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i VOL. IX JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY, WANTS CURB ON SPIES OUR OWN STATE OUR RURAL SCHOOLS I Will Ask Congress to Pro Some Recent Happenings Other States Adopt The vide Penalties for Oregon Standard in Various Parts of School Plan. Plotters Oregon OREGON, DECEMBER 1 /NDUSTR/AL RSI//E1V MANAGER VANCE DIS Manufactures, Enterprises and Imp ov:m trits Pra/idinj CUSSES RATES. Payrolls and Promot ing Development letter to the Post. He claims that from standpoint Washington, Nov. 29—President Wil son’s address to congress next week not only will treat upon greater pre paredness for national defense, but will call the attention of congress to the explosions and fires ip American in dustrial plants. The president intends to recommend that the Sherman law be amended to included severe penalties for such re straints of trade. Any division in the ranks of American citizens whose sym pathies with the warring belligerents may have led to excesses will be em- ph itically condemned as un-American by the president. In several recent speeches the presi dent has spoken for “America first, ” a id called upon Americans to stand united. That he considered the situa- of sufficient importance to bring to the attention of congress had not generally been realized. More than 2,000 of the leading educa-1 Month’s Excess is 5.03 Inches of the company rates are too low of Oregon tors representiag all the Stales, ai d Portland, Nov. 28—In the 21 hours many foreign countries have mad> a ending at 5 o’clock this morning the careful study of the Oregon exhibit ' ville what it costs to furnish it. leaving W st Linn’s new water system will Mr. D. W. Bagshaw, Editor, rainfall at Portland amounted to .95 of with the purpose of adopting some part Jacksonville Post. Medford or any other ex hinge out of be completed about Dec. 1. an inch, bringing the precipitation for of it. Three counties of California i the controversy? Ycur proposed “inde 1 Dear Sir:- C. N. Lucke of Canby, purchased the month up to 11 28 in -hes. This is have adopted our Standard School Plan Your issue of November 20 has been pendent” exchange m ist of necessity 5.93 inches in excess of the normal for absolutely, and through the local press and shipped 26 carloads of hogs and handed to us, in which you comment j be self sustaining to survive, just as the month to date. The seasonal rain of their counties, the educational lead cattle in October. on the telephone situation in Jackson our own Jacksonville exchange must fall from September 1 to date totals ers have given Oregon credit for help- Eugene has 37 manufacturing plants ville. As your statements are so far be self sustaining if it continues in 13.80 inches, an excess of 2.03 inches. in«’ them. W. E. Cole, chairman of employing 322 persons with a payroll from the exact condition surrounding operation. It cannot be said that an November 27 was the only rainless day the Educational Committee of the Farm of $167,000 and an annual output of the Jacksonville exchange, we feel expensive office buildin.’ was erected of the month at Portland. Occasi >nal Bureau for Napa County, California, $810, <>00. that as a purveyor of authentic news, in Jacksonville which the subscribers showers are predicted for tonight and in a letter of appreciation to State Su Roseburg Work has sta-ted on you will be glad to be able to present are asked to pay for, or that, under tomorrow. The temperature was 41 perintendant J. A. Churchill, says, af Umpqua-Crater Lake wagon road. i the matter to your readers in its true compulsion of the city government, degrees at 8 o’clock this morning. ter telling of a meeting of their coun Florence sells $5,000 street improve j light, and with this in view we will conduits were placed under the pave-, ty educational officials, “A standard ment bonds to bank in Toledo, Ohio. I briefly outline the conditions as they ment at excessive cost and on which Bootlegger is Freed school was adopted after the Oregon Douglas Co. farmers get $10,000 for exist, and show the necessity for im- investment the subscribers are now mediate relief in order that the tele- asked to pay returns; or that the Salem, Or., Nov. 29—Governor With- plan. We have kept the local press in 11700 turkeys. phone company may continue to give company is even renting and maintain- ycombe has issued a conditional pardon formed of our work. No doubt