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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1909)
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 13, VOL. IL I TALKS ON ADVERTISING II—Mail Order Vs. Home Trading By Henry Herbert Huff COPYRIGHT. 1000. BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCI ATION “Back again, Mr. Business Man!” “Glad to see you. Have a chair. Do you know I’m anxious to learn how advertising is going to fix those mail on ier houses.” “Pardon me, but I do not like your expressio n. The mail order house has as much right to do business as Bro’ wn, your com petitor across the street. You cannot hopo to ha vo it extermi nated by law, boycott or other unfair means. Th e only way to solve this problem is to meet its prices. You «in do this on a cash basis, and that is the only sensible way to : Mill. Be so busy telling the public about your store, your good.': :and your prices that the mail order houses do not appear to tr< Bible you in the least. Quote the mail order houses’ prices besid e yours to show that you mean business. Do not attack their inter ^rity. They are not all frauds, as some merchants would represe. at them to be.” “But people should be loyal to their home me rcbants”— “Very true, but this argument has been abused. Stories of the patron who got ‘cheated,’ of the dollar that did no much in the community before it was sent away, the theory of payL’ig taxes, etc., are all so weak or lacking in logic as to be an injury to our cause. If you are to pull customers from the catalogue houses, it will be with proof that you sell equally low, not by satire or abuse. They are to be won, not forced. Then, too, many merchants who are sell ing too high or are inexperienced and not in the It ast fitted for their business, dealers who gossip, are unfriendly and. unaccommo dating or who cheat or mistreat their patrons all claim the support of the community on the loyalty to home industries pica. To do so is to seek charity, not business. Even charity coders no such sins. Now, honestly, do you expect patronage merely because you are a merchant in this town ?’’ “What grounds, then, should I take in asking patronage ?” “Put it thus: ‘You buy where you can buy cheapest, and I will do the same. Remember, when making comparisons with cata logue prices, to add something for transportation, the delay, the trouble and expense of ordering, and the like. If I can furnish you the goods equally low, considering these advantages, buy of me, because it will help to build up the town. That is all I ask.’ To what one thing do the catalogue houses owe their growths?" “I must confess it is good advertising.” “Yes; their whole existence is due to it. They cannot, live with out it. They are unnatural institutions—could never hawe started if local merchants had realized the possibilities of advertising. But it is not too late to use against them this very instrument that has been their making. And that is» the only successful way to combat the mail order evil—advertise.” Retiring Board Finished Busi ness For Term and Adjourn- ed-New Board Took Oath of Office and Commenced Wo k in Earnest. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held Tuesday night the old board listened to the reports of the different officers and acted on a few bill. The following is a list of the word of the last session of the old board: Report of the treasurer read and ac cepted. Report of the sexton read and ac cepted. Street Commissioner’s report read and carried over until the next meet ing for correction. BILLS ments to a vote of the people. This ordinance passed and is now a law. The town charter can now be changed within 30 days. Trustee Davis asked about the pow er of the board to vote a bond issue for a water system. Mr. Reames said it could not be done under the the pre sent charter, but the bond issue and an amendment to the charter could be submitted to the people at the same election. The town has control of the county roads for a mile outside the city limits. This, Mr. Reames thought, was a bad policy and suggested that the city turn over to the county all county roads passing through the city so that the county could assist in keeping the streets in repair as is the case in other municipalities. The board adjourned to meet Tues- day evening, March 16. 6000 TOKAY PLANTS This is one of the numerous spring styles we are showing « bi NO. 45. | ! ow districts could be assessed to build ELECTRIC ROAD NEW BOARD IN , sidewalks and repair streets. Mr. Reames, about two years ago, an ordinance shortening the A SURE WINNER CHARGE OF CITY prepared time in which to submit charter amend G. N. Lewis..................... .... $ 15.00 Henry Dox....................... ....... 2.65 FOR NEW YARD Jas. M. Cronemiller......... ....... 74.00 Woods Lumber Co.......... 11.32 The grape industry in Southern S. Walsh.......................... .... 146.30 Oregon is steadily on the increase and M. Johnson....................... ....... 