Medford Timeline

The Infamous Black Bird Southern Oregon History, Revised

Medford Timeline

The dates below have been derived from a variety of sources, indicated in parentheses; see the Key at the bottom of the page. Generally speaking, dates from newspapers are the most reliable--other than those from the weekly edition of the Mail Tribune, which may be inaccurate by a few days.

Many of the microfilm sources are available at Southern Oregon University's Lenn Hannon Library; remaining sources can be found at Medford's Central Library and in the files of the research library of the Southern Oregon Historical Society.

Note that most of the dates below are the date of a newspaper story, often not the date of the event. You may need to consult a perpetual calendar to find the actual date the event occurred.*

P E R M A N E N T L Y U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N

1883
Apr. 14: "Dolson's surveying party is expected at Rock Point next Monday" to survey the railroad route through the valley (Sentinel)
Apr. 27: David Loring, railroad right-of-way agent, was in Ashland, but "has not begun active work yet in this valley" (Tidings)
June 1: "There is a difference of opinion as to where railroad depots will be located" (Times)
June 15: "Grade stakes are being set along the railroad route and Mr. Loring is busily engaged in securing the right of way" (Times)
July 21: "The point for the depot in the center of this valley . . . is yet unselected" (Sentinel)
July 28: "A number of the substantial farmers in the center of the valley will fight the railroad company for the right of way" (Sentinel)
Oct. 21: "There are three or four candidates for the central depot," but where it will be located "remains to be seen" (Times)
Oct. 27: Phipps, Broback, Mingus and Beekman convey half of the future townsite to the Oregon & California Railroad (Snedicor)
Oct. 27: David Loring's "work is about completed, the right of way having nearly all been secured to the Siskiyou tunnel" (Sentinel)
Nov. 2: "To all appearances the central depot for this valley has been definitely located" at the future Medford townsite (Times)
Nov. 22: Charles J. Howard begins surveying the townsite (Times 11/23/1883)
Nov. 30: No name has been given the new town yet, "that being left with the railroad authorities" (Times)
Dec. 7: Surveying of the townsite has nearly been completed, "the clearing of which will soon be commenced" (Times)
Dec. 8: Two blacksmith shops are "ready for business" in the new town (Sentinel)
Dec. 14: The station "in the middle of the valley" will be called Medford (Times)
Dec. 14: "Emil Peil, an excellent blacksmith, has opened a shop at the central depot" (Times)
Dec. 14: "Messrs. Geo. Crystal and C. Wilprel have each built a blacksmith shop at the new town at the Phipps place" (Tidings)
Dec. 20: Medford town plat recorded
Dec. 21: "Medford has one saloon and a multitude of others are expected soon" (Times)
Dec. 21: "Wm. Egan and Pat. McMahon are putting up a livery stable at Medford" (Times)
Dec. 23: Medford's first birth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson (Times 12/28/1883)
Dec. 28: "Vrooman & Miller's [hardware and drugstore] building at Medford is nearing completion" (Times)

1884
Jan. 4: Mulvany & Slagle announce the Railroad Blacksmith Shop ready for business (Times)
Jan. 4: John Byers and James T. Guerin are hauling "a considerable amount of brick" to Medford for their construction projects (Times)
Jan. 11: Homer F. Torrey is building Medford's first hotel, the Medford Hotel (Times)
Jan. 11: The tracks of the Oregon & California Railroad have reached Medford (Times)
Jan. 12: McMahon & Egan's "substantial and commodious" livery stable was completed this week (Sentinel)
Jan. 12: Noland & Ulrich have purchased the NE corner Main & Front; will build the Railroad Saloon there (Sentinel)
Jan. 18: "The locomotive's shrill whistle was heard on Sunday for the first time" in Jacksonville (Times)
Jan. 18: A boarding train "of 15 to 18 cars" arrives at Moses Williams' property a mile south of Medford (M. A. Williams diary)
Jan. 23: The ballasting train reaches Medford "and the road is well graveled that far" (Times 1/25/1884)
Jan. 25: "The town has more than a dozen buildings now ready for occupancy, and several in course of construction" (Tidings)
Feb. 1: "The platform of the depot at Medford has been completed and the frame will soon be raised" (Times)
Feb. 8: Fortunatus Hubbard, agent for Studebaker and Osborne implements, is building a warehouse in Medford (Times)
Feb. 9: "Isaac Woolf has opened a grocery store at the new town of Medford" on 6th Street (Sentinel)
Feb. 15: Medford's depot is "approaching completion" (Times)
Feb. 20: Medford School District #49 formed from a division of District 2 (549C Timeline)
Feb. 22: Dr. E. P. Geary "has located at Medford for the practice of his profession," offices in A. L. Johnson's building (Times)
Feb. 24: A large crowd welcomes the first passenger train to Medford and Phoenix (Times 2/29/1884)
Feb. 29: "J. S. Howard has received his commission as postmaster at Medford" (Times)
Feb. 29: "Henry Smith of Wolf Creek is about establishing a lumber yard" in Medford (Times)
Feb. 29: "Work on the foundations of the two brick buildings of Byers & Jacobs at Medford is now in progress" (Tidings)
Mar. 1: James Cunningham, the railroad "agent and telegraph operator, has arrived and will be ready for business today" (Sentinel)
Mar. 1: J. W. Cunningham's Empire Hotel "is now open for the accommodation of guests" (Sentinel)
Mar. 4: The first rail shipment from Medford (550 pounds of mohair) arrives in Portland (Times 3/8/1884)
Mar. 7: There are now thirty-six buildings in Medford, "a pretty good record for three months" (Tidings)
Mar. 7: Freight trains arrive twice a week; the passenger train leaves Phoenix "every evening, excepting Saturdays" (Times)
Mar. 7: The Medford windmill is nearly complete; if it's successful, "there will no doubt be others put up in . . . the valley" (Tidings)
Mar. 22: The Medford post office and Wells Fargo office "will be in working order in a few days more" (Sentinel)
Mar. 27: Medford's first killing: Town co-founder C. W. Broback shoots "hard case" William S. Caldwell (Times 3/28/1884)
Mar. 28: "Five new houses have been put up and roofed at Medford within the past week" (Tidings)
Apr. 11: Simeon Rosenthal "talks of opening a store at Medford" (Tidings)
Apr. 12: Citizens of Medford petition the county commissioners for their own voting precinct (journals)
Apr. 18: Both brick buildings of Byers & Jacobs are "enclosed, and they will soon be entirely finished" (Tidings)
May 9: "There are four stores in operation, four in course of construction and two more contemplated at Medford" (Tidings)
May 24: William Angle opens the Farmer's Store; "will keep everything usually found in a general merchandise establishment" (Sentinel)
June 6: Dr. B. F. Adkins, "lately from the East," has bought two acres in Medford; "he will build a residence on it soon" (Times)
June 7: Kenney & Wolters have rented "the corner room" of Byers' brick building; will open the Gem Saloon there (Sentinel)
June 27: Medford's first performances: drama "Our Folks"; "shrieking farce" "Thirty Minutes for Refreshments" (Times 7/4/1884)
June 27: F. M. Plymale is now a partner with William Angle in the Farmer's Store (Tidings)
July 4: "C. H. Barkdull, Medford's justice of the peace, was sworn in Wednesday" (Times)
July 4: Medford hosts the valley's celebration of Independence Day with a "grand barbecue" (Times 7/11/1884)
July 25: William "Woodford's warehouse at Medford is nearing completion" (Times)
August: 40,035 pounds of freight sent from Medford station and 415,507 received during the month (Sentinel 9/6/1884)
Aug. 8: "Haskins & Co.'s new drug store at Medford will be ready for business in a few days" (Times)
Sept. 5: "H. F. Wood has been awarded the contract for building a new schoolhouse at Medford," 30x50', two stories (Times)
Sept. 5: William Barnum, "who bought the Broback farm, is expecting his family to arrive from New York this week" (Tidings)
Sept. 12: "C. W. Broback's fine brick residence at Medford will soon be ready for occupancy" (Times)
Sept. 13: "Mrs. G. H. Haskins has opened a millinery and notion store at Medford" (Sentinel)
Sept. 26: Barnum's planing mill machinery has arrived; "will be placed in a building near the bank of the creek" at Main Street (Tidings)
Oct. 24: "Medford people are preparing for winter by graveling their sidewalks" (Tidings)
Oct. 31: "A. G. Epps has rented Byers & Co.'s hall at Medford, and will turn it into a hotel" (Times)
Nov. 9: Medford railroad station agent James Cunningham reports a masked man robbed him of $600 (Times 11/14/1884)
Nov. 14: The new Medford schoolhouse "is about finished, is a good-sized building with a large anteroom" (Tidings)
Nov. 28: G. W. Williams will begin building a two-story building "opposite the Central Hotel" in a few days (Times)
Nov. 30: Station agent Cunningham confesses to the robbery hoax, leads detective to buried money (Sentinel 12/6/1884)
Dec. 26: Medford has 110 "business and dwelling houses," and a population of 400 (Tidings)

1885
Jan. 10: A meeting to incorporate was held "one night this week"; the opposing vote "carried the day by a small majority" (Sentinel)
Jan. 23: "The movement to incorporate Medford is growing in favor" (Times)
Jan. 30: The upper story of the schoolhouse is being finished, the ground floor alone now being inadequate for enrollment (Times)
Jan. 30: Merriman & Redfield at now manufacturing "Merriman's Celebrated Iron-Tooth Harrow" in Medford (Times)
Feb. 2: Medford, "a town only fifteen months old, boasts of 126 houses. They are also building a two-story brick hotel" (Oregonian)
Feb. 6: The county commissioners this week ordered establishment of as-yet-unnamed Jacksonville Highway (Times)
Feb. 24: The legislative act allowing incorporation of the town of Medford was signed by the governor on this day (minutes)
Feb. 27: Joseph H. Stewart, "who paid this valley a visit last summer, has returned with the intention of remaining" (Times)
Mar. 6: "C. W. Broback during the past week sold all of his Medford property" and plans to move to California (Times)
Mar. 13: The people of Medford on Wednesday, March 11, voted "almost unanimously" in favor of incorporation (Times)
Mar. 25: An election selects Medford's first town officers and a slate of five trustees (minutes)
Mar. 27: "A Presbyterian Church will be organized at Medford tomorrow by Revs. Williams, Bickenbach and Milligan" (Times)
Mar. 28: Town of Medford trustees first meet in J. S. Howard's office on S Front Street; elect Howard president (minutes)
Apr. 17: "H. H. Rice has put up a photograph gallery at Medford" (Times)
Apr. 20: Trustees pass first two ordinances: prohibiting riots, disorderly conduct, minors "loitering about the Depot" (minutes)
May 1: Work on the brick building for Roberts & O'Neil's store "is progressing rapidly" (Times)
May 1: Mrs. Caldwell has filed a $5,000 damages suit against C. W. Broback for killing her husband (Times)
May 8: G. W. Williams last week built a jail "for the accommodation of Marshal Redfield's victims" (Times)
May 8: G. W. Williams has let the contract to Childers & Son to lay the brick for "his proposed two-story building" (Times)
May 15: "G. W. Williams is building a large structure at Medford for F. Hubbard, the clever agent for the Norwegian Plow Co." (Times)
May 15: Elders Russell and Slover will hold services at Medford June 6 "for the purpose of organizing a Baptist Church" (Times)
May 22: Marshal Redfield was arrested this week "on a charge of having assaulted one McCarty with a ringbolt" (Times)
May 29: The town trustees offer the Board of Immigration free rent and lights to attract their offices to Medford (Times)
June 19: McAdams and Heely have rented Payne's hall and will open the Brewery Saloon in it (Times)
June 26: "Owings Bros., the well-known photographers, are now at Medford, and are taking excellent pictures at very low rates" (Times)
July 3: "Childers & Sons have received the contract for building the proposed brick hotel at Medford" (Times)
July 10: Jacksonville Hwy. "should be cleared of stumps at once" and work done "to get it in readiness for winter" (Times)
July 24: A petition was circulated requesting Robinson's circus to play Medford instead of Ashland, "but proved of no avail" (Times)
Aug. 21: Two Medford prostitutes were arrested in Jacksonville Tuesday night and locked in the "cooler" (Times)
Aug. 26: David H. Miller appointed postmaster for Medford (Daily Alta California, 8/27/1885)
Sept. 4: Byers & Jacobs plan to add a second story to their brick building, SE corner Main & Front, "at once" (Times)
Sept. 18: "Barr & Woods have retired from the butchering business at Medford"; succeeded by Neal & Whiteside (Times)
Oct. 9: George H. Chick's proposal to bring a quartz mill to Medford in exchange for cash and real estate has been accepted (Times)
Oct. 23: The county assessor reports valley populations as "Ashland, 1200; Jacksonville, 900; Medford, 500" (Tidings)
Oct. 30: "Work has commenced on Angle & Plymale's brick store at Medford" (Times)
Nov. 2: Town Trustees adopt "Ordinance No 19--To Prevent Smoking Opium" within the town limits (minutes)
Nov. 6: Butchers Neal & Whiteside quarreled on Wednesday. Neal struck Whiteside on the head with a hatchet; arrested, fined (Times)
Nov. 13: George H. Chick has arrived with his quartz mill; "it will be in operation in a few days" (Times)
Nov. 13: "Doctors Pryce and Geary of Medford . . . have formed a co-partnership for the practice of medicine and surgery" (Times)
Dec. 14: Town Trustees Childers and Phipps appointed as a committee to create a hog pound (minutes)
Dec. 18: Roberts & Retty will open roller rinks at Central Point and Medford, "being at each place three nights in the week" (Times)
Dec. 25: "Chas. Wolters has opened a bakery and confectionery store at Medford" (Times)

