass don't grow under his feet.
    John Greb, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, was a business caller Tuesday and so was Benj. Whetstone and Thos. Vestal, wife and two children.
    George Cotterall, Ed Nichols and Chris Beale were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Our town council met Tuesday night and among other business passed an ordinance we will call the speed law prohibiting anyone from riding over our streets faster than twenty miles an hour. They also passed the curfew law making it unlawful for any person to be on the streets seventeen years and under unless accompanied by a parent or guardian, in the winter after 9:30, or in the summer months after 10 o'clock p.m., and owing to the necessity of such laws they were passed under the emergency clause.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 14, 1923, page 6


    Mrs. F. M. Stewart of Medford came out on the stage the first of the week to visit her son, William Perry.
    Among the business callers Wednesday were H. W. Ward, the foreman on what used to be the H. B. Tronson orchard, but which is now being turned into an alfalfa field; Milo Conley of Lake Creek, Mrs. Walter Wood, Carlyle Natwick and A. C. Huson, the manager of the J. H. Cooley farm and orchard.
    Among the visitors at the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday whose names I secured (for there were between twenty and twenty-five took dinner), were Mr. Willits, representing the Standard Oil Co., S. K. Peterman of the Star Meat Market of Medford, F. L. Bailey and wife, agent of the U.S. General Land Office, J. H. Carter, Harold Van Scoy, our popular and accommodating mail carrier on the Medford-Butte Falls route; Mr. Selsby, representing a Portland hardware firm; Thomas Culler of Rogue River, and B. L. Kingery of Wellen, who was over with a team to take a large 1600-gallon tank and the tower it stood on for Lyle Carlton, also of Wellen, that Lyle bought of Ernest Dahack, our barber, that he installed to furnish water for his shop and garden, as he has installed an electric automatic pump that does away with the necessity of a tank.
    We also had E. O. Thomas, agent American Central Life Insurance Co., and M. D. Vinyard, deputy agency manager, whose district office is in Medford, were here for supper, and so was Ed Gomez, who was a late arrival from California.
    E. Jones of Malene, Kansas, came in on the stage Thursday morning on his way to Butte Falls to visit his brother-in-law, J. P. Hughes, a retired merchant of Butte Falls. Mr. C. W. Newland and Mrs. F. T. Caspell of Medford were also passengers from Medford and here they took the Lake Creek stage for Brownsboro to visit J. D. Henry's family.
    W. L. Alenderfer of the People's Electric Store, Medford, and William Woods of Medford, Guy Wildey and Thomas Riley, one of our frequent visitors, were here for dinner Thursday. Mr. Alenderfer was out here trying to locate a prospective customer for a Thor washing machine and we concluded that she, Myrtle Dorson, was of Trail, so after dinner we started, for I volunteered to go with him, and in the course of about thirty-five minutes arrived at the town of Trail. It is a regular treat to ride over that portion of the Crater Lake Highway through the farms and orchards and to see the fine crops of grain and alfalfa growing along the route. On our arrival we stopped at the Trail Hotel where we were met by the hostess, Mrs. Middlebusher, an old friend, where I had a fine visit with her and her daughter Violet while Mr. Alenderfer was attending to business. But on inquiring for Mrs. Dorson found that she lived some fifteen miles further up the river, and we also learned that the party had no connection with the electric plant, so we decided that it would be useless to go farther. But while I was there of course I was looking around for Eaglets and learned that Mrs. Middlebusher had just installed a ram and put up a 3000-gallon tank and by that means has plenty of water for domestic and irrigation purposes. She also had her boys leveling up a place for a lawn, and everything looked prosperous and lovely. When I inquired why they did not use electricity she said that there were not enough people there to justify the electric company putting in a transformer, notwithstanding they have the main power line right close by. Trail is a very small village situated on Rogue River at the mouth of the creek by that name and up the creek there are several very good small farms where they raise considerable alfalfa and grain, and the most of the farmers have orchards, but the majority of them turn their attention to caring for stock and poultry, but since they are within an hour or two ride of a market many of them are turning their attention to the dairying and poultry business.
    I noticed as we were riding along a very decided improvement in the government telephone line running from Medford to Crater Lake and beyond. There were six or more of the Forest Service men at work putting up cross arms on the telephone [poles] and adding two wires, a very decided improvement to the service.
    But I see that I have got switched off from what I started in to say when I spoke about who was here for dinner in speaking of Thos. Riley and Mr. Wildey. I started to tell about them being engaged painting W. C. Daley's home, and that they are engaged to paint several others and they naturally come to the Sunnyside for their meals. There are quite a number living in town who come here quite often for their meals, for instance Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Holmes, Thos. Riley, Ray Stanley and family, Thos. F. Nichols and family and several others whose names I seldom write in among the Eaglets.
    Mrs. Nettie Grover of Medford came out Friday morning to visit her brother, William Perry.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday morning were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown and B. H. Williams of San Francisco; Thomas D. Riley, son of Joseph Riley, who is engaged in trucking lumber out from the Elk Creek mill owned by the Hayes brothers; Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson of the Medford Grocery Co., Charley Terrill and wife, R. G. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons and Wm. Coy, besides quite a number of strangers whose names I failed to secure.
    F. J. McPherson, one of our popular merchants, reports that Alex Mathews, F. D. Hill of Derby, C. E. Stille, W. H. Isbell and George Klingle were among the customers Friday.
    Friday evening we were favored with a fine entertainment by the Parent-Teachers Association of Medford, but my letter is too long to mention particulars in this letter, but will try to mention same in my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, 1923, page 5


    In my last I merely mentioned the fact that we were favored with a very fine entertainment by the Parent-Teacher Association of Medford, but if I stop short with that statement I feel that I would be guilty of willful negligence, if not something worse, for we had in addition to the fine play given, some [as] fine renderings of instrumental and vocal music as anyone could desire anywhere. The music was given by the Medford ladies' orchestra and through the kindness of Professor E. C. Root, conductor, I am enabled to give the names of the members and the different instruments they played: Among the violinists were Mildred and Bernice Burger, Mrs. Maddox and Miss Whitman; clarinet, Juanita Griffin; saxophone, Mrs. E. C. Root, Mrs. J. Darby, Miss Ruth Daniels; cornets, Mrs. J. Shockley, Mrs. Anderson; trombone, Mrs. Bergman; piano, Miss J. Griffin. There was some very fine vocal music, but I failed to secure the name, but she was encored, and thus favored us with two lovely renderings. I also failed to secure the names of the principal actors, but feel safe in saying that if they will ever favor us with another visit, they will receive a cordial greeting. There was a fine attendance and the receipts of the evening were $40.80, and that was equally divided between the Parent-Teacher Association of Eagle Point and the Parent-Teacher Association of Medford. There was quite a number of the Medford people came out to attend the exhibition.
    There was a meeting of the teachers' institute here Saturday forenoon and those in attendance were Mrs. Susanne Holmes Carter, the county school superintendent, and Miss Burr, her assistant; Mrs. Josephine Holmes, the principal of our school and Miss Ruth Wiley, our primary teacher; Glenn Hale of Reese Creek; Mrs. Lee Edmondson, Professor Lowe of Butte Falls; Miss Freda Hanson, Climax; Hazel Taylor, Butte Falls; Mrs. Roy Stanley, Brownsboro; Mrs. Laura C. Atpence, Lake Creek. There was but little business transacted. It was decided to have two meetings for next year, one long and one short. Miss Holmes entertained the visiting teachers and superintendent and her assistant at lunch.
    Among the visitors at the Sunnyside Saturday were Shorty Allen of Wellen, T. E. Hayes, G. H. Buzzard, J. McKetrick and George Hiltock were the guests of Ralph Cowgill.
    I see that I have omitted to mention that the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club met last Thursday, April 12 at the home of Miss Rose Smith and busied themselves folding the leaflets advertising the country around Eagle Point, that will be watered by the Eagle Point-Butte Falls Canal. Lunch was served by the hostess, Mrs. Smith, and a fine social time was enjoyed.
    Among the callers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. William Perry and his mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, F. F. Whittle and wife of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gates and grandson, George Gates, Jr., J. D. Patrick, Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Barneburg, J. H Cooley, one of our big lumber and timber men, as well as orchardist; James Jackson, Butte Falls; Oris Cambs, Miss Mildred Nye, Miss Elizabeth Welch, Mrs. E. A. Welch, Mrs. W. W. Howard, Dr. W. W. Howard of Medford; Mr. E. J. Phillips of Jacksonville, Beatrice Dunnette and Fred Sherman, Gold Hill, Dr. W. H. Everhard, real estate dealer and J. D. Bell, the proprietor of the Nash Hotel, Medford.
    Sunday night we were favored with a visit by a part of one of the two units of the Christian workers of Medford, et al. They were Mrs. Effa Taylor, Mrs. L. A. Crane, E. E. Gore and Dr. Bert R. Elliott of Medford. They came unannounced, as through a misunderstanding by the members, or perhaps a little carelessness on the part of Dr. Lawrence and Ed E. Gore, for one depended on the other to send out the word, so neither of them attended to it, and the result was the first thing we knew of the meeting was hearing the church bell ringing, but there was some twenty or more came out and we had some fine singing, accompanying the organ. And then the services were opened by Dr. Elliott and he then called on Mrs. Taylor and she gave us a very interesting talk on the subject of the great work we have before us as Christians and then Mrs. Crane gave us a short, but inspiring address on "Christian Life," but Mr. Gore really was the principal speaker of the evening, commenting on the wonderful plan of salvation and how God brings about and perfects his plans for the betterment of his children. The arrangement was made that night for them, or perhaps some others with them to come out with them, on Sunday, April 28, 8 p.m., to hold services here again. Don't forget the date and let us see to it that we have a full house.
    Some of the enterprising citizens of this community have gotten out leaflets, setting forth some of the advantages to be derived from the use of the water that we expect to be spreading over the thousands of acres of land that have been considered almost useless, and it has been demonstrated, on a small scale, the productivity of the same class of land. I have in my mind now a small tract of about twenty or more acres that was bought several years ago by a "tenderfoot" and cost twenty-five dollars an acre that was not considered worth fencing by the original owners, that the last time it changed hands brought three hundred dollars an acre and now cannot be bought for five hundred dollars an acre with water, but without water would not bring the original cost, twenty-five, but why spend time writing about what can be derived from the use of water? And there is some of the land under the Eagle Point-Butte Falls Canal that can be bought very reasonable now, but after the water is on the land the scale will be turned and if I live five years longer and am still writing the Eaglets, I expect to be telling about that same land selling for fabulous prices and producing a hundredfold. Send to the president of the Eagle Point Canal Company, Fred Pettegrew, and get the leaflets.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 23, 1923, page 3


    In making my rounds last Monday I dropped into the Browns Bros. store and learned that D. E. Whitley of Elk Creek had brought in his clip of mohair, and that Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek had also brought in their mohair for them. I also noticed that they are getting a fine assortment of lumber, a very decided help to our little town. I also met Mr. Stacy, who was ordering a lot of supplies to be used at the Chappell-Morgan sawmill near Trail where he was employed. There are now some four or five sawmills in that section of the country, and I learned that there was a move on foot to put in another mill by one of the timber owners of Medford to cut up his timber into lumber to be used in his own yard. The lumber business in that section is getting to be of considerable importance, and I also learned that the S.P.R.R. Co. are contracting for a large quantity of ties paying $25 a thousand feet for them at the yard. I also met John Minter at the same place, also W. J. Cameron of Derby, ordering a lot of goods to be shipped up on the P.&E.R.R. Charley Cingcade was also there disposing of his eggs.
    When I reached home I found Lem Heryford of Lakeview, Oregon, and his mother, Mrs. M. L. Heryford of Butte Falls. They had come out from Butte Falls on the stage on their way to Medford. Also J. L. Hovey, the superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, and he reports that the prospect was never better for a big crop of fruit than it is now.
    Ezra and Ray Whitney of Elk Creek and Irvin Ivy of Trail were here the same day.
    Earl Tucker of Brownsboro was a business caller Tuesday.
    W. G. Bailey and his daughter-in-law Mrs. Victor Bailey of Portland were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Bailey is engaged as a salesman for Monroe and Crisall of Portland, selling dairy supplies.
    A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls, who is engaged assessing this part of the county and is making his headquarters at the Sunnyside, reported that Geo. W. Averill, who has a homestead on the north side of Round Top, had the misfortune to fall off of his wagon and break his leg and have the wagon run across his chest. He was taken to Medford in an ambulance the same day, but we have not learned how seriously he is hurt. It seems that his troubles do not come singly; just at the beginning of winter his house with all its contents was burned, and his best horse took sick and died and other misfortunes happened to him. He surely is entitled to our sympathy.
    I omitted to state at the proper time that John W. Smith, one of our prosperous orchardists and poultry men, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune over a week ago and Mrs. Perry Haley gave hers last Monday and Wm. Perry gave me his Friday morning. Mr. Perry said that he had neglected to renew his subscription and although he did not read much he was lost without his Mail Tribune.
    Last Wednesday Alex Betz was among the business callers and so was John Greb, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, and while here informed me of the sudden death of Rev. Ritter, who several years ago was pastor of the M.E. Church of Medford. He was on his way from back east to this place to look after some land that he bought while in this country. He had bought his ticket and dropped while on the train, supposedly from heart failure. I also met R. Hulse of Brownsboro and he informed me that he had sold his farm about a mile above Brownsboro to a man by the name of W. W. Atwood, but I did not learn the conditions, etc. of the sale. Mr. Hulse since he sold has been looking around in Washington, Idaho, etc., for a better country and said that he was offered an eighty-acre tract of land in Idaho for a forty-acre tract he owns on Bear Creek, but when he took into consideration our wonderful climate, the productiveness of our soil, general health that he about concluded to remain here, although he says there is some fine land up there but the climate--it makes me shiver to think of it. He has not sold his cattle and was undecided when we met what he would do, but thinks that Jackson County is pretty good to live in.
    Mrs. Sam Coy, wife of the mail contractor and carrier, came out with her husband from Climax last Thursday to do some trading and visited with some of her old friends and relatives.
    Carl Eastman, a life insurance agent, was here Thursday for dinner and supper and F. R. Wear and F. U. Van Hooser, two traveling salesmen for Martin Bros. Piano Co., of Springfield, Mo., were here for dinner the same day, and so was A. H. Daugherty, salesman of the Raleigh Products and F. L. Lozier, representative of the Oregon Granite Co., of Medford, and four strangers were all here for dinner Thursday, and later Floyd A. Moss, county club leader, had organized the Butte Creek pig club composed of the following members: Raymond, president; Gerald Ward, vice pres., Leonard Bradshaw, secretary; Alvin Greb, treasurer; Clifford Grover, George Hoagland, Iselee and Francis Brown and Floyd Charley, who is acting as county club leader for the club meeting every three weeks.
    Thursday night Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Wire of Astoria and Judge and Mrs. Eclus Pollock of Grants Pass came in for rooms and breakfast. They came down to hunt for agates on our agate fields.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 24, 1923, page 6


    Tiny Dugan, who for the last half century has been living on a tract of land known as the old John Young place, but a year or so ago moved onto the M. C. Andrews [McAndrews?] farm just outside of Medford on Bear Creek, has moved back onto his old farm to do some plowing and get the land ready for sowing wheat the coming fall. He was raised an orphan by his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Young, and by his industry and good management has acquired a competency, raised a bright and happy family and now is rated as among our most prosperous farmers, and has in this community a host of warm friends. The same day that I met him, last Saturday morning, I also met Mrs. Maxfield of Brownsboro. She had come out and went to Medford on business and on her way home spent the night with her sister, Mrs. Charles Cingcade, the wife of one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen who with his brother and family are operating the Cingcade farm on Antelope Creek.
    Alex Vestal, R. H. Sears of Reese Creek and David Smith, at one time marshal of our town, were here trading with our popular merchant Fred McPherson.
    J. H. Miller, at one time in the timber and saw mill business in Butte Falls, but now a resident of Grand Rapids, Mich., was here for dinner last Saturday and after introducing himself to me remarked that he had been away from here for the last 14 years and never failed to read the Eaglets in the Mail Tribune for a single week, that he had been taking the paper all these years and by that means had kept posted on what was going on around his old home town. And still people wonder how it is that the Medford Mail Tribune has such a wide circulation, and it is simply because they keep such a good corps of correspondents, and the editor, manager and their assistants are all wide-awake business men and women and know what the people want and get it for their readers.
    Among the other callers for dinner Saturday was Paul Peyton, a member of the Salvation Army of Medford. He came out Friday to announce that a number of the company would be out here that evening and conduct services on the street and in the church that evening. It so happened that evening was one of those cold, blustery times such as we occasionally have here in April and the result was they did not have as large an audience as would have been present had the weather been pleasant, but as it was there was a goodly number of our citizens as well as several from the country were there, and I understand that the services were very good and if they will come again when the weather is pleasant; no doubt they will have a full house. While I am on the subject of religious meetings, I will so announce the meeting for next Sunday night, April 29, for the Christian Workers of Medford and will urge everyone who can to turn out and give them a cordial greeting.
    I am inserting an obituary notice that was sent to me by a daughter of the deceased, Mrs. Walter F. Charley, of Climax:
    Morrison Bryan died at his home in Fairfield, Calif., April 13, 1923, after a brief illness of bronchial pneumonia, complicated by a weak heart. Aged 60 years. Moving to Jackson County from Washington with his family in the fall of 1905, he lived in the Wellen district for six years, when he again moved to Josephine County, living near Kerby for two years, thence to California, where he has since resided, being employed as deputy marshal of Fairfield, Cal., for the past two years. His wife having died January 30, 1922, he leaves three sons and six daughters, who are Maurice Bryan of Klamath Falls, Ore.; Mrs. Bertha Charley of Climax, Ore.; Mrs. Nellie Martin and Mrs. Genevieve Hair of East Stanwood, Wash.; Mrs. Bessie David of Vallejo, Calif., and Mrs. Leila McKean, Mrs. Pearl Yorton, Barney Lee Bryan and Geo. M. Bryan of Fairfield, Calif., beside 13 grandchildren. Interment at Fairfield, April 16.
    The business in our own town seems to be looking up, judging from the number of strangers to be seen on our streets and at the Sunnyside, for it is not an uncommon thing to see as many as from two to fifteen here for dinner time. Some are men who are working at different jobs, some on the canal, some on the laterals, and some in the orchards, and many are strangers looking over the country with an idea of locating, but I find that it is becoming quite difficult for me to get the names and location of many of them, owing to my difficulty in hearing and sight.
    Last Saturday morning we had 14 here for breakfast and among them was one of our neighbors, Thos. F. Nichols, and he reported that right after he and his partner in the pool room business, Clarence Pruett, had gone to bed someone came in and turned on a small flashlight that woke him up and when the would-be burglar discovered that there was someone in the house, he started to run. Mr. Nichols had no idea who it was, but there was no damage done.
    Sunday there was only a few, outside of our neighbors, came in for dinner and they, knowing a good thing when they see it, come so often that I don't like to use their names so often, but among those from a distance were Mr. W. C. Elam and Francis Connelly of Ashland; Cliff Hickson, Albert Roberts, John Foster of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith, L. Farlow and Lyle Van Scoy, one of our bright high school boys.
    Monday morning, while on my rounds, among the first I saw was our energetic street commissioner, Mattie Brown (Mrs. W. H. Brown) but everybody here calls her Mattie. And she had a gunnysack in one hand and a rake in the other and informed me that Monday and Tuesday were the days set as cleanup days and she was hard at it.
    I see that I have omitted a very important item in the Sunday report: There was one of the most interesting ball games played here Sunday afternoon that they have had for some time; it was between the Table Rock and Eagle Point ball teams and it was nip and tuck which one would come out ahead, but according to reports to me by Fred McPherson, the score stood 9 to 10 in favor of Eagle Point.
    Among the business callers as reported by Mr. F. J. McPherson Monday were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Carin of Derby; Charles Brastly of Derby; Lyle Carlton, Wellen; R. W. Rose, the mighty nimrod of Round Top; A. C. Huken and Carl Stanley, whose family is here but he is working at Prospect.
    Among those I met at the Brown Bros. store were Mrs. George Wicks and her daughter and Ed Phillips of Trail.
    I have been requested by a member of the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club to ask the merchants and business men and women to burn up their waste paper, as by throwing it outside the wind scatters it over the town and makes a bad impression on strangers coming in.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 27, 1923, page 9


    Among those who were here for dinner last Monday were George Stevens, one of the business men of the valley, who makes his headquarters on one of his farms on Ross Lane between Medford and Jacksonville. He was out in this district looking after his interests in this section of the country, for he also owns a fine farm and orchard in the neighborhood of Wellen.
    J. H. Carlton, another one of our live, awake farmers and stock men of the Wellen section, who is one of the contractors on the laterals for the Eagle Point-Butte Falls Canal and is now engaged on a lateral on the desert north of Eagle Point. I say the desert because it has been called by that name, but when it is properly cultivated and seeded with the right kind of seed and properly watered, there is no telling the amount of stuff that can be produced on an acre of that land. This morning I heard a man talking about his clover that he has growing on desert land and he said that it was a foot high and as thick as it could stand, but without water it is of little use. Mrs. George W. Averill was also here for dinner Monday on her way to Medford to visit her husband, who is in a hospital there on account of his having been thrown off of his wagon and having his leg broken and the wagon wheel running across his chest: C. A. Hamlin and A. E. Ricker of Medford, and eleven others whose names I did not get, or having put them in a letter very recently for lately we have had quite a number of comers and goers and many of them I fail to recognize by name.
    Mr. R. B. Taffer, who lives at the Dead Indian Soda Springs, was a passenger on the Medford-Eagle Point stage Tuesday and went up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    W. G. Knighten, one of the early pioneers of Oregon, who came to this country in 1867 and for several years was a resident of this section, but now is living with a granddaughter on Wagner Creek, near Talent, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and spent the night and the next day, up to 2:45 p.m., attending to business and visiting old neighbors and friends. While here he gave me his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune, so that he could keep posted as to what is going on in this section of the country. He went from here to Portland to visit a grandson.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Piper of Portland were among the diners Wednesday and so was our popular salesman, Charley Brown, who formerly was with C. E. Gates, but now is a member of the Mason Motor Co. force. Mr. Chaps, also of Medford, was here Wednesday and John Howard, an old veteran of the Civil War, spent the night with us. He was just returning from Colorado, where he had been visiting one of his grandsons.
    Helen Karr and Ralph Cooksen, Medford, came in for supper and a little later Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Whiteman, Carl Bowman and Mr. Wm. Heiser of Medford were here for supper. They were out in the interest of radio machines.
    Wm. Pruett, one of the old residents of this valley, now located in the Wellen district, was here patronizing our blacksmith Thursday.
    B. F. Fuller and his daughter, Mrs. Titus, were business callers Thursday and so was Joe Haskins, Jr. He reports that they are turning out quite a lot of ties for the S.P.R.R. Co.
    Mrs. W. B. Watson of San Francisco came out on the Butte Falls stage, where she had been visiting her mother, Mrs. E. E. Smith and sister, Mrs. Ira Tungate. She was met here by another sister, Mrs. Ed Condon, and taken out to her home, where she intends to remain a week visiting before she returns to her home in San Francisco. She reported that that morning the roof of Mrs. (Grandma) Berry Edmondson's house had taken fire and burned off considerable of it, but no special damage was done and that the damages would be repaired by night.
    I must not fail to mention the fact that the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point have done a neat job while they were at it, cleaning up in our town. I spoke in the former part of this letter about meeting Mattie Brown with her rake and gunnysack on Monday morning and working like a trooper, but the next day she had added to her force some six or eight other women and they were taking everything before them, and I called the attention of Eli Dahack to them and pointed to a lot of rubbish he had along the sidewalk next to his garage, but he did not stop for them to come, but went right at it cleaning the old lumber away that had been left when had been moving his house, and by the time I got around on my way home he had it all nicely cleaned up and put away. I noticed also that they have secured a lot of ceiling lumber and are going to finish up the half done job that the men did on our town hall, that is now used for our town library. With such women as are at the head of the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point, something has to move when they get started.
    F. U. Hooser and F. R. Wear, salesmen for Martin Bros. Pianos, were here for dinner and supper Thursday and so was Thomas Swels and A. C. Shelby, hardware salesmen.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Tedwick are enjoying a visit from their daughter and children, Mrs. Steve Brumble of Klamath Falls.
    Born to the wife of Adin Haselton, April 26, a six-pound girl in Everett, Washington. Mr. Haselton is one of our Eagle Point-raised boys and his wife is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Tedwick and they are rejoicing over the arrival of another granddaughter.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 30, 1923, page 3


    Last Thursday Mrs. Hannah MacDonald of Toronto, Canada, selling fancy needlework, and Mrs. E. Mirge of Halifax, Canada accompanied her as her guest for dinner. Mrs. Mirge is visiting friends in Ashland, Ore. I might say that when Mrs. MacDonald came in she had a nice assortment of needles to exhibit but when she left town she had disposed of about all of her stock. The ladies of Eagle Point know a good thing when they see it.
    W. P. Morgan and wife, formerly of this place but now located on a small farm on the Crater Lake Highway a few miles below Trail, were in town on business Thursday of last week.
    W. H. Crandall and John L. Robinson, Sr., made a business trip to Medford Friday.
    Alvin Whitney of Elk Creek was a business caller Friday and so was D. K. Summerly, Charley Fuller, all of Trail, and W. H. Isbell, the goat man who has charge of the Wm. von der Hellen ranch, and A. L. Brown, one of the Medford shoe men, and A. Stephenson of the Medford Grocery Co., the two last names being here for dinner.
    Mrs. Flora Kanoff, who is located on a homestead near Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage on her way home and so was Perry Farlow of Lake Creek, who was going up home on the Lake Creek stage. He had spent Thursday night here, having been to Medford, and was on his way home.
    Among the customers at the Fred McPherson store Saturday from the country were J. H. Stanley, R. H. Sears, Wm. Merritt, W. H. Isbell, C. W. Cowan of Reese Creek and E. W. Frey of Lake Creek, and D. L. Zimmerman of Eagle Point.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday noon were Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter Joyce, F. J. McPherson, wife and son Fred, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shearer, Buffalo, N.Y., Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Howard, Medford, H. H. Nichols of the Western Electric Company, Portland and Pearl Rofuden of Portland, George Albert of Butte Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, Miss Winifred and Miss Alice Walker, Miss Jean Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, H. G. Wiener, San Francisco, Miss Gertrude Wiley, our primary teacher, George and Harry Lewis.
    As announced in the Mail Tribune there was a company of the Christian workers of Medford and other places came out Sunday evening to hold services for us. They were Rev. Angell, pastor of the Phoenix Presbyterian church and W. R. Rathe, also of Phoenix, George Mordoff and Mr. Smith of Medford. The services were presided over by Rev. Angell and was opened with singing with Mr. Smith as organist, and then Mr. Mordoff led in prayer and this was followed by singing and then Mr. Smith was invited to address and audience and he recited incidents along his wonderful life, showing how God uses him as an instrument to bring about his purposes. He also gave the young people some good advice, warning them against the snares and pitfalls in the cities. He was followed by Mr. Mordoff with a short talk on the power of prayer, relating some wonderful incidents of answer to prayer, and he was followed with a short talk on how God uses the birds in en the chatheir songs to call us to love and worship Him, and thirman read a lesson from Paul's letter to the Romans and to the Corinthians showing the firm purpose he had in trying to spread the good news of salvation, and gave a short comment to a good-sized and highly appreciative congregation. There was a large attendance, and if they will come often they will always receive a cordial greeting.
    J. W. Haak of Butte Falls, who is in charge of the Conley Mill near Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage. There were four more passengers on the stage but all strangers.
    There were fourteen here for dinner Monday, but they were nearly all what might be called regular or semi-regular boarders except Mr. Simmons, the civil engineer who has charge of the construction of Eagle Point Irrigation Co.'s canal, and L. W. T. Faech, a traveling salesman from Portland
    But Tuesday we had in addition to our regular boarders Mrs. H. H. Carless and Mrs. J. B. Webster of Talent and Mrs. George Carless of Portland. They said they just drove over to see the place and eat at the Sunnyside Hotel. Dr. Kresse [and] Mr. Van Horne of the Southern Oregon Clay Products Co., who are interested in the establishment of a crockery manufacturing plant to be established in Central Point. They said that they wanted to locate in Medford, but the parties who owned the land in the outskirts of Medford asked such a price that it was beyond all reason, so they went to Central Point, and in looking around Mr. Con Leever donated the land for the plant, so they have decided to locate there. They have men at work opening up a road to what is known as the Joe Hannah white clay mine, where there is an inexhaustible supply of the clay and the company have secured 160 acres of land, and 80 acres of it is all of the finest quality of clay. They had some of the manufactured ware with them to show and it looked fine. It just so happened that the three ladies referred to above were here, although most of the diners had gone to work, but among those left were Ralph Cowgill, Wm. Perry, Fred Pettegrew, W. E. Hammel, the official board of the Eagle Point Irrigation Co., as they had been holding their official monthly meeting and all came in for dinner, and they all pronounced the clay A1. It is the same mine that old Uncle Joe Hannah used to haul his clay from fifty years ago, on a wagon, to use in his pottery on the place now owned by Wm. Cottrell.
    George Holmes, our popular garage man, is getting out the material to build a large shed to be used in connection with his garage business.
    The ball game last Sunday between the Applegate team and the Eagle Point team was hotly contested, the result being 18 to 9 in favor of Eagle Point. There is a move on foot by the ladies of our town and vicinity to raise funds to procure ball suits for our Eagle Point team and they are going to give a dance Saturday night, May 5th, and supper to raise the necessary funds.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1923, page 3


    The Trail school, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe, Mrs. E. E. Ash and Mrs. R. I Watson, attended the field met at Prospect Saturday, where everyone enjoyed themselves to the limit.
    Irma Ash won seven firsts and two seconds for her school, for which we are very proud. All the children did lovely work and everyone went home happy, as we always do after a day at Prospect.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Whitlatch, accompanied by their daughter Velma and Keva Hutchison of Medford, spent the day at the Bar 8 ranch recently.
    Rev. L. M. Phillips and family visited at the Wm. Houston home Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart and daughter, Lee, Emma Hall and George Sanders spent a pleasant evening at the Hutchison home Saturday.
    Elmer Moore, Wallace and Ed Cushman, Irwin Howe, C. Ragsdale, and E. Hollenbeak started work on the Elk Creek telephone line last week.
    Keva Hutchinson, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. Pruett and son, Wesley, motored to Portland in a Buick Six for the weekend.
    Miss Minnie Poole left Sunday for Elk Creek camp, where she will cook for the telephone crew.
    Mrs. Wick from Pullman, Wash., is visiting with Dr. and Mrs. Bluchner this week.
    Four large trucks from the Purple Truck Co., of Portland are busily engaged hauling gravel on the strip of road along the river this side of McLeod on which the work had to be discontinued last fall, owing to the bad weather.
    In a few weeks the above-mentioned road will be completed, also the Elk Creek and Trail Creek bridges, then we will have a perfect piece of road from McLeod to Medford, for which we all feel grateful.
    Lester Phillips has returned home, after a few weeks spent with his brother at Springfield, Ore.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Ferris, who camped at the Rogue River ranch last summer, have returned, and are camping near the Rogue Elk resort this year.
    Miss Dorothy Hoag spent a pleasant day at the Hutchison home Sunday.
    Miss Ester Mechem of Upper Trail spent the weekend with Irma Ash.
    Miss Mae Mordoff closed a very successful term of school Friday, but is kind enough to remain the remaining two weeks before eighth grade exams to review the pupils at her school, and we all appreciate it very much.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Young and Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison motored to Medford last week to see Robin Hood at the Page.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1923, page 3 


    C. Humphrey of Derby came out Wednesday with his truck, accompanied by one of his neighbors, Mrs. Shutt, who went to Medford. He left her there to transact business, brought out a load of goods for Mr. McPherson, took dinner at the Sunnyside, went back to Medford, brought out another load, and Mrs. Shutt, for our merchants and went home again. He pays a license to do business, and does it.
    Our stage drivers seem to be doing considerable business now that the roads are drying up, as it is a common thing for the Butte Falls stage to have from four to six passengers each way, and among them last Tuesday were Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls and Mrs. E. B. Watson, her daughter of San Francisco, and Mrs. Carson of Butte Falls.
    Mrs. B. F. Fuller, who lives on the Brownsboro road a short distance above our town, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Mr. Barrett, one of the pioneers of trail, was here the same day. And M. M. Willits, the popular agent for the Union Oil Company, was here for dinner.
    I see that our popular garage man, George Holmes, is getting out a quantity of lumber to build a large shed in connection with his garage so that his workmen will be protected from the sun while they are at work during the summer.
    Thomas Cingcade, who has been living on his father's farm on Antelope Creek, with his brother Charles, has moved into the Rev. L. L. Simmons house just below the west boundary line of our town. He has rented it for the entire season, although he expects to move his family to Butte Falls about the middle of this month, as he is employed by Mr. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatchery, to work at that business by the year. He will use his present home to store a part of his household goods that he does not want to take with him to Butte Falls. He has been working for Mr. Berrian for over a year and proved to be such a good hand that he now commands good wages and a permanent job. His brother Charles will continue to tend the farm as heretofore.
    Wednesday morning when breakfast was called H. L. Heryford and Ralph Stanley of Rancheria came in with Mrs. Roy Stanley and her little boy who live here but take their meals at the Sunnyside and Mr. Heryford, being the road supervisor in the Butte Falls district, went on out to the county seat to meet with the county court.
    When the stage came in from Medford Thursday morning Geo. A. Heckathorn of McCloud and Everett Abbott were among the passengers.
    The same morning I also met Mrs. Gus Nichols and she gave me the following items to help me along with my work in writing the Eaglets: Mr. and Mrs. Walt Antle and Miss Doris Kindle of Lake Creek and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols of Eagle Point attended the musical comedy, "Struttin' Along," in Medford last Monday night.
    Mrs. R. A. Smith, Mrs. Nichols' mother, of Medford, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. John Norris, another daughter, Monday.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was patronizing our merchants Thursday.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday besides our regular boarders were C. O. Thomas of the Central Life Insurance Co., Mark L. Hanna, who is running a truck hauling ties from the Haskins mill for the P.&E. railroad and made arrangements to board here during the time he is engaged on the job; R. N. Conley, who owns a sawmill four miles east of Butte Falls, and D. Rummels, also of Butte Falls, were among the guests Thursday noon.
    Charley Mathews and Moses Johnson were here trading with our new garage man, Eli Dahack, Thursday.
    Ed Dutton, one of our prominent farmers and stockmen, was here Thursday with a truck and took out a quantity of provisions to the Natwick camp on the Eagle Point Canal from McPherson's store. Our merchants don't seem to be doing very much business when I visit their stores, but I scarcely ever visit them in the forenoon but what I meet two or three and often more salesmen, and every few days they have one or more truckloads of supplies brought out from Medford.
    Wm. Holman, wife and two children and W. Mussall and son Lloyd of Salt Creek came out Friday morning, stopped here a short time and went out to Medford.
    James Jackson of Butte Falls came out from Medford on his way to Prospect. He was under the impression that the Trail stage left here at 10 a.m., but when he arrived at the post office at 9:30 found that the Trail stage had been gone over five minutes. The best way for people who want to go out on the stage, especially in the morning, is to stage close around the post office, for it depends altogether on how much mail matter the postmaster has to handle and how much help he has, for as soon as the drivers can get the mail they start on the way. Mr. Jackson started out on foot on the Crater Lake Highway, thinking that he might find a ride up to Trail.
    I called on Brown Bros. Friday morning and met two commercial salesmen and Mrs. Percy Haley, one of our popular phone ladies. She came in to dispose of her eggs and talking with Frank Brown, one of the firm, he told me that he had bought 500 lbs. of mohair of George Albert a few days before, and the same day I met Wm. Nickel of Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, and he had his crop of mohair and wool on his way to Browns' store. While I was at the store Frank said that they had sent out to Medford eighteen cases of eggs a few days before.
    Frank Caster of Reese Creek and family were transacting business here the same day.
    Geo. M. Lowe, one of the bill posters for Foster & Kleiser Co., was out Friday changing the bills on the board, and took dinner at the Sunnyside and the same day we had E. E. Jackson of Ashland, Millard Robinson and two strangers, one of them remaining overnight, but I did not learn the names, and S. W. Lucy was here and spent the night.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 7, 1923, page 3