1.00 there is room for more. Tuesday I Chris Ulrich delivered to the Beavenue $250.27 brothers 6000 tokay plants to be set Chas. E. Hayden was given a con- i out on their farm just 80uth of the tract to build a toilet in the cemetery | eity The plants came from the I fcr $71.50. I 0](j Bybee yard one mile north of Jack- President Robinson administered the aonville and appeared to be strong and oath of office to Recorder Dox when a healthy. motion was macle by Trustee Britt to There is 10,000 acres of this excel adjourn Sine Die. lent grape land within a radius of one NEW BOARD mile of Jacksonville. Much of thia Judge Dox swore in the new mem land is under brush and can be bought bers of the board and the marshal, very cheap. » treasurer and street commissioner. Trustee Shaw was elected president INDUSTRY FOR of the board. Aside from Dr. Shaw’s JACKSONVILLE capability for the office he was evi dently the choice of the voters, receiv A stone cutting and jewelry shop for ing the highest vote in the city elec Jacksonville. Only the most impor tion. The bonds of the new officers were tant cities in the land can boast of an enterprise of this kind. But never read and accepted. theless it is a reality in Jacksonville. I I From the way the new board started J. C. Runyon recently visited Eagle ed out they evidently mean business. Point and on crossing the desert he Attorney A. E. Reames was invited noticed some very pretty specimens of by the board to be present to explain agates. He filled his pockets and pro the defects in the old charter. He ex ceeded for home where he fitted up plained the manner in which the char his cutting and grinding machinery and ter could be amended by the people commenced work. He has Borne rare and also recommended some changes specimens of moss agates and moon n the instrument. stones cut to be mounted on gold fit- Mrs. Jesse Applegate was in Med Mr. Reames said “in 1906 the people, tings. Miss M. B. Towne spent last Sunday ford Tuesday. by referendum, gave certain powers with relatives in Phoenix. to municipalities to change their char Mrs’ Charles DeLin of Medford was Grover Neil of Ashland was at the APPORTIONMENT ter without taking them before the connty seat Thursday. in Jacksonville Tuesday. NOW READY state legislature. ’’ He also explained IÍ 1909 We have a fine line of samples in the new and popuiar shade All our suits are guaranteed all wool and we guarantee a per feet fit We guarantee the price to be right too. What more could you ask for? ULRICH BROTHERS, Leading Merchant .9 The following is the state tax ap portionment and will be reported to the several county courts within a few day: | Baker......... 9 31,237 50 22,165 00 ■ Benton....... 42,693 25 Clackamas.. 31,237 50 Clatsop....... 15,037 50 Columbia ... 56,392 .'0 Coos............ 15,682 50 Crook.......... 6,012 50 Curry.......... 45,772 50 Douglas....... 12,905 00 Gilliam......... 9,794 25 Grant.......... 16,250 00 Harney....... 12,495 00 Hood River. 38,075 00 Jackson....... 12,790 00 Josephine... 20,185 00 Klamath.... 12,112 50 Lake............ 56,805 00 Lane............ 8,160 00 Lincoln......... Linn.............. 60,355 00 10,455 00 Malheur.. .. 72,635 00 Marion..... 14.662 50 Morrow....... Multnomah.. 405,167 50 Polk.............. 35,925 00 Sherman...., 12,112 50 Tillamook..., 13,977 50 Umatilla..... 65.662 50 Union.......... 29,707 50 Wallowa,..., 10,327 50 i Wasco........... 22,822 50 Washington. 85,425 00 ■ Wheeler....... 6,757 00 ; Yamhill....... . 42,915 00 Total »1,275,000 00 BRYAN’S DAUGHTER IS GIVEN DIVORCE tion is repealed by implication by the state local option law, and that the latter governs in this municipality. The last county prohibition election held in 1898 being declared illegal by the supreme court in the Hall vs. What has Been Accomplished Dunn case, the local option precinct Along the Route of an Elec election of 1906 governs. In this election East Ashland voted “Wet”. tric Railway — Prospects Attorney Smith maintains that there Bright For a Valley System fore the council not only has the right to issue license in this precinct this Summer but can be required to do so by the courts upon the application of any one complying with the charter re- That an electric railroad will do : gulations. more to develope a country and increa “If my contention in this matter se the value of land than any other is not correct”, says Attorney Smith, one thing is an undenvable fact. “the situation of the City of Ashland When the Willamette Valley com would be like this: Prohibition was pany started work on the Portland- adopted in part of the city at the Salem line, property all along the line general election under the local op advanced from eight to eleven times tion law; six months later an election the former price. The writer is well held in the city would nullify the re acquainted with a piece of land ten sult of that election. It is impossible miles south of Portland on a branch for that power to exist in the city ex line of the Southern Pacific this land cept it be admitted that the state was offered for $50 an acre and small local option law has no application to tracts were sold at this figure. As Ashland. ” soon as the electric railroad passed ANTI-SALOON LEAGURES WILL FIGHT within half a mile of this property it The attempt to re-open the saloon advanced to $550 an acre. The steam license question in Ashland has al road passed within a quarter of a mile ready caused the Anti-Saloon Leag- of the property. ures to put on their fighting armor, If you dear reader, own ten acres and they announce their intention of of land and are offering it for sale at combating the contentions of the li $50 an acre could you not well afford to quor people to the end. They will donate $100 towards an electric sys fight mandamus proceedings in the tem if it would increase the value of circuit court, they say, and carry the your property only ten dollars an acre? fight to the supreme court. Further Land along the line would double in more they contend that there is little price as soon as work commenced on chance of the present anti-saloon the road. regime in Ashland being