1886
Jan. 11: "The Medford town election occurred last week. The total vote was 125" (Oregonian)
Jan. 22: J. S. Howard plans to move into his new brick building "by the first of next month" (Tidings)
Jan. 22: "S. Rosenthal . . . sells so cheap that some people are inclined to believe he stole his goods" (Times)
Jan. 22: "Williams' fine brick building [the Hamlin Block] is almost completed and will soon be ready for occupancy" (Times)
Jan. 29: Attorney "W. R. Andrews . . . has recently located at Medford for the practice of his profession" (Times)
Feb. 5: "The plasterers are now at work in Angle & Plymale's new brick, and it will soon be ready for the 'shebang'" (Tidings)
Feb. 12: "The literary society holds interesting sessions at the schoolhouse every Wednesday evening" (Times)
Feb. 19: "The second story of Williams' block is now being plastered, and the building will be completed in the near future" (Tidings)
Mar. 1: Trustees pass Ordinance No. 26: "to suppress bawdy Houses and Houses of Ill fame" (minutes)
Mar. 19: "The Prohibition county convention will be held at Medford next Thursday, to nominate a full county ticket" (Tidings)
Apr. 2: "J. B. Riddle has leased the hotel building of Byers & Jacobs and will open a first-class hotel here immediately" (Tidings)
May 21: "The Riddle House, of Medford, is open for the accommodation of the public" (Tidings)
June 18: "The Medford marble works formerly owned by Shely & Jacobs have been bought by J. C. Whipp of Jacksonville" (Tidings)
July 23: "The Board of Trustees of Medford have donated $100 towards the starting of a brass band in their town" (Tidings)
July 30: "Medford Lodge No. 83, I.O.O.F., was instituted on the evening of July 16th" (Tidings)
Aug. 9: Trustees buy fire equipment: "three doz pails or buckets 2 good ladders two hooks and 200 feet of Manila Rope" (minutes)
Aug. 13: "Baker's large new warehouse at Medford is nearly completed" (Tidings)
Aug. 27: "Geo. H. Williams of Medford has traded his brick block at that place to James Hamlin for 190 acres of land" (Tidings)
Aug. 27: "Medford has voted a 14-mill tax to finish its public school building and keep up a free school during the coming year" (Tidings)
Sept. 3: "The plans and specifications have been drawn for the new Presbyterian Church building at Medford" (Tidings)
Sept. 10: "Medford now has a dentist, Dr. A. D. Gleaves having located there recently" (Tidings)
Sept. 10: "Nearly all the Indians who came in from the reservation last Saturday . . . attended the circus at Medford Monday" (Tidings)
Sept. 17: "The First Baptist Church of Medford has incorporated and filed articles with the secretary of state" (Tidings)
Sept. 24: A. Childers & Son has contracted to provide 60,000 bricks for the new Baptist Church (Tidings)
Oct. 8: "Zimmerman & Webb have commenced the preliminary work for the new Presbyterian Church at this place" (Times)
Oct. 8: "R. M. Shely, a first-class marble cutter, has resumed business at Medford" (Times)
Oct. 29: "A footbridge will soon be built across Bear Creek" (Times)
Dec. 4: "The Rogue River Distillery started operations last week" (Sentinel)
Dec. 17: "Twenty-five carloads of wheat have been shipped from the Medford warehouse during the past ten days" (Times)
Dec. 31: "W. G. Kenney has sold his interest in the Medford livery stable to his partner, E. Worman" (Times)
Dec. 31: "Medford had its public Christmas tree in the large grain warehouse at the railroad track" (Tidings)

1887
Jan. 7: "The Central Hotel is being conducted after the restaurant style" (Times)
Jan. 7: "The Presbyterian Church building . . . will be completed as soon as the right kind of lumber can be procured" (Times)
Apr. 18: "The foundation of the new Baptist church at Medford is being laid. It will be a neat structure" (Oregonian)
May 9: "Medford has a Presbyterian church completed and workmen are engaged in laying the foundation for a Baptist one" (Oregonian)
Sept. 30: "In a very short time the Baptist Church of this place will be finished and ready for occupancy" (Times)
Oct. 29: "A board of trade has been organized at Medford" (Sentinel)
Dec. 17: "The last spike connecting the Oregon & California with the California & Oregon railroad was driven" (DT12/23/1887p2)

1888
Feb. 11: Medford "is a thriving little town of 2,500 people and its Board of Trade has a membership of 135" (Reno Evening Gazette)
Feb. 24: The City Council votes to purchase the future Carnegie Library block, No. 77, from C. C. Beekman for $275 (minutes)
Mar. 1: Vrooman Miller & Co. changes its name to Miller & Strang (Transcript 3/13/1888)
Mar. 13: Attorney Samuel S. Pentz "of Washington city; late of Benicia, Cal. . . . has come to stay" (Transcript)
Mar. 13: Photographer D. C. Herrin, of Ashland, will open a gallery on Front Street (Transcript)
Apr. 2: Six citizens petition the town trustees to have brush removed from W 8th and Holly St. E of the park (minutes)
Mar. 27: "The census taken by the city authorities a short time ago shows Medford to contain over 1000 inhabitants" (Oregonian)
May 17: "J. E. Drucks, late of Portland, will soon begin the erection of a large roller flouring mill" (Oregonian)
May 17: "The city council has ordered built a system of sewerage and provided for a fire department" (Oregonian)
May 25: Central "has been extended to within a short distance of Central Point, and is now the boulevard of the city" (Oregonian)
June 29: J. B. Riddle has sold the Riddle House hotel to Max A. Brentano and will leave for Douglas County (Tidings)
Aug. 8: County Commissioners order specifications and plans for a bridge "across Bear Creek, at Medford" (journals)
Aug. 10: "Although not yet five years old Medford has a population of nearly 1200" (Tidings)
Sept. 14: "The Jackson County Bank of Medford began doing an exchange and loan business the first of the present month" (Tidings)
Sept. 21: "The Clarenden Hotel will open in a few days. It is to be a strictly first-class house" (Tidings)
Sept. 6: County Commissioners order the advertising for bids for a Medford bridge (journals)
Oct. 12: "The contract for the Bear Creek bridge was let to Pacific Bridge Co. of San Francisco for $1450" (Tidings)

1889
Medford First Christian Church built, SW corner 6th & Ivy (MMT 11/21/1969)
Medford First Methodist Church built, SE corner 4th & Bartlett (MMT 11/13/1960)
Apr. 1: Medford City Council awards Gin Lin contract to dig Medford Water Ditch (minutes)
May 3: "The water was turned into the ditch last week for the first time," and "Medford rejoices" (Tidings)
Nov. 1: "Messrs. Wood and Whiteside began work on the water tank this week. The pipe line has not yet arrived." (Tidings)

1890
Medford's population is 967 (U.S. Census)
IOOF founds Eastwood Cemetery (Parks)
Jan. 9: "Mains are now being laid" for Medford's new water system (Times)
Feb. 13: Clutter & Co. are preparing a series of flood photos showing destruction of bridge and Hammon's barn (Times)
Apr. 10: Medford's 50-foot water tower is being "pushed to completion"; the redwood tanks should be ready for use May 1 (Times)
Apr. 11: County Commissioners order advertising for bids to repair Medford bridge, lost in February's flood (journals)

1891
Feb. 13: The Rogue River Valley Railroad to Jacksonville "made its first trip yesterday, carrying several passengers" (Times)
Mar. 6: Medford miller A. A. Davis shipped the first railroad freight to Jacksonville last week: a load of feed to T. J. Kenney (Times)
Apr. 3: A contract for laying pipe "was let last week, and the system will be complete in a very short time" (Times)
May 22: Medynski & Theiss' 40x160-foot Medford Distillery building is "almost ready for occupancy" (Times)
July 17: John A. Ramsdell will move the old schoolhouse "from the site to be occupied by the new structure" (Times)
July 31: "The M.E. church boasts of one of the sweetest-toned bells in the county, received last week from Portland" (Times)
July 31: The elevator building of the new Medford Distillery "is now about ready for the reception of grain" (Times)
Aug. 21: "A. C. Tayler has opened a shoe shop in Medford, opposite the post office" (Times) (11)
Aug. 28: "G. W. Catching will this week complete the outside work on the new schoolhouse"; will be ready for fall term (Times)
Sept. 4: Southern Oregon Pork Packing Co.'s building "has been accepted by the company and will soon be ready for business" (Times)
Oct. 16: S.O. Pork Packing "will begin the season's work next week, and expect to slaughter at least 2,000 head of hogs" (Times)
Oct. 30: Rigby & Hart's "Medford Business College opened last Monday under favorable auspices" (Times)
Nov. 20: "The Medford schoolhouse has been completed and will be occupied about the 1st of the month" (Times)

1892
Jan. 7: C. W. Skeel & Son's four-year-old planing mill destroyed by fire "this morning, Thursday" (MM)
Jan. 7: McBride & Case operate a photograph studio in Medford (MM)
Jan. 14: The Medford Distilling and Refining Company was "started within the last year" (MM)
Jan. 14: "The ladies of the different denominations met at the Baptist Church on Thursday" and formed the Ladies' Aid Society (MM)
Jan. 21: "Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gage in this city Monday," "the first twins ever born in Medford" (MM)
Jan. 28: "The new sidewalk between the depot and the schoolhouse is nearing completion" (MM)
Jan. 28: "The Jackson County Bank was incorporated on the 21st with a capital stock of $50,000" (MM)
Feb. 25: Goldstone Bros. opened the New York Cheap Cash Store in the Cooper Bldg. "this week" (MM)
Mar. 17: Weeks Furniture has moved from 20 N Front and been replaced by Higgins' temperance billiard hall (MM)
Apr. 29: "The foundation for the brewery and ice plant is being hurried forward" (SOM)
June 3: "J. A. Goff has purchased the Medford photograph gallery from McBride & Case" (SOM)
June 24: J. A. Slover & Co. received this week "a fine large soda fountain," "the only one in town" (SOM)
June 30: Chester Arthur Relief Corps, an auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic, forms (MMT 1/7/1951)
July 1: The S.P. depot "is sporting the latest thing in train order signals," "at the top of a long pole placed near the depot" (SOM)
July 8: "On Thursday of last week several ladies instituted Chester A. Arthur Relief Corps No. 34 in this city" (SOM)
Aug. 12: Adkins & Webb have sold their hardware business to Simmons & Cathcart (SOM)
Aug. 19: "The Johnson, McCarthy & Johnson ice plant turned out its first ice Tuesday, it being four inches thick" (SOM)
Aug. 26: "L. G. Porter expects to move into his new residence east of the creek [at 619 E Main] in about two weeks" (SOM)