    I see that by some means in making my report of the visitors at the Sunnyside Hotel on Sunday, April 29 that the name of H. G. Wiener was left out. He is a young man from San Francisco and is the guest of the Browns, with whom he boarded when he was in business here, having charge of the Butte Falls lumber yard at the P.&E. depot. Another mistake I noticed was I am made to say that Mr. Hanna was hauling ties for the P.&E.R.R., when it should have been the Southern Pacific, but mistakes don't make haystacks; if they did I would have hay to sell all the time.
    Last Saturday morning as I was making my rounds, among the first men I met was John Robinson, Sr., and I noticed that he had his hand in a sling and this thumb tied up and I inquired the trouble, and he explained that he had the misfortune to have his thumb cut in working with a spraying machine. There was something wrong and he started to fix it while it was running and just then he looked around and put his hand in the wrong place catching his thumb about the first joint, but it was so badly bruised that the doctor had to cut it back so as to take about the entire thumb. And while we were talking about it a car drove up and a young man by the name of Cann crawled out with a pair of crutches and on inquiring learned that while at work with a foot adz he stuck it into his leg, making an ugly wound.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomas, one of our prominent citizens and wife, started for Medford in their car, she going to have some dental work done.
    Charles Hanscom made a business trip to Medford Saturday and J. H. Steele, one of our newcomers, went up to Derby Saturday to visit his son, returning Monday on the stage.
    In my last letter I spoke of Mr. Lowe being out here posting bills and Saturday R. D. Henson, a foreman for Foster & Kleiser, came out with a helper and tore down the three bulletin boards that were standing on the corner opposite the blacksmith shop, as the lot had been sold to George Holmes, our garage man, and he wanted to build a large shed where they were standing, and Monday they started to put them up down by the Eagle Point State Bank building. When it was discovered that the boards were being removed there was considerable comment as to the character of the bills being posted as the most of them were advertising tobacco in its various styles of putting it on the market but mostly cigarettes, and that seemed to be the principal objection to the boards. In talking with Mr. Henson about the remarks I had heard made with regard to the display of the big ads advertising tobacco he admitted that they were very objectionable to many people and he himself would much rather have different ads, but the selection was not left to them.
    Among the business callers on our merchants Saturday were Alex Vestal, Wm. Holman and family, C. E. Wymore, Derby, and Bud Obenchain, Alex Mathews, Mrs. C. A. Pruett and J. M. King, one of the bridge builders on the P.&E.R.R. force and Mrs. Thomas Stanley, and the most of these were met either at the post office or at the McPherson store.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Saturday who are not counted as regular boarders were A. R. MacDonald, one of our retired capitalists, C. J. Semon, Medford concrete manufacturer, W. P. Cole, Central Point, A. D. Park, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
    Mrs. Myrtle Coleman of Joseph, Ore. came in Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole.
    I met J. H. Hannaford of Derby the same day trading with our popular merchant, F. J. McPherson.
    Ray B. Sloan of Grants Pass and G. W. Rose of Medford were here for supper Saturday night.
    When our ladies start in to do a neat job is demonstrated by the way they managed to raise funds to buy ball suits for the Eagle Point ball team. They arranged during the week to give a dance and supper last Saturday night to secure funds, and from what I can learn had one of the neatest and best parties they have had for a long time, charging one dollar and ten cents a ticket, the ten cents for the U.S. revenue tax, and the receipts of the evening amounted to $208. Wherever the ladies start to do a thing they always go ahead and do it just as they did in fencing and improving the park.
    I am requested to state that the Parent-Teachers Association will meet at the school house on the 18th of May at 3 p.m., it being the last meeting when the teachers will be with them during the season. A cordial invitation is extended to every member to attend, as there will be an important business meeting held at that time.
    Sunday evening at 8 o'clock there will be a meeting at the Eagle Point church of the Christian workers of Medford and Phoenix, who will conduct religious services. An urgent invitation is extended to everyone to come.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Cowley, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hubbs, Medford shoe merchant, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Richardson and friend, Mrs. Fred Inlow, of Central Point, Percy Haley and wife, J. D. Bell of the Nash Hotel, Medford, S. Smith, St. Louis, Mo., R. W. Hollenberg, San Francisco, H. W. Davison and wife, Central Point, Miss Gertrude Childs, New York, George W. Stowell and wife, John W. Smith and family and John Howard, a veteran of the Civil War. Besides those named above there were thirteen others here for dinner who come so often that I do not like to mention them too often.
    I am requested by the ball boys to tender their thanks to the ladies of Eagle Point and vicinity for the fine supper they served and the manner in which they managed to dance given last Saturday night to raise funds to buy their ball suits.
    There was a very interesting ball game last Sunday afternoon between the Antelope and Modoc teams, the score standing 10 to 9 in favor of the Antelope team.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 11, 1923, page 9


    Mrs. Frank Stelle, who is living with her husband on the old Nick Young farm west of here, was trading here last Monday.
    Mrs. Myrtle Coleman, who came in last week to visit the Roy Ashpole family, was here last Monday evening for supper, in company with one of our regular boarders, Mr. W. P. Cole.
    N. P. McDonald, formerly of the Rogue Elk Resort but now of Seattle, was a passenger on the stage on his way to Trail Tuesday and so was L. C. Marks and wife on their way up to their mill near Trail.
    J. W. Haak, who is interested in the old Haak mill with Roy Conley, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday on his way home. He tells me that they have taken the contract to furnish the lumber to build the flume on the canal from Big Butte to Eagle Point at a saving of something like twenty dollars on a thousand feet to the contractor, as their mill is only about a mile from where the flume is to be built, and he seems to think that they have a good job and that it will be a good thing for all concerned.
    Mrs. Spencer of Butte Falls was also a passenger on the stage on her way home and so was Mrs. H. H. Fox, wife of the milk goat man of Lake Creek, she going up on the Lake Creek stage.
    James M. Davis of Medford was here for dinner. He was out helping to put up the bulletin boards that had been taken down last week in their new location, and so was Ira Tungate of Butte Falls and C. O. Thomas of Central Life Insurance Co. He seems to be doing considerable business in his line. Ralph Stanley of Rancheria was also here for dinner and so was R. A. Farrar of Medford.
    Our popular merchant, F. J. McPherson, made a business trip to Portland last Tuesday night, returning the next night. He went up intending to bring his mother, Mrs. W. G. McPherson, home with him in her car, but when he reached there, unannounced, he found that her car was being repainted so they came out on the train.
    Wednesday morning as I was out in search of items of interest to write up for the readers of the Mail Tribune I met Rev. E. P. Lawrence, the pastor of the Presbyterian church of Medford, Rev. Angell, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Phoenix, Frank Smith, the noted musician, and Mr. Faber, a prominent Sunday school worker. They had all been up to Butte Falls and conducted services the night before and were on their way home. They report that they had a good service.
    E. R. Oatman, the fruit tree inspector, was here for dinner Wednesday and reports that the orchardists have the blight well under control, and that the prospect for fruit was fine although the damage by frost is considerable. Another item of interest to the general taxpayer is the manner in which the money is raised to pay the expense of having these fruit trees inspected all over the county, for it is generally supposed that the expense was met by the taxpayers in general, but he told me that it was met by the orchardists themselves, and he illustrated it in this way: There are two tracts of land of about equal value, one is set in alfalfa and the other in orchard, and when the land is assessed the alfalfa land is assessed at say fifty dollars per acre and the orchard land is assessed at seventy dollars per acre and the extra tax is applied to keep up the expense of the fruit tree inspector, so that the orchardist pays the expense of keeping his own fruit trees free from disease.
    C. A. Hamlin and A. E. Richter were also here for dinner Wednesday. They were out buying beef cattle.
    Harold Nichols of Fort Klamath came in Thursday and stopped a short time to visit his grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols of this place, on his way to Portland.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen was assisting in the F. J. McPherson store during Fred's absence on his way to Portland and back.
    Thursday morning in my rounds looking for items for the readers of the Eaglets in the Mail Tribune I met Mrs. Thomas Cingcade and Mrs. Thomas Stanley at the McPherson store and Mrs. Cingcade said that they expected to start the next day for Butte Falls.
    Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. A. Stevenson, traveling salesmen for the Medford Grocery Co., were here for dinner, and so was Thomas Farlow, a salesman for an auto company, and George Klingle, Lake Creek, Kay Loosley, formerly of Klamath County but now of Ashland.
    The Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point met Thursday at the home of Gus Nichols and were entertained by the hostess, Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mrs. Allen Denton. There were twenty-five of the members present and after having just such a good time as could be expected, when entertained by such amiable ladies as Mesdames Nichols and Denton, a fine lunch was served and the members retired to their homes, looking forward to the time when they will meet again.
    The following items were handed me by my friend, F. J. McPherson, H. H. Fox and George Klingle of Lake Creek were business callers Thursday.
    R. Muskopf and family have moved to Kirkford near Klamath Falls where Mr. Muskopf is engaged to work in a sawmill.
    Alvin Conover, H. W. Webb and Ray Watkins were business callers during the last few days.
    Miss Rose Wood of Santiago, Calif., came in Friday to spend the night. She came on the train as far as Medford, bought a saddle horse and started for Butte Falls. She has a timber claim near Butte Falls where she intends to live during the summer and fall months.
    Sam Harnish handed me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune today, Saturday. The people who once take the paper dislike to do without it.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 1923, page 6 


    Charles Humphrey of Derby came out last Saturday with his truck, made two trips to Medford bringing out merchandise for our merchants and on the second trip brought out a lot of household goods for Mrs. Effie France, a daughter of R. H. Sears of Reese Creek, but Mrs. France came out on the stage and went up home ahead of him. Mr. and Mrs. France expect to settle in this section but were going to visit her parents a while before settling.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Walker of Nichols, Wisconsin, came in Saturday afternoon. They were brought out from Medford by H. E. Campbell and wife, our bankers, and engaged board and lodging. Mr. Walker came out to look over the old Snowy Butte grist mill with a view to purchasing it. He looked over the property on Monday, and Tuesday made a trip to Medford, and I think Jacksonville to make further investigations. He is a practical millwright and miller, and the prospect is that the old Snowy Butte mill will be started up again and business in that line will be revived and the good old days come again when our streets will be crowded again with farmers delivering their wheat.
    There is a young man stopped here by the name of C. R. Folsom from Klamath Falls, who was so unfortunate as to be run over by a truck and had his hip and leg broken and was confined to a hospital in Klamath Falls for some four months but is so now that he can do light work such as assisting in the culinary department in a road or logging camp.
    Last Saturday night the following men came in and spent the night: C. F. Arant of Talent, L. P. Brown of Ashland, C. R. Gannew and W. F. Gannew, who were on their way up to the Anderson sheep camp to shear his sheep.
    John M. Allen and wife of Derby were among the business callers. Saturday in making my rounds I also met Thomas Riley, son of Joe Riley, who is driving a truck hauling lumber from the Hays mill. He had his truck here for slight repairs.
    In my last letter I spoke of Miss Rose V. Wood of Santiago stopping with us Friday night and going to her new home Saturday, but she only went out riding over the country and remained here Saturday night, going up to her new home eight miles beyond Butte Falls Sunday. She is pretty plucky to start out in the timber to live alone in the woods with her nearest neighbor a mile away, but she seems to be very determined and says she made her start in the poultry business in California.
    Sunday was one of the most noted days we have had here in our little town for a long time. By eight o'clock a.m. the crowd began to gather on the ball ground and by 11 a.m. the crowd became so large that one who was not posted might have thought that we were going to have one of those disgusting prize fights between two or more of the modern gladiators, but it was nothing more than two ball games between four baseball teams. The first contest was between the Antelope team and the Modoc team and was to be commenced at 11 a.m., and about that time, as near as I could learn, they did commence, and the results was the Antelope boys came out victors with a score standing 24 to 12.
    About 3 p.m. the game between the Grants Pass team and the Eagle Point team commenced and the result was that our almost invincible team lost out, the score standing 17 to 4 in favor of Grants Pass.
    About the time that the first game got underway dinner was announced at the Sunnyside, and judging from the number of persons who were there it looked as though there would be room at the tables to spare, but the few who were there already had not been seated before a crowd came rushing in, passed through the sitting room on the run and three of them halted long enough to shake hands with me and I remarked that I did not know any of them and one man said his name of Johnson of Ashland, a brother of the jeweler of Medford, and in less time that it takes to write it the two tables holding 24 were filled, and I did not recognize any of them except F. J. McPherson, wife, son and mother, Mrs. W. G. McPherson of Portland, and by the time they were all seated the sitting room began to fill and then I began to try to get the names of the visitors who came later but there was so much excitement that I found that I had a difficult task but I secured a few of the most prominent. I see that I have on my list Dr. F. H. Ingram, Frank Herbert, Margaret, Ellen and Mrs. Ingram of Grants Pass, Mrs. Etta True, Mrs. Mamie Gray and John Foster of Medford, and the following is a list of the Grants Pass ball players. I did not secure the given names: Messrs. Coburn, Droulette, Meeker, Beariss, Wolf, Walters, Ingram, Bennett and Waters, as fine a set of husky young men as ever handled a bat.
    As near as I could count we had between fifty and sixty here for dinner, for they kept coming in up to near two o'clock p.m. Quite a number of the Grants Pass people remained and took supper.
    At night the following members of the Christian workers of Medford and vicinity came out and conducted services in the Eagle Point church: Dr. W. W. P. Holt, E. M. Hussong and wife and Frank Smith. Dr. Holt presided, read the latter part of the 31st chapter of the Book of Proverbs beginning at the 10th verse and made the opening prayer. There were several songs sung by the congregation and some special songs by Mr. Smith, and then Prof. Hussong gave us a fine talk appropriate to the occasion, it being Mothers Day. This was followed by a selected song by Mr. Smith appropriate to the occasion, when he gave us a fine talk on the value of a mother. They promised to try to arrange to have some members of the band come out again on the 27th, the fourth Sunday of this month, but were to let me know in time to put the announcement in my Eaglets to be written on Wednesday, May 23.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 18, 1923, page 12 


    Mr. W. N. Ivey and his sister, Mrs. W. A. Stewart of Trail were among the passengers on their way up to visit their stepfather, Mr. N. W. Whitney, Wednesday.
    Among the business callers during the week patronizing our our merchants were Robert Merritt, R. H. Sears, W. H. Isbell of Reese Creek, Eagle Point post office; H. H. Fox, Lake Creek; Thomas Abbott, Lake Creek; Carl Cobleigh, Butte Falls; Green Mathews, Guy Pruett and family and Mrs. May Stockford.
    Mr. Roland Smith and Lester Smith were here for dinner Tuesday. They are engaged in the lumber business.
    We are under obligations as a community to the Ladies' Civic Improvement Club for the interest they are taking in improving the appearance of our town, and after they have succeeded in securing a fine tract of land on the bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek, cleaning it up, planting it in trees, fencing it in with a neat wire fence, procuring lumber to seal the town hall, and then secured the service of W. C. Daley, Lemon Charley, John Miller, Frank Brown and Ansil Pearce to do the carpentering work, all volunteer work, two days work each, except Mr. Charley and they did a fine job, and now the ladies who have charge of the job have secured the services of Thomas Riley and his partner, Mr. Wildby and they are on the job of painting the inside of the building, I think that Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown and Mrs. Frank (Amy) Brown. Services of these two expert painters were instrumental in securing the services of these two expert painters to do the work as I saw them talking to the two men Thursday morning and at noon saw that they were on the job. They had just finished up a job of painting a house in Medford for Thomas Farlow and came out that morning. And now, as they will need some more money to make other improvements, they intend to give another dance and fine supper on the eve of Saturday, June 2, and everyone who attended the one they gave to raise funds to purchase ball suits for the baseball team, were so well pleased, they expect to have another fine time on that occasion.
    Mrs. Bert Clarno, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz and Mrs. J. W. (Clara) Smith were among the business callers Thursday.
    Mrs. Josephine Holmes, the principal of our school and her assistant, Miss Gertrude Wiley, the primary teacher, made a business trip to Medford Tuesday afternoon after school.
    Mrs. Wm. Perry went up on the Reese Creek road and spent the day wit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    Hay cutting has commenced, although the most of the owners of alfalfa fields are waiting until the first of next week. The prospect is bright for a big hay crop, in fact the present outlook is very good for a bountiful crop of hay, grain and in fact, almost everything in the farm and orchard line.
    Mr. Sheibley, our school house janitor, has finally got moved into his own house again. He rented his house to Mr. Muskopf and moved in with James Jordan, now deceased, and shortly after his death the administrator, H. E. Campbell, rented the house to a man by the name of Coghill and Mr. Sheibley moved into his son-in-law's house, but that house was soon rented to Thomas Cingcade and he moved in, but Mr. Sheibley reserved one room, but finally Mr. Muskopf moved to Klamath County, so that he finally has settled in his own home again.
    Speaking of our janitor of the school house brings to mind that our school will close next Friday for the season and as near as I can learn the school has been a success and if the directors would employ the same teachers for our next school, the move would meet with the approbation of the patrons very generally. But there is no telling what changes will take place in our school affairs, as we are anticipating making a change and having a union high school here, but that is to be decided at the next annual school election.
    Mr. E. D. Schrader of Climax and Mr. J. H. Gibbs of Boston, Mass., were here for dinner Thursday, and there were several others came in to eat, but they are strangers. They come with a rush, eat and are gone and I am too slow to get the names.
    Among the business callers Thursday I met were Mr. B. F. Fuller and his daughter, Mrs. Titus and Ed Cowden. Wm. Heckathorn of Elk Creek, Trail post office, came in Thursday afternoon with Roy Stanley, who had been up in that country buying beef cattle.
    Thursday afternoon while waiting for my mail I met two ladies in a car, who gave their names as E. Fay Woolsey and Elizabeth Burr. In the course of business we chanced to meet as I stopped to speak to our primary school teacher, Miss Gertrude Wiley, and it appeared that they both knew me, and in the sum of conversation I apologized for not recognizing them and asked for their names and learned that E. Fay Woolsey was our county librarian and Elizabeth Butt was deputy school supervisor and that they were on their way to Butte Falls. They didn't hesitate to tell me how they enjoyed the Eaglets and urged me to keep on writing, notwithstanding my lack of memory, defect in hearing and seeing, so I guess I will have to, as I dearly love the work.
    Friday I made my regular rounds and called on Brown and Sons and rested a while, but there seemed to be no one come in from the country, although they seemed to be quite busy putting up goods on orders by the phone. From these I went on to the office of the Eagle Point Irrigation Company, as I saw a quantity of lumber stacked alongside their lots and saw Ralph Cowgill counting it, inquired what it was for and learned that it was a part of a lot of lumber they had bought last fall from the Hayes mill while it was on Indian Creek and it was to be used to build bridges across the canal, where it runs across a man's land and gates on the laterals where they were necessary. They seem to be doing things right. I went from there to the Eagle Point hardware store and there learned that Mrs. R. W. Rose of Round Top had been in that morning, but I met her later at the store of F. J. McPherson, where she purchased quite a bill of dry goods and groceries. She had driven in from home with a team that morning. In the run of conversation, I learned that she and her husband lived on their homestead alone, that they had no children, but kept twelve hunting dogs trained to hunt varmints, but she said that they would not chase a deer. Asked how they managed to feed such a band of dogs, she replied that he, pointing toward McPherson, got it, but she did not know where he got it. We had a very pleasant visit together that morning.
    Mrs. W. C. McPherson, mother of F. G. McPherson, of Portland, who came down with her son the last of the week, returned to her home again Tuesday.
    Since writing the foregoing, I have learned that the patrons of our school intend to give a picnic dinner to the children next Friday, May 25th.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1923, page 6 


    As I was making my morning rounds last Friday I noticed a man gathering up the lumber that was left after the town hall had been ceiled so I went to see who it was and what disposition had been made of the lumber, and found that it was Fred Dutton and that he had a load of heavy fencing lumber that he was taking over to the old James Matney place now belonging to the Brown Brothers, our prominent merchants, and that the fencing lumber was to be used to make corrals, as Mr. Dutton, the lessee, has quite a herd of cattle and is planning to move onto the farm, and the light lumber is to be used to make gates on the place. There is a considerable tract of what is called desert land on the place and since the Fish Lake Ditch Company have brought water onto it they have planted it to clover and the result is that it is producing a fine crop of hay and he assures me that the prospect is fine for at two good crops this season.
    M. M. Willits, the traveling agent for the Union Oil Co., was here for dinner Friday and so was Thomas M. Riley and his partner in the painting business were among the guests here Friday noon.
    Among the business callers at the popular general store of Fred McPherson Saturday were Lyle Carlton, Joseph Riley, Mrs. C. A. Pruett, Rube Johnson, Mrs. Thomas Abbott of Lake Creek, Hill Ellis, D. L. Zimmerlee, H. W. Howard and Verna Mathews.
    Alex Anderson, one of our prominent sheep men, was here on business Saturday. Speaking of sheep men, there has been quite a scramble among the wool buyers the last week as it seems there is some competition among them as the price varies from forty to forty-three and a half cents per pound.
    There seem to be quite a number people coming and going through our town, and many of them are strangers. Among those I met Saturday were George C. and Wm. Cottrell, two of our prominent stockmen, and Ray Conley of Butte Falls, the owner of the old Haak mill, and he reports that they are doing fine with the mill, turning out a fine lot of lumber.
    There are quite a number of young men coming in securing work on the canal and laterals, drop in for a meal and off and gone before I learn who they are, but it is getting so that we have as high as twenty or more here for supper and breakfast. I noticed that Earl Cingcade has become a regular boarder at the Sunnyside and that Mr. Hutchinson of the Rhodes ranch was here from Saturday night to Monday afternoon.
    Last Saturday afternoon I made the trip to Medford, and while there met quite a number of old friends from different parts of the county, and one of them was the Table Rock correspondent of the Mail Tribune, Everett Nealon. I also met Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fuller of Eagle Point and their daughter and Henry Meyer of Lake Creek.
    There was the regular semi-monthly dance here Saturday night and among those in attendance was Leland Charley, who spent the later part of the night with us.
    Sunday our town was almost deserted as the Eagle Point ball team went to Grants Pass that day to try to regain the laurels they lost when they played here the Sunday before against the Grants Pass ball team, but the result was another defeat, the score standing 4 to 8 in favor of Grants Pass. The friends of our team went with them so that our streets looked almost deserted. But there were quite a number came in for dinner that day and among them were W. B. Beebe and wife, P. P. Franco and family of five of Ashland, J. D. Bell of the Nash Hotel, Medford and his friend, Wm. Budge of Medford, Robert B. Warner, Mrs. D. Barnes, Mrs. S. Gray and Mrs. Charles Hatter of Ashland, besides a few young men whose names I failed to secure.
    Mrs. Mabel Kingery of Wellen drove in with a one-horse buggy last Monday and was buying some supplies at our stores.
    The same day I met Mr. Drape Walch of Wellen at the Eagle Point hardware store, and also met his wife and daughter in the George Brown & Sons store and in speaking of having met her at Brown's he remarked that he let the womenfolks spend the money as they could spend it faster than he could.
    I also met Mrs. Jeff Conover and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alvin Conover, at Brown's and McPherson's the same day. I also met Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows and B. Gade, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro were business callers the same day.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Edwards were also in town the same day on business.
    Wm. Coy, who has been driving the auto stage from Medford to Butte Falls in the place of Harold Van Scoy, the regular driver, had the misfortune to have his hand caught in an electric fan in Medford with the result that it was badly skinned up but no serious damage done. So Harold is back on his old job again.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Walker, recently from Nichols, Wisconsin, who came here with a view of buying the Snowy Butte grist mill, but failed to make the deal, started for Los Angeles Tuesday morning. They had been guests at the Sunnyside for over a week and fell in love with our beautiful valley.
    Rev. Wm. Vimont, a traveling evangelist, came in for dinner Tuesday and announced that he would preach in the church building that night and started out to canvass our town and invite the people to come out and hear him. When we reached the church we found not only Rev. Vimont but his wife and son and his brother Louis Vimont and two children, Susan and Ruth, and in the course of a short time a fair-sized congregation who were favored with a good old-fashioned sermon, and before he closed announced that he would conduct services every night this week and then on Sunday, morning and evening. He is a very pleasant speaker and it is hoped that he will meet with success.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1923, page 7 


    Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Evanson and family, accompanied by Mrs. Grace von der Hellen, formerly one of our prominent citizens and at one time a popular teacher in our school, now a citizen of Portland. She came out to make a short visit among her friends in this community.
    F. P. Brown, a young man, came in Wednesday and engaged room and board. He has engaged to drive a truck for Mr. Mark L. Hanna, hauling ties from the Joe Haskins sawmill a few miles above McLeod to the railroad track here, and they are being shipped on S.P. cars to be used on the S.P.R.R. There are three or four trucks now used in that business, hauling from the different mills north and northwest of here.
    E. R. Hutchinson, who has been working on the Frank Rhodes ranch, has been stopping here for a few days getting ready to leave for California and started about the middle of the week.
    John Miller, our leading carpenter, has made a chicken wire backstop for our ball boys, obviating the necessity of having a catcher, as I understood him to say.
    F. J. McPherson, our popular merchant, is planning to build a commodious warehouse between his store and the town hall, as soon as he can get the lumber he said, that Joe Haskins promised to have it on the ground by last Monday, May 21, but at this writing it is still to come.
    Our popular truck man of Derby brought out a load of fine stovewood for the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday and went out to the Benjamin Brophy ranch and took a load of hogs to Medford for him.
    Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wildey and Thomas M. Riley, the two leading painters of our town, took dinner at the Sunnyside Hotel Wednesday. And so did Thomas F. Nichols and his partner in the Eagle Point pool hall, Clarence Pruett. They are taking their meals here while Mrs. Nichols and the two children were visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow on the south fork of Little Butte Creek.
    S. A. Lasselle and Court Hall of Medford were out here for dinner Wednesday. They were engaged looking over the prospect, and engaging pears for the California canneries of San Francisco, and so was Mr. B. J. Thompson, tie inspector for the S.P. railroad. He loaded three cars that day and then went up to the sawmill to look over the prospect for more ties.
    The arrangement is for a band of the Christian workers of Medford and vicinity to hold services here on Sunday, June 30 at 8 o'clock p.m.
    John C. Thornton and P. S. Anderson of Medford were here for dinner Thursday.
    I met Miss Hattie Johnson and Miss Verna Matthews and John Mayham at the McPherson store Thursday and John Mayham was telling about Raleigh Mathews' house being burned Tuesday. It appears that Earl Mathews, a cousin, came in and was hungry and Raleigh did not feel well so Earl built a fire in the heater to prepare a lunch and after eating urged Raleigh to go with him for a ride and just as they were starting, heard a noise and turning around saw the roof of the house all ablaze. They turned round and carried out what they could, took out the doors and windows, but could save very little. I did not learn whether it was insured or not.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Evans of North Powder, Ore., were here for dinner Thursday. They were looking over our country, with a view of locating.
    Mrs. Ellen Casey of Ashland came in Thursday noon and spent the night. She was on her way out to a new camp that has been recently established by the Eagle Point Irrigation Company to do the cooking for some of the men working on the laterals.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Oliver of Trail came in Thursday morning with a truckload of wood and their clipping of wool, a few hundred pounds, for George Brown and Sons and the same day I met Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, the wife of the mail carrier on the Eagle Point-Persist route, and Mrs. Charles Walker, a friend of Mrs. Kincaid at the Brown store.
    The same day there were two young men came in from Klamath Falls and spent the night. They seemed to be very tired and went right to their rooms.
    Yesterday, Friday, May 25, our school closed and it was the intention to have a picnic dinner in the town park, but about ten o'clock there came down a nice shower of rain and so the plans were changed to have it in the school house. We have only had two teachers the past year, Mrs. Josephine Holmes and Miss G. Wiley, so there was two rooms there were used for other purposes and one of them was used as a dining room. Two long tables were spread with eatables of almost all kinds, contributed by the members of the Parent-Teacher's Association, and among them was ice cream in cones and lemonade in abundance. After everything was arranged Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the president of the association, called the children together and had them sing "America," and you could see the young America in their actions and tell by their voices that they meant just what they were saying, and then the invitation was given to the fifty or more children and the thirty or more adults to partake of the repast, which they did with a will. While all this was going on, your correspondent was taking items and one important item I noticed was that a large cardboard was pasted at the entrance into the lower rooms and printed on it "Standard School," and about this time Mrs. Royal G. Brown come and invited me to go with her and see the certificate, authorizing it to be called a standard school and the picture that came with the certificate from the county school superintendent. Among the noted visitors were Mrs. Grace von der Hellen, formerly one of our teachers, and it was good to see the children who were her pupils flock around with hearty greetings. Also Mrs. Bardwell Smith of Medford, formerly a teacher in her girlhood day, a daughter of one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, Mr. and Mrs. John Greb.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 29, 1923, page 5


    A sawmill has been installed in this community, being owned by Hayes Bros. They are operating now, and a large quantity of lumber has been sawn. It looks like an intrusion upon our peaceful community, and spoils the scenery, but to make this part a prosperous place to live one must accept such advantages, as it is a great advantage to have a mill near so one will not have to travel far for lumber. We hope that it will be a success.
    Mrs. Clarence Windom, formerly Florence Ivey, is visiting her mother and relatives. Mrs. Windom was called from her home in Paisley, Ore., to take care of her mother who is ill. She will remain until the coming fall.
    Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Sands motored to Medford Sunday, 27th.
    Elmer Ivey returned home from high school Sunday. He was accompanied by Ray Ganfield, who brought him home.
    School closed May 11th, after a very successful term.
    Merrill Willits was visiting his relatives at Persist Wednesday.
    Weston Miller is at home, after being away at work.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 1, 1923, page 3


