Homeseekers will find their investments all ready for them in the Queen Anne Addition. The company owning the property has just been incorporated, the officers being A. E. Kelly, president; M. F. Reddy, vice president; W. F. Turner, secretary and treasurer. Many improvements are contemplated that are metropolitan in character. Two streets are to be opened into the addition, one of which will be paved. Cement walks will be built the entire length of the addition and sewers and water mains laid. It will thus be seen that the company is to sell its property in such a way that it can be immediately improved. As a result of this policy every purchaser from this company must profit by his investment. Several beautiful houses will be built in the spring.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1910, page B10


    A. Conro Fiero and Mrs. George Harvey have purchased twenty-three acres on Medford Heights adjoining the city from C. H. Pierce, paying therefor $4600. It is the intention of the new owners to cut it up in suitable tracts and place it on the market with the view of making the Heights one of the choice residence districts of Medford.
The Rogue, March 1910

    MEDFORD, Or., March 24.--(Special.)--Another addition is planned for the city of Medford. A syndicate composed of Messrs. Fiero, Wilmeroth, Williams and Abrams paid $28,300 for 38 acres of land east of the Queen Anne addition. They will plat the property into city lots for the market. All the men in the syndicate are interested in orchards and other property in the valley.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, March 25, 1910, page 9

    On Saturday the Woods Lumber Company of this city delivered 40,000 feet of lumber on the east side of Bear Creek for new residences and hauled a little amount to that side of the city today. Within the past week over 125,000 feet of lumber has been delivered by this firm east of Bear Creek.
    "Building on the east side of the creek," states manager Wilson of the company, "is very rapid. A large number of houses are being erected, and they are all substantial. And not alone on the east side is there building going on."
    Mr. Wilson has purchased the interest of Wallace Woods in the company. Mr. Woods has purchased an interest in the Ashland Manufacturing Company.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 21, 1910, page 8

    The above name has been given, by the owners, to the tract formerly owned by Mrs. Kate McAndrews surrounding the reservoir and city park east of Medford. The city is now parking their ground and help to make this one of the most beautiful spots to own a home in southern Oregon.
    Messrs. Cusick, Myers, Arnell and Sharpe, owners of the addition, have gone to considerable expense to clear and plat this addition and have now placed it on the market in quarter-acre lots at very reasonable figures, and already several lots have been taken and some fine homes started; also Mr. W. D. Jaynes, of Saginaw, Michigan, has purchased a fine lot and is to put up an expensive house, also has purchased two 5-acre tracts and taken an option on 8 acres more. This tract is located east of Messrs. Lindley, Glaise, Reddy and others of prominence who have or are building fine homes.
    Money has been donated to put up a flagpole on this hill, and with the automobile road and wonderful view obtained from this location, makes it most desirable. City water can be had on all of these lots and the lots best VIEW [sic]. City view is unobstructed from any point of city or valley. Plat will be left at city reservoir for anyone to see and select their LOTS.
    Capitol Hill [is] named after Seattle['s] Capitol Hill and bears [the] same relation to this valley that Capitol Hill does to Seattle.
    Mr. John Arnell of Seattle was so taken by the picturesque view of the valley from this location that he readily purchased an interest in the tract.
    See any one of the owners for prices and plat.
    Lots ranging from $200 to $600.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 5, 1910, page 6

    A deal for the purchase of fifty-four acres within the residential limits of Medford has recently been concluded between A. B. Saling, as purchaser, and Mrs. A. R. Phipps, as the seller.
    A cash payment of $20,000 has been made, which is one of the largest cash payments ever known on a real estate deal in the Rogue River Valley.
    The tract is platted and is to be placed on the market at once, and is the largest of the many additions to the city of Medford. It has been named Laurelhurst.
    The tract adjoins the Queen Anne addition on the north, Jackson Boulevard being between the two additions. It adjoins Roosevelt Avenue on the east.
    Owing to its residential value Mrs. Phipps held this at a price that makes it one of the largest realty deals, as well as the initial payment having been one of the largest.
    The streets are sixty feet wide and the alleys twenty feet.
    All the lots and blocks are exactly the same size.
    City water and sewer connections are at the line of the addition to be installed at once.
    The slope for drainage, view and general desirability is perfect.
    Eighty-five lots have been sold already, and most of the purchasers are going to build in the near future. The purchasers, with the number of lots bought by each, are as follows:
    S. L. Bennett and James Bowling, ten; L. A. Gregory, five; Mr. Henselman, three; W. S. Redfield, two; Mrs. Harriet Stone, two; Forest C. Edmeades, one; C. A. Marsh, three; Joseph W. Ritter, one; W. L. Valentine, two; T. C. Wicks, three; Miss A. A. Weinhold, one; Miss E. A. Weinhold, four; R. H. Toft, five; L. O. Ling; two; J. J. Osenbrugge, one; O. C. Alexander, one; Fred Kettenacker, ten; Claire Edmonds, five; Nevis J. Lounsbury, one; F. E. Semon, one; J. J. Haurl [Hauri?], thirteen; Agnes N. Salter, two; John B. Goodrich, two; G. H. Dunning, two; R. H. Shirley, one.
Medford Sun, January 28, 1911, page 1