interfered It will only be a matter of time with for any length of time anyway. when the Southern Pacific will carry They point out that local option elec all through freight and passengers tion for a subdivision of the county over a line east of the Cascade moun comprising the three Ashland pre tains. The expensive pull near Gra cincts can be called the coming June nite Hill and a more expensive road and that there is no question but it through the Siskiyou mountains will would as a whole go overwhelmingly be the cause of the change. When for prohibition. The anti-saloon this traffic is transferred to Eastern leaders do not hold that the state Oregon the S. P. will only operate a local option law does not apply to branch line from Portland to Weed, Ashland and admit that the vote Cal., over the present road. Then taken upon license or no-license at property will take a sudden drop un Che annual municipal elections is purely advisory. They do not ac less we have an electric system. Prospects were never brighter for knowledge however that the council an electric system in this valley. But does not have discretion in the mat we cannot expect anything unless we ter of the issuance of license under act. The lesson taught the people of existing conditions. Jacksonville when Oregon & California road was put through will long be re DIED membered and should never be allowed BENEDICT At her home on Apple to happen again. The road will be gate, Oregon, Friday, March 12, put through and if the people of Jack 1909, Mrs. R. Benedict, aged 56 years sonville want it they must act. Don’t Interment in Jacksonville cemetery read this article and then use the pa Sunday afternoon. per to start a fire with, but talk elec tric road and we will have an electric road. When in Medford stop at the Emerick Capital will not invest in a city where the finest of meals are served where there is no enthusiasm, so it behooves us to get busy. If we do not and the most corteous attention given. 11-tf show signs of encouragement how can Try us and see. we invite an electric system to our city? We cannot allow this opportu nity to pass. To delay matters tor another season would mean that we are one year nearer our grave and one year late in the development of the Nature Gives Timely Warning Tint country. No Jacksonviil • (i'.i/»n Can Afford to Ignore HIDDEN DANGER WOULD FORCE LIQUOR LICENSE The city council, or at least some of its members were surprised at the adjourned meeting held Friday even ing by the presentation of two appli cations in regnlar form for the issu ance of liquor licenses in the First Ward, embraced in East Ashland, as the county voting precinct is known. The first application came from B. S. Radcliff who seeks to do business on Fourth street in the Gurnea Block. The second came from E. A. King who wishes to dispense intoxicunts in the corner room of the first floo of the Hotel Oregon. Each was : c" compained by a two thousand dollui bond and check for $666.66 for the license fees from the coming March 15 to Jan. 15th next. Upon the read ing of the first petition R. G. Smith, attorney of Grants Pass, addressed the council on behalf of the petition ers and their contentions as to the existing legal phase of the subject, also filing with the council copies of his written opinion in the matter, prepared as it states in "behalf oi several residents of your city.” At torney Smith asked for action of the council in the matter, intimating that in case of refusal of the licenses, he expected to bring mandamus proceed ings in the circuit court to compel the the issuance of the same by th coun cil. LINCOLN, Neb., March 9- Ruth Bryan-Leavitt, eldest daughter of William Jennings Bryan, was granted a _ di voice f. o.n W. H. Leavitt ------ from L_..i tlis a t.-inoon. Mrs. Lea/itt and her mother ap- peared in the court of Judge Cornino, SAYS STATE LAW GOVERNS. and both alleged that Leavitt had not The contention of the petitioners contributed to the support of his wife. There was no defense. Mrs. Leavitt is that the Ashland charter provision was granted the custody of the two calling for an election upon the ques children. | tion of license at each municipal elec- DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes from the kidney secretions. Tiny will warn you when the kidneys are sick. Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin, pale and foamy, or a thick, red ill smelling urine, full of sediment and irregular of passage. DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes from the back. Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you of sick kidneys and warn you of the ap proach of dropsy, diabetes and Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure them per manently. Mrs. Leda Powell, living at 250 Ash land St., Ashland, Ore., says: “I am bo grateful for the great relief I have received from Doan’s Kidney Pills that I gladly recommend them. I suf fered from severe pains in my back, headaches and was in a generally run down condition. I was told to try Doan’s Kidney Pills and decided to do so. I felt much better from '.lie first, and almost before I knew it J was free from the trouble. 1 have not i... 1 any pain since and can conscientiously re :■ re commend Doan’s Kidney I'.i medy that acts up to its t ¡ ,esi illa tion’s.” Plenty more proof like this from Jacksonville people. Call at i I •• City Drugstore and ask who, tuners report. For Sale by all Dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, Sole Agents for lhe Unit ed States. Remember the name-Doau’u-and take no other.
