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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1916)
:■ JACKSONVILLE POST Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Oregon A weekly newspaper published every* Saturday at the county seat of Jackson i 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 BENEFICIAL BURGLARS By ALAN HINSDALE Let's Get Together ! ! ! SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14, 191 tí I am an unto enthusiast lieenuse 1 am especially fond of roving, and I can SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on rove to better advantage in a ear than application. in any other way. Touring In the au tumn, when the leaves aie turning, I find delightful. One evening in October about sunset I passed a cozy place a short distance off tlie road and detenu.ned to ask to be house! for the night. Finding the NATIONAL gates locked. I left my auto In the road and. climbing the fence, walked up to President— the house. There was an ominous si CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Vo. lence. Not a dog. m t a chicken, not even a cat, gave evident e of life. Tlie Vice-President— nearer view showed me that the win CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS dow shades were drawn. One shade Representative, First District— bad not been entirely pulled down, and I could look Into the living room. What W. C. HAWLEY gives some rooms an air of comfort STATE The first Republican meeting of the that others no not possess, unless it is campaign in this city was held at the tlie taste of rhe furnisher. I don't know Secretary of State— front door of the court house Thursday This room was eipc'inliy Inviting, so afternoon and was attended by a good inviting that I yielded to a temptation B. W. OLCOTT to force an entrance. ly number of voters, considering the Justices of Supreme Court — I made a I malar of myself nnd with facts that it was daytitn••, middle of an iron bar found on the pin e Jimmied GEORGE H. BURNETT the week and a legal holiday when the the window anil went inside. There FRANK A. MOORe officials and clerks in the county offices w:'s n well tilled wood basket beside Dairy and Food Commissioner— were spending the day out of town. the flreplm e. mil 1 lighted a fire and J. D. MICKLE The meeting opened with “The Red sat down in a big easy eha'r before it. I dreamed nil sorts of ilrc.nnis about White and Blue,’’ by the glee club, Public Service Commissioner— the place, but they all conne ted me Mrs. Faye Hines at the piano and Mr. FREDG. BlJCHTEi. with It. mid they were nil dependent Leon Hanna violinist. Mr. Ben C. Judge First District— upon n lovely imaginary girl who was Sheldon of Medford, republican candi to make me happy In it. After awhile FRANK M. CALKINS date for the legislature delivered an bearing a step on the (torch without excellent address, in the preface to I turned mid saw the object of my R -presentatives Eighth District— which he stated that Mears ana he dreams looking in through the window. BENJ. C. SHELDON were simply ‘fillers-in,” l > save the At any rate, a g rl was there and evi C. M. THOMAS voice of the principal speaker. How dently interested hl the person with Representativo Ninth District— ever this may be, Mr. Sheldon deliver In. I arose mid went to the window, the girl retreating before my advance WILLIAM II. GORE ed an excellent short address, logica1, “Don't be frightened,” I said reas Concise and convincing, which was lis suringly. “I'm not a burglar.” And COUNTY tened to with rapt attention i (by the I explained to her how I happened to way we would like *o hear Bun when be there. She heard me through, then District Attorney - fold me that the place belonged to Iler. he was not a “filler-in.”) G. M. ROBERTS Mr. Leon Hanna followed Mr. Shel- She would not come inside, but after dor.’» address with a violin solo which some hesitancy told me a lilt of a County Clerk— was appreciated very highly by the au story, she had been born and lived G. A. GARDNER near by. She became engaged, and dience. her fiance had built the house with the County Recorder— Mr. A. E. Clark of Portland was Intention of their making n nest to CHAUNCEY FLOREY then introduced and for about an hour gether In it when they were married. Sheriff— held the close attention of the audience It was all ready for their occupancy, while he delivered an address in plain, nnd they were to have been married E. W. WILSON forcible language, without sarcasm or In n few days, when her lover sick County Treasurer— or abuse of the opposing party or its ened and died. She bad never been in MYRTLE BLAKELEY -andidates, clearly, in concise terms it since a few days before his death. Having seen n light in the window, County Surveyor— show ng why Mr. Wilson should not be she had come from her Imme to dis A. T. BROWN re-elected president uf the United cover what It meant. I apologized for States. Coroner— trespassing nml offered to vacate im- The speaker, using Portland as an mediately. JOHN A. PERL “No,” she said; “I wish you would *xhibit of condition» in the State, County Assessor— »howed that under republican rule, remain as long ns you like. You liave I live JAMES B. COLEMAN building permits had trebled in the per broken n melancholy spell. I can see this house all the wlu-re County School Superintendent — iod from 1907 to be'innin; of 1912, while, and I think that it has kept me while under democratic rule, in three G. W. AGER in an abnormal condition, The mo- .