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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1907)
C. L Our Motto: Make the Best You Carr ,]f me > ; -s/ Vou Get JACKSONVILLE POST VOL. 1 NO. 12 JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COLMA , OKH„oN, U (.1ST 24, 1W7 Jacksonville Post P ublished A t J acksonvile , O re gon , F or S eventeen R easons A nd H ollering A ll T he T ime F or I ts T own , I ts C ounty and I ts S tate I ndependent O f E verything B ut W ealth A nd T axes . Sanders & Overnolt P u b I i n h e r » A Proprietor» S ubscription P rice $1.50 A Y ear I n T he U nited S tates , C anad * A nd Y amhill C ounty . O regon I ssued E very S aturday W hether Y ou L ike I t O r N ot . W hen C onvenient S ubscriptions S hould B e P aid I n M oney ; O ther wise M ortgages . M ines A nd M ules W ill B e A ccepted I e The first pane of The Post has been conde- acendinirly srivon over to the junior editor - Milea Overholt—who either has to have some place to display his literary spaama or Ite confined tr the violent ward. It is hoped tha' the readers and natrons of The Post will look at the matter in this light and not judtre the senior tor saner! editor too harshly for allowing him this privilege. Heart and Hand The other day the San Francisco post office department recei ed a peculiar re quest in the shape of a letter written by a man in northern California who seemed to have an enthusiastic, t.hole- souled desire to get married, and thus wrote to the postal department to help him out in his trouble. The post office authorities did not know what to do with this unique appeal for assistance, but'finally sent it to the County Clerk of San Francisco, as that is the formal dispenser of marriage licenses; and so it got into the newspapers. Many people who have not looked into thismatterof advertising for help meets take the whole thing as a joke, and probably think that it is only accasion- aily done, and usually by people who are either very common,o ■ with “rooms to let" in the upper story. This is really not the case. In the East it is the commonest kind of an occuirei.es, nay. it is really the profession or an oc cupation. the advertising for husbands and wives.and there are magizines and marriage bureaus that make and have a permanent income from the results ot their advertisements. It is true that f< r- eign-born persons are in the majority in this advertising for better or worser halves.but there is a 11 ge sp.’in J ng of the native popular: m who take a shy at these bureaus. The writer know s of one particular ■ase which fell und.-r hi - pers >nal ob servation a number of years ago a ease in which it was pure, unadulterated ad vertising for a wife on the man's part: a matter of concrete business from first to last. The night on which the man in question was t > n. et his contemplated ifc partner who was due to arrive abci.t midnight on the overland train fromoi e of the eastern state . hearr.vel intown from his home somewhere a.ojnd nire o'clock in the evening. Consequently this husband-tobe had : bout three houis to wait and speculate as t > w hat his in tended would !o. i. ¡ise. Our friend showed up at th- hotel to wait for the tram and being of a very s »viable even onfidental. i:.-' ■ .tion. it was not long ■<efore ever; m. • in the hotel office <:iew wh..’ he was waiting for. It is said that i time when there is absolutely any excuse to assimilate a and a chic, coy and electric expression few drinks too much, it is about the time that would *.ak ear. ordinary telephone you are going to get married; that all battery dull, cold and lifeless Ther. other times pale into lifeless insigniti- you run up against that awful original, gance in the way of sophistical excuse. and if you have heart disease, you give Anyway, our mutual friend with the a sharp, suddert gasp, and fad dead if heart’s burning desire to tackle the aw you nave no organ. : heart trouble, but ful maelstrom of matrimony, proceeded an unusually tough onstitution, to fill up in honor of the occasion, and, you have omy >rdt ary brainfev..