    The new addition of Laurelhurst, which has recently been platted and put on the market by A. B. Saling, is proving to be a popular means of investment, and many lots have already been sold. Yesterday Mr. Saling sold lots amounting to $2700 to a party of eastern people who have recently arrived in Medford. The easterners have purchased the property with a view of erecting homes.
Medford Sun, February 18, 1911, page 5

    Home building activities still continue in East Medford. Geneva Avenue and Minnesota Street have been especially active during the past few months, in fact since early last spring there has been a continuous upbuilding in that locality.
    Right now C. A. Wright has a two-story, nine-room dwelling nearly completed on Geneva Avenue. This building is modern in every particular and is to be steam heated.
    H. Humphrey and Son have a seven-room bungalow well under way at the corner of Geneva Avenue and Minnesota Street. This is to have a large basement and is to be steam heated. These same parties also have the foundation in for a fine bungalow on Minnesota Street.
    Glenn O. Taylor has a six-room bungalow nearly completed on Minnesota Street.
    B. F. Fifer, contractor and builder, will also soon have a new six-room bungalow completed. His new home will be on Minnesota Street.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1912, page 3

    With the completion of Jackson Street bridge will follow a great activity to make Jackson Medford's most beautiful boulevard. Last year the city council ordered cement sidewalks on the south side of West Jackson Street from the city limits to Riverside, and there will without doubt be another resolution for sidewalks along the entire street.
    Jackson Boulevard is the only street running east and west through the city without a break or turn, and is from 60 to 200 feet higher than the center of the city.
    The Medford Realty & Improvement Company have already built six beautiful bungalows on the west end at Summit and will complete eight more during the coming summer. Jackson School is also at Summit, opposite the Medford Realty & Improvement Company's property and is one of the finest school buildings in Southern Oregon.
    The Jackson Boulevard Improvement Association is being organized by the property owners along and adjoining the boulevard, and with the cooperation of the city council, the Greater Medford Club and such other organizations as have for the object the making of a "City Beautiful," great progress is predicted.
    On the east end, Queen Addition, a large portion of which is owned by the Medford Realty & Improvement Co. will be built up and construction will probably commence in the spring.
    Highcroft Addition, of which Chas. S. Lebo is the manager, will have a landscape architect lay out a beautiful addition. These villa sites are large enough to enable the owners to have beautiful grounds, and an arch will be erected over Jackson Boulevard at the head of the addition. No expense will be spared to complete the work, and it is estimated that within the next two years $250,000 will be spent on improvements by the Medford Realty & Improvement Company alone.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 1, 1913, page 3

    Laura Graves, a fallen woman, and Ray Langlois, a fallen man, her companion in a series of escapades in drunkenness and debauchery, were found guilty of vagrancy before Justice of the Peace Glenn O. Taylor, Friday afternoon, and given sentences of 30 days in jail, and a fine of $100. The fine and the sentence were commuted for both upon their promise to be outside of Jackson County this afternoon by 5:00 o'clock.
    Thursday night the woman and Langlois and a rival for the hand of Mrs. Graves engaged in a fight with beer bottles on East Main Street, the battle raging at its height upon the lawn of Chief of Police Hittson. This brought the pair to the city jail, the third party escaping on horseback.
    For the last three months, the police say she has been in a continual state of intoxication, sleeping in barns, vacant houses and haystacks. Recently, Mrs. Graves has been working on a ranch. During most of this period she has associated with tramps and presided at alley "can rushing" parties. The woman says she is a confirmed alcoholic.
    Ray Langlois, whose courting of Mrs. Graves has brought him into prominence, is well known to the police.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 18, 1915, page 2

