Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1922, page 6


    It will be remembered that Mr. Lumsden lost a suit of clothes to the thief, in addition to $35 in cash, a watch and other things of value. The suit contained a pipe belonging to Mr. Lumsden. Fortunately the suit has been recovered and with it the pipe.
    The suit was found yesterday morning on the front lawn of the A. W. Walker residence, which is several doors north of the Garrett residence [on South Oakdale]. It was intact and still contained the pipe and Mr. Lumsden's Shrine emblem. A serious aspect of the case is, however, that, when found, the suspenders were absent from the trousers and have not yet been discovered.
    It was learned from Mr. Lumsden today that the new, and as yet unoccupied, residence next door to him, belonging to F. E. Nichols, was also explored by the marauders on Thursday night. Mr. Nichols had just finished waxing the floors of his new house and the doors had been securely locked for the night. Friday morning when the workmen returned to the house the floors were badly tracked, the prowler having entered the back door with the aid of a passkey and having passed through the house from back to front. The foot tracks were wiped out, however, before it was thought of that they might have some value for police investigation.
"Another House Entered, Lumsden Finds Trousers," Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1922, page 6


    Much grumbling was heard about the city last night and today because the school board had rented the school's athletic park to the Al G. Barnes circus to park on today, especially among the baseball lovers, who fear that the diamond and field will be greatly damaged by the circus showing there. It is understood that the school board did not originally rent the park to the circus advance representative, but the plot of ground beyond the athletic park, which is also owned by the board, for $60, and that later a resident nearby who did not want the circus so near his house plowed up the lot.
    This automatically barred the circus from showing on this plot and the school board, on the promise of the circus representative not to plow up the diamond, or damage the park in any way, agreed to let the attraction appear there today. At that, the ball park is too small to accommodate such a large amusement aggregation comfortably and some of the circus belongings had to be stored outside.
    There was no other lot in the city available for the circus as the usual show grounds at the foot of South Grape and South Holly streets is planted in grain, and a large amount of old lumber is piled on the Palm lot, which might be used for that purpose.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1922, page 3


    A. A. (Blackie) Moore, age about 40 years, residing at 346 South Ivy Street, this city, is in Sacred Heart Hospital, critically wounded, and J. Moore, age about 23 years, a wandering worker, is held in the city jail as his assailant, as the result of a knife fight at the Denny Fruit Company warehouse on South Fir Street about one o'clock today.
    Moore was stabbed three times, according to Dr. E. B. Pickel, to whose office he was rushed following the clash. One cut over the heart and one over the kidney, in the back, were classified as "dangerous" by the physician. There was also a long cut in the muscle of the right arm. The wounds were inflicted with a long-bladed jackknife.
    Following the altercation, J. Moore, who has only been in the city a few days, fled, and ten minutes later was captured on South Oakdale, where he was found by Chief of Police Adams and Clarence Pankey, manager of the packing house. Pankey was an eyewitness of the fray, and when J. Moore fled pursued him by auto. Pankey lost track of the fugitive and returned and picked up Chief Adams. On the way back, J. Moore was sighted lying in the grass where he had lain down to recover his breath. When he saw the officer, he held up his hands and surrendered.
    Pankey gave as an explanation that "both the men were hotheaded," but could assign no reason for the assault except that the quarrel started over one bumping into the other with a truck.
    According to a number of women workers, a few words of banter passed between the two, in which harsh words were used. One version, of many given, was that A. A. Moore had knocked J. Moore down, and was stabbed by the latter as he was rising. Others maintained that A. A. Moore was stabbed before J. Moore was knocked down. All agree that the fight lasted less than half a minute.
    A. A. Moore was taken to Dr. Pickel's office, where a hurried  examination showed his condition to be serious. He was given a hypodermic and rushed to Sacred Heart hospital, where medical assistance was rendered. His wife was notified of the accident, and rushed to the hospital by taxi.
    A. A. Moore is well known in this city and valley, where he has lived for many years. He was a baseball player on the Medford team when the Rogue River league existed, and Kenneth Williams, a home run star of the St. Louis Americans, was a Grants Pass team member. He is also well known as a trainman, running out of Ashland, south.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 25, 1923, page 1