- f ra of course, shot 'em up to the joshing few weeks, anil whoop and yell in ie- crowd, as well. But it is not of -his lirium every tin social conventionality that it is des ed original of that picture to advert to, simply what happened No. young man. if you are ¡sou 1 to when the meeting took place. At mid do and die that is, get mar: >d uk night the train came in. and a crowd boldly into the gir s kitche". and size from the hotel accompanied the 'marry her up in her ing gent" to the depot. At last a tall, culinary arrangements hold forth. If vinegary female, with a blue ribbon you are abie to s' -ik it before break tied on her left wrist, stepped from one fast. all the better. A girl w ho i - pretty of the coaches. Our friend also had a at seven o ’ ciock in me morning, while blue ribbon wound round his left wrist she is making mush and frying oatter- -a recognition badge adopted by the cakes. is pretty in any spot on God’s pair by correspondence. At this point green footstool. If she:»pretty around in novels a veil would be drawn over the cook stove, you may depend upo". it what happened. Whether it was the that in the partor. on a summer night, beer he had drank, whether it was the under the soft glow of a mellow tight, solemn midnight hour that affected him. ami reclining a tete a-tete seat. whether it was a sudden, irresistible a cosy-corner, site is s<. wondrousiy. love at first sight, or a little of all. the splendidly, perfe. t;; and entraneingly would-be benedict rushed al his bi ide- beautiful that the mere sight of her al to-be and winding his arms round hei most gives you an attar, of .impound wasp-like waist, gave her a kiss that epilepsy, au i your ny thought, your sounded like a steer taking his foot out only wisn on eartit i.~ to make a wild of a muddy bog; and she was a game breaK down tne road, it. a str. wilder old girl, for she returned it with inter gallop for the run -tel ■. i form»., st est, and her kiss sounded like a "busted" bliss. ginger-ale bottle exploded by the heat I Ther. the pair got into a crazy old A cher's buggy and drove off to the ranch The -hades of t ght were fa: r.. fast. to begin their marital life on i string Wh< hroug ge streets me bean, skim milk diet. passed. In these marriage advertising propo A score of peop‘ •. w>r .si- - siti ns. photographs play a most import "What’s the score?’' ant part, and a deceiving part too. Did . th< turf you ever see a photo on exhibition that 1 lie night looked exactly like the person intended? Beg1 '." to tii " s -ii-.i-i. -:r>- •• i: Neve '. W e all have seen a photo of Still up the street vis he'.• ■ "What.s the score?" sone girl which was as beautiful as a summer dream, and which gave us a fit ■ Far. far from tiome in other .tm -. ar tin of nervous pros ration ta even look at Amid the it; but meeting the original ashort time 'Tis sail! the soldier's voices time: "What's file re?" after, she gave us a si -k headache to look at her. That is why so many men Pei haps i t that far distant rid. are taken in, and women too, by these Where angei- flit ot. every rul. photographs. It is only natural that if We'il near them shout to b-.-.U. the band: you are l iok'ng for a wife, you will ha' s the re . slick up and look your prettiest into the camera. If you don t look h i i’wa ,- handsome and engaging and go >d- A* a rule 1 natured under these circumstances, you never will on this earth. You may of my fellow met’ , generally -peak : ’g have a md • on .he hither sal? <f I am wha: tnlgtu. ;e termed a y.u ••- i:<- your nose; your eves may be turned able citizen. >u' wren we beg • ■ bo h ways f r Sunday : you may have a cum the ma to it.:, your iwn lantern jaw and a hand-dog look, you and te Is vo. i may nave no more expression than a business, then * a::: " ot a aw a’ t cirar-Indian; you may be as grey-head man. Whet. I tin run-.ing al ng trying ed as a rat you may be all this, but in my teebie way :> onduct my isi- when the cameraman turns you out, ness satisfat .only to myself. I nate to you hardly know yourself. And that hale s nne om:no: plug t ike a lay ,ff more is wh..' s i many men and women draw to te 1 me what I should d > to blanks when they exchange photo successful; or wna* to print it: oi»ie: to i l'hi- a graphs. Under the scientific tutelage' best please the pe m e of a first class | hotographer a grass fe low Wlli butt in a*, the most r opise ■ widow of f irty-odd years can be made tune times a: d try to show that tne 're dog.