every The Southern Pacific has declared a I to Bert Smith, serving a term in the ciuntyin California having a farm rd-1 dividend of 31,50 per share on common service in any of its exchanges. ing an expensive office building not county jail for violating the local op viser will very shortly follow our lead.’’ stock, that is at the rate of 6%. Th s You state in your article that ‘•we entirely’ in keeping with the import tion law in Lane county. His sister is At the Annual Teachers’ Institute of is welcome news for everybody in the can build, equip and operate an inde- ance of the Jacksonville office; or that said to be dying, and he was freed in Monterey County, the county superin state of Oregon for no industry spends pendent company of our own for one j it has built unnecessary lines or in that he might return to her be tendent, George Shullzburg, brougl 11 money faster than a railroad when it is half this charge.” We will concede stalled equipment, of any nature not Dry Rot in Buildings order the teachers to the Oregon exhibit, 11 fore she died. that this statement is made with the absolutely necessary f >r the furnishing and in speaking to them saiJ: “I want I prosperous. 1 full conviction of its being entirely of standard and efficient telephone all you teachers to see what wonderful : Strahorn’s railroad in eastern Ore true, yourself as well as the average tervice to its patrons in Jacksonville ■' As a result of investigations recently gon has been promise 1 the financial work Oregon is doing in her tural 1 School Directory of State ma le by Mr. C. J. Humphrey, Patholo of prominent men in Oregon. layman having no means of knowing and vicinity. schools. Their Standard School Plan support ! the facts pertaining to the operation Salem Or., Nov. 29 — A directory in gist in the Department of Agriculture, It is not unfair, therefore, to our is just what we need in our county.” Palmer Lumber Co. of LaGrande has o' a telephone exchange. It will, no Jacksonville subscribers for us to it has been found that dry rot in “mil ] which are listed all the schools of the The teach rs at once veted to adopt awarded logging contracts totaling 11,- doubt, therefore, come with ».nne sur expect to receive revenue in Jackson constructed” buildings in Washington s'ate employing more than one teacher Oregon plan, an I the Oregon standaid prise to know that in the average ville at least commensurate with the an I Oregon is due, in all the cases re. has,been issued by State Superintend- card is now in every lura! school in 000,000. Wells Fargo Nevada Notional bank I small exchange, the operators’ wages bare cost of furnishing the service ported; to ignorance and gross negli e it of Public Instruct'on Churchill. In Monterey County. i see prosperity in the enlarged buying a'one amount to more than the entin within the limits of the Jacksonville gence on the part of the users of wood it are also given the names and addres Superintendent Harriett S. Lee, of <>f railroad supplies and the resumption revenue of the office. This is true ii exchange, since we are assuming that ses of the teachers and the clerks of as structural material. Yolo County, writes: “I am n >w work It has been found that timber intelli- the schoo1 boards. A new feature is ing to make y> ur Standard School Pb n of improvement work bv various trans two of our exchanges, and within but you should not be expected to pay the a few dollars per month ot it in Jack cost of any plant located elsewhere. ge itly used under normal cond itions a department showing the standard fit Yolo County, and I wish to thank portation systems. Grants Pass Rails are being laid on sonville, as will be shown latter. will not rot, and furthermore that dry high schools and the enrollment by you for the many excellent pamphlets To better present the m itter to y> u the new railroad up to the foot of Hays For the information of those not along these lines and to give the exact fot is easily preventable. In 99% of grades. and cards I have receive! through tie hill. familiar with the subject, it is stated facts full publicity, which we invite, the cases reported, the cause Was insu medium of your yielightfcl representa that the Industrial Welfare Commis it will pe-haps be be it to open cur fficient ventilation in the building or Willamette Pacific Bridge across Trappers in Polk County tive at the P. P. I. E. sion of the state regulates, and prop- books on the