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:-JA CKSON VILLE POST-:-
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Orejón
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 Jacksonville
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
A Picture
Of Peace
By F. A. MITCHEL
You Are Very Lucky!
Needing a model for a painting of n
female figure I intended tocall “Peace,"
to get “The Post” and read these lines. It brings the Best News
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on 1 bunted everywhere for one. 1 could
find plenty of wotneu with suitable fig
application.
that you have had in many a day. East or West, North or South
ures. but figure expresaes nothing that
I wauled except symmetry. I painted
Opportunity is always found: Here we are with
my picture In my studio, using a model
for the figure whom I have often em
ployed, leaving a blank space for the
face, intending If ever I found one suit-
I able to my purpose I would Introduce
It. But time flew by, and I feared the
great European war, which rendered
my subject timely, would cotne to an
to meet your requirements. Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Shoes,
end before I could And a model.
One day while looking out of a rear
Millinery, Overalls, Pants, Jumpers, Ladies and Children’s Furnish
window of my house I noticed sitting
at a window opjiosite mine a girl whose &
ings, Monopole and Red Ribbon Groceries, Feed, Grain, etc.
lineaments were exactly what I want
ed. Sho was sewing, and since the
Until you have used Pure White Flour you have not tried the Best.
window in which she sat was at an
angle with mine I got a three-quarters
view of her face. This was the posi
Quality considered, our prices are always the lowest.
tion of my figure of “reace" in my pic.
ture.
See our extensive Lines before going elsewhere.
It will then pass through many hands, help many
I noticed that the girl occupied the
same position nearly every morning
Price, Style, Quality and Service at
merchants and increase home prosperity.
from about 10 o'clock till noon. It oc
curred to me to bring luy canvas and
my implements to my room tin J use the
girl for a model. Sho would be uncon
scious that she was being used for the
purpose, and this would be a great ad
vantage. So I transferred my mate
rials from my studio to my chamber,
and, closing the blinds so that my
The People’s Store, where
model would not see me copying her. I
set to work. Fortunately 1 seldom
missed getting a sitting each morning.
Notice of Sheriff’s Sale,
Notice of Sheriff’s Sale.
My picture was a great success.
How much its being displayed when
H. A. Hanscom, Plaintiff,
the European war was in progress bad
Joe Hoskins, Plaintiff,
to do with the public’s appreciation of
-vs-
-vs-
It I don't know. Naturally the war
E. W. Wall and N. M. Wall,
William Scott, Defendant.
created an Interest In 1L I spent much
Defendants.
PIIONE 112
By virtue of an execution duly issued
By virtue of an execution and order time In the gallery where It was hung,
out of the Circuit Court of the State
watching those who looked on it, and
of Oregon, in and for the County of of sale duly issued out of and under the noticed that the expressions of all who
Jackson, in a certain suit therein, seal of the Circuit Court of the State viewed it were for the time being
wherein the defendant and appellant, of Oregon, in and for the County of softened.
one who listens to criticisms of
William Scott, recovered a judgment Jackson, to me directed, dated July 5. his But
work will surely hear some fault
1916, in a certain suit therein for the
against the above named Plaintiff and
finding. During these cuvesdropplngs
Respondent for the sum of $123.00 foreclosure of a mortgage in which the I heard one adverse comment. Two
Plaintiff
recover-»d
a
judgment
against
Dollars Supreme Court Costs, with in
ladles were viewing it when one said:
“She's a spitfire.”
terest at the rate of 6% per annum the defendants E. W. Wall and N. M.
Wall,
on
May
27,
1916,
for
the
sum
of
“Good gracious!" exclaimed the oth
from the 11th day of September, 1908.
Two Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy
"What do you mean? She is tlie
In compliance with the commands of and 67-100 ($2870.67) Dollars with in er.
Impersonation of amiability. How could
of said execution I did on the 29th day terest thereon from said 27th day of you have got such an Impression?”
of June, 1916, levy upon the premises May, 1916, at the rate of 10% per an
“I don't know, but I've got it all the
described as the North half of the num anl Sixteen ($16.00) Dollars costs same.”
South half of the Northwest quarter which judgment was enrolled and dock They passed on, leaving me wonder
and the Northeast quarter of Section eted in the Clerk’s office of said court ing how one person of the many hun
Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen
30, Township 38 South, of Range 1 in said county on the 27th day of May, dreds who looked at the picture should
that
would
impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of
have
divined
such
u
different
interpre
West, Willamette Meridian.
1916, and is of recoid in Volume 24 tation of it from the rest Surely the
$100,000,000
a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by
Therefore: Public No’ice is hereby of the Circuit Court Journal at page Judgment of the many was of far more
reference
to
an impartial Federal tribunal.
given, that I wilt on
value than the one. Nevertheless the
3*58 thereof.
