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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1917)
Jacksonville Post SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1917 LOCAL NEWS The last half of the 1916 taxas will be due Oct. 5th. John Broad brought in a fine buck the first ot the week. Gus Newbury of Meclfotd was a visitor in this city Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Caudill visited friends at Gold Hill Sunday. Harry D. Mills of Butte Falls was a recent visitor inVhis city. Chester Kubli of Applegate was a visitor ip this city Thursday. Jackson County Fair opens at Med ford next Tuesday. Don’t miss it. Martin Johnson of Gold Hili was a resent business visitor n this citv. W. R. McLoud of Prospect was a business visitor in this city Tueaday. Ths next year’s reunion of Southern Oregon Pioneers will be held in this city. Born—Tuesday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hutchinson of Gold Hill. a son. Mrs. M. Dunnington and Mrs. W. E. Finney returned from the Siskiyou? Monday. R. D. Hines and H. K. Hanna made a business trip to Medford Friday afternoon. Ro.v Ulrich and John Dunnington left Thursday morning on a trip ts Wagner Butte. Mrs. J. C. Whipp, a Krmer res idei t of this city, is visiting her sister Mrs. Kate Hoffman. Attorney H. A. Canaday of Medford transacted legal business in this city Monday forenoon. A Western Electric Farm lighting plant will be on exhibition at the county fair next week. Light showers fell this week—enough to lay the dust for a time and clear the atmosphere of smoke. The Medford school board has ordered 150 tons of coal for heating the schools the coming winter. Miss. Lula Williams who has been visiting relatives at Astoria for two months returned home Monday. Mrs. O’Leary of Rogue River was adjudged insane by Judge Tou Velle, Tuesday and committed to the insane asylum at Salem. George Cope, arrested for stealing a bicycle at Phoenix, was found guilty in the justice court and sentencad to sixty days in jail. Today is “Registration Dav” for the women of Oregon. The place of reg istration here is at the City Hall. Mrs. Fred Fick is in charge. Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Struckman of Solano, Ohio, are here visiting Judge and Mrs. TouVelle of this city. Mrs. Struckman is a sister of Mrs. TouVelle. An election upon application to organize an irrigation district is held in the valley today, Only those owning property within the proposed districts can vote. Miss Van Horn of Paris. Cal. arrived Tuesday and is visiting her sister Mrs. D. H. Lacy. She will attend the high school during the ensuing tenm. W. P. Chisholm and Charles Kell of Gold Hill, were arrested on the Pacific Highway Saturday night, for trans porting liquor into Oregon, and were fined $50 and costs. The Soldiers and Sailors held their annual reunion at Ashland this week. Lieut. Colonel Renault ar.d Enos Conger of thia citv attended a couple of days. About 75 sold.ers were present. Mayor Britt, Miss Britt, Mrs. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Bagshaw enjoyeu a delightful auto trip through |the east side of the valley and over the Siskiyou highway to the top of the mountain and return Sunday, Tueslay was Pioneers' day at Ash land and a go icily number of the older residents and a few of the younger ones also went over to assist at the celebration. An excellent program and an appetizing lunch were features of the day. It seems that some dissatisfaction was evident among the veterans who attended the Soldiers and Sailors’ re union at Ashland this week by the failure to contribute the amount promised by residents of that city for the entertainment of the veterans. A man named George Hill was arrested on train 16, at Ashland Wed nesday evening, with-23 quarts of whiskey in his possession. He was given a hearing Thursday, plead guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $2.50 and to serve three months in jail. He is now in the county jail. M. P. Davis, a prospector who had a cabin on Palmer creek, was found dead in his bed last Friday by a rancher who had been hunting cattle in that vicinity. The appearance of the boly indicated that he had been dead several days when found. The body was shipped Sunday night to Eldorado. Cal., where relatives reside. W. A. Smith of Ruch was a recent visitor in this city. Old Baker Resident Dead (From Off Our Wireless) A. W. Walker of Medford was a Baker, Or., Sept. 13.