- c: to ivok like a high school graduate < n busi less is g :'.g ignorat. tha'. Cammen.ement night. Young man, if iy with the remo: >w i g- sm n. you are bound to get married, don'tget i marks a stumt’-' .■ engaged by the correspondence route, patch. He is tne bull in my China or you w ill surely getgood and buncoed. shop, tne na'.r :'. m. g: ■. y a rt t •. dy It is true . • I She may send you a photo of a winsome, in my maple syru; lissome young girl —a young girl lock-1 am yet yout g ar. i i • t know ■ gteat .vhenev«- I r, get ing unutterable» under dark curling deal, anyh ow. ashes, with a cupid’s bow of a tnogth. things runt g -erg sm. oti’.iy, tins to oust m;. oeauti- and tecti that wonld make a string of man ;s always pe rls go off and kick themselves out of fui dream ana au.se me t > wish that sheer envy: hair that would makeayei- his name mtget ' • .‘¡'.graved ,n > ta'i e.iut'.t’.i'ee“ et low r.i .orbeam look passe and de tfop; I mart» e s,a/’ ■■ What'* the S-'ore Information Peddlar A man might steal my purse and I w ulc ’t say a word. (If I had a purse, i He might take my noble rep utation and hide it somewhere and I wouldn’t even feel hurt. He could tell me to go to thunder and I would still feel in a friendly mood. But when he begins • . point out the different phases of my business that needs renovating and disinfecting and painting, &c., ther I feel my anger rising and a desire to rise up and smite him is strong within me. No me will ever know how I long for the blood of this information ped- lie; kt night 1 camp on his trail and by • ■. i thirst for his gore. In my «¡reams I am cutting his scalp with a g :■ io. while my fingers are en twined in his curly locks. I walk on aim ma gleefully do the highland Hing or s prostrate form. Ln. the Poor Indian A .".ttman skull was brought into this office Tuesday. It was found in the bed : ickson creek and looks like it wasn 't feeling well. While our exper ience as a skullologist is somewhat limited, yet we have come to the con- •u.-io that a Rogue River Indian once s.-e.-smi this -kull. We make this as sert n owing to the high forehead and it'-- nones. We scraped the dirt off tne - ill, and looked it over carefully an t teeided that it was dead. This pr ration was taken because an In dia:. i.- ot always dead when he has tl'..-. appearance. But we have the m >• child-like faith and confidence in this or-.-. Somehow we do not feel the s igntest distrust about this Indian's reman s. Live Indians do not look so picturesque as the engravings on the calendars ami other interesting litera ture. The smell is not the same, either. The picture of a noble red mat basing a noble buffalo, is all right, but the skull really suits us bet ter. Nature surely balled things up aw futly w hen she constructed the In dian. He (the Indian) has certain mental, moral and physical eccentrici ties which can only lie properly remod eled when he is in the same condition as ;s this Indian of ours. True this one isr. t much of an Indian, but it is enough, and suits u> much better than a wtid one that would have to be tamed and broke to harness and to stami hit tisi We always know that our In tian is at home nights and that he nas ot. i:. a tit of playfulness, gone it and shot several large, three-cor nered holes ir the neighbor's livers anil brought home a few scalps for playthings. We have placed the sky-pic (. f tnis noble ledman on our ricn a ;d magnificient what-not. and those wishing to review the remains will please pass to the left ami step high. No flowers. H aterineloncholia This - the time of year when the » ountry newspaper contains the pre i'i-‘ ■ chestnut: "Have you been uf- ffi tec’ with watermeloncholia?" This r.o ... a good joke and with pro|>er .ire luring the cold, raw months of wint- r .wll yet last fol years and years to rorne. >r class houses, show case., ind things, ow would you like to he ■ :he San Francisco Glass case?
