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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
ing to it three more stores and a lot of upstairs rooms. During this time a new grocery went into one of the former stores, which was consolidated with the market of Lovering Brothers in the new Holton building, and Beach, the druggist, came into the other. It seemed a little singular that over the drug store the first tenant's name was Drinkwater. Mr. Usher had quite an experience with varied tenants, and built a brick oven in the acute end of the cellar next the railroad. A baker, Max Fischer, came into the second store for a time, while Macy had the one over the oven. It was to this that George Delano ran the first telephone wire from his coal office in Medford up the riverbank and offered the town the use of it for fire and police calls, but found nothing doing—no use for any such plaything. One day, when the Usher block took fire from locomotive sparks, Macy called Delano loudly, who repeated across the street to the bird-cage (police station), Fire in the Usher block! a