1893
Jan. 20: A. S. Bliton publishes his first issue as new owner of the Southern Oregon Mail (SOM)
Jan. 20: "Hotel Medford, formerly Grand Central," first advertises its name change--Mahlon Purdin, proprietor (SOM)
Jan. 20: The Good Templars lodge "has been organized only three weeks" (SOM)
Jan. 20: William Barnum leases the Rogue River Valley Railroad (MM 11/24/1893)
Feb 10: The Southern Oregon Mail reverts to its original name, The Medford Mail (MM)
Feb. 17: John Weeks has announced he will build a two-story furniture store on Main between Grape and Holly (MM)
Mar. 3: The Medford Rod and Gun Club has leased grounds for a "shooting park" just east of Bear Creek (MM)
Mar. 17: Medford photographers Rifenburg & Murphy dissolve their partnership, Rifenburg will continue the studio (MM)
Apr. 14: Photographer A. G. Rifenburg plans to leave Medford on April April 24 (MM)
Apr. 28: "Telephone No. 1 was put up in Medford Monday," between Dr. Pickel's downtown office and his home on Bartlett (MM)
Apr. 28: In Monday's election only six votes were cast against bonding for railroad, electric, water and irrigation systems (Tidings)
May 5: The "Railroad Saloon" sign on Hanley's saloon at Main and Front has been painted over (MM)
May 19: Photographer A. G. Rifenburg has moved his studio to Grants Pass for a few weeks (MM)
May 19: First graduation exercises, Medford High School (549C Timeline)
June 2: "The frame work for the new Medford [Business] College was raised this week" (MM)
July 14: "R. H. Halley has commenced work on the foundation" for the N section of the Halley Block, SW corner 8th & Central (MM)
July 28: J. H. Coyle and W. G. Cutbirth, of Stockton, Calif. have opened a photo studio in Medford (MM)
Aug. 11: County Treasurer George E. Bloomer has absconded; was delinquent $15,345.89 (MM)
Aug. 11: The Halley Block, NW corner 8th & Central, will be "ready for occupancy in a few weeks" (MM)
Aug. 11: "The Medford Brewery has placed its [first batch of] beer on sale" (MM)
Aug. 18: "Contractor Lyon finished his work on the new business college Wednesday" (MM)
Sept. 8: Medford has no photographer again (MM)
Sept. 22: Photographer A. G. Rifenburg has returned for a short time to "close out his stock of plates and other material" (MM)
Oct. 27: Medford's first kindergarten, taught by May Sackett, "will open next Monday, October 30th" (MM)
Nov. 3: "G. L. Webb has moved his Racket Store to the Halley block" (MM)
Nov. 3: Photographer Rifenburg has bought a gold mine; his wife and daughter leave for San Francisco (MM)
Nov. 17: "A new brick sidewalk has been put down in front of the Halley brick block" (MM)
Dec. 15: Gibbs & Wheeler are to open a photographer's gallery in Medford (MM)

1894
Kentner's Department Store founded (Sun 10/4/1912)
Jan. 12: G. C. Wirth "arrived in Medford last Friday with his photograph outfit" (MM)
Feb. 9: Adkins & Webb, hardware merchants, have dissolved their ten-year-old partnership (MM)
Mar. 2: Photographers Gibbs & Wheeler have moved from the Halley block to Front Street (MM)
Mar. 5: Fire destroyed J. S. Howard's Pioneer Store and other buildings on South Front Street on Saturday (Tidings)
Mar. 9: "The hardware firm of Beek, Whiteside & Co. has been dissolved"; will continue as J. Beek and Son (MM)
Mar. 16: After several thefts, a chain has been attached to the drinking cup at Main and Central (MM)
Mar. 16: Removal of Hamlin and Howard Block awning began Wednesday, to be replaced by hinged corrugated iron (MM)
Apr. 20: George H. Haskins is moving into temporary quarters on E Main while his brick store is being built (MM)
Apr. 20: Haskins' old store is to be moved across the railroad tracks and faced E adjoining distillery office (MM)
Apr. 20: Mrs. Haskins is moving her millinery store to W Main (MM)
Apr. 20: "The Wirth photo company of this city is doing a good business" (MM)
May 18: A city ordinance has been passed granting right of way for power distribution (Snedicor)
July 21: "The machinery for the Medford electric light works arrived by today's freight" (Oregonian)
Aug. 17: George Haskins' new drugstore bldg. has been completed, with 20x40' room intended for city council and offices (MM)
Aug. 31: The Medford Electric Co. began providing electric power to Medford Tuesday evening (MM)
Sept. 7: Photographer Wirth has signed a five-year lease on a Medford gallery space (MM)
Oct. 26: Baker F. M. Wilson has leased the nearly completed Woolf Bldg., corner of 6th & Central (MM)
Nov. 30: Photographer Wirth has "engaged the services of Mr. H. L. Miser, a very able photographer" (MM)
Nov. 30: Wirth Photo Co. has also opened Ashland studio; will print duplicates from 15,000 Rifenburg & Murphy negatives (MM)
Nov. 30: "The Medford Electric Company will begin putting electric lights into residences this week" (MM)
Dec. 7: "The electric lights are now turned on at about a quarter past four, or earlier if the day is cloudy" (MM)
Dec. 8: Capt. J. T. C. Nash pays $7700 for the deed to the Medford Hotel at Main & Front, soon to be renamed the Nash (MM 12/14/1894)
Dec. 28: The oak tree in Main Street near Front "has been laid low by the woodman's ax, and 'twas a good act" (MM)

1895
Medford's population is "about 2600" (MM 8/2/1895)
Feb. 1: "Tyler & Miser, the new photographers, have a new ad this week." (MM)
Mar. 29: "Photographers Tyler & Miser were out Tuesday . . . taking views of Medford from the water works tower" (MM)
May 24: The second story wall on the Nash Hotel is being put up this week (MM)
June 14: The Turf Exchange Saloon opens (MM)
June 28: The city fire bell has arrived (MM)
July 5: Medford's first steam laundry will open "Monday next" (MM)
July 12: "Telephone connections were made last week with Central Point" (MM)
July 26: Ashland foundry's "first heating was made Friday afternoon" (MM)
Aug. 23: The Nash Hotel remodel has been completed: The building is now two stories, with a turret and balcony (MM)
Sept. 20: Crater Lake Mazamas organized Wednesday evening (MM)
Sept. 27: Telephone communication was made this week with Gold Hill (MM)
Sept. 30: H. C. Mackey is taking photos in his tent, "west side of S.P. track" (MM)
Oct. 4: After its purchase by "Landlord McCown," the Clarendon Hotel sign now reads "Western Hotel" (MM)
Oct. 11: Plans announced this week for Adkins-Childers building (MM)
Oct. 18: Presbyterian Church was "the object of the fire fiend's wrath" and destroyed by arson Tuesday night (MM)
Oct. 25: City Recorder B. S. Webb counts Medford's population as 1,859, "making a gain of 899 in five years" (MM)
Oct. 25: Rogue River Telephone Co. "has its line completed to Grants Pass" (MM)
Oct. 25: Photographer H. C. Mackey is now occupying the Hamlin studio (MM)
Nov. 8: "The Medford Academy is now established in its new quarters in the White-Thomas building" (MM)
Dec. 14: "Robison's photograph car" was in Jacksonville for two weeks; has been taken to Sissons Calif. (MM)

1896
Jan. 31: D. T. Lawton, pump dealer, and J. W. Lawton, saddler, to move into ACB this week (MM)
Jan. 31: G. L. Webb will move his Racket Store to the ACB next week (MM)
Mar. 6: "School was commenced" in the new three-story brick Washington School "last Monday" (MM)
May 8: H. L. Miser has bought Baker's photo studio; Baker "has decided to take to field work again" (MM)
May 22: The Medford Business College, "situated near the distillery," was destroyed by fire last Saturday (MM)
August: The brick First Presbyterian Church, SE corner Main & Holly, "completed and dedicated" (80th anniversary newsletter)
Nov. 13: "Ed. Wilkinson commenced the slaughter of hogs on Tuesday . . . the first day's killing numbered forty-one" (MM)

1897
Jan. 29: "The name of the Western Hotel has been changed to Commercial, under its new management" (MM)

1898
Mar. 25: The Medford Commercial Club was formed last Saturday after a presentation on the merits of the sugar beet (MM)

1899
Sept. 8: Western Clay Co. of Portland will put in the sewer down today's Theater Alley "as soon as men can be secured" to dig it (MM)

1900
The U.S. Census counts population of 1,791 residents in Medford; The Mail counts 2,100 (MM 6/9/1905)
Dec. 21: Nye & Stoner first advertise as new owners of the Racket Store, "successor to G. L. Webb" (MM)

1901
Feb. 1: H. B. Nye runs his first advertisement as sole owner of "The Racket" store (MM)
Mar. 8: The Medford Mail completes its own census of Medford and finds a population of 2109 (MM)
May 24: "No water will be furnished to irrigate any lawn or garden, except through a meter"; flat rate will continue for businesses (MMT)
May 31: The Mail points out that Midwest forests "have been practically depleted," and local timberland will soon be valuable (MMT)
July 10: The most destructive fire in years occurs as J. A. Perry's large wheat warehouse burns; arson is suspected (MMT7/12/1901)
Sept. 20: "The Medford Furniture Co., successors to I. A. Webb," have been remodeling their store (MM)

1902
June: Steel Main Street bridge over Bear Creek built by Jackson County (MMTw 10/24/1912)
June 27: "The Medford Public School Band have received their uniforms, green-black in color with silver trimming" (MM)
June 27: C. W. Palm and J. E. Bodge announce plans for a two-story brick building at Main & Front (MM)
July 13: Yesterday's balloon/parachute ascension was a success--no injuries when the balloon "came down with tremendous speed" (MM)
July 18: "On the event of July 31st, J. R. Wilson's new opera house will be opened with a grand ball" (MM)
Dec. 2: "The new steel bridge across Bear Creek will be completed and ready for use Tuesday evening" (Success)
Dec. 2: "Sixty electric meters have already been installed" in Medford and applications made for 75 more (Success)
Dec. 12: The first business to open in the new Palm-Bodge Block at Main & Front is Young & Hall's saloon "The Medford" (MM)

1903
Jan. 30: Dr. Cameron recently opened Medford Hospital for his patients, upper floor of today's Goldy Bldg. (MM)
Jan. 30: Frank Hull has taken "several views from the top of the water tower" (Success)
Mar. 1: Haberdashery The Toggery opens on Main "in the same block in which it is now located" (News 6/9/1933)
Apr. 3: "A number of the citizens of Medford and surrounding county have organized a humane society" (MM)
Apr. 3: The "old, wooden awnings" have been removed from Main Street, replaced by "tasteful" and "up-to-date" canvas awnings (MM)
Apr. 30: E. D. Elwood receives Medford's first automobile and is now "hitching the machine up and working it into harness" (MM5/1/1903)
May 1: "After a fitful existence of six months the Medford Success (?) perished this week" (MM)
May 1: The Lewis and Clark women's club has organized, to prepare the display of local products for the 1905 Portland exposition (MM)
May 9: Medford Book Store, conducted by Orrin Whitman for "several years," has been sold to George F. King (Publishers' Weekly)
May 15: Medford Hospital will be "ready for business" in the Barnum house on N Central at the end of the week (MM)
June 19: Photographer Frank Hull has sold his interest in the Elite Gallery to George Mackey and will pursue "view work" (Sentinel)
Sept. 25: "On Tuesday of this week the Medford Library Association was effected"; $100 worth of books will be purchased (MM)
Dec. 24: Excavations commenced for the Iowa Lumber & Box Co.'s plant (MM5/26/1905)

