HAVE A LESSOR ¡N FRENCH Jacksonville Post All work done in 1917 spot cash at W. R. Sparks. For Sale—Gasolene engine belonging SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917 i to Basye estate. D. W. Bagshaw. LOCAL NEWS Dick Gaskin was at MeJforJ Thurs­ day. Mrs. Bertha Eckelston returned from Portland Thursday morning on account of the illness of her father, Judge Prim. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Coleman is reported ill at her home on Fourth street. John Tucker of Leona, Oregon, visit­ ed his niece, Mrs. Richard Gaskins, Thursday evening and left for his home Friday morning. Have you prepared that new leaf yet? A good resolution for New Year is: “I will subscribe for the Post and will patronize all home institutions during 1918.” Mrs. Ellen Kubli of this city is spending the holidays with relatives in Portland. Clarence Burke of the naval reserves at Bremerton, vieited frienls in this city Thursday evening. John Central of Ruch brought in a truck load of beans from his ranch on the Applegate, for which he received a •heck for $450. Wm. Fralev, Clyde Smith and Glenn D/wning went over to Medford yester­ day to enlist in the Marine corps. 1 William McIntire of the Seventh company, stationed at Ft. Columbia, 1 spent Christmas with his parents in i this city. Fami y and Friends of Young Indian­ apolis Officer Learn the Meaning of "Sans C. ¡gin." FOR SALE. —A camera, with tripod, plates and other equipment. Cost $72. Will sell for $15. Call al this office. Glenn Bailev who is s >rving in the navy at San Francisco left for that city Thursday morning after a week’s visit with his parents in this city. .'.mile (link was l; 'leen years old ■vh. n I til-'i saw her. a rosy-cheeked, Pittsburg, Dec. 25.—Two of the inn. liii.a girl v. ho ir,d never known W. D. Yant of Willow Springs was passengers who were injured when a mi loiiune. We wi re fisher folk, and Knoxville street car was torn to pieces sailors ami lived hi . ■ r the canopy a business visitor in this city today. after a wild dash through the South of heaven; u-efi to the breaking of the J. W. and E. S. Wilson returned Hills tunnel late yesterday, died in waves mt the beach, which at limes Friday morning from Camp Lewis hospitals this morning, bringing the lulled us to slumber and nt times where they spent Christmas with their total deaths to 18. Fighty-two other merged with the roar ot tin tempest. brother E. W. who is training with 1 was thirty years old then mid pers ins were in hospitals, some of when 1 saw Annie lacing over the the National army. They reporc that Curly is well and getting along nicely. them so badly hurt they were not ex­ sands or climbing the dunes, her hulr pected to live through the day. Among i streaming behind her, in the wind, I Dan W. Bagshaw, Eester Thompson the dead were 11 worn .‘il, nine of whom felt then In comparison with her I and Julian Abbott attended the Alumni were mothers was u hundred. At any rate 1 knew bail at Medford Friday night. Investigations had not determined I that to her I was mi old man while to I me she was a child. The day would John Dunnington was a visitor at the cause of the accident. I soon come when some youngster would Medford Friday afternoon. curry her off and I left in a world that would be dreary without her. Lewis Ulrich was a visitor at Med­ But still she romped und pulled ford Friday evening. i about, when the waler was calm, lu The Scandinavian Society of South­ her bout, and with bare feet ran oU ern Oregon will bold a box social at [ the sand of u windy day like a bird. St. Mark’s Hall, Medford, Monday “Of tempest-loving kind Roseburg, Or., Dec. 27.—Returns night, December 31. Thus beating up uguinst the wind,” from 250 first questionnaires in this | and no wooer came. The only claim Attorney H. K. Hanna was a busi- county indicate that almost every man I hud on her was when she would ness visitor at Medford today. has asked for exemption or deferred i sit beside me on the end of the dock Toots Thompson and Mrs. Minnie classification on one ground or another under which the waves were rolling Kelly and daughter were Visitors at While claims of dependency are most und I would tell her stories. frequent, agricultural claims wiil Then came a sailor lad still in his Medford Thursday. probably cause the most difficult part ; teens and he und Annie came together of the classification. This task falls i with a snui> like two magnetized met­ Oc uf At-:■/< on the district board at Eugene, The als. llow I envied that boy. He was .''