-B. F. Dick T1 ere is no chance now of sen ling recent visitor in this city. erson, a resident of this city f< r 30 over a peace ship. The su1 marines W. C. Leever of Central Point was a years, died yesterday after a long illi'cs wo aid torpedo it without mercy. recent visitor in this city. aged 53 years. His wide v and two A large n t.nber of Austrians a-e J. F. Rocho of Ashland was a busi daughters survive. He was a knight beginning to wood r what the German of Pythias. ness visitor in this city Monday. crown princ>* is to them. H. H. Startzman, an attorney of Mr Root says that Americans have Seattle, was a visitor in town this War Bond Bill is Reported both fvet on the ground. And they are I week. Favorably not cold feet, either. The Presbyterian Sunday ’school Where there is so much fire let there held its annual picnic at Ashland, | be a little smoke for the soldiers in the Thursday. I Washington, Sept. 12,— After only trenches. Attorney B. F. Piatt of MedfoH Itwo d°ys c?ll81deration’ whitfh re,8ulted It is no longer the mantle of st iler- transacted business in this citv Mon-j’n » few minor changes, t'le $li.OO9.- manship that descends t'lotn one man day forenoon | 000,00*4 war bond bill was reported to to another in Germany: it is the gas I ,, ... the senate today with the unanimous j mask. W. indorsement . , ,,,, Mrs. . P. J. . Hickens „ , , and _ . Mrs. . ot the finance committee, rhornbrew of Central Point were The measure already passed the house. -A ‘ visitors in this city Wedresday morn- 1 Senate consideration of the bill will African Elephants. ing. Nearly every one has seen an ele I begin tomorrow with virtually no The thanks of the Post family are opposition and its passage .is expected phant. mid nearly every one Imagines lie knows what one looka like Bui due to our old friend, James McLaren, not later than Saturday. Ibis popular Impress mi mid must of for a basket of tine peaches grown at i the beliefs about Hie elephant are er his residence on the Applegate road. ! County Clerk’s Office More roueous. W. R. Lykin of Grants Pass has been In the Hist place, the elephants we arrested on a charge of seditious Than Pays Its Way nee here In America are Indian ele utterances against the government ¡•limits They are undersized, even the largest of them. of the United States and its officers. St. Helens, Or., Sept. 13.—The re A lull grown African elepbaut is The suit of Mrs. Josie Stansell for nearly three times the size of Jumlio port of County Clerk Barnett rendered divorce from her husband, Leslie W. which was Hie largest elephant ever Stansell, eaine up for hearing in the September 1 shows that the office is on brought to Anierin “I have.” said a an circuit court Friday afternoon. Af’er a paying basis instead of being For the eight hunter, "shot several specimens which hearing the evidence for the plaintiff expense to the county, stood over thirteen ieet and which months receipts were $2853.93 and weighed at least twice as much as the court held the matter in abeyance pending the filing of an amended disbursements $2555.54 leaving a profit Jumbo. “Next Io I he monkey, the elephant Is complaint asking for larger alimony. of 280.39. The disbursements include salaries, office fixtures and supplies the wisest and most Intelligent of all a considerable amount of the ex animals. I am not saying tills of the Curry County Does Not Call and pense incureed on account of the war domesticated Indian elephant. but of the Alihan elephant in his native state draft and exemption board service. Circuit Jury And the African elephant Is always a —--------- *<>’• • ■ ■— - huge, wild beast lie is never domesti The Russian men will have to be cated.” Gold Beach, Or.. Sept. 13.