1904
Mar. 7: "The whistle of the Iowa Lumber & Box Co.'s mill engine was heard for the first time in Medford" (MM5/26/1905)
Mar. 11: "The C Street meat market is now open for business," G. W. Nichols, proprietor (MM)
Mar. 11: "A paper for subscriptions" was circulated Tuesday and raised $750 to build a baseball park in Medford (MM)
Apr. 8: A meeting was held Saturday to discuss moving the slaughterhouse in north Medford to "the lower end of the Ish pasture" (MM)
July 22: "This city will soon have electric light and power furnished by the Condor Water & Power Co. of Gold Ray" (MM)
July 29: The Rogue River Valley Baseball League has been dissolved due to insufficient attendance at games (MM)
Aug. 5: The city council Tuesday approved a contract with Condor Water & Power to furnish the city with electric power (MM)
Nov. 2: The first Gold Ray Dam electric power arrives in Medford (MM 11/9/1904)
Nov. 4: Excavation for decomposed granite walks in the City Park is under way (MM)

1905
In 1905 "the population of Medford was only about 2000" (MMTw 5/26/1910)
Jan. 6: Pharmacist George H. Haskins retires (MM)
Jan. 13: Medford's population is 2500 (MM)
Jan.13: An ordinance prohibiting swine in the city limits is "now in full force" (MM)
Feb. 10: A concrete basin for the new City Park fountain has been installed (MM)
Feb. 24: Foundation for exhibit bldg., NW corner Main & Front, being laid (MM)
Mar. 17: "Lawns have been planted" in City Park (MM)
Mar. 31: Realtor John D. Olwell's exhibit bldg. is expected to be completed "in a couple of weeks" (MM)
Mar. 31: There are no street lights in Medford; the streets are "as dark as a stack of black cats" (MM)
Apr. 4: Groundbreaking for Medford & Crater Lake Railroad (MM 4/7/1905)
Apr. 7: First National Bank of Medford organized (MM 4/14/1905)
May 5: The exhibit bldg. "will be the first of its kind in Oregon" (MM)
May 13: The exhibit bldg., across Main from the depot, opens (MM 4/12/1905)
June 2: The County Assessor counts 1160 residents and 380 voters in N Medford precinct (MM)
June 9: J. H. Huffer's corrected count is 1169 residents in North Medford, 870 South; total 2039 residents (MM)
June 16: Construction on the M&CL railroad "is progressing finely"; the Bear Creek bridge will be finished within two weeks (MM)
June 15: First National Bank opens in Phipps Bldg., corner Main & Bartlett; William S. Crowell is president (MM)
July 28: The twelve iron benches ordered by the ladies of the Lewis and Clark Club have been placed in the City Park (MM)
Aug. 4: T. H. Moore's Moore Hotel is under construction on W Main, "where in days agone stood the Clarendon" (MM)
Aug. 18: Tracklaying for Medford & Crater Lake Railroad commenced Tuesday; grade has been completed to Eagle Point (MM)
Sept. 1: The new City Park fountain "arrived the first of the week"; three bronze ducks are surmounted by a bittern, its bill uplifted (MM)
Sept. 15: The streetlights (hanging lights) recently ordered have arrived (MM)
Nov. 3: The old pork packing house, filled with hay "and more or less saturated with grease," was destroyed by fire Monday (MM)
Dec. 1: J. G. Christy will open " a complete and very up-to-date bowling alley" in J. R. Wilson's brick building next to the Mail office (MM)
Dec. 8: Work has been suspended on the M&CLRR for the season; rails have been laid to Eagle Point, but ballasting will be delayed (MM)

1906
Jan. 1: D. T. Lawton becomes the sole owner of the former Michell, Lewis & Staver Co.'s implement business in Medford (MM1/26/1906)
Jan. 12: The Knights of Pythias "have moved into their new lodge room in the Karnes & Ritter-Kelly bldg." (MM)
Jan. 26: Hubbard Bros. have plans for a brick store NW corner Main & Riverside; construction will begin early spring (MM)
Jan. 26: Friday and Saturday were the first time in five years that sledding was possible; four inches of snow was on the ground (MM)
Mar. 2: Demolition of the brick bldg. on the NW corner Main & Central is under way, to make way for the Medford Bank (MM)
Mar. 16: Application has been made to the comptroller of currency to convert the private Medford Bank to Medford National Bank (MM)
June 26: Medford School Board awards contract to build North School (Lincoln School) for $16,965 (5)
June 29: Concrete foundation has been laid for three-story Medford National Bank, NW corner Main & Central (MM)
June 29: Foundation excavations are under way for Jackson County Bank, NE corner Main & Central (MM)
June 29: Workmen are "repairing and refitting," inside and out, the Howard Block for First National Bank (MM)
July 13: Demolition of Hubbard's wooden store has begun; construction of brick store will begin next week (MM)
Oct. 19: G. L. Schermerhorn has nearly finished the outside work of adding a third story to the Nash Hotel (MM)
Nov. 23: The Hubbard and Woods blocks "will be ready for occupancy about December 15th" (MM)
Dec. 7: F. K. Deuel has purchased the Union Livery Stable at Main & Bartlett; he will build a store on the site in the spring (MM)

1907
Jan. 15: Mayor and council are "elected on a platform containing a pledge to have [Main] Street paved" (SO 11/25/08)
Jan. 21: "Monday was a day of rejoicing for many school children of Medford"; North School was opened (MM1/25/1907)
Apr. 19: The Nash Hotel has recently received another story and many fire extinguishers "scattered throughout the building" (MM)
June 12: The Hotel Moore on W Main was "opened to the public less than ten days ago" (SO)
June 19: The Pacific & Eastern railroad's locomotive and cars are "expected to arrive next week" (SO)
June 25: "The chemical engine recently purchased by the city was on dress parade yesterday for the first time" (Tribune)
June 26: New P&E rolling stock will make its first trip from Medford to Eagle Point today (SO)
June 26: W. S. Clay, owner of the HCB at Main and Bartlett, has given contract to S. Childers to extend bldg. to alley (SO)
June 28: The P&E engine and cars arrived Tuesday; service to Eagle Point was inaugurated Thursday morning (MM)
June 28: The fire department's new combination chemical engine and hose wagon has arrived (MM)
July 7: The offices of the P&E Railroad have been established upstairs in the Palm Block at Main and Front (MM)
July 31: Weeks & Baker are demolishing a W Main frame bldg. adjoining T. H. Moore's new bldg. (SO)
July 31: Weeks & Baker plan a "substantial brick building two stories high, 25x140 feet"--J. A. MacIntosh, architect (SO)
Aug. 16: "T. E. Daniels is fitting up the Adkins building"; will open Daniels for Duds around September 1 (MMT)
Sept. 6: "Frank Hutchason has leased the south half of the post office building and will establish a ladies' furnishing goods store" (MM)
Sept. 13: The firm of Weeks & Baker has been dissolved, and the business will hereafter be known as Weeks & McGowan (MM)
Nov. 6: The Rogue River Valley Railroad has leased a depot site on Main; construction of a platform will begin immediately (Tribune)
Nov. 7: Assigning street numbers will begin Monday; free mail delivery cannot begin until all houses are numbered (Tribune)
Nov. 28: The Rogue River Electric Co. has been organized to take over the Condor Water & Power Co. (CPHerald)
Dec. 11: Rogue River Valley Railway owner William S. Barnum throws a hatchet at Mayor J. F. Reddy (Tribune)
Dec. 13: Ordinance 13 is passed by the city council authorizing system giving houses and businesses street numbers (News 6/9/1950)
Dec. 13: Weeks & McGowan are "transferring their stock of furniture to their new quarters" just finished on W Main (MM)
Dec. 20: Tribune editor George Putnam is pulled from the train in Roseburg and arrested for libeling the grand jury (Tribune 1/13/1908)
Dec. 23: House numbering begins tomorrow; "each householder will be presented with a card bearing his correct house number" (Tribune)

1908
Jan. 8: "The new city hall and fire house is nearing completion" (MM)
Jan. 10: "Moore's building on W Main, adjoining Weeks & McGowan's furniture store, has been fitted up for the Bijou Theater" (Tribune)
Jan. 10: "C. M. Kidd, a gentleman who has been in the employ of A. C. Tayler" has purchased Tayler's stock of shoes (MM)
Jan. 10: Peil's Elite Laundry is open; "anyone is welcome to visit the plant and go through the whole works" (MM)
Jan. 11: F. W. Lesmeister announces that he has bought H. C. Mackey's photograph gallery: "All I ask is a fair chance." (Tribune)
Jan. 16: Local newspapers, "at a meeting held in Ashland on Sunday, organized the Jackson County Press Association" (Tribune)
Jan. 16: The Pekin Restaurant opens the 18th at 22 C Street, serves "chop suey and noodles up to midnight" (Tribune)
Jan. 17: H. C. Mackey announces he has sold his photo gallery to F. W. Lesmeister, a "first-class, all-round photographer" (MM)
Jan. 31: T. E. Moore is laying plans for a two-story brick addition to his hotel, to be built at Main and Fir (MM)
Feb. 10: Medford (roller) Skating Rink, 10th & Front, holds its grand opening tomorrow night; tickets at 25 cents (Tribune)
Feb. 11: Ground was broken today for St. Mary's Academy; the old Catholic church on North Front is being sold (Tribune)
Feb. 14: "Medford has won in the competition for the establishment of a company of the Oregon National Guard" (MM)
Mar. 6: "Seven clusters of electric lights are being installed in the city park by the ladies of the Greater Medford Club" (MM)
Mar. 18: J. G. Van Dyke's "quit business sale" begins at 9 a.m.; "Genuine Slaughter in All Lines. Nothing Reserved." (SO)
Apr. 4: Medford voters have approved $300,000 in bonds for a water system to draw from Wasson Canyon Springs (Tribune)
Apr. 24: Street committee met with a group from the Greater Medford Club "and selected names for the streets of the city" (MM)
Apr. 24: "The telephone company is soon to remove a great many of their overhead wires and substitute cables" (MM)
May 29: Medford's voter registration has doubled in the last two years; Medford is now larger than Ashland (MM)
June 1: Medford votes against prohibition but the rest of the county is in favor; Medford goes dry but will appeal (CPHerald 6/4/1908)
June 10: Contract awarded to pave Main from "Harris" Street "to 100 feet east of Riverside" (MM)
July 4: The contract was let this morning for the Deuel & Kentner bldg., Main & Bartlett, "where the Union Livery Stable is now" (SO)
July 24: Mrs. Laura T. Gardner has leased a building at Tenth and E, and is having it "fitted up for hospital purposes" (MM)
July 31: J. A. Perry is building a spray plant at his orchard two miles west of Medford, along the railroad tracks (MM)
July 31: Weather Bureau service to Medford started yesterday; flags will be flown downtown to display telegraphed forecasts (MM)
Aug. 4: The new library, "arranged by the ladies of the Greater Medford Club," will open tomorrow with 700 volumes (Tribune)
Sept. 28: St. Mary's convent was dedicated Sunday afternoon even though "the buildings are not yet completed" (Tidings)
Oct. 1: The Savoy Theater opens this evening in "J. C. Hall's new building" on Front Street (Tribune)
Oct. 29: The state supreme court Tuesday upheld Medford's anti-prohibition charter provision; Medford will not go dry (CPHerald)
Nov. 5: A special election decides to lay a water pipeline to Fish Lake rather than Butte Creek or Sterling Creek (CPHerald 10/8/1908)
Nov. 6: The first pavement was laid on Main Street today, though work "is progressing slowly" (SO 12/9/08)
Nov. 6: "The opening of the new opera house has been set" for Nov. 16; it will seat 800 people, "and will have four boxes" (MM)
Nov. 27: "Several thousand dollars" damage was done to the Rogue River Creamery on Riverside yesterday afternoon (MM)
Dec. 5: Medford contracts with the Fish Lake Water Company for water "from Little Butte Creek eleven miles below Fish Lake" (4)
Dec. 11: "Seventh Street is paved from the West Side School to the railroad track"; work will continue to the bridge (MM)