.■xkutar’’ ’mbit-», lack of out-door exercise a handsome fellow, and in his suilor u.iilicient ’uaaticat’on of food, const ipad-vi larger portion of the single men with- : pid liver, worry /-.*i J anxuly, overeating out some kind of a claim have joined togs, u unique costume unlike any :taking of food and dnua. :ot suited u either the army or the navy, the navy other, I thought it no wonder that An­ nie should find a mute in him. All- ur age and occupation. Correct youi iabitg and take Chamberlain’s Tablets and having been the favorite branch of the nle’s father und I were chums, Im Jud Clark and family returned Wed- ruu will aoon be well again. For tale by service here, at least among the men being but u few years older than I nesday from Weed, Cal. where they JI dealtra.—Advertiser»'*'' who drew numbers less than 50°. und one day he said to me: spent Christmas with relatives. "Tom, d’y'e mind this young Crocker boy, niaken up to my Annie?” G P. Wagner of Steamboat, a well The devil tempted me to say he's known miner and prospector, trans­ no good. 'Twould be a pity for Annie acted business in this city Friday after to throw herself away on such as he. noon. If I hud said that Jim Clark would Jesse M. Taylor and Miss Laura have sent him away without Annie. Thomas were married at Ashland, But I braced myself anil said, "lie's a likely chap, und I believe would go Sunday afternoon, Dec. 23. Rev. Van aloft to furl a sail In u hurricane as Scoy performed the ceremony. quick as any mun." Mr. and Mrs. Paul Andersor. attend­ That settled It. The next day Ned ed the Taylor-Thomas wedding at Ash­ Crocker asked Clark for Annie's hand, land, Sunday. anil got it. I was menden nets on the sand in Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Taylor »f Ruch, the mornen when I felt a pair of arms were recent visitors in this city. around my neck and turnin' saw An- Mi"s Mabel Reeve who has been nle’s happy face near to mine. She teaching school near Trail, is visiting hud come to tell me that she was to relatives in this city. marry the sailor boy. “Pupil says you think well of him,” David Brown, a prominent farmer she said, "and papa will take your of the Central Point district, was a opinion of anyone In preference to his business visitor in this city Thursday own.” forenoon. “I’m glad you’re so happy, my dear,” Harry Walsh has applied for a I said, but the words choked me. chauffeur’s license. Annie’s happiness did not last long. She married Crocker, but he sailed Frank Gordon of Forest creek trans­ away from her and never returned, acted business in this city Monday. my words about him to her futher Col. J. M. Williams who has been ill were proved. When his ship came in for several weeks is reported better. we were told that In a hurricane he Judges Charles Prim is seriously ill went aloft to furl a sail, when no other limn dared go, and losing his at his home in this city. hold was blown overboard. Mrs. G. N. Lewis was a visitor at Annie mourned him but she had Medford Thursday. youth on her side and though she wus Julian Abbott transacted business at never the romp she had been was In Medford Friday afternoon. time herself again. She turned to me 9 for comfort and sometimes I dared hope James R. Robertson of Ashland tlmt we might in time be something transacted business in this city Thurs­ more than friends, but a few years day forenoon. Attractions offered: after Crocker’s taking off, she mar­ Attorney George W. Trefren of ried again, this time the mate of a Sacred summits of Siskiyous, Mt Shasta, Ashland was a business visitor in this ship that sailed between New Turk San Francisco, the cosmopolitan, the city Thursday afternoon. and Japan. He wasn't the handsome Old Missions, Del Monte, Sant t Barbara, sailor lad Crocker was, and he illdu I Mr. and Mrs. J-mes A. Robertson sail with the wind. His ship was a 100 miles along the Beashore, Los Angel­ and children of Central Point transact­ steamer. es, Sunny Southern California, the Ap­ ed business in this city Thursday morn­ Simmons, this was Annie’s husband, ing. ache Trail, and the border camps. didn't live much longer than the first. He came home sick from his first voy­ H. D. Mills of the Butte Falls Lum­ age after their marriage, and though ber Co. was a recent visitor in this Annie nursed him tenderly she couldn't Stopovers permitted at various places. city. save him. He died in her arms and Mr. and Mrs. C. Purcel of Buncom we burled him 111 the little plot of were recent visitors in this