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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1907)
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 . The Post Publishing Co. Miles Overholt, Editor & Manager S ubscription P rice $1.50 A Y ear I n T he U nited S tates , C anada A nd Y amhill C ounty , O regon I ssued E very S aturday W hether You 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 / -______________ y Christmas 1907. dow, wifey commenced crying, and struck out for her mother’s, and it took eight friends ?nd a block and tackle to get her back »gain. Now this simply grew out of ,a discrepancy and inequal ity of presents. A man who would set a precedent by giving his wife a spark ler sets an example that cannot be se verely reprobated. What is he going to do next Christmas? He cannot give her a zi ic washtub nor an improved, self-adjusting clothes line. The fact is, he has cooked himself for all time and will either have to keep the Kim berly stunt up until the grim Reaper calls him hence to his fathers, or will have to take time by the forelock and seek death ’neath the waters of some dark pool. But, gentlemen, in conclusion: no matter what you give, no matter what your better halves give, don’t forget about one week from Christmas Day to hand her a great wad of bills, or a handful of yellow gold, so she may go forth joyously to the gorgeous empor iums and there “blow” herself with great eclat and with a great aplomb. It is a beautiful thing to make a gift at Christmas time, but how often is the occasion overdone or underdone! How many of us generous old codgers present our wives and other close rela tives with diamond tiaras, strings of pearls, sealskin sacques (when you spell it ‘sacques,” instead of sacks, add a couple of hundred extra) auto An Ordinance to amend Section 1 of Ordinance No. 108, entitled. “Re mobiles and trips to Europe, and then lating to certain animals, and pro spend the next ten years humping our hibiting their running at large within selves to keep up the monthly pay the corporate limits of the Town of ments, wearing linen dusters, eating at Jacksonville. Jackson County, Ore free lunch counters and dodging the gon.” and as the same appears of ubiquitious constable to keep from be record in Volume 3 at page 426 of the ing run in for vagrancy? Hundreds of Records of the Town of Jacksonville. us! Oregon. The writer knew one poor old sucker no other expression fits who made The People of the Town of Jackson his better half a Christinas present of an eight hundred dollar sealskin. She ville, do Ordain as follows: Section 1. That Section 1 of Ordi kisseil him about ninety times a day for a week when he up and died. nance No. 108, entitled, “Relating to Within a few months afterward she certain animals, and prohibiting their married again. One day the sexton running at large within the corporate happened to be working near his grave limits of the Town of Jacksonville, and hearing a peculiar noise, concluded Jackson Co., Oregon” and as the same to open it. What do you suppose he appears of record in Volume 3 at page saw? Why, you see the widow had 426 of the records of the Town of Jack com.1 out to the grave with her second sonville, Oregon, be a:id the same is husband several times, wearing her hereby amended to read as follows: sealskin, and this made the first hus Section 1. No Stallion, Mare, Gelding, band so mad that he had actually Colt, Jack, Ass, Mule, Cow, Bull, Heif turned over in his coffin and had er, Calf, Steer, Ox, Sheep or Goat scratched with his finger nail on the shall be allowed to run at large, or be side of the coffin: “You d d old herded in any of the streets, alleys or fool, you!” Of course the above is an public places within the corporate lim unusual ease, but much sorrow and its of the Town of Jacksonville. Section 2. That all Ordinances or misery come from the husbands mak ing too expensive presents. If they parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith make a good still' present and then get are hereby R epealed Section 3. Whereas an emergency hard up the rest of the Winter, they never hear the last of it. If they make exists for the immediate operation of some little dinky present say a couple this Ordinance, therefore the same of window shades, or say a box of ci shall take effect and be in full force gars, you eat in the kitchen with the from and after its passage. The foregoing ordinance was duly hired man the next two months. passed and adopted by the Board of One incident came under the person al observation of the writer several Trustees of said Town of Jacksonville, years ago. The husband, in a wild, at a special session of said Board on unguarded wave of unheard-of gener the sixteenth day of December, A. D., H. G. Dox, osity, presented the wife of his bosom 1907. Clerk of the Board of Trustees. with the finest diamond ring he could get. It was nearly thesizeof a robin’s egg and shone so dazzlingly that one, Holiday Rates. alter looking into its lustrous depths, Rate of a fare and a third will be would have to go off and look at the side of tt drab-colored barn to equalize granted by the S. P. Co. for the com the brilliancy. Mis. Wife nearly had ing Christmas and New Year's holi a fit when she got that ring, and after days, round trip to Oregon points, first scratching the wiudow pane to see "Lines in Oregon.” Tickets will be on if it was genuine and not a beautiful sale Dec. 23, 24, and 25 for Christmas paste, she rushed into the other room and Dec. 30. 31 and Jan. 1 for New and brought forth a pair of knitted Years. Return limit Jan. 2, 1908. woolen slippers that could be bought in These are unusual liberal conditions. the store for nineteen cents, and where These rates are for Oregon points only. she had sewed across the left sole of Further information at the depot. Ordinance No. 160-acre Ranch at DUNFORD & $1500 ON ERHOLT *> BANK OF • • • JACKSONVILLE • • • CAPITAL STOCK $25,000 GEORGE L. DAVIS, President JEREMIAH NUNAN, V. President J A Y C. SEXTON, Cashier RAY F. SEXTON, Ass’t Cashier We do a general banking business. Issue exchange. Your business is respectfully solicited. 118 one of them: "Gul Keep Hubby Home. ” This rather too suggestive Of course you can get other things present, outside of its aw ful cheapness, at the Boss, tobacco, cigars, etc., but made hubby mad. He threw the slip CANDY pure home made candy, no pers, motto and all. through the win adulterations, is the main feature. Jacksonville, Oregon r----------------------- Where the Door Opens Constantly N You can quickly heat and keep cozy the draughty hall or cold room-No matter what the weather conditions are-and if you only kuew how much real comfort you can have from a Charter Oak Heater YOu wouldn,t be without one an other hour. All kinds of heaters from $3 up. All kind cooking utensils, cook Good Grade Cutlery. etc. Æ. D. HOUSTON • • • • • I stoves, Harness Shop in Connection Masonic Huilding __________ Chase & Sanborn’s High Grade Teas and Coffees ULRICH BROS Sole Agen*8