— Although fine soldiers indeed to be worthy of Curry county, ordinarily has but one Uses For Alcohol. the girls who are fighting in the jury term of circuit court per year, it I Speaking of the little known uses of Battalion of Death. was not found necessary at the last alcohol, n recent writer says that few Ordinarily a fight temporarily stops | men who wear the so called "derby’ session held the first Monday in Sept ember to call any jury at all. This is the argument; but not in the case of hut know that its stiffness is due to a gum that la dissolved in uleohol a reeord never before made in the the present war. Have you a little food bill in vour Transparent soap owes Its transparen connty and probably not In the entire cy to uleohol. The Increasing demand house? state of Oregon. for leather mid the inability of the market to meet this demand from nat ural sources Inive led to the produc tion of artiticial substitutes for the ma terial. These are possible through tile use of alcohol. The same is to be said of the artificial silk that now (inds a large and increasing sale Alcohol Is a practically indispensable servant in the varnish used on woodwork. It is used in preservatives, in disinfectants, deodorants and shoe polishes. In dyes and in lacquers und in a long list of chemicals with more or less unfamil iar names. One of Its important uses SEPTEMBER 24 - 29 is tn the manufacture of smokeless gunpowder and other explosives. OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM Agricultural Exhibits, Grand Live Stock Parade, Harness and Saddle Horses, Running and Trottihg Races Hogs, Cattle and Poultry, Farm Machinery Exhibits, Portland Day, Salem Day, Scandinavian Day, Reformation Day and many other special events. Something of in terest every minute. LOW ROUND TRIP FARES on sale September 20th to 29th from all points in Oregon. Final return limit October 3rd. All Train» direct to Fair Grounds. Ask your local agent for particulars John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES ECONOMIC and MILITARY PREPAREDNESS THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON In addition to complete courses in general and scientific education, offers full opportunities in MILITARY ORILL, DOMESTIC SCIENCE ARTS AND COMMERCE Plan for effective future service. Your country needs it. Send for free ¡Bustrated booklets,“Train the Brain for Peace or War” and “The Woman and the University.“ Address Registrar, UNIVERSITY OF GSEGON, Euosne. OreQon CITY DRUG & GIFT STORE Gem Razors & Blades, Ever Ready Razors & Blades Fine Toilet Goods, Violin Strings, " Box Paper—Correspondence cards Ladies’ Handbags at cost De Luxe Tooth Paste, 20c per tube. J. W.Robinson, M. D., Proprietor Jacksonville - Oregon. Real Estate Ads. Elect/ ic Sparks AN EPISODE ( EfHESOUTH t’v I A".8 r.RAlNAi’D FOR SALE The McLaren property on Applet ate road. Good small hotwe and necessary o îtbuÜJinrs, chicken park. etc. A mini) r of fi:r- fruit trees bearing excellent fruit. Will be sold at a ba gain. Apply at (be premia* oi at office ot Jacks »nviil** Post. In nuleb'linm lines Ed'.'.ir I'orsytlie. villi: i mu from the iioith, and bls The G jvernment needs Far n as • ter licltli. orphans, settled in Loulsi- well a. Fighters. Two million three Ul.l Edgar I’orsytlie had recently been hundred’housand acres of Dcj-jon & ir.idu.itcd limn a law si-ho I.so he hung C ilifoinia Railroad Co. Grant Lands. mt liis shingle us an attorney. Ilis Title revested in Ui’ite i elates. To lister, who was uu accomplished rnusl- , be op ne I for horn steads ar.d s tie. inn. taugilt music Between the two Containing some of best land left in United States. Large Copyrighted they made a modest living. tine day Arnold lai Fltte, a man of Map. showing land by sections and des the older Louisiana type, called upon cription of soil, cii nate, rainfall, ele- lid nr I'orsytlie mid employed him to vati ms, temperature etc., hv c »unties. collect n debt from Antoine De Four. Postpaid One Dollar, (¡rant Lands Lo l'lie amount was $25 and was of very cating Co. Box (P0 Portland, Oregon. long stunning. Now, He Font- had taken a fancy to Edith Forsythe and was beginning to At The Churches show Ills liking when her brother P resbyterian called upon him, stated tlmt a note of liis lind been placed In his hands for 5^ Albert H. Gammons. Minister collection and asked him when it Sunday Services regularly as follows: would be convenient to pay it. De 10:00 A. M. Sabbath School Classes Four colored, looked hard at the note which Forsythe handed him and said for all ages. lhut he would pay It the next day. 11:00 A. M. Morning "worship, with In those days dueling was a protec sermon. tion for till kinds of knavery, lie Four 6:45 P. M. Christian En.leav >r Pray was u file eater, and La lilte laid hes er meeting. itated to press him for payment for 7:30 P. M. Evening]-worship,’ with fear of offending him. lie Four went to Lu Fltte mid asked him why lie had sermon. Prayer meeting on Wednesday even insulted him by placing the note in the hands of u lawyer. La Fltte apolo ing at 7:30. gized lor doing so and said that he Everyone welcome to these meetings. would withdraw the order for collec “I was glad when they said unto me tion. Instead of doing so lie took a let us go into the the house of the steamboat Hint passed early the next day tor New Orleans, tints getting out Lord.