city. ground on the hillside, a mile buck from the village. Chris Kenney who has been living A big storm raged on the coast. Sev­ near Buncom for several weeks has eral miles out was a reef, covered moved into the small Kenny house with water nt high tide. In the after­ opposite the Catholic church. noon a ship was seen to founder on Ask nearest S. P. agent for particulars Richard Gaskin and family expect to the ledge and within a few minutes leave Monday for Weed, Cal., where she was broken to pieces. In time wreckage and bodies began to come in Mr. Gaskin will be employed in a JOHN M. SCOTT and the bench was soon covered with logging camp. General Passenger Agent, both. We did what we could to take Judge and Mrs. F. L. TouVelle spent Portland, Oregon. In und bury the dead, but night came Christmas with relatives at San Fran­ on before we could cleun the beach. cisco. The next day I went with several Charles Thompson who is employed others to liunt for bodies •.but had drifted northward. We found them in the navy yard at Vallejo, Cal., spent scattered along the beach a,ml burled Christmas with his parents in this city them us we found them. 1 got Sep- and returned to his work Thursday. arated from the rest and came upon Captain Fenton of the med'eal corps the body of a young mun. I started of the army was in the valley this the moment 1 saw him for I recog- week trying to enlist physicians and nixed Ne: M. Sabbath School (Jla.dC? i for all ages. 11:0) A. M. M >r»< ¡g w -r.d ip. with I ‘»«•rmon. 1 6:15 P M. Chri -ban En i« av Pray* ; er rn * Hing. 7:3ä> P. M. Evening worship, with sl rnion. Prayer mcet in r <> i VW due av «ven* ! mg at 7:30. , Everyone wi le on • t > these nV‘eting-4. I “i w : h glad when they said unto me let us go into the the hou e of the Lord. Ps. 122:'. Tlr- son i ’ a prominent Indianapolis bu-i.a-ss imi'i reeonily n i-i'ivisl a coni- iiil-sion and «ns crtll.sl for service in France, relates the Indianapolis News. Tl. ■ family and many friends of the young li-'iii -mint were anxious to learn of his safe trip neross, and the father received many Inquiries about his son’s welfare during I he weeks of al­ ienee following Ids departure. Filially a cablegram was received and the word was passed around that the soldier boy had landed safely. Someone thoughtfully Inquired just where the cablegram eiime from, and .1 elose inspection of I he message re­ vealed what was thought to be either the port of landing or the headquar­ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ters of American troops. It was writ­ ten plainly enough, across the top of Services held every Sunday morning the message- "San Sorigln.” Specu­ lation was rife; office associates at 11 o’clock in I. (). O. F. Hall. brought out atlases; maps and encyclo­ Everybody welcome pedias were consulted to find out, If possible, whether the young officer was near the scene of activities, at n port, or In the south of France. Filially someone with a knowledge of French spoiled all the fun by informing the ■ager group that "Sans origin" was tile French equivalent to "somewhere,’’ or. literally, without origin. The Cli­ nic operator who hail copied the tiles sage had merely divided the letters il the two wolds at the wrong place. SAYS SHARK MEAT IS GOOD In St. Helens Industries Writer Declares Flesh Looks and 1 St. Helens, Or., Dec. 24.—Following Tastes Much Like That of Young the request of government authorities, Pig, but Is Not as Juicy. A good ninny people do not know how shark’s meat tastes when it is •ooked. There is some talk of a gov- rninent investigation of this matter, ihserves tlie Hartford Cournnt, so that everybody may get tlie taste as second land. Tlie writer of this paragraph, owing to the fact that he was a good leal of a seashore man at the time, inis tasted cooked shark for himself, rhe flesh of the shark, when a South- •rn cook presides over tlie kitchen, o(d this liking by some millions of ■ ears of evolution, it seems odd that nan. when lie gets the chance, should also like to eat the shark. It goes to how that In the general scheme of ex­ istence nothing is wasted. The shark can get n good dinner out >f a man, and the man can get a good dinner out of a shark. It all depends >n which one gets the other first. In •ltlier case it is fair outing for the one who gets the dinner. Old Friends Meet. This world is not such n big place after nil. Recently, at Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, writes a New York correspondent, one of our boys in khaki met