1909
January: "An unofficial census was taken which gave Medford [a population of] 5300" (MMTw 5/26/1910)
Jan. 8: The new concrete Mission-style Catholic Church was dedicated yesterday morning by Archbishop Christie of Portland (MM)
Jan. 15: Brush and trees are being removed from the Capitol Hill reservoir site; nine construction bids have been received (MM)
Jan. 20: Delroy Getchell, future founder of Farmers & Fruitgrowers Bank, arrives in Medford with his wife (CPA 1/26/1939)
Mar. 12: "An extremely conservative" census places Medford's population at 5,034, large enough to merit an Elks lodge (MM)
Mar. 19: "The Medford Concert Band was organized last evening, and will soon have a membership of twenty-five" (MM)
Mar. 26: "By a vote of 322 to 125 in the election Friday the Citizens' Telephone Company won the fight for its franchise" (MM)
Mar. 26: "More than 3500 people passed through the demonstration train, run jointly by the SP and the Oregon Agricultural College" (MM)
Apr. 7: "The street signs are nearly all in place; the street commissioner placed 208 of these during the month" (Tribune)
Apr. 10: Medford dedicated her "first and splendid high school building" last night at Fifth and Bartlett (Tribune)
May 4: C. F. Cook's Rogue River Valley Nursery, with offices in the RRVRR depot, is starting a nursery near Medford (Tribune)
May 14: The Pacific and Eastern railroad has been sold to John R. Allen; resumes passenger service to Eagle Point today (MM)
May 14: The Union Meat Co.'s new 50x75 warehouse on the railroad tracks will be ready for occupancy tomorrow (MM)
May 21: H. C. Bonney yesterday sold the stock, rigs and fixtures of the Nash Livery Stable to W. R. Tucker of Jacksonville (MM)
May 28: "The street commissioner is putting in a crossing on the Southern Pacific railroad at Jackson Street" (MM)
June 18: Work has begun on the drinking fountain "near the Medford National Bank building," courtesy the Greater Medford Club (Tribune)
June 24: H. F. Hutchason yesterday bought out his partner in the "exclusive ladies' store known as the Baker-Hutchason Co." (Tribune)
June 29: Free mail delivery will begin in Medford September 15 "with two carriers and one substitute" (MM)
July 9: Southern Pacific has ordered sale of its Medford property, much on the west side, and an entire block on Bartlett (MM)
July 23: "Yesterday, for the first time, Medford was supplied with water under a gravity system" 11 miles from Little Butte Creek (MM)
Aug. 27: John R. Allen has completed purchase of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad; "the road at last is to be completed" (MM)
Sept. 3: H. H. Harvey and Rollan G. Beach have been appointed Medford's first mail carriers; Rutherford Kerr will be substitute (MM)
Sept. 23: Medford Elks organized "at ceremonies held at the old Angle Opera House" (News 10/6/1939)
Oct. 1: Yesterday the new city reservoir was examined and water was ordered turned into it (MM)
Oct. 7: The Horticultural Society Saturday worked on a plan to secure the services of plant pathologist P. J. O'Gara (CPHerald)
Oct. 28: Steps were taken Thursday to form the University Club; an option was taken on the Vawter house at Main & Holly (CPHerald)
Nov. 1: First issue of MMT published after merger of Medford Mail, Tribune, Southern Oregonian and Jacksonville Times (MMT)
Nov. 2: "The work of paving Main Street west from the Washington School to the city limits will commence this week" (MMT)
Nov. 2: Ground broken for Valley Auto garage on Holly between Main and 6th, "just north of the Episcopal Church" (MMT)
Nov. 2: Merriman & Elliott announce they have moved their blacksmith shop to their new quarters on Riverside (MMT)
Nov. 3: Southern Pacific announces plans for a new passenger depot, sized for a potential population of 25,000 (MMT)
Nov. 5: Rogue River Horticultural Society is preparing to move its headquarters and Prof. O'Gara's offices to the Haskins bldg. (MMT)
Nov. 6: St. Mark's Episcopal is making preparations to build its stone church on the corner of Main and Holly (MMT)
Nov. 17: The mayor appointed a commission "to cooperate with the ladies of the Greater Medford Club in the planting of trees" (MMT)
Nov. 18: J. M. Root and J. E. Enyart announce plans for Sparta Bldg., NE corner Main & Central, initial plans are for four stories (MMT)
Nov. 18: Work on a home for E. C. Sharpe's Home Telephone Company will begin Jan. 15 near Sixth & Holly (MMT)
Nov. 21: "The Crater Lake Social Club formally opened their quarters in the Young & Hall building Friday night" (MMT)
Nov. 29: Medford has graduated from a way station to district headquarters for Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph (MMT)
Nov. 29: Medford leads the world in number of autos per capita: "one for every 30" (MMT)
Dec. 1: The Medford Grocery Co. is preparing its property SW corner Front & 10th for its warehouse (MMT)
Dec. 2. W. L. Orr has moved his store from the west to the east side of the Main Street bridge; the east side's first grocery store (MMT)
Dec. 3: "The buildings at the [southeast?] corner of Main and Riverside" are being removed to make way for new construction (MMT)
Dec. 3: Anderson & Green are building a garage for the Valley Auto Co. at or near Sixth & Holly; IOOF has bought a lot next door (MMT)
Dec. 5: Arthur Wells has been contracted to construct the Page Bldg., SE corner of Main & Riverside (MMT)
Dec. 10: Construction of St. Mark's Episcopal Church "has been commenced"; building will be of granite (MMT)
Dec. 12: Jackson County Press Association has endorsed "the new state of Siskiyou"--later called State of Jefferson (MMT)
Dec. 12: Articles of incorporation for Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. have been filed with the county clerk (MMT)
Dec. 12: Articles of incorporation for Garnett-Corey Hardware Co. have been filed; Liberty Bldg. is under construction (MMT)
Dec. 14: Mrs. T. B. Kinsman has purchased the Nash Livery Stable property and "will later improve the property" (MMT)
Dec. 19: The mother provincial of the Sisters of the Holy Names will arrive today to discuss establishing a hospital in Medford (MMT)
Dec. 20: The school board today purchased a site in the Queen Anne addition, first step toward a school for the east side (MMT)
Dec. 20: "Ireland & Antle opened their Smoke House [tobacco shop] in the Syndicate building on West Main Street Saturday" (MMT)
Dec. 21: On Jan. 15 Pacific States Telephone Co. will begin removing single-strand telephone wires, to be replaced by cable (MMT)
Dec. 22: Farmers & Fruitgrowers Bank will open tomorrow in the Syndicate bldg., NW corner of Main & Grape (MMT)
Dec. 22: Drs. Conroy and Clancy have leased the John W. Cox house at 344 S Central for the third hospital in Medford's history (MMT)
Dec. 23: Dr. F. C. Page announces plans to erect a three-story hotel and theater building on Main Street east of Riverside (MMT)
Dec. 23: The Medford Building Co. announces its incorporation to build the Sparta Bldg. at Main & Riverside (MMT)
Dec. 29: The old frame Episcopal church on W Main "was recently moved"; brick for new church ordered (MMT)
Dec. 29: The Light Committee is installing "21 new arc lights in the city and ten 32-candlepower lights" in residential areas (MMT)
Dec. 30: Excavation is under way for the basement of the "Page hotel and theater" (MMT)

1910
Medford's population is 8,840 (U.S. Census)
circa 1910: City Park fountain wired for electricity (MMT 3/19/1913)
Railroad right-of-way beautified into a park (MMT 12/30/1910)
Jan. 14: Plans for the Cuthbert Bldg., SE corner 6th & Central, announced (MMT)
Feb. 17: Work will start on the Natatorium within ten days (MMTw)
Feb. 21: Work begins on Home Telephone Co.'s building on N Central (Sun 12/30/1910)
March: "W. H. Rardon has opened a bakery and confectionery on the southeast corner of Main and Grape streets in Medford" (Rogue)
Mar. 2: The bishop of Oregon "laid the corner stone of the new St. Mark's Episcopal Church this afternoon" (MMT)
Mar. 6: Members of the Rogue River Horticultural Society have formed the Rogue River Fruit & Produce Association (MMT)
Mar. 13: "Ground was broken Saturday for the new $50,000 Southern Pacific depot" (MMT)
Mar. 16: The city council Tuesday decided to solicit bids for construction of a bridge across Bear Creek at Jackson Street (MMT)
Mar. 25: Pioneer C. K. Klum suggests "Jefferson" as a name for the breakaway state in the Siskiyou region (MMT)
Mar. 27: J. R. Anderson of Pasadena is to start work at once on a gas plant on N Central "near the old distillery" (MMT)
Mar. 27: Steel for the Pacific & Eastern Railroad is laid six miles beyond Eagle Point, the right-of-way secured to Butte Falls (MMT)
Mar. 31: The SP will run "gasoline motor cars" (McKeen rail cars) between Grants Pass and Ashland starting Monday (CPHerald)
Apr. 6: A tent city is being built on Oakdale, "just south of the Washington School," for influx being drawn by city's advertising (MMT)
Apr. 14: Photographer James J. Owings is moving from his N Central studio to Gold Hill (MMT)
June 4: The old Fruit Growers' Union was dissolved today so that the Fruit and Produce Assn. "would have a clear field" (MMT)
June 5: Eugene Ely yesterday flew "fully 600 feet at an altitude of from 10 to 20 feet" at "Oakdale Park" off South Oakdale (MMT)
July: Home Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s building on N Central completed (Sun 12/30/1910)
July 7: "Small boys are today enjoying the first swim" in the Natatorium; will be complete in a few days (MMTw)
July 7: Stockholders of the Medford Hotel Company met Wednesday evening to elect officers and a board of directors (MMT)
July 10: "Work will start tomorrow on the construction of the Pacific & Eastern Railway into the city" (MMT)
July 14: G. T., H. D. and J. H. Howard have purchased Medford Furniture & Hardware Co. Bldg. (MCB) site (MMT)
July 25: The Pacific & Eastern depot is under construction; a concrete walk is being poured "in front of the new depot grounds" (MMT)
Aug. 4: George Merriman's "shack" at Main and Riverside, "one of the oldest frame buildings in Medford" will be torn down (MMTw)
Aug. 22: "Work will start at once" to remove the old city water tower, on the Carnegie Library site (MMT)
Aug. 28: Work on the Sparta Building will start Tuesday morning; "it will be one of the most handsome structures in the city" (MMT)
Sept. 4: The Pacific & Eastern will begin laying track to their new depot on Monday, will soon have "their own track into town" (MMT)
Sept. 8: Westerlund and Neff announce plans for Mail Tribune/Holland Hotel bldgs., SW corner 6th & Fir (MMT)
Sept. 10: The Commercial Club today bought the south half of Nob Hill for $7,000 as a site for Sacred Heart Hospital (MMT)
Sept. 10: "At the next meeting of the Medford school directors a time will be set for the sale of the Washington School" (MMT)
Sept. 11: The Medford distillery "at the north end of Medford," long closed due to lack of grain, has been razed (MMT)
Sept. 15: The Oregon Agricultural College has issued assurances it will build an experimental station "as soon as possible" (MMTw)
Sept. 16: "The initial step to form a student body organization was taken by the students of the Medford High School Thursday" (MMT)
Sept. 20: "A contract is about to be let for the erection of a chapel for the Christian Scientists near Oakdale and Fifth" (MMT)
Sept. 25: "At a meeting of college men last evening in the Commercial Club plans were formed for a Medford University Club" (MMT)
Sept. 22: Fire horses Tom and Jerry, purchased last month from Jim Fowler, "received their first instruction yesterday" (MMTw)
Sept. 29: One mile of Main Street is paved, from Roosevelt (Crater Lake) Ave. west (MMT)
Sept. 29: John C. Mann, "of St. Paul, Minn., has just purchased the store that C. F. Hurlburt was preparing to open" (MMTw)
Sept. 30: Mann's, "Medford's Popular Price Store," advertises its grand opening today on N Central (MMT)
Oct. 4: "At this evening's session of the City Council Mayor Canon will urge the creation of a water commission" (MMT)
Oct. 6: A constitution for the new Medford University Club was adopted Saturday night (MMTw)
Oct. 6: "Work trains yesterday ran from Medford to within 12 miles of Butte Falls over the Pacific & Eastern track" (MMTw)
Oct. 19: Southern Pacific Railroad passenger depot (today's Porter's restaurant) dedicated yesterday (MMT)
Oct. 20: "The new quarters of the Medford Commercial Club in the Natatorium building were formally opened Tuesday evening" (MMTw)
Oct. 27: Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs "addressed a big audience at the Natatorium last Sunday" (CPHerald)
Oct. 27: "Work is progressing rapidly" remodeling the brick Childers house, 501 E. Main, into a depot for the P&E Railroad (MMTw)
Oct. 30: The Golden Rule store opened on W. Main yesterday; "the store was continually thronged with people" (MMT)
Nov. 17: Chief Engineer Gerig and Auditor Lawler were the first persons to go by Pacific & Eastern from Medford to Butte Falls (Sun)
Nov. 24: Students of the North School voted Monday on the new name for the school, Lincoln School nearly unanimously chosen (Sun)
Dec. 8: "Howard Block" (MCB) under construction, the addition of a fourth story to plans announced (MMT)
Dec. 8: The depot at Main & Front is being "stripped of all outside appurtenances" preparatory to being moved a block to the south (Sun)
Dec. 18: Medford's "first skyscraper," the Garnett-Corey Bldg. (Liberty Bldg., SW corner Main & Grape) opened yesterday (Sun)
Dec. 21: The concrete walls of the fourth story of the Medford Furniture and Hardware Co. building were completed yesterday (Sun)
Dec. 23: Gas lights burned in Medford last night for the first time, as the Rogue River Valley Gas Co. began operations (Sun)
Dec. 25: The Bear Creek Motor Car Co., Cadillac dealer, "is successor to the Snyder Motor Car Co." (Sun)
Dec. 30: "Home Telephone and Telegraph Co. will begin to serve the people of Medford tomorrow morning" (Sun)

