Jacksonville post., September 25, 1909, Image 1

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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1909
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LOCAL TRAIN
IN DITCH
Engineer Ed Peyton Injured
in Derailment Near West
Fork.
S. P. Passenger train No. 20, the
Roseburg Local, which left Ashland at
7:15 Monday morning, met with a mis­
hap one mile south of Granite, near
West Fork in the Cow Creek canyon,
about 10:30 o’clock. The .engine was
derailed and it is reported that Engi­
neer Ed. Peyton was severely injured,
being the only one on the train injured
at all.
The accident was due to spreading
rails, it is said.
Buncom Reports.
Correspondence to the Post.
Ed. Saltmarsh tarried a few hours in
town Monday.
M. R. Buck accompanied by his wife
was trading in Jacksonville, Monday.
Miss Beulah Garrett of Buncom, was
in Jacksonville, recently.
Mrs. Corv Cully of Steamboat, is
visiting her mother Mrs. Lelia Me Kee.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramey Philips of Big
Applegate, was visiting near Buncom
recently, the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Maud Buck.
j Mrs. Emma Buckley accompanied by
Miss Rose Buckley took a nice ride up
Little Applegate, last week.
Bert Goldsby took a flying ride on
his colt to Ruch last week, he lo^t no
time on the road.
Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Stone and family
of Forest creek, Mr. and Mrs. Gus
Swanson of Ruch, Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Me Kee and family and Sylvester
Werts, were welcome visitors at Mr.
and Mrs. Joe’Goldsbys last Sunday.
■Hollis Parks was in the city on busi­
ness matters last week.
Rennis Combest and family went
east of the mountains some time ago
to visit Mrs. Combest’s relatives, they
are expected home soon.
Miss Luela Me Kee of Upper Apple­
gate, was visiting relatives near Bun-
cotn, Saturday and Sunday.
E. N. Provolt of Lower Applegate,
left on the 20th for the Seattle fair, he
expects to stop off in Portland for a
short visit.
A. S. KJeinhamer has a large crew
of -men busy getting his beef cattle in
the mountains, Arih expects a large
number of fat cattle this fall.
Walter Miller is running the Thomp­
son Creek cream wagon now successor
to Frdfl Jones.
O. E. Rose is busy hauling in his
third crop of hay, which is very large
for the last one.
The season's threshing is over in the
Applegate section, the grain crop was
fairly good.
C. C. Fursel and son George were at
Mr. Jinnetts Tuesday, getting a load
of fine peaches and prunes.
B. Randolph and N. Johnson were
also at Mr. Jinnetts, laying in their
winter supply of fruit as Mr. Jinnett
has abundance of it and is selling it
cheap.
Lester Throckmorton was down on
the river this week, after the road
grader to begin fall work.
General News.
Mrs. Della A. Gilbert, leader of the
Christian Science society of Brooklyn,
N.'Y. will start a Christian Science
church of her own. She says that
“Christian Science” as it is promul-
| gated today, stands for graft, idolatry,
superstition, and anti-marriage.
The News, published weekly at Cald­
well, Idaho, will be issued as a daily
after Oct. 1st.
San Bernardino, Calif, was literally
overrun with grasshoppers last week.
Millions of the insects covered the
streets and sidewalks during the night
but dissappeared during the daytime.
Dr. B. F. Roller, the Seattle wrest­
ler has purchased 80 acres of Tieton
land, near North Yakima, and will
plant peach trees. His brother has an
orchard of 160 acres adjoi.iing.
Consul General Hanna, at Monte­
rey, Mexico, has appealed to the gov-
erment to sent immediate aid to the
flood sufferers in Mexico.
Dr. Arnold De Falaise, a French sur­
geon, is circling the globe on foot at
the expense of the French government
for the purpose of studying tuber­
culosis and to give advice to sufferers
from the disease.
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A Hurry Up Call.
