¡■JACKSONVILLE POST-:
Historic Roumanian City.
Craiova, hi Itouinunia, wus the Cas-
tra Nova of tin* Romans during their
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville, Oregon
occupation of Dacia, und in the middle
uges the place pluyed uu Important
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jac'.o ■ n role. It was here that the Wallacbiaii
County, Oregon. D. W. B agshaw , Editor and Publisher
prince Mircea the Old defeated the
Turkish sultan P.u.tezld I in 1397. Two
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1907, at the post office at Jacksonvilh hundred years later the im st famous
of Wallach<a's chieftains. Mi. had the
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Brave, held away here us "ban," or
governor, afterward lemming prime
A4 TUR DA Y. JA NU A R Y fi. 1917
not only of Wulluehia. but of Moldavia
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on and Transylvania as i _'l. thus for a
brief period uniting u.*er one ruler
application.
the whole Roumnniun people.
The leu, which Is the standard of
value in Roumanla. was lust coined
in Craiova, it derives Its name from
the figure of a lion .stamped on the
early coins. Its value is equal to tlmi
of the French franc (19 cents ami a
fraction).
Craiova was for centuries the eapl
tai of Little Wallachia, that division
of tho country lying between the Alt
(Alutii) river and the Hungarian and
Serblun boundaries to the west.—But
letiu of tile National Geographic So-
defy.
New Tear Greetings
Again the Great Clock of Years has gone slowly
round the Dial Plate of Time and the gi'.ded hands
point to the figures 1917.
ECONOMY IN THE I EGISLATURE
IN THESE days of higher taxation there is an ex
cellent opportunity for the legislators of our state to
save many thousands of dollars to the taxpayers without
in the least decreasing the efficiency of government.
Will they do it, or was their pre-election utterances about
working for the interests of the people all bosh?
Keep
an eye on them and remember their actions for future
use.
ONE WAY of saving money without loss of effi
ciency is to consolidate some of the commissions:
for instance, Dairy and Food Commissioner and the
State Sealer of Weights and Measures should be under
one head.
Insurance, State Banks, and Corporations
could also be consolidated.
Educational Boards and
Regents could be cut out and one board of three men
could easily handle the educational work of the state
at a saving of two or three hundred thousand dollars.
Land boards and water commissioners could be consol
idated also, and so on along the line.
A million dol
lars could be saved to the people of the state without
the loss of one cent’s worth of serv ice and efficiency.
The opportunity is there, will they grasp it?
Fallacious Restrictive Policies
Northwestern brick layers, plaster
ers and stonecutters in convention at
Spokane decided to raise wages t . ?7 a
day for eight hours and pay and a half
for overtime,
Result of this will be to restrict the
building operations largely to lumber,
steel and concrete construction where
machinery is employed and machine
made material is used
Refusal of unions to allow young men
to learn trades at bricklaying, plaster
ing, stone cutting and similar trades
reduces numbers following these trades
to a minimum.
Stonerutting as a trade is becoming
extinct becanse unions have raise I wa
ges so high that artificial stone an 1
machine products take their place.
Present scale os wages in these I nil I
ing trades are $6 a day, and when de
mand exceeds supply as high as $7 t<>
$10 a day are paid.
Artificial and arbitrary demands for
higher wages restrict employment in
hundreds of smaller places and ranch
ers no longer have any brick or stone
building done. Pacific Coast Manufac-
t irer.
Merchant Drops Dead in Store
St. Helens, Jan. 3. —F. J. Based, a
merchant, of West St. Helens, dropped
dea 1 in his store Saturday af
ternoon wiiilu waiting on a customer.
Mr. Based had been a resident of St.
Helens for some years.
He leaves a
wife and seven children.
Fooling the Enemy.
Txmg Pen, a stage driver in the
southwest with a soft voice and a gen
tle disposition, but with several notch
es on the bundle of Ills revolver, is not
given to seeking trouble.
Not very long ago lie brought In n
200 pound salesman uml, the roads
being unusually rough, landed both him
nnd his trunk in rat her bad repair.
The more tlie traveling man thought
of It the madder lie got, and that night,
when he discovered how bls trunk luul
been wrecked, ills wrath boiled over,
mid he announced that In the morning
he Would bout that stage driver into
unconscious ugliness. He cot up early
atul paced the office of the t tel, aw ait
ing the nrrlval of Long Ben.
tine of the stage driver’s friends slip
pod over to the office of the livery stn
bio, where (lie latter slept, and tipped
him off.
“Say, Ben, that file eating pickle
salesman you brought In last night l.s
over there laying for you und is going
to knock your alleged head off as soon
Heavy Fail of Snow
as y ou go to breakfast.”
Ushers In New Year Rubbing ills cheek speculatively, lie
said In Ills peculiarly mild drawl. “I’ll
Hood River, Jan. 1.- The New Year Just fool that guy. I won’t go to
here was ushered in by a snow storm breakfast!”—Saturday Evening Post
Since midnight over four inches of the
snow has fallen. The temperature has
Futility of Arguments.
risen slightly and it is thought that the
As no men are created equal, nil ar
snowstorm will last throughout the guments, if indulged in. must be ear
rled ou either with superior persona or
day.