—Pa. 122:1. of Hie tire eater’s way and leaving the lawyer to bear the brunt of De Four’s CHRISTIAN SCIENCE displeasure. The day after tlie first demand Edgar Services held every Sunday morning made a second one. Tills tilin' lie Four at 11 o’clock in I. O. O. F. Hall. was very wroth)’, lie told Edgar that Every bod v welcome. lie had seen La Fltte and the matter was between creditor mid debtor and there was no occasion lor a lawyer to meddle with it Edgar told him that be had been employed to collect the money due on the note and If it was not paid by a ceilnin date lie would site for It De Four was very angry and replied that if Edgar sued or bothered him ngain about the matter lie would consider it a personal insult. One reason fin lie Four’s displeasure was that tills second demand was made In presence of several of De Four’s 11 lends This w as unfortunate, for it compelled him to make good Ills threat The day after the suit bail been en tert'il I>e Four called on Edith Forsy the and stated to lie:- the position in wliicli lie was placed slid begged her to per shade Iler brother to withdraw the Sirius and the Dog Daye. suit before it should be known, prom POLK’S The dog days are reckoned abdut fsing to settle the matter out of court OREGON and WASHINGTON forty and are set down in the almauac ns mooii as this h id been done. as beginning on July 3 and ending Aug When Editin' camo home Ills sls(m Business Directory 11. In tlie time of the ancient astron said nothing about tlie »v’slt of De omers the remarkable star Sirius, cull l our, but urged him to attend to some f A Directory of each City, Town and villas I 'i>!' th riptlva akatcli <»f ed also Canicula, or the dog star, rose law business Hint Had been put Into liis J S each place, location, population, tele- lielincally—that is, just before tlie sun hands requiring n visit to Hie county 1 graph, shipping and banking point; —about the beginning of July, and tlie sent. He consented mid left early the J also (’liissiflod Directory, compiled by sultry heat which usually prevails at next morning Sunn after Ills depar a business and profession. :. I. POLK & CO.. SEATTLE that season, with all its disagreeable ture Edith sent word to lie Foil:- Hull 4. effects, among which tlio tendency of her brother would not witlidraif the • ‘¿dHOOHB dogs to become mad is not one of the suit. " least disagreeable, was ascribed to the lie Four hoping to accomplish by 1 FOR malignant rays of the star. Owing to threat wlnit lie Imd failed to effect by | the precession of tlio equinoxes the persuasion. biclosed a chrtlleiige to Ld BURNS, CUTS heliacal rising of Sirius now takes gai in a note to h.s sister, stating thill and WOUNDS place inter In tlie year and In a cooler Ills action gave him ln< oiicciviible palli. season, so that tlie "dog days” have but thill liis word had passed belore o Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment not now that relation to the particular witnesses and if lie did not make goo I position of the dog star from which he would be considered henceforth us n T ubes 25 c jars soc they obtained their name. poltroon. -------- — - ............... - lie Four was surprised mid annoyed Travel. We hope that this major league w. r to receive mi acceptance of Ids chal All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits lietter countries he lenge. It was purported to have been will not be followed by a world's may, learn to improve Ids own, and If written by Edgar, but had been forged series. fortune carries him to worse lie may by Ids sister. There was nothing lor America is much more intereted in It now but to light. De Four sent a learn to enjoy Ills own.