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Jacksonville Post SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917. LOCAL NEWS Pat Swayne of Watkins was a visit or in town this week. Lee Port, the Forest Ranger, has purchased a Maxwell car. Tom Dunnington and wife of Medford were visiting in town Sunday. Miss Monda Helms has returned from a visit with friends at Grants Pass. Miss Anna Bland of Grants Pass has been visiting relatives in Jacksonville. E. L. Jones, a miner of the Blue Ledge district, was in town this week. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson of Medford were recent visitors in this city. C. E. Gates, newly elected mayor of Medford, was in town the first of the week Miss Barneta Johnson of Gold Hill visited friends in this city the first of the woek. Mrs. Pearl Hollingsworth and Mrs. Mamie Nelson returned from Klamath Falls Sunday. Monday, January 25, is the anniver sary of the birth of ex-president Wil liam McKinley. William Puhi, who is making quite a success of ranching near Gold Hill was in town Thursday. Mr. arid Mrs. R. G. Brophy of Eu gene are visiting friends near this city. They expect to remain several weeks. When you are hungry and in Med- fore, try the r.ice meals served by An na Coffman and Anna Hoxie at the Nash Caffeteria [Adv] T. J. Kenney left for Seattle the first i of the week. Later he will sail for Cordova, Alaska, where he has a posi tion awaiting him. Guy R. Harper is at Medford this week assisting accountant E. M. Wil- , eon, checking over the benefit assess ments levied o i city property. C. H. Owen of Talent and W. H. Johnson and R. D. Hines of this city j have incorporated the Southern Oregon ' Fruit Co., with a capital of $125,000. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Burrell of Alam eda, Cal. were looking over the valley ■ this week. They will buy land and )o- j cate here permanently if they find ! something to suit. Fred and Kenneth Puhi have passed ' the final examination for entrance into the U. S. Navy and have gone to San Francisco .where they will be given the usual training. Tom Kinney, Carl Hammond and Rov ! Watkins, charged with killing a sow belonging to A. M. Terrill of Lake Creek, were bound over to the grand jury by Justice Taylor at Medford Wed nesday. E. G. Harding, arrested by game; wardens Driscoll and Walker, charged with haviug fresh deer meat in his pos session, plead guilty, and was fined $25 and costs by Justice Taylor at Medford Wednesday. Benj. C. Sheldon, one of the Jackson ; county represtatives at Salem, has in troduced a bill in the legislature which will cut out the property qualifications required of voters for the election of school directors. Frank Hobart was given twenty-five days in the county jail for jumping a $10 board bill at Medford. The man was arrested at Grants Pass and then brought to Medford, where a hearing was held before Justice Taylor. The “bone dry” bill as amended by committee of the house, has been made a special order of business for Monday morning. A canvass of the members has been made and it is claimed that the bill will receive more than fifty of the sixty votes in the house. An em ergency clause is attached to the bill and it will become effective immediate ly upon receiving the signature of the governor. The first carload of ore from the Blue Ledge mine left here Wednesday even ing but was held up at Medford until Friday before being sent to the smelt er. The load weighs about thirty-five tons and was hauled here from the mine in wagons It is the plan of the management to follow up this ship- o ment with others as soon as the ore can be transported from the mine. When Bpring opens up it is proposed to supplement the horse teams with a line of auto trucks. Miss Gretchen Puhi gave a party Saturday night in honor of her broth ers Fred and Kenneth, who left the first of the week for Portland and San Francisco, where they will go in train ing for 6 months before joining the na vy. Music, both vocal and instrnmen- t d was indulged in and refreshments of ice cream and cake served. Those present were: Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Langley, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kitto, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wysong, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peachey, Misses Emma Wendt, Alice Hoefs, Lulu Williams, Edith Hoefs, and Messrs G. N. God- j ward, Dan Bagshaw, George Wendt, Chester Wendt, Fred Puhi, Kenneth Puhi and Herbert Davis and Charlie Porter of Ashland. C. E. Benedict wa.i a recent visitor at Medford. 