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Mail Tribune 100, June 6, 1922 By Alissa Corman Jun 06, 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 June 6, 1922 PROSPERITY WEEK REAL DISPLAY OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT June 12th to 18th, the week which has been designated as “Prosperity Week,” by the people of Medford, will be a time for real celebration for all Southern Oregon. The people of this city are concerted in the determination to make it a display of genuine community spirit and are enthusiastically backing the various committees who are in charge. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the week are the principal days of activity. During these days there will be band concerts, aquatic sports, free movies, an industrial development demonstration, a merchants’ baseball game, a rose show and other amusements, while on Friday, Community Day, a big free banquet will be served to Medford people and all visitors. Every resident of Medford is urged to turn out “Prosperity Week: and enter into the spirit of the celebration. Invitations have been extended to all southern Oregon and northern California people and a record breaking crowd is expected to invade the town and make merry with home people. Medford merchants will give free movie tickets with purchases during the week. The full program for the week’s celebration will appear in the “Prosperity Edition” or the Mail Tribune which will be published Friday, June 9th. HOTTEST MAY DAY IN YEARS MAY 31, RAINFALL 1.22 IN. The outstanding feature of last month’s weather was the fact that on May 31st it had the highest temperature for that month since 1911, when official weather statistics were kept in Medford. The next warmest May day during that time was with a temperature of 94, one day in May 1914. Another exceptional feature was the fact that there was only one killing frost, and that on May 26, with a 32 degrees temperature. Neither was last month an exceptional warm one for May, with a mean maximum temperature of 73.05. The mean maximum for May, 1919, was 77.7; that for May, 1914, was 77.5; that for May, 1920, was 74; and that for May, 1913, was the same as last month, 73.5. The rainfall of last month was 1.22 inches last year. No snow fell during recent years except that it was 2.47 inches last year. No snow fell during last month. There were six days with .01 of an inch of precipitation. 10 days were clear, 8 partly cloudy and 13 were cloudy. A thunderstorm occurred on May 25th. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]