    R. L. Cockran of the United Creditors' Association and J. F. Fliegel, one of the legal profession of Medford, were here for supper Friday evening and so were J. H. Beck, M. N. Johnson, Louis Martin, the chief mechanic in the rock work in the laterals to the Eagle Point company's canal. They spent the night and Sunday at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    W. E. Hammel, one of the directors in the Eagle Point Canal Company, Frank Simpson and J. L. Robinson were business callers also Friday. Mr. Robinson, who had the misfortune to have a thumb cut off in a spraying machine some two weeks ago, has been suffering intensely with it for the past ten days. He says he has had to stay in Medford all the time where Dr. Pickel could dress it twice each day, and it is still in a bad shape he thinks. John Blaess of Trail was also here the same day for dinner.
    Saturday evening while I was on my rounds looking for Eaglets and subscribers for the Daily Mail Tribune, Mr. D. A. Sheibley gave me his check for six dollars and fifty cents to renew his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Saturday afternoon Miss Rosa Whaley of Medford came out and remained until Monday morning, returning on the 7:15 stage.
    We have had religious services all the week, conducted by Rev. William Vimont. The congregations have not been so large as was desired, but those who attended seemed to be much interested and several expressed a desire to become Christians and Sunday there was considerable interest manifested and the minister announced that he would continue services every night this week, except Monday. He said that he had his house on wheels and would move out here Monday and put in all his time preaching, visiting and have prayer meetings midafternoon each day after Tuesday.
    When we reached home Sunday noon, we found a few had collected at the Sunnyside for dinner. I say a few, for the Eagle Point ball team was to play against the Rogue River ball team that afternoon and I learned Monday morning that the score stood 17 to 1 in favor of Eagle Point.
    Among the guests Sunday for dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pendleton, Table Rock, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown; Mr. Arthur Smith, who lives on the old John Smith place, Big Sticky; Cliff Hickson, S. H. and Roy Harnish, Rev. and Mrs. William Vimont, and son William, Jr., Mrs. M. L. Pruett, beside several of the young men who did not go to Rogue River to see the ball game. Mr. Weir McDonald and Robert A. Hubbard of Medford came later. They had been up within a few miles of Fish Lake fishing and stopped here for something to eat.
    Monday morning in making my rounds I met Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers and stock men that seldom comes to town, but lives like a prince with his sister, Miss Clara Young, on their farms they inherited from their father, Pete Young, Sr.; Mr. D. W. Daniels and Mrs. S. J. Hessler of Lake Creek and J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, at the post office and later met Carl Bieberstedt and his nephew Ralph Bieberstedt at the Brown store, and when I reached the McPherson store learned that Wm. Merritt of Reese Creek, Lewis Blaess and wife, C. E. Steele and family, Carlyle Natwick, H. W. Ward, A. C. Huson, Mrs. Tom Abbott and E. W. Frey of Lake Creek had been among the customers.
    I omitted to state that C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the canal from Big Butte to this neighborhood, was here for supper Sunday evening.
    Sunday evening we had preaching, a fair-sized congregation, and several expressed a desire to be saved.
    During the morning Sunday school services, our superintendent, H. E. Campbell, presented Miss Nora Childreth with a nice breastpin on behalf of the Sunday school as a token of the high appreciation of her services as organist for the school, and she expressed her appreciation in a short speech of thanks for the token of regard. Miss Nora is one of our brightest scholars attending the Medford high school from here and expects to graduate at the close of the present term of school.
    The announcement for the Christian workers to come out next Sunday evening is canceled and Rev. Wm. Vimont will preach Saturday night, Sunday, eleven o'clock a.m., and Sunday night, 7:45 p.m. He is holding some fine services. Come and hear him.
    Mrs. Gus Nichols was a guest at the Sunnyside for dinner Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Kingery of Wellen, J. W. Isbell, Alex Matthews and Alex Vestal were business callers Tuesday and L. Adincherter, J. Donovan of Portland; C. L. Hawkins and wife of Hall Safe Company of Portland; H. L. Cox of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad Company; Charley Brown of the Star Auto Co.; Benj. Brophy, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen; J. H. Levison, Medford; G. A. McGee, Portland; Mr. W. Atwood of Medford and K. W. Krake from Brownsboro. Mr. Krake, who is a cousin of Mr. Atwood, is here from his home in San Francisco to look over the oil situation for a large oil company with whom he is employed in the Bay City.
    The Civic Club of Eagle Point met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and was entertained by the hostess and Mrs. Cora Smith. There were about twenty-five of the members present and they spent a very pleasant time and after attending to the routine business light refreshments were served, and a good time was had, for Mrs. Van Scoy is truly an expert as an entertainer.
    Among the business callers Tuesday, in addition to those already mentioned. were Mrs. Jasper Hannah and her mother Mrs. Thomas Raimey and Mrs. Joe Haskins. They were trading at the Brown store and Charles Drexler, Dick Johnson, Owen Conover, Charles Klingle and family. Mrs. A. B. Clarno and Carlyle Natwick were trading with Fred McPherson.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 1, 1923, page 5


    A number of employees of Hills Construction Co. have left for Fort Klamath, to work there. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ferris, Mr. and Mrs. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Cockran, Carl and Leonard Mitchell, Tom Weeks and others whose names we failed to get.
    Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Phillips and daughters Violet and Beulah have been spending a few days in Medford, attending the Free Methodist conference.
    Mrs. Oscar Stewart, teacher of [the] Hatchery school, treated her pupils to a motor trip to Medford and also attended the movies.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middlebusher and Miss Enid Middlebusher motored to Medford Friday to attend the show.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Houston visited at the Hutchison home last Sunday. Mr. Hutchison is gradually gaining the use of his arm again after his fall some time ago.
    The gravel trucks that have been hauling gravel here left for Fort Klamath Sunday, where they will work for Hill's Construction there.
    Ralph Watson came home last week, made proof on his homestead, and has returned to his work at Klamath Falls. Mrs. Watson and two sons accompanied him on his return trip, to remain through the summer.
    Mrs. Dr. Benchler was a pleasant caller at the Howell and Hutchison homes one afternoon last week.
    A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Freeland at the Community Hospital the 16th.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchison left for a two weeks trip by motor to Portland where they will visit relatives and friends.
    Irwin Howe made a trip to Grants Pass this week, after a mule for Mr. Rankin.
    The Medford high school fight was greatly enjoyed (?) by the "country rubes" at Trail Tuesday, also the damage done at that place, where they broke windows, fences, gas barrels were tipped over, faucets broken, gas spilled and yard littered where the students were sick.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 1, 1923, page 10


    Tuesday afternoon Buel Hildreth and wife and his mother, Mrs. E. A. Hildreth, came out from their homes in Butte Falls and spent the night and went out to the Central Point cemetery to visit the resting place of the remains of Mr. E. A. Hildreth, the husband and father of Mrs. E. A. Hildreth and Buel Hildreth. They did not have time to go to Medford for the memorial exercises so returned here for dinner and then went on up home that afternoon.
    The same afternoon, Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cole, the divorced widow of Mr. T. P. Coleman, now of Ashland, came in on the stage from Medford and went to Mr. Cole's room in the Sunnyside Hotel. They were married at the home of Mrs. Cole's aunt, Mrs. L. J. Roe of Jacksonville, on Saturday, May 26, and the following Monday her former husband, T. P. Coleman, I understand, was married to a widow lady of Ashland. Mr. Coleman and is what is now Mrs. Cole came in a few years ago and bought the Wm. Holman farm on Lake Creek and while there made many warm friends who are wishing both couples many happy and prosperous years of bliss.
    Among the business callers Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Conover and daughter Stella, Charles Matthews, George Hansen of Brownsboro, Mrs. Ruth Natwick, Guy Pruett, Mrs. C. A. Pruett, Mrs. Frank Stelle and Alex Vestal who were trading with our merchants.
    Among the passengers on the stage from Medford was Perry Farlow, an old-time resident of the Lake Creek country, he taking passage on the Lake Creek stage for his home Wednesday morning.
    Wednesday being Memorial Day there were quite a number of our citizens went to Central Point and Medford to attend the memorial exercises and to decorate the graves of the loved ones who have passed on before, and those who have loved ones interred in the Antelope cemetery met to do honor to the departed at that old cemetery, for it is among the oldest in the county.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside that day were Mr. and Mrs. George J. Kunzman, son Stanley and daughter Madge and cousin Edward Bruner of Medford. We also had as guests in addition to the Hildreth family, G. W. Barker, the popular banker of Butte Falls, Roy Conely, owner of the old J. W. Haak sawmill, four miles below Butte Falls, and William Cotterall who lives on the old Joe Hannah farm below Trail on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Roy Stanley and his brother Ralph and Horace Geppert and two other men started Wednesday morning to drive three hundred and fifty head of beef cattle across the mountains via Mount McLoughlin to Klamath County, that Roy Stanley had bought up for Mr. Dixon of Fort Klamath. He has yet another band that he has bought up to take over later.
    I see that Mr. Reid, who has his family here, but has been working on the von der Hellen contract on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect, is here visiting his family.
    Among the business callers Thursday was Bud Obenchain, who is in the employ of the Rogue River Canal Co., John Howard, one of the few Civil War veterans, who came in on the morning stage and went up home on the Trail stage, J. V. Patrick, who has a ranch between here and Brownsboro, but spends the most of his time working on the various canal projects at his trade, carpentering, came in Thursday and is here at this time, Friday noon; Ray Warner of Trail, who is working in the Chappell and Morgan sawmill near Trail, also was here for dinner, and so was A. R. Mason and C. F. Huggins of the Mason Motor Co., Medford, besides five of the young men who have been boarding here but had moved to another camp and had to lay off on account of the rain.
    Friday morning I met Henry Meyer and wife of Lake Creek, and William Butler, one of our prosperous farmers, and a few strangers who came out from Medford on the stage on their way to Butte Falls.
    Friday was a busy day among the merchants of our town, judging from the number of traveling salesmen who came in for dinner that noon. There was R. L. Williams of San Francisco, A. Stevenson of the Medford Grocery Co., W. A. Bullock, agent for a life insurance company of Portland, Vern S. White, representing the Mason Motor Co., of Medford, W. W. Singleton, Standard Oil salesman, and George Trusty, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen of Elk Creek, and Alex Betz were diners here also Friday.
    Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of the early '60s, and his grandson, Lloyd French, L. K. Haak and son Cecil came in Friday to bring in his spray machine to George Holmes, our garage man and machinist.
    And finally I also met Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stille. Mrs. Stille seemed to be laying in quite a supply of dry goods. I also met Earl Matthews there the same afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Garrett of Lake Creek were here for supper the same day. They were here visiting the newly married couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cole. Mrs. Cole at one time was a near neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett at Lake Creek.
    Mrs. John Rader was a business visitor at the Sunnyside Friday afternoon.
    I met E. V. Brittsan Saturday morning and John Richardson, son of Carl Richardson of Prospect, on his way up home. He had been out here visiting some of his old neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ditsworth, for a few days. I also met Mrs. James Grunsley of Ashland. She came out of the stage and went on up to Butte Falls to visit her husband who is working up there. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ward of Medford were also passengers and went from here up to the Elk Resort for an outing and to fish. I also met Miss Ida Dunlap, formerly of Derby but now of Butte Falls, at the McPherson store.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manning and their son Charles of Flounce Rock came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside and then went on down to Ashland to look after their property there.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 4, 1923, page 3


    Today I have to commence where I left off last Saturday. According to the notice given in my letters we had preaching Saturday night by Rev. Wm. Vimont and he preached a fine sermon and there seemed to be considerable interest manifested and two ladies came forward to what we used to call the mourner's bench, one of the institutions of the church where the church looked for and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and people were converted by the score and had the assurance that their sins were forgiven. Although the congregation was not so large as was desired, those who have been attending seemed to be very much interested.
    About the same time, perhaps a little later, the ladies of Eagle Point and vicinity gave a special dance and supper. It was contributed by the ladies to raise funds to keep up the expense of town improvements, for there is always some new improvement suggested by some of the far-seeing ladies. The attendance was as usual very good and the receipts amounted to $198, lacking about $20 of being as much as they received at the last dance the ladies gave. I understand that they have to pay about $20 for the use of the hall, lights and music. It is unnecessary to comment on the supper, even if I could, but the reader can be assured that it was altogether up to date, for our ladies are noted for being experts in the culinary department.
    Sunday morning our Sunday school met promptly at 10 o'clock, and the regular order of the work was taken up and a few minutes before 11 o'clock closed and preaching services commenced and we were favored with another old-fashioned gospel sermon, one that was calculated to make people think, and as an evidence that they are thinking the subjects are being discussed on the streets.
    When I reached home, the first table at the Sunnyside was filled by fourteen hungry guests and as many or more in the sitting rooms and porch and yard and the result was that I failed to get the names of many of them, but by counting them as they were seated at the tables there were 47 took dinner besides the home folks. Among those whose names I secured were R. B. Hammond and wife, Bruce and Virginia Hammond, Miss Kate Young, Miss Helen Minter of Medford, George Watters, Roland Watters, Raymond Stevens, Mrs. Flora Morgan, A. R. MacDonald and wife, Mrs. Fay Robins, Earl Matthews, Mrs. A. C. Mittelstaedt, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moses of Medford, C. W. Cann, Eagle Point, E. M. Pittman, Portland, J. O'Neill and wife, Ashland, and Lizzie Perry, the wife of our road supervisor. He was up in the Derby district looking after the county roads. It is needless for me to say what a pleasure it was to me to meet Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moses of Medford, he being a lifelong newspaper man and noted writer for magazines and the author of "Sap and Salt" that is being published in scores of the leading newspapers of our day.
    We had another very interesting ball game here Sunday last between the Rogue River and the Eagle Point teams, the same teams that played at Rogue River the last Sunday in May, and then the score stood 1 to 18 in favor of Eagle Point, but last Sunday it stood 13 to 14 in favor of Eagle Point and the Rogue River boys felt considerably better over the result.
    Sunday evening we had as guests at the Sunnyside for supper Mrs. William von der Hellen and daughter Miss Joyce and Raymond Reter, wife and two children, Harold Van Scoy, T. F. Nichols, wife and daughter. The wife and daughter had been up to visit Mrs. Nichols' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, in the Lake Creek district and just returned. We also had Prof. A. J. Hanby and wife and Miss Dunham of Medford.
    Monday I met Miss R. V. Wood of Butte Falls. She is the young lady mentioned a short time ago as coming from Los Angeles and going up to live on her homestead eight miles northeast of Butte Falls alone in the woods. I asked if she did not get lonesome and she said she didn't, but during the storm weather when it was snowing it was rather disagreeable. She had been out spending a few days in Medford and was on her way home on the stage.
    Frank Manning and wife of Peyton who had been down to Ashland on business were passengers on the stage on their way home. I also met Oscar Higinbotham of Gold Hill the same day and E. Carthell who lives on Big Butte near McLeod. I also met the same day J. M. Riggins who was with Charley Humphrey of Derby and they were going to Medford to take out Mr. Riggins' baggage to their old home near Derby to take an outing. Mr. and Mrs. Riggins are at present residents of San Francisco. I also met H. W. Wood, Mrs. Ruth Natwick, Mrs. Louis Robinson, Mrs. Charles Stille and Mrs. Carl Stanley and son in the Fred McPherson store trading. And a short time before I was there J. L. Hoag and wife, Harold Zundel, Mrs. C. B. Allen and Wm. Merritt were there.
    A. J. Free of Butte Falls and Elmer Ivey of Trail and C. W. Cann and wife of Derby came in and spent the night. They were moving out to live in our town, having rented a part of the house of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy.
    Roy and Ralph Stanley, who started across the mountains Wednesday, May 30, with a band of beef cattle returned Monday. They report that they had about three inches of snow on top of the old snow, but went through all right.
    Mrs. Sam Coy, the wife of the mail contractor carrying the mail from here to Climax, came out with him Tuesday to do some trading with our merchants. Walter Charley of Climax came out with them. And. J. B. Cooper of Trail and L. C. Shufflin [C. L. Schieffelin?] of Butte Falls came out Tuesday on the Butte Falls stage on their way up home.
    There was a band of government mules passed through here Tuesday morning going south from Bend.
    Wm. Brigham, who is on the Joe Rader farm, was a business caller Tuesday.
    Harold Guerin of San Francisco, a nephew of the Brown boys, and Mrs. S. Brown and Wm. Holmes and Lottie Van Scoy came in last Monday to make them a visit.
    Tuesday Mrs. H. J. Carter, Mrs. Lottie Keith, Mrs. James Lennox, Misses Ruth Lennox and Bernice Carter, Hugh Carter and Keith Lennox of Ashland went through here on their way up Rogue River for an outing and to spend a while fishing.
    I also met J. L. Hovey, the superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, Tuesday and he looked rather pleased and in the run of conversation about the prospects for fruit and the condition of the trees with reference to blight said the prospect was very good for fruit, and had but very little blight. I then told him that I had just heard the evening before that he was married again and he pleaded guilty and confessed that he had married the lady who was here a short time ago visiting him, Mrs. Lydia Arnold of Hood River, in the White Temple Church, Portland, May 28th, and now his many friends are wishing him and his wife all kinds of pleasure and a long and prosperous life.
    George Singwalt and wife, nee Hattie Cingcade of Oakland, Calif., came in Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock to visit Mrs. Singwalt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade. They left their home in Oakland Saturday at 2 o'clock p.m. and made the 440 miles in about 22 hours. Today they went with David and his wife to Butte Falls to visit Mrs. Singwalt's brother Thomas and family, now of Butte Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 8, 1923, page 8


    Fred Farlow, a son of Thomas Farlow, formerly of Lake Creek but now an automobile salesman of Medford, was here for dinner Tuesday, and so was Ralph Stanley and W. E. Hammel, one of our prosperous farmers and one of the leading promoters of the project to bring the waters from Big Butte Creek to this section, he being the secretary of the company.
    George and James Beamsley of Long Beach, Calif., cousins of Mrs. Lemon Charley, have been here visiting the Charley family.
    Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown made a business trip to Ashland the first of the of the week. Mrs. Brown is a member of the school board and takes a great deal of interest in in our school and told me this Saturday morning that our school board had decided not to employ any teachers who have not had practical experience as teachers. She also told me that the school board had selected as our teachers for the coming year Mrs. Josephine Holmes as principal and Miss Cecil Moss of Ashland as primary teacher.
    I met Lyle Carlton Tuesday in the Eagle Point hardware store and while there Roy Ashpole in answer to my questions, for that is one way I have to gather my Eaglets, gave me the names of the following persons who had been in trading in his store: Ralph Stanley, W. J. Atkins, Alex Anderson, John Walch of Lake Creek, W. E. Hammond, Carl Bergman, James King, Guy Pruett and R. M. Conley.
    The same day Charles Christensen of Marshfield came in and spent the night on his way to Prospect to go to work on the Crater Lake Highway for Wm. von der Hellen, and the next morning Michael Delay of Seattle came in for late breakfast on his way up in the hills.
    There seems to be considerable travel on the stages that come into our post office now besides quite a number who come and go in their own cars and many of them are newcomers looking over the country and asking all kinds of questions about the land, water, climate, schools, etc. Among the latter class was Mr. A. M. Rotell.
    The Parent-Teachers Association met at the home of Mrs. W. L. Childreth last Tuesday, June 5th to cut quilt blocks. The ladies spent the afternoon very pleasantly and Mrs. Childreth, always a genial hostess, served strawberries and cream.
    Thursday, George W. Barker, our affable banker of Butte Falls, passed through here on his way home and Mrs. J. Doubleday, also of Butte Falls, was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage on her way home.
    W. P. Cole, one of our regular boarders, also went up to Butte Falls the same day on business returning the same day on the P.&E. train.
    The Civic Improvement Club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. A. J. Florey and were entertained by the hostess and Mrs. Lucius Kincaid, and it is useless to say that they had a nice time and spent the time very pleasantly.
    In making my rounds Thursday morning I met our councilwoman, Mattie Brown, and she told me that she had had D. A. Sheibley, our janitor for our school, cut the grass off the park and that she, while inspecting the trees set out in the park, had found that a borer killed it and was going to whitewash the tree to destroy any poison he may have left.
    Thursday morning while I was resting in the Browns store I met George W. Daley, Jr., and asked about his hay and he said that he had his first crop in the barn before the rain came.
    I also met W. P. Holbrook, one of our prosperous farmers who has a farm a few miles west of here. I also met the principal of our school, Mrs. Geo. Holmes. She was bringing her eggs to market. She is not only a first-class teacher but can turn her hand to other branches of business, as she keeps a flock of fine hens. I also met while I was there Sam Coy, the mail contractor, taking orders for the people along the route.
    J. K. Elder of Medford was here on business Thursday and took dinner.
    Thursday as I was out looking for something to write for the Mail Tribune I saw a car drive up in front of the McPherson store and a gentleman got out and went in, so I ventured up and met a very pleasant lady who knew me, she had been to the Sunnyside on Sundays for dinner and of course they all remember me, but for me to try to remember all would be a bigger job than I would care to undertake, when it is so easy for me to say, "Your name, please," so I asked the lady to give me the names of each one and she wrote in my little book, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hunt, Page Theatre, Medford, and Miss Anna Hall, going fishing in Little Butte.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden drove in Tuesday afternoon and so did Mrs. Anna Brophy.
    Mrs. W. R. Rose came in from her home on Round Top Friday morning and had with her one of their famous dogs. They keep a dozen, but the one she had was considered the best one of the pack and she said that he treed a big wildcat last Sunday. She drives a rather odd team, a large white horse and a small donkey or burro, and she said that coming down the gulch road, which is quite steep and rough, she had trouble keeping in the road on account of the unevenness of the team. But she does not seem to be at all uneasy. I also met B. L. Kingery, who was here having our blacksmith repair his mowing machine.
    The county demonstrator is to be out here next Tuesday and requests the ladies of our town to meet her at the town hall, the library, where she will show them how to make a new hat out of an old one, or change an old dress so that it will be as good as new; in fact help them to economize in more ways than one. This item was given to me by Amy Brown while she and Mattie Brown were fixing up the town hall. Amy was painting the benches they have for us men to sit on and Mattie was hanging the window curtain the Eagle Point Improvement Club purchased out of funds raised for the improvement of the town.
    This Saturday morning I dropped into the McPherson store and there I met Mr. Holden, recently from Eastern Oregon. He was laying in supplies and said that he had sold out up there and expects to settle in this valley, but intends to remain here a year before he settles down.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 11, 1923, page 11


    G. A. Hadden and family of Eastern Oregon have moved into our community and at present are located at the Butte Creek orchard and are intending to settle somewhere in the valley. He has quite a family and will be quite a help to our schools. They look like the right kind of people.
    I also met C. M. Crews of Portland. He came out on the stage and was on his way up to Trail to visit his sister, Mrs. Caster.
    J. E. Edsall, who has a contract to make about three miles of ditch, a lateral of the Eagle Point irrigation canal from Big Butte Creek, has finished his contract and broke up camp last Friday and Saturday and his cook, Mrs. E. Johnston, came here for dinner Saturday on her way to Medford. She said that she was glad to get off that hill, for the house where he had his camp was on one of the stickiest places to be found anywhere around here, but otherwise a good camping place, but she said that she could not step outdoors without getting her feet loaded with mud. The boys speak very highly of her as a cook and housekeeper.
    I also met Mrs. Bert Clarno at the McPherson store and she was telling me about a terrible hailstorm they had had in that section of the valley and that it had done considerable damage to the fruit and garden stuff and I learned later that it had damaged the pears, denting them so that they will not be fit to put on the market, but not so but they can be used. I know that two years ago that W. E. Hammel had his pear crop damaged in that way and he got a canning outfit and put up his entire crop and put them on the market and several cases of them were used at the Sunnyside during the construction of the Crater Lake Highway, when we had a large number to feed, and they were first class and one redeeming feature was the cans were filled with fruit instead of liquid; in fact I don't see why it wouldn't be a paying investment to establish a cannery in our town as it is right in the center of the fruit belt, and as soon as the water from Big Butte Creek is brought in and what is now waste land is brought into use. This is going to be one of the industrial centers of the county.
    T. E. Clark and Owen Conover of the Reese Creek country were in trading with our popular merchants Saturday and while I was in the McPherson store Saturday afternoon waiting for the mail to come in F. J. McPherson gave me his check for four dollars to pay his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun. And while I was there I noticed that he had some of his lumber out to build a warehouse, as his business has increased so since he bought the T. E. Nichols store that the small store room attached to the rear of the store building has become entirely too small to answer the purpose. J. D. Patrick, who came in Saturday, expects to go to work and put the building up right away.
    A word to the voters and taxpayers of this school district: The annual school meeting for the district will be held next Monday to elect a director and clerk to transact such other business as may come before the meeting, and at that time it is expected that the subject of having a union high school here will be brought up and James. L. Linn, our efficient school clerk, will be prepared to give us a vast amount of information on the subject, about the extra cost, if any, the great advantage to our community and the saving of expense to the taxpayers.
    Saturday in making my rounds in the afternoon I met Mrs. Harvey Stanley, wife of one of our farmers and stockmen at the McPherson store, and Frank Johnson, wife and son. Thomas Jefferson Johnson, his father, being an old-time Republican, he said that he gave him the biggest Democratic name he could think of, and while talking with him I noticed that he was standing close by a fine-looking car, a Dodge, and I asked if it was his car and he said yes, and just then his wife and son came out and she remarked that he had spent all his money for a car but they were very proud of it, and I remarked that he had just come to his senses and done the proper thing. And while talking about the satisfaction they would have riding over the Crater Lake Highway, for he lives way out, he complained that it was getting pretty rough as the big trucks with heavy loads of lumber were breaking through and that the mud was oozing up through the crushed rock, and others have complained of the roughness of the road. It might pay for the county court to look after it before it is too late.
    Last Sunday was a very quiet day in Eagle Point as there was no ball game and but very few of the boys out on the ball ground to practice. We had a very interesting Sunday school, although there were not so many in attendance as usual, as there was an all-day service at the Reese Creek school house, picnic dinner and preaching in the afternoon by Rev. Phillips of Trail and I understand that they had a good time. At the close of the Sunday school Rev. Wm. Vimont preached another one of his soul-stirring sermons and also preached again at night on the necessity of standing by the old Bible teachings. He took for his text the 3rd verse of the 11th Psalm: "If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?" and I would have been glad if he had had a large congregation to hear it. He closed the meeting that night and the next day he and his wife, with his brother, went to Butte Falls to view out the field for services there. We feel that he has done considerable good here as several expressed a desire to be saved.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Hubbs of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Kaster and son Sammie of West Liberty, Ia., A. C. Mittelsteadt of Eagle Point, who works for the telephone company in Medford all the time and lives in his own beautiful home here, going to Medford each morning except Sunday. He reports that his wife had gone back to their old home, I think he said in Illinois, on a visit to her parents. She started Sunday, June 3. Others who were here Sunday for dinner were Thomas Kenton, Lloyd Cingcade, Leda Carlton, Thos. F. Nichols and family, Miss Joyce von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and daughter Muriel Smith, C. D. Mills and Geo. Grover of Long Beach, Calif., being two agate men who were here two years ago and have come back again to try their luck at agate hunting. They have a camp outfit but are taking some of their meals here at the Sunnyside; Fred Frey and family, Mrs. H. A. Frey and children and George Frey, all of Lake Creek, and Luke Kincaid were here also for a dinner Sunday.
    W. F. Hoagland of Central Point, and W. P. Cooper of Trail were passengers on the stage Monday and Mr. Cooper said that he had been engaged as night watchman for the Chappell-Morgan sawmill that is just being completed.
    Speaking about sawmills, J. H. Cooley, who has a fine farm and orchard in this neighborhood, was out here for dinner the first of the week and tells me that he has a new sawmill about completed in the Trail country, expects to have it completed in a few days and intends to saw the timber up to furnish in part his lumber yard.
    Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for Monday's Mail Tribune, Fred J. McPherson gave me his subscription for the Mail Tribune and Sun and Monday morning I met James L. Linn at the post office and he gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune and Tuesday Roy Smith also gave me his renewal for the Daily Mail Tribune, so the reader can see that the people will patronize a first-class paper.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1923, page 6


    Walter Smith, foreman of the Emmens-Collins stock ranch near Brownsboro, is in Sacred Heart Hospital, in a serious conditions, as a result of an accident ten days ago, wherein he sustained an injury to his right eye. He faces the loss of his eyesight.
    Smith was driving some hogs out of a pasture, when he walked into a barbed wire stretched between two posts. The barbed wire struck him between the eyes, one of the barbs hitting the right eyeball. He came to this city and his wounds were dressed by Dr. W. W. Howard. The wound seemed superficial, and Mr. Smith returned to the ranch.
    While leading a horse into a pasture a few days later, Smith was stricken blind, and had to call for help to make his way back to the house, and was rushed to this city for medical assistance. He was taken to the Medford hospital. Last Thursday he was transferred to the Sacred Heart Hospital, so as to be under the observation of Dr. J. J. Emmens, who is convalescing from a recent illness there, and able to administer treatment.
    Smith is about 35 years of age, and well known in this city. He was an employee of the Mason-Ehrman Co. for years, and has a family, a wife and two children.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 18, 1923, page 1


    After I had finished my letter for the Mail Tribune Wednesday afternoon I found that I had quite a number of items jotted down in my notebook that I had not written up, for I aim to write about a column each time, although I sometimes overreach the mark and then tremble for fear of the editor's blue pencil, but as it is will start in where I left off Wednesday. In my rounds Monday I met Vern A. Mathews and family. They were patronizing our new garage men, Eli Dahack and son. They seem to be doing some considerable business, and when they get their plans complete will probably get their share of the business in that line.
    Speaking of the garages in our town, we have two, and two other places where gasoline is sold, at the F. J. McPherson store and the Eagle Point Hardware Store. I see that George Holmes, our old reliable garage man, has about finished up his large shed he has erected adjoining his main building and has attached to it a room to keep his oils and other kinds of dope and greases for the autoist.
    I also met Corbin Edgell of Medford, owner of one of the leading orchards in this community, and he reports the prospect very good for a big crop of fruit this season.
    I recently learned that Everett Dahack while up in the Prospect country last Sunday had the misfortune to wreck his car. The steering wheel got out of commission, so he could not control his car, with the result that it capsized, but he was not hurt but damaged the car considerable.
    Mrs. Stockman of Butte Falls was here trading with our merchants the first of the week. And I also met Owen Conover and Lawrence Luy laying in his supplies.
    C. O. Haik of the S.O. Oil Company was a diner at the Sunnyside and so was Carlyle Natwick and family and George Holmes and Thomas Riley.
    Elga Abbott and Harold Hildreth of Butte Falls came on the stage Monday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    L. B. Taffer of Dead Indian Soda Springs came out on the stage and went on up home on the stage Tuesday.
    Miss Grayce C. Teich, the county demonstrator, came out Tuesday and met with quite a number of the ladies of our town and vicinity and gave them lessons in economy, showing them how to transform old hats and wearing apparel into "as good as new," and she reported having a very pleasant meeting. She was accompanied by Miss Alice Hanley and her niece, Miss Claire Hanley, and the three visited the hostess of the Sunnyside and her daughter Hattie.
    The same afternoon I met Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton at the McPherson store.
    Wednesday morning I met Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls and four other passengers at the post office on the stage on the way to Butte Falls.
    I also met Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown of Geo. Brown & Sons, who had just returned from a trip to near the Elk Lodge on Rogue River with a fine large fish weighing nineteen pounds after it was dressed. They didn't either of them claim to have caught it, so I will remain silent on that subject. I also met Mrs. Henry Meyer and her son Henry, Jr., and Fred Luy and wife at the Brown store the same morning. And Mr. Kingery and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro.
    Later I met Miss R. V. Wood, recently of Los Angeles but now on her homestead in the Butte Falls district, on her way out to Medford to attend the auto races. She was accompanied by a friend, Mrs. Lydia Angel of Portland, who had been up visiting with her and her nearest neighbor, Mrs. B. Young.
    I also met Miss Margaret Mansfield of the Mansfield ranch on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Mrs. Lucy Smith and daughter of Lakeview and Mrs. R. E. Smith of Central Point were visiting their brother-in-law, Roy Smith of Eagle Point. I met Mrs. Roy Smith and her herter [sic], Mrs. Wm. Perry Wednesday afternoon in the McPherson store and learned the two items. The two Smiths referred to are sons of the late John Smith who raised a family of nine boys on Big Sticky and the three are sons of his.
    The same afternoon I met W. R. Race of Round Top; H. B. Huson and daughter Lena, who had just graduated from the Medford high school. Also Mr. and Mrs. Dean Dow of Trail on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Charles Humphrey and Mrs. Fred Dunlap of Derby were out Thursday morning and went on out to Medford and spent the day, returning late in the afternoon, but went on up home that night.
    C. H. Conroy of Trail was also here on business, going on up home on the stage.
    Thursday morning our accommodating and efficient deputy postmaster gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, renewal, as when once a person gets in the habit of reading a genuine, reliable and newsy paper he dislikes to miss a copy.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dutton came over from their home on Dry Creek to straighten up her father's home, as he, S. H. Harnish, is left without a housekeeper again.
    Cliff Hickson and family have moved into the James Owens house, the Coy house.
    K. W. Keake of San Francisco was here on his way to Brownsboro to visit a relative by the name of Atworth, Thursday.
    S. S. Doyle and John Grieve of Prospect were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Medford. Mr. Doyle is running the old S. S. Aiken sawmill as one of the Aiken sons has fixed it up and Mr. Grieve says they are turning out some as fine lumber as can be found, as it is right in the sugar pine belt. He reports that Mr. Aiken is going to enlarge the mill so as to make it cut more lumber to satisfy the demand. He also reports that they are receiving orders for lumber to build houses at or near Crater Lake.
    M. M. Willits of the Union Oil Co., and a friend from Merrill, Ore., were here on business Thursday.
    Among the business callers Thursday were Benj. Brophy, Geo. Hanson and F. D. Hill.
    I met Harold Guerin of San Francisco, a nephew of the Brown Bros., at their store Friday morning, who is here visiting his uncles and aunts.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 19, 1923, page 4


    Walter Smith, foreman of the Collins-Emmens ranch near Brownsboro, who sustained an injury to one eye, when he walked into a barbed wire stretched across his pathway, a barbed striking the eyeball and was stricken blind, can see out of one eye now, but is not able to stand the light on the injured member. His condition is still serious.
    Smith is under the care of Dr. T. G. Heine, not under the care of Dr. J. J. Emmens, as reported to the Mail Tribune. His wife is now living in this city. The condition of Dr. Emmens is still such as to prevent the practice of his profession.
    Smith was moved from the Medford hospital to the Sacred Heart Hospital on account of lack of a dark room at the first named place.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 20, 1923, page 5