With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroadi
Public Notice is hereby given that criticism troubled me. Might not oth
Monday, July 31, 1916,
ers have got the same Impression from
have
no
differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by «uch
by
virtue
of
said
execution
and
order
at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M. at the
my “Peace," but left it unexpressed?
a public body.
front door of the Court House in Jack of sale I will, on
However, my picture did much to in
troduce me as an artist, nud my con
sonville, Jackson County, Oregon, offer
Monday, August 7th 1916,
for sale and will sell, all of the right, at the hour of 10 o,clock A. M. at the science had often pricked me for spong
title and interest that the above named front door of the Court House in Jack ing tlie services of n model, I medi
The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of
Plaintiff and Respondent had on the sonville, Oregon, offer for sale and will tated sending an anonymous note, in
the
controversy
is as follows:
closing a check, to the young woman.
date of the docketing of this judgment sell at public auction, all of the right, I finally concluded that so refined look
“
Our
conference»
have demonstrated that we cannot harmonize our difference» of opinion and that eventually th«
namely:- September 11th 1908, in and title and interest that the defendants ing a person would need some prepara
matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested agencies. Therefore, we propose that your
to the premises above described.
had on the date of the mortgage herein tion for the reception of such payment.
proposals and the proposition of the railways be disposed of by one or the other of the following methods:
That said property will be sold at foreclosed or have since acquired or I therefore wrote a note telling how I
1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of its
said time and place in the manner pro n«w have in and to the following de had conceived the painting of n pic
accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in a posi
ture
of
peace,
how
I
had
found
a
tion
to consider and protect the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue
vided by law for the sale of real prop scribed real property situated in Jack-
model in her and how I had produced
necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and
erty under execution, to satisfy the son County, Oregon, to-wir;-
reasonable; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premise«,
a successful work, which I could not
above named judgment.
Lots numbered Seven (7) Eight (8) have produced without taking advan
that we jointly request Congress to take such action as may be necessary to enable the Commission to consider and
promptly dispose of the questions involved; or
Nine (9) and Ten (10) in Block num tage of her presence at a window op
Dated this ?9th day of June, 1916.
2. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law” (The Newland» Act).
ber One (1) of Lumsden's Addition posite mine. I deemed It proper that
W. II. SlNGLEK, Sheriff,
to the town (now city) of Medford, she should derive some benefit from
By E. W, W ilson , Deputy.
as numbered, designated and describ my success and humbly asked ¡>ermls-
ed on the official plat thereof, now of sion to send her a check.
I had written tilts note In my room
This year's variety of steam rollers
Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New
record
while my model of “Peace" had been
is less painful and precise than was the
York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration
All of the above lots will be sold at sitting In her accustomed seat in her
1912 model.
said time and place in the manner pro window and was taking up my hat to
or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether
Another fascinating thing about the vided by law for the sale of real prop go out and around the block to leave
authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike.
politicians is the extreme seriousness erty under execution, to satisfy the it nt her door, for I did not know her
The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the
with which they view themselves and judgment, costs, and accruing costa of name, when I saw approaching from
public
body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons:
the
rear
of
the
room
in
which
she
sat
their interests.
sale.
the figure of another girl about her
No other body with such an intimate knowledge
If we equip our navy solely with bat Dated this 7th day of July, 1916.
ployes aa wagca; and th« money to pay increased wage,
own age. Then I beard the one who
of railroad conditions has such an unquestioned posi
can come from no other source than the rates paid
tle cruisers it will be impolite of an en
W H. S1NGLER,
had newly entered say:
tion in the public confidence.
by the public.
emy to send over a dreadnaught to put
Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon,
“Marla, what dkl you mean last
The rates the railroads may charge the public <or
The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its cna-
them out of business.
By E. W. W ilson . Deputy. night by tnking Johnny Doyle away
transportation are now largely fixed by this Govern
trol over rates, is in a position to make a complete
from me?"
ment board.
investigation and render such decisiou as would pre-
“What did you mean by taking Billy
Out of every dollar received by the railroad* from
tect the interests of the railroad employee, the ownere
Dunker away from me?"
the public nearly one-half is paid directly to the cm-
of the railroads, and the public.
“I didn't!’’
“You did!"
A Question For the Public to Decide
The voices were both shrill, but that
The
railroads
feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of
of my model was the shriller. I will
not attempt to give the anathemas
$100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only
hurled upon each other by the two
one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that
girls In the space of a few moments.
Among 0 world’s great story tellers, those gifted, en
shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts.
