•. JACKSONVILLE POST
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A Woman’s
Official Paper of the Cilg of Jacksonville, Oregon
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson
County, Oregon. D. W. BAGSHAW, Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1007, at the post office at Jacksonville
Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3,«1879.
SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1017
By ET HD- HOLMES
M:
Miss Elinor Bates was preparing tier
trousseau for her marriage with Jack
SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on Weatherby when she received a note
application.
from him calling the affair off. He gave
no excuse, but Eliuor knew that lie hud
never been known to stick to one girl
for any length of time and felt sure
that she bad been replaced.
Miss Bates was a native of South
Carolina, but had spent ten of her
twenty years in the north, where she
bad imbibed the ideas of the new worn
an. Her grandfather bad fought a
duel, and in her family the code was
considered the only way of settling uu
pleasant affairs. These two conditions,
a belief in the light of an injured per
son to demand satisfaction from the
I I injurer and the elevation of women to
the privileges of men, decided her to
send a challenge to Mr. Weatherby.
Jack was dressing for dinner when
he received Elinor’s note, for she bad
not gone so far as to send a second,
and, laying it open on the dresser, read
it, finishing making a bow of his neck
tie at the same time. When lie had
It advertises home bargains, which are
finished both be lighted a cigarette
and, throwing himself into an easy
the best bargains.
chair, gave himself up to thought
Now, the reason for his breaking
It has all the home news and works for
with Elinor was that the income to
support her was to come from his fa
the home town all the time.
ther, who had agreed to give him $o,
000 a year, and he had at the last mo
ment changed his mind. Jack, think
ing that an explanation of this would
only serve to Irritate Elinor against his
Tillamook
Bay
Work
Is
It« Backbone Is a Spring.
father, chose another course.
The snapping bug lias a spring in
Jack, who did not consider that truth
Held
Too
Cosily.
his back like a knife. When not in
bad any' more place in love affairs than
use ns a spring it serves him as a
in a statement of a woman's age, re
backbone, so you see lie is a believer in
Washington, Ma-ch 7-Senator Cham plied to the challenge by saying that
scientific efficiency and makes one part
he had promised his mother that he
of bis machinery do the work of two. berlain has receiver an adverse report would never fight a duel. On this ac
from
Major
Fries
on
the
proposition
of
count he must decline to render Miss
His spring backbone, or backbone
spring, if you prefer, gives him power the improvement of Hogarten slough Bates what he must confess was her
to Jump, which I
i give;«Jiim Ills from Tillamook city to the head of na- right to demand and to receive.
When Elinor received this letter she
name. Nature pro
y gave aim the vigation on Tillamook bay. An appeal
spring to help Idin get on his feet when from the decision may be taken to tlie saw at once that her effort to punish
he's ou Ids back. You've noticed how board of rivers and harbors !n this city. her recreant lover had failed, Ilnd site
helpless some insects are when you The desired improvements would cost been a man she might'have published
him as a poltroon and a coward with
lay them on their backs. Not this one, $250,000.
effect, but should she do so as a wo
however. He slips Ids backbone out
man she would only make herself ridic
of Its groove and then slips it back
again suddenly. The spring pops Idm Hillsboro Farmer’s Wife Spends ulous. Nobody would blame him for
refusing to tight a woman.
up In the air; he turns a somersault
Women had horsewhipped men who
One Night In
'ail.
and drops right side up. Spring back-
had jilted them, and It seemed to Eli
bones are common In several other
nor that this would be the natural
beetles, remarks the Philadelphia
Hillsboro, Or., March 7—Mrs. Mar consequence in her case, it would be
North American. The beetle of the
pestiferous wireworm, which destroys ian Alexander, wife of Robert Alexan following in the course of men too.
the farmer's crops, has a spring In his der, a farmer near here, was arrested Men who had refused to tight men had
back, Other members of the family on Monday night and taken to jail on been horsewhipped by the challenger.
make their homes In trees or decayed the charge of assault and battery on But Elinor hoped by a threat to pro
duce results without taking such dras
wood.
her stepson, aged 14. She was releas tic measures. She wrote Jajk another
ed $1000 bail yesterday. Sne is accus note stating that she proposed to horse
A Good Shot.
Tbo town boaster was In n remlals- ed of throwing a kettle of hot water whip him the uext time she met him.
cent mood and for tbo benefit of the over the boy badly burning him. She This, she thought, would bring him to
crowd of young loafers gathered at claims that the boy is incorrigible and terms. There could be no greater
the village store had been recalling tlie the affair occurred while -lie' Was in dread for a man than to stand in the
stirring times on the first election day the act of correcting him, but this is face of a gathering crowd and receive
dressing from a woman. Miss Bates
after the war in the southern town denied by others. Mrs. Alexander spent a was
forced to admit that this was not
where he had lived.
one night in jail.
the same relative position as between
“Yes-sir ce. that was a hot time,'' be
two men, for Jack would not be priv
concluded ''They was a lot of shoot
ileged to strike back.
