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Mail Tribune 100, Sept. 19, 1922 By Alissa Corman Sep 19, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Sept. 19, 1922 DOG RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVING OFF WRONG BUICK CAR Mrs. F. Roy Davis, wife of the United States commissioner, unintentionally swiped John F. White’s automobile while shopping yesterday afternoon and drove to the garage at her home, thinking all the time that the car was her own and for F. Roy to clean and oil up — once every few years. Within a half hour after Mr. White discovered that his auto had been stolen, as he and everyone else thought, there was much excitement downtown and Chief of Police Timothy, at the behest of the local insurance company agent, had wired the Yreka, Ashland and Roseburg authorities to be on the look out and head off the auto thief. Even as late as this morning John F. was swearing dire vengeance on the villain who stole his car if he ever got his hands on him, and Ralph Woodford was peeking out his drug store window and, snickering at White’s plight, thinking of his own Velie car which was stolen two weeks ago and has not turned up since. When F. Roy Davis ... went into the garage this morning to tune up the car, as usual, he came back into the house puzzled and said to his wife: “Are you sure that is our car? It looks like it to me, but yet it don’t. There is something strange about it.” Then they went out into the garage and made a further examination. Mrs. Davis again related that she had parked her car yesterday afternoon on the north side of West Main St., but did not find it there when she got ready to go home. On looking around further she say what she thought was the car standing in front of Mordorff & Wolf’s store. The little black scroot of a dog of the Davis family also was deceived and at once jumped on the running board. Mrs. Davis then drove home in the car. Mr. and Mrs. Davis finally decided that the car was not their own and notified Chief of Police Timothy that some mistake had been made. The chief recognized it as the missing White car. Then the question arose as to where the Davis car could be. The chief advised that they look for it where Mrs. Davis had first parked it. Sure enough it was there. “What helped to fool me,” explained Mrs. Davis to the chief, “was the eager manner in which that dog jumped onto the car when we hunted it.” The mistake arose easily as the White and Davis cars were just alike, both Buick cars, and well kept. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]