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VOL. II.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 1, 1909
SHOULD IMPROVE
OVERLAND ROAD
NO. 52.
SOMETHING ABOUT
We learn from Ed Lister of Grants
Pass that there are many people in the
Rogue River valley who contemplate a Oregon Greatest Livestock Cen­
trip to this city during the summer,
ter West of Rockies—Two
and others who would come were it
Millions of Dollar For The
not for the hardship of traveling over
such roads to get here. This is a mat­
Ladd Farm.
ter that we have commented on more
than once, and we again take this oc-
j casion to remark that every effort
(Special Correspondence.)
[ should be made to obtain a good road
Swift and company announce that
to the interior. Not only the road in they p].ln to begin actual packing oper-
this county, but beyond the county 1 ations in their new plaut at Portland
boundary should be improved. If we in July. This brings to the surface
had a good road to Grants Pass Ore- the necessity for the farmers of Ore­
In regard to situation, climatic conditions, pure wat-
gon, there would be hundreds of pco- gon to grow more hogi. Pigs can be
etc.
this city has many natural advantages far sup-
pie here to spend a few weeks in the raised until they are three months old er,
summer time, when the weather is so , on vetch or other roughage at practic- erior to those of any other town in Southern Oregon, in
warm beyond the hills that life is a ally no expense other than for pasture-
fact in these respects it is equal to any and surpassed by
burden. People in the valley of the 1 age. A fat 200 pound hog in Portland
ORIENTAL PALACE AND MANUFACTURERS BUILDING.
Rogue must go to San Francisco, or to ' today is worth $15.50 cash, live weight. none on the Pacific coast.
The Palace of Oriental Exhibits and Manufacturers Building have
Newport, Oregon, to get to the sea­ The packers will have to get a supply,
Located on Jackson Creek at the point where that
frontage on Cascade Court and Geyser Basin and look across at Foreign shore as it ¡3 now, when they could
must they send the money for the hogs
stream
break? through the canyons of the foot hills to
Exhibits and Agricultural Palaces; Yukon Avenue separates these mag­ come here by traveling only one hun­
to Nebraska, or will we raise them in
nificent display buildings, and in the back ground the state buildings of dred miles, ora little more.—Crescent
enter the valley, the ground sloping just enough to afford
Oregon?
Oregon and California are located.
City News.
The Livestock Sale at the Portland natural drainage, we find an ideal site for a city of 10,000
was
completed
last
year
and
Construction work on these buildings
Country Club this week means a great
exhibits are being received and placed in position, The Oriental Palace
deal to everyone in Oregon. Saturday people.
will house the most valuable collection of Far Eastern art that has ever GOVERNMENT STUDIES
and Sunday witnessed thousands of
Enclosed on three sides by the foothills, nature’s in­
been sent from the Orient, and will present displays from Japan, China,
WOOD UTILIZATION people visiting the grounds to inspect
India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, French Indo China, Borneo, Java and
vincible
barriers it is amply protected from the winds and
what is universally conceded to be the
all the eastern countries of Asia.
The Forest Service is making a greatest gathering of blooded horses storms to which less favored localities are exposed.
Ele­
The Manufacturers building encloses a vast amount of exhibit space thorough study of the utilization of the
ever
collected
in
the
Pacific
Northwest
vated about 1500 feet above sea-level the atmosphere is
and every foot of this has been engaged for display purposes by domestic products of the forest, and of the lum­
and foreign manufacturers. The interest manifested in this department of ber and wood-using industries and to be sold to the highest bidder. The pure and invigorating not so rare as at greater elevations
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is world-wide and competitive dis­ markets of this District. In time a sales at Portland have uniformly been
plays will be general and comprehensive. Exhibits are being dally re- report will be had from every consider­ more successful than even those in nor so dense as at lower ones but just right for free and
aeived and the heavy work of installation is rapidly being accomplished. able wood manufacturing establish­ Chicago, in proportion. The sale will easy breathing, affording plenty of oxygen without ex­
continue up to Friday night at the
ment in both states. Each market is Country Club, Saturday being devoted hausting the human system.
well packed down, and the result will studied with reference to the species entirely to cattle at the Union Stock
On account of the nearness of the mountains the
be a bottomless brick jug, deep under found, the use of the woods, the source Yards. Oregon is making a wonder-
water
is cool and pure and of unlimited supply, being
of
supply,
the
distribution
of
the
ful showing, and there is assurance
ground, into which no surface water,
manufactured
wood
products,
price
i
be
here
from
all
that buyers will
found in abundance at a depth varying from 15 to 20 feet
worms, or animal life can penetrate.
and general market conditions. These
Suggestions By Prof. Pernot of This sort of a well will furnish as pure statistics should be of decided value to neighboring states and British Colum- and containing not the slightest trace of alkali, in this re­
water as can be obtained in the vicini­
bia.
all wood users and should promote the
The Oregon Agricultural Col­ ty where it is located.