--Johnson friend to the Forsythe home to make ■‘proper peace terms” than in the war arrangements for Hie meeting, mid lie termination. Sensitive. The world is weary of the war but it. Dentist—We must kill the nerve of was Instructed Io protest on the part that tooth. I’atient Then I will go out | of the challenger against It, stating is even more weary <4 tlie Kaisers wh > of the room. I’m loo tender hearted to that lie hud no other means of saving • made the war. i himself from being condemned by Ids | witness it. j friends and acquaintances as a cow . A good notion Is never lost It is n | a rd. Tlio emissary was received by Edith, | Southern Oregon Traction Com treasure laid up and guarded for the who, her brother being absent, said pany Time Table No. 5. doer s need. Calderon.. that ns soon ns she could communi Death Warning. cate with him she would send a re Oliver Wendell Holmes reConleA his ply. Later In the day she wrote that protest aealnst thè custom of telling n she had heard from Edgar. He had Effective August 23d, 1917. person who does not actually ask to chosen pistols nt thirty paces, the time Leave Jacksonville. know that lie cannot recover. As that to be 3 o’clock the next morning, the loving observer of mankind Asserted, so place n certain open space near the 7:30 a. tn. daily except Sunday 7:50 a. tn Sunday only must every one who knows whereof he bank of the Mississippi river. sfieaks assert that people almost al De Four was surprised at the early 8:30 a. m. daily except Sundayl ways come to understand that recov hour, for at 3 o'clo-k It was barely 9:00 a. m. Sunday only ery is Impossible, It Is rnn*ty ■ nissl- dawn. He was very much disgruntled 10:'«) a. m. daily except Sunday fill to tell any one that this Is the cnW*. ' at the course the affair had taken, be- 11:30 a. m. daily except Sunday When nature gives the warning death I cause lie lind been on the eve of pro- apfa'iirs to be as little feartsl as sleep. 1 posing marriage to Edith Forsythe mid 2:00 p. rn. daily 3:00 ¡i. rn. daily I now lie wiis called upon Io meet her 4:*'O p. rn. daily Giving It a Nams. ! brother In mortal combat. •The doctor Heated me for s Week lie walked the floor till lifter 2 o’clock 5:00 n. rn. daily (Note 1) for a cold.” complained tin- victim bit | In the morning, when his second culled 7:15 p. tn. daily (Note 2) terly, "and now lie sends ine u -UHI for for him and they proceeded to the Leave Melford. $.50. Highway lul'lierjf."'that's wbut ground. Hliortly ufter reaching It a car ft Is!” riage drove up, and a young man alight 8:01) a in. d uly except Sun ¡ay "I’d call ft pillage." suggested Ids ed and handed out Edith I’orsytlie 8:30 a. m. Sunday only Idiotic friend, with an explosive giggle Approaching lie Four and bis second, 9:00 a. rn. daily except Sunday -Cleveland Plain Dealer. tlie young man said: 11:00 a. rn. daily "Mr. De Four, you will be obliged to 12:00 Noon daily except Sunday Medical Etiquette. accept me for an antagonist tills morn Medical etiquette. Iii'tcnd of being ing instead of Edgar Forsythe, who is 2:30 p. m. daily ketd up. as people so often Imagine. In away und knows nothing of your chal 3:30 p. m. daily the Interests of the doctors main lenge. Ills sister, my fiancee, conceal I 4:30 p. m. daily tained In tlie Interests of the public ed It from him. Intending to meet you 16:00 [i. m daily It Is tlie public not tlie doctors, who In Ids place. She called on me to act From Riverside Avenue. would suffer most Ber. It done iwn) ns her second, but 1 Insisted In taking 10:30 p m. daily except Sat. & Sun. with.- Loudon r?ci tutor. the part of a principal. Is everything 11.00 p.m Saturday & Sunday Wbly. ready?" (Note l)Rui s to Medford depot and Established a Record. De Four stood stock still for a mo -Wh.it did mother say when you ment, then turned without a word and i waits until 5:50 p. rr. before going to propo- r-d to her. ihidd’ ? walked away. Edith and her betroth i East end ot fine. "She hung her bend mid was silent ed returned to her Imino mid to break (Note 2) Runs to Medf rd depot only tor several m.liiiles And flint Is Hie fast. Later a messenger csine front unh- ■* cariying passengers for beyond. only lime I lime ever known her to lie De Four with the money for the face ’{. S. B ullis , rjleitt for several miuulea."—Detroit of the note, interest and costs. Gen.JFreight & Passenger Agent,