They soon began to claw each other,
tertaining idlers, Rex Beach is stacking high; and I am
and my peace model caught her ene
The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an
my by the hair and was yanking her
always in my glory when I have got a new Beach
impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare.
around In circles when, horror strick
story; it suits me moro than pie. Red blood in all his
en. I covered my face with my hands
National Conference Committee of the Railway«
yams is seething; his characters are living, breathing,
thnt 1 might see no more of the fracas
ELISHA LEE. Chairman
and ran out of the room, closing the
not dummies made of wood; strong
P. R ALBRIGHT, Genl Managar.
G H. EMERSON.
N. ü MAHBR. ru,
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Great Northern Railway.
door behind me to shut out the shrill
Norfolk A Waiter* Railway.
men admire his kind of writing, of
L. W BAI DWIN. Gtn'l Manager.
C. H. EWING. Gtn'lMiKtfn,
sounds.
JAMES RUSSELL. G« /Maaarai
Central of Georgia Railway.
Philadelphia A Reading Railway
Deaver A Ri* Grange Railroad.
heroism, peril, fighting— it’s al
Since that day I see my picture of
C. L. BARDO. Gen / Maaafw.
B. W G RICE. G m 7
Trau»
A. M. SCHOYER. Knidtni Visa-Pmt^
New York. New Haven A Hartford RailroaA
Chesapeake Jt Ohio Railway
peace through different eyes than be
Peaaeylveaia Line« WeaL
ways to the good. And Rex, when
B H CO A PM AN. Viet F'ossdtni.
A. S. GREIG. Asst. ft Rtctivut,
W. L. SEDDON. Viet-Praa ,
fore. Instead of being a Madonna
Southern Railway.
St Louia A Sau Francisco Rar road.
he is busy working, his trusty old
Seaboard Air Liae Railway.
she is a virago. On that account I
S E COTTER. Gea7.Wanagw
C. W. KOUNS. Gtn'l Manager,
A. J. STONB. Flee PrttUfS.
Wabath
Railway.
typewriter jerking, until it busts a
Atchison.
Topeka
A
Santa
Fe
Railway.
seldom look at her. As to the model,
Erie Railroad
P E CROWLEY Asst Vice PresidanS.
H. W MeM ASTER. G m 7 Wawa/w.
G 8 WAID. FiM-Arw 9 GttT V*
the morning after my disillusion she
spoke, to have his inspiraton quick
New York Central Railway
Wheeling A Laka Erie Railroad.
Sanaet Ceatral Liaea.
appeared again at her window, her
ened keeps all the air around him
Madonna like face covered with
thickened with rich Tuxedo smoke.
scratches. I met her In the street one
The President of the tobacco Mer
Russia is coming along at a rate to
Says He Used Pitchfork
day, and I was surprised at a differ chants association describes tobacco as make Germany turn one eye away from
Say, have you noticed, gentle
RFX REACH
ence
there
was
In
It
from
that
which
Fame«« Xa/Aor. aaya.*
readers, how many famous men
the Verdunjbone. at which it has been
Vorcc liver, Wash., July 4.—Victim
had appeared while she sat in the win a necessary luxury. Or as you might
**/ Aure smoked
h»
gnawing
at all those weeks.
say
a
luxurious
necessity.
and leaders explain Tuxedo's tub-Arctic
.Alaska, at Panary
dow. Wliat caused this difference? 1
of an unexpected attack, Michael Sog-
Until it had its trial by fire the bat
don't kuow. It may have beeu thnt
worth? As man’s great solace and rvenjtvherr - ivould noi
A Connecticut minister has entered a
ewa was f curd lyirg b. side the road,
the light of the room was softer than munitions factorv in order to make a tle cruiser w s the grandest thing a-
they expound it, and that’s because smo^e anolhtf b,n¿- **
near Proebatel vesterdav insensible.
that of the street But why bad the living but Billy Sunday hurls liquid fire flort.
Now the super-dreadnaught After regaining consciousness, Sogewa
they all have found it the best
single critic I have mentioned caught from the same old stand.
once more crowds into the limelight.
who drives a milk route wagon route
the real expression? I give It up.
there is on earth.
As for preparedness, the excitement fritr, Hockinscn to Pmbstel. alleged
The check I drew to send my model | Continued failures on the part of
I gave to a fund for mutilated soldiers Yuan Kai to engineer a preparedness loving public, turned from St. Louis that Joe Flegal. a resident of that
parade marks him as a rank conserva and its hannenious ccnvention with a reightorhood, bad attacked him with
of the great war.
goodly supply of ready to wear yawns. rocks end a pitchfork.
tive.
SATURDAY.
JULY
8.
USI fi
EVERYTHING
CIRCULATE THE
HOME DOLLAR
AT HOME!
A DOLLAR WELL SPENT IS
A DOLLAR SPENT HERE
Taylor - Williams Co.
“The World is Growing Better”
Jacksonville,
Oregon
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Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote