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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1909)
Oregon Historical Soc'cty City Hall JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 1, 19Ö9 ELECTION OF OFFICERS Rebekahs Elect Officers For year of 1910. At the regular meeting of Ruth Re bekah Lodge, held Monday evening, the following named persons were elected as officers for the ensuing year, viz: Noble Grand......... Nellie Huff er Vice Grand.......... Amelia Elmer Secretary.............. Flora Thompson Fin. Secretary.... Margaret Taylor Treasurer.............. Lizzie Cronemiller The installation of officers will be held in January, at which time the appointive offices will be filled. Buncom Reports. Corrc ipondence to the Post. Frank Cameron was a Ruch visitor recently. Ed. Ryan is visiting his mother Mrs. Laura Rvan at Jacksonville. -Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Haney of Jack sonville, was out on Applegate smiling on old friends Sunday. Mr. Foreman is living in his tent on F. Klcinhammer’s place for the winter. Ramsey Philips of Big Applegate was up to the Pursel miil last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Buck of Buncom were trading in Medford last Saturday. Mrs. Saltmarsh mother of Mrs. II. Venable has been staying with Mr. and Mrs. H. Gilson for several weeks, she has now returned home. Hollis Parks and sister Miss Ella, at tended tne Grand Ball at Ruch the 26th. School will close here Dec. 10th. —........o ------- Oregon Sidelights. Newport has quite a good many vis itors even in winter. A sixth man from Akron, O., has in vested in Rogue River valley land. Boring at the Polk county oil well is going on at the rate of 30 to 40 feet a day. Assembled taxpayers of Washington county have resolved to bviid good roads. An apple grown on the Rogue River in Curry county measured 16J< X 14^ inches. There are said to be 230 sections of good timber land in Lincoln county worth millions. A Forest Grove man has a Shorthorn- Jersey cow that gave him $19.31 net for the month of October. You can raise more dollars on five acres of irrigated land near Stanfield than you can on 80 acres of unirrigated land in the frozen eastern states, says the Standard. Contracts are being let for an unlim ited amount of cedar ties to be shipped from Port Orford to San Pedro next spring and summer, as fast as cargoes can be hauled to the wharf, says the Tribune. Moro Observer: Rains have decend ed upon this community numerously, continuously, prodigiously, this month. Just how many inches have fallen we are unable to say, because the thief who stole the rain gage didn’t return it as requested. For selling liquor to a minor a New burg man was given a fine of $100 and 10 days in the county jail. The one sad feature of the case is that a wife and several small children are left to rustle for the necessaries of life, says the Enterprise. He should be put to work and his earnings turned ever to them. Tillamook has a little precipitancy of moisture in the rainy season that excite criticism sometimes, but when a Tilla- mooker goes to the dry sections of the earth, where irrigation is necessary, he usually comes hiking back to good old Tillamook land, where the Lord keeps a spr nkling pot in the skies and frequent ly tips it, says the Herald, . Our land is rich, and our prospects better 1 than many better advertised sections of Oregon. Sixty-five people came into central Oregon Sunday and Monday, on their way to the Silver Lake and Fort Rock counties, says the Prineville Review. Forty-one were passengers by stage and 24 came by various other means of conveyance. There were four 3tages, each loaded to the guards, and the trip from Shaniko consumed something more than 36 hours, owing to the ex- tremely heavy condition of the roads. —Journal. How One Doctor Successfully Treats Pneumonia. "In treating pneumonia,” says Dr. W. J. Smith, of Sanders. Ala., "the only remedy I use for the lungs is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. While of course, I would treat other symp toms with different medicines, I have used this remedy many times in my medical practice and have yet failed to find a case where it has not controlled the trouble. I have used it myself, as has also my wife for coughs and colds repeatedly, and I most willingly and cheerfully recommend it as superior to any othei- cough remedy to my know ledge.” For 3ale by City Drug Store. Fletcher had spent several days in the bastilc. At that tim? there was no extradi tion treaty between the United States and Canada arid the woods of Canada were full of absconding bank cashiers and other criminals wanted in the Murpay & Daniels Are The Horticultural Society meets Jury List Drawn for Com United States. Buyers-C’onsidera- in Portland, Dee. ing Term of Circuit About fifty years ago Owen Keegan married Nancy Mannery, one of the tion $6,000. 