-ears the permits had dropp >d to al meat I saw the light In it that spell County Commissioner— most nothing in 1915. He touched brief seemed to snap." GEO. W. OWENS ly on the trouble with Mexico, stating She asked me to go to her home »M» " ■ that more Americans had been killed with tier for the evening, 1 did bo , in Mexico during Wilson’s administra and she introduced me to her mother, Keep an Eye On Japan tion than in the Spanish-American war n sister and a brother. I passed a pleasant evening with intelligent and in McKinley’s administration. Mr. Japan is again pressing the question Clark also called attention to the vio refined persons, and when bedtime came I was offered a room for the of her people being received in Ameri lation by the present administration of night. ca on the same terms that European it» pre-election plank regarding the “No.” I said, looking nt the girl who immigrants are received. free use of the Panama canal by Amer luid told me her story, ”1 think it There are several reasons why tl is ican ship.’, calling attention to tho fact would be better for you that some one c ntiot be. The first one is that the that the dull times on the Pacific coast should sleep in your house.” She made no reply to this, but nsked Japanese are not of the Caucasian race are largely due to that very violation. a id their inter-marriage with Ameri Many other things showing the neces me to come to her home for breakfast cans would be intolerable and impossi sity of a change of adminis’r.ition were the next morning. I proposed that the family come to the other house for ble. Again, no Japanese would ever brietly brought out but space forbids breakfast. Her mother urged this, and give to our government his true alle the reproduction here 1 left them expecting them to come to giance Mrs. IL K. Hanna, accompanied by me the next morning. Again, were Japanese in great num I slept in the best bedroom, which Mrs. Hines on the piano and Mr. Leon bera domiciled in our country, they Hanna, violin, then sang “My Own was in readiness, and the next morn would be a perpetual menace in the United States,” a fitting climax to Mr. ing arose early to make a few neces sary preparations. In due time my event of a clash between our country Clark's patriotic address. I hosts appeared. and all except the be- and Japan. Mr. Fred Mears of Medford then fol- rented girl took on the merriment of Again, were they to be permitted to 1 »weii with an excellent short address, a picnic. But I was linppy to find that acquire title to the land, they would be confining his remarks chiefly to local before the meal was ov«r she had lost as was the camel which was forbidden affairs, calling attention to the need of much of tier sadness. Before I left to enter the Arab’s tent on a stormy earnest, intelligent work by the repub mv newly made friends she said to me: "If nt any time while you are tour night, but finally was given have to licans of Jackson county and inviting put his head in, and then ut once pro soecial attention to th ■ methods used ing you find yourself In tills neighbor ceeded to crowd the family out of by and the efforts put forth by the hood please feel welcome to remain overnight here." doors. Medford Mail Tribune to maintain con I accepted the offer, intending to Again, Japan is asking for her peo trol of the politic il situation in Jackson do that very thing. The next month ple what she will not extend in good county. I rode out to the place, called on my faith to ours. Many Americans have The meeting closed with the singing hosts of my first visit, and we all spent op.med business houses in Japan, only of “The Star Spangled Banner,” the tlie evening together In the vacant bouse. I nsked permission to use the to be boycotted from the very first and audience joining with the club. premises for a few friends nt Christ finally ruined. ------------------------------ inns time, and It was granted, I had Again, many Americans have taken a special object in tills, which was to Further Submarine Troubles got tlie bereaved girl used to merry - stocks of goods to Japan only to b ruined. making there. 