an Italian soldier with one sleeve of bls coat tucked In. "Why,” gasped the American. "Bleu," returned the Italian. The two hail met In Florence, Italy, three years ago. On the lapel of the American there was n small nlckel-plated model of the Statue of Liberty, enfolded in an American flag. The Italian asked if he might have It for a keepsake. "Some day I’ll come to your laud,” he said, smiling, "and I’ll bring It back to you." And when the Ameri­ can and Italian cume fuco to face the mini from the sunny climes still wore the emblem of Liberty on Ills breast. "And must I return It?" lie asked. "Well, hardly." returned the American. “You have earned It a thousand times. Your sacrifice has been for what it represents—liberty und Justice.” "Thai Is right, yes, but is it not Worth the sacrifice? Yes worth It ten thousand times." the mills and shipyards in St. Helens will remain closed only two days for the Christmas holidays. The Milton Creek Logging company eloiel Satur­ day night and will not resume opera­ tions until the first of th • year, al­ though a considerable force will be engaged doing necessary work in ch inging tracks and logging equipment so that operations can be prnrnply re­ sumed .January 2. Ripe Tomatoes, Roses and Sweet Peas At Hood River Hood River. Or.. Dec. 21. —Mrs. W. A. Isenberg, who resides west of this city, reports that she served on her ! table last week ripe tomatoes pulled from vines that are still growing luxuriantly in a backyard war garden. The vines were protected from the frosts that prevailed during November by overhanging eaves of the Isenbeig home. Numerous local families are daily plucking bouquets of roses, and in protected places sweet peas are eonlmui ig to blossom. :rixxv:is "oa ® jfioj - i ’> i hoi »« o ; o .« i pan »«oufsiiq Xq peiidtuoa 'Xao>.w.i|U pjui»«vi.) "’•I" tiu|oot M.iaul i| ‘W |O i| 1 ¡ .. . I l'l| ' P '11 A puu umj , 'Alia q.iuo ;o XioiaoJia V aj Q 9 B B B AiopajiQ ssauisng NOXONIHSVAk P«« NOD3HO >■ —S.XIOd TI.’A I.bl F hit it < Sei b <■! • v > pillili !.. .. ' P li Miri i- ■ i • »• p >.».¡Ulldc nutrii. COri VI. f L IT LAWYERS, in, 0. CJ 303 Svr .fill Ct., V/nshinqtnn jranaf. • '' - tA'IB** The Dream of a World Court. The thought of an Intel national court or conference for the settle­ ment of Intermitlonnl disputes Is not new, writes Oscar Hallam in <’ase and ............. nt. Grollus suggested it nearly three hundred years ago dur­ ing the Thirty Years' war. Wllllum Penn, In 1fl!>3. promised the establishment of a European diet, par ip,.... nt. or estates for the midiitemince of perpetual peace. Rousseau, Kant and Lentliimi fol lowed. Sumner devoted himself to the question of disarmament, the e.-tab llshmeiit of a congress of nations, and the abolition <>i «nr by means of nn intermitiomil court of justice. Southern Oregon Traction Com­ pany Time Table No. 5. Effective August 23d, 1917 Leave Jacksonville. 7:30 a. m. daily except Sunday 7:50 a. rn. Sunday only 8:30 a. m. daily except Sunday 9:00 a. m. Sunday only l<):30 a. m. daily except Sunday 11:30 a. rn. daily except Sunday 2:00 p. m. daily 3:00 p. m. dailj’ 4:°0 p. m. daily 5:00 p. rn. daily (Note I) Algerian Wines Taken for Army. 7:15 | . rn. daily (Note 2) In conformity «l'l> instructions of the minister of general supplies, Leave Medford. otie tlilrd of tlie ........... Top of Algeria lias been requisitioned for military pur­ poses, says Consul Arthur <’. Frost, Algiers. Each wine producer Is re­ quired to turn one-third of his vintage Into table wine for army consumption. The wine furnished must be of good quality anil equal nt lenst to the aver age quality of each producer’s vintage. The Uncertain Future. "Of course," said the girl who had accepted him, "It Is a serious thing for a girl to trust her happiness to a man.” "Well," replied Claud Reginald; "I'm taking some chances myself. It’s n -erloiis thing to quit »ending mound Howers mid candy and mutlni e tickets mid start n conversation about gro­ ceries, house rent ami furnace coni.” 8:00 a. rn. daily except Sun lay 8:30 a. m. Sunday only 9:00 n. tn. ilaily except Sunday 11:00 a. m. daily 12:00 Noon daily except Sur.day 2:30 p. tn. daily 3:30 p. m. daily 4:30 p. m. ilaily 6:00 p. m. ilaily From Riverside Avenue. 10:30 p m. daily except Sat. & Sun. 11.00 p. m Saturday & Sunday only. (Note l)Ru'.s to Medford depot ari l waits until 5:50 p. m before going tn East end ot fine (Note 2) Runs to Medf rd depot only unlers carrying passengers for beyond. R. S. Bt'Ll.ls, G«n. Freight.* Passenger Agent.