6th to 9th. Court. daughters of a pioneer of the district. She is living. They raised s family of The Mitchell tract, ccnsisting of The twenty-fourth annual meeting of five children. W. S. StanclifT, Wiley Turnbough, fifty-five acres, situated near this city, John A. Wright, Phoenix; J. H. Cham the Oregon State Horticultural Society was sold this week to Murphy & Daniels bers, Geo. Irwin, W. N. Grubb, J. W. will be held in the auditorium of Meier of Medford, for $i>,C00. It is re: . iti I General News. Hatcher, John Cameron, C.H. Gillette, & Frank Co's fifth floor annex, Port that the purchase s will immediately Ralph Billings Ashland; J. W. Lawton, land, December sixth to ninth. set out a large orchard. The land is A fine program has been arrnged. R. H. Halley, L. B. Brown, L. F. Lo The badly decomposed body of a man specially adapted t > fruitgrov.irg ;-nd zier, John Barneburg, C.A. Boardman, Make it a point to attend. Everyone was found at the bottom of a well near considered a great bargain a' the pries interested in horticulture is invited to Medford; Lee Black, Ruch; Aaron Beck, Los Angeles, Calif. Sunday. The body paid. E. Watson, Butte Falls; H Gregory, G. attend and join the society. Reduced fares have been secured, on is supposed to be that of Wm. Davis E. Fox, Central Point; L. A. Abbott, Talent; E. O. Bissell, S. K. Adams, the Certificate Plan, over the O. R. & who escaped from the county hospital Compromise Claim. Sams Valley; H. A. Hawkins, Jackson N., S. P., N. P, and Oregon Electric July 10. Reports from Tacoma, Wash., state Railroad. ville; Charles Fields, H. D. Kubli, that the month’s record for rainfall is The administrator of the estate of Applegate; W. M. Childers, Gold Hili; 14 inches, which breaks all records for Walter Swartzfager, deceased an ac Joshua Neathammer, Wimer; E. B. November. High water caused heavy count of whose death v.r.s published in Keegan’s Name and Fame. Barron, Barron; T. B. Higinbotham, damage on the Grays Harbor and South The Post several months ago, bi s Persist. Bend branches of the N. P. Ry. delay- j compromised the claim made against The following story is part of an ar ing trains to Harbor points. the railroad company for five hundred SWITCHMEN STRIKE ticle which recently appeared in the Because she refused to pay her hus dollars. Ashland Tidings concerning our aged band’s funeral expenses, Mrs. Mary townsman, Mr. Owen Keegan. Owing McClure of Cripple Creek, Col., was Plums Ready to Pick. Freight Trains in Northwest ! to lack of space we omit part of the sentenced Monday to serve six months ■ story: in jail. Tied up Wednesday. Three Federal appointments are al Every man who has been a juror in Henry Clay Pierce, millionaire oil most ripo and ready for picking, and ¡Jackson county during the past 25 magnate, is on trial for perjury at Senator Bourne is preparing to shake As a result of a strike of the switch I years, and almost every person who has Austin, Texas. Pierce is one of the the tree. These are Land Office ap i had occasion to do any public business men on the lines extending west from most prominent oil men of the country pointments, two in Portland and one at St. Paul, the freight business of the at the court house, will remember and is alleged to have been allied with Roseburg. The name of State Senator entire Northwest is at a complete 1 Owen Keegan. He has for 25 years the Standard Oil Company in many of Abrahams has been mentioned for the I been janitor of the county court house standstill. its deals. Roseburg place, which has been vacated At Tacoma 150 switchmen are out ! and has been an efficient public servant The right of the interstate commerce by James Lawrence, although Abra and freight traffic is tied up. Passen in this humble capacity. His manner commissian to fix railroad terminal hams is not an aspirant. Several men ger trains are being operated however, is always quiet, his demeanor always charges was denied