1911
Jan. 1: "Early spring will witness the completion" of the Medford Furniture & Hardware Co. Bldg. (MMT)
Jan. 1: Medford Furniture and Nicholson Hardware have merged to form Medford Furniture & Hardware (Sun)
Jan. 1: The Christian Science Church, "being erected on Oakdale and Fifth streets, will be completed in the next week" (Sun)
Jan. 3: Medford plans to double its 9 miles of paved streets to 18 in the coming year (MMT)
Jan. 4: The new I.O.O.F. Odd Fellows' lodge building on W Sixth Street "is getting the finishing touches" (Sun)
Jan. 5: "In all probability work on the Masonic Temple will be started next month" (MMTw)
Jan. 5: Beginning Saturday, P&E trains "will leave and arrive in Medford from the new depot on East Main" (MMTw)
Jan. 6: "Contract for construction of the Hotel Medford has been signed and immediately work is to begin" (Sun)
Jan. 9: The electric street lights installed by the Southern Pacific Railroad on their grounds were lighted for the first time Sunday (MMT)
Jan. 10: Medford Concrete is using lumber from the "Oliver Tabernacle," 3rd & Jackson, to build its new plant on N Riverside (Sun)
Jan. 12: "In their handsomely fitted rooms" in the Mail Tribune bldg. the University Club held its formal opening yesterday (MMTw)
Jan. 19: The library board has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie offering $20,000 for a library building (MMTw)
Jan. 19: "The old Ballinger place" at 6th & Holly has been sold to the federal government for construction of the federal building (Sun)
Jan. 25: Medford Commercial Club contracted Tuesday to buy the exhibit bldg. from John D. Olwell, effective April 1 (MMT)
Jan. 31: Bybee & Heil, "owners of the West Side Market, has dissolved partnership"; "Heil will continue the business" (Sun)
Feb. 1: First Savings Bank & Trust has leased SE [sic] corner Main & Central; Allen Grocery will move to Halley Block (Sun)
Feb. 1: First National Bank will move to Medynski Bldg., SW corner Main & Central as of April 1 (Sun)
Feb. 3: Local auto dealers last night united to form the Auto Dealers' Association of Southern Oregon (Sun)
Feb. 9: The "white glazed bricks necessary for the upper story" of the Sparta Bldg. have arrived; work will "rushed" (MMTw)
Feb. 16: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph has moved its district headquarters from Eugene to Medford (MMTw)
Feb. 19: "The Natatorium management has begun installing cluster lights from Main along Riverside to the Natatorium" (Sun)
Feb. 22: Brickmason Charles Robb injured in second-story fall from "blacksmith shop under construction on South Bartlett" (MMT)
Feb. 22: The city council last night accepted a plan to install cluster lights, "spaced at regular distances," three to a block (Sun)
Feb. 24: The fence has been removed from the city baseball park; owners hope to move it to a location farther from town (Sun)
Feb. 25: Scott Davis, Stoddard-Dayton dealer, yesterday began construction of a new brick garage building on S Front (Sun)
Feb. 24: Medford native Eddie Wilkinson has been signed by pro baseball team the New York Americans (Sun)
Mar. 1: Fire last night seriously damaged stock in E Main's Wonder Store, next to Warner, Wortman & Gore's (Sun)
Mar. 1: The new county pathologist/weather bureau office was opened in the Garnett-Corey building today (MMT)
Mar. 3: Medford Elks dedicated their new "handsome and spacious new quarters" in the I.O.O.F. building last night (Sun)
Mar. 11: Riverside from E Main to the Natatorium "was ablaze last night for the first time" when the cluster lights were turned on (Sun)
Mar. 18: John Perl's horse-drawn ambulance, "the first vehicle of its kind ever to roll over the streets of Medford," arrived yesterday (Sun)
Mar. 19: The brick Crater Lake Garage building, 123 S Front, is "now in the course of erection" (MMT)
Mar. 28: "The library board will meet tonight and select the design and plans for the Carnegie library building" (MMT)
Mar. 29: The Medford City Band was reorganized last night; "Medford has been without a band for the past two years" (Sun)
Mar. 29: John Olwell's exhibits have been removed from the exhibit bldg., the Commercial Club will take possession April 1 (Sun)
Mar. 30: "The first passenger train to reach Butte Falls will pull into the little city next Saturday afternoon at 6:45 o'clock" (MMT)Apr. 2: The 30-unit Smith Apartments, "Medford's first big apartment house" on South Riverside, will be complete in a few days (Sun)
Apr. 4: Installation began Tuesday morning of curbs and decomposed granite surface on Ivy Street through the park (MMT)
Apr. 9: "The Crater Lake social club held a meeting Saturday evening and took steps toward a disbandment of the club" (MMT)
Apr. 9: "Sage Park on Court and Central Street is now ploughed and graveled walks are being put in by the Greater Medford Club" (MMT)
Apr. 10: Work began Monday on the "three-story" Hotel Holland; "the structure is to be eventually five stories in height" (MMT)
Apr. 16: The IOOF will dedicate their new hall on 6th between Grape & Holly with a grand celebration April 26 (Sun)
Apr. 18: Plastering is all complete on the Medford Furniture & Hardware bldg., floors "partly laid in the fourth story" (Sun)
Apr. 20: Work beautifying the grounds between the depot and Main progressing rapidly, grass seed spread this morning (MMT)
Apr. 23: Miksche and Schmidt have move their realty office to their own new two-story building at 217 W Main (Sun)
Apr. 25: Frank F. Miller and H. G. Manvell open the M&M Pool & Billiard Parlor in the new building at 219 W Main tonight (Sun)
Apr. 25: Work will begin this morning on the Cascade coal mine on Roxy Ann Peak, opening three veins of high-grade coal (Sun)
Apr. 30: E. G. Brown has bought out J. R. Ryan's interest in Ryan & Brown's saloon (Sun)
Apr. 30: Clark & Henery will begin paving Jackson Street sometime this week; curbs and gutters have been placed on Sixth Street (MMT)
May 3: B. J. Palmer announced he has bought a house on S Central and leased space in Cuthbert's for his piano store (Sun)
May 7: The Sparta Bldg., NE corner Main & Riverside, "is nearly completed and soon will be occupied by tenants" (Sun)
May 13: Demolition of the First National Bank building on Main Street begins today, construction "will take about six months" (Sun)
May 14: Architects Power & Reeves have added Thomas L. West to their staff "to raise the standard in their line" (MMT)
May 14: First National Bank has moved to temporary quarters at Main and Central while their building is being expanded (MMT)
May 26: Three Sisters of Providence take over Southern Oregon Hospital, 344 S Central at 11th (Providence 75th anny. booklet)
May 30: The Cascade Coal Co. is taking twenty-five tons of coal a day from its mine on the slopes of Roxy Ann (Sun)
June 3: Eugene Ely soars "like a golden swallow" over Medford in his Curtiss biplane for the valley's first successful flight (Sun)
June 14: J. S. Howard started a movement "this morning to have the road to Central Point changed to parallel the railroad track" (MMT)
June 24: With paving of two miles near Ashland next week, it and Medford "will be connected by a good macadam road" (Sun)
June 24: Daniels for Duds to move from ACB, 226 E Main, to Medynski Bldg., SW corner Main & Central (Sun)
June 25: Jacksonville Hwy. was paved "last season"; paving is planned to Central Point and Griffin Creek (Sun)
June 27: The Medford Planing Mill Co. will move to a new plant "at the foot of Jackson Street, where the new bridge is to be" (Sun)
June 27-July 4: City Park bandstand, adjacent to future Carnegie library site, constructed (Sun)
June 29: Excavation "is progressing very rapidly" for Sacred Heart Hospital on Nob Hill (MMTw)
June 30: Work will begin in July to move the Main Street bridge to Jackson and build a new bridge of concrete (Sun)
June 30: The country club opens today with a golf tournament, music, pigeon shoot and other entertainments (Sun)
July 1: Two hundred people gathered yesterday to celebrate the opening of the Medford Country Club (Sun)
July 3: "A. J. Edwards in his little Ford racer" won the 50-mile race through Medford streets; 10,000 people watched (MMT)
July 13: First National Bank has razed its old bldg. and let a contract for a new bldg. with a "solid stone front" (MMTw)
July 19: "Medford lodge, No. 676, Loyal Order of Moose, will be instituted at the K. of P. hall this evening" (MMT)
July 21: A fire this morning on S Central across from the Palace Hotel resulted in five of seven businesses suffering a total loss (MMT)
July 21: The Model Clothing Company plans to move one door west, to the building now occupied by Medford Furniture (MMT)
July 23: Medford Furniture Co. plans to move to the Howard block; Daniels for Duds to the Adkins block (MMT)
Aug. 2: Queen Anne (Roosevelt) and Jackson school bldgs. are complete (MMT)
Aug. 2: City Council Tuesday passed a speed limit of 10 mph, "instead of hurtling around corners at fifteen or twenty miles" (Sun)
Aug. 5: The Christian Church has just sold its property "just back of the Medford Hotel"; will build on S Oakdale (Sun)
Aug. 6: Medford Builders' Supply has moved from 9th & Fir to E end of Jackson St., "just across Bear Creek" (Sun)
Aug. 18: Work has begun on the Star Theatre, "remodeling the room recently vacated by the Medford Furniture Co." (Sun)
Aug. 20: "Percy Terwilliger has purchased the Ugo Theater of W. C. Perkins and taken charge" (Sun)
Aug. 22: The County will consider bids for a new Main Street bridge Aug. 28; Medford has replaced planks on the old bridge (Sun)
Aug. 24: The B&C Cash Store has completed an addition to its quarters on W Main Street (Sun)
Aug. 27: Medford Moose Lodge number 210; have a new hall in the Miksche and Schmidt bldg. (Sun)
Aug. 27: The Medford Business College will be open Sept. 5 "in the elegant new building on North Grape Street" (Sun)
Aug. 29: The county commissioners turned down construction bids, so no Main Street bridge will be built this season (Sun)
Aug. 29: Daniels for Duds "is being moved into the elegant new quarters corner of Main and South Central" (Sun)
Aug. 29: City Council has approved chain-gang labor for "vagabonds arrested and placed in the city jug" (Sun)
Sept. 5: Medford Business College opened today in their new building on N Grape, J. M. Culpepper manager, Mr. Townsend principal (Sun)
Sept. 10: "The elegant new structure on North Central," the Medford Furniture & Hardware Building, is complete, recently occupied (Sun)
Sept. 16: Medford has a population of nearly 11,000; school enrollment has increased by 238 pupils, 23½ percent, over last year (MMT)
Sept. 20: 300 people gathered to attend the opening of the Hotel Medford, "opened with a brilliant banquet last night" (Sun)
Sept. 21: Cluster streetlights (three globes on a concrete standard) to be installed soon (MMTw)
Sept. 26: On Thursday Eiler's Music House will move from 37 N Fir to 217 W Main (Sun)
Oct. 1: "The Berben Apartments on the corner of Quince and West Main Street will be open in a few days" (Sun)
Oct. 4: The Socialist Party of Jackson County has delivered a petition to City Councilman George Millar in favor of a public market (Sun)
Oct. 11: "The Berben Apartments on the corner of Quince and West Main Street are nearly ready for occupancy" (Sun)
Oct. 17: The 100-foot wireless telegraphy antenna pole being hoisted to the roof of Hotel Medford last night fell and broke in two (MMT)
Oct. 22: "Formal opening of the Medford Pharmacy and the Martin Reddy jewelry store was held last Saturday" (CPHerald)
Oct. 24: New Carnegie library "is rapidly being constructed"; it will be completed by December 1 (MMT)
Oct. 27: "Two of the new cluster street lights were lighted last evening for the first time" (MMT)
Nov. 10: "During the year an extension of 22 miles was built on the P&E" railroad, extending it to Butte Falls (Railway Age Gazette)
Nov. 16: Cornerstone of new Sacred Heart Hospital on Nob Hill sealed and blessed (MMT 1/5/1966)
Dec. 21: The Holland Hotel, "a 51-guest room structure" "is to be formally opened December 28" (MMT)
Dec. 26: The Carnegie library "will be completed January 10" (MMT)

