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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1918)
Thomas K lmeades of Medford, aged s--=- -_r - Al. Learned of Applegate transacted 92 ye irs, was found dead in ’he lot ad business in this city Wednesday. joining his home, Friday morning, lie All work done in 1917 spot cash at | was a native of England an I leaver SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918 W. R. Sparks. two sons and one daughter. W. E. I’hipps of Medford was a busi- Mrs. Kate Huffman an I Mils • À less visitor in this city today. LOCAL NEWS Beekman were visitors a '.I d!< Charl.-s Dunford, Jr. of Buncom wns day. PyF. A. MITCHEL a business visitor in this city Fri-i Mr. and Mrs D C. Smith of Klam Mias Issie McCully was a visitor in day. ath Falls are visiting Mr. and Mrs. ' (Cupvitfhi. IZXt. Western N.w»ir.p,r Onion i Medford Wednesday. Posters are out announcing a grand Arthur Thompson of this city. Mr. It I- -:i d that balmy brce.;cs. soft B. B. Beekman was a busine-s visi masquerade ball, to be given in Golds- Smith is a brother of Mrs. Thomp sl.lee luelluv <ui: bine, i r the light of tor at Medford Wednesday morn by hall at Buncom, Saturday, January the ii.■•.»ii. com-tliiite a fining buck- son. ing. I ground i„r love making. 1 was not 12 , smiled amid any such surroundings, It is reported that a drilling outfit For Sale—Gasolene engine belonging DEFECTS IN “CANNED" SONGS th'ell nipiured me in midwinter. has been unloaded at Ashland and that to Basye estate. D. W. Bagshaw. Helen m d I wei<' skntiim. A broad prospecting for oil will begin in the Stephen Kranitz the well known min Vocalists Do Not Break Down on Top st retell of 1,-e smooth a> gins lay be- near future. ing man of Sterling was a business vis I fore us. The morning vvus bright : the Notes and No One Shouts "Amen," Reports are current that the 7th itor in this city Monday. | -Illi glistened on the frosty seelie; the Comments Countryman. company now at Ft. Columbia will be i air was full of ozone. Occasionally O. S. Hansen of Applegate was in divide 1 into a number of detachments town Monday with his questionnaire He was n plain, old-fashioned coun 1 we V. ild skate over a place where the and assigned to duty with other organ for the countv board. tryman “without no frills," as he often ice was thia and we would hear that izations at various places. proudly boasted. He lamented the crackling beneath ns that I have ul- Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Hansen of George Ridd, a recruit at Camp Lew Applegate were visitors in this city passing of the old cottage organ, ear , ways loved. This sound and th ozone bobs and coal oil lamps and contended i of ii frosty morning tire fur more de is has been dishonorably discharged Monday forenoon. that persons in these days are not licious to me than the song of the from the army and sentenced to hard nearly as happy as those of a half cen birds mid Hie fragrance of roses In S. L. Johnston of Thompson creek labor for the rest of his life at the U. tury ago. The other day he came Into June. S. prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. was a business visitor in this city Mon town from his country home nearby, Helen’s eyes were ns bright ns the day. Ridd was convicted of an assault with relates an exchange, and stopping at sunlight on the lee; mid her cheeks Mrs. Dailey the pioneer mining wo bls son's home was entertained by his had been painted Vermillion by Jack intent to kill, committed Dec. 20. Oscar Lewis the accommodating man of Southern Oregon, transacted daughter-in-law with music on the Frost. We were skating along with of n roll. Helen's hands In clerk at Ulrich’s store is on the sick i b isiness regarding her mines, in this phonograph. Knowing his fondness for something old religious music, the daughter-in- her fur mull', mid the long hairs of her city, Monday forenoon. list. tippit caressing her cheeks. How I Porter J. Neff of Medford transact law put on the records containing old- envied her Hint tippit. She begun to Mrs. L. J. Combest of Buncom wag time hymns sung by the world’s great ed Ousiness at the court house Monday a visitor in this city Wednesday. artists of song. The old man was talk about the various marriage cus forenoon. plulnly thrilled and sat In rapt atten toms of different countries. When a Hugh Combest of Buncom was a Mrs. Ida Wilson was a visitor at tion as he heard his old favorites sung girl