    J. F. Hale has purchased the E. H. Porter residence property at 619 East Main from Mrs. Matilda J. Adkins and will occupy the same about November 1. This residence is a two-story Colonial style, has eleven rooms and is one of the nice residence properties on the east side, with large grounds.
    Mr. Hale sold his residence on South Oakdale a few months ago and shows his faith in Medford by investing in another home and the business properties recently purchased.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 18, 1921, page 3


Medford Mail Tribune, October 27, 1926, page 3  Plus ça change.

    As a result of a series of meetings between the residents of the east side, at which they discussed the possibilities of improvement in that section of the city, the district will hold a meeting in the near future for the formation of an East Side Improvement Club, which will hold organized meetings at regular intervals.
    All property owners in that district will be eligible for membership, and the purpose of the organization will be to assist the planning commission in its work in that section. Possibilities for improvement and needed requirements of the district will be called to the attention of the planning commission from time to time. The date of the first meeting will be announced in the near future.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1928, page 8

    Two new homes will be built this spring and summer in the Crown Hill district, which overlooks the city, with a beautiful view of the valley its entire length. Other residences are contemplated in that section this year.
    Announcement was made today by architect Frank C. Clark that work would start within the next two weeks upon the new home of attorney George M. Roberts [1815 Crown Avenue], estimated to cost $20,000. Its dimensions will be 32 by 62 feet in dimensions, two stories high, of the Pennsylvania colonial design with stucco finishing trimmed in brick.
    Features of the residence will include landscape gardening with a swimming pool, a lower floor built of eight-inch oak flooring, an old-fashioned winding stairway, and all modern conveniences. The home will be ready for occupancy next fall.
    Opposite the Roberts home, Mrs. [Marjory] W. Feasley will erect a $10,000 home [at 1820 Crown Avenue]. Work will start as soon as architect Clark completes the plans. It will be of the New England type with a lowered roof line, one story high, and its dimensions will be 30 feet by 80 feet.
Excerpt, Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1929, page 4


    A largely signed petition was presented the city council, signed by business men and property owners alike, the latter mostly east side residents, asking that the city officials improve that section of East Main Street between Riverside Avenue and Almond Street, taking [omission] the Bear Creek bridge, which section the petitioners designated as "Medford's worst bottleneck." A delegation of east side citizens was present to back up the petition.
    It was explained by Mayor Pipes that the widening of the Bear Creek bridge and other improvements petitioned for and tentatively agreed to by the city council last spring, as soon as money was available, had not been undertaken because of lack of funds, but that provision would be made for it in making out next year's budget, after further investigation as to feasibility and cost.
    The petition as presented reads as follows:
    "We, the undersigned property owners and tenants of property of the city of Medford, Oregon, do pray and petition the City of Medford for relief from the present and existing condition which now exists in, on, and around Medford's 'worst bottleneck' situation and lying between Riverside Avenue and Almond Street on East Main Street.
    "The improvements for which we ask are as follows: The placing of the four-foot sidewalks on the outside of the Bear Creek bridge, an agreement which was entered into by and between the City of Medford and Gene Childers on or about the 10th day of May, 1928, which states that at the expense of the city this work would be done, and which to date has not been carried out.
    "We, the undersigned citizens, ask that if the city deems it advisable to build but one side or half of the sidewalk on the bridge at this time, we then ask that the city build and complete the north half or portion of the walk first.
    "We further ask that East Main Street be widened by setting back the sidewalks 30 inches on each side of the street from Riverside Avenue to Bear Creek bridge, work to be done at the expense of the city. Calling your attention to the fact that there is inadequate provision for proper sewerage on the south side or portion of East Main Street in this block and ask and petition the City of Medford to lay a city sewer pipe of sufficient size to serve any future improvements of whatsoever nature we are able to foresee at the present time, at the time the street is torn up with the setting back of the sidewalks.
    "Also that the now existing parking strip on either side of East Main Street east of the Bear Creek bridge to Almond Street be eliminated, thus widening East Main Street east of the bridge to Almond Street, all of the above requirements being deemed very necessary to serve both the present and future requirements of the city of Medford.
    "We also call your attention to the inadequate parking space in this district, which is a handicap to this business district, due to the fact that there is no place a car or truck can turn around with safety closer than Crater Lake Highway, which greatly handicaps the business interests of this particular block.
    "Your attention is further called to the traffic that crosses and uses this bridge and street. The rapidly growing east side residential district with its many school children crossing this bridge in itself presents the safety factory of putting the sidewalks on the outside of the bridge, and the ever-increasing traffic arising from the Crater Lake Highway. The many orchards, the golf course, the city reservoir, and the many homes demand a wider and safer street than East Main from Riverside to Almond Street as it now exists.
    "A recent actual count of cars at the intersection of Main and Riverside Avenue from 5 p.m. to 5:18 p.m. was 400 cars; in other words 400 cars used this intersection in 18 minutes.
    "We, the undersigned, respectfully ask action on the above requests and ask the city to set some definite time when we may expect some relief from the now existing conditions."
Medford Mail Tribune, October 2, 1929, page 1


