JACKSONVILLE POST-:
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville. Oregon
The Co-operative Plan
A Farmer Tries It on an Auto
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson
County, Oregon. D. W. B agshaw , Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1907, at the post office at Jacksonviih
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
By M. QUAD
You Are Very Lucky ! |
Copyright, 1916, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
I was driving across the country
with a horse and buggy when I came
to get “The Post” and read these lines. It brings the Reit News
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on i to tile wreck of nn auto in the ditch,
and
a
farmer
was
tinkering
at
it
He
application.
that you have had in many a day. East or West, North or South
had n sledge, crowbar, nil nx, a cold
chisel and a screwdriver mid had work
Opporturi y is always found: Here we are with
T he Post has never been an advocate of war if it ed up a nice little state of jiersplra-
could be honorably avoided, but there are times in the his tion.
“You appear to have a wreck here,"
tory of nations where war is the lesser of two evils. The I said ns I drew In my horse.
“Appear!” he shouted ns be looked
present crisis in Mexico is one of the occasions.
That up. "If tills isn't tlie durndest wreck
ever saw I'll cat my hatl' i”
conditions in Mexico have been steadily growing worse is anybody
“How did it happen?"
to meet your requirements. Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Shoes,
“How does anything happen to an
so apparent that discussion is futile: American soldiers auto
with a fool driving it?"
Millinery, Overalls, Pants, Jumpers, Ladies and Children’s Furnish
have been sent into the country to capture or punish raid “Was It yours?” 1 asked, scenting a
story.
ings, Monopole and Red Ribbon Groceries, Feed, Grain, etc.
ers who committed murder on American soil, and those “One-fifth of her was mine up to
last night Now the whole sad remains
Until you have used Pure White Flour you have not tried the Best.
soldiers are entitled to protection by this government. belong to me. Hid you ever hear of
the
co-operative
plan
among
farmers?"
Reports from Washington indicate that the recent unpro “Lots of times."
Quality considered, our prices are always the lowest.
voked attack upon and slaughter of a troop of U. S. sol “Waal, then, tills was co-operation in
See our extensive Lines before going elsewhere.
buyin' and runnin' an automobile, and
diers, while obeying their company Commanders, is to be this is one of the results of it. Tlio
Price, Style, Quality and Service at
other result is that I ntn about $300
glossed over in order to preserve a peace that does not out of pocket and have lost a widder
was goin’ to be my wife. If you
exist, is unworthy the government of a nation whose who
want to hear all about it I'll tell you,
for 1 guess it hain’t any use to tinker
boast has ever been that its flag guaranteed protection to liny
more nt this blamed old thing.”
its people, wherever they may be found.
No halfway The farmer took a seat on the mor
tal remains of the auto and drew a
measure is possible: either shoot or give up the gun.
long breath and proceeded to say:
lhe People’s Store, where
“There was Tom Evans, Joe Baxter,
Jim Williams and SI Perkins. They
are all farmers and live about here.
They are all married men, and each
HOME
one has a gang of children. As for
i<*PER
me, I am an old bachelor, but I was
a-sparkln' of the nicest widder woman
In this county. The four men I have
mentioned come over to my house one
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evenin’ a month ago, and Tom Evans
lie asks if I would go in with ’em on
the co-operative plan to buy an auto.
•“How much?’ says I.
“ ‘A thousand,' says he.
“ ‘That’s $250 each.’
“ ‘Jest so. Sam.'
“And the auto was bought?”
The Portland Market.
queried.
“She was. sir. She arrived here glis
tenin' like a star, and she excited the
Creator of Moo>
wonder of folks for ten miles around. Eamour $100,000-a-year
CAT1LE
Picture»
THIS PAPER WANTS YOU AND YOUR
We got a feller from town to show us
Receipts fairly heavy altho not as
FAMILY TO ENJOY
HAPPINESS AND
how to run her, and in about a week
heavy as last Monday, about 1100 head
“A pipeful
we was all ready to glide around the
s s s
PROSPERITY HERE -•
being on the market. Quality in the
of Tuxedo is
country. Bein' I was a single man and
main being anything but choice. Good
a wonder
mightily In love with a widder, they
! steers were steady with best selling at
said I might take the auto out first,
fully pleas Steep Logging Road at
[$8.25, Californians brought $8.00 on
which was very decent of them. I felt
ant form of
sure I could run the machine as good
Camp on Columbia down for rather inferior offerings ex
tobacco en
as any mnn in the state. It was a
cept for well finished cattle the marke t
joy m ent,
bright moonlight night, and the whip
was slow.
mild and
poorwills were singin' and the katy
Kelso, Wash., June 17.—The Wiscon
dids chirpin', and that widder woman
soothing. ** sin Logging company, operating on the
HOGS
should promise to be mine before we
for
the
Ashland
Tidings
the
past
two
Columbia river near Midway, will 3oon
Ashland Girl Drops Dead
Nearly 4000 hogs saw a higher mark
returned.
