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plexioned player as either a “greaser,”
or pretend to think him a “coon.” He
may be more of a white man than some
of the rooters, but that doesn't matter.
But the visitor who gets mad, and talks
Can Give any Other County Town back at the crowd is meat for these
rooters. They fairly revel in repartee
Cards and Spades and Then
of the most stinging kind. They make
Win in a Walk.
all kinds of personal suggestions, prob­
Jacksonville is certainly a baseball ably the most common being that he
town. The writer states without reser­ repress his temper by means of a sugar,
vation that Jacksonville is the most teat. You talk about running for office
partisian base ball town in Southern bringing out personalities and deficienc­
Oregon. It can give cards and spades, ies, both mental and physical. Politics
and big and little casino to any other is not in it with a first-class, exciting
aspiring or perspiring municipality be­ game of baseball, where the partisan
tween the eternal snows and the banana passions are expected and given full
belt, if there is such a tropical surcin­ . play. If any other town in the state
gle, so to speak. Yes, Jacksonville is has reasons to doubt these statements
partisan, in a baseball sense from the let them come up to this sunny burg
top of its head to the sole of its feet. any Sunday this summer, and we will
It has a bunch of the most conscience­ give them a lesson in inverted rhetoric
less rooters, most merciless whoopers that will make their heads swim. Just
up for its nine, and whoopers down of let them bring their baseball nine here
the other nine, to be found on any map and see what we will do to them. If j
in the state. This is not merely a they want to have a real good exciting
speculative, tentative remark, but is time, a time in which every second will
borne out by the opinions of visiting be strenuous and there will not be a
clubs, and by visiting spectators. A dull moment, then as members of their
Jacksonville baseball rooter who is in baseball nine whom they bring here,
good health, who has come tu the let them be sure to have a very fat
grounds determined to boost his town boy, one who will look like the prize
club to victory, who has made up his porker at a county fair; next have a
mind to give the opposing club a slide human skeleton, a man who is so thin
down the toboggm, can make note he can't tell whether he has backache
noise, can look more wild-eyed. car. get or s;o'nu.‘h-a:he and who rattles as he
redder in the face, can appear the walks; next have a red-headed man
living image of a wild man more per­ and a cross-eyed man—we can guy
fectly, can yell louder, can dig up out them to the queen's taste; and let them
of his unlimited vocabulary more orgi- be sure to have some old ex-leaguer
nal personal remarks, and generally whose hair is turning w hite atound the
hoot more derisively, catcall more temples and whom we c.t.i dub Methu
vociferously, and mimic more outrage­ saleh and generally convince him thal
ously than any baseball crank of any we think age in a b .je b.ulist is d s.ep-
other known place in this portion of utab'e. Lot than being ad the <dd
tie State. 11' the writer dared to take looking fellows they can scare up.
i.is precious and invaluable life in his they aie in si ts, ad the better
own hands, which by the way, he do s wil; put cur rooters ag.cnst theirs.
lot purpose doing, he could mention a nave some fans in tt.is foot-hill town
dozen Jacksonville looters v.lo would who are leather-lunged ai. .d whose
fairly shimmer and glow like a fierce dii.pragms a niir.ni.bail cuuid not pen-
calcium light and make all o.her so- eu aie; they have such a keen i sense ot
called looteis look lixe tal.ow nips by the ludicrous that they are airaid to
compars’on. For obvious reasons, these iook into their lookinglasses. But they
.trident and mure than enthusiastic are generous, whole-souled, noisy but
ge ntlemen shall be nameless. Some of goou-hearted, and they make a noise
them weigh a quarter of a ton, t id like a cannonade of heavy musketry.
might be dangerous should we get t.o And alter the other nine's pennant is
personal; others are church membets, trailed in the dust of defeat, the players
and no doubt just before they strike will be taken to our hearts, nguratively
out for the baseball diamond on a speaking, shown the wonders of our
Sunday, the have assured their better- town, bidden a tear-dimmed farewell,
halves that they are going to attend and they will leave for home with a
a “talk for men only," at one of the burst of admiration swelling in their
neighboring churches, so it would be breasts for County Seatville, and a
cruel to give their family names away. memory as sweet as lingers from a
And still others are friends of many of crushed violet in flowery meadows on a
our readers who would resent such Spring day in the matchless month
flagrant publicity. But the baseball J nne.
rooters above-named are an aggrega­
tion standing out in majestic grandeur
SHERIFF’S SALE.
as a finished, scientific, professionally
perfect bunch of good-natured villifiers In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon,
County of Jackson.
which is hard to beat, if an excessive­ the State
Land Board. Plaintiff, vs. Adelbert
ly fat player of the opposing nine walks Mvers and Virginia Myer.*. Defendants.
Notice is hereby Riven that under and by virtue
to the bat. there is a moment’s lull
of an execution issued out of and under the seal
the above entitled Court and in the atmve en­
the lull before the storm then there is of
titled cause dated on the 7th day of May. 1907,
a wild, hoarse whiop of “Fatty”! “Fat directing and ordering me to sell in the manner
provided by law. the hereinafter described real
3oy”! "Get on the tub”. Hurrah for property in » ursuance of that certain judgment
and order of sale duly recorded and entered in the
’umlo"! “Mamma's Bouncing Baby above entit’ed cause on the 7th day of May. 19)7.
in favor of the aforesaid State I .and Board and
Boy." and an hundred other v
against the above entitled defendants Adelbert
expletives all intended to distress
W. Mvers and Virginia Myers, for the sum of
three hundred twenty-five dollars with interest at
disconcert the visitor. In such a
the rate of six ner cent per annum from the Sth
dav of May. 19 Hi and costs a nounting to three
< emonium it is hardly a wonder
d »l'ats and eighty five cents and the further sum
'Fatty" fans the air three times.
of fifty <1 >lla s attorneys fees
Now therefore by virtue of sa:d exeetton and
is retired.
in co.np,'anc * with the c >mmand of said writ. I
wil
’, on Tuesd’v. the Irtth day of July, 1907. at the
Nor is the very thin visitor at the b it »o-.irof
tw » o'clock P M.. at the front door of the
; subject fore ngratulation, for every Cou t House in the City of Jacksonville. Oregon.
at public •auction subject to redemption to
l now n i'dje tive or synony n f ,r the «•41
h » ••'■est bi'd< r f .r U. S Gold Coin, a’l the
word ' thin" is dealt out to the h;q less v’" ¡il* nd in e < st whir h the said defendants.
A '• 1 >ei t \V Me e sad Virgin i Mesers or eithc r
visitor in large tablespoon fill doits. of hem. h ■! on the 7«h d-»y of May 19**7 or at
* n v tbtrealter in a-d to the following «1.-
That familiar old gag applied to a thin- an c bed
o o’ erty. to wit: The E’-.* of the S W. ’«
Section 33 Town-
■g cd fellow: that he will be arrested a dtleW ’«of the S F
sh n : B < Rt-nre 1 East of W. M in Jackson Coun-
o' vagrancy, because he has no visible y. O go 1. or any part »hereof that mar l>e nec-
i leans of support, is still heard on our e c< j< ■ s ’ s. y to satirfv si id judgment, costs and accruing
D H. JACKSON.
a n > nd. Ti e t. in man gets it in about
Sh riff of Jackson County. Oregon.
. he same proportion ns the fat man.
By G. R. Carter. Deputy.
Th
r ,.t "• si: • up a v ry dark coni- Jacks m . ¡lie Oregon. J une 20th. 1907.
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PRIZE ROOTERS
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COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
.4 Specialty of Fruit, Alfalfa and Stock Ranche» in the fanions
Rogue River Valley
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Union Livery Stable
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Rigs on short notice for timber crui­
sers, commercial men, sawmill
men, all kind of men or parties
Horses fed at reasonable rates
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Barlow & Hostetter
Painters
Decorators
Paper Hangers
Sign Writers
Estimates Furnished on Contract Work
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Headquarters for Groceries,
Dry Goods, Fresh Fruits
Confectionery, Cigars, Etc
FIRST CLASS BAKERY CONNECTED
AT KAHLER BLOCK
JACKSONVILLE
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Fir»t Cla»» Rlack»mithing
All kind» Wagon War*.
Anythin, and Everything Repaired
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(One Block .Vorth l\ S. Hotel'
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