1 John Buckley of Ruch was in to vn Wednesday. All work done in 1917 spot cash at W. R. Sparks. Chauncey Florey was a visitor at Medford Thursday. D. H. Cronemdler was a visitor at Medford Wednesday. Dan Moorehead of Watkins was a recent visitor in this city. Edward Smith of Coos Bay is a vis itor in the valley this week. Raymond Refer of Medford was in town several days this week. M. P. Olsen of Granada, Calif, was a business visitor in this city «Monday. Mrs. D. W. Bagshaw and daughter, Mary, were visitors at Medford, Friday afternon. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Port and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peachey visited relatives at Ashland Sunday. Harry Lewis of this city is meat cut ter at the Montague meat market, says the Messenger of that city. Mrs. Margarette Gordon, a pioneer of Southern Oregon, die? at her nom • in Medford, January 22, aged 82 years. She was a native of Pennsylvania and had lived in Jackson county since 1867. Members of the school board assure us that the reports mentioned in our last issue regarding the release of one of the teachers are incorrect: that the release or resignation had not been ask ed for and that the schools were pro gressing nicely. Chester Kubli'of Applegate whs in town Friday. Dan Ryan of Steamboat was a visit or in town this week. Leon Hanna transacted bn ness a’. .Medford Wednesday. Harry D. Mills of I'utte Falls was a recent visitor in this city. Mr. and Mrs W. H. Bowen were vis itors at Medford Wednesday. County Clerk Gardner was a business visitor at Medford Wednesday. Oliver Harbough transacted business at Medford Wednesday. Harley Hall of Medford was a busi ness visitor in this city Wednesday. A. T. Lundgren of Watkins is spend ing a few days in this city attending to business alfairs and visiting friends. James Thomason of Ashland was sen tenced Friday to serve thirty days in the county jail for killing deer out of season. The Ashland Normal School building may soon be used for a Training School, a bill ro that effect having been intro duced in the legi- lature Thursday. We note with pleasure that a consid erable improvement has been made in the Central Point Herald, in both typo graphical appearance and quantity of news matter. Keep it ut) brother. A team of horses, belonging to a man from Gold Hill, r in away, Friday mor ning, completely wrecking the buggy to which they hail been hitched. The team had been left standing on the street and took advantage of the driv er’s absence to create a little excite ment of its own. Semi-Tropical Southern California CALIFORNIA-with its oranges, its Win ter flowers, its beaches, its mountain re sorts, its time-stained missions, its^de- ligntful sunshine and out-of-door life— surely the call is irresistable in January. But a two days journey away on daily trains of the delightful SHASTA ROUTE Shasta Limited California Express San Francisco Express You can secure ticketf or complete information from any agent or write JOHN M. SCOTT. General Passenger Aient Portland, Oregon, SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES Everybody Get !n Line For Prosperity. S?ome Patronage Will Doh If you spend your money with your neighbor he’ll spend his with you. The ads. in your home paper will tell you how to spend it- judiciously. BOOST FOR HOME TRADE AND PROSPERITY CITY DRUG & GIFT STORE Fine Christmas Novelties! suitable for »gifts for young and old. Purses, Box stationery, foilet articles, Xmas and New Year’s cards, Perfumery, Books, etc. Call and see our stock. Holiday Greetings to All J. W.Robinson, M. D., Proprietor Jacksonville Oregon HUC- fil ai L’3 pul i :-ic:l 1.1 i r? Ik. .11 Writer. The e are i,-> 1 s . n :' f -.:!y satis«':. to y variuilo1« a “a <•«• led" to “yowled." The ; ,1.