    The condition of A. A. (Blackie) Moore, stabbed in a knife fray by J. Moore, held in the county jail as his assailant, was reported this noon by Dr. E. B. Pickel as favorable, though still dangerous, The knife wound over the heart is held to be the most serious. Dr. Pickel says the blade would have penetrated the heart had it not been deflected by an upward swing of the arm.
    J. Moore is held awaiting the outcome of Moore's condition before any formal charge is filed against him. He will say nothing in regard to the affair, except that he hopes the injured man will recover.
    The knife with which the cutting was done was purchased at a local drugstore, and is a four-bladed instrument, the main blade being three inches long. It was purchased Thursday morning.
    According to Dr. Pickel, the wounded man told him that J. Moore ran into him with a truck, and did it a second time. He then remonstrated with him, and one word led to another. Seeing that his opponent had a knife in his hand, he threw him to the floor, and endeavored to take the knife away. While he was trying to do this, J. Moore stabbed him.
    A. A. Moore was stabbed six times, three times in the back, once below the shoulder blade, once in the arm, and once over the heart.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1923, page 1

    Mrs. S. C. O'Brien, 517 S. Grape, started from Keokuk, Iowa, in 1852, aged 9 years, and went to California; 45 wagons in train, all ox-teams. Stayed in California two years, then moved to Oregon in 1856. Settled near Central Point. Crossing the Platte River two men in the train were drowned. Went to California to farm. Were shipwrecked crossing the Humboldt Bar.
"Covered Wagon Saved by Ruse from Indians," Medford Mail Tribune, September 13, 1924


    The local police gave out the information today that a 16-year -old Medford girl while on her way home between 9 and 10 o'clock last Saturday night was knocked down by an unknown man, thought to be a tramp, on South Holly Street, two blocks from Main Street.
    The police, while not giving out the girl's name in order to save her from undue notoriety, want the occurrence published as a warning to girls and women to exercise careful watchfulness and diligence when walking alone nights on dark streets off the main thoroughfare.
    The young lady in question, as she proceeded along Holly Street noticed that a man apparently was following her and increasing his pace the faster she walked. She tried not to be unduly alarmed and to keep her eyes straight ahead, but suddenly overcome with a feeling that she was being struck at, intuitively ducked her head and screamed.
    This move was a fortunate one for her, as the man was striking out with a blunt bludgeon of some kind, thought by the police to be a "sand bag," and because of her head dodging the weapon just glanced off her head, but the impact was sufficient to knock her down, where she lay helpless for some seconds.
    Her shout of terror was also fortunate, as the woman who resided in the house in front of which the occurrence took place heard it and rushed out, whereupon the assailant, after striking the blow, took to his heels.
    This woman called the police and furnished them with a description of the man. Then Night Policemen Cave and Liggett searched over the city and through the railroad yards unsuccessfully for a suspect.
    For years Medford has had the reputation of being one of the cleanest cities in the United States, because of which women and girls have been free to walk the streets alone on errands, or returning from concerts and the like during the evening hours up to 11 or midnight.
    This condition of affairs has drawn much favorable comment from tourists, especially those stopping at the local auto camps.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 17, 1924, page 1

TO BUILD GARAGE

    To the Editor: In the "Flight o' Time" column for ten years ago, March 18, 1956, there was an item about my son, Herman L. Duncan, and I thought perhaps you would like to hear what he has been doing in the intervening years.
    He left Medford to work as production superintendent for Foremost Dairy of Portland. Then he was sent to Hong Kong, where he worked as production consultant to the British Dairy Farm Inc. After three years in the Orient he returned to the U.S. in December 1965. He is now in the employ of Fred Meyer of Portland as production manager.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1966, page 4


    Mrs. Rose Regina Singler, 91, widow of Jackson County Sheriff August D. Singler, who was killed in office in 1913, died Wednesday night.
    Mrs. Singler had made her home at 514 S. Grape St., Medford, for many years, moving to this city from Jacksonville, where the family settled in 1904.
    A native of White Pigeon, Mich., where she was born in 1875, Mrs. Singler was married there to August D. Singler in 1898. They moved to Jackson County and made their home in Jacksonville, which was then the county seat.
    Mr. Singler was constable for a number of years and was elected sheriff in 1912. He had served but a few months when he was killed in a gun duel with Lester Jones, a 19-year-old fugitive, near Jacksonville.
    Mrs. Singler was left alone to rear a family of eight children. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, an active member of St. Ann's Altar Society and a former neighbor of the Royal Neighbors.
    She is survived by three sons and two daughters, Valentine Singler, South Bend, Ind.; Raymond Singler, Medford; August Singler, Central Point; Mrs. Zita Maddox, Jacksonville, and Mrs. Hilda Clifford, Medford. Two sons and a daughter, Richard Singler, Rudolph Singler and Mrs. Rose Allen, preceded their mother in death. There are 27 grandchildren, 91 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
    The rosary will be said by the Rev. John Ilg of Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Conger Morris Chapel. The requiem mass will be at 9 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Committal will be in the Medford IOOF Cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1966, page 13