1 told my friends her A notable case was that of the man story nml that I proposed to make her Germany has brought her submarine who took the sewing machines to Yo- one of tlie party if possible. They all k ihama. He hired a store, displayed warfare to our very shores. It is the endeavored to make her forget her his goods, taught some people how the proximity that lends excitement to the grief, nml one night we iierauaded her machine worked and sold just one. He achievement itself. If the scene of to sleep In tlie house. | the raid had been in the Mediterran Tills did more than anything else to had no other customers for several break the lei* and before tlie party weeks and then awoke one morning to ean, the North sea or the English chan broke up she laid entirely thrown off see a store across the street filled with nel, it probably xould not have loomed tier abnormal condition. so large as a national embarrassment machines just like his, with the price When tlie spring opened l l egan my The fact that a German submar ne marked down 75 per cent. touring and never fulled to spend at had entered an American prt the day least one night In the vacant house Japan has made vast sums by the sale of war material to Russia during before the raid was made also accen Of course I always visited the owner. Yet It was my object to make her the cen the past two years. She has grown up tuates the entire occurrence. ter figure of my dreams when sitting a new army of soldiers since her war there is nothing extraordinary in the ia’fore the tiro the night I bad bur visit of a belligerent warship, nor are with Russia. She has a powerful fleet. we bound, at the behest of one bellig glarized her house. In tills I succeed To subdue her navy her ships must be erent or the other, to deny such visit ed, though I was a long while about ft. sunk; to subdue her army her soldiers At the cml of a courtship she consent must be killed. She professes great within the international rule, or to cre ed to lie my wife. There was a wed ate distinctions between one class of ding. mid she mid 1 are now occupy friendship for the United States. We warships and another. ing tlie house together. should return all those professions, nut Tlie place Is singularly pleasing to at the same time our heaviest fighting me. remembering how I came to occu What ’ s become of the old f i -ned ships should tie kept in the Pacific; our I py It permanently, and I think that na west coast defenses should be of the Democrat who u*>-d io be thanxmg turo lias kindly otoiter.ited from my God for Woodrow Wilson? best and a weather eye should always wife the sadness Hint once attached to be kept on Japan, for when she gets You can lead th» average one-cylin It. This has largely been accomplish all ready no diplomatic notes will stop der man to the eight-hour day, but y- u ed by the advent of children. her for a holy minute. can’t make him work. Republican Ticket We are ready to meet your demands and will do the very best we can to please you THE FIRST REPUBLI- CAN MEETING Held at Court House Thurs- day Afternoon ters Greatly In terested A FULL LINE 'of Fall Goods, Groceries, Grain and feed, Dry Goods and Notions- Right in quality, right in style, Right in price We sell Nurmi’s Butternut Pan-Dandy Bread Give us a trial. We will prove to you that in spite of all they say: “The World is Growing Better" Taylor-Williams Co The People's Store Phone 142 Oregon Jacksonville Start of ths Omnibus. Tile invention of omnibuses Is due to the philosopher I’ascal. who. in February. 1<»<>7, obtained a "privilege" or a patent for public carriives to travel through certain streets of Paris. They held eight passengers, who paid six sous each, and were very success ful, although un act of parliament of Paris forbade them being used by lack eys. soldiers and other humble folk. Pascal died In 1067. and Ills useful In vention did not long survive him. The omnibus reappeared in London about the beginning of the last century and was adopted in several French provin cial towns before Paris accepted it again. Pointer For the Preacher. Among the stories related by the late Rev. Dr. A. F. Pierson was one of a marble cutter, with chisel and ham mer. working a block of stone Into a statue. A preacher who was looking on said. “I wisli I could, on hearts of stone, deal such transforming blows!" "Perhaps you might,” was the work man's quiet answer, “if, like me. you worked on your knees."—Philadelphia Record Speedy Giraffes. The kangaroo, supposedly a fleet beast, covers but ten to fourteen feet a second. while the giraffe dashes along over fifty feet In (lie same time, and an ox attached to a wagon goes two feet a second. Sume spedes of hare run sixty feet a second, others not more than half so fast. Definition* of Man. Man has I teen deflnled l>y Aristotle as "a reasoning animal.” by Plato as "a political animal." by Dante as “a ridiculous animal." by Varciil and by John Fiske as "an Improvable animal." Boerlinve calls men “mud worked up bv the hand of God." Plenty of Time For Action. The police magistrates so often ad monish women complainants to come back and report any further wrong doing on the part of husbands who have been released that these Judges fall Into the habit of repenting the ad monition on every occasion