« ,:e.' it’ tlie Lar no longer need s y that lie Is Innocent. lie «an babble it or bawl it or blurt it or breathe It, to use but one letter of the alphabet. The vindictive district at torney can 1 ark his questions. the law yer for the defense can boom bls ob jections, th«' sp« tutors may either bris tle their Indignant pn test or blubber their sympathy. But the merit of such a list is not siti.ply tli.it it facilitates the management of dialogue. A thorough study of the 385 s« l.stitntcs for "said” will easily suggest the plot and the eluirai IcrL.ati 'ii that mu; t precede dia logue. The letter C hi Itself is a com pendium of plot and a gallery of por traits. Given somebody who eaclil- nates, another who chuckles, another who co«>s, another who croons, an other who challenges, another who con- f«.-. os and minor characters who cry, croak, commune ami cut in, and It is plain that we have a s enario almost ready made.—New York Post. Tns History o' a Back. Following is th«? stoi. of the first edi tion of Fitzgerald's «■«>!« ' rate 1 transla tion o’ < »I«,.: r Kin ; . ■ The bo k was Issued anonymously ami found m> buyers. A« ordlngly tho aullii r went to Bcrr.anl Quarltihs shop, dropp'd n heavy parcel of 200 ■oples of th«' "Itul niynt” ami sai l. ’ Qiiiirll« li, 1 make y< u a i resent of these books.” Th«' fam ms Ixvikseller off«'red them first ill half a crown, then nt a shilling, uml. again descending, at sixpence, but :to buy« rs came. In despair lie r 'du«*ed the book I > a penny a id put copies Into II I k X outside Ids door with a tick et. “All ilit' e are 1 penny each.” At tint price the pamphlet moved. In n few weeks tlm lot was sold, ami In this way one of «> 1 Tost gems of English literature was dl.-pet ~c«l among a not overiliseernlng public. Th«' legend has it that Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne ami Burton were among thbse who dis-overeil the “hid den treasure in the penny box." Years passed, uml the om e dcspis d volume ro.-e In the market, and in 1898 Qua- rit'. h bought in for £21 a copy which forty yours before ho had sold for a penny.—London S| ectutor. Crops la Colo* ado Damag ed Nearly Million Col lars By Disease Fests CorvalFs, Jar. 2.'. \\’there si'fir beet factory in em tetftl op, ration in southern Or gon at «1 a very g.rural feeling that the industry may well be extended, growers are quite naturally anxious to receive protection from plant di.-e «sea that have seriously hm deep- pel and almost wrecked th'- industry in other states .is can be h.'d by care ful and systematic pre autmns. They are looking to the State Experiment Station which is well equipped at the present time witn men to carry on the research work but s i Uy lacking in mon ey since the working appropriatior s were cut off by the legislature. Oregon growers have called at tent’on to the fact that in Colormlo in 1915 the loss due to sugar beet di«e rse was $880,1)00. Quite naturally they aie anxious to avoid a loss of this nr:ure, since the only hope of establishing a oerrnanent and successful imlus ry in the sugar beet business lies in el.mill- ating al! unfavorable elements possible and bringing al) existing agencies inn reasonable support of the new under taking. ----- ——t »• ■ ■ Located the Bodies. As a means of locating the bodies of four United States soldiers who Wonderful Carving. were accidentally drowned in the lilo Dr. refer Oliver, who lived In Eng Grande recently an unusual experi land during tlie early part of the eight ment was tried and proved successful. eenth century, tells of seeing a carved A hat was thrown Into the water ut cherry stone which would be a wonder tlie point where the men had last been even in thia age of tine tools ami fine seen and "as followed downstream workmanship. The stone was one Until, after traveling about five miles from a common cherry, and upon it from the seen;' of the accident, It came were carved the heads of 121 pojies, to an edd.v where it moved about slow kings, queens, emperors, saints, etc. ly for some time. This gave the search Small as they must necessarily have • ers what they thought might be a clew, been, it Is announced on the authority ami, following a practice frequently of Professor Oliver flint with a good used in searching for bodies, a charge Us?s Aitopiars Engine glass the heads of the popes ami kings of dynamite was exploded nt the point could readily be distinguished from where the