1912
Jan. 4: "The new Sacred Heart Hospital was opened last night"; 10 patients moved to new bldg. from old hospital (MMT)
Jan. 18: "The Palmer Piano Place . . . will have its formal opening Saturday evening," celebrated with a free concert (Sun)
Jan. 25: The president of the College Equal Suffrage League is in town "with a view to organizing a local women's suffrage club" (Sun)
Jan. 27: Ben Hur Lampman and partner announce they will begin publication in Medford of the West Coast Miner on Feb. 2 (Sun)
Jan. 28: Pacific Motor Supply Co., 220 W Main, has contracted to have bicycles built under the Rogue trade name (Sun)
Feb. 1: "The unsightly stockyards of the Southern Pacific, which stand opposite the depot, are to be moved at once" (MMTw)
Feb. 6: "The opening of the new Holland Hotel dining room occurred Monday and was a delightful success" (Sun)
Feb. 8: "Medford's new Carnegie library will be opened to the public tonight" (MMT)
Feb. 8: "Rogue River Electric Co. and twenty-three other electric plants" were consolidated under the name COPCO on Tuesday (CPHerald)
Feb. 11: Medford's new Pope-Hartford fire engine is "due to arrive this morning" (Sun)
Feb. 15: First Methodist Episcopal Church decided Monday to build a new church, NE corner 3rd & Bartlett (MMTw)
Feb. 17: Tomorrow "will mark an important event in the city, the dedication of the new $150,000 Sacred Heart Hospital" (MMT)
Apr. 18: Work on the public market bldg., on S Riverside, has begun (MMT)
Apr. 25: The First Church of Christ, Scientist, church on North Oakdale was dedicated Sunday (MMTw)
May 12: J. W. Durr has completed his new Medford Home Laundry bldg. on S Riverside "and will be ready for business Monday" (Sun)
May 16: Wo Lee is stabbed and robbed of $800 in gold in his laundry; assailant Jim Ling and prostitute Laura White arrested (MMT)
May 17: Final instructions for establishment of Medford's Seventh Company, Oregon National Guard, were received Friday (Sun)
May 18: "One year ago on Friday the Model Bakery opened on West Tenth Street" (Sun)
May 23: City Council Tuesday evening directed advertising for bids to pave Ivy Street between 8th and Main (MMT)
May 25: The public market on S Riverside is to be opened this morning (Sun)
June 16: Excavation is under way for pier foundations for the new concrete Main Street bridge (Sun)
June 27: Medford Brick Company has been awarded the contract to build a livery stable, NW corner of 8th & Fir (MMT)
June 29: It was decided yesterday to move the country club from the "Davis property to the Fiero tract about 2½ miles north" (Sun)
July 11: A huge nozzle has been mounted on the "old fire wagon"; it can reach the roof of any building in the city (MMT)
July 18: The Commercial Club yesterday decided to launch a "Made in Medford" campaign for patronage of local products (Sun)
July 23: The paving plant "which has stood for three years at the south end of Central" is being dismantled and shipped to Eugene (MMT)
July 30: "Medford will have clear water": a dam will be built to keep debris away from the water intake (Sun)
Aug. 1: "George F. Foyes, of Clarkston, Wash., has purchased the B&C Cash Grocery and takes charge this morning" (Sun)
Aug. 15: The steel Main Street bridge over Bear Creek was closed today for dismantling and moving to Jackson Street (MMT)
Aug. 21: Medford Golf and Country Club, "two and one-half miles northeast of town on 'Roxy Anne Road,'" will open Saturday (MMT)
Aug. 22: The Medford Methodist Episcopal Church is building a 20x27-foot extension on the east end of the church (MMTw)
Aug. 29: The Rogue River Commission Co. plans to build a two-story brick warehouse on Front at 11th (MMTw)
Sept. 10: "The drying factory of the Lozier Canning Works" a quarter mile west of Medford burned last night (Sun)
Sept. 19: The Redmen will begin construction at once on their two-story brick "wigwam" on Apple between 4th and 5th (MMTw)
Sept. 22: Eiler's Music House has lost its lease; will close in Medford September 28th (Sun)
Sept. 26: Jackson Street bridge piers "completed within two weeks"; bridge expected complete by December 1 (MMTw)
Sept. 26: Greek laborer George Dedaskalous' skull was crushed and throat cut at the Iowa Box Mill Sunday night (CPA)
Oct. 11: Portland wholesale grocers Mason-Ehrman have bought the Osenbrugge warehouse and will open in Medford (MMT)
Oct. 12: Fire destroyed Walter McCallum's Medford Theater and opera house on Friday afternoon (Sun)
Oct. 23: Noyes & Black's paint shop, 301 S Grape, one of the oldest frame buildings in Medford, burned Tuesday (MMT)
Oct. 25: The Golden Rule Store will begin its second-anniversary sale on Oct. 26 (Sun)
Oct. 31: Home Telephone Co. has let a contract to expand its building on W 6th between Grape and Holly (MMTw)
Nov. 3: The M.M. Department Store has leased the Deuel Bldg. on E Main, "first door east of their present quarters" (Sun)
Nov. 14: A. W. Walker of the Nash Livery moved his stock and equipment into the new quarters" at 42 South Fir (Sun)
Nov. 17: Chief Engineer Gerig and auditor Lawler of the P&ERR were the first to go by rail to Butte Falls Tuesday (Sun)
Nov. 20: W. L. Thompson advertises that the entire tent city is for sale, including beds, mattresses, linen, tents and flies (MMT)
Dec. 2: Brakeman Tuey Riggs' arm was crushed at the Main Street crossing; had to run 25 yards with the train before release (MMT)
Dec. 12: Howard Bros. cannery "just west of the city was completely destroyed by fire at midnight Tuesday" (MMT)
Dec. 12: "The work of pouring cement has started on the new bridge over Bear Creek and rapid progress is being made" (MMT)
Dec. 12: Medford Elks have decided to build a $75,000 lodge on the corner of 5th & Central (MMTw)
Dec. 12: "M. Maruyama and U. Urabe will on Saturday open a Japanese merchandise and curio store next to the Hotel Medford" (MMT)
Dec. 17: The state supreme court overturned the injunction delaying construction of the Main Street bridge (MMTw 12/19/1912)
Dec. 19: W. S. Barnum has begun a 25x75 brick store building on N Front, identical to the one adjacent to the south (MMTw)
Dec. 19: The Good Government League of Medford was formed Monday evening at a meeting at the Episcopal Church (MMTw)
Dec. 19: Anna Conklin was the first Medford woman to register to vote when registration began Saturday afternoon (MMTw)
Dec. 26: Services were first held in new First Christian Church bldg., corner 9th & Oakdale, last Sunday (MMTw)
Dec. 26: After dinner at Hotel Medford, "the ethical dentists of this section" organized the Southern Oregon Dental Assn. (MMTw)
Dec. 27: "The construction of the Page Theater will soon start, as the foundation is finished" (Sun)
Dec. 31: Work of remodeling "the building on Front Street recently occupied by the Nash Livery Stables is under way" (MMT)

1913
Riverside and Central become part of the Pacific Highway (today's Hwy 99)
Jan. 1: The concrete bridge across Bear Creek at Main Street is nearing completion (MMT)
Jan 9: The Rogue River Cooperative Fruit Growers League was founded at a meeting of growers Saturday afternoon (MMTw)
Jan. 11: J. T. Minney Co. granted "the right to build a street railway in Medford" by the city council on Friday evening (MMT)
Jan. 23: "A rest room for the women of the valley and working girls of the city will be established," 4th floor MCB (MMTw)
Jan. 23: "Curfew will ring again in Medford, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Mayor W. W. Eifert" (Sun)
Jan. 30: The Pantorium has purchased a lot for its plant at 1st & Grape; will build a 24x72 concrete building (MMTw)
Feb. 6: The Main Street bridge is complete; forms need to be removed and approaches constructed (MMTw)
Feb. 14: "The free rest room for women [in the MCB] opens Saturday" (MMT)
Feb. 18: Mayor Eifert fires the city engineer, sparking the Eifert/Boggs/Millar battle (MMT)
Feb. 25: Medford's two telephone systems will merge March 1; offices will be in the Home Telephone Co. bldg. on 6th Street (MMT)
Mar. 6: Chief Hittson "today announced that he had appointed a motorcycle cop to trail speeding autos in the city" (MMTw)
Mar. 6: "The Medford armory bill passed the senate last night," appropriating a match of $20,000 for construction (MMTw)
Mar. 10: The Ugo Theater on West Main announces the change of its name to the "IT" Theater (MMT)
Mar. 10: H. C. Kentner's full-page ad announces "we will positively close the doors of this company on the 26th of March" (MMT)
Mar. 11: "With Medford Trade Is Medford Made" slogan chosen in a contest sponsored by the Medford Merchants Association (MMT)
Mar. 18: P&E railroad has a crew at work laying a stub track under "the new bridge," to "stub just south of the bridge" (MMT)
Mar. 21: A horse trough has been ordered placed on Fir Street, just N of Main (MMT)
Mar. 21: A drinking fountain has been ordered for Main & Oakdale (MMT)
Apr. 17: The Davis warehouse on the railroad right-of-way, occupied by feed dealer J. C. Schmidt, is to be demolished (MMTw)
Apr. 24: Demolition of the pioneer Davis Warehouse, just S of Main on SP right-of-way, begins (MMT)
Apr. 29: The Southern Pacific railroad agrees to remove the shacks on the right-of-way between 6th & Main (MMT)
May 1: The new four-story brick warehouse at Front & 12th has been completed (MMT)
May 3: District Judge Wolverton has declared the O&C Railroad lands forfeit due to failure to comply with terms of the grant (MMT)
May 1: Davis warehouse, "erected when the city was in its infancy," is being razed; old Medford Grocery Co. warehouse is next (MMT)
May 19: Maude Adams as Peter Pan opens the new Page Theater, on E Main just W of Bear Creek (MMT)
May 24: Initial survey work for the Bullis trolley line "was begun Friday morning on East Main Street (Sun)
July 14: Trolley line construction began Monday; a steam shovel is at work on Hospital Hill, and cars will be delivered in November (MMT)
Aug. 25: "The new cold storage plant of the Rogue River Fruit and Produce Association was thrown open for business yesterday" (MMT)
Aug. 29: "C. E. Gates, the Overland man, has leased the lower floor of the Sparta building, Main and Riverside, for three years" (MMT)
Sept. 11: "Work of tearing up the pavement on East Main Street for the interurban trolley has begun in earnest" (MMT)
Sept. 22: "Ground was broken this morning for the cornerstone for the Elks' club building on North Central Ave." (MMT)
Nov. 4: Construction of the Elks lodge will begin today; Elks "will march in a body" to "throw the first dirt for the excavation" (MMT)
Nov. 19: Building permit issued to Hubbards for livery stable, E side of Riverside between 8th & 9th (MMT 3/26/1967)
Nov. 29: Ground has been broken inaugurating construction of the Pacific Highway in Oregon (Post)
Dec. 17: Building permit issued for Elks Temple (MMT 3/26/1967)