    The first gun in a campaign to forget politics and internal dissension, and get together in this community on a constructive march forward, was fired at noon today when at an open meeting the East Side Improvement League was formed.
    It is the plan of this league to widen East Main from the S.P. tracks to the Bear Creek bridge, put in new street lighting, cover the abandoned street car tracks, and get every property owner to modernize and improve the store fronts he owns.
    The meeting was characterized by great enthusiasm and unanimity of opinion, it being the sense of the meeting that expenses for this widespread improvement be borne by the property owners.
    A. C. Hubbard was elected president; C. M. Kidd vice-president, and Mrs. I. A. Coppin secretary and treasurer.
    Plans have already been started to secure signatures of all property owners and start construction work in the near future, according to Jerry Jerome, one of the leaders of the movement.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1932, page 1


    Medford's much discussed (and cussed) cherry trees, the harvesting of whose fruit involved the city in a $25,000 damage suit, filed a short time ago in circuit court, are the city's no more, it was announced today.
    Sale of the lot on East Main Street, between Portland and Willamette, where the trees are growing, was authorized at the last meeting of the city council. The price approved is $1100 and the buyer S. A. Kroschel.
    The damage suit involving the cherry trees was filed by Ivan Jones of the Beagle district, whose wife allegedly fell out of one when picking fruit last summer. She sustained a broken back, according to the complaint.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jones were permitted to pick cherries on shares at their own request, according to City Superintendent Fred Scheffel, when they voiced their great need of fruit and inability to purchase same.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1933, page 8

    Sale of the J. J. Steiger residence at 122 Oregon Terrace at the end of Queen Anne avenue to J. E. Houston was announced yesterday. The transaction, described by real estate men as the biggest residential sale here in ten years, was handled by Brown & White. The home was sold furnished.
    The residence is one of the showplaces of the Rogue Valley. It is a spacious dwelling containing 16 rooms, a large basement being completely finished and furnished. There is a central oil-burning heating plant. Servants' quarters are provided over a double garage. There are other accessory buildings.
    The home stands on two acres of land that are completely landscaped. On the grounds are two rare redwood trees and more than 500 rosebushes. There are ornamental shrubs of every description, many of them imported. Three concrete fish ponds add a continental decorative touch to the property.
    The place is generally known as the Reddy estate. The residence was built by the late Dr. J. F. Reddy, and the property was developed by him and Mrs. Reddy until it became one of the outstanding showplaces of the valley.
    Mr. Houston, the purchaser, came to Medford recently with Mrs. Houston from Dietrick, Idaho. He is a retired merchant and bought the property as a home. He and Mrs. Houston will take possession Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1936

    Walter W. Abbey, automobile distributor, has purchased from John C. Boyle, Copco vice-president, the residence at 28 Geneva Street. It is a modern two-story, nine-room dwelling.
    Mr. Abbey and family will move to their new home on or before August 1. The residence is now occupied under lease by Karl L. Janouch, supervisor of the Rogue River National Forest, and Mrs. Janouch.
    Mr. Abbey said he will sell his present home at 811 West 2nd Street.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 14, 1937, page 8