progress of the hat hail In His f ishing Beat those of the queens and saints by their ceased. Immediately the bodies came Roseburg’J an. 24. —Hugh Pearson, miters anil crowns. The gentleman : to the surface. wlio brought this little wonder to Eng i The explanation of the experiment a Winchester fisherman, has | urchaacd land purchased it in Prussia, allowing is that the Itlo Grande in this region an aero enfiine for trolling. This dev tho original owner £5,000 for Ids treas j is tortuous and bus many eddies. The ice uses a small airplane propeller for ure. Think of It—$25,000 foy a cherry ■ searchers rightly ussumed that the motive power, causing less disturbance bodies would la- enrried downstream sceil 1 ■ until they came to an eddy, which in in the water than either oars or screw I this instance was indicated by the re- propeller. Something In This. ---------- »3) 1 “You women nro always spending ' tardeil progress of die hat.—St. Louis | Republic. Recdü Measure Passes S.na'e money for preparations to make your- selves better looking,” growled Mr. Our First National Road. Twobble. The first of our great national roads Salem, Jan. 24.—The efforts of O. “I guess that's true, my dear,” re was th«' Cumberland road, which ran ¡M. l’lummer, school director of Port- plied Mrs. Twobble sweetly. "Now, you hardly ever see a man from the Potomac to the Mississippi. i land, to stay the passage of Senator Starting from Cumberland, Md., it ran doing that." Eddy’s senate bill No. 95 providing l'cr "No, because ninety-nine out of a west through Marylnnd, Pennsylvania, the recall of school directors in districts hundred realize that the quest of beau- Ohio, Indiana anil Illinois to its ter ty is hopeless.”—Birmingham Age-Her minal point at the Mississippi opposite of the first class, were unsuccessful St. I.ouls. It was built by tlie United this morning and the measure passed ald. States government under the supervi the senate by a vote of 21 to 9. sion of the war department. In order “When the recall method was adopt Old Time Prices. to secure funds for the constant repairs ed by tlie people the school directors When we uro told that 100 years ago i a dollar bought ten dozen eggs or throe necessary congress passed n bill in 1822 were not taken into consideration. This bushels of potatoes wo picture to our- ordering tlie establishment of turn seems an unimportant position,” said I selves a perfect stato of society. Then pikes, wftli gates and tolls, but Presi i Senator Eddy, “but it is not. When I wo learn that tho snmo dollar paid n dent Monrce vetoed the bill on the (lireclors are found incompetent they num for two days’ haril work on tho ground that congress bail no power to ! should be recalled the same as other 1 farm, and wo realize that the former puss such a sweeping measure of in ■ generation had its own problems.— ternal Improvement. Two years later ; officials who fail properly to perform j lie signed a somewhat similar bill, anil their duties.” Youth’s Companion. the road reeelveil the needed appropria According to th«? bill a recall can be tion. The last appropriation was made demanded after a petition signed by le Great Coal Seam. by congress In 1844. Parts of tlie old gal voters representing 25 per cent of Beneath the city of Sydney, New road are still in use. the children of the district is presented South Wales, Is a vast coal seam which extends 100 miles north and the to the school clerk. Europe's Longest Dam. same distance In a westerly and south The largest dam In Europe Is in erly direction. The seam varies from Spain and is the result of American four to thirty feet, and the depth runs from the surface outcrop to 2,000 feet engineering. It is built across the chasm through which the Noguera Pal- deep. laresa river flowed and Is situated near ill«' ohl fortified town of Talarn. Abut More Advanced. nelter — Have you a book calle«! ting on utmost perpendicular cliffs, the "How to Acquire a Good Carriage?” «lam Is constructed of concrete ami Clerk — No. sir, but here is “Seven measures 3.30 feet In height and 700 Ways to Obtain an Automobile.”