    I met Frank Johnson and wife and the younger members of his family Friday afternoon in our town on their way to Medford but he was in considerable of a hurry, but he did stop long enough to tell of an auto wreck that occurred on the Crater Lake Highway between his place and Eagle Point. He said that he did not know the parties, that there was one man and three or four women and it appeared as though one of the girls was driving, but he did not think that anyone was hurt, although the car seemed to be badly smashed up. On inquiry I was told that it was Dr. Ray of Medford and his party. I also met Wm. Holman and wife of Lake Creek on their way home from Medford. And Mr. Ellis of Derby on his way home.
    A. M. Gay of Butte Falls and two ladies were passengers on the morning stage Friday headed for Butte Falls. I also met Mrs. B. Angell of Portland, who is visiting relatives and friends in the vicinity of Butte Falls, and Miss R. V. Wood, the young lady who is living on her homestead in that neighborhood. They had been out to Medford attending the races and Miss Wood remarked that they had bet their money on the Ford and lost, although Mrs. Angell said that she did not bet as that was out of her line of business, but Miss Wood seems to be quite a sport as she claims to love anything in that line, and came out expressly to see the races.
    I see that Cliff Hickson has been installed as the driver of the auto stage in the place of William Coy, who wanted to take a layoff and go to the races.
    Wort Pool was here in town all day Saturday with his mowing machine trying to get it apart so as to have it repaired by our blacksmith. John Caster of Reese Creek was also here having his mower repaired.
    Mr. Cox, the head man in the construction work on the P.&E. railroad, was here for dinner and he reports that they are getting along fine with their work and expect to have the track laid into the body of timber that Mr. Olds bought from the government some time ago. Carley Manning of Prospect was also here for dinner Saturday.
    J. D. Arnes, the popular foreman on the Corbin Edgell orchard, was a business caller Saturday.
    A. Denton, who has been a prominent citizen of our town, has moved his family to Ashland.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and Mrs. Wallace Reeder of Ashland were here for supper Saturday evening. Mrs. Reading has been here visiting Mrs. Gus Nichols and attending the races in Medford. Speaking about the races last Friday and Saturday, our town almost deserted as the stores were closed and it seemed as though there was no one in from the country except those passing through on their way to Medford.
    Miss Muriel Smith, a daughter of Mrs. Gus Nichols by her first husband, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Carl Gibson of Ashland.
    I omitted to state that Rev. Wm. Vimont, the minister who has been conducting religious services here for nearly three weeks, has moved to Butte Falls to hold services there. He is a fine preacher and seems to preach plain Bible truths.
    We were visited one evening last week by a company of the members of the Apostolic faith. They drove over our streets announcing an open-air meeting in front of Lewis' confectionery store, and although it was was a very disagreeable evening there was a very good attendance and they gave some very thrilling experiences and favored us with some very fine singing and it is believed made a very good impression, at least told things that will make people stop and think and ask themselves the question, "If the men and women are not sincere, what motive do they have in spending their time in thus urging the people to seek for something higher than the gratifications of their worldly passions? They ask for no money or anything else except that men and women give God their lives."
    Pearl Stowell and J. W. Isbell came in Saturday night for bed and breakfast; and Thomas Centers and wife of Talent and son M. S. Centers and little boy of Medford were among the diners here Sunday. Thomas Centers was formerly a resident of the section of the country between Agate and Central Point but has been living in California for the past several years and lately bought a small place near Talent.
    A. C. Mittelstaedt, Mrs. Ethel Canon Miss G. Canon and L. V. Luce of Medford, A. L. Trask and wife, L. V. Haskins and W. J. Haskins and Mr. and Mrs. Ned Vilas of Medford, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter Miss Joyce and George Turnbow, of Eagle Point, Roland Hubbard and wife, E. C. Faucett and J. B. Bell of the Nash Hotel, R. H. Davis and Miss O. C. Middlebusher of Trail were among the diners here Sunday.
    There were five women came in on the Butte Falls stage and three of them went out on the Trail stage and the other two and a man went out on the Butte Falls stage.
    John Norris, the foreman on the J. M. Wilfley orchard was here having a sickle bar mended Monday and reports that the prospects are fine for a big crop this year.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brady, salesman of San Francisco, and Wm. Brown and wife of the firm of Brown Bros. and Sons and B. H. Williams, another salesman of San Francisco were here for dinner Monday.
    J. F. Erickson of the firm of Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal Co., Medford and L. E. Thomson, R. H. Master were here for dinner Monday. They and another man by the name of S. M. Hawk were engaged reroofing the Eagle Point Bank building.
    Eli Dahack gave me his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun Monday.
    We had our regular annual school meeting here Monday and elected F. J. McPherson as director for three years and reelected James L. Linn as school clerk for one year. Among other things voted was the rescinding a resolution passed several years ago arranging to have the high school children hauled from here to Medford to attend the high school there, and voting unanimously to have a high school here. Another resolution passed was authorizing the school board to deed to the proper authorities a tract of the school land owned by the district whenever they decided to erect a high school building. They also voted to raise the valuation of the school house from $500 to $4000, and have it insured for that amount. When it was first built it was thought best to have it insured so set the amount at $500, and it has drifted along and now it could not be replaced for less than $4000 including the fixtures.
    There were three young ladies attended our Sunday school last Sunday morning. They were Misses Ella Cowgill, Hattie Hannaford and Miss Hannaford, of Medford, a stepdaughter of W. G. Pierce.
    S. H. Harnish has secured the services of T. T. Taylor and his wife as housekeeper.
    The parent-teacher circle for the Eagle Point district will hold their regular monthly meeting at the school house on Friday, June 29th at 3 o'clock p.m. All of the members are requested to come and bring their quilt pieces with them.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 25, 1923, page 3


    SALEM, Ore., June 26.--Alfred Cowan, 23, committed suicide last night at a camp five miles south of here by shooting. He was traveling through the country with his brother, Ira, and uncle, Thomas Martin. At an inquiry last night Martin said that Cowan brooded over refusal of his wife to live with him. The wife, Mrs. Beatrice Cowan, is now with her parent, Mr. and Mrs. Shell Hayes at Trail, Ore., near Medford.
    Mrs. Cowan and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shell Hayes, who live about five miles up Elk Creek, when interviewed by a representative of the Mail Tribune today denied that domestic troubles were the cause of Cowan's suicide and intimated that investigation would show that some other trouble the young man had had for the cause of his action.
    According to the parents of Mrs. Cowan, their daughter married Alfred Cowan, son of Charley Cowan of Ashland, three years ago and went to San Francisco to live. Last January they claim Cowan left his wife there without money and she decided to return to her parents, arriving here the latter part of that month.
    Last Saturday Cowan arrived in Medford on a motor trip and made the trip to Trail to see his wife. She was not there but Mrs. Hayes was and Cowan threatened her with a gun and said if things didn't go the way he wanted them to there would be trouble.
    Cowan returned to Medford without seeing his wife and then on Sunday made another trip to Trail, when he appeared to be in a very different frame of mind. He greeted his wife, and after what she says was a long and friendly talk, he agreed to grant her a divorce, allow her to have the custody of their two-year-old baby daughter, and leave her alone. He said he would not contribute anything to her support, however.
    The first news of Cowan's suicide was received by Mrs. Cowan and her parents from the Mail Tribune, and they were all emphatic in their belief that Cowan did not care for his wife sufficiently to take any desperate action following her refusal to live with him.
    According to Sheriff Terrill, Cowan was the man who struck Al Clements, a local resident who was working at the Medford Concrete Construction Company, with an iron scraper on the end of a long wooden handle. Clements was seriously injured by the blow which struck him alongside the head, and doubts of his recovery were entertained for a short while. This incident occurred some months ago.
    Cowan escaped after the deed and was picked up in Yreka a few days later by Sheriff Terrill. He spent some time in jail awaiting the action of the grand jury but was released after the case was looked into, as no indictment was brought against him.
    It is stated that Cowan was in Medford last Saturday night and was heard threatening to kill his wife. Patrolman Joe Cave was informed of his presence and was looking for him to arrest him on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Cave also notified their sheriff's office to be on the lookout for him but Cowan left town before he met any of the officers.
    Sheriff Terrill, who has been looking over the records pertaining to Cowan's past history, states that he also had a police record in Portland.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 26, 1923, page 8


    H. M. Bowser, a deputy fire warden,, came in Monday evening rather late for supper and reported that everything was going on smoothly in his line of business, as the continuous rains are keeping the vegetation so wet that they cannot burn, and reported that that afternoon they had had a genuine downpour in the Butte Falls section and made the roads very slippery, and although we here in the valley have not had near as much rain as they have had in the hills higher up, we have had enough to ensure fine crops of hay, grain and fruit. And it has interfered considerably with gathering the first crop of alfalfa hay off the ground, and keeping the shocks of hay standing on the land so long has damaged the second crop considerably as some of them have been standing for over two weeks.
    Miss Frances Miller, a daughter of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, was here shopping Monday, and so was Charley Winkle, who has been engaged for some time working on one of the contracts on one of the laterals.
    C. O. Thomas and M. D. Vinyard, two local life insurance agents, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    R. H. Sears, Verna Mathews, David Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cowden, C. E. Wymore of Derby and Benj. Brophy were among the business callers Tuesday, and Lester Bradshaw of Brownsboro, and Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon of Medford were here for dinner Tuesday.
    W. S. Thomas of Portland and Mr. Humphrey of Gold Hill came out from Medford on the stage Tuesday afternoon on their way to Trail and Prospect and went to the Sunnyside for supper, but it appeared that Mr. Thomas was looking for a job with one of the crews in the employ of Wm. von der Hellen and he did not know which, for he has two or three contracts, one near Prospect, and one on the Eagle Point Canal coming from Big Butte Creek, and after supper Mr. Pherson, the foreman on the canal job heard of him being here, called for him and took him up to the camp near Butte Falls that night, but Mr. Humphrey remained overnight and the next morning went up to Trail on the stage.
    Mrs. H. A. Powell of Spokane and her three children and three men came in on the stage from Medford Wednesday morning, the three men going on to Butte Falls, but Mrs. Powell and her children went on up to Trail to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Whitley.
    Mrs. Frank Hill of Derby also came out the same morning and went out to Medford, returning home late that day.
    Wednesday afternoon I made a trip to Medford with Eli Dahack and his son Everett and Earl Matthews to attend to a little business in the office of the Medford Mail Tribune and to do a little shopping and spent an hour or so visiting one of our early pioneers, Mr. Pierce, formerly one of the miners in the vicinity of Jacksonville, and Evan Reames, Sr., an uncle of two prominent attorneys, after spending a very pleasant time with the editor and business manager of the Mail Tribune, arriving safely a little after 5 p.m.
    I also called on Dr. W. W. P. Holt, but found him so busy that I only had time to pass the time of day, but while in the waiting room I met Mrs. John A. Brittsan and her mother, Mrs. John Lane, formerly of Derby but now of Long Beach, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Brittsan were formerly of this neighborhood but are now living in Jacksonville.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Kaster of West Lanty, Iowa, and Mrs. Sebana Frazer of Berkeley, Calif., a sister of Mrs. A. H. Hubbs, prominent shoe dealers of Medford, were here for supper Wednesday evening. They had been up as far as Prospect on a pleasure trip and fishing excursion but found it difficult to persuade the finny tribe to take the hook so returned to their friends in Medford.
    C. H. Natwick, the contractor, and Ed Dutton, his right hand man, were in town Wednesday afternoon on their way to Natwick camp on the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal. They report that the work is progressing finely on the canal.
    Thomas Cullen of Trail was a passenger on the stage Thursday morning on his way to Butte Falls and Mrs. Emmett Mechem and Miss Alice Graham of Eugene were going to Trail to visit the Mechems.
    Mr. Whaley, formerly of the P.&E. Railway force of Medford, has moved his family upon Little Butte Creek above Brownsboro, and spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Messrs. Grover and Mills, two agate men from Long Beach, Calif., who came in a short time ago to hunt agates, and have been camping out, but taking some of their meals with us, started on their return trip Thursday. They were talking, when I saw them the morning they started, of going via Crescent City and down the coast road as they are out as much for pleasure as anything else. They want to see the country as they [travel] through it.
    Harry Dubbs, George Marin, Al Stallsworth and J. W. Kelso of Central Point stopped here for dinner Thursday on their way up to Frank Ditsworth's with a hay baler to bale his first crop of alfalfa hay, but as the hay is in the shock the continuous showers are retarding the work.
    Mrs. Eugene Bellows and Mrs. Robert McCabe were trading with our merchants Thursday. I met Thomas Farlow and Carlyle Natwick at the Ashpole and Nichols hardware store Thursday.
    Charley Humphrey of Derby, the hustling truckman and wood merchant, has sold his Reese Creek farm to C. A. McCabe, and I understand has already moved onto it [sic]. I understand that he traded it for the hotel property in Jacksonville.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were here in town Thursday trading with our popular merchant Fred McPherson, and so was C. E. Wymore of Derby and Wm. Merritt of Reese Creek.
    The Eagle Point Civic Improvement Club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Royal G. Brown and were entertained by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Lemon Charley, and it is needless for me to add that they spent a few hours very enjoyably, for with Mesdames Brown and Charley as entertainers they couldn't help but have a good time, for they are both good entertainers.
    J. D. Patrick while waiting for Joe Haskins to get the lumber out to build the McPherson warehouse has been building a small house of block concrete, to keep things cool in the summer and warm in the winter for Thomas Nichols. He has had W. P. Cole, another one of our boarders, helping him.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 26, 1923, page 6


    Mr. Shuflin [Schieffelin?] of Butte Falls and two women came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Friday morning and went on up the country.
    A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls came out the same day and went on out to Medford and Jacksonville. Mr. Hildreth is the deputy assessor who assessed this and the Butte Falls districts.
    Rev. D. D. Randall, the Sunday school missionary for the American Sunday School Union, who has taken the place of Rev. King, resigned, who has been in this field for some time and has done faithful work, and when he resigned left a host of warm friends behind him. I understand that the reason he resigned was that his family has reached that stage as to require more of his care and attention than he could devote and do the work required in the field.
    Mr. Randall is from La Grande, Eastern Oregon. He simply called for a few minutes to become acquainted with me and arrange for my helping him in his work. He presents a fine appearance and we trust will be successful in his new field.
    Mrs. Soulin of Los Angeles, Cal., came in on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Saturday morning and took passage on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for Brownsboro to visit a relative, Mrs. A. Anderson of Brownsboro.
    Artie and Alex Vestal, two brothers who live on Reese Creek, were business callers Saturday and so were Wm. Holman of Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office and Lewis Robinson, who lives a short distance north of Eagle Point, were here shopping the same day.
    J. D. Patrick and W. P. Cole, our newly wedded man, have just completed the job of putting up a small concrete building for Thomas F. Nichols.
    H. M. Brown of Medford and P. S. King, a deputy forest warden of Salem, were here for dinner Saturday and so was A. A. Hollenbeak and wife of McLeod, also Alex Betz and Ralph Cowgill, the chief civil engineer on the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal.
    In my rounds Saturday I met Mr. J. W. Pusey, an employee of the P.&E. Railroad Co., and while looking around for items to write dropped into the Eagle Point hardware store, expecting to find Roy Ashpole and Thomas F. Nichols, the genial proprietors, but on looking around found neither of them but their wives instead and on inquiry learned that the two merchants had gone to Big Butte on a fishing excursion the night before, and left their wives to "keep store," but as Donnie (Mrs. Ashpole) is no novice in that line of business they managed the business all right, only they had a little trouble in finding the things they wanted, as the men are "so careless" about neglecting to put things where they belong. While there I met Benjamin Kingery and another man, a stranger. The truant husbands returned the next day, loaded down with little fish. I also met Lemon Charley and a nephew of his, Mr. James Beamsley, who is here from Washington with his brother, John, visiting Mr. Charley and other relatives. I also met Mr. Luy back on his way to Castle Rock, Washington. Owen Conover, Lester Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. O. Johnson and family were among the business callers.
    C. R. Hale and E. Adkins of Fort Klamath were among the business callers.
    W. G. Knighten, formerly of Eagle Point, but now living on Wagner Creek, Talent, passed through here on his way to Trail the last of the week to spend a few days among old friends.
    Eugene Bellows returned from a business trip to Roseburg Saturday.
    Earl Cingcade and Thomas Kepton spent Saturday night and Sunday here.
    Dr. and Mrs. Wood of Springdale, Washington were here last week, visiting our banker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell.
    Last Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell of Fort Klamath came in from Medford. They had come out from Fort Klamath the day before and went to Medford, making the drive in four hours. They report that the snow was about all gone and that parties had driven to the rim of the lake, but that there was considerable snow in that region yet.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Firett and family, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. Anna Davis of Medford, F. G. McPherson, wife and son, Fred, George Turnbow, Paul Robinson, W. C. Clements, our postmaster and family, Alex Betz, Eagle Point; Amos Ayres, wife and two sons, Medford; Percy Haley and wife, Lucius Kincaid and wife, H. S. Wiener of San Francisco, who had just returned from a visit to the world-renowned Josephine County caves. He said that it was a wonderful sight and that it took them four hours to explore it, but that it was worth the trouble and expense and C. H. Natwick, one of our big contractors, was also here Saturday night and Sunday for late dinner.
    There was a ball game here Sunday afternoon between the Medford and Eagle Point ball teams, resulting in a close game, the score being five to seven in favor of Eagle Point.
    Mrs. Frank Hill of Derby came out Monday and was canvassing our town selling a little contrivance, a vaporizer to save the waste of gasoline. She seemed to be meeting with some success.
    F. L. Terrell, who is living on the Bell ranch on the edge of the desert, on the old Eagle Point-Medford road, was in town Monday patronizing our blacksmith.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, one of our prosperous lady farmers, and Miss Grayce C. Teich, the county home demonstrator, were here for dinner Monday. Miss Teich had called a meeting of the ladies of our town and vicinity to give instructions on the economy in dress and general wearing apparel. She continued the meeting over Tuesday and reported having had a very pleasant gathering both days.
    Mr. C. A. Pickle, our meter reader, came in Monday for dinner, and so did Ed Dutton. In a former letter I spoke of him as Mr. C. H. Natwick's [right] hand man, or foreman, on the canal work, but about the time I wrote that there was a change and Ed went to work for George Holmes in the garage and to drive a truck.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 30, 1923, page 5


    Last Monday afternoon as I started out in search of something to write to interest the readers of the Mail Tribune, as I was on the way I noticed two cars standing in front of the school house and just then another car drove up and two men got out and went into the house, so I decided that I would go and see for myself what was going on and on reaching there found our janitor and the two men in the entrance, and on inquiring learned that the school board was holding a meeting, and in less time than it takes me to write it our newly elected director, F. J. McPherson, and Mrs. R. A. Weidman came down and passed on out going home and in a very few minutes our newly re-elected school clerk, James L. Linn, who had been reelected by a unanimous vote, came down and remarked that he had resigned; that he could not work with the two ladies, Mrs. R. G. Brown. who is serving her second term as school director, and Mrs. Grover, who is now the chairwoman of the board, so he simply resigned, and I have been told since the ladies urged him to remain and help along the good work, for Mr. Linn has made us the best clerk we have had here for years, and has managed to get the district out of debt and left it in fine shape.
    The two men referred to as coming up in the third car were I. H. Erdman with Connell Map Co., Portland, and Prof. George W. Milam of Medford, principal of the Applegate school. They had been called to meet the board to try to arrange to furnish maps for the school, but whether they succeeded or not I am unable to say.
    In my rounds the rest of the afternoon I met at the McPherson store R. H. Sears and family of Reese Creek, Mr. and Mrs. William Welch at the same place. They were on their way up to Butte Falls to visit Mr. Welch's mother, Mrs. Wm. Abbott. Mr. Welch is the head sawyer in the Chappell and Morgan mill near Trail.
    H. W. Ward, the man who has charge of what used to be the H. B. Tronson orchard, has been delivering a fine lot of wood to the people of our town. He went to work and pulled up most of the fruit trees and converted them into stovewood and is now hauling it into our town, charging three dollars a tier or nine dollars a cord. Mr. Ward has a large part of the land of the old orchard sowed to alfalfa.
    Mrs. M. E. Swenard of Talent and Mrs. W. L. Palmer of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning on their way up home. I met the same day Mrs. Huson, the wife of the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, and her daughter, Miss Huson, and in the run  of conversation inquired if she intended to turn her attention to teaching and she said no, she had not taken the teacher's course but the commercial course. She is a remarkably bright and promising girl and bids fair to make her mark in the world.
    Walter Charley of Climax came in on the stage Tuesday morning and reports that they are cutting a fine lot of lumber in their mill, and that they are using considerable of it fixing up for the new shale mining project; that the company are spending a vast amount of money making a road from Ashland to the shale beds, a road sixty feet in width, and in some places it is necessary to remove dirt and rock to a depth of thirty or forty feet, but they are doing the work with steam shovels and are getting along very rapidly.
    In conversation with Mrs. Huson the other day she asked me if I ever heard of two roosters taking care of a flock of young chickens and I remarked I never had and she then related the following incident: She said that she had a hen with thirty little chicks to care for and she soon became tired of the job and forsook them entirely and that when they were left without a provider two roosters took charge of them and would cluck to them and provide for them, and when they would need hovering one of them would act the part of the mother and hover them and that the little chicks would nestle up as close as they could to the roosters and that all parties seemed to enjoy the novelty of the situation. I told her that I had seen a wether sheep, when I was in the sheep business, take a lamb off and care for it the best he could until they would be most starved but had never heard of roosters actually caring for a brood of chicks before.
    Dave Rummel, who is living on Ben Brophy's ranch on Big Butte, came in last Wednesday with a horse to be shod by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, but before he got fairly started the horse commenced to kick and kicked him, he said, all over, on his right leg and hip, his left hip and shoulder, on the side of his head and skinned up his face and knocked him ten feet, landing him on a pile of wagon wheels, and the next day he was so sore that he could hardly walk, and now he has a sign in the shop, "Horse shoeing cash. No unruly horsed shod." And Mr. Rummel bought four horse shoes to take home with him to do his own shoeing.
    G. Kent of Wellen, Carl Bieberstedt, John Allen, wife and son Walter and two little boys, and Ernest McGee were among the business callers Tuesday. And the same day R. J. Wendell, a machinist in the employ of George Holmems, in his garage, Kay Loosley, a cattleman of Fort Klamath, Ed Dutton, another employee of George Holmes, Miss Grayce Teich, the county demonstrator and W. W. Singleton and K. N. Coffeen of the Standard Oil Co. were here for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 2, 1923, page 6


    E. McKee of Medford was out in our vicinity this week demonstrating the Star cars. We hope to see several "Stars" in our neighborhood soon.
    Lowell Ash returned home Friday from Fort Klamath where he has been working the past nine months. George Fisher and Gerald Mitchell accompanied him.
    Mrs. R R. Dawson and two children, Gwendolyn and Carl, were callers at the Ragsdale home Thursday.
    Little Betty Ash has been very sick the past week but is improving slowly now.
    Someone was kind enough to relieve Mr. Ash of his large hay fork Thursday evening; someone needed one very badly, we think.
    Fred Middlebusher is making quite a few improvements around their place this week.
    Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Ely of Nebraska are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Adamson and children a few weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. Howe and little Wanda are moving to Union Creek where Mr. Howe is working for the Forest Service.
    The farmers welcomed the clear weather here, as they were having trouble curing hay.
    Mr. Glass and Mr. Mayfield drove their cattle to the mountains above Prospect this week.   
    The trucks are all busy nowadays hauling to various stores and camps.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 2, 1923, page 6


    Among the business callers Wednesday were Wm. Pruett, Ed Gomez, J. W. Gilman, a life insurance man who succeeded in inducing our barber, Ernest Dahack, to take out an insurance policy for five thousand dollars, took him over to Central Point, had him examined by a physician who pronounced him physically a perfect man. Mr. Gilman's father, C. M. Gilman of Central Point, was also with him.
    R. D. Baker and wife of Butte Falls were also here. W. E. Beekin and C. W. Carn of Montana were here for supper and breakfast Wednesday night. They were with a band of cattle that Ed Hoyt of Fort Klamath had bought up for Fort Klamath parties. They were taking them over the Cat Hill route to that country.
    Mrs. Al. Roberts and her mother Mrs. Jack Montgomery were here visiting Mrs. Watkins and her daughter, Miss Anna, Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Montgomery had been over on Big Sticky visiting her daughter and had just brought her home.
    W. G. Knighten returned from his trip to Trail Wednesday visiting his niece and nephew, Ed Pence, and wife.
    Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Garrett, Frank Neil and Charley Manning were here on business Thursday and Mrs. Frank Hill and two strangers and Lloyd Moss, country club agent, was up to visit the different members of the clubs in these parts and were here for dinner.
    George W. Frey and his son Irvin and Mrs. Thomas Abbott and her sister, Miss Sherman Moore of Lake Creek, were business callers Thursday. The two last named I met at the McPherson store and Wm. Merritt of Reese Creek and H. W. Ward and Mrs. A. C. Huson were there trading and Miss Bessie Phillips of Trail was a passenger on the stage. She had been visiting relatives in Eugene.
    Friday morning Mrs. M. L. Pruett and her daughter Mrs. Thomas Stanley were trading with our merchants.
    I also met W. J. Jones of Butte Falls and Miss Agnes Stewart of Medford. They were among the passengers on their way up to Butte Falls and Benj. Whetstone was here having his mower repaired.
    I also met E. E. Reeves; he had just moved into the old Fred Findley house now belonging to Mrs. W. G. Pierce of Medford. Mr. Reeves is a deputy fire warden and has settled among us with his family.
    Mr. and Mrs. Russ Moore of Lake Creek stopped here to do a little trading on their way from Medford. Mrs. Joe Moomaw of this section was also visiting Medford the same day.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dixon and daughter Ruby of Los Angeles and R. S. Dixon of Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Leonard Woodruff of Fort Klamath, Charles Bailey of New York, Frank McCollock and C. Aldy of California were here for supper Saturday night and the three last named were with a bunch of cattle taking them across to Fort Klamath. They were all of them engaged in the cattle business.
    H. E. Campbell and wife, our bankers, for Mrs. Campbell is a regular attendant in the Eagle Point State Bank, made a trip down to California last Saturday, returning on Monday. Mr. Campbell is the superintendent of our Sunday school and Mrs. Campbell is the teacher of the Bible class and they were greatly missed although we had a very interesting Sunday school from all reports, for the teacher of the Bible class, Mrs. Carl Stanley, and the assistant superintendent each have such soft voices that I could understand but very little that was said, for I am quite hard of hearing. During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell from the bank it was left in charge of Mr. O. A. Moe of Minot, North Dakota, and they returned on Monday. Mr. Moe has been here for several days but I had not met him until last Monday when I met him in the bank.
    Mrs. Sam Coy, the wife of the mail contractor, and family came out last Saturday did some trading with our merchants.
    J. C. Butcher of San Jose, Calif., a brother of Mrs. F. W. Reid, formerly of this place but now of Grants Pass, and her son Hall were guests at the Sunnyside last Saturday. Mr. Butcher came up to Grants Pass to visit his sister and while there concluded to come down here to see our town and its surroundings.
    B. H. Butterfield and Charles T. Higgins of Mason Motor Co., Medford, were here for dinner last Sunday, and Roy Guyer and wife and twin daughters, E. L. Fulsom, and Thomas Kenton were also here for dinner Sunday.
    Our popular barber, Ernest Dahack, reports that he was kept busy last Sunday the most of the day, as in addition to the odd jobs in his shops there were five of the Medfordites came out to be shaved and have haircuts.
    Mr. Whaley, formerly a railroad man on the P.&.E. and a resident of Medford has moved into the James Jordan house vacated by S. E. Coghill and is going to work for C. H. Natwick on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls canal.
    E. Whitley of Trail came out from one of the logging camps on the P.&E. railroad near Butte Falls Monday on his way up to visit his parents on Elk Creek.
    Mrs. Verrell Bell of Klamath Falls was also a passenger on the same stage on her way home.
    John Minter and J. Wattenberg were transacting business here Monday.   
    Marion Jacks, a half brother of the late Wilbur Jacks, of Portland, Indiana came in Monday noon for dinner. He was here to see Mrs. Jacks and her three children, but she had gone to Medford that day so he saw but one, her oldest boy.
    Charley Humphrey and son Robert were here for dinner Monday. He is engaged with his truck hauling wood to our town and doing any odd job he can find to keep him busy, bringing out a load of wood from Derby, generally making two trips to Medford or Jacksonville and back home each day. He has just finished moving Anthony McCabe's things from Jacksonville to his farm on Reese Creek.
    J. D. Patrick and John Miller are at work building a warehouse for F. J. McPherson.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 6, 1923, page 7


    Last Monday afternoon when the stage arrived from Butte Falls it was well loaded with passengers and among them was Mr. Willfoung, who has a homestead about eight miles northeast of Butte Falls, Miss Rose V. Wood, another homesteader and Miss Edna Henschel of San Diego, Calif., who has come up to spend the summer with Miss Wood, beside three other persons, men whose names I failed to secure. The two ladies were on their way to Ashland to take part in the celebration the 3rd and 4th, and they returned on Thursday the 5th and expressed themselves well pleased with their experience in having a good time in one of our Southern Oregon cities.
    While I was in town that afternoon I also met Mr. and Mrs. Louis Robinson and his father, Mrs. Jeff Conover and her daughter Miss Stella Conover, Miss Alice Hannaford, Owen Conover, Charles Mathews and Clarence Rose of Yankee Creek, all in the McPherson store getting ready to join in celebrating the great national birthday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Woodruff and his mother, Mrs. E. M. Woodruff of Fort Klamath, were here for dinner Monday evening. He had been out looking after a band of cattle that Ed Hoyt of Fort Klamath had been buying up for him in this neighborhood and were taking over to Klamath County.
    There were two youths here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Weidman, nephews of Prof. Engelhardt, from the famous Ruhr district where the French are gathering the German marks by the million, and they made Mr. Weidman a present of a pipe that cost eight thousand marks, equivalent to twenty-four cents in our money.
    There were quite a number of our citizens went from here out to Klamath Falls to enjoy the sport during the celebration. Among them were Wm. Perry and wife, George Thomas, William and Jerry Lewis, Jed Edsall, the hostess of the Sunnyside Hotel and her daughter Hattie, Roy Ashpole and wife, Gus Nichols and wife, and Thomas Nichols and wife, Truman McClelland, George Wehman and Loris Martin beside a large number of people went from Butte Falls, but there were also quite a number of our people acted sensible and stayed at home and enjoyed the lovely day here and had a feast of good things here.
    There were also a number went from here to Ashland, but there were also hundreds went to the different resorts. I met Thos. Merriman and his wife of Medford; they had just returned from [Rogue] Elk Resort and reported that there was a large crowd there, and the mail carrier on the route between here and Lake Creek, Mr. Culbertson, reported that he passed forty-two cars coming down from his home on their way to the Dead Indian Soda Springs and other places along our Little Butte Creek, and late in the afternoon there was a car of people drove up to the Sunnyside to inquire where to go and catch some fish. They were Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Reynolds, M. B. Bunnell, Mrs. May D. Usauer, and another car of the same company that stopped while these were hunting a place to fish; [they] were Will Bingham, Ed Bingham, Mrs. Lucy Bingham and Mrs. Lily Wright. They had been up as far as Lawe Creek and there took the wrong road and went up past the Marsh Garrett and George Nichols farms but found steep hills but no fish. But everybody had a good time, including your Eagle Point correspondent, who remained at home to gather Eaglets.
    Mrs. T. T. Taylor went up to Trail Tuesday to spend the Fourth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adamson.
    Lewis Blaess and wife were here Tuesday trading with our merchants.
    W. E. Hammel and one of his nephews, one of John Caster's boys, were here Tuesday on business and Mr. Hammel reports that he has a fine fruit crop this season and that he intends to can his own pear crop again this year, as he can realize more money out of it that way than he can by selling them to the canneries or the shippers. There is one great advantage in canning his own pears, as he can let them hang on the trees until they are fully ripe and have their full growth, whereas if they are picked for shipping they are picked too green and consequently lose a great deal of the rich flavor that they have by letting them remain on the tree until they are fully ripe.
    R. H. Field and wife, M. D. Hendrickson, Vern Field [and] O. D. Hendrickson were here Tuesday for dinner; so was Loren Farlow and his brother-in-law, Thomas Nichols, and wife.
    M. S. Chappell, our old shoe cobbler, who is now interested with one of the Morgans in a sawmill near Trail, came out the first of the week and spent his time mending shoes that had been left with Frank Lewis, a nearby merchant, for repairs.
    J. M. Wilfley, proprietor of one of the fine orchards in this section. and J. L. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, were in town and both report the prospect good for a big crop of pears and apples.
    Chris Natwick, one of the contractors on a unit of the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal from Big Butte, has been here a few days at the Sunnyside the past week and reports that he is getting along very well with his work on the canal.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Natwick were here for supper Tuesday night.
    Mrs. Fay Robinett, one of the extra telephone ladies (I can't say girls, for they are all married ladies), took dinner at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    J. D. Backbee and wife from Taft, Calif., were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Crater Lake and while here expressed his admiration of our lovely country and in talking about it remarked that for miles around Taft the most of the country was simply a desert waste.
    W. F. Kinney, a salesman of Portland for Sellers & Co., was also here for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff and family of Fort Klamath stopped here for dinner on their way out to Fort Klamath Thursday. And so did Alex Betts, George Turnbow, one of the foremen on the P.&E. railroad.
    And Charles Pennington, who has a homestead in the Willow Creek country, was also here on his way home.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 9, 1923, page 3


    A recent test held near Medford served to more definitely locate a radio pocket located northeast of this city.
    The test, conducted on the night of June 30th of this year, made possible some interesting data relative to the size of the pocket, but brought to light nothing which would indicate the cause of the phenomenon.
    The Prospect Hotel, located about 40 miles northeast of Medford, has never been able to hear K.F.A.Y., located at Medford, although no difficulty has been experienced in bringing in other stations to the north or south.
    Inasmuch as K.F.A.Y. is heard in Montana with good volume, and in a direct line with Prospect, a test was decided upon to obtain a survey of the size of the pocket.
    To this end a receiving set was installed between Medford and Prospect, 2 miles from the latter place, and another set was installed eight miles from Prospect in the same direction, while beyond Prospect, 12 miles at Union Creek, still another set was placed. A fourth set was installed on the rim of Crater Lake, about 40 miles beyond Prospect.
    Using fifty watts, K.F.A.Y. started at 9 p.m., and signed off at 11:30 transmitting on a wavelength of 350 meters, broadcasting a concert by Alford's Imperial Orchestra.
    Signals at Crater Lake were rather dim until 10 o'clock, when they increased in volume until the operator had to back off. A station one mile from the rim reported similar results and back at Union Creek, the entire program came in well.
    At Prospect, however, the signals were very slight, as was the case at the power house of the California-Oregon power house station, two miles nearer Medford.
    At the station located eight miles from Prospect in the direction of Medford, the whole program came in excellently.
    Loudspeakers were used at all the stations with the exception of Prospect and the power house.
    The affected district is mountainous and is traversed by the canyon of the wild Rogue River, which parallels the line of transmission.
    In running lines through this section, surveyors have frequently had to resort to other instruments than the compass for direction, as frequently a deflection of the magnetic needle is noted.
    At one time, when broadcasting 390 meters, K.F.A.Y. came in at Prospect satisfactorily, which in fact only serves to deepen the mystery.
    Virgin's Radio Service, which operates K.F.A.Y., plans on making additional tests to the future, in an effort to solve this mystery of the Southern Oregon mountains, where for no apparent reason the magic waves seem to be absorbed or rendered useless by some natural force, the nature of which baffles investigators.   
Medford Mail Tribune, July 9, 1923, page 6


    Rollie Matthews of Eagle Point paid a fine of $250 and was given a suspended sentence of 30 days in jail when he appeared before Justice Glenn O. Taylor this morning on a charge of possessing intoxicating liquor. Matthews was arraigned on June 30th and entered a plea of not guilty, but changed his plea to guilty this morning.
    The arrest was made near Eagle Point the night of June 29th by Sheriff C. E. Terrill and Deputy George Alden.They are said to have caught the defendant with a quantity of intoxicating liquor.
    As there appeared no evidence of sale of any of the intoxicant in the account that the officers rendered to the court of the incident, a recommendation was made by the district attorney that a fine not to exceed $250 be assessed.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1923, page 2