1914
Jan. 1: Union Stables, 112 S Riverside, "now in course of construction," will be open for business Jan. 15 (MMT)
Mar. 14: "Car No. 1 of the Southern Oregon Traction Co. arrived Friday; it is painted yellow and known as the West Main car" (MMT)
Mar. 21: "A few trial trips [of the Bullis street car] will be made this afternoon, and Sunday service put into effect tomorrow" (MMT)
Apr. 3: "Actual work on the extension of the Bullis street car line to the city reservoir began Thursday morning" (MMT)
May 2: "The extension of the Bullis street car line to the city reservoir [on Capitol Hill] is expected to be completed by May 15" (MMT)
May 24: The Day Planing Mill burned recently, "on circus day" (Mayor's letter to council)
June: Building permit issued to W. S. Barnum to build Grand Hotel (MMT 3/26/1967)
Nov. 28: As of Tuesday "the Pacific Highway is now paved from Ashland to Central Point" (Post)

1915
Jan. 1: "Application has been made" by Southern Oregon Electric to extend trolley tracks west of the Southern Pacific tracks (MMT)
Jan. 1: The new Elks Lodge, NE corner 5th & Central, is nearing completion (MMT)
Jan. 5: Garnett and Corey have sold the Liberty Bldg. to L. L. Cathcart (MMT)
June 22: Construction of Federal Bldg., 6th & Holly, under way; completion contracted for occupancy by May 1, 1916 (MMT)
July 3: The Rogue River Valley Railroad has been sold to the Southern Oregon Traction Co.; will immediately "electrify the road" (JP)
Aug. 16: Work began today to remodel upper floor of Amy & Pottenger Bldg. on Main for a national guard armory (MMT)
Sept. 2: After years of operation, the first load of coal from Medford's Sunnyside Mine was brought to the Holland Hotel yesterday (Sun)
Sept. 20: Medford Elks plan to dedicate their new temple next Thursday and Friday with ceremonies and "stag vaudeville" (MMT)
Nov. 1: The Barnum Hotel (Grand Hotel, NE corner 5th & Front) is "in process of erection" (MMT)
Nov. 10: "The Medynski scheme to rebond the $1,030,000 paving indebtedness was defeated at a special election Tuesday" (Sun)
Dec. 31: The statewide prohibition law becomes effective at midnight; the state's saloons will "close their doors forever" (MMT)

1916
The University Club moves from the Mail Tribune building to the Vawter house (MMT2/24/1983)
Feb. 2: After five years in business in Medford, dry goods merchant H. N. Moe is moving his concern to Klamath Falls (KF Herald)
Feb. 22: Brown's Soda Fountain replaces Brown's Saloon today at Main & Front, Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Brown, proprietors (MMT)
Feb. 24: Plans announced for Getchell Bldg., SW corner Main & Fir (MMT)
Mar. 13: Trolley track fittings "arrived today and will be put down at once, uniting the east side with the Jacksonville extension" (MMT)
Mar. 14: "The post office will move into the new federal building this month and will officially open April 1st" (Sun)
May 6: "The new Barnum Hotel at Medford was formally opened to the public Tuesday evening." (Post)
May 16: Federal Bldg., NW corner 6th & Holly, has been completed (MMT)
Apr. 17: "Ground will be broken Tuesday" for St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 112 N Oakdale (MMT)
July 15: By a vote of nearly 3 to 1 Monday, Medford voters ratified the construction of a railroad to the Blue Ledge mines (Post)
Oct. 1: "Colonel George P. Mims of Seven Oaks officially assumes charge of the Medford post office today" (Sun)

1917
The F. W. Woolworth Company opens a Medford branch at 125 E Main. (Moves to MCB in 1937.) (MMT 7/9/1950)
Apr. 5: On Saturday Dr. Porter bought Dr. Pickel's lot at Sixth and North Ivy for his hospital and sanitarium (CPHerald)
Aug. 2: Remodeling permit issued to Woolworth's, N side of Main between Central & Front (MMT 3/26/1967)
Sept. 17: The Rialto Theater, 106 W Main Street, has its first showing (circa 1939 MMT clipping)
Sept. 22: Medford's "Hansen plan" to pay its Orchard Boom paving indebtedness has been declared illegal by the state supreme court (Post)
Oct. 28: The New Medford Armory was dedicated Wednesday afternoon (MMT)
Nov. 3: "Dr. E. R. Seely has sold his practice to Dr. Conroy and has gone to Portland," will enter into partnership with Dr. Gilstrap (Post)
Dec. 5: Dr. E. H. Porter's Medford Sanitarium (Cargill Court, SE corner 6th & Ivy) to formally open Wednesday (MMT)

1918
Commercial Club changes its name to Chamber of Commerce (Snedicor)
Tomlin Box Co. is established at 5th & Fir (MMT 1/1/1928)
Feb. 6: The Medford flour mill is back in operation, now under the name Rogue Valley Milling Co. (MMT)
Feb. 16: Thurston E. "Daniels for Duds," in business for 11 years, has announced he will go out of business after his closeout sale (MMT)
June 28: Fire destroys the Oregon Rooming House, Medford's first Catholic Church, and three shacks at 3rd & Front (MMT)
Sept. 4: "The Truax Co. has opened a grocery and racket store" just west of Hubbard's at 327 E Main (MMT)
Sept. 9: The Model Clothing Co. in the HCB, SW corner Main & Bartlett, burned Sunday (MMT)
Oct. 14: To combat the Spanish flu epidemic, Mayor Gates closes "churches, lodges, school and all public meetings" (MMT10/12/1918)
Nov. 24: "The 'flu' lid flew off last night, with record attendances at both the Page and Rialto theaters" (Sun)

1919
American Fruit Growers founded (News 11/18/1949)
Jan. 8: The city has refinanced $700,000 worth of 10-year-old Orchard Boom infrastructure bonds; payments will be $25,000 (MMT)
Apr. 5: "Editor Putnam of the Mail Tribune has severed his connection with that publication after a service of about eleven years" (Post)
May 16: "Workers are busy getting ready the new free auto camp" (later Merrick’s) on the "north side of the Natatorium" (MMT)
June 7: "It was announced Friday that the 'flying circus,' composed of seven airplanes, will arrive at Medford Monday forenoon" (Post)
July 26: "The sawmill and box factory at Medford belonging to J. T. Gagnon was burned to ground early Thursday morning" (Post)
July 30: Standard Oil service station at Main & Fir "opened for business at noon today" (MMT)
Aug. 2: The Army announces air patrol of national forests "from Portland to Medford with stations at Eugene, Salem and Roseburg" (MMT)
Aug. 7: The forest patrol assembled for the first time; eight planes are parked at the "Medford flying field at the foot of South Fir" (MMT)
Aug. 9: "The plant of the Gagnon Lumber Co., which was recently destroyed by fire at Medford, will be rebuilt in Jacksonville" (Post)
Sept. 3: The city council last night passed an ordinance requiring metal receptacles for non-combustible garbage (MMT)
Sept. 6: Medford's baseball park at Second and North Holly will be sold; the grandstand lumber turned into a packing house (MMT)
Sept. 13: The Ashland Record blossomed out under a new heading this week, the Pacific Record Herald. The editor is a mystery" (Post)

1920
Medford's population is 5,756 (U.S. Census)
Jan. 7: The city council decided to remove the drinking fountain at Main and Oakdale and cut the NW corner back several feet (MMT)
Jan. 17: Interurban Auto Car Co.'s jitney service to Jacksonville "was inaugurated yesterday. Twelve round trips were made" (Post)
May 7: McCurdy-Bowne Motor Co. announces move to Sparta Bldg., Main & Riverside (MMT)
May 14: "The county has purchased sixty acres of ground about a mile south of town on the Pacific Highway" for fairgrounds (MMT)
May 18: Construction of a Union Oil gas station on a vacant lot at Main and South Fir was begun Monday (MMT)
May 19: W. E. Phipps has donated "4 to 5 acres of land on the east side of North Riverside" to the City of Medford as a park (MMT)
May 26: In FTC conspiracy hearings against the Utah-Idaho Beet Sugar Co., Mayor Gates testified "We got gypped and quit" (MMT)
Aug. 14: The "aviation landing field will be dedicated and given its official name," Newell Barber Field, on Labor Day, September 6th (Post)
Sept. 2: "The publishers of the Polk's Directory announced the population of Medford as being that of 6,300 in the month of July" (MMT)
Sept. 9: Construction has begun on the Brownlee Lumber Co. mill on their 32-acre site just north of Medford and the P&E track (MMT)
Nov. 19: The New Economy Groceteria opens tomorrow in the MCB (MMT)

1921
Jan. 17: Shorty Garnett "is going out of business, and the big fire, smoke and water sale starts Wednesday" (MMT)
April 25: The Knights of Pythias have voted "for the Soliss property on the northeast corner of Sixth and Holly" for their new lodge (MMT)
May: Luther I. Powell swears in first Klansmen in Oregon in Medford's Masonic Hall (E. V. Toy)
May 30: A feature of today's Decoration Day was Lt. Carter in his Forest Service DeHavilland, dropping flowers on the parade (MMT)
July 18: Paving of Pacific Highway between Gold Hill and Grants Pass was completed Saturday (MMT)
July 23: Fire gutted Tumy Auto Co., located in former Crater Lake Garage (123 S Front), last night (MMT)
July 25: C. A. DeVoe's soda fountain now open, in the "lobby entrance of the Sparta Bldg." (MMT)
Sept. 22: When the "crossing frog" is installed this week Washington School students will be transferred to Roosevelt by trolley (MMTw)
Oct. 4: Fire this morning gutted the fourth floor of the Barnum Apartments (Grand Hotel) at Front and Fifth (MMT)

1922
Radio station KFAY (later KMED) begins broadcasting at the Medford fairgrounds (News 12/24/1948)
Medford establishes first municipal airport in Oregon (SOHS membership brochure)
Sept. 2: Dr. Robert W. Stearns will open Medford Community Hospital, 843 E Main, on Sept. 5 (MMT)
Oct. 14: Medford Furniture & Hardware Co. Bldg., SW corner 6th & Bartlett, opened yesterday (MMT)
Nov. 1: Mason-Ehrman Grocery Co.'s warehouse burned yesterday, the "worst fire in the history of Medford" (MMT)
Dec. 27: Porter Neff will build a concrete building NE corner 6th & Central for the Groceteria, which will move from MCB (MMT)

1923
May 1: "The first formal meeting of the Medford Rotary Club was held at noon today" (MMT)
June 1: Last night "the birth of the Medford Rotary Club was celebrated, the charter presented and accepted" (MMT)
August: The Groceteria moves from the MCB into its new bldg., NE corner 6th & Central (MMT 11/17/1949)
Oct. 20: Californian Llewellyn A. Banks has bought the Suncrest and Mira Vista orchards; will live here summers (Chicago Packer)
Nov. 21: "The city is now divided into four wards, instead of three"; A. C. Hubbard has been appointed councilman (MMT)
Nov. 28: Construction of the new reinforced concrete armory at 3rd & Bartlett has "just been accomplished" (MMT)
Dec. 11: Medford Kiwanis Club inaugurated with "charter presentation and dinner dance at the Hotel Medford last night" (MMT)
Dec. 19: It was decided last night to lease the city auto camp to Merrick's; the two camps will be linked with a footbridge (MMT)
Dec. 29: The "Medford Protestant hospital," opened in September 1921, will build a new 12-room surgical and obstetrical unit (MMT)
Dec. 31: The Page Theater was destroyed by fire yesterday; volunteer fireman Amos Willits killed when stage firewall collapsed (MMT)