Inferior persons. Viewed in tills way.
the utter futility of all arguments be
comes apparent nt once.
Notice To Creditors
First, It Is futile, of course, to curry
on an argument with a superior per
son, because, being superior, he will
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF 1 HE STATE OF
have sip'll completo contempt for your
OREGON. FOR JACKSON COUNTY.
opinions that lie either will not listen
In the matter of the Administra
to you at all or else lie will listen with
tion of the estate of Henry
a patronizing smile and Immediately
Wendt, Sr., a deceased person.
dismiss from Ills mind wlrit you have
Notice is hereby given that the un to any ns no» worth consideration.
It is easily futile to argue with nn
dersigned, by an order of the County
Inferior person, for If you have any
Court of Jackson County, State of Or
thing to argue about worth the time
egon, heretofore duly made and entered of n mail of your stun.ling and mental
in the above entitled cour» and matter, capacity, then It is absurd to waste
has been appointed and now is the duly talk upon an Inferior being who will
appointed, qualified and acting Admin not l>e able to appreciate it. Thus are
istratrix of the estate of the above disputatious people isolated from the
world, und there Is no help for it.—
named decedent.
Al) creditors and persons having Life.
claims against said decedent or his es
Japanese Homes.
tate are hereby tequired and notified
“One last thing I should like to men
to present the same, with proper vou tlon," said the Japanese editor, "and
chers, to the undersigned, at her resi that Is our so called pride. I can re
dence at Jacksonville tn Jackson Coun ceive you here nt this club ns man to
ty, State of Oregon, within six months man. nnd we can talk freely. But the
ordinary Japanese home Is not fitted
from the date hereof.
Date hereof and of the first publica for intercourse with foreigners. Our
kitchens cannot prepare foreign food
tion hereof is December 23. 191»».
Our mattings are marred by tlie use of
M ary W fntt
tables ami cliulra. Our wives are not
Administratrix of the
accustomed to meeting strangers and
estate of Henry Wendt. Sr.
do not apeak foreign languages. Vis
H. K. Hanna
Itors are compelled to take off their
Attorney for estate.
shoos, and. If they lune holes In their
socks, that Is embarrassing for them.
Voder such conditions Intercourse has
been In tlie past rather difficult We
At A Prohibition Party
“Mother, you had better speak to do not like to accept hospitality with
out being able to reciprocate. Reci
father.”
procity Is h national trait of tlie Jiipn
“Why, my dear?”
uese.
We r»'s|M>n<l very quh kly to
"That’s his ninth glas of water and friendship or suspicion." May uard
ita beginning to make his nose white ” Owen Williams In Christiau Herald.
—Ex.
We take this opportunity to extend to our friends
and patrons our best wishes for a Happy 'and prosperous
New Year.
Soap an Antiseptic.
May 1917 be the best year of all: may its blessings
enter into .your vocations and extend to your family and
may health and good cheer be your lot during its every
day, and may we realize before its close that “The
World is Growing Better.”
Sincerely yours,
Some medical authorities, explaining
the abatement of epidemic diseases
In modern years, are sufficiently free
from professional ties to attribute this
betterment of conditions not to med-
leal science, but to the increased use
of soap and water. The Homeopathic
Envoy is of the opinion that with a
clean house and u dean person no one
need have much fear of infection. A
writer in the New York Medical Rec
ord says: “Soup Is now recognized to
be antiseptic and to be efficacious must
produce u lather. Bacteria rubbed Into
soap or dropped on Its surface are in
capable of multiplication. The typhoid
bacillus Is very sensitive to soap, being
killed by a 5 per cent solution In a
short Lime. More than half tlie total
number will die in one minute, Thu
thorough use of a pure potash soap is
uot only a mechanical method ofcleans
Ing, but is an active factor hi cutting
duwu germ life.”
Taylor- Williams Co.
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The People's Store
Phone 142
Th» Arabic Language.
Though the Arabs number less than
tho population of London, their lan
guage is one of the most widely spoken
and influential in the world, for it is
the language of the Koran. Seventy
millions of people In Asia and north
Africa speak some form of Arabic as
their vernacular, and quite as many
more know something of the language
from the Koran, which, in the original,
is a textbook In the day schools of the
Highest quality, jewelry
Mohammedans from Turkey to Afghan H
jl
repairing, diamond set-
istan and New Guinea. Nor Is Arabic I
unworthy of this extensive use. Renan,
after expressing his surprise that such
a language should spring from the des
ert regions of Arabia and reach perfec
tion in nomadic camps, declares that it I
l*ng. watch repairing,
surpasses all Its sister Semitic lan
'
agate mounting and jew
guages In i lehness of vocabulary, deli
* 74/ e‘ry manufacturing.
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Martin J. Reddy,
cacy of expression and the logic of
its grammatical construction.—London
. :-t:» I M il i St., VEI FORD. OREGON.
Chronicle.