by the United are talked of fox- the Receiver and gentlemanly, and he is always tending brakemen taking the place of the strictly to his own affairs. Mr. Kee States supreme court Monday in a de Register of the Land Office in Port strikers. cision by Justice Brewer in a case land. The Land Office jobs are ripe At Seattle no freight trains arrived gan is up in his 80’s and still living at brought by the commission against the next month and the present incumbents Jacksonville. The following recital Wednesday over the N. P., the Great Chicago, Great Western and other roads do not expect to be retained, having Northern or Milwaukee and freight for taken from a Minneapolis paper will having terminals in Chicago. served their full time. - Ex. the east was refused. Mail trains are show that in his time he was a char Two young women fought a duel moving but are made up by the train acter of prominence and at one time was detained by a foreign court for with knives in the main street of Alicia men. Oregon Turkeys Eight hundred men are idle at Spo such a period' that his release was ac Ark. Sunday. One is dead and the kane and not a freight train is moving. complished only by the intervention of other is under arrest. As usual E. G. Young & Cd. of this Edward B Wilder, a well known Christmas goods will be sent via the President U. S. Grant, who directed the English government to release Mr. mining engineerand atone time "boss” city lead in turkey shipments. Last O. R. & N. and Canadian Pacific. About 250 switchmen are on strike at Keegan, or "there would be something of J. W. Mackay, died of old age at Friday evening this firm shipped a total of 90,000 pounds, paying an average of Butte and the entire freight business doing.” The prenxptory order of the Salt Lake City, Monday. is tied up. Here, as at other places President at that time in behalf of Mr. The German steamer Brewster, with 23 cents per pound for first-class birds. the trainmen are making up passenger Keegan received such dignified con a fruit cargo for northern markets In other words distributing $20,700 sideration that his release was at once ! stranded on the shoals off Cape Hat- among the local farmers. This is the trains Portland is not affected as the effected. The old soldiery of the taras Sunday night and is reported a Oakland-Roseburg shipment, Oakland shipping 60,000, Roseburg 30,000 switchmen there belong to the Brother county will be particularly interested total wreck. pounds. Wells Fargo Ji Co , as usual, hood of Railroad Trainmen and are not in the story below, taken from the The Court of Appeals of the District remembered employes in Oregon Cali affiliated with the Switchmen’s Union paper mentioned: “If the name of Keegan’s lake is of Columbia has granted a stay of exe fornia and Nevada. This time the which ordered the strike. changed, as some people out that way cution of the mandate of the court company purchased 15,000 pounds. are advocating, old Owen Keegan will sending them to jail for contempt of Barring this shipment most of the Why»go to Medford when you can have just misseu another chance to be court. turkeys went to Portland, the balance buy goods at Abbotts Hardware just a personage of history. Gov. Creel of Chihuahua® has been to San Francisco. M. C. Mace bought as cheap. Be loyal to your home For it has been Owen Keegan’s luck, called to Mexico City to take a Cabinet the Portland shipment. Other dealers town and patronize home industry. before this, just to miss by the breadth position under President Diaz. would not pay the market price. There of an eyelash putting his mark on the Reports from the election in Alabama is a shortage report'd in the Portland geographical layout of North America. held Monday, indicate that the consti markets and Mr. Mace is king of the It was Owen Keegan who came near tutional prohibition was defeated by situation in that city. G. J. Stearns making work for the armies and navies 15,000 majority. went to Portland with this shipment. of the United States and England and Eight men were imprisoned by a Some farmers make a mistake in possibly shifting the Canadian line. cave-in caused by a fire in one of the bringing in "culls.” Both grower and That was a whole lot like a musical copper mines at Copper Hill, . Tenn. buyer lose money on inferior grades. comedy, as far as actual results Monday. It pays to raise nothing but first-class went. * * * The engineer and fireman of a pas birds.