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Our late issue.
An apology is due our readers for the delay of this issue.
It was our intention to answer this query, ‘Where was “the
Rocks?”
’ by a retrospect of North Medford.
Non-receipt of promised ‘copy,’ which we waited for, is partial cause.
We hope yet to do so. When these pages leave the press our Society will be holding its November meeting, we trust under favorable circumstances and outlook.
Seventy years ago some hopeful persons started a weekly paper in
Medford.
In it some things were suggested—not yet materialized.
It was a newsy sheet, but only existed (it didn't live) three months. Thirteen years later, two others that are but a memory.
Nearly fifty years ago came another (to stay), the
Mercury, that now issues a ‘daily evening’ edition.
Its opening number bears this headline, ‘
Medford—The Fastest-growing City in the
State.’
We note a present population of 53,000, an increase of 35,000 during the thirty years since the time our Society was organized.
Isn't there need of society work?
If our city is
fast growing, it is equally true it is cosmopolitan, now that it is three hundred years old.
After all, how little of our real history is known, or told, and how much, even of later date, has been lost!
A thick (1 1/2-in) book of unnumbered pages is the latest ‘Residents' List,’ we see the throngs of school children, five to twenty years, and think of the ever-arriving infant class that make up the enumeration.
We sincerely hope that the boast of fast growth may be that of a sound, healthy and progressive one,
Medford—no mean city.
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