”
years. No funeral arrangements have
be hauling logs over what is claimed to et today. Tops went again at $8.25,
“And did she?" was asked as the
been made as yet.
be the steepest 'ogging railway incline with bulk going a good nickel to a dime
farmer heaved a long sigh.
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in the world. To reach a high moun higher chan last weeks close. Market
Ashland, June 21.—The news of the
“She didn't, stranger, and I’ll tell
tain top covered with timber an incline closing strong.
you why. We had gone about a mile
death of Miss Clarice E. Starkey of Centralia Eagles Will
Scores of Big
was built which has an average pitch
as steady as an old horse when the
Ashland came as a shock to her many
“Movie ’ Men— of 50 per cent. The incline is about
auto shied at a stone In the road, ran
friends Tuesday. Miss Starkey had
Pay Dues for Guardsmen. through
SHEEP
a rail fence, wrecked the auto,
been ill previous to her relapse about a
producers as well as actors, are three-fourths of a mile long and cars There was a very sizable run of
and
the
widow
gave
me
fits.
”
Centralin,
|WaBh.,
June
21.
—
At
a
loaded
with
logs
will
be
snubbed
down
month. She was up and apparently on
constant smokers and out by a d mkey engi ne. To make the sheep today- nearly 3000 head. The
“It gets interesting," I said.
the road to recovery when she visited meeting held last night by the local
“
Kinder
interestin',
stranger
—
kinder
spoken friends of Tuxedo. It’s
market was not strong- Lambs sold
lod"e of Eagles it was voted to pay
in Medford.
so. Wo got a machinist to tinker $20 just the soothing, restful, re load secure the choker line will pass steady but other sheep were weak.
the
dues
of
all
members
¿of
the
lodge
entirely around the load of logs on ev-
Miss Starkey was packing her suit
worth of tinker, and the old machine
Lambs are quoted $8 to $9.25 for best
case Monday, preparatory to visiting in Company M during their term of could run again. Then It was Tom’s freshing smoke men of their ery car
quality.
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enlistment.
nerve-racking
vocation
need.
turn. He has a wife and five children,
her brother in Eastern Oregon, when
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and they all piled tn. They was clip Nothing calms and comforts a
she fainted. Concussion of the brain
Electric Sparks
followed and at 3:30 Tuesday morning
A bachelor's life is a grand old life; pin’ along as happy as larks when hustler like a pipe of mild, cool,
they
came
to
a
crossroad.
The
auto
Devoid of quarrels and spats and
sweet Tuxedo.
death came.
(From Off Our Wireless)
Citation
was for keepin’ straight ahead, Tom
Strife;
Miss Starkey was about25 years old
wanted to turn to the right and his
At 2 a. m. he can walk right in
and has been employed as bookkeeper
And not be clubbed by a rolling pin- wife to the left, and the result was
For every man who goes to the polls
that the machine run into nnd knock
to vote fo- somebody, probably five go
ed over the guidepost and then tried
to vote against somebody.
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF
The
Tokt'cafcr Pif anJ Cleone
to climb a fence. The whole family
It’s an easy matter to fool any one, OREGON, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
took a spi'.l and was scattered for
i JACKSON.
Tuxedo is aged from three including yourself.
twenty rods around. No one was kill
to
five
years
in
wooden
hogs
In the matter of the Estate of Lewis
ed, and there was no broken bones,
The fewer scruples a man has the
A. Wait deceased:
but the bruises are yet blue, and Tom heads to make it mellow and I more drams he takes,
still walks bent over like an old man sweet flavored. Butthe thing
To Olive A. Wait; Edgar C. Wait,
1 What has become of the old-fashioned
on account of the jar to his spine. By
Winifred
W. Wait, .Lilly A. (Wait)
this time we had all got skeery of the that takes cut all the bite and | kid who used to walk on stilts?
Kroeser, heirs of the above named de
We
never
could
figure
why
they
call
machine; but, it bein’ now Jim’s turn harshness and makcsTuxedo
and he not wantin’ to be called a cow so bland and gentle that it a big gun “she” when it can be si- ceased, and to all other heirs unknown
if any such there be, and to all other
■ lenced.
ard, he took out bls family for a prome
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persons interested in said estate. In
nade. As tho other accidents had oc- can’t hurt the most sensitive
To date the German navy is taking
the Name of The State of Oregon; you
cured at night, Jim went out in the tongue or throat, is the fam
afternoon. He thought there might be ous and exclusive “Tuxedo | out ,ts wrath at the English blockade and each of you are hereby ordered and
in wrath.
somethin’ In the night air that affect
required to appear in the above entit.
A Nonpartisan Appeal to the Nation
More men can remember the number ■ led matter in the above entitled court
ed the old critter. There was seven in Process.”
tho family, and the; was climbin’ the
The ¡Title Htute
One week’s trial of Tux of fish they caught last Sunday than I , at the court room of said court at Jack
IFaihingten, Afnl 21, ¡916
hill beyond the red ridge when all to
the text of the sermon they heard.
sonville, Jackson County, Oregon on
Tt the Vuiinen Men »f America:
once the auto gave a snort and stop edo will shoiv you.