Quick! Mr. Druggist- Quick!—A box
of Bucklen’s Arnica salve—Here’s a
quarter—For the love of Moses, hurry!
Baby’s burned himself, terribly—John­
nie cut his foot with the axe —Mamie’s
scalded—Pa can’t walk from piles—Bil­
lie has boils—and my corns ache. She
got it and soon cured all the family.
Its the greatest healer on earth. Sold
by J. W. Robinson.
Oh Mister! How good that ice cream
is at the Boss.
The tennis court is kept busy most
of the time. Some of the boys are
getting to be very good players.
Considerable interest is being taken
in basket ball. The students are fast Lines written by E. E. White and read at Soldiers’ and Sailors’ re-union at
learning to handle the ball and to
Jacksonville, Oregon, September 17th, 190'?.
Louisana swept by Hurri­ throw baskets. There is plenty of
for a good girls’ team and the
cane-Scores of lives lost- material
As I sit here and look, this beautiful morning,
way the boys take hold indicates that
On the small tented city that lies just below,
Property loss of millions. their team will not be at all slow.
And watch the flags wave, by the breezes retiring,
The board at a special meeting
Comes back the day3 of long ago, long ago;
granted an additional much needed
Scores of lives are reported lost as teacher. The addition of the eleventh
For there in the camp are the men of the war line
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the result of a hurricane which swept grade made more work, giving the
That forty-four years has left to us yet;
a large portion of Louisana, Monday.
Gathered again for a happy and glad time
principal thirteen classes a day. By
It is impossible to give an accurate the new arrangement our school may
Recalling old scenes—lest we forget.
estimate of the fatalities, owing to the now be placed on the accredited list
fact communication with the storm and our graduates may enter the Uni­
The years that have flown, each one is a-telling,
stricken region is cut off.
Bent forms and gray hair, and not near so spry.
versity and like colleges without an
Many towns suffered great property examination. We can now do work
Yet the love of our flag in each bosom is swelling,
loss. In Baton Rouge and vicinity equal to any High School in the county.
And the beat of the drum brings fire to the eye,
alone, the loss will exceed $2,000,000.
But we notice the way since that far away day,
The State Capital is unroofed and the
That our steps are more measured as we fall into line,
News of the State
building flooded. A conservative esti­
And the old coat of blue that has faded away
mate places the property loss in the
Is the same as our lives, just here marking time.
The sawmill at Coles Valley, near
devastated district at ten millions.
Roseburg, is to be rebuilt.
But here in our camp we get well and forget
Baker City is justly proud of its
All the aches and the pains and rheumatic1 darts,
water
system
which
attracts
buyers
of
School Notes
And the first thing we know, and without a regret,
residence lots.
We are stepping it off to the tune of our hearts;
Cottage Grove comes to the front
And with laughter and song and the story told o’er
School has opened with a total en­ with $150,000 in bonds for water and
With faces all smiles in the flickering light
rollment of 169, distributed as follows: streets. It pays.
Of the camp-fires of love and the blest days of yore
1st and 2nd grades 47; 3rd and 4th
Roseburg has just completed one
That dwells in each heart that is with us to-night.
grade 33; 5th grade 30; 6th and 7th school building and needs another
grades 29; 8th grade 10; High School which will be provided next year.
Here in Ulrich’s grove in this Jacksonville town
20.
We have camped and you know we’ve had a good time;
Medford expects considerable im­
The eleventh grade has been added provement in values of business lots
Couldn’t help it for Haney’s-he’s drove us up and down
to the High School course. At present from the completion of a railroad now
And baked beans the finest this side of the Rhine.
there are three pupils enrolled: Geo. under construction to Butte Falls.
Then at night when the crowd round the campfire gathered
Henry, Gladys Shaw and Ries Chap-
And the drum’s martial strains enlivened the scene
Although grain turns out well in the
man.