    A fire which caused a $3000 or more loss, and which destroyed the Dahack garage and the Dahack barber shop and a pool hall operated by Clarence Pruett at Eagle Point, occurred Sunday night from an unknown cause.
    The garage building was owned by the Dahacks, and the building which housed the pool hall and barber shop was owned by Roy Ashpole of Eagle Point, who this morning estimated the total loss in the neighborhood of $3000.
    The Ashpole building was insured, and it is understood that the Dahack building and the pool room and barber shop equipment were also insured.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1923, page 8


    A Chevrolet touring car driven by H. D. Veive of Oakland, Calif., went over the embankment on the Crater Lake Highway about two miles this side of Rogue Elk yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The car rolled down the rocky slide for a distance of about 30 feet before coming to rest. It was badly smashed, but the occupants, a man and a woman, were uninjured.
    It is considered miraculous that the occupants escaped injury, as the slide down which the car fell was covered with large rocks which had been blasted from the cut necessary for the construction of the road at this point. The accident is attributed to the breakage or improper functioning of some part of the steering apparatus.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1923, page 5


   In my last letter I wrote for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune I spoke of our banker, H. E. Campbell, and wife making a trip down into California combining business with pleasure and since then have met Mr. Campbell and learned that he and his wife went over as far as Dunsmuir to meet Dr. C. S. Hood, wife and daughter of Springdale, Wash., and brought them back, for they had been here already visiting the Campbells, and then they all five made the trip out to Crater Lake and back on Wednesday, July 4th and report having a very pleasant visit together and all had a fine view of the eighth wonder of the world, Crater Lake, and its surroundings, for its surroundings are equally a great sight as the lake itself.
    A. J. Free of Butte Falls and Miss Doan of Trail were passengers on the Butte Falls stage, but Miss Doan went up to Trail on the Prospect stage. Since the change was made and the route changed to have the Prospect mail go by Trail I see that the Persist mail carrier has about all that he can can do to accommodate the travel and take the mail, often having to take his trailer behind his car, but Mr. Kincaid is fully competent for the task.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatcheries in this section, was in town last Friday and reports that the season has not been very good for gathering fish eggs as the weather has been too cold for that business.
    John W. Smith, who owns an orchard just west of town, was also here Friday and reports that his fruit crop is fine, fully up to date; in fact I heard Fred Pettegrew talking to a fruit man who was here for dinner and he said the pears and apples were much larger and nicer now than he had ever seen them at this time of the year. Lyle Carlton of Wellen was also here Friday interviewing our garage man, George Holmes, and in speaking of Mr. Holmes brings to mind the item that he went up to where the Hayes brothers had their sawmill on Indian Creek, about four miles this side of Trail, and bought what lumber they had left in the yard, about fifty thousand feet, and now has two of his trucks hauling it out here and is sorting it out, and what is poor stuff [he] will use for firewood and the rest he will put on the market and there is but very little but can be used by the farmers to advantage.
    Charley Givan, who with his father, Geo. Givan, is operating one of the best farms on Rogue River, was in town Friday on business and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did J. E. Hovey of Ashland and J. P. Knudsen of Medford and D. R. Patrick. Mr. Patrick is the same man I have been speaking of as working around here, but I was mistaken with regard to his initials and have been putting them as J. R. Patrick. He has been working at odd jobs around here and boarding at the Sunnyside, but now has gone up to the Wm. von der Hellen camp near Butte Falls to put a siphon in the Eagle Point company's canal.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Cordano are here visiting Mrs. Cordano's sister, Mrs. Ernest Dahack, the wife of our barber.
    H. L. Moore of Butte Falls was among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Saturday morning. There were five others on the stage, but all strangers.
    C. O. Thomas, the insurance man, was out here Saturday talking insurance to the people and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    W. Hart Hamilton, who owns a fine farm just north of town, came in Saturday to look after his interests here, to remain for some weeks.
    I see that the school board have posted notices calling for a special election to rescind the resolution adopted at the regular annual election to annul the resolution adopted some years ago authorizing the school board to let the contract for carrying the high school pupils to Medford. The motion to rescind the resolution authorizing the hauling of the children, etc., was carried by a unanimous vote of the largest number of voters we have had out for years, and now for them to vote to rescind that motion so soon seems very strange. The county superintendent decided that the move was illegal, and I see that Mrs. L. K. Haak has signed the call for the special election as the clerk, she having been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James L. Linn at the last annual election and I understand that if Mrs. L. K. Haak is a candidate for the clerk's office that Mr. Linn will be a candidate for the office again, so we may expect some hot times in our usually quiet little town between now and the day set for election, July 23, 1923. I will say this much that Mr. Linn has made us the best clerk we have had for years and lifted us out of debt but felt that he must resign because he could not agree with the school board, two ladies, Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. P. Groves. The voters will also be requested to elect another director and vote on the question of high school or a union high school. Our school affairs have been managed by two or three of the voters who took interest in the subject to attend the meetings while the rest have remained at home and growled because things didn't go to suit them, so if you want things to go to your notion turn out and attend the meeting. Remember the date, July 23rd, that will be two weeks from last Monday.
    Everett Williams, a member of the chamber of commerce of Portland, and W. N. Kensel of Medford were here for dinner Sunday, and so were Mr. and Mrs. H. Hess of West Liberty, Iowa. Mr. Hess lived here at the time that Eagle Point was beginning to take its place among the towns of Jackson County and was employed as a carpenter in building several of the homes that were built at that time. He left here as a bachelor but returned with a fine-looking lady as his wife. He has been spending the winter in Southern California, where he was married. He has a number of warm friends here, as he was a prominent and very active member of the I.O.O.F. lodge here.
    Jack Tyrrell and wife of Perrydale and Frank Hayes and Earl Bowers and A. C. Mittelstaedt, Horace Nicholson and H. C. Mackey, two of the oldtimers of Medford, were also here for dinner. Mr. Mackey was among the first settlers of Medford, and if I am not mistaken the first photographer of Medford, where he has followed the business up to about a month ago when he turned his attention to the insurance business. [The Mackey brothers were not the first photographers in Medford.] Mr. Wm. Mudge and J. D. Bell of the Nash Hotel were also here for dinner and Mr. Mudge gave an interesting account of their visit to the renowned caves out about twenty miles from Grants Pass. W. H. Isbell and Pete Betts, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Vilas and his mother, Mrs. J. S. Vilas, were also here for dinner the same day. I see that my letter is now too long so will reserve the ball game and account of disastrous fire we had Sunday night until my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 13, 1923, page 7


    When I stopped writing last Wednesday I was just ready to give an account of the ball game that was played here Sunday afternoon between the Eagle Point and Leland teams. It was a beautiful day and there was quite a crowd of the friends of both parties. As reported to me the score stood twelve to fourteen, in favor of Eagle Point. Both sides done some fine playing and everything passed off very pleasantly.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pierce, who are living on a farm on Griffin Creek, called Sunday evening for supper, and so did Frank Mayfield, the timekeeper for the Eagle Point Irrigation Co. Axel Betts, another one of our promising young men, was also here for summer.
    About the first thing I heard Monday morning was the alarm of fire, and the rushing around of the four women who were trying to wake Clarence Pruett, one of the proprietors of the Eagle Point Pool Hall, as the fire had started in the Dahack garage and it was on the adjoining lot to the pool hall, but before he was awake and dressed the fire had reached the hall, but the people living on that side of the creek and a few on this side had already reached the scene and were trying to save what they could. Earnest Dahack's barbershop was in a room in the same building as the pool hall and they managed to save his bath tub and about all of his tools and fixtures, but he lost his large mirror, hot water tank, a valuable rug he had in his bath room, beside several small articles, but he is undaunted and has moved into his old stand and opened up business again. The building in which the barbershop and the pool hall was in belonged to Roy Ashpole and it was insured for five hundred dollars and the stock of goods, tables, chairs, etc., was insured for two thousand dollars. And it is hard to tell how much insurance there was on the Dahack property as they are very reticent on the subject and rumor has it that it was insured for twelve hundred to two thousand dollars, but a very close friend of the Dahacks is said to have told that the house was insured for three hundred and the contents nine hundred dollars. There is a great deal of sympathy manifested for Clarence Pruett, for he is a quiet young man and was just starting into business and was building up a fine trade and making a lot of friends, and it is hoped that he will rebuild and open up again for we, as a community, are loath to give up such promising young men as Mr. Pruett seems to be.
    C. R. Boyd of the Rogue River Fruit Distributors was here for dinner Monday on his way up into Washington looking after the interest of the company, and J. P. Kundron of Medford was here with him for dinner.
    John Blaess and wife of Trail were here Monday for dinner and so was John Moore of Brownsboro and James Jackson of Brownsboro.
    Geo. Anderson and Geo. Maddox of Medford and George Cotterall of Trail were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Arnold and son Valard were here from Hood River on their way to Crater Lake.
    J. L. Hovey, wife and her son and wife, Orth White of Murphy, Oregon, were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Hovey is the foreman of the Alta Vista orchard and reports that the fruit crop is excellent, although the hail storm they had in May damaged the apples considerable, denting so as to render them unfit for the general market.
    Miss Mary Carter of Medford was here the same day on her way to Crater Lake.
    Amanda Stoneman and Theresa Stoneman of Murphy, Ore., and W. Wagner of Trail were also here the same day for dinner.
    Chester E. Barr, a traveling salesman for Dennis, Fuldman and Pope, New York, was here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. Frank Mayfield, wife of the timekeeper for the Eagle Point Irrigation Canal Company, and little son came in from Los Angeles Tuesday and took room and board at the Sunnyside.
    I also met Mr. E. C. Faber of Central Point. He also has a store in Butte Falls. He sold out his interest in a store in Central Point some time ago, but told me the day I saw him that he had bought it back again. He did not say why the other party had sold out, but supposed because he thought he could do better at something else for it is not always that a man can make a success in the mercantile business, but Mr. Faber seems to be adapted to that branch of business.
    Mrs. J. Jael and Mr. Benjamin Miller of Medford were here for supper Tuesday evening. Mrs. Jael was working in a contest for subscribers for the Clarion and seemed to be doing a lively business, and was greatly in hopes of gaining a prize.
    Walter Dixon of Los Angeles and Roy Stanley and family were here for supper. They had just come in from Fort Klamath, where he expects to live in the near future.
    Frank Silver and wife and two boys came in from Prospect, where he has been working for Wm. von der Hellen on one of his contracts, on their way home in Talent.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. McKee of Klamath Falls came in for breakfast Wednesday morning on their way from Crater Lake.
    John Hickson, the foreman on the A. G. Bishop orchard, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Miss Sidley of Lake Creek was here earlier Wednesday patronizing our popular merchant, Fred McPherson, and Lyle Carter and Mrs. H. C. Huson were among the business visitors the same day.
    Rose Donlin of Los Angeles and Mrs. Alex Anderson and family and Miss Virginia Anderson and Miss Viola McAllister and Mr. James D. Jackson of Brownsboro were here for dinner Wednesday. The two last named were on their way to Jacksonville to get their marriage license but were detained on account of trouble with Mr. Anderson's auto so had to wait until late in the afternoon when they started, but only went a mile or two when the auto gave out. They had to come back and spend the night at the Sunnyside and Mr. Anderson hired a man to take them up home and Mr. Jackson and prospective bride were to take the 7:15 stage for Medford when I left at six a.m. Mr. Jackson and bride planned to go direct from Jacksonville to the northern part of Washington where they expect to live in a three-wheeled motorcycle.
    W. P. Grey of Eugene, of B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., and R. G. Peterman, the man who supplies this community with fresh meat, Mallard Robinson and W. F. Wood, Fred Frey and family, J. H. Beck and M. H. Jackson were here for supper and the last two spent the night.
    I have written the most of this letter in Portland, where I am at present and will, in my next, have something to tell of what I saw on the way from Medford to this place.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 16, 1923, page 3


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune I was giving an account of what happened in and around Eagle Point, but now I am in the great city of Portland surrounded by strangers, strange things and strange sights. But before I try to tell of my present surroundings I am going to tell of some of the things I saw on my trip up here.
    I left my home Thursday morning at 6:30 for Medford and at 7:05 was on the train headed for Portland, and soon my mind was taken up with the new sights along the route, for the reader will bear in mind that I have not been over the route before for five years and during that time there have been a great many changes taken place, farms have changed hands and been divided up into smaller ones, new buildings built, orchards been changed, where there were apple trees they have been pulled up and grain and alfalfa, or pear trees put in their place, new homes have been built and in many instances the places have changed so that there is nothing left of the old to refresh the memory. To be sure, looking from a car window is a very poor way to gather items of interest to write for a newspaper, but still I will try to mention some of the things that attracted my attention. I had scarcely got started before I noticed a very material improvement in the accommodations on the cars, for the last time I went north the best we had in the way of seats were straight-backed seats, but now we had reclining chairs that were very comfortable, but I was going to mention the remarkable change had taken place in Central Point and its surroundings, for I noticed quite a number of changes for the better, new buildings having gone up and the old ones had been repainted and the town presented the appearance of neatness and prosperity and the farms as a rule showed signs of prosperity. Passing on through the farms I was surprised to see the wonderful crops of hay and grain and as near as I could judge, looking through a car window, for they are not calculated to give a person a good view of things as we pass, but from the appearance of the trees, the prospect is quite good for a big crop of fruit.
    When we came to Tolo I could hardly realize that it really was the same place, for everything looked so bright and cheerful and it seemed to me that there had been several new houses put up since I was there.
    The next place to attract attention was Gold Hill, and I noticed a very decided improvement in that thriving little city, and the fine cement plant they have there is surely not only a credit to the town but also a monument that will attract the attention of the tourists as well as the ordinary traveler to one, at least of the wonderful resources of Jackson County, for such a plant as that, that assures a business that will require the services of hundreds of able-bodied men for generations to come, is bound to be an attractive feature and a source of wealth to the entire county.
    Passing on through a lot of fine farms and orchards, the next place to stop was Rogue River, formerly known as Woodville, and the old and familiar name by which it was known to the traveler and to all of the old pioneers of the county, and if the promoters of the change of the name had just thoughtt of the confusion the change was going to make they might possibly have hesitated a little before they finally made the change. Well, I could not notice any very material changes in the little town, but one thing about it is that attracts attention and that is its neatness and the beautiful surroundings. Passing on the next place of importance was Grants Pass, although we went through some fine farming and mining country, and when we came to Grants Pass although it is the county seat of Josephine County and a very pretty and flourishing city one sees but very little of it from a car window as it is situated on an almost level tract of land, and I could see but little else than a few of the principal business houses and a few of the manufacturing establishments and a few new buildings going up. Here we leave the beautiful Rogue River Valley, one of the lovely spots on the Pacific Coast, and enter more of a mountainous region that is rich with various kinds of minerals, principally gold, silver and copper, and the hills are covered with as fine a body of timber as can be found anywhere in the Northwest, and these are interspersed with sawmills where the timber is worked up into lumber of all kinds and it is shipped to all the surrounding country and I understand that large quantities of it are being shipped to Japan and other foreign countries.
    Among the noted places along the route is Glendale, where the sawmill industry gives employment to hundreds of men and women, for while it requires strong, able-bodied men to do the work of falling the trees and getting them into shape so as to be handled and shipped, it also requires the assistance of the weaker sex to attend to the culinary and laundry departments. While Glendale is principally a milling center situated on the headwaters of Cow Creek, one of the beautiful mountains streams that intersperse our mountains in Southern Oregon, it is just outside of one of the fine valleys that Southern Oregon is noted for, and here in an early day in 1861 your correspondent experienced one of his first genuine Oregon showers, for when passing from California to Eugene City, it was called then, I passed through this valley in one of the hardest rainstorms I have ever experienced in my life and after passing through the valley I began to go over what was then called the Canyon road and after going a short distance, two or three miles, began to descend the hill. The route has been materially changed since then, for instead of going down a long and very steep sticky hill the new road runs along the side of the mountains, but then the road went right down the hill, and as I was riding along with no company but my saddle horse, "Old Charley," I was singing as loud as I could, for it was raining like guns and I supposed I was alone. I looked down the hill a short distance and there were three wagons with a lot of men, women and children tugging away trying to pull the wagons up that steep muddy rock hill in that storm, and I just wondered how in the world they ever got through. I didn't know as much then about how to overcome such difficulties as I did after I had teamed in the mountains of Jackson County, but I stopped and expressed my sympathy for them in their apparent distress, but one of the men remarked that little hill didn't amount to anything, that they would make it all right, so I passed on headed for the Uncle Jemmie Clark's just outside of Canyonville, so pressing on crossing Canyon Creek until the thought occurred to me to count the number of times I had to cross the creek and when I got through I found that I had crossed it just 28 times, in fact a great part of the time I was in the bed of the creek for several rods, but finally reached my destination where I met Uncle Jemmie and Aunt Rachel, for they were known far and near by those names, where I spent the night, and was made to feel at home for they were true Southerners and I at that time was a circuit rider on my way to Eugene to take charge of a large circuit for the M.E. Church, South.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 20, 1923, page 7


    When I closed my last letter for the Medford Mail Tribune, I had switched off of the track and led the reader through one of the beautiful little valleys of Southern Oregon and down in what at the time I was writing about, one of the worst canyons to be found in the country, but since Mr. Gaston, then of Roseburg, secured a charter to make a toll road over the route, it became a very passable road and he was allowed by the state authorities to charge a dollar a horse, hitched to a vehicle or under the saddle, it became a very passable thoroughfare and now has become one of the beauty spots along the Pacific Highway.
    Retracing my steps in imagination I will take another start on the S.P. railroad toward Portland, leaving Glendale with its wonderful lumber resources, its milling interests and its lovely scenery, we soon were rushing down one of Southern Oregon's beautiful mountain streams that fill the mind of a tourist or ordinary traveler with rapture, while he looks at the immense forests and precipitous mountainsides, lofty peaks and the gigantic undertaking of the promoters of the railroad through such a mountain pass as that was, for when we review the difficulties and obstacles that confronted them, it shows the kind of men we had at that time, for after the railroad company had spent thousands of dollars in building the road, it was covered with slides off the mountainsides and canyon was filled with debris to such an extent that travel was entirely stopped and it became necessary to build another track and for years after one could see sections of the old track that had been abandoned. It was supposed that the heavy blasting that was necessary in order to clear the right of way had loosened the earth and rocks so that when the heavy rains came in the winter and softened the ground, [it] caused in many instances the whole mountainside to slip off and filled the canyon so that at one time there was a large lake formed right where the cars had been running, but now is one of the attractive features of the route and the route is interspersed with little villages and towns and cities where the various industries are carried on. Among the important places we passed was the town of Riddle, named after the man by that name, who in an early day in the history of Medford [was] the proprietor of the Nash Hotel. It is situated in a beautiful valley that is noted for its fertile soil, fine orchards and beautiful homes.
    The next place of interest where we stopped was Myrtle Creek, one of the oldest towns in Douglas County, for it was a post office town sixty-two years ago when I first came to Oregon and is yet a thriving business place, surrounded by a lot of well-to-do farmers and stockmen. But I see that I am spending more time and taking up more space, perhaps than will prove prudent, over the beauty spots that some of them at least so attracted my attention when I used to travel through the places in my younger days, so will pass on, but before we pass it, will call attention to another lovely place, Round Prairie, the home of one of the early settlers of Oregon, James Burnett, a brother of the late Mrs. Mike Hanley, pioneers of Jackson County, one of the mothers of those who needed help and would try to help themselves.
    Passing on, we passed several places of interest, especially to some of us old-timers, who had been through these places over sixty years ago and noted the remarkable changes that have take place during that time, for at that time a man's farm would consist of three hundred and twenty acres to six hundred and forty acres of land, but now these large tracts of land are divided up into smaller tracts and where one man would monopolize a whole section, there will be a half dozen families and perhaps a school house or perhaps a thriving village, and where we used to wallow through the deep sticky mud, now can travel in automobiles or on the railroad cars. Surely times have changed very materially, but passing on to the next place of note we come to the city of Roseburg, that when I first visited was a small town, with perhaps a hotel, blacksmith shop, two stores and two or three saloons and feed stables, and the streets but little better than they were when the timber and stumps were cleared away. I remember a few years after my first visit to that now noted city as I was moving out to Jackson County in the winter of 1864 and 65, after I was married. We stopped at a little town of Wilbur overnight and starting early in the morning, and it was a cold morning and the mud was frozen quite hard, we were trudging along with a light hack, wallowing through the black sticky mud climbing the hill out of Roseburg, the horses going to their knees every step. My wife was walking and the overland stage from Sacramento, Calif., to Portland came up with us with four large horses and a large one-seated cart and he stopped to let his horses rest and remarked, "You find some mud around here, don't you," and I responded "Yes," and just then I gave him a sign of a secret political order that I belonged to, known to the outside world as the Jones Boys, an organization of Southern sympathizers that were then organized all over the coast and he responded. I then asked where we could stop and be among friends and he kindly gave me the names of quite a number along the route that proved a great help to us all the way through and then he turned and addressed my wife and invited her to take a seat on his cart as he thought he had a team that would take her through, for he said "You have a streak of four miles of this mud before you," so I told her to go with him as far as Green's station and just after he started he turned off the main road at a gate and just then my wife signaled me to hurry up, so I did so the best I could and when I caught up with him he told me to keep up with him, as he had to go through three gates and was not allowed to let anyone go through, but if I would keep up he would take me through and by that means I would miss the four miles of sticky mud, and by the time we reached the third gate, he suggested to my wife to take her on to Uncle Jim Clark's, as we had some more bad road to drive over, so I sanctioned the move and she went on with him and I reached there a short time after, so much help by being a member of the Jones Boys, but this is a digression.
    Portland, Ore., July 21, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1923, page 3


    Mr. P. E. Sandoz motored to Medford last Thursday, taking Mr. George Hall and his mother with him. Mr. Hall's mother had been visiting him for more than a week, and was on her way to visit another son in Eugene and from there she would go to visit another son in Montana and still another son in Wyoming before returning to her home in Kansas.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis were in Medford Saturday on business.
    Mrs. D. A. Whitley is recovering very slowly from a stroke of paralysis.
    The farmers of Elk Creek are cutting their grain hay and the second cutting of alfalfa.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 26, 1923, page 5


    When I closed my last letter I was giving an account of what happened years ago during my ministry in the Sixties. Leaving Roseburg we rolled along, passing by several small towns and some fine farms and among them was the town of Sullivan, named after one of the early settlers of Douglas County, and what impressed the name on my mind so forcibly was the fact that along in the early seventies I was in the section of the country to purchase a small band of sheep and on inquiry learned that a man by that name had sheep for sale and on my arrival in the neighborhood inquired for the Sullivan ranch and when I reached the place found Mr. Sullivan, a young man, was butchering his sheep and feeding them to his hogs for the Portland market, and on inquiry learned that his sheep were diseased with the leech, a disease that was caused by their drinking impure water, and in order to save them he was slaughtering them, cooking them by a steam process and feeding them to his hogs, thus by that means putting them in fine condition for the Portland market, after he had fed them a short time on grain to harden the flesh, and by that process was realizing a good price for his sheep. The cooking by a steam process destroyed any germs that might have been in the meat, thus making it as healthy as any hog meat.
    After spending an hour or so very pleasantly with Mr. Sullivan and watching his process of feeding hogs and preparing them for market, he directed me to a man in Looking Glass Prairie who had sheep to sell. I started on my way where I found what I wanted, a bunch of yearling ewes at $1.25 per head. So after counting them out and paying for them I started for home but there were two things that I had not taken into account, one was the difficulty of one man driving a band of sheep alone, although I had a good shepherd dog, and I had left my son, who came from home with me, with an acquaintance while I was looking for someone who had sheep to sell, although there were hundreds of them in that country at that time, but they were not on the market, so I was left to handle them alone; and another thing I had not taken into account was that the sheep had been raised in a pasture and had never been handled except during lambing and shearing seasons, and consequently were almost as wild as deer that roamed the pasture with them, and the result was as soon as I started to drive them they started to run and it kept me going some to keep up with them, but by night they began to get pretty tired and I stopped at a farm, for I was in a strange country, and secured a place to put my band of sheep and spend the night. The next morning I started for the ferry to cross the Umpqua River and when I got there found the ferry boat pulled out on the bank of the river and no ferryman in sight, so I was doomed to ford the stream, and if any of the readers of this letter ever had any experience in driving sheep into a stream they can imagine what a time I had and finally a man came along on horseback and volunteered to help me across, so taking my halter rope he caught one of the sheep that had horns, hitched it to the horn of his saddle and started on into the water and I with my dog rushed the others in after him, but just before we reached the opposite bank we came to where the water was deep enough to cause the sheep to swim and then they bunched on us swinging in a circle and my dog would rush in and catch them by the wool and drag one at a time out toward the shore until we finally succeeded in crossing the whole band, so after offering to pay the man for his services, which he declined to accept, all I had to do was to keep up with them and that night I reached Mr. Craine's, where I had left my son, and from there on had but little trouble except to keep up with them.
    The next place that particularly attracted my attention, Yoncalla Valley, the most beautiful valley, to my notion, outside of the Rogue River Valley on the entire route between Ashland and Portland, and as I stood in the vestibule on the cars looking out of the windows, for I spent a good part of my time while riding on the cars in the daytime standing looking at the various attractions all along the route, and thus spent the time pleasantly but also profitably, for in thus whiling away the weary hours I am gathering material to write for the thousands of readers of the Mail Tribune and gratifying my desire to see the beauties of nature, but I was going to tell something of what I saw while gazing through the window. Yoncalla Valley is not a little cooped-up tract of land but is comprised of fertile fields, orchards and gardens, and judging from the shocks of grain and hay that were standing in the fields and were being cut at the time I was passing through there, one would naturally decide that the soil was up to date in productiveness, and the fine houses, barns and other outbuildings would lead one to believe that the citizens of the valley were as a rule well to do financially. And still tourists who were traveling over the country to see it, and there were quite a number of them on the train, would sit there in their seats and doze and snooze with a glance once in a while out of the little low window that afforded them only a glance, and after they have gone hundreds of miles have not even seen a tithe of the country they have passed through. I met one of those tourists on my way up here, he and his wife and two grown daughters, from Indiana, were traveling to see the country and they would sit still for hours together and in the run of conversation I asked where they had spent the night, supposing that they had stopped off at Ashland and to my astonishment he replied, on their seats. O, said I, you ought to have stopped off at Medford and gone out to see Crater Lake, the eighth wonder of the world, and he studied a moment and repeated Crater Lake, why I never heard of that lake, where is it. He seemed to think that when he saw Portland he had seen Oregon, and they were going to Seattle and see Washington and then start back for their home. And when they would get home they would tell all that they had seen on their trip in a very few minutes. About all they could tell was that they had seen California, Oregon and Washington from the car windows.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 27, 1923, page 7


    I understand, through a friend I have in Eagle Point, that the special school election that was called to be held July 23 was well attended, in fact it appears from the list of voters reported that there was one hundred and one votes cast and that there was quite a contest to see who should be elected a clerk. As reported to me James Linn and Mrs. A. C. Mittelsteadt were the contestants and the vote stood for Mr. Linn 55 and Mrs. Mittelsteadt 46. And now the question comes up in my mind how will the matter be settled as Mr. Linn resigned the position as clerk of the school district because he differed so from the views of the two ladies who constituted the board of directors that he felt compelled to resign and was now reelected by such a vote of 55 to 46. Would that not indicate that the voters endorsed the stand that Mr. Linn took and will not the two ladies feel that that would mean an invitation for them to resign their position as directors.
    And when it came to the vote as to who should be the director, F. J. McPherson, who resigned or rather refused to qualify as a director because he felt that he could not work on the board with the two ladies and he being elected by a majority of 25 against the school board's candidate, Mrs. L. K. Haak, who only received about one-fourth of the votes although so far as my personal feelings are concerned I look upon Mrs. R. G. Brown as a fine business woman and one who has served the people of the district faithfully, as I know of more than one instance where she has gone to the trouble and expense of going to the office of the county school superintendent out to get information as to what course was best to pursue in order to best serve the interests of our school and the entire district, and as to the other director, Mrs. Graves, I have only known her as a quiet unassuming person but so far as her official acts as a member of the school board have known but very little.
    The vote on the high school question stood 52 in favor and 11 against it, but my informant did not say whether they voted for a high school or a union high school, and when I left home that seemed to be the only difference. Mrs. Brown and her adherents were in favor of a union high school and the other side were in favor of a high school straight, but I hope that the questions between the two factions will be settled amicably and for all time.
    When I closed my last letter for the Mail Tribune I had been giving an account of what I saw from the vestibule window on the car and had just tried to give a description of Yoncalla Valley and after leaving there the next place that particularly attracted my attention was the lumber town of Drain, situated on a small stream called Pass Creek, a beautiful mountain stream that gushes through a canyon that at one time was covered with a dense forest, but since my first visit through that part of the country there have been hundreds of thousands of feet of lumber shipped out and the town of Drain has become a prominent business and educational center and has so changed that the country does not look at all natural; in fact the whole county has so changed all through Pass Creek Canyon that the country on the north side of the Calapooia Mountains that if it was not that I have traveled through there so many times I would hardly have known where I was, but the contour is the same as it was when I passed through at the time of the building of the C. and O. Railroad, now the S.P., when we had to stop while the construction gang were moving a house out of the right of way, for when they were building the road it was not an uncommon thing to see them move a man's house or barn or cut through an orchard.
    I remember stopping at a farm near Albany and I noticed that the dwelling house was on one side of the railroad and his smoke house and well were on the other and on inquiry learned that the railroad runs just where the house stood when first built, and on further inquiry learned that the road ran through his orchard, a forty-acre tract, coming in at one corner and going out at the opposite corner, going diagonally through, tearing up two rows of fruit trees, and I naturally asked what damage the company paid him and he asked me to guess and I suggested three thousand dollars and he laughed and said that it damaged him more than that, but they offered him two hundred and he took it, for he said the rail company had all the judges, sheriff and county clerks along the route and that it was useless for a man to stand a suit at law with them, for the sheriff would always select men the railroad company could bribe.
    But this is another discussion. Going on to the next place that particularly attracted my attention was the town of Cottage Grove, another beauty spot along the route, and from appearances as we passed through it the principal industry is the lumber business, although it seemed to be a thriving business center, for while there seemed to be a vast amount of lumber handled there the place is in the center of a very rich farming county and I noticed that some of the old landmarks still remain, such as the old rail fences, and I noticed several fine rich tracts of land covered with stumps and logs. Nevertheless the general appearance of the country impressed me with the idea that the people were not very likely to land in the county poor house, and it would be a fine place to live in the summer but some portions of it is as hard to work as Big Sticky in Jackson County. In my next letter I will tell something about Eugene City and some of my experiences as a circuit rider.
    Portland, Ore., July 28, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 30, 1923, page 3


    When I closed my last letter for the Mail Tribune, I was trying to give the readers of that live and spicy paper some idea of what one can see by looking closely along the route of the S.P.R.R. and the surrounding country and was trying to tell something of what I saw and had seen in my meanderings through our beautiful Oregon country.
    Leaving Cottage Grove with its many attractive features, we rolled along through one of the most beautiful portions of the Willamette Valley, down the coast fork of the Willamette River, through some of the finest farms and orchards and hop fields and also through one of the hardest portions I had to travel over, for I am now writing about a section of the country that was embraced in what was known as the Eugene City Circuit, the circuit to which I was sent by the Pacific Conference of the M.E. Church South, in the fall of 1861; a circuit that extended from some distance above Cottage Grove and across the coast fork of the Willamette River down to within five miles of what is now the city of Corvallis and reaching out into the foothills on either side, so that, counting the meanderings in going to the 32 preaching places, mapped out, where I was expected to preach, embracing a territory 175 miles in circumference, every month, for in those days a circuit rider was expected to put in all his time traveling, visiting families and preaching, and he was required to keep an account of the number of times he preached, the number of families he visited and prayed with, beside all this he was expected to study the prescribed course of study and be ready to stand a rigid examination when he went to conference by the examining committee, appointed by the bishop, or board of presiding elders. I will say here that a young man by the name of John Smith, a local preacher, had been appointed as junior preacher or an assistant, but by the time he had gone over the circuit, he concluded that it was a good deal like work to ride around that large circuit and preach generally twice on Saturday and generally three times on Sunday and two or three times on mid-week nights and all the compensation was his board and laundry, and occasionally a pair of socks and a very little money, for the reader will bear in mid that at the time I am writing about was the beginning of the Civil War and the U.S. forces had blockaded all the southern ports so that, if there was any money in the church treasury, it could not be sent out here. I think that I had the promise of one hundred dollars from the missionary funds for that year and of that there is yet seventy-five dollars still due, or would be if it was not outlawed, so Rev. John Smith concluded that he could make a better living working on a farm for wages. I should have said at the time I spoke of receiving the $20 from the missionary fund, that that was given me to pay my expenses from California to Eugene and it took eight dollars and fifty cents to pay the express on my trunk from Vacaville, Calif., via San Francisco and Portland to Eugene and a nice little "nest egg" to pay my expenses on the trip, for I traveled on horseback, camping with three other ministers, D. M. Rice, who stopped on the Jacksonville circuit, L. G. Adams, and a young man by the name of Hawkins. Mr. Adams had a team and hack and he hauled our camping outfit.
    An amusing incident occurred as we were coming up the Sacramento River, after we had got as far as where Redding now is, for the time I am speaking about was before there was any settlement along the Sacramento River above the farms along the river. And we could see a few Indians along the route, for while they seemed to be friendly, Mr. Adams and Mr. Hawkins were scared out of their wits whenever an Indian came in sight, and while Mr. Adams was handling the team, Mr. Hawkins kept close watch for Indians and had two double-barrel shotguns close at hand; in the meantime Rice and myself were riding along horseback and everything still as death. All at once Rice gave one of those unearthly war whoops that could have been heard for over a mile, when Adams gave another yell "Whoa!" to his horses and Hawkins jumped out of the hack and started to run, forgetting his guns, when Rice gave a loud laugh, and he turned and saw us. He stopped, but it made Adams so angry that he refused to haul his bedding any further, so we spent the night there, we taking our blankets on our horses, although we camped close together, but in separate camps and the next day we went on ahead of the team and left the two men to the mercy of the "Injuns" and Rice and I came on to Jacksonville together. But this is another digression, but I am not trying to confine my letter to a description of the country altogether, but to write something that will give my young friends who seem to love to read the Eaglets some idea of what we circuit riders had to undergo in the pioneer days of Oregon and to see the contrast between a circuit rider and a--well I hardly know what to call them, for they are so different now from what they were when I was a young man. Now they have to have a parsonage, a study, a telephone, a cushioned office chair, and if they have to go out in the country, an automobile to ride in; a Ford is not stylish enough and if they are called upon to preach three times a day, it tires them out, so that they are not fit for anything for two or three days. And while the pioneer preacher used to prepare their sermons, riding along on horseback, they have to have a study, where they compose the two sermons for the next Sunday and keep this up until the warm weather in July or August and then to have a vacation for a month or more, and after they have prepared their sermons, it is often a lecture on some scientific subject and no gospel, no Christ, no repentance, no faith, no coming judgment, no heaven, and no hell, and when they come to meet their congregations at the judgment bar, God will find that they have not filled their calling and they  and their flock will stand condemned when it is too late.
    Portland, Ore., Aug. 1, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 3, 1923, page 7