The time is rapidly coming when you Thursday July 6th A. D. 1916, at the
ped
in
her
tracks.
BESPEAK your cordial co-opcration in the patri
You can buy Tuxedo ereryv-here can look at a slice <.f strawberry short the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon
“ ‘What’s the matter?' asked Jim's
otic service undertaken by the engineers and chem
cake without frightening the strawbery I of said day, then and there to show
wife.
Pouch
ists of this country under the direction of the Indus
i
off.
I cause, if anv tnere be, why an order
“
'Burned
If
I
know,
but
she
’
s
got
to
trial Preparedness Committee of the Naval Consulting
go!’ he answers.
5c
The largest new diseaseis called “an authorizing the administrator of said
Board of the United States.
“And she did go, sir—she went back-
estate, John Wait, to sell, at private
gina of effort. ”
The confidential industrial inventory you are asked to
wards. There was screamin' and yell
Fimou«
sale the Northeast quarter of section
supply is intended (or the exclusive benefit of the War and
And we knpw that’s exactly what we i
green tin
in' nnd swearin’, and Joe’s wife slap
4 Township 41 South, Range 3 West
Navy Departments and will be used in organizing the indus
ped his face, but nothin' did any good.
have when it comes time to get every Willamette Meridian, Jackson County,
trial resources for the public service in national defense.
That auto kept on goin' backwards
Monday morning.
State of Oregon; the Real property be
until it dumped them all in the river,
At my request the American Society of Civil Engineers,
In
Tin
Hn-
Those Irish rebels evidently wanted longing to said Estate, in accordance
was
about
three
feet
deep
nt
which
the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American
that time. They was shook up nnd nti.l tri, 10t
to change their emblem from the sham with the prayer of said administrator’s
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of
bruised and half drowned, but they »nd SOt.
petition filed herein: This citation is
rock to sweet william.
Electrical Engineers and the American Chemical Society are
were lucky for all that. They waded
served upon the above non-resident
gratuitously assisting the Naval Consulting Board in the work of
In
Clan
Bull moosors seem to have abandoned
ashore nnd left the old auto lyin' on Humidere,
heirs of said Estate and upon the un
collecting this data, and I confidently ask your earnest support
“Or.ward, Christian Soldiers” for’
Its back In the river."
SOcandlOc.
known heirs, if any such there be. by
m the interest of the people and government of the United
“Blesse 1 be the tie that binds.”
"But you got it out again?" 1 asked.
the publication hereof once a week for
States. Faithfully yours.
"Yes. We had to." was the reply.
TffB AMERICAN TCBACCO COMPACT
Paul Revere was not given time
four successive weeks, 10 days prior to
"It was in tryln’ to get the old critter
organize a preparedness parade or
July 6th 1916, pursuant to order of the
home ag’ln that she suddenly bolted
5
might have done so.
and run Into a telegraph pole and
Judge of above entitled court of date
And what has become of the old
wrecked herself as you see her.”
Your friend across the way is ready May 24th 1916.
COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS OF THE
“And she won't be tinkered up fashioned man who used to make a col to electrify vou with the news that he
Date of first publication is May 27
NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD OF THE UNITED STATES
lection of Columbian half dollars?
again ?”
1916.
in co vfmahoa with
has
pulled
his
first
mess
of
radishes.
Atnerwan SertHy W Cjwl I nytnewn
The American S ott O e# Mechanical I .nftneen
“She can’t be. There’s nothin' left
Ore way to make friends is to keep
Witness the Hon. F. L. TouVelle,
Amerxan Institute
Mining I nginrm FEe Anterxan Institute o4 Dectrxal I ngtneers
to tinker, unless the blacksmith tbluks your advice to yourself.
The Amencaa Chemical Soctctv
People in England are to get up an Judge of the above entitled court with
E aymrennt Socsetira BusLhng
U est )<*th Street. New Yotk
he can make five wise men out of the
-• qta
’ Ian
”D
T o . .. •
•' V «,id e >urt thereto affixed
five foots who bo igln her an lost
e
e
s in
Mav 19'6.
about $2.'»i apiece I used to think co
rtUeai:
F. L. louVeile,
A miser is a grea liver > <e leros-
operation of farmers was a Isiautiful
A woman is never satisfied until she
Advertisement .1. (..... i>> u„. A MeX'IATKD ADVERTISING CLUBS OF TH» , thing, but durn my cats if I ain’t itv in every bxiy except himself.
County Judge
| through with it F*
A. Gardner, Clerk,
Wi»l<l.l> and published by this ntWflpaptr
This is a meloncboly year for demo can do things wrong in two or more
different ways.
Hora Thompson, Deputy.
cratic favorite sons.
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SATURDAY.
JUNE 24.
1916
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