They danced in the dust till they all fairly lathered
Rogue River Valley the profits from
We are opening this year with three fruit and intensive farming is steadily
Round the spot where Chief Haney had baked us the beans.
new teachers. Miss Wright has the reducing the area of the wheat lands.
little people of grades one and two. 1 Even alfalfa is said to pay better when
Now while we are passing we’ll never forget it,
She comes from the east where she has I cropped for seed.
This Jacksonville town, the Old Pioneer,
been engaged in primary work. Miss
For the banquet of flowers and acts that express it,
Oregon has contributed eight millions
Neil, a graduate of our school, has . to the reclamation funds of the general
And the right hearty welcome that greeted us here.
third and fourth grades. Mr. Joy, government and gets^back but three.
May the day star of hope guide and protect you.
who comes to us from the Normal The exp.nditure of the missing five
May your future be bright as the flag as it flies,
School at Ashland, has the High School millions in Oregon would create fifty
And down in our hearts we will never forget you
work.
Or the lady that gave us those fine pumpkin pies.
, in land values.
Miss Minnie Lewis of Ashland has
Ninety box cars, filled with thri.ugh-
So here’B to the comrades that once wore the blue,
been secured to take the 8th grade and bred stock from the Salem state fair,
For the W. R. C. the pride of our land;
part of the High School work. She is were shipped to the Portland livestock
To their sons and their daughters that they may be true,
a graduate of the Normal School at show Saturday.
And care for the heritage left by the band;
Ashland and holds a life diploma.
Fred George, accused of being re­
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And
then
we break camp in the beautiful morning
Pupils and teachers are taking up sponsible for the death of H. M Pullen,
Saying good-bye with tears and a choke,
the work with a will and the board of was given a hearing at The Dalles,
Clasping each hand that helped do the storming
directors are standing ready to do any­ Friday and bound over in the sum of
That permits our loved banner forever to float.
thing in their power to help. Under $3,000.
such conditions as these the school year
Four weddings in one day, was the
is bound to prove a profitable one.
A CARD
record at Milton, Friday.
The 9th grade book-keeping class is
The
school
board
of
Echo
has
let
the
getting nicely started. Ries Chapman,
To all the good citivens of Jackson­
who took the commercial course in the contract for the erection of a two-
ville, who so hospitably entertained the
Butte, Mont., High School last year, has story, re-enforced concrets school
Re-union of old Soldiers and Sailors,
charge of the banking and office work. ! building.
Eugene is erecting a new hotel which
at their recent encampmant, the hearty
Stolen ride costs man
The school appreciates very much
thanks of the Association are tendered,
the flag given us by the old soldiers when finished will be the pride of the
his life.
we will long remember the pleusant
and sailors. It is floating every day town. It is constructed of red pressed
brick, 116 by 160 feet, four stories
week spent in your beautiful grove.
from our flag staff.
and basement.
A. C. Spencer, Commander,
Patrick Me Carthy and his chum,
of Association.
Requisition papers were received Tom Curtain, jumped a freight at
last week upon the governor of Cali­ Medford Saturday night, going north,
fornia for the return to this state of at Grants Pass Curtain missed his
Ching Mon, a Chinaman, who passed a friend and at Glendale started back to
See Hart at the tent Studio for Pho­
tos
and Enlargements.
bad check in Portland, Sept. 8th.
find him.
Walter Arnold a prominant railroad
At 6 o’clock Sunday morning he was
contractor, has placed an order with a discovered with one hand severed and
Eugene firm for 100,000 fruit trees for lying near him, at or near Gold Ray,
his ranch near Yakima, Wash.
by the crew of No. 11 and was brought
Two new trains have been placed on to Medford where both arms were
the branch line between Shaniko and amputated, one at the elbow, the other
at the shoulder and although every­ When Will Jacksonville People
The Dalles.
Mrs. Anna May Henry who died at thing possible to medical science was
Learn the Importance of It?
Oakland, Ore., last week was one of done for him it was of no avail. He
the oldest residents of the state, hav- died Sunday afternoon.