     Continuing my series of letters on my trip and incidents that come to my mind as I review the incidents that occurred while I was traveling over the part of Lane County, for my circuit embraced a very large part of the county, before I leave this part of the field, I will call attention to two incidents that occurred in filling my appointments. I had an appointment to preach at a school house in a sparsely settled community near where Cottage Grove is, on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, and it so happened that it was one of those days that was extremely common in that section; it happened to be a rainy day, although the people in that neighborhood, as a rule, did not stop on account of rain, but on this particular occasion there was no one came out except three boys just entering their 'teens, and I supposed the people had forgotten about the appointment, as it had been a month, four weeks, since I had been there and in those days there were very few newspapers published in that county and the majority of them were not much addicted to reading and if they took any paper at all it was generally a church paper, generally the Pacific Methodist, a San Francisco paper, the first one I ever wrote for and I occasionally wrote an article for it, so that there was no advertising of appointments a week ahead of time, so that the people had to trust to their memories to keep track of the appointments, but these three boys had remembered and come. Well we sat there and chatted a while and finally I concluded that there was no one else coming so I suggested that we better go to their homes and one of them spoke up and asked. "Ain't you going to preach?" and I felt condemned and answered, "Yes, if you want me to," and he replied, "Why yes, we came to hear you preach," so they squared themselves around and I took a text and subject to my audience and preached as best I could and after that I always preached, no matter how small an audience I had and the boys seemed to be so pleased to think that I had preached for them, and after that they were always at the school house when I had an appointment to preach in that neighborhood and it was the last time I had to preach to an audience of three boys, for they kept track of the time and generally reminded others of the appointment.
    The other incident was when I had an appointment to preach on a week day on the opposite side of the river in what was known as the Oglesby settlement and I had to ford the stream, but had no difficulty in crossing, but the next day the stream had raised and was very swift, and when I reached the ford decided that the water had raised about a foot since I had crossed the day before, so taking my saddle bags, for I always carried a change of clothing and some books with me, on my shoulder, and trusting in God and Old Charley, my horse, for I had great confidence in him, we started and the current was so swift it beat us down until I began to think that we were going over the rapids, but we finally succeeded in reaching the other bank, but it taught me a lesson that I never forgot, and that was to never try to ford a large rapid stream when it was considered dangerous.
    Going on down we came to what was known as the Matlock neighborhood, where I used to have a regular appointment every four weeks, and during the first flood of the winter of '61 and '62 I was caught in Eugene City and worked all the latter part of the night helping to move people out of their houses, from the low lands to the courthouse. I started for the Matlock school house, swimming two sloughs to get out of the town. I finally reached the Matlock school house and found no one there, so turning my course, I went to a nearby home and learned that the whole community had gone to the river to help the people out of their homes, and following in the wake I saw a sight I can never forget. The water had spread over the entire bottom and houses and bars, fences and stock of all kinds were being swept away and it was a common sight to see dead cattle, horses or hogs swept by the raging current, and dozens of families left homeless and penniless. The sight was simply appalling. Another incident that occurred in that neighborhood was in the fall when we had arranged to have a camp meeting and the reader will bear in mind that I, at that time, was a member of the M.E. Church, South, and that was during the excitement of the Civil War and the prejudices were strong against the word South, but everything went on smoothly until Saturday afternoon when a company of men came in and informed me that they had come to put an American flag up over the pulpit, thinking by that means to break up the meeting. There several of the members of the church there who were strong sympathizers with the cause of the Confederacy and at first I began to think that we were likely to have trouble but I took charge of the situation and used a little diplomacy and met them and after the spokesmen had told me of their intention, I quietly acquiesced and offered to help them to put it up and suggested a nice place to put it up, assuring them that although the word South was attached to the name that we were there simply to worship God and do all the good we could and that we recognized that flag as our flag and were not mixing in the squabble at all, but were loyal citizens of the U.S., and after the mob, for that was what it was, had talked the matter over they decided to let us alone and left us without putting up the flag and we continued our meeting on through the most of the next week. Although in other parts of the state the Southern Methodists were not so fortunate, for some of them were very hotheaded and in some instances the meetings were broken up and the next year the Union League, a political Republican organization, and it was often the case that the school houses and churches were closed against them, and more than once I have been censured about going to certain places to preach and denied the privilege of praying with their families on account of that word South being attached to the name.
    Portland, Ore., Aug. 4, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 7, 1923, page 6


    Leaving the neighborhood of the school house we wended our way on down through the valley as it widened out into one of the most beautiful parts of the Willamette Valley, for even then in that early day it had some very fine farms and orchards and in a few instances some very fine houses, and the people as a rule were what would be called good livers, and a few were what at that time were considered quite wealthy, but were not considered very philanthropic, especially when it came to donating to the support of a circuit rider, for they had never been taught that "It was more blessed to give than it was to receive"; in fact so far as I was personally concerned I was young and very much inexperienced in the art of soliciting for my own support, and had no presiding elder to look after the financial end of the work, as he, Rev. O. Fisher, after he had persuaded a few of the young preachers to come to Oregon as missionaries with the understanding that he was to follow on and help up with the work, concluded to remain in California and did not come up at all, the result was that so far as I was concerned my financial support was very slim but I lived through it and had plenty to eat and managed to have clothes enough to keep me comfortable, but when it came to the question of money it was very seldom that I had any, but I did not need very much for I was at home anywhere I happened to be and it was often the case that some of the good old sisters would slip a new pair of socks, homemade, or a shirt, and when I needed more clothes they would be furnished, so I worried but very little about such things as that for I was happy and took the Lord at His word when he said through the Psalmist, "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land; and verily thou shalt be fed." And I will say right here that that year was one of the happiest years of my life, although I went through many hardships, for during the winter after the two big floods we had that washed out scores of the farms and left the people penniless there came a snowstorm, as near as I can remember, sixteen inches deep and then a sleet on top of it so that every pound of hay was in demand to keep the stock alive and the price of feed was prohibitive, for the stage company paid as much as sixty dollars a ton for hay. And I saw one of the prominent cattle men in Eugene one day during that storm make the offer of three hundred head of cattle to anyone who would take them away from his place and feed them, but no one could do it for there was no hay to be had for they were all in the same condition, unless it were a few isolated cares like Uncle Dinken who had plenty of hay and I happened to be caught there with my faithful saddle horse and when I began to get ready to start to an appointment about three miles distant Mr. Dinken just laid down the law and said that Old Charley was going to remain right there as long as the sleet and snow laid on the ground; that I could go where I pleased but the horse should not go out in that sleet and snow, and the result was that I walked to my appointments and preached to the people, for many of them had nothing they could do so attended church services, and I preached almost every night, either in a school house or in private homes.
    I will add that I had not been on the circuit very long before I cut the number of regular preaching places down to sixteen and then had all that I could do, although during the spring and summer I added some new appointments to the list.
    But I was going to say something about Eugene City, although at the time of which I am writing the city was a very small affair although it was then the county seat of Lane County and had some of the best people in it to be found anywhere. It was not noted then as it now is for its fine houses and streets with their lovely shade trees and beautiful parks and lawns, but now it stands out as one of the beauty spots of Oregon with its fine new court house, its educational advantages, the seat of one of the leading universities of the whole country and is noted for its wealth, for when I was there a few years ago visiting a relative by marriage he was showing me one of his fine farms of seven hundred and twenty acres that was bringing him but little income and I asked "Why don't you cut this up into small farms and sell it off and develop the country" and he said that he would not know what to do with the money for to invest it in property in Eugene the taxes would eat it up and that he could not lend it out for to his certain knowledge there was at that time over three million dollars in the banks that they would be glad to lend out at a low rate of interest. Yes, Eugene is in the center of one of the finest valleys on the Pacific Coast, although it is one of the wettest places I ever was in, but the people when I was among them didn't seem to pay any attention to the rain but went about as though it would not wet through the webfoot clothes.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 10, 1923, page 7


    A splendid program has been worked out to be given at Eagle Point church Sunday evening, August 12. The Christian Endeavorers will have charge at 7 o'clock. Special music and a live program by the young people. At 8 o'clock D. J. Howe, pastor of the Medford Christian Church, will preach.
    All the people of Eagle Point and community are cordially invited and urged to attend.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 10, 1910, page 10


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, I was telling something about the beauties of Eugene and its wealth and its surroundings, also the terrible hardships that some of the people had to undergo, but there was one thing I intended to mention that slipped my mind at the time I was writing and that was the serious difficulties we labored under on account of the heavy snow and sleet storm, for while we were not as bad off as many of our fellow creatures are and have been in Europe, still an account of the condition of the roads and bridges and the cold spell that followed stopping the travel almost altogether, there came a great scarcity of what are considered the necessaries of life, for Eugene at that time was like some of the smaller towns in Southern Oregon, dependent on Medford for our supplies, so it was the case then with Eugene, dependent on Portland for the food, etc., for most of the country south of what was at that time the business center of the Northwest, and was the source of our supplies, and the result was that many of the people were left without bread, sugar and coffee, and the result was that even the merchants themselves had to do without these luxuries, and more than one family used as a substitute for coffee parched wheat, barley or corn, and in many instances couldn't even get even that to use a substitute for coffee, and in many families they used cracked wheat as a substitute for bread and, as a rule, the grist mills were situated on the streams and were either worked out or damaged so that they could not run. And this state of affairs lasted for quite a long time. But I promised in my last that I would tell the readers of the Eaglets something about the Long Tomites in this letter. Going on down the valley the next place of interest we came to was Junction City, where the railroad divides and one branch goes on down the valley through Corvallis and is what is known as the west side road and the main line crosses the Willamette River and goes down through Albany, etc., at the time of which I am writing that place was known as the Millinson place or neighborhood, and in this neighborhood a man lived by the name of Caughman and it just so happened that Rev. Smith and myself met there on Saturday night and the next morning when we found that the river was out of its bank again and I had an appointment to preach at the Liberty school house that day, and the result was we had to get out of there anyhow and we heard that the bridge leading to the Liberty school house had been washed out the week before, but that the upper bridge had been repaired so that we could cross. We concluded to start for there and try to get on higher ground.
    The fences had been washed away the week before, and Rev. Smith knew the country well so we started out for the Taylor bridge, and mind you it continued to rain right along and we went right along, across a practically level country, swimming sloughs as we came to them and finally we came to what was left of the bridge, but the floor on the approach was gone, but we managed to go across ourselves and swam our horses below the bridge and after crossing several other streams finally reached the home of Mr. Beard, one of the old settlers and a prominent member of the church, and there we met a number of his children and their families, for Mr. and Mrs. Beard had sixteen children of their own and the most of them were there with their families, as they had been washed out and had collected there for a temporary home. But as I wrote up an account of what a time we had on that trip as well as during that winter I will make a break in the narrative of a few months, as there was nothing of an exciting nature occurred during the spring months.
    The Long Tomites, as they were called at that time, were noted for being among the most rabid secessionists there was in the state at that time. Remember that that was just as the Civil War was just getting started and there was the most bitter feelings existing at that time, between the northern and southern sympathizers, and as a rule very few of them ever thought of attending church, or even thought of such subjects, and as the name of the M.E. Church that I represented had the word "South" attached to it I concluded that it would be a good place for me to try to introduce the gospel, so I began to talk about going into the settlement to preach and when I began to suggest the idea to the brothers and sisters, they hooted at the idea and assured me that if I undertook to introduce the gospel among them they would mob me, would shave my horses' tail and discourage me all they could and dismissed the thought as extremely visionary. In fact, gave me no encouragement whatever, but I remembered how the great apostle went to the city of Ephesus and was mobbed and scourged and imprisoned and how he finally built up a great church there.
    I concluded to undertake the task in the name of my Master, and when I had let it be known that I was determined to undertake the task there was not a man or woman who gave me the least bit of encouragement, and the result was that I went alone, trusting in the Lord for divine assistance and guidance, and so one Monday morning, I started out and headed for the Inman neighborhood that was in the upper part of the Longton [Long Tom?] community, not knowing what was before me. But I see that my letter is long enough already, so will in my next tell of my reception and what success I had visiting and preaching among them. By the time this reached the Daily Mail Tribune office I expect that I will have made another move further north.
    Portland, Aug. 12, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 14, 1923, page 6


    The last time that I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I had just reached the upper part of the settlement on the Longton [Long Tom?], and was just getting ready to undertake the arduous duties of trying to Christianize some of the natives of that region, and I confess that I had some misgivings, for I had heard so many stories about the worse than reckless characters of those people that I began to think that perhaps I had acted, to say the least of it, a little hasty, if not headstrong, but when the temptation came to give up the job and not make a move in that direction I tried to "commit my way unto the Lord and trust in Him" for Divine guidance. I started in aiming to visit each family and pray with and for them, not knowing a soul in that section and not even hearing of a single Christian in the community, looking at it now after a lapse of over 60 years and taking into consideration my youth and inexperience, for I had never before come upon people of the reputation that they had, especially the members of the church, for after I had become acquainted with the people and decided to hold a special meeting in that section, I wrote to Bob Martin, who later on became my presiding elder, or general superintendent of the district, to come and help me to hold the meeting. He wrote, declining the invitation, saying that "Saltpeter wouldn't save them Long Tomites." But I started and strange to say generally found a cordial greeting when they found that I was a strong sympathizer, for I had got into a genuine hotbed of secessionists and as I visited family after family and prayed with many of them, for many of them seemed to care nothing about the religion of Jesus Christ and declined the religious worship in the family, and in many instances hooted at the idea of trying to persuade them to accept salvation. Nevertheless I kept on visiting and praying and in the meantime announced that I would preach in the Inman school house at 10:30 the next Sunday morning, at the Pine Grove school house at 2:30 in the afternoon and at the Liberty school house in the evening, and thus put in the entire week, having passed through, according to the way I now look at it, one of the most critical periods of my ministerial career, for I was laying the foundation for weal or woe for precious blood-bought souls. I will say here by the way of explanation that my predecessor had preached at the Liberty school house before I came on the circuit and organized a small class.
    Well, after putting in the entire week among the people I found them to be a class of people that had never had the advantage of education, many of them from Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and that they were as a rule very hospitable and seemed to be glad to have a Southern Methodist preacher come among them, but I think more because I cherished a strong sympathy for the cause of the Southern Confederacy than because I a Christian. Well, Sunday morning came and a few minutes after ten o'clock I was at the Inman school house and found quite a number of the young folks had already assembled; some of them were in the room talking, but the most of them were in small groups chatting and waiting for 10:30 to come, for many of them had never heard a gospel sermon or been to religious services of any kind, and curiosity prompted them to come and see what was going on, but by 10:30 the school house was well filled and I commenced the services in the usual way, singing a hymn or two, reading a Scripture lesson and prayer and then another song, and announced my text. I think it was John 3 chapter, 16 verse, and shortly after I commenced I noticed a young couple in the back part of the house engaged in conversation so I stopped and they also stopped talking and I resumed and they resumed their talking, so I stopped again and so did they and looked up at me and then I kind of remarked that in the country where I was raised it was considered improper for two to talk at the same time so asked them to wait until I got through as I already had the floor, so they settled down and listened to what I had to say, and a nicer attendance I never wished for.
    So after dismissing the congregation with the benediction and inviting them to come to hear me again in four weeks and telling them that there would be preaching at two and thirty minutes in the afternoon I started on to the Pine Grove school house and soon discovered that a large part of the congregation was following me, so soon decided that I would have to prepare another sermon as I didn't want them to think that I had but one sermon, so when I reached the Pine Tree school house I retired to the brush to study up some story to tell that I had not already told, or in other words, study up a new sermon, and up to that time there had been no rowdyism, in fact I began to feel quite at home among those people. But I see that this letter is long enough so will tell some more about it in my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 17, 1923, page 7


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I was at my granddaughter's, Mrs. Virgie Potts, and in my write-up was giving an account of my first Sunday among the Long Tomites and had preached in the Inman school house to a large and very attentive audience, and started to my next appointment at the Pine Grove school house, followed by a large part of my congregation, and was out in the brush studying up another sermon, for I did not like the idea of preaching the same sermon to the same people in one day, so after studying and praying until two-thirty o'clock p.m., I went to the schoolhouse door and found that it was full and quite a number still outside, so after the usual introductory exercises I announced my text, but do not remember just what it was, but I think that it was "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and All These Things Shall Be Added Unto You," and if I should say that I was agreeably disappointed, I will not miss the mark very much, for a more attentive audience I never had the privilege of addressing, for it was something altogether new to them, for I feel safe in saying that there was quite a large number among them who had never heard a gospel sermon before, for after I became acquainted with the people, it was a common thing to hear them acknowledge that I was the first man they ever heard preach, and I would not have to go to Longton [Long Tom] to find people who have never heard a gospel sermon. Before I closed the services that afternoon, I announced that I would preach again that evening at the Liberty schoolhouse and invited those who could to go with me to that appointment, and thanked them for the interest they were taking and announced that I would preach for them again in four weeks and started for the next preaching place and lo, when I started it looked like the whole congregation was going with me and the result was that I had to study up another sermon and on reaching there I found a good-sized company already there, for I had already preached in that neighborhood a few times before and that school house was considerably larger than either of the others and it was well filled, so after preaching to them, and in those days it was the custom for a man to preach for an hour or more and the people did not seem to get tired, but really seemed to enjoy what is now a long sermon.
    Making my announcements for the next month's round in that country and inviting them to come again, I dismissed the audience and went to a nearby farm house for the night, hungry and tired, for I had had nothing to eat since early breakfast, but after eating a good hearty meal and visiting and conducting family worship with them, I retired for the night.
    The next morning I started out for another round of the circuit, but before this time I had made several changes in the circuit. In many cases there would be appointments too close together, so I had dropped off several and, as in the case of taking in two new ones in the Longton country, and Mr. Smith, the man who was appointed as my assistant, had left the field altogether so I found that it was best to make several changes, but I kept busy and made my rounds preaching six or seven times a week, but there was nothing of special interest occurred, but the scarcity of hay worked a hardship on me for I would often have to leave my horse where I could get feed, and walk to my appointments and that made me extra work, but I lived through it and in the course of time was back among the Long Tomites again and when I reached the Inman school house found about all the people in the community were there waiting, they seemed so anxious to hear the glad tidings of salvation.    
    After the services were over and the congregation was dismissed, we started off for the Pinegrove school house and the crowd started with me, mostly young folk, and I noticed a young lady come with a married man and when she started off a young man rode up beside her, but did not engage her company, and we were all having a good time and I was riding along I noticed quite a space between the two horses so quietly tapped Old Charley with my riding whip and he jumped right between them and I as politely as I could, asked if I could accompany her as far as we traveled the same road and she replied that I could provided I could keep up with her and at that she started off on a run and I beside her. At that the whole bunch also started the young lady and I in the lead and the crowd yelling "Hurrah for Jeff Davis and the preacher," and we kept that up for about three miles, until we reached her home and I with the rest went on to the school house, and from that time I had the confidence and good will of the whole bunch. Looking over the occurrence from a modern standpoint, the transaction would appear ridiculous, but it proved to be the proper thing at that time for the young folks of that entire community stayed right by me and when the church members threw cold water on the move to try to convert them and bring them to Christ, they would discourage every move--but I will try to tell the result as near as I can in my next letter.
    Four Lakes, Wash., Aug. 16, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 20, 1923, page 3


    The last letter that I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune I had just finished up my Sunday's work, preached three sermons and had a good night's sleep and was ready to start on another  round on my circuit. Going from Mr. Beard's I cut across the country to the Spencer Creek settlement to the home of Uncle Zura Duncan, the place where I left my horse at the time of the big snow storm as I had an appointment to preach in the Fir Grove schoolhouse on Tuesday night; that was a neighborhood where I had preached several times and had a lot of very warm friends, and always had good congregations, and in this neighborhood there lived two prominent stockmen who were very outspoken against the cause of Christianity and would take pains to throw slurs at the cause.
    Well, these two men, Messrs. Col and Richardson, were out riding together, looking after their stock, and in the course of the day they became separated a short distance and Mr. Cole's horse fell and hurt him quite badly and Mr. Richardson discovered that the horse was without a rider and started to go to his companion, and when he reached him he was lying on the ground praying for mercy, promising the Good Lord that he would quit his wickedness and serve Him if He would spare his life. But in a short time his companion had him straightened up and on his horse and on the way home, but the accident did not stop there, for Mr. Richardson was a man who whenever he got a good joke on his companion, was sure to use it to the best advantage, so whenever they happened to meet in a saloon Mr. Richardson would start to tell about Mr. Cole promising the Lord that he would quit his wickedness, and then Cole would call for the drinks for the crowd, and that would end the matter for the time being. So one day the subject came up and Mr. Cole proposed to his companion that if he would let up and drop the subject that he would buy him the best suit of clothes in Eugene, but he declined the offer, saying that he had a good thing, that whenever they met in a saloon he was sure of all the whiskey he wanted, and I took advantage of the circumstance and used to tell of the incident to show the insincerity of these loud-mouthed professed infidels. When death was staring them in the face, they were ready to repent and quit their meanness, but as soon as the danger was past, would turn their back on the Lord and be as wicked as ever, and I am satisfied that I caused more than one to stop and think seriously on the subject.
    Well, during my rounds on the circuit that time I began to talk up the idea of holding a camp meeting among the people on Longton and the members seemed to think that I was crazy; the idea of holding a camp meeting among those people was perfectly ridiculous. Well, I pleaded with the leading members of the church but they even went so far as to say that if I undertook it they would not attend, for they were satisfied that the result would be a general row and perhaps I would be mobbed, even after I had told them the reception I had received at their hands and the interest manifested, they could not believe that I could succeed in such an undertaking, and at times I felt very much discouraged over the move, for the trouble was the people as a unit were strong Southern sympathizers and it was a common report that they had cached away arms and ammunition so that in case there was an attempt to enforce the draft, for the reader will remember that the time I am speaking of was just before the enrollment began here in Oregon for the draft, and the prospect was very bright for a Civil War in our own state and I learned later that the Southern sympathizers had organized and were drilling, getting ready for any emergency. Well, after I had made my rounds of the circuit and came back into the Longton community again, I concluded that I would put the subject squarely up to them, so after making my round of the three school houses and had the majority of the young folks to follow me to the Liberty school house there was quite a crowd of young men standing in a group in the yard and I walked up to them and remarked that I had been talking about holding a camp meeting in the community for the benefit of you big-souled sinners, and that the old straight-jack members of the church opposed, saying that it could not be done because those "dare-devils" would break it up, and now what do you say to having a camp meeting here in this community? So a very large powerful young man started off and took with him a few of the leading ones, and in a few minutes they came back and this large man, who seemed to be a kind of ringleader, spoke and replied to my question: "Well, elder, you furnish the preachers and we will see that you have order."
    Well, after that decision, we went into the school house and I preached and after preaching, announced my appointments for the next week, and announced that we would hold a camp meeting in that neighborhood commencing on Friday afternoon before the third Sunday in the month and appointed a committee of five young men to select the ground and the tall man as chairman, and the rest of the young men as a committee to prepare the ground, promising that I would come back Thursday and help work on it, and the result was that when I arrived and inquired where they were going to hold the camp meeting, was told where and, going to the place Friday morning, found that they had selected an ideal place on the bank of the creek, cleared the ground off, brought lumber and built bedrooms for those who wanted to camp and a preacher's tent, fire pit, seats and had everything arranged to commence that afternoon, and in addition had killed a beef and had it hung up on a tree, so that we commenced services that afternoon. In my next I will try to tell something with regard to the result and about a wedding where the minister made a mistake when he married a couple.
    Four Lakes, Aug. 18, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 22, 1923, page 10


    The last time I wrote for the Mail Tribune I had just reached the camp meeting ground and found that the committees had done everything that could be done to get things ready for a good old-fashioned Methodist revival and my faith was strong that we were going to have a rousing time for I had the assurance of the boys that we were to have order, and consequently had no fears on on that line, for I had the good will and confidence of them and was trusting in the Lord for results. But before I proceed to tell anything about the results of the effort will tell of some of the difficulties I labored under in securing the necessary ministerial assistance, for in order to carry on a camp meeting successfully I would require the assistance of at least two other ministers beside myself, so after I had decided to undertake the task I began to write to other ministers to come and assist me during the meeting, and among the first I wrote to was Rev. I. L. Hopkins and he readily consented--he had become acquainted with a daughter of Uncle Zury Dunken, and it was understood that if we succeeded in the undertaking of getting the camp meeting started that he and his family were to be there--so securing his assistance I then wrote to Bob Martin who had the reputation of being somewhat of a revivalist, thinking that if I could have his assistance that the effort would be crowned with success, but the Lord was to teach me a lesson on reliance on Him, and in answer to my invitation to come and help with the meeting he wrote me that he would not waste time and energy on them Long Tomites as saltpeter would not save them, and that with the discouragement I received from the members of this church on the main part of the circuit rather discouraged me, and the Devil strangely suggested to me, assisted by backsliding church members to give up the undertaking.
    But I prayed for Divine guidance and determined to go forward with the undertaking so I then wrote to Rev. William Craig, another young minister, and laid before him the prospect for doing good, and he was a man of faith and accepted the invitation, but stated that he could not come until after Sunday as he had his appointments on Sunday, so that he could not be with us before Tuesday. But, nothing daunted, we started in the name of the Lord and held the first service on Friday evening and Hopkins preached and I followed with an exhortation and there seemed to be considerable interest manifested, although the attendance was not as good as was desired, but the next morning we, that is Hopkins and I, started just as though he was a presiding elder and I was a veteran in the cause, although we were both of us young men, although he had been ordained a deacon and I was only a licensed preacher and I was on my third circuit, but we called the people together Saturday morning and after breakfast had prayer, song and experience service followed by preaching at 11 o'clock and by that time a number of families had moved into camp, and Hopkins preached again and at three o'clock p.m. I preached and Hopkins followed with a fiery exhortation and that night we had a good attendance and Hopkins preached again and there seemed to be a deep feeling, and I followed with an appeal urging them to accept the offers of salvation and called for mourners (in those days we had the old-fashioned mourners bench), and invited those who wanted to come to Christ to manifest that desire by coming forward and kneeling and then the Christians would pray with and for them and the seekers would pray for themselves; altogether different from the modern custom of signing a card or raising the hand, but in many instances people would run and fall at the altar crying for mercy.
    Well, when I gave the invitation for those who wanted to embrace religion to come forward and before the meeting closed that night there were eighteen came forward and there were several bright conversions, and then we had three young converts added to the few we had, for there were a few of the church members came and took part in the meetings, but the young converts went to work leading in prayer and talking to their friends trying to persuade them to be Christians and the result was that the daily meetings grew in interest and the word went out that a revival was going on on Long Tom and the people came from a distance until there were quite a number of the church members in attendance and they soon became interested and began working so that by Sunday we had a large attendance and had our regular services Sunday, Hopkins and I taking our regular turns preaching and exhorting, and the interest seemed to increase and sinners were saved. So after a hard day's work we closed the meeting for that night tired out but still greatly encouraged and trusting in the Lord for help and guidance, for we both realized that we might make a wrong move and probably undo the good we had done. But I see that this letter is long enough so will close for this time and will tell of the good results of the meeting and the mistake Hopkins made when he married a couple during the course of the meeting.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 24, 1923, page 5




    When I closed my last letter to the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, we had just closed the services on Sunday night, and Monday morning we were ready to take a fresh start, and when the horn sounded for us to assemble at the altar for the morning service, almost everyone in the entire camp responded and several of the laity and some of the young converts took an active part in the exercises and there was a gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit and this was followed after breakfast by an old-fashioned love feast or experience meeting, when several of those who had been converted, and several of the old church members who had rather opposed holding, has repented of their back-slidings, and come over to the meeting, perhaps out of curiosity had ventured to come, had become interested, took part, and the result was that the entire day was one of the unusual interest, especially for Monday, for as a rule in those days, after the labor of Saturday night and Sunday the leaders in such meetings were tired out, but there was such marked evidence of the divine presence that it seemed that all of us had a renewal of our strength and the divine presence was so manifest that we could fully realize as Jacob, one of the old patriarchs, did on the occasion of his wrestling with the angel "That God was in this place" and the result was we had our regular services at eleven a.m., three p.m., and at seven thirty, although there was not the high degree of interest manifest that there was on Saturday, although there was several came forward for prayers Monday night and some bright conversions.
    Tuesday morning broke on us with a clear sky and we, that is Hopkins and I, were anticipating the arrival of Brother William Craige, a noted young minister, but although he was a young man he was noted as being quite a revivalist and we had planned to have him preach at the eleven o'clock hour, and we had announced that night before that we expected to have him preach at that service, and there was quite a number came in from the neighborhood of where Junction City now stands, who had met him before, for he was recognized as a fine orator as well as a noted preacher, and during the nine o'clock service he arrived all ready to take part in the meeting, and the result was that he soon was ready to join with us in the great work in which we were engaged, and it seemed as though he had received a "double portion of the Spirit," for he seemed to preach with more power than ever, for we had heard him preach before, but never with such unction as he did that forenoon and the result was a general outpouring of the spirit and there seemed to be that a Pentecostal blessing was sent for that special occasion, and looking back to that camp meeting through a period of over sixty years, I feel satisfied that God used me as a special instrument to show forth His power to work wonders among a class of people who had the name of being almost beyond the reach of mercy, for they were about as tough a set as I ever met and I fully believe today that my having that word "South" attached to the church that I represented was the opening wedge that enable me to go among them as an ambassador for Christ, and that I was led through all these discouraging circumstances to show that there is nothing impossible with God.
    Well as the meeting progressed, it grew in interest and souls were "added to the church such as should be saved." It might be well for me to say something with regard to what was going on the outside, so far as the conduct was concerned, for I had been forewarned that in that hard neighborhood I would be mobbed and all kinds of ill treatment given me, but on the contrary was treated with all the respect and attention that anyone could deserve, and the only disturbance that there was during the entire time of the meeting was when a drunken man came in and was talking as a crazy drunk would talk, when two members of the self-constituted police force, for the committee appointed men to keep order, took him in charge and that was the last we saw of him. But I am going to leap over the incidents that occurred during the rest of the week and relate the incident of the minister making a mistake in marrying a couple, for I don't like to keep people in suspense. During the three o'clock services on Sunday, the second Sunday, there was a couple of the congregation wished to be married and through the influence of Miss Mary Dunkin, Rev. Hopkins was selected to perform the ceremony, as I was not ordained at that time, and the couple to be married were supposed to be wealthy and Hopkins was anticipating a good-sized fee for his services, so he fixed himself up with the assistance of Miss Dunkin, for they were engaged to be married, and just before the preaching services commenced, he stationed himself in the altar with book in his hand and the couple were presented, and he holding the book off at arm's length repeated the words making them man and wife, and after preaching the newlywed took the minister to one side and with trembling voice asked what the charge was and the minister replied "Oh, I don't make any charge, you can just give me what you choose," and the sick groom inquired what it would cost to have it recorded, and he was told one dollar and the sick groom handed him a dollar and a half, remarking that he could have it recorded and the half dollar would pay him for his trouble, and I don't think I ever saw a man so thoroughly taken down, for he told me that he expected twenty-five or perhaps fifty dollars, but if he had said five dollars, and as much more as you are a mind to give, he would have got his five, but his mistake taught me a lesson, for since I was ordained, I have married a great many couples, and I always tell them the fee is five dollars. In my next I will resume my account of the result of the meeting as near as I can and of a surprise I had years after when I met a strange lady.
    Four Lakes, Aug. 25, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1923, page 6