In which a man nnd wife are concerned. The other day a woman told one of the magistrates that her husband bad threatened to kill her. “Very well, madam." said the magis trate mechanically, “very well: if he does, you come back and tell me. nnd I will punish lilm.” — Case and Com- ment. Orang Utan. The large anthropoids of Borneo and Sumatra are usually called orang ou tangs Th a form. It seems. Is not cor rect- Orang signifies man and outang of utnng. debt, something owing, so that orang outang would simply mean a man In debt The correct Malay name Is orang utan, or outmi. This signifies the forest man In distinction to orang dusuui. or Village (civilized) man. Key and Dragon. A big key. the symbol of St. Teter on the cupola of the church of St I'eter rpou-t’ornhlll. in L> udon. Is th ■ largest weathercock in the city Th ■ drngi n on Bow church. In tTicaps.de Is next tn size, being only a few Inches shorter Every Home can have a Musical Instrument Wonderful Values in Pianos, Player Pianos TM m I Coevo" Talking Machines, Etc We are known to carry only what is good, whnt will endure and what a is fully worth the price asked. Our 1 easy payment terms place the best musical instruments within every one's reach. Fill out the coupon or write for catalogues Sherman. ............... I Sherman .JOIay&Ca | 'O regon P ortland . ■SP*fSli- < Mom* . . The Telephone's *1 rout e Man.’* for Every telephone company Ims a BURNS, CUTS ‘trouble department, wlieie all com and WOUNDS plaints of bad service and defective equipment go. The men who ma kl Dannie Eucalyptus Olntmant i the repairs mid adjust meats are known at all druq storm as “trouble men.'' ami they have to lie T ubes 2sc jars 60 c not only expert workmen, but chaps of Intelligence a ad common sense, for lIley meet many problems that are not Electric Sparks set down in tlie books Thoughtless people can do many things to put u (From Off Our Wireless) telephone out of commission. and some of them are simple wet umbrella lean ed up ngiilnst the wiring in such a Counting the five congressional and way that it grounds the current and. | two-and one-half Woodrow Wilson's to of course, makes tlie phone useless In this particular case tlie umbrella ' a decade, we miy expect the three- remained where It ought not to have hour day by 1926. been while the owner of the pitot <• I: cl A railroad strike that would intro led and fl'Uied beennse he could nol duce the modern Boston family to a get central mid then went to a neigh bor's and called up Hie telephone com . fish diet, might not be such a calamity pany. When the "trouble mini" ar I after all. rived he saw ut otn e what tlie mutter The stay-at-home voter is the kind was and picked up the umbrella of ehap who hides down cellar when "Now call central. " lie suggested, mid his next door neighbor is being mur- the Irate patron got mi Immediate re , dered. sponse.—Leslie's Senator Penrose's reference to the Remarkable Reptile», Missouri baking powder case naturally During the time of dep< sition of the got a rise out of Senator Stone, clays constituting the .Morrison shale The hold-up men in Chicago who in southern Colorado there existed a great variety of remarkable reptiles of hand back to their victim half his mon huge size. Their bones, which are in ey, in response to his plea of “hard places abundant, are the remains of times.” must themselves be enjoying animals that were mired in the soft a prosperous season. clay of which Morrison formation Dahlias and gladioluses are admired largely consists. Some of these crea- tures, such as the brontosaurus, were more for their beauty than for the way sixty feet long Many of them had they are spelled. remarkably small heads, notably the According to Horace Johnson of Mid stegosaurus, which hail so diminu dle Haddam, Conn., the planets Venus tive a brain that it must have been and Mars are responsible for the “rain very stupid. This animal was un fog and untimely cold” of the Sum doubtedly very clumsy also, but Its huge size and protective armor aided mer. Evidently these star performers in its preservation -Geological Survey are now taking their annual vacation. Bulletin. Verily, all things with the exception of the war, come to an end, including According to Thoir Clothe*. even the "pig push” and the Russian "Girls will be girls." “That’s all right But some of the steam roller. older women seem to lie trying to edge When Congress has finished fixing Into the girl class." Kansas City Jour the wages of everybody in the country, nal. railroad presidents will have to run for Congress in order to earn a living for Bvcon and Garlio. In Wales the hedge garlic. or. as ft their families. Is more commonly called Ma k by the “The hopes of mankind cannot be hedge.” Is often fried with bacon kept alive by words merely’’ Wilson Good humor Is the health of the Boni at the birtholace of Lincoln. No won der America is suffering from spiritu sadness Its polaon.—Stanislaus, al malnutrition. ,