The unfortunate man was a native of
| ing been born August 19, 1810, she was
Backache is only a simple thing at
: at the time of her death over 99 years Ireland and was aged about 30 years, first;
he
had
been
in
this
country
about
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| of age. She had resided in Douglas
But when you know ‘tis from the
years.
county for the past 30 years.
The whereabouts of his parents or kidneys;
The Condor Water and Power Co.
That serious kidney troubles follow,
friends are unknown.
are opening an immense granite quarry
That diabetes, Bright’s disease may
at Gold Ray. A siding 800 feet long
be the fatal end,
has been put in and shipping will be M. E. APPOINTMENTS
You will gladly profit by the follow­
commenced this week.
ing experience.
“Tis the statement of a Jacksonville
Dolly Ferrara, aged 29 was killed at
Portland, Sunday morning in an auto­ Conference at Cottage Grove Makes a citizen.
Mrs. H. M. Shaffer, living on East
mobile accident.
Number of Changes.
Main St., Jacksonville, Ore., says:
Eugene schools employ 55 teachers.
“My kidneys have been disordered for
Many changes were made in appoint­ some time but I paid little attention to
ments at the M. E. conferance held in it, thinking the symptoms would dis­
Thieves at Medford.
Cottage Grove last week. In this dis­ appear, however, the trouble became
Medford, Ore., Sept. 22—The largest trict the following are among the ap­ worse, the secretions being irregular
robbery in the history of Medford took pointments:
in action and my back and head ached
place last night when the Deuel &
Superintendent......... ..R. E. Dunlap, constantly. I whs in a miserable con­
, Kentner department store was entered Ashland.
dition when I learned of Doan’s Kidney
! and goods to the value of $1000 stolen.
Ashland ............... H. J. Van Fossen. Pills and procured a box at the City
1 Among the goods taken were eight
Central Point....B. A. Bristol.
Drug Store. By the time I had used
i suits of clothes, 20 pairs of shoes and
Fort Klamath.... R. J. Furguson.
three boxes of this remedy in accord­
a dozen suit cases. No clues have been
Granta Pass... . D. H. Leach.
ance with the directions I was entirely
found of the goods or robbers.
T. S. Frey.
Jacksonville ..
free from the trouble. Doan’s Kidney
Last week Mr. Kentner’s residence
Klamath Falls .G. H. Fesse.
Pills effected a complete cure, and I
in Medford was destroyed by fire.
.L. F. Belknap.
Medford.........
am glad to recommend their remedy to
Monday his timber tract near Leland
Rev. W. C. Reuter was transferrod others.”
was destroyed by a forest fire.
<o Newberg.
Plenty more proof like this from
Klamath Indian Mission. J L Beatty. I Jacksonville people. Call at The City
Good For Biliousness.
I drug store and ask what customers re­
“I took two of Chamberlain’s Stom­
The waterworks bonds are advertised port.
For salo by all dealers. Price 50
ach and Liver Tablets last night, and I for sale Sep. 29th. Read the notice in
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
feel fifty per cent, better than I have another column of this paper.
New York. Sole Agent3 fur the Unit­
for weeks, says J. J. Firestone of Al­
MINERS NOTICE-Noticn of Location ed States.
legan, Mich. “They are certainly a
Remember the name—Doan’s-and
fine article for biliousness.” For sale : both Quartz and Placer, 'foe sale at thia
office,
JACKSONVILLE POST.
take no other.
by City Drug Store. Samples free.
BIG STORM
SWEPT SOUTH
KILLED BY
THE CARS
MAY PROVE FATAL
We Are First
To Show
Fall Styles
• • •« In....
OUTING FLANNEL
KIMONA GOODS, ETC.
A Fine Line of
Men’s Sweater Coats
Children’s Underwear
Ulrich Bros
Leading Merchants
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In Camp At Jacksonville
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