Enlisted Men to Be
in' took place. and 1 done my share of
Jack thought over this new phase of
it, 1 tell you Why, fellers, I shot and
the
case and made up his mind to
come
Officers.
shot until my old revolver Just felt hot
make
no reply. He dearly loved the
to my hands."
girl who was trying to punish him for
Turning to another old man who had
Washington, March 7 The war de a crime he had not committed and
come from the same southern town, he
partment
directed that between 5000 which pained him as much as it pain
said rather condescendingly: “Why.
.Ilin, you must
been there that duy. and 6t)00 enlisted men of the army be ed her.
Elinor provided herself with a whip.
How many times did you shoot?"
designated by regimental commanders She
endeavored to secure tlie tradi
Jim spat wirli deliberation, rolled Ids for commission as company officers in
tional "cowhide" that had been used
eyes reflectively ami answered: "Jes* whatever army may be raised. Orders by her ancestors on those who refused
once. 1 was right In the thick of it have been sent to each regiment to se
when the fight begun, uud I shot round lect 60 men who will be eligib'e for i | to light, but she failed to do so. How
the corner ami down Into a cellar."— commissions up to and including cap ever, she procured a good, stout whip
and slung it about her waist under her
Youth's Companion.
tains.
coat. She selected it on account of the
The designation of the men will be on color of Its handle, which harmonized
If Th«y Cov'.l Keep It Up.
There have been big men in Wall their military aptitude, not by examin with that of the costume she intended
street who did all the Work them ation. The department, as a precau to wear when she did the whipping.
To la' candid, Miss Bates shrank
selves. who attended to every minute tionary step, it was explained, desired
item, who were from Missouri In re to establish this list of men deemed lit from publicity as much as she pre
gard to each point hi any proposition for commissions by officers under whom sumed her recreant lover would shrink
put up to them. One of these marvels they have served. Presumably the un from It. In this she weakened. In
stead of waiting till she met him in a
was among the very greatest tlnati-
clera the country ever had. But he commissioned personnel will supply the crowd she went one morning to the
largest
number.
It
is
possible
that
a
Weatherby residence, which stood
didn't last long, and there have been
few others like him. If a man with similar list will be compiled among Na | back from the street and was partly
Entering the
the first order of brains and ability tional guard regiments. If a volunteer | hidden by shrubbery
could only keep it up there Is nothing army of any size were summoned to grounds, she concealed herself behind
to prevent his owning the United colors these men would be drafted for I foliage and waited for .lack to appear.
States. If E. II. Harriman could have training duty as officers of the volun Presently he emerged from a side door
kept on fifteen or twenty years longer teers
and was making his way to the garage
nt the pace he was going lie would
when Elinor pounced upon him.
have gobbled up all that was worth
Elinor had made a mistake in notify
taking. He had aliout all the rail
ing him of her intention to horsewhip
Playing of Patriotic Airs
roads In sight, and he was Just getting
him. It enabled him to prepare him
a stranglo hold on the big banks. He
self for the encounter. As soon ns she
Regulated By Law.
conquered every square foot of terri
began to rain blows upon him he drew
tory as he went along. There was no
from Ills pocket a yard of satin ribbon
force on earth to stop him except pre
Seattle. Wash., March 6-The city and returned blow for blow with IL
mature death, and now ho is nlmost corn cil yesterday passed an ordinance
Mr. Weatherby senior was in his ac
forgotten.—A. W. Atwood ill Saturday limiting the use of the American ting customed sent In the library reading
Evening Post.
in public theatrical performances and the morning paper when, henring the
requiring that both musicians and audi sound of Elinor’s whip on Jack's coat
Most Buoyant Wood.
and trousers, he looked out through
The lightest wood known, so far ns ence stand while “The Star-Spangled the window.
Banner
”
is
being
played.
The
use
of
any evidence attainable Is concerned.
Raising the sash, he watched the
Is balsa wood, which grows extensive the air in medleys played in theaters is fight for a few moment«, then cried
ly In the Central American and north forbidden. The use of the 11.ig merely < lit to be Informed what It meant.
ern South American states. It is com- as a means ot gaming applause is pro
Elinor ceased her blows and said:
t>osed of very thin walled cells, which hibited.
"Your son has treated me atom
are barrel shaped, interlace with each
■nably, and I am punishing him ns he
other and nre almost devoid of woody
deserves "
General Advanced 1o Take
fiber. These cells are filled with air,
"Jack, you young rascal. what does
making a natural structure well adapt
this mean?"
Funston's
Place.
ed to prevent the transmission of beat
"It means, father, that 1 couldn't
tiecause of the particles of air Impris
marry without the Income you prom-
oned In the material without intercon
Washington, Mnrchfi—President Wil fsed me. and really it was you and not
necting fibers. Various tests of the In
sulating pro|>ertiea for resisting the son tixiav nominated Hunter Liggett, I who is blamable If any one Is."