Jacksonville exchange to abound the timbered joints. A lack of C< os Bay is finished. Monmouth, Or., Nov. 21 —Owing to Of the club work, it is conceded that the wages and hours of labor , the end that every patron may know fresh air and heat creates a moist and the large number of fur-bearing ani St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. asked to erly ull so, fnmaln .ral.n’t’1 ’ .... .... the i......... 1. : . from r . _ female nmixlnu employee«. ¿Irv Operators musty atmosphere conducive to the mals around Monmouth and the Luck- no other state has the work so well or b’d on fiye 5,000 tank vessels for east I of all and 1 see subject the view wages, therefore, become a fixed point of the telephone company; that growth of fungi. It is well known that I imute valley, many men have taken ganized. The local and county school ern firm. - charge, the regulation of which is out decay often starts in a damp cellar. * up trapping. The principal animals fairs with the club winners’ work Roseburg—Catholics will enlarge side the jurisdiction of the employer. every patron may know that it is cost shown at the State Fair, making a log ing every month in cash outlay for So netimes lumber becomes infected being trapped are the mink, skunk, ical culmination of the year’s work, cl urch at cost of $7000. I In the Jacksonville exchange the tele w iges and maintenance alone mote with dry rot in the yard or shed of the muskrat and raccoon. One man caught the organizing and directing of the Unless all signs fail, the long haired, mill, and is then ignorantly or negli 10 skunks out of one den, the furs of work by the State School Superintend long winded, smooth tongued politician phone company is required by law to 1 than the entire revenue of the office; employ four operators, where formerl , that the people of Jacksonville may gent’./ sold for building purposes. Yard which he sold for $22.50. ent with the expert bulletins prepared ' is going to have a hard time putting , two operators could easily and satii - see why this nor any other cotnpai y infe ion is usually caused by improper by the State Agricultural College for through any industry killing and tax factorily handle the work. The operat i cannot furnish telephone service at ti e [i.iuiL of the lumber. The lumber is children, telling them how to select raising laws at the next election. ing cost is corresp- ndingly increased, ! present rates, and why this company ■ r. ed so that there is a free circu- Pioneer Dies at Echo seed and do their work, are features Astoria is to have a new skating and along with it increased revenue . now finds itself confronted with a sit '¡■ti of air throughout, or with suffi- Echo, Or., Nov. 28—The body of Wil which are raising the ciub work of Ore must be obtained to meet it. Anyone uation where it baa been compelled to ■J dope to permit the rain to run i liam C. White, for 15 years a resident gon boys and girls to a high standard. rink. A. Guihrie & Co. ot Portland receive interested, may see the rules of the I default payment of interest on its O f. In the shed the infection is gener-1 of Echo, was buried in the I. O. O. F. The judges at the State Fair this year Commission posted in the Jacksonvil'e ' mortgage bonds and only through the ally caused by contact with a moist cemetery of this place yesterday. Mr.- declared that the corn exhibited by the $1,50-1,000 contract near Chicago. office. The question of the expense of condescension of the bondholders is it fl .or. Albany i “ working to secure a paper White was a pioneer of Oregon, com boys was fully one hundred per cent operators, therefore, employed by this able temporarily to continue to give Mr. Humphrey’s study has undoubt ing from Tennesee 65 years ago, and better than 1-st year while the vegeta mil. edly revealed the fact that dry rot is was 83 years of age. He leaves a wife ' ble and other products were a much | Salem is to have a cheese factory or your “independent” company is one service under any sched lie of rates. over which we or yourself have no We believe that the patrons of the Hut only preventable but unnecessary. • nd five children. j next spring. (Continued on page 3, col. 4) control. telephone company in Jacksonville, as 1915 rt turns from Hood River valley You state, also, in your article that has bem demonstrated in Medford, will be over $1,000,0 0. “the value of the telephone company's | j want no more than th ay pay for