—To feet In length. It forms an artificial lake fifteen miles long anil nearly’ four ledo Blade. Notice To Creditors miles wide. Its object is twofold pro duction of electric power ami for lrrl An Artist. Sue—You s:lil you were going to gating. The cement used In the con In the matter of the estate of marry an artist, and now you're en- struetlon of the dam was made on the Olaf Rye BjerregaarJ, decease«! gaged to a dentist. I’lo—Well, Isn't spot from linn stone and marl found Notice is hereby given, that the un ho an artist? He draws from real within a short distance anil transport dersigned, Geo. R. Lindley, has been «■d by a temporary railroad. life. duly appoint««! executor of the estate of Olaf Rye Bjerregaard, oeceased, and Those Youngsters! Both Alike. notice is hereby given that any arid all Little Bobby — Don ’ t you want to take Friend—Honestly, old chap, I can’t make anything out of your poems. me to the toboggan slid«1 with you persons having claims against said es Poet—That's my trouble too.—Boston some «lay, Mr. Jinks? Mr. Jinks—I tate may present them with the proper never go to uny toboggan slide, Bobby: vouchers, within six months from the Globe. never saw a tolsiggan. Bobby in trifle «late of the first publieati in of this no nonplused)—That's funny. I beard pa tice, which first publication is on the + say something about your going down 27th, rlay of January, A. D. 1917, to PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. <> hill nt a furious rate. — Pittsburgh to the said executor at his office in the Chronicle-Telegraph. Jackson County Bank, in the city of Pimples. ❖ Medford, or at the office of his attorn Sure, Don't Intorrupt. The story of pimples and how ♦ “3Vhat right nave you to object to ey, H. A. Canaday, at 216 East Main not to have them is a short one « to relate, but to put Into prac * the question that lawyer naked me? Street, Medford, Jackson County, Ore tice anil accomplish results Is ■J* You don't know what 1 was going to gon. quite another story. It is diffl- * answer,” a witness In n damage suit Dated January 27th, A. D. 1917. cult, first, because people who ♦ In the court of a Justice of tlie pence G eo . R. L ini ley . have pimples want to get rid of ♦ replied when one attorney objected to Executor. a «prestimi asked tin 1 witness by the them without paying the price ❖ of removing the cause, They ♦ other attorney.- Indianapolis News. want to get sonn thing for noth * Al The Churches ing and would rather s|iend sums ♦ Not a Dancer. of money to have them removed ♦ P resbyterian Mistress -Farah, I don't believe flint with nasty medicine, If It were <• I have given a dance aim■<■ you've been Albert H. Gammons. Minister possible, than go almut it In a, in my service, but do you think you Sunday Services regularly as follows: the only natural and possible V could make yourself useful? Sarah— way. Another reason why It is ♦ Well. mum. I you see. 1 ain't never 10:00 A. M. Sabbath School Classes difficult for most people to re a, took dancin' lesions In all my life — for all ages. move pimples Is that It demands Boston Transcript. 11:00 A. M. Morning worship, wi ll a change of not a few of their ♦ ■ sermon. living habits the eating of can ♦ Publicity Work. 6:15 P. M. Christian Endeavor Pray dles, meats and heavy foods ♦ Kathryn Of corinm this dory about er meeting. without drinking sufficient wa ♦ Kate Is Jll 4 I «'tween ns two. I'itt-.e 7:30 P. M Evening worship, with ter ami taking plenty of exer A Sure! Ami lietween us two It ought cise. In other words, they would ♦ 0» get a pretty wide clrculatfon.- sermon. rather eat candy and loll around ♦ Puck. Prayer meeting on Wednesday even with pimples than word hard, ♦ ing at 7:30. Handicapped. get sweaty perhaps and keep ♦ Everyone welcome to these meetings. “Why don’t you look around for the skin rubbed «lean. Pimples ♦ “I was glad when they said unto me hare rightly been called Indi ♦ woi It?" "Can't: I’ve got n sHIT neck." Ex let us go into the the house of the gestion bumps. They follow th«- ♦ , Lord.—Pa. 122:1. eating of rich. heavy fowls and ♦ change. sweets ami are an Indication of ♦ We r< luce life to Hie [lettlness of an inactive life plus on indul ♦ CHRISTIAN SCIENl't-: ♦ III- «1 ill; living. We s' it'd exalt our gent appetite. ♦ li in.- to the grandeur of life. Phillips Services held every Sunday mornil g Brooks. at 11 o’clock in I. O. O. F. Hall. 9 * Everybcxiy welcome.