Two millions of dollars for the four spect equalled by very few towns in this part of the state.
wisest and most economical utilization hundred and sixty two acres universal­
“
The
cause
of
ill
health
in
the
coun
­
As to atmospheric conditions we are specially favored,
lege.
ly known as the “Ladd Farm” puts
try can, as a rule, be traced to the use of forest products.
there
being no excessive heat or cold. In summer the
Portland city lots in a class with Ore­
of polluted water, produced by the un­
gon
orchards,
and
the
developers
of
days
are
warm and bright with nights just cool enough
sanitary conditions of the surround­
Large Orchard Sold
Prof. Pernot has just completed a ings. Few country homes have pro­
this magnificient property will certain­ to allow refreshing sleep.
In winter considerable but not
number of tests of water which had per drainage from sinks and baths;
ly be satisfied if it pays dividends
The Bradshaw orchard, lying north-
been sent to the laboratory for analy­ dish water is thrown out of
excessive
rainfall
with
very
light snows and moderate
equalling those of well kept., modern
the back
sis and makes the following timely door near the well; garbage
e»3t of Medford, and near Eagle Point
is similar-
orchard.
temperature,
the
thermometor
seldom reaching zero.
was sold this week to a company con­
suggestions to the people of the state ly disposed of to decompose
While estimates as to the present
and drain
in regard to sinking wells etc. He into the family well.
sisting of R. G. Wilson of Salt Lake population of Oregon vary, some men Severe frosts do not injure plants, tropical plants remain
says in part as follows:
City: J. D. P. Schenck of Medford and
who
have
the
right
to
be outdoors all winter without injury.
“The water from driven wells is
two gentlemen named Austin and called well posted feel that the state
As to healthfulness the climate is unsurpassed, not
comparatively free from organisms,” Aged Resident Dies ai Ashland i Lipscomb of New York.
today has upward of three quarters of
continues Prof. Pernot, in his sugges­
The land purchased consists of 220 a million people. With every county the slightest trace of malaria, fever or ague; astha or
tions of a remedy which can be sup­
Ashland Ore., April 26, 1909:—J. C. acres, of which about 120 acres are in the state getting new settlers some
Of course children have
plied. “Where a well is the only Plumerth died at his home in this planted with apple trees of Newtown have attracted a greater immigration pulmonary trouble exists.
and
Spitzenburg
varieties,
50
acres
in
measles, whooping cough and other complaints common
means of obtaining water, let it be place last evening aged about 72 years.
during the past year than for five
alfalfa and the balance in timber.
dug to the water-bearing stratum,
Mr. Plumerth was a native of Que­
childhood and now and then some of the older residen­
to
The orchard is one of the be3t years before.
then wall it up with brick laid in ce­ bec and had resided in this city twen- j known tracts in the valley and is con­ A party of Illinois investors recently
ment for 10 feet, arch it over with the tyseven years. His wife and one sidered by experts an excellent bar­ clubbed together and sent one of their ts will die of old age but the salubrity of the climate is
pump pipe and arch well cemented in, daughter, Mrs. J. Mabel Miller sur­ gain at the price paid which is said to number, who had visited Oregon dur­ unquestioned and is unsurpassed anywhere.
have been $60,000 or a triflle more than
fill the remainder of the hole with clay vive him.
$272 per acre.
ing the Exposition, for a trip through
Further advantages of this city as a residence town
the state. Upon his return to Port­
will be given later. If you are looking for an ideal spot
land, this gentleman said he had found
Oregon people much change 1. At that on which to build a home, investigate Jacksonville before
time they were intensly conservative, locating elsewhere.
today they are enthusiastic, optimistic,
and unanimously predict a great fu­
Jacksonville—Wendt If Coleman ss,
ture. In fact, many of the communi­ pie. Two hundred lodges are to be re­
ties are growing so rapidly that they presented and it will tax all the acom- Ennis cf, Dunnington 2b, Dunford c,
Hoef p, Cronemiller lb, Smith 3b,
imagine they have ALL the growth, modations that can be secured.