and Baker has voted $125,000 bonds for plant is excessive, numerous things , ( are willing to nay for what they re- new high school. are included that are in no wise neces- , ceive, «nd that yourself and all other After a three year fight and aggita- sary for the operation of such system j ' patrons will not further believe that tion for municipal plant the city of to render the service we get here; be- ! | you nor any other company “can biild, , Medford and the California Oreg n cause the concern built an expensive ' equip and operate a telephone ex Power Co. have Come to terms. The office building, put in conduits under change for one half the charge,” nor I city concedes the legality of the elec- the pavement, etc , i i Medford, is no even at the present charges, and that tri franchise and pays all back charg reason why Jacksonville patrons should the existing co alitions, wh'eh are the es for electricity amounting to several pay for it,” and that “we are now same in other exchanges as in Jack thousand dollars and the light company paying more here for service than it is sonville. and have alike contributed to give a reduced rate in street lighting worth even with Medford list.” the result, must be immediately chang and a percentage of its gross earnings We will assume, however, that you ed if the community is to continue to This settlement excludes the probabili are willing to agree tha* the service is be furnished with any kind of tel - ty of a franchise being granted a com- worth to the subscribers in Jackson- phone service. o ■’ing coinpary that has been trying The statement follows:- to enter the field. New bridge will be built across the STATEMENT OF EARNINGS AND EXPENSES-JACKSONVILLE Willamette at Salem, cost $233,(100. EXCHANGE. We also have our new Fall Stock of New bank opens at Oregon City Dec. DISBURSEMENTS:- I. Salaries per mo. operators only, (average six months) -------- $126.80 Lebanon paper mill starts with full Rent of (Iffv e ............................ ................................................. 1?. 50 Light, Heat, Janitor, etc., (average).......................................... 6.10 c-ew, first time in over a year. I 4.15 The Bardon with 6(M',(K)0 of lumber Printing, postage and stationery account------------- ------- Material and Supplies for repairs to plant including line just left Toledo for San Franciso. mens’ wages....... . ...................... —.................. -........... Creamery at Reedsport produced Miscellaneous, traveling, freight, drayage, real estate expense 1 >7,528 pounds of butter past year. incidentals, etc....................................................... .......... 7.10 Dairv products have parsed the $250,- Accounting, Collecting, Commercial, Insurance, Directory, 0.» mark for the past year. 8.87 General Expense, etc., _________________________ It is reported that the Fall City mill Taxes, County and State figured on per station basis of will soon resume. total taxes,_____________ _______ _______ ——— 11.84 The straw that broke the camels $200.08 back in Oregon was the freak Sunday r $2,10 1.96 Annual Disbursement closing law which closed practically all place of business on that day. Peti tions are out and being freely sign.-d REVENU* for its appeal. $172.10 (tentais per mo. (average for six mon’hs.) 3.88 Stanfield will drill artes a 1 well to ir Commission on Long Distant Receipts ... rigate 6000 acres. 1175.118 Total. Sutherlin will have a new two story Monthly Cash Operating Deficit, $21.10; Yearly cash Operatin' Deficit $289.20 brie NEW WALNUTS, Rais 1 ins, Currants, Citron, etc I II Staple Dry Goods We have some very low prices on Flour, Salt, etc Lewis Ulrich 1 he Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Ore Slot Machines Prohibited Inven'ory bv Railroad Commissi >r of Jacksonville Exch inge, Reproduction cost________ _________________ .....$8030.00 I.e3s Blue Ledge line Roll since inventory, . .................... 500.00 Present Value of Plant, t8530.i>) Go ding, Idaho, Nov. 29—The local '.V ('. T. U. secured the passage of a . 441.lt i y ordinance which prohibits the oper Depreciation (fixed hy Commission) 5.1*' < x $85.1'1 . 597.10 $ 1037.24 ................................ a ion of slot ma-hin .•< a rl candy an 1 Rate of Return, 7','< x $8510 other raffles, in ca idy stores, pool halls $1326.44 TOTAL ANNUAL LOSS........... and tobacco storet of the city of G >oJ- (Continued on Pag 2, Column 3.)