CRACKED nnd
Jacksonville
Oregon
f
Sacred Scarabs,
The sacred scarab, or beetle, of
Egypt was the “tumble Insect." which
forms bits of manure Into n ball for
laying : Its eggs In. Two individuals,
male or
<
female, always roll tlie ball
together, and they do tills merely for
tho purpose of conveying It to a safe
place ami hiding It. This Insect was
regarded ns n symbol of the Creator
among the Hindus, from whom the
Idea pnssed Into Egypt The ball was
Imagined to represent the world be
I
cause It was round and was supposed
to be rolled all day from sunrise
sunset.
CHAPPED HANDS
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How Your Wants Are Filled
Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment
AT ALL ORUG STOhtS
TOBIS 25C
JAPS 50C
j
'. k C scís
J
I.t l-iXU.
Do you know that the merchants
in this town can fill every want of yours?
Convince yourself.
Read the home papers.
<5 You can get anything you need in
this town and at a reasonable price.
fot i«»va’.i:? I.io ho. >
l C¿LU kAlENT
t • get a part:.
nable miuriuaCu
The Other Fellow.
"Mother doesn't think she’ll
the theater witli us tonight. Albert.”
“Is that so? 1 have three tickets.
What shall I do with the third one?"
“Give It to the man you always go
out to see between the acts He can
alt with us, and you won't have to go
out to see him.”—Exchange.
He Told Her,
"Why did 1 ever leave home a nd
mother?" sobbed Ids wife.
"Chiefly because your family was too
stingy to take us In." lie answered bit
terly -Life
An Old Matter. Anyway.
Mias Man yearn—Yes, that was paint
ed of me when I was a little girl Colo
net Bunt Is it a Rubens or a item
brand! ?—London Opinion.
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+ PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
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4-
For Painful Feet.
Those who stand all day while
+ at work or those whose work
+ obliges them to walk a great deal
4- are ver.1, often sufferers from
pa infill a ffcct ions of t he feet. The
feet may be chafed and sore from
walking over long distances.
For tho abrasions, wrapping a
small piece of absorbent cotton
or clean linen ranked in castor
oil about the toe or heel or other
abraded part entirely removes
the pain and enables the sufferer
to resume his <v ilk >vo:> ,-om
fort
For the prevention ot sore teet
souk tlie upper» ut shoes or boots
with castor oil au<l pour h little
of this oil upon the feet, espe
cially between tho toes, ami then
put on the socks ami soaked
boots. Tills treatment is simple
ami inex|a-iisiv,> ami proves ben
eficiti I In eV»»' » ■ s» ■
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LAV/YERS,
lilagton, 0. C.
THE DOW HOSPITAL
Conducted by Doctors D >w
Surgical and Obstetrical
cases only, received.
Graduate Nurses only, employed.
1 atients received at any time.
What Would Stagger Them
A phi’osi ph r wrl<ii'g In the Milwau
Day and night telephone service.
kee Journal says:
Phone 341.
“It Is a .popular diversion to talk
about liow dunifonndcd our grandfa
thers would l>e by our tphones and
motorcars, nod so on. b it apparently
no one dares imagine what they would
OFFICES
think of the bills."
Dr. McM. M. Dow,
Physician and Surgeon
Went Too Far.
Dr.
Lydia
S.
Dow,
An unsttci e-sful lover was asked by
Osteopathic Physician.
what means he had lost the object of
Ills affections.
306-7 M. F. & H. Build'ng
"Alas," hr said. “I flattered her till
Medford Tel-phone 139,
she got too ; roud to speak to me!"
Medford. O'egon.
..... a
Central Point
Oregon
+
Drop In And
Order That
G'd-o
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Weather Report.
Following is the report of U. S. Vol
unteer Cooperative Observer, E. Britt;
Jacksonville, for month of
Dec.
Latitude 42 deg. 18. min. north; longi
tude 123 deg. 5 min. west.
I
1 Date Maximum Minimum Precipita
tion
1
52
33
48
39
2
.42
49
3
37
50
1 4
48
35
04
43
33
5
30
39
57
6
06
1 7
34
24
33
22
8
lil
24
34
9
19
33
28
10
32
24
11
29
24
12
30
25
13
33
17
14
35
19
15
33
20
16
39
20
17
36
22
18
42
33
19
15
37
48
20
42
33
21
16
37
28
22
19
36
24
23
65
35
27
24
68
35
27
25
33
26
26
Oti
33
25
27
31
31
15
28
20
7
29
30
11
30
27
33
25
31
4 07
Temperature —mean max. 36 61; mean
mir. 26 32; mean 31.46. Max 52. on 1,
Minimum, 7. on 20. Greatest daily
range, 10.
Total precipitation 4.07
inches. Greatest in 24 hours, .68 in.,
on
24. Number of days with 01.
inch or more precipitation, 15. clear,
3; partly cloudy, 1; cloudy, 27.
Precipitation for reason, 7.80
Pr< cipitation for last reason
E. B ritt ,
Cooperative Observer
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For first class baled hay call on W.
R. Sparks.