—Oakland, Or., Owl, Nov 26. It was in the early ’70’s that an ad- senger train on the N. P. were killed in venturer of the worst type assumed a wreck near Olympia, Wash., Monday Trespass Notices, printed' on cloth, the name of Lord Gordon, a member of night. for sale at this office, 50 cents per the British aristocracy, and traveled dozen. over the United States, scattering forged checks and swindling people as he went. The rewards that piled up over the false lord’s head looked al luring to Owen Keegan, much more so Hundred Pairs of Tax the Women of Jacksonville than the quarry in his traps and the One game that fell before his rifle. Captain Reeves Pheasants to be Mike Hoy was captain of the police the Same as Elsewhere. department of Minneapolis and had Turned Loose Next Fall been captain of Keegan’s company in Hard to attend to household duties the civil war. With a constantly aching back. R. O. Stevenson, state game warden, Together they planned to drive a A woman should i <4 have a bad back, wagon to Winnipeg where the false has ordered one hundred pairs of And she wouldn’t if the kidneys were Lord Gordon had taken refuge, kidnap Reeves pheasants which will be turned well. him, and speed their horses until they loose next fall. Doan’s Kidney I ills make well Kid got him over the line into the United’ The Reeves pheasants are larger than States. Then they would claim the the Chinas and thrive equally well in a neys. Mrs. J. II. Bau.-uum, living Corner rewards and retire to lives of luxury. wild state. They are very scarce in Almost as alluring an the prize money the United States, but in England are Twelfth ft C. Si '., Mcdfo’d, Ore., •cd so r. v rely from was the thought i f cheating the British considered the gamest of all game says: "I sufferul i government and at the same time ar birds. Thev are a timber bird, and kidney troubl- I ;t 1 was unable to do ranging for an Englishman to spend will make a most valuable addition to my housework. My kidney; were very many years in some nice, strong peni Oregon’s game birds, as they will not irregular in action. My l> .<1: pained remain out in the open prairies, as do me severely when stooping or lifting tentiary. They will be Btrong, and sharp twinges would shoot through The trip to Winnipeg was made with the Chinas. out incident, and "Lord Gordon” was healthy birds, already acclimated to my loins. 1 ran down in health and at located, grabbed, bound and kidnapped this country. Birds imported from the times felt very miserable. D in’s Kid — almost. About the next thing they old country usually arrive in poor con- ney Pills were finally brought to my at kney they found themselves in the dition, and rarely ever breed the first tention, and 1 procured a box. They helped me from tie fi st, 1 continued Winnipeg jail. They wrote home that season. taking them and wi entirely cured. I there wasn’t light enough in their cells have often rec anmended I’can's Kid so they could see to light their pipes. For a Lame Back. ney Pilis to other sufferers.” They appealed to that dear old Minne Plenty more proof like this from When you have pains or lameness in apolis to be rescued. Loren Fletcher happened to be in the back bathe the parts with Cham- Jacksonville Winnipeg and when he sought to ob- 1 berlain’s Liniment twice a day, mas- drug store ai ! tain the raleaM of Lis felluw towns- i gaging with the palm of the hand for port. For sale by all dealer . Price 50 I men, he, too, was jailed. Mr. Fletcher five minutes at each application. Then made an objection that was heard all I dampen a piece of flannel slightly with cents. Fos . r-Milbu. :i Co., Buffalo, I the way to Minneapolis. That objection this liniment and bind it on over the Naw York, ! Iole Ag <nts for the Unit- ’ resulted in their release after Keegan I seat of pain, and you may be surprised ed States. J and Hoy had lived on the bounty of to see how quickly the lameness disap 1 Remember the name —Doan's —and • the Canadians for six months, and pears. For sale by City Drug Store. I take no other. MITCHEL! TRACT SOLD ANNUAL DECEMBER MEETING JURORS, FOR SPORTSMEN Cranberries, Tea Garden Mincemeat, 44b. Jars Tea Garden Mincemeat, in Bulk Monopole Seeded Raisins Monopole Seeded Currants Candied Citron, Lemon and Orange Peel New Crop Almonds and Walnuts Satisfaction Guaranteed or Moneu lie funded Leading Merchant HOUSEHOLD CARES