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I made a break in the story of the camp meeting on Long Tom and jumped over from Tuesday night to Sunday to give an account of the wedding and what a blunder Brother Hopkins made by trusting to the liberality of a close-fisted man who had accumulated a competence by his stinginess, for it was characteristic of the whole community to be as miserly as they could be, for several of them were members of the church and were of that class who believed that the Lord would provide for his ministers without the assistance of human overtures, for during the year I was on the circuit I don't think that out of the whole bunch, and there was the old couple and four sons with families, altogether paid ten dollars toward the support of the gospel, including the missionary course, educational interest and other enterprises of the church.
    But to resume my account of the wonderful meeting we were having. Wednesday morning we started off with a new vigor when we saw the marked interest manifest, for the interest did not seem to slacken and souls were being saved, especially among the young men and women, and we had additions to the campers and among them was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister with his family and they assisted us very much in preaching, but the most remarkable feature was to see how the young converts joined right in and went to work among their associates, urging them to come forward and embrace the religion of Jesus Christ, and another prominent item connected with the work was to see some of those who were considered the hardest cases among the young men following at the mourners' bench and crying for mercy, obtaining the blessing and going to work persuading their friends to join in the great work of saving souls, and by Thursday afternoon several of the old church members who had opposed holding the camp meeting in that neighborhood began to come in either from curiosity or perhaps their conscience had become aroused and the Holy Spirit had touched their hearts and they had repented, but at any rate several of them became awakened, repented of their back-slidings and joined in the work, for with the manifest evidence of Divine power, it was hard to withstand the power and the result was a general revival over a large part of the circuit.
    Well, it was decided by that time to continue the meeting on over Sunday at any rate, for the interest seemed to grow, although Friday and Saturday the interest did not seem so great as it had been during the first days of the meeting, as many more people had come in and old friends were meeting and in some instances the minds of those who had been converted were turned to the social side of the subject instead of the great work of saving souls until Saturday night when brother Craige preached one of his powerful sermons and this was followed by an urgent appeal by Brother Hopkins with an invitation to come forward for prayers when there was a number came forward and several bright conversions was the result, and it was an affecting sight to see the young and old, fathers and mothers, and children all rejoicing together, happy in the love of God, and although we labored with the penitents until about midnight, for there were some who seemed determined to run sin until they received the blessing.
    Sunday morning was one of those beautiful mornings that makes one feel glad that they are alive and no doubt there were many that morning who offered up a prayer of thanksgiving to the Giver of All Good that they were there and were enjoying the blessings of salvation. Instead of having the usual morning service that morning we had an old-fashioned Methodist love feast when everyone was invited to take part and the young converts were urged to bear testimony for Christ and it was truly a blessed sight to see and hear those young converts tell how happy they were and also hear the older members of the church tell how glad they were that they had, in spite of their opposition to holding the camp meeting on Long Tom, how the Lord had blessed them and how glad they were because they came and the result was that the morning meeting continued up to 11 o'clock. But I see that my letter is already long enough so will close for this time and in my next will try to tell some of the results of the meeting and of meeting one of the converts years afterward in Southern Oregon.
    Four Lakes, Wash., Aug. 29, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 1, 1923, page 5


    When I finished my last letter for the readers of the Mail Tribune, we had just closed our Sunday morning love feast and were about ready to commence the regular eleven o'clock preaching service, when Brother Hopkins preached another one of his powerful, soul-stirring sermons to a large and interested audience and this was followed by an urgent appeal to sinners to embrace the proffered salvation when there was quite a number came forward for prayers and at the close of the prayer service an invitation was given to those who desired to unite with the church on probation, for it was the rule then to take the applicants for membership into the church on six months' trial and at the end of that time if they were not satisfied with the usages and doctrines of the church, the name was simply dropped from the list without any special formality, and if they wished to become members in full fellowship they were received into full fellowship, and if they had not been baptized prior to that time, were baptized and taken into the full fellowship and allowed to take the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and when the invitation was extended there was quite a number came forward and gave their hand as a token of a desire to be identified as members of the M.E. Church South, and a few expressed a desire to unite with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The rest of the day was taken up with the regular duties of the day, although at night we had an unusual manifestation of Divine Power and quite a number of souls were blessed before the close of the meeting, as it was understood that that would be the last night of the meeting and that we would have the closing services in connection with the eleven o'clock services when those who desired would receive the ordinance of baptism, and as it was understood the most of the candidates were to be immersed, that alone caused quite a number to remain and then come to see the sight.
    Well, by the time for the closing services, there was a nice assemblage and after the usual religious exercises Brother Hopkins commenced to baptize the candidates, taking the men first, and fortunately the weather was warm so that those who were among the first to be baptized did not suffer with the cold. It was an affecting scene to see the old gray-headed mothers and father embrace their children, the neighbors greet the young converts as they came out of the water, rejoicing "in hope of the glory of God," and to note the deep solemnity that pervaded the entire services, and in summing up the result of the entire eleven days' services we find the result was thirty-two conversions and twenty-eight additions to the church membership, and among them was a young lady that I had the race with that Sunday going from the Inman school house to the Pine Grove school house.
    In my last I promised to tell a part of the result of the meeting, for no one can tell the result of a work done for the cause of Christ, for the work will go on, resulting in the conversion of others through the intervention of those who were converted during that first meeting. For instance, I will relate a circumstance that occurred several years after, when I was met by a stranger at a camp meeting.
    There was a camp meeting being held at a camp ground on Bear Creek a short distance below Central Point some forty-five or more years ago, that I attended with my family and when we arrived at the place, my wife and children got over the stile and started on to the meeting place, while I attended to the horses, and shortly after I also started after them and after I had gotten into the enclosure I was met by a strange lady, and she extended her hand and remarked, "I don't suppose that you remember me. My name is Jones, the presiding elder's wife, my maiden name was Beard, and I want to tell you that I am one of the girls who was converted at that camp meeting that you held on Long Tom," and she named over several of the converts who were converted at that meeting who had held out faithful and were still serving God and were trying to bring others to Christ and that the Lord was blessing their--that is, hers and her husband's--labors. Now, dear reader, just imagine the result of that one lady, occupying the position she did, the wife of the presiding elder, and she working with her husband, who can tell the result of her labors? And thus the work goes on, she being the instrument or means of saving one more and that one another, thus the work goes on in geometrical proportion until eternity alone will reveal the amount of good that resulted from that camp meeting.
    Four Lakes, Wash., Aug. 31.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1923, page 6


    When I finished my last letter for the Mail Tribune I was giving an account of the closing scenes of one of the most remarkable camp meetings I ever attended, and one of the most solemn and quietest as well, especially considering the general reputation of the people living in that section, for they were considered by many as a set of outlaws, as they were about as tough a set as I ever encountered, and raised as I was, as almost a pioneer in Missouri, I had considerable experience among the citizens of a noted community in a section located on the Missouri River called Laspin Neck, as they would come to our town, generally on Saturday, in numbers and get drunk and it was not an uncommon thing to see ten and sometimes twenty of the men engage in a general fight, and quite often with bowie knives, and occasionally a man would be killed and very often several wounded. And the idea of holding a camp meeting in a community of such a reputation over two Sundays and having the very best of order all of the time was something very remarkable, but after the meeting was closed on Sunday night there was a crowd assembled on the outskirts of the camp ground and had a general jollification of their own, and of all the yelling I ever heard, I heard it then, it was not out of any disrespect to me and my co-laborers, but simply giving vent to their pent-up feeling, for they were determined to hold in and keep quiet during the meeting, something they had never done before, and after they saw their camp meeting a blooming success, for they called it their camp meeting, it seemed as though they could hold in no longer, but simply gave way to their feelings and expressed their joy in that way, and during the rest of the conference year, which ended the first of October, whenever I came through that section to preach I always received a cordial greeting and I often in later years look back to the joyful times I had the summer I spent on Long Tom and I will add that I have never spent a season with more genuine pleasure than the summer and fall of 1861, for I felt that the Lord had specially called me to that field to deliver a message of love and peace to an apparently lost and hopeless community, and I expect when I am called on to stand before the great judgment seat that I will meet many who have been brought to Christ on account of my persistence in going among the Long Tomites with the message of salvation.
    The remainder of the conference year I spent in making my regular rounds and trying to strengthen those who were wavering, encouraging those who were disheartened and getting my circuit ready to turn over to my successor, for it seemed to be a rule in those days to keep a man on a circuit only a year, and get my reports ready to send to the annual conference, for in addition to the duties of the preacher in charge of a large circuit I was required to report the number of families I visited and prayed with, the number of times I preached, the number of class meetings I held, the number of prayer meetings I attended, the financial report, for I was expected to take up the regular collections for the different institutions of the church, and the amount of salary I received, and that was somewhat difficult, for it consisted in but very little cash, but occasionally a pair of homemade socks or a homemade shirt, for in those good old days the women had their own looms and wove the cloth to make the clothes for the entire family and made it up into clothes, and consequently were independent, as they generally kept a few sheep for their wool and the preacher fared with the rest, but when it came to money, that was about as scarce as anything you could name, but we needed but little of that, as wherever we went we were at home and as a rule were welcome, but along at the close of the year the people began to think of my salary and a move was put on foot to buy me a fine young mare that belonged to one of the members and he offered her to the church for seventy-five dollars and he would donate fifteen dollars for his part if the others would make up the sixty and he would take his pay in almost anything that he could use, such as hay, grain, a hog, calf, etc., so the amount was raised and I was presented and duly credited, so was provided with a fine young mare that I soon broke to ride and was valued at one hundred dollars by one of the stock men referred to in a former letter as telling the joke on his companion when he was thrown from his horse, for although he claimed to be an infidel, he was a warm friend of mine.
    Four Lakes, Wash., Sept. 5, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1923, page 5


    The last time I wrote for the Medford Mail Tribune I was trying to give an account of the closing scenes of the camp meeting on Long Tom and I might say the closing scenes of my first year in Oregon and when I switched off of my account of my trip from Medford to Portland I had reached Junction City, where during the second big flood of the winter of 1861 and '62 John Smith, my assistant as junior minister, and I had the wonderful experience of riding all day in a general rain storm and the most of the time in water from a few inches to several feet deep, crossing ugly streams, swimming sloughs and taking chances on being drowned or at least being completely submerged in the rushing water; a scene that is as vivid to my mind today as it was the day we reached the hospitable home of the old pioneer, my friend, Mr. Beard. Arriving at Junction City, along in the afternoon I began to look for the places that had been devastated by the caterpillar, for I had read in the Oregon Journal and the Mail Tribune accounts of the devastation, total destruction caused by them, where they had taken everything before them, even that they were so numerous as to stop trains by covering the tracks to such an extent that it became necessary to cover the tracks with sand to keep the wheels from sliding, but instead of waste and total destruction I found the vast prairie covered with as fine a crop of hay, grain and other farm products as could be wished for in any country, and I was really surprised to see such fine crops for when I used to travel over those apparently almost useless acres of prairie land, that in an early day were used for pasture lands, to see them covered with such crops as were seen from the car window, I had to change my mind and decide that by proper cultivation and the proper use of fertilizers almost any land in Oregon can be made productive. I remember that some twenty or more years ago when I made a trip with my two daughters up to Portland with a team, traveling over that vast tract of land between Coburg and Albany, that we used to travel for miles and miles without seeing a house unless it was off some distance from the road, and more than once we had to drive long distances between places where we could find water for ourselves or our horses, although the whole country was fenced up in large tracts and used for pasture, and in addition to the dreariness of the sight along the road there were crossroads running at right angles to each other with no signboards to assist the traveler in deciding the way he should go and often the road would be running north and south and we would come up square against a fence and the road would turn to the east and west and the smoke would be so dense that we could not see the hills, and we would be at a loss to tell which one to take, and on our return trip in going from Albany to Coburg we traveled 63 miles in one day, according to my watch, counting the way we had traveled over the country where I knew the distance and generally when we came to one of those places we were just as liable to turn in the wrong as the right direction and no house in sight, and we seldom met anyone to inquire of, but now it was entirely changed, for the large tracts of land had been divided up and instead of an almost barren waste, there was fine grain fields, and instead of a vast prairie, the whole country was interspersed with large groves of trees of a different variety and nice modern dwelling houses and barns were scattered over the country and instead of the picture of desolation, thrift and prosperity was visible all around and thus it was until we reached Albany. But I learned later that the belt of the country that was infested by the caterpillars was further on north along the Santiam River, and from there to Salem there was nothing of special note unless it was a large house that I took to be a schoolhouse, where there seemed to be hundreds of boys and girls out on the playgrounds, seemingly enjoying themselves at all kinds of sports. Of course we could see the dismal-looking buildings were the incorrigible boys and girls are sent, known as the reform school, but there was nothing particularly attractive about that institution that would cause anyone to desire to make it their home.
    But now we were nearing the capital of the great state of Oregon and one would naturally expect to see something of a depot in the capital of our state, but instead we found the same little dingy-looking old buildings all connected together that we saw twenty years ago and one would suppose, judging from the look of them, that they had not been painted since I was there seven years ago, and I confess that I felt humiliated when I heard the remarks made by the tourists, for there were several of them in the car with me, about the shabby dilapidated-looking depot the citizens of Salem had to attract the attention of the thousands of people who are traveling through the city.
    Four Lakes, Sept. 8, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 12, 1923, page B2


    Reconstruction of the Elk Creek Road began Monday, September 3rd, with a small crew. It is rumored that there will be three months of work.
    The Hayes sawmill seems to be a failure, as it has not been operating for quite a while. Cause is said to be on account of Ffinancial failings.
    School in District No. 70 opened Monday, Sept. 10, with a total of 14 pupils, Mrs. Ray Willits as instructor. Grades from first to eighth will be taught. We all look for a more successful year this term.
    Mrs. Sarah Whitley, who received a stroke of paralysis last June, is recovering as rapidly as can be expected. Dr. Dow is her attending physician.
    Fred Sturgis is putting up his last crop of hay. Mr. Sturgis recently returned from the huckleberry patch.
    George Trusty, Lee Whitley, Ezra Whitley and Wm. Ivey are all being employed by the Brownlee Olds Lumber Co. at Butte Falls, Ore. Elmer Ivey, who has been employed by the above company, was forced to discontinue work on account of a small injury received while working there.
    Mr. P. S. Sandoz motored to Medford last week for fruit. Elmer Ivey accompanied him.
    Mr. and Mrs. Whalley journeyed to Medford Wednesday, Sept. 12. 
Medford Mail Tribune, September 14, 1923, page 7


    In my last letter to the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune I gave a brief account of my travels from Junction City through Linn County, and my experience I had in former years traveling through, at that time trying to find my way through the dense smoke, and the decided improvement that had been made during the past twenty-five years, and the wonderful changes in the general appearance of the country, and wound up by giving a pen picture of the Southern Pacific depot that I had occasionally visited during the last twenty years. So, resuming my journey from Salem onward for the City of Roses, after leaving there, there was nothing of especial interest occurred, although we traveled over a fine country, interspersed with fine farms and towns, and many of them showed evident signs of prosperity and beauty, for there are many places that would make us old Oregonians feel proud to see, as well as to hear the favorable comments made by the travelers as we would pass by, and as they came to and passed the great falls at the upper end of Oregon City we noticed the wonderful changes that had taken place there since my first visit to that noted city in the fall of 1862, where I was sent by the "powers that be" of the Pacific Conference. But before I say anything about my experience as a circuit rider I wish to mention some of the changes that have taken place in and around that place. When I first saw the falls there was a solid sheet of water rolling over an apparently smooth surface, dropping, as near as I can calculate, something like twenty-five or thirty feet, making a perpendicular drop all the way across the entire breadth of the river, and making such a noise that it was heard for miles in almost every direction, so at a distance of seven or so miles it sounded like the great waves of the ocean dashing against the rocky shores, and long before I came in sight of it I was reminded of the first time I ever heard the breakers along the coast of the Pacific Ocean as we were riding along a mountain trail on our way to the Mariposa mines from Los Angeles during the spring of 1849, but now the beauty and grandeur of the sight is destroyed to a great extent by the avarice of men, for instead of that lovely, majestic and truly sublime scene it is interspersed with great buildings, and the water diverted from its natural course into smaller channels. For instance, on the opposite side of the river is the Oregon City locks that are arranged so as to carry a large portion of the water through the canal so as to enable the large river steamboats to pass up and down the stream, a contrivance so arranged as to allow a steamboat to enter the lower end of the canal and then a gate is closed behind it and the water is permitted to rush in until that section of the canal is filled up to a certain point, when another lake is formed, and thus step by step the boat is raised up to the level of the water above the dam. In addition to that wonderful improvement in the line of navigation there is a mammoth electric light and power plant established that furnishes light and power for the city and all the country around, including the city of Portland and its suburbs. In addition to that there was the last time I was there two large paper mills where hundreds of tons of paper is manufactured, besides other smaller manufactories of different things, and on the Oregon City side of the river there are grist mills, paper mills, a large woolen mill where all kinds of woolen industries are carried on. All these different institutions tend to destroy the beauty of the grandeur of the original falls. While these different enterprises add to the wealth of the country its millions of dollars and give employment to thousands of men and women, it does seem an oversight that our "powers that be" didn't set apart that wonderful natural beauty as a national park so that the coming generations could see it in its original grandeur.
    The principal part of the city is situated on the bluff that overhangs the railroad and business portion of the city, so that the tourists traveling in the cars can see but very little of the residence portion, as there is a perpendicular bluff along the bank of the river, leaving but a narrow strip of land so that there is only room for one street up and down the river, and almost every part of that is utilized for business houses, and the families have their homes on the fine tablelands above the business section, where are to be found some of the most beautiful residences anywhere in the state. In former years people going up or down were required to make the ascent or descent of several hundred feet by way of steps that had been built for pedestrians, although there was a very good wagon road up and down, starting from the lower part of the town, but now they have huge elevators arranged so that one can go up or down in a very few minutes. But I see that my letter is already long enough, so will close for this time.
    Four Lakes, Sept. 12, 1923. 
Medford Mail Tribune, September 17, 1923, page 3


    In my last letter for the readers of the Daily Mail Tribune I was trying to tell of some of the beauties of one of the oldest and perhaps one of the most beautiful cities in the state of Oregon, and although only a very small part of it can be seen by the tourist or traveler passing through the country, still if you, thus going through, would stop and spend a few hours riding over the city and viewing its surroundings they would be surprised to witness the beautiful scenery, for one can stand on the brink of a precipice, look across and up and down the river and see not only one of the most beautiful rivers, but also a vast extent of some of the finest farming and orchard lands on the Pacific Coast and also some rich mineral land, for the reader will remember that in that immediate vicinity are rich deposits of iron ore, in fact Oregon City is right in the center of one of the finest agricultural districts in the state, and is within a few minutes' ride of the metropolis of the state by electric car or by private auto over a lovely road through a solid network of gardens, berry patches and orchards as well as a continuous chain of fine houses, barns and other buildings.
    But I am supposing that traveler is going to stop and turn off the main highway or railroad and look around to see the wonderful sights to be seen passing through our lovely country, but instead of that he simply rushes through at the rate of twenty-five miles an hours, glances at a few of the most attractive things as he passes and then forms his conclusions as to the value of the attractiveness of our country.
    Perhaps the reader will wonder how it happens that I am so familiar with the country around Oregon City. Well, in order to gratify his curiosity I will state that after I had served my time on the Eugene City circuit I was sent by the Pacific Conference to the Oregon City circuit and during the year I traveled all over a large part of that part of the country preaching and visiting, and by that means became quite familiar with a large portion of it. But before I proceed with my story I must give the reader a little insight into the ups and downs of an itinerant minister's life, for it is not on "flowery beds of ease" that they are permitted to roam. Before I went to my new charge I inquired of my predecessor who was the prominent member on the circuit, and among others the name of W. W. Cooke was given as one of the official board, who lived seven miles up the Clackamas River near the Union schoolhouse, and as there were no official members in Oregon City, I went out to Brother Cooke's and received a cordial greeting by both Brother and Sister Cooke and the children and was invited to consider that my home, or headquarters. So far everything was going on smoothly, so I started out to visit among the people and announce an appointment for the next Saturday night and Sunday night and the result was the Union schoolhouse was filled, for "a new broom always sweeps clean," and I preached a good old-fashioned gospel sermon from the Gospel of John, and made a favorable impression and at the close of the sermon re-announced the appointment for preaching the next day at 11 o'clock a.m. and also at night, adding that I would preach the next Saturday night and Sunday at the Young's Prairie school house. So far everything was going on nicely and I felt quite at ease.
    So Sunday morning I went with the family to church and by the time for preaching the school house was crowded and several standing in the yard, so after the usual opening services I announced my text, 1st John 4:8: "He that liveth not knoweth not God for God is love." I thought that I was simply preaching a plain gospel sermon, and think so yet, but after I had been preaching some little while I noticed two young men get up and walk out, making more noise than I thought was necessary and after they were outside of the door were talking quite loud, but I thought nothing of that and went on with my sermon, for in those days it was customary for a minister to preach at least an hour, and we had no more disturbance, but after we closed the meeting there were some who seemed to be a little disturbed and not as sociable as they might be but still I thought nothing of that and we returned to my headquarters, and I went on into the house except Mr. Cooke. He and one of the boys went and put up the team and when he came in he seemed to be rather gruff and presently he approached me and remarked, "Well, you might as well pack up your duds and leave, for you have made everybody mad today so might as well leave as you have done all the good you will ever do here." Well I thought that was pretty rough but remarked, "We had better pray over it first," and I ate a very light dinner and retired to the woods to pray and meditate until time to go to church that night, and the result was I had a good congregation and preached with great liberty, and announced preaching for the next night, urging the members to pray for a revival. But I will try to tell the result in my next as my letter is long enough this time.
    Four Lakes, Wash., Sept. 15, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 18, 1923, page 2


    As a result of a recent alleged escapade in which he and several others were arrested on a charge of being intoxicated on the streets of Eagle Point, Raleigh Matthews, who pleaded not guilty to the charge and was bound over to the grand jury on $250 bail by County Judge G. A. Gardner, has started serving a 30-day jail sentence.
    The jail sentence which was imposted last July by Justice Glenn O. Taylor in addition to a $250 fine on a charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor was suspended by the magistrate "during good behavior" of Matthews. It was ordered into effect yesterday as a result of last Saturday night's happening. Habeas corpus proceedings in circuit court to obtain the release of the defendant from confinement in the county jail are anticipated.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 20, 1923, page 7


    When I closed my last letter for the perusal of the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, I was just at the close of my first Sunday night's meeting, after Brother Cooke had advised me to pack up my duds and leave, assuring me that I had done all the good I would ever do there, but I had experience enough in the ministry by that time to think for myself and not listen to advice from a backslider church member, especially after he had had his conscience aroused by two sermons that were calculated to arouse a guilty conscience, so after taking the matter to the Lord I decided to continue the meetings at least for a few days.
    The next day I spent the most of the time in prayer and meditation, and that night I went to church feeling that I had gained another victory and preached with unusual liberty, closed with a short song and prayer service, and by that time some of the church members began to become interested, among them my advisor, Brother Cooke, and he joined heartily in the services, and at the close of the night's services I announced a meeting for the next night, and the next day I spent in visiting and praying with families and that night the interest became more pronounced, and the two young men who became so angry, and as I learned afterward cursed and swore and said that I had told them of all the meanness they were very guilty and avowed that they would never come to hear me preach again, came back, and by this time the interest began to increase and a call was made for penitents to come forward for prayer and a few answered the call, and a general awakening was manifest, and by this time time my advisor joined heart and soul in the work, and souls were being saved. I might as well say here that my advisor, W. W. Cooke, was one of the leading citizens of the community as well as the church. He was a full-fledged southerner and very outspoken and afterward became a very active and influential member of the church. Later on he took me into his family as his son-in-law.
    I announced meeting again for the next night, and the interest seemed to increase, the two young men became regular attendants and by Wednesday night they began to show signs of considerable interest and at the close both of them shook hands with me and one of them, Tom, asked me to come and see him. So the next day I started out to visit him. He was keeping batch in a lonely place in the dense forest some two miles from the school house,.So as I rode along through that lonely wood the suggestion came to me that I had better not go into that lonely place alone, for there was no telling what object he might have in view in asking me to come and see him, that he might be taking that plan to give me a good flogging for my telling him all the meanness he was ever guilty of, so just before I reached the cabin I rode outside of the road, tied my horse to a fir sapling, got down on my knees and told the Lord that I was going on His business and committed myself to His keeping and went on feeling that confidence that amounted to an assurance that everything would work out for His glory and Tom's good.
    So going to the door I knocked and he came to the door and invited me in extending his hand and asking me to be seated. After a few remarks about the weather, he remarked that he had been thinking seriously lately about his soul's salvation and he wanted to have a talk with me on the subject, so after reading to him a number of passages from the Bible and encouraging him all I could and praying with him I went on my way rejoicing, thanking God for the work that was being done in that part of the circuit.
    Well I continued the meetings on to and including Friday night and closed to go to my next appointment Saturday night at Young's Prairie, with the understanding that we were to commence again Monday night. By this time the news had spread to other neighborhoods that a revival was going on at the Union schoolhouse and people began to come from a distance and joined with us and the result was that the house was crowded and many of the newcomers who arrived, some of them at least, becoming greatly interested and one of them, a man from Oregon City, remarked that we had quite a strong church there, but when I told him that we only had a few members but that these people who were taking such an active part were of different churches but were add rejoicing together in hopes of a reunion beyond the grave.
    Before I closed this letter I will add that during the progress of the meeting Tom and the other young man who became so angry because I told them of all the meanness they ever did, were both of them soundly converted and united with the church and continued steadfast in the faith during the time I remained on that circuit.
    Colville, Wash., Sept. 19, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 21, 1923, page 8


Medford Clarion, September 21, 1923, page 1


    When I closed my last letter I had continued the meeting at the Union school house up to Friday evening and adjourned to go to the Young's Prairie school house to conduct services Saturday night and Sunday. I had not time to make very many calls Saturday but the announcement for meeting had been pretty well circulated, and the report of the revival at the Union school house had been thoroughly spread and the result was a good-sized congregation greeted me Saturday night. Perhaps curiosity prompted many to come out to see the new preacher, and the result was that I felt greatly encouraged. We had a fine meeting and it seemed as though the Lord gave me special delivery and access to the people and the result was that on Sunday almost everybody in the entire neighborhood turned out to see and hear the man who had caused such excitement in the Union school house neighborhood, for at this time I had met with such success there was a very bitter feeling existing there as there was almost everywhere else throughout the whole country against me on account of that detested worth South, for the reader will bear in mind that that was right in the hottest part of the Civil War and the most bitter hatred existed on the part of those who were in favor of the northern side, and the northern Methodists especially were doing all in their power to keep me and my co-laborers from accomplishing any good, and on more than one occasion there were strong efforts made to keep me from preaching in the school houses or the court house in Oregon City, and once when I had preached in the court house at the close of the services a man rose and asked if I in my prayers prayed for Abraham Lincoln and I replied that I prayed for him the same as I did for any other sinner. The result was that when I went back to preach at my next appointment the door was locked and a notice posted that no rebel was allowed to preach in that court house. And on another occasion I had an appointment to preach in the Pemelo school house and a dear old brother by the name of Connut, who was a sympathizer with the South but joined the M.E. Church (North) for fear of being hung, just pleaded with me not to go, assuring me that if I attempted to preach there that I was liable to be hung, as the feeling was running so high, but I went all the same in the name of the Lord of Hosts and found a mob there with an American flag ready to put up over the black board, thinking by that means they would cause me to say something, or that they might be able to get me to say something so they could have a row, but I paid no attention to them or the flag and went on and preached of the love of God to a lost and ruined world, and the result was that there was no disturbance and after that I preached regularly, but they kept the flag hanging up all the same and I preached just the same.
    I might remark right here that in the early days that there were no church buildings in the country except in the towns and cities and they were built as union churches, free to all denominations, but as a rule were controlled by the Northern Methodists and consequently were closed to anything that had South attached to it.
    And even in the neighborhood where the Lord was doing such a wonderful work there were some members of the M.E. Church who were so prejudiced against us as Southern Methodists that they would not attend themselves or allow their children to attend, but still the Lord blessed my labors and after preaching Saturday night and Sunday in Young's Prairie I returned to the Union school house and continued the meetings the rest of the week, stopping Friday night to go to Pemelo Valley, but commenced again Monday night and thus continued on for four weeks so instead of "packing up my duds" and leaving, the Lord blessed my labors and I organized a good class and that summer we held a camp meeting in that neighborhood and I expect to meet many previous souls who took part in these meetings who were members of other churches, for there were Cumberland Presbyterians and Baptists and Reformers (later they took the name of Christians but when I was a boy they were called Campbellites but are now generally known as members of the Christian Church), but have improved very materially in their doctrine and practice. These all took a very active part in the meetings and I hope to meet many of them in the better world.
    Colville, Wash., Sept. 22, 1923.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1923, page 6


    Mrs. J. Miller visited Mrs. Sarah Whitley, who has been confined by illness.
    Florence Windom and Elmer Ivey were visitors at the Sturgis place last week.
    George Trusty has discontinued employment with the Olds Lumber Co. of Butte Falls and has returned to his home.
    Lee Whitley, Ezra Whitley and Wm. Ivey have also returned home from Butte Falls for similar reasons.
    Boyd Miller was home visiting his folks and helping with the hay crop. He has been employed by Mr. Mansfield for some time.
    Weston Miller returned home from Medford where he has been employed by the gas company of that city.
    Claude Moore spent Sunday hunting for one of his cows.
    Work on Elk Creek Road has been delayed by the small rains that have occurred lately.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis motored to town Thursday. Traffic regulations were broken on the return trip.
    Art Moore was a Medford visitor Wednesday.
    Harvey Morgan has accumulated quite a flock of sheep. He returned to his ranch near Persist, Ore., to stay for a while. He has been employed at Medford.
    School has been going full blast, under the tutoring of Mrs. Roy Willits. A mistake was made in the enumerating the number of pupils attending, as seventeen are attending, instead of fourteen, as published previous to this correction.
    Mrs. Florence L. Windom has returned to her home in Paisley, Ore. She has been taking care of her invalid mother all summer. Wm. Ivey, her brother, accompanied her as far as Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1923, page 12


    Mrs. Geary recently moved from Trail to reside in the Elk district.
    P. E. Sandoz motored to Central Point on business Thursday.
    Some good work is being done on the Elk Creek road at present.
    The recent rain and new road work made bad walking for the teacher and school children.
    Mrs. Florence Windom of Paisley, Oregon returned home the first of the week after spending four months caring for her sick mother, Mrs. L. A. Whitley, who is now able to walk with the aid of a cane.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 1, 1923, page 6


    Art Moore has been enjoying an unusual sale of shakes, as several persons have been up to Persist to secure them.
    A. L. Ritter has been selling religious books on one of the greatest international questions, "Can the living communicate with the dead?" Mr. Ritter has another volume for those who might be interested in such a book. Its title is "The Harp of God," telling how millions now living will never die. He was also selling other volumes pertaining to religious subjects.
    William Ivey motored to Medford Saturday.
    P. E. Sandoz hauled a load of lumber last week.
    Henry Trusty went to Medford Saturday.
    Tom Weeks is being employed on the road. William Ivey is also employed.
    Mrs. Trusty spent Tuesday, October 2, visiting Mrs. I. Miller.
    Lee Miller delivered a load of hay to his brother, Ezra Whitley, of Persist, and brought down a load of shakes on the return trip.
    With the rain it has been difficult for those who have hay cut to get it out of the fields and under shelter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Howell and Mr. Vieux motored to Medford Tuesday.
    John McDonald returned from a visit to Portland and Eugene. He also took in the state fair at Salem.
    Hatchery school opened Monday, with an attendance of ten boys and no girls. Mrs. Stanley is teaching.
    Mrs. Oscar Stewart and daughter were up from Medford and visited Mrs. J. E. McDonald.
    Gladys McDonald left Sunday for Ashland to attend high school.
    The Rogue Elk Hotel is still busy with motor parties up from Medford and other places. The chicken dinners are greatly enjoyed.
    F. B. McDonald, proprietor of the Rogue Elk store, left recently to join his family in California, where they spend the winter. Norman McDonald has charge of the store for the present.
    The Daughertys of Ashland held a picnic reunion at the Rogue Elk on Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Howell entertained Mr. and Mrs. Todd for Sunday dinner.   
Medford Mail Tribune, October 5, 1923, page 8


    Mrs. S. E. Albright and son, Fred Inlow, left today for their ranch near Trail, where they expect to spend the winter.
    Mrs. Albright was born at Eugene, her father owning the farm where the university is now located.
    Mrs. Albright was an old school mate of Judge Chas. E. Wolverton, who is holding United States court here now, they having attended the state normal at Monmouth. She also was a schoolmate of Judge Robert Bean and Attorney Benj. B. Beekman, all three of whom were teachers at the law school at Portland when her son, Harvey Inlow, graduated. Mr. Inlow is now principal of the schools at Pendleton.   
    Fred Inlow was in the World War and is now an invalid as a result of the same and they are moving to the mountains in the hope of benefiting his health.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1923, page 5


    Last Sunday we had services at the school house and it was well attended. Another of its kind will be held in January, 1924.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis motored to Medford Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Sullivan, who has been with them the past summer. Mrs. Sturgis visited Mrs. S. A. Whitley on their return trip. Mrs. Whitley has been able to walk a short distance without the aid of a cane.
    Mr. P. E. Sandoz went to Jacksonville to pay his taxes last week.
    Henry Trusty journeyed to Medford Saturday. Henry has discontinued employment on the road.
    Art. Moore has succeeded in disposing of his shakes as he has sold the last lot, which was 14,0000, to a road contractor on the river. Lee and Ezra Whitley have agreed to haul them as far as the Claude Moore place, where trucks will haul them there to the construction camp.
    George Hall is digging his crop of potatoes.
    Mr. Sandoz butchered a young beef last week. He has been also hauling lumber.
    Hunters seem to be successful in this territory, as it has been noticed that some have taken out their full share of deer.
    Mrs. W. M. Willits visited Mrs. F. A. Whitley Tuesday. Miss Inez Willits and Frank Howard also visited Mrs. Whitley on Thursday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 16, 1923, page 8


    The native sons of the Eagle Point district, who have such long legs from kicking the tenacious sticky off their boots, should be thankful it was not the yellowish conglomeration beanery chefs pour into a round piece of crust, and allege to be pumpkin pie.
Arthur Perry, "Ye Smudge Pot," Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1923, page 3


    To the Editor: The people of Eagle Point feel highly flattered at the interest that Mr. Perry has been taking in our town and its good name.
    We feel that the only way we can repay him for the compliments he has been throwing in our direction is to offer him the position as the Eagle Point correspondent. Of course we can't expect him to come up to the high standard that we have been used to, but he seems to know a lot about Eagle Point, and will probably learn a lot more before he is through, and will wish that he didn't know quite so much.
    Please tell him of our offer, and if there is anything he doesn't know about "our fair town," to come to me and I will show him around.
"Communications," Medford Mail Tribune, October 20, 1923, page 4