"H ili!" said the old man thoughtful
flow of beat have been made. Balsa now a brigadier general in the army,
wood has been used quite extensively as a major general to take the place ly. "How mtl. li was 1 o give you?"
"Five lhou«nml n year."
In the past as a buoyancy product for i made vacant by the recent death of
"Well, sir do your duty, ami 1'11 do
life preservers and lu connection with
the fenders of lifeboats and rafts, its Major General Frederick Funston Col- mine."
It was all made tip then and there
life Is short, under ordinary conditions, ' onel Francia J. Kernan, cf the 28th in
unless treated with antiseptic or pre | faotry, was advanced to the grade of • nd the settlement was made five mtn
Ute» before the wedding.
serratlve material,
brigadier general.
AVE your new Spring Suit made as you
want it end when YOU want it-from the
particular style and woolen you personally
choose-and tailored by
A Time Saver
oney Saver
A Public Servant
IS THE HOME PAPER
The finished clothes will be
delivered when you say tlie
w^rd and prices will be gen
uinely economical.
Cerne
in and
NOW
while
/ s
n e w
be
measured
our
assortment
and
compie t e.
TAYLOR WILLIAMS CO.
JACKSONVILLE
OREGON
: RICE a cor
Weather Report
Highest quality, jewelry
repairing, diamond set
Following is the report of U. S.
ting, watch repairing,
agate mounting and jew 1 unteer Cooperative Observer, E. Britt;
eiry manufacturing.
Jacksonville, for month of
Feb.
Martin J. Reddy,
Latitude42 deg. 18. min. north; longi
MEDFORD. OREGI
tude 123 deg. 5 min. west.
i X Home Trade
(JI.'T rx TO V.t
r-xALC
Date Maximum Minimum Precipita-
1
13
32
2
37
25
3
39
33
38
4
31
39
5
31
51
25
6
54
28
7
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■ ;mt l'iM OR t.C FEE
54
rFtADE*MARKS, <
H Opyiigi L» regià
26
8
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51
28
9
F.JEK REPC r.T 11
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54
10
35
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49
41
11
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55
12
42
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52
13
29
53
14
28
55
15
28
F'ATÙtlI' LAWYESS,
47
39
16
303 Seventh SE, V/ashinnton, 0. C.
43
27
17
42
29
18
40
26
19
39
29
20
38
29
21
41
29
22
34
28
>3
THE DOW HOSPITAL 24
36
30
40
28
25
Conducted by Doctors D. w
41
26
16
Surgical and Obstetrical
37
27
27
43
22
cases only, received. 28
29
Graduate Nurses only, employed.
to
1 atients received at any time.
31
Day ai d night telephone service.
Temperature—mean max. 44.07; mean
Phone 341.
mir. 28.92; mean 36.94. Max 55. on 12,
Central Point
Oregon Minimum, 13, on 1. Greatest daily
range, 28. Total precipitation 4.75
inches. Greatest in 24 hours, .96 in.,
on
25. Number of days with 01.
inch or more precipitation, 10. clear,
OFFICES
10; partly cloudy, 4; cloudy, 14.
Dr. McM. M. Dow,
Total snowfall 35 inches
Physician and Surgeon
Precipitation for season, 15.33
Dr. Lydia S. Dow,
Precipitation for last season 14.20
Osteopathic Physician.
Seasonal average 18.02
b
Join the HOME BOOSTERS
team.
This is YOUR TOWN.
BE NEIGHBORLY.
Let the HOME merchant fill
your needs.
♦ He can and will fill them
CHEAPLY as the out of town
merchants.
Reep that dollar of yours IM
THIS TOWN
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IT WILL COME BACK
TO YOU
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Before enact-ng a aw it might be
well to ascertain who would decline to
obey it even if it were on the books.
306-7 M. F. & H. Building
Medford Telephone 139,
Medford, O egon.
E. B ritt ,
Cooperative Observer.
Chilblains
Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment
AT ALL DRUG «TORIS
T ubes 25C
Drop In And
Order That
Warbound
Guarded
J ars 50 c
Steamers
at
Are
Colon.
San Diego, Cal., March 5—The tor
pedo boat destroyers Whipple, Trux
ton and Stewart, which sailed from
this port February 16, for an unnamed
destination, are guarding the war-bound
German steamers Grunew«ld, Prinz
Sigismund, Sachsenwald and Savoys,
at Colon, Panama, it was learned yes
terday. It is not known how long
the three warships will remain at Co-
: Ion.
Submarines of the M, N. and O.
groups, now under construction at Long
Beach, Cal., and Seattle, Wash., will
be permanently stationed at Baltoa,
Panama, according to word received in
naval circles here today.