On Tuesday, May 18th, the first day Cameron rf.
but those who have seen the new or-
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chards, the substantial farm houses of the big gathering, three hundred
5
1
and other improvements taking place and fifty Rebekahs will hold their con­ Central Point
7
9
Jacksonville
vention,
when
good
programs
and
busi
­
everywhere, know that the next de
cade will see record-breaking advance­ ness sessions will be held. Three Re­
ment along every line. Asked if he bekah lodges are to compete on that
was satisfied, he replied: “I wouldn't day in a drill contest. The same day
return to Illinois, but shall remain here one hundred representatives of the
| to recei. e my friends who are coming Grand encampment will also convene.
in Jackson-
On the following day the Grand Plenty M >re Like This
in parties of three, five and even
ville.
Lodge
will
meet
in
the
Elks
’
Hall,
350
ten.”
representatives being expected. This
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Scores of Jacksonville people ctn
day is to mark the big event of the
MEETING OF
session, when the parade will take tell you about Doan's Kidney Pills.
The Grand Lodge, The Rebek­ Many a happy citizen makes a public
GRAND LODGE place.
’*<’ now have on exhibition at our store
ahs; the Grand Encampment and 200 of statement of his experience, Here is
Cantons department, joined by lodges a case of it. What bitter proof of
the swellest line of Men’s Ladies’ and
The following article from a recent of surrounding cities, fifty Cantons merit can be had than sjch endors -
Misses’ and Children’s Oxfords ever
issue of The Albany Herald will be coming from Eugene, will form a ment?
K. Boaz, Retired, living on l
read with interest by many of our grand parade, after which all will
shown in Southern Oregon. All the
gather in one of the largest buildii gs side, Jacksonville, Ore., says:
readers:
new shades including
Albany is to be host within a few available where the visitors will be fered a great deal for several yean
days to hundreds of prominent visitors. made welcome by Mayor Wallace to be from kidney and bladder trouble. Ti e
The occasion is the state conventions responded by Grand Master Hostettler most annoying symptoms were the too
of the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F., of the Dalles and other prominent frequent passage of the kidney secre­
of the Grand Encampment, and of the lodge people. Excellent music will tions, over which I seemed to have no
Grand Rebekah Assemblies, which will also form a part of the program on control and sharp shooting pains in the
small of my back.
My sleep was
meet here on May 18th, continuing for this occasion,
At all prices. We sell shoes that fit your
broken and my general health became
three days. Local Odd Fellows who |
greatly run down. I tried many reme­
feet and a positive guarantee goes with
are on the program report that there
dies but was unable to obtain rein f
: will be between 1000 and 1500 visitors JACKSONVILLE 9
each pair
anil my condition gradually grew seri­
in this city during that time.
CENTRAL POINT 1 ous.
I wa almost di -ouraged when I
The committee on preparations of
learned of Doan’s Kidney Pills, and
I Albany lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 4, are:
J. K. Weatherford, chairman; T. J.
The baseball game played here last procured a box at the* City Drug Store.
Stites, E. J. Seely, A. W. Bowersox, Sunday between the Jacksonville sec­ Within a week
Geo. W. Wrig t, W. C. Tweedale and ond nine and the Central Point second fects of this r
L. L. Swan. Sub-committees have resulted in a score of 9 to 1 in favor of I short time, 1 v.
been named and the city is to be can­ Jacksonville. Elmer Hoof the local the trouble. J
vassed within a few days to find all pitcher allowed but two lone singles. Doan’s Kidney Pill i :
the possible accommodations. The re­ Errors were plentiful on both side.. every opporlun
sidents of the city should do all within The same teams will cross bats at Cen-
For Sale by
their power to aid these committees 1 tral Point, Sunday May 2.
cents. Fost' r
when the canvass is made. The pres­
Central Point—Holmes If, Peart ss, New York. So!
ence of these visitors will mean much Ross cf, Griffiths 2b, Marshal c, ed States.
Remember Dm name-Doan's-and
to Albany and all should take active ! Kincaid p, Wilkinson lb, Welch 3b,
part in royally entertaining these peo- 1 Mann rf.
take1 no other.
Jacksonville Has Ha-urai Advantages as a
Residential City Not Possessed by Any
Other Town in the Valley.
GERMS IN WELLS
CASE ArTER CASE
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Ox Bloods, Tans,
Patent Leather,Etc-