    Mrs. J. E. McDonald returned from a very enjoyable visit with relatives and friends at Portland and Eugene.
    Mrs. Thos. Todd and Mrs. J. E. McDonald visited the Hatchery school Wednesday. The school seems to be making good progress, under the new teacher, Mrs. Stanley. An unusual feature is the attendance of eleven boys, and no girls.
    Jim Casey is working at the fish hatchery; a new waterwheel is being constructed.
    Mrs. Eugene Howell and Mrs. Harry Vieux spent an afternoon this week at the home of Mrs. McDonald.
    Several droves of cattle and sheep came down from the mountains this week.
    Mrs. Todd and Mrs. McDonald were callers at Mrs. Spratt Wells' and Mrs. Dr. Beuchler's Wednesday afternoon.
    Mrs. Oscar Stewart visited old friends and neighbors in the vicinity Thursday. Come again, Mrs. Stewart.
    Heavy blasting is heard up Elk Creek these days, and work is being rushed on the road, with Supervisor Vincent in charge.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald entertained Mr. and Mrs. Howell at dinner Friday evening.
    H. G. McDonald left Friday for California to spend the winter with his brother, T.B., at Pacific Grove. The Rogue Elk will be open for the winter as formerly.
    Miss Gladys McDonald is attending high school in Ashland, and Miss Violet Phillips will attend high school in Springfield.
    Mrs. Leabo and daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Leabo, are visiting at the home of Ace Weeks.
    Ace Weeks had the misfortune to fall from the mower this week, which necessitated a trip to the doctor.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 27, 1923, page 2


    To the Editor: I have only been here a few months, and I would like to ask: Do you have any traffic laws in this part of the country? And if so, do they have anyone to enforce them? Do they have any such a thing as a speed cop? I have never seen one, or any effect of one being on the road. It is almost as much as one's life is worth to go from here to Medford in the evening.
    These are a few of the things I have seen on Saturday evenings. First: A car in the ditch, put there by a road hog who failed to dim his lights; one car without any light; four cars with only one light and that on the outside; two of these had no tail light; one car with headlights but no tail light; one big truck, one light; one big truck with one big glaring light in center of front, and no way to dim. The road is freshly graveled and the car skids like mud, and when you can't see where you are going with your lights dimmed and the others not, it is dangerous.
    Surely, sometimes we may have something go wrong when we are away out, but there is no excuse for meeting cars not two blocks out from Medford without lights. And this is not only one evening, but any evening you wish to go out on the road. There is more travel on Saturday nights, so you see more unlawful driving. This is not all by accident that their lights are on the bum. We have met the same small truck every evening for a week near Eagle Point with but one light. Now it looks to me like they are not very much afraid of being caught.
    Now I suppose I should "Beg your pardon for kicking," but I think if a few more would set up a good lusty "howl" we might get a cop, or get something done with those who persist in breaking the law.
"Communications," Medford Mail Tribune, October 27, 1923, page 4


    Emil Pech has purchased a half interest in the Medford Sanitary Meat Market from Louie Schwein, and will be found there hereafter.
    Mr. Pech is one of the pioneer meat market men of Medford, is throughly experienced in his line, has a large number of friends and patrons in this city and surrounding country, and will undoubtedly make a great success of his new undertaking.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 31, 1923, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pence moved out from Brown's cabin Thursday. They expect to build a new house on Lewis Creek.
    R. R. Dawson is working at the Brownlee mill.
    Lowell Ash is driving a new Chevrolet.
    Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe moved home from Union Creek Thursday, where they have been stationed this last summer.
    The Trail school gave a Hallowe'en program Wednesday evening at the school house which was enjoyed by all present.
    Clarence Middlebusher is visiting at his brother's, Fred's, recovering from an auto accident in which his arm was badly bruised.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. McKinnis and son, Glen, and Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe and little daughter, Wanda, were Medford visitors Friday.
    The Mayfields passed through Trail Thursday on their way to the hills to gather the balance of their cattle.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 5, 1923, page 3


    To the readers of the Eaglets in the Medford Mail Tribune, greeting: No doubt you have been surprised at the abrupt manner I have discontinued sending the Eaglets to the Mail Tribune, but I am now in the northwestern part of the great state of Washington visiting my daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lewis, and a few days ago returned from a visit of a month's duration to my grandson and James E. Lewis, wife and two children, and while there the 20th of September we all attended the county fair of Stephens County and a combination of circumstances caused me to strain my eyes. As the wind was quite strong, the sky as clear as a noonday sun and so many things of interest to attract my attention, besides the grand display of finery by the aborigines of this noted country, I did not use the discretion I should and I was almost blind, so have unable to read or write until now, and now it is with great difficulty that I can do either, and this forenoon my daughter came in and saw me reading a copy of the Mail Tribune and gave me a mild rebuke for straining my eyes, but as I have been so long engaged in the business as a newspaper correspondent, sixty-five years last month, and a regular contributor to the Medford Mail Tribune, the Medford Mail and the Medford Monitor regularly each week while they were weekly papers, and a part of the time four times a week, and the rest of the time twice a week since it became a daily, it is with the greatest reluctance that I can get the consent of my mind to give up the work I so dearly love, so have decided to take up the work again and continue it as long as my eyes and general health will permit, or the patience of the editor will endure.
    In my last letter I was giving an account of my trip from Medford to this wonderful country and was giving a brief sketch of some of my experience as a circuit rider on the Oregon City and had been telling of some of the glorious times we used to have in the good old days when the minister of the gospel preached the old-fashioned Bible doctrines and men and women were awakened to a sense of their last condition and sought and obtained the pardon for their sins and obtained the evidence of Divine acceptance.
    But before I leave this subject I wish to relate another incident and then will move on my journey, noting some incidents as I passed along the way. There is a beautiful valley in the southern part of Clackamas County that was noted for the fertility of the soil that in its early history was called Horse Heaven, as I was engaged in the early missionary work, in my meanderings happened to visit the valley and began to visit and preach as I did in the Long Tom country and the result was that soon the people began to be interested and so I arranged to hold a protracted meeting, and soon aroused the feelings of some of the old back-slidden church members who had been identified with some church or other "back in the States," but had so far neglected to read their Bibles and pray for so long that they had lost all religious enjoyment, and when they began to hear the old gospel truths, and their consciences became aroused they began to give me lessons as to the kind of sermons I ought to preach, and, especially to avoid anything that was liable to arouse their guilty conscience, but to preach safe things, or in the language of the old prophet Jeremiah, "plaster with untempered mortar." So I quietly listened to them but took my case to the Lord and the next time I took for my subject, or text, the denunciations of the Savior to the Jews as recorded in the 11th chapter of Matthew, 20th to 24th, and the result was that the Lord wonderfully blessed the effort with the result that these same men and women who did not want to hear about Hell and the judgments of God upon the impenitent were aroused and repented of their backslidings, and made their peace with God again. And the final result, so far as I know, was that many precious souls were brought to a saving knowledge of their Savior.
    Note--I commenced to write this letter about three weeks ago but my eyes were so inflamed that I was unable to finish it, and now am not able to read it over to correct any mistakes there may be in it, but trust that they (my eyes) will improve so that I will be able to continue to keep up my correspondence as formerly.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 16, 1923, page 8


    The City of Eagle Point was awarded $40 damages in its suit against J. Hanscom, by a jury in the circuit court this morning. Eagle Point asked for $250 damages.
    Hanscom had some cows, the city claimed, which were using the lawns and byways of the municipality for a range. Lucius Kincaid, the marshal, proceeded to impound the offending stock, in accordance with the ordinance therein provided.
    When Mr. Hanscom discovered that his cows were in durance vile he was somewhat nettled, and went to the pound and released, "forcibly and without permission," said cows, and they returned to their grazing in the city limits.
    Then Eagle Point took steps to have the question of the freedom of the streets to cows decided by a jury of their peers, with above results.
    In the suit of Frank Swingle against the Talent Irrigation District for $7000 alleged damages incurred by the building of an irrigation ditch through his land, a non-suit was filed when the case was ready to go to the jury. Swingle, the evidence showed, had been paid $1200 for a right-of-way and the suit was based upon alleged failure of the irrigation district to fulfill its contract.
    Criminal actions pending before the circuit court will be started as soon as District Attorney Newton Borden is at liberty from the sessions of the grand jury, which are expected to be concluded early next week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 23, 1923, page 3


    Mrs. Louise Nichols, one of Jackson County's best known pioneer women, died at her home in Eagle Point, Sunday, Dec. 2, at the age of 74 years, 4 months and 24 days. Mrs. Nichols was born July 8, 1849, at Blakesburg, Iowa, was educated in Iowa and Ohio and crossed the plains with her parents during the Indian war by ox team, arriving in Oregon when she was 18 years old. With her family she lived at Oregon City, Corvallis and Brownsboro for a few years where she taught school. Her parents settled at Eagle Point at the old Bradley place then owned by her uncle, later taking up a homestead on Lake Flats, where they built their home.
    Miss Louisa Bradley and Thomas Everett Nichols were married here in 1868, settling on the donation claim where they lived most of their lives and where their family was reared. They were one of the first families to settle in the Lake Creek country, enduring many hardships and having a vast experience that only the pioneers can relate. They passed through the epidemic of black smallpox, for example, when the mail had to be disinfected by smoke.
    Jacksonville was practically the only town in Jackson County then, and much gold was being mined here in those days. In late years Mrs. Nichols was very prominent in many organizations, including the Red Cross, civic clubs and W.C.T.U.
    Deceased was loved by all the children in the neighborhood, highly respected by the entire community, and is one of those sterling pioneers who are fast passing on to their reward. She leaves her husband, Thomas Everett Nichols, Eagle Point; one son, Gus E. Nichols, Eagle Point; and three daughters, Mrs. F. G. Walton, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Anna Brophy, Eagle Point; Mrs. F. J. McPherson, Eagle Point. There are six grandchildren and three great-grand children.
    Funeral services will be held at the Baptist church, Eagle Point, Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., Rev. Lawrence officiating; interment in the private cemetery of the Nichols; arrangements in charge of the Perl Funeral Home.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 3, 1923, page 5


    EAGLE POINT, Dec. 3.--Married, Rev. John Stille and Miss Maude Merritt of this community were quietly married in Central Point Wednesday afternoon, November 28, much to the surprise of their many friends, who all wish them a long and happy journey through life.
    Frank Caster is building a house on acreage he bought of W. E. Hammel. Orbia Davidson is doing the carpentering.
    Mrs. O. Davidson spent a few days the latter part of the week at her brother's, John Robertson, of Eagle Point.
    John Robertson and children ate Thanksgiving dinner with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robertson.
    There were nineteen of the Brittsan relatives ate Thanksgiving dinner together. John Brittsan and wife of Jacksonville spent Sunday with his brother, Earl Brittsan, and family.
    Mrs. James Merritt and family, who have been living on the H. Watkins place for the last four years, have moved up near the Rogue River bridge, and H. Watkins and wife have moved back on their ranch.
    Mr. Strauser and family of Salem are living in the Bill Lewis house for the winter.
    Little Edwin Crandall, who is still at the hospital in Medford, is reported as improving slowly. Mr. Crandall's sister, Miss Cora Crandall, is for the present staying with Mr. Crandall and helping with the children.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1923, page 10


    Well, I am truly glad to be able to say good morning to the readers of the Eagle Point Eaglets in the Medford Mail Tribune once more, from my own home in Eagle Point in our beloved Southern Oregon, after an absence of almost six months. Not that I am at all sorry that I took my long journey up into an adjoining state, for every moment of my time I was away from home I was either on my way from place to place and even then was accompanied by loved ones taking me from place to place to visit members of my family or friends, so that my time was spent in the midst of dear ones, except on the train between Medford, Oregon and Lamont, Washington, where I was met by niece Mrs. George Howell and granddaughter Mrs. Charles J. Potts and taken to the home of the latter. But I see that I am going ahead of my intended account of my trip. Leaving Medford on the morning of July 12th at 7:05 I had a pleasant ride on the S.P., where I had every comfort and attention I needed from the conductor until I reached the Union Depot [in Portland], where I was met by my son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Shaw, and taken to their home where I was met by their two sons and one of their daughters. The other was attending to business in The Dalles, but came home the next day to meet me. And after a good night's rest, the next morning my daughter and I started to see Dr. J. C. Elliott King, a skin specialist, to have him try his hand to cure my face and neck eczema, and after waiting for about half an hour after my name had been sent in, I was ushered in and introduced myself to the noted M.D., I say noted, for a day or two after when I had to take two treatments, and was there for several hours, I counted forty different persons who were ushered into his room, so the reader will see that he was kept busy the most of the time. I spent from that time to August the 11th in the waiting room and consequently saw but very little of Portland, as my daughter accompanied me wherever I went, especially in the business part of the city, as there is great danger of an old person that is unable to run across the street and dodge from autos all running in different directions at the same time and the result was that I saw but very little of  Portland except what I could see through the street car window unless it was at the entrance of the Corbett building, where I sometimes had to wait for an hour for my daughter to get through her shopping or visiting, and there I would amuse myself trying to keep count of the people passing both ways, each one rushing pell mell, as though they were rushing to save their homes from a destructive fire. Another grand sight to a backwoods sightseer to go through one of the big department stores, where one can find almost anything in the mercantile line desired from a box of pills to a five-hundred-dollar suit for the young bride--a place where one can go up or down on the elevators and be in a vast crowd all the time, where three thousand men and women are engaged selling and bundling up goods and sometimes you make your purchase and pay your money and they are hustled off, you don't know where, and the salesman or woman hikes off to wait on another customer and you don't see anything of him, the goods or your money for a half an hour or more, but finally the clerk comes around with the goods and change, all O.K.
    During the time that I was gone from here on my trip up to Washington there have been several changes taken place and some of them very serious. Among them was the death of Mrs. W. H. Crandall, who passed off about three weeks ago, leaving a young babe, only a few days old, the entire family was sick at the time and for a while one of the children was in a critical condition, but hopes are now entertained for his recovery. I met Mr. Crandall on the street Monday, but had not learned the sad news at that time. Mrs. Crandall was a devoted Christian woman and she and her devoted husband were workers in the Reese Creek Sunday school, and she will be missed, not only there, but in the entire community. Two other deaths also occurred in our community, that of the sad death of Benj. H. Brophy, mention of which was made in the Mail Tribune, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Thos. E. Nichols, one of our pioneer citizens, and one that is greatly missed, as she was a great worker in the W.C.T.U. and Red Cross societies and school. Notice of her death and activities in the Medford and Portland papers.
    We have also had an addition to our school of another room, the high school department, which is in charge of J. G. Thompson, and he and his family are living in the Earnest Dahack [omission] has built a house on the highway and is keeping a gasoline stand. Mr. Nat Russel and family have moved into the house formerly occupied by Mr. Denton, and Mr. H. W. Henshaw and family have moved into the Morgan house, the old Pool Hotel, and W. F. Watson has settled among us and is operating the old Snowy Butte Mill.
    Frank Ditsworth has torn down the old barn on his place, the old John Mathews place, and built a new one 60x80 feet, with 30-foot posts, a decided improvement.
    [omission] has returned to his shop to remain permanently.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1923, page 10


    Last Tuesday afternoon I made a trip to Medford, and on my arrival about the first thing I did I made my way to the office of the Mail Tribune and reported the subscription of W. S. Chappell to the accommodating mailing clerk, for six months, and turned in my check for the amount, less my commission for the same.
    I also left another list of the Eaglets and spent a few pleasant moments visiting with the busy clerical force, although I knew that they, as a rule, have no time to spend in visiting, but we mutually enjoyed the meeting, after my long absence, and then spent the rest of the afternoon meeting friends who were congratulating me on my safe arrival home again after an absence of almost six months visiting my loved ones, and spent the rest of the time meeting friends, some of them friends of years ago, among them Mrs. Harball and Miss McCulloch of Jacksonville, whom I met in the sixties, when we were all in the bloom of youth. I also met among others, Mrs. James Owens of Wellen, who up to the time I left owned two houses and lots in Eagle Point, but informed me that they had been sold, one to Cliff Hickson and the other to a newly wedded couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ames, and that the two families were living in their respective homes.
    Beside meeting those mentioned I also met a score or more who congratulated me on my recovery of my sight sufficient to be able to write again for the Mail Tribune and assured me that my Eaglets were greatly missed and made me feel rather proud to think that I, even in my declining years, was still able to do something to interest and, I trust, help along my fellow citizens.
    Among the items of interest that I have gathered for the readers of the Mail Tribune are that Charles Humphrey of Derby, the noted truck man, is still making his regular trips from his home, and it is off of the regular highway to Medford, and our merchants can always depend on him if they desire help in his line, in spite of the rain or mud. He was here Wednesday morning on his way to Medford for goods for our merchants and I met him and he told me that he had not lost a day since he started in last spring on account of bad weather or bad roads. Such men as that are a great help to any community and are of great value.
    The Eagle Point Parent-Teacher Association have a large closely quilted quilt on exhibit in one of F. J. McPherson's show windows and are going to give a drawing to see who will be the lucky one who is to be its possessor. It is valued at $50 and the ladies are selling numbers at 25¢ each and expect to sell two hundred numbers at that price, and the drawing will be held on Friday evening before Christmas, December 21 in the large dance hall, and after the drawing there will be an entertainment given by the school children.
    Another very important move that is getting under headway is the starting up of the old Snowy Butte grist mill under the management of the First Bank of Eagle Point, and Mr. H. E. Campbell, the principal owner and cashier of the bank, assures me that they intend to produce as good flour and other mill products of grain as can be found anywhere in Southern Oregon. They have secured services of Mr. W. F. Watson, a competent miller, to superintend the manufacturing department.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Hotel, in addition to the regular boards has been Chas. Manning of Prospect, who was here last Saturday; Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of Rogue River Valley, who has a fine home and farm on the west side of the Rogue River; Mr. Perry Clarno, who has a fine farm near the Crater Lake Highway, were here for dinner and Mr. F. O. Slade of Ashland, who spent Wednesday night with us.
    J. L. Hovey, the superintendent of the Alta Vista orchard, started Tuesday night for Hood River to met his wife who had preceded some two weeks, to visit her parents.
    W. S. Chappell, our cobbler, who has been engaged in the saw mill business for the past year, tells me that he has returned to his shop to remain permanently.
    Miss Crandall of Los Angeles, a sister of W. H. Crandall, is here with her brother to console and comfort him during his sad bereavement, and was in Eagle Point Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 15, 1923, page 5


    Although this is the third letter that I have written for the Medford Mail Tribune since I reached home, I find that there are several changes in business affairs that have come to my notice that I have failed to chronicle and some of them may be considered of importance, while some would be considered simply items of news. Another change in real estate has taken place that I have heard of since my last is the sale of the lot where the Dahack garage was burned just before I went away up into Washington to Mrs. A. J. Florey and her husband A. J. Florey, although very reticent as to their plans, with regard to their move intimated very clearly that they are thinking quite seriously of building on it and opening a soft drink and candy shop, as it is situated very handy to the dance hall.
    Another very important, and to some of us pioneer settlers very serious, move is the tearing down and removing of the old Eagle Hotel that has stood as an old landmark for many years, and I understand, although I have not seen the owner, or any of the family since I reached home, that the plan is to remove the old buildings and build a neat bungalow that will be an ornament to the place and greatly improve that part of the town.
    I also see that Cliff Hickson has a neat-looking barn under way of construction, but does not expect to finish it until next spring in time to put in his coming year's hay crop.
    I understand that Mrs. F. G. Walton, the oldest daughter of Thomas E. Nichols, who came up from her home in San Francisco, to be at the bedside of her mother at the time of her death, is still with her father, but expects to start home in a short time.
    Clarence Pruett, who was one of the proprietors of the Eagle Point pool room, has secured a position as salesman in the Nichols and Ashpole hardware store and is a regular boarder at the Sunnyside.
    F. A. Whaley, formerly of Medford, has moved to Eagle Point and is living in the James Jordan house.
    T. T. Taylor and family, who were on the George Nichols, Jr., stock farm on Lake Creek, are now residents of our town and are keeping house for Sam H. Harnish.
    William Merritt, who is on the Frank Rhodes farm and is quite extensively engaged in the poultry business, was in town Wednesday on business.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., and H. H. Fox, of Lake Creek, were in town Wednesday. They had been in Medford and Mr. Meyer took in a lot of dressed hogs in his Ford for the Medford market.
    Pete Betz and wife were here trading with our old and reliable merchants Wednesday.
    Levi Phillips of Portland was here visiting his half-brother, George, and Thursday went up to Trail on the stage to visit other relatives.
    Frank Caster of Reese Creek was here Thursday buying supplies from our popular and successful merchant F. G. McPherson, and so was Joe Riley, one of our pioneer farmers.
    Mrs. J. G. Thompson, the wife of the teacher of the high school department of our school, and Mrs. Seaman, the wife of one of the civil engineer on the Big Butte-Eagle Point water canal, entertained the L.I.C. of Eagle Point Thursday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1923, page B3


    In gathering the vast budget of items of interest after an absence of almost six months, among other items of special interest that I omitted to mention was that our primary department of our school is presided over by Miss Cecil Moore and in making special inquiry as to her qualifications and how she was getting along with her work, as a man who is greatly interested in our schools, he replied, just fine; she seems to be just fitted for the place for there is no foolishness about her, but her mind seems to be wholly taken up with her work, and I think that she is giving very general satisfaction. I had the pleasure of meeting her with the principal of the school, Mrs. George Holmes, the first of the week, for the first time.
    Among the callers Sunday noon for dinner at the Sunnyside were Miss Dunlap, a cousin of Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols, of Los Angeles; Claude Miles of Butte Falls, Miss Beth Faslow, one of our popular young teachers who recently graduated from the Medford high school, and is now engaged in teaching the Lake Creek school.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Nichols, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and her two sons Harold, who has recently returned from San Francisco to visit his mother, brother Lyle, uncles and aunts of the family of the late George Brown, Lyle Van Scoy, J. L. Patrick, Mordicia Hess, a cattleman of Fort Klamath, who brought over a small band of cattle to Frank Ditsworth, the old Polk Mathews ranch, to be fed; Kay Loosely of Fort Klamath who has his sheep on the range north of here, and his brother George of Ashland, the last four named remaining overnight; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayfield of Derby and later in the day T. F. Nichols and family and Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson of Medford, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols; Ira Tungate and Ed Gomez of Butte Falls.  
    Loris Martin, a noted hunter and trapper, as well as an expert rock worker who has been employed on the C. H. Natwick contract on the Big Butte-Eagle Point Canal during the summer and fall and up to last Monday, came in Monday and engaged room and board at the Sunnyside for an indefinite period as he has decided to lay off and take a much-needed rest during the winter.
    Miss E. Belford, who is living alone on a farm a short distance from here, called for dinner last Monday.
    Robert Humphrey and his father were also among the guests at the Sunnyside Monday.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatchery on Big Butte and who also has charge of the fish trap just above here, made a hurried call here last Monday.
    Mrs. Roy Bilderback of Derby was among the diners Monday.
    J. C. Fuller of California has been in the neighborhood during the week buying cattle.
    W. P. Morgan of Trail was in town Tuesday and informs me that he has traded the old Pool property to his son and that he is tearing the buildings down and intends to build a neat bungalow on the lot.
    Ralph Hurst was among the guests at the Sunnyside Hotel Tuesday while his mother, Mrs. W. P. Hurst, was shopping in Medford.
    Millard Robinson and E. Leamon and Claus Charley of Brownsboro were also here and W. F. Hanson and wife of Brownsboro were business callers Tuesday. And so was Herbert Launspach of the Medford [omission] interviewing Mrs. William Brown.
    W. R. McDonald and wife drove to Corvallis last Tuesday to visit their son and family.
    Elmer Robinson, one of our hustling farmers, made a hurried call on our blacksmith and also on F. J. McPherson and was off for his home before one could think. He is a chip off the old block, his father, J. L. Robinson, who always has something to sell.
    Sam Courtney, who has been spending some time in California following his trade, painting and paperhanging, returned while I was gone and at this writing is engaged papering A. J. Florey's house and stopping at the Sunnyside.
    Alex Betz was a business caller in our town Wednesday.
    C. F. Neusman, G. Schelt, Mr. Dosen and C. Lilge and another whose name I failed to learn came in Wednesday morning and engaged rooms and board for a few days. They are engaged putting up a steam shovel to be taken up to the Flounce Rock grade to do road work.
    W. P. Cole, whose wife went up to Enterprise some time ago to visit her mother while he was working near Butte Falls, came out Wednesday to meet her.
    I see that I have omitted to state that the county school superintendent visited our school last Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 22, 1923, page 7


    REESE CREEK, Dec. 27.--The Reese Creek school, taught by F. H. Johnson, Jr., gave an entertainment and Christmas tree Saturday evening with a treat for everyone. The decorations were very nicely arranged, everything suggesting Christmas. A large crowd was in attendance to enjoy the festivities. The following took part in the program: Recitations were given by Freya Ryan, Hilda Ryan, Mary Jacks, Evelyn Jacks, Morris Jacks, Mildred Bellows and Vivian Hannaford. Easter Hannaford sang "Holy Night" with Rev. Davidson accompanying at the organ. The cast of characters for the  Christmas play:
    Grandfather Cole … Bennie Bellows
    Fred and Ada, grandchildren … Tony and Donna Daly
    Lemuel Denke, a farmer … Frank Pettegrew
    Bimb, the butler … John Clarno
    Sally Evans, old maid … Esther Hannaford
    Kate, her maid … Velva Evans
    Mrs. Hale, housekeeper … Ruth Hannaford
    Mrs. Ames, solicitor … Bertha Clarno.
    Mr. Johnson, the teacher, went home to spend his Christmas vacation.
    There was quite a number at Sunday school. After Sunday school, Rev. John Stille preached on what the Bible teaches about prayer. Mr. Stille will preach each Sunday after the Sunday school.
    Will Merritt and family took Christmas dinner with his mother.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster and children, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Courtney, Mr. Marshall Minter and the Misses Mina and Myrtle Minter spent Christmas at the home of their sister, Mrs. T. E. Beaulieu of Talent.
    Andrew Tucker has just returned from San Francisco, where he has been employed at his trade, the tailoring business.
    Mr. W. H. Crandall and family drove to Medford Sunday afternoon to visit his little son, Edwin, who is in the hospital. He is very slowly improving.
    Mrs. Bert Clarno is improving also. She is able to help with the work.
    Mrs. M. S. Wood, who is at her granddaughter's, Mrs. Dick Johnson's, is able to sit up all day.
    Mr. K. Loosley has built a portable house on the Ryan land for his sheep herder.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 28, 1923, page 6


    Among the busy callers on our business men was Mr. Mercer of Brownsboro last Saturday.
    Frank Warner of Douglas County, one of the crew here unloading and putting together a new steam shovel for John Hampshire and George E. Madhior [probably McCracken], contractors working on the Flounce Rock grade on the Crater Lake Highway, came in Saturday and joined the rest of the gang at the Sunnyside.
    Fred J. McPherson, one of our popular merchants, reports that Alex Vestal and his brother-in-law Wilfred Jacks, recently from Burns, Oregon, a brother of the later Wilbur Jacks, who is here with his family, visiting Mrs. Jacks' parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Vestal, and Perry Clarno, who lives near the Crater Lake Highway, were in Friday. I also met Friday the following ladies in the same store, and they seemed to be acting as a committee to assist in arranging for the Christmas tree entertainment to be given that evening, as they were looking over the various articles in that line. They were Mrs. John W. Smith, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, Mrs. J. G. Johnson and Mrs. Thomas Cingcade.
    J. D. Patrick, who has been doing come carpenter work for Ray Ashpole, of the firm of Ashpole and Nichols, and boarding at the Sunnyside, started for Brownsboro on the stage Friday morning.
    Miss Elizabeth Burr, the county school supervisor, called for dinner on Friday on her way to visit the Lost Creek school, returning late in the afternoon, accompanied by the Lost Creek teacher, Miss Edith Fredenburg of Butte Falls, who remained overnight attending the Christmas tree entertainment, but Miss Burr ate supper and then went on to Medford.
    Miss Ella Belford was also here for dinner and went out to Medford on the afternoon stage.
    S. B. Holmes, our accommodating deputy postmaster, renewed his subscription to the Mail Tribune Friday through your Eagle Point correspondent.
    Bud Obenchain, who lives in the Lake Creek country, was a business caller Friday.
    H. H. Johnson, Jr., of Ashland, who is teaching the Reese Creek school, was here for supper Friday evening and attended the entertainment, and another young man from Butte Falls, who did not like to have his name in the Tribune, was here for supper. And so was C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Big Butte-Eagle Point Canal, but left immediately after supper.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our prominent farmers and orchardists, and his sister, Miss Cora Crandall, were business callers Friday afternoon,.
    Friday evening was the time set by the E.P.P.T. Association to have the big entertainment and awarding of the beautiful quilt that was to be given to the person who was fortunate enough to draw the lucky number. To begin the subject the ladies had arranged to sell the numbers at twenty-five cents each and planned by that means to raise fifty dollars to furnish the Christmas tree so as to give each child a sack of candy, nuts, etc., and then the plan was to have a small child take out a number and give it to a little boy and he gave it to Prof. J. G. Johnson and he announced the number on the card, also the name of the person who had that number, and he or she was to be entitled to the quilt. The result was that the quilt was hung in a conspicuous place in one of the show windows in the McPherson store and consequently it was generally known, besides being well advertised in the Eaglets and the result was that there was a full house, about the fullest house I have ever seen in Eagle Point, and after one of the finest programs rendered by the school children that we have had, and the best rendered, the long and anxiously looked-for announcement was made that the drawing was to be made for the quilt. There had been some two hundred numbers sold and of course each one who had bought a number was expecting to be the lucky one, and when the two little tots came on the stage and the smallest one, she looked as though she might be two or three years old, put her hand into the bag and brought out a little card and handed it to the little boy, about a four-year-old, everything was as silent as the grave, and in less time than it takes to write it, Prof. Johnson said that the number on the card was twenty-eight and that Mrs. Anna Phillips (Mrs. George Phillips) was the lucky winner of the coveted prize, and then for several moments silence reigned and one could almost hear his  heart beat, and just then old Santa Claus came rushing in with his cowbells, and then commenced the scramble for the presents, and congratulations and in the course of a few minutes the crowd began to disperse and each one of the one hundred and ninety-nine was wondering why they were not the lucky one.
    A merry Christmas to the editor, manager and their force in the Mail Tribune office.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 28, 1923, page 7


    As a result of a spectacular fire, which originated from an unknown cause and which was practically in full blast when first discovered, the Page Theater was completely gutted Sunday, and Amos R. Willits, volunteer fireman and popular young business man and partner in the Prest-o-Lite Battery Service and Electrical Supplies Station, was instantly killed and Fire Chief Roy Elliott was badly injured when the stage firewall collapsed and fell on them.
    Amos Willits was 39 years old and leaves a wife and son, Billy, about one year and a half old. He was of exceptionally pleasing character and disposition, and his tragic end is mourned by a wide number of friends, while the sympathy of the entire community goes out to the widow.
    The funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Perl Funeral Home, Mrs. Willits' brother being en route here from North Dakota to attend the funeral.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1923, page 1


    After the Christmas tree entertainment and everything had settled down to business we found that the capacity for lodging people at the Sunnyside was hardly up to the requirements, for every bed in the house was occupied and the following noon there were about thirty ate dinner, but they soon dispersed, going in different directions and to different places.
    Henry Gordon and our daughter Millie (Mrs. C. E. Hoyt) came in Saturday evening from their homes near Fort Klamath and Mr. Gordon had his supper and went elsewhere and I did not see him later and Millie joined her mother and sister and J. E. Edsall and they all started for Portland to join in an effort to surprise another daughter, Mrs. Grant H. Shaw, Christmas Eve in Portland, with what success I am unable to say as I have not heard from them since they left. It was planned for C. E. Hoyt to join the family here and all go together but Mr. Hoyt closed a deal by which he leased a farm and bought seven more cows so he had to stay home and care for things there.
    Jed Edsall, the present mail contractor carrying the mail from Medford to Butte Falls, secured the services of Thomas Lewis to attend to the mail business while they were gone and Mrs. Alice Daley has charge of the hotel with Mrs. Cecil (Babe) Caster as her assistant. She and her two sons, Orville and Marion Caster of Central Point [sic].
    There were not many here for dinner Sunday except our regular boarders, but among those who came in were W. L. Childreth and wife, Miss Beatrice Russell, a daughter of the man by that name who moved into the Morgan house while I was up in Washington, and Frank Ledgerwood and their friend, Mrs. Galbraith, John Hampshire and Geo. E. McCracken, two men who are interested in the steam shovel that has just been put together and started for the work on the Crater Lake Highway. Two of the men working on the steam shovel and boarding at the Sunnyside, Frank Warner and Ed Lelge, went up to Wolf Creek to spend Christmas with relatives and friends there.
    Monday as I was on my rounds looking for Eaglets I met L. G. Irwin, one of the newcomers who has bought a fine farm just above Brownsboro, in the McPherson store, and while there I also met Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ward who have charge of the old Tronson place, J. G. Johnson, the teacher of our high school who reports that he has 17 names enrolled in his department, a good showing for our first year; J. P. Stille and wife, and Frank Caster of Reese Creek. Homer Randall, formerly of Trail but now of Reese Creek, came in and spent the night Monday.
    Christmas Day was one of the gloomy days in our little town as the day itself was not as pleasant as it usually is but was foggy and rather disagreeable and chilly for Southern Oregon, and in order to add to the gloom the business houses all closed except Frank Lewis' store and confectionery and there seemed to be but few even there, and from what I could learn the Brown family, three brothers and two sisters, had their Christmas dinner as usual, and there were very few even of our regular boarders here for dinner, but we had the pleasure of the company of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Chase and several of the young folks who came in for chicken dinner.
    On Wednesday there were quite a number of people came in from the country, and Clarence Pruett, who is assisting in the Nichols and Ashpole hardware store, reported that C. E. Bellows was in and that he had added to his band of sheep until he now has about 400 head; also that Irwin Cottrell and Ray Conley of Butte Falls, and Herb Carlton of Flounce Rock district had been there.
    C. E. Hamlin, C. L. Swornstadt, T. Jarl and two ladies called for dinner Wednesday. L. O. McFarland was also a guest at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    T. C. Norris of Medford, one of the early promoters of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad, W. Y. Marshall, J. M. King and wife and Mrs. Jack Doubleday of Butte Falls, the last three named being passengers on the Butte Falls-Medford stage for Medford Wednesday.
    We held our regular annual school meeting Wednesday to vote on the school budget. There were but very few turned out to vote and the budget was adopted. The amount to be raised by taxation for the present school year is about $3400, which is $600 less than the years of 1922 and 1923, or a reduction of about 2 mills, and we have our high school with 17 pupils' names enrolled.
    Wishing a happy and prosperous New Year to the readers of the Mail Tribune, we will start anew January 2, 1924.
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