discusses love mid marriage the business visitor in this city Tuesday with such sympathy and meaning as fellow she Is with bail better be on Ills Medford Monday afternoon. and Wednesday. he never had heard them sung in real guard. It indicates what she is think Attorney Harry D. Norton of Grants I Roland Mitchell of Buncom was in life. At the conclusion of what she ing about. Pass transacted legal business in this town Wednesday. "They have smile funny customs In culled her “sacred concert," the young city Friday forenoon. woman asked, "Well, father, weren't Russia concerning betrothals." she Lester Thompson who is in the naval | Send the Post to your friend in the those old hymns sung as beautifully as said. "One is that If a girl loves a reserves at Bremerton returned to du east or in fact any place. No mare you have ever heard them in the old man she goes to his house and re ty at that place Monday evening after mains there till he asks her to marry days?” appropriate present can be given. spending a week with his parents in him. If he declines to do so her re "Emmy, they mightn't he so bad, ” For almost nine years the present - this city. he reluctantly conceded, "if that lations consider themselves Insulted, publisher of the Post has boosted Jack- i 1 Madam Human Shank or whatever you and punish him accordingly.” i Elmer Rosco Lewis of the Applegate sonville and its institutions and now it i "That’s very queer. Isn’t it?" valley transacted business in this city is time to ask the people of the city call her, had only broke down on the top notes like they used to In church, In another part of Russia where Wednesday. to boost the Post—a little at least. most always, ami somebody'd only said there are several unmarried mid un Jase Hartman was a business visitor Under the present high pricesjof stock, I ‘Amen’ right out loud when they got provided for girls, th»y make a sort in Medford Thursday forenoon. of raffle mid dispose of them by lot." etc. we need the subscription of every through singin’.” “That's better.” R, S. Bullis of Medford and Miss family in the town and the family “In Lapland” Helen continued, “they Jane Fowler of Walla Walla, Wash, needs the paper. Are you going to WEEKLY DATA ON MORTALITY have a different way still. When n were married at the home of the bride’s help? man wants a girl, without speaking to parents, Wednesday, Jan. 2. Mr.JBul- Miss Emma Armstrong of Medford Statistics of Principal Cities Now Is* her he goes to her parents mid asks sued Regularly by the United lis is manager of the S. O, Traction visited friends in this citv Friday. for her. If they consent they inform States Census Bureau. company. her that she has had an offer. Pos FOR SALE.—A camera, with tripod, Wood Jeter of Steamboat was a re- weekly circular giving the mortali sibly she may not know her suitor, plates and other equipment. Cost $72. ty A statistics of tlie principal cities of may never have seen him. There is a cent visitor in this city. Will sell for $15. Call at this office. tile United States is now Issued regu feast lit the end of which a race takes New Year’s Dav was very quiet in The city council held its regular larly by the United Slates census bu place between the suitor and the girl this city; the bank, postoffiee, county monthly session Wednesday evening, reau, says the Scientific American. It he wants. It she accepts him she per offices and stores were all closed and the only business transacted being the gives the total number of deaths re mits herself to be caught; if not, she the streets presented a deserted ap (stillbirths excluded), the death won’t let him cutch her.” usual routine work. Bills for salaries ported pearance. rate per thousand, number of deaths “That heals all the other plans, labor and supplies were considered and of infants under one year of age, and doesn’t it?” I saw nothing out before The Applegate Lumber company ordered paid. Cemetery conditions whose logging camp is on Jackson were discussed and referred to the pro the proportion of infant deaths to total me over the stretch of lee on which there was not the slightest Haw: “It’s creek, about 2 miles above this city, per committee. The recorder was in deaths. The cities for which data are given mighty cold in Lapland; don't they do report that business is good, with plen structed to order couplings ftr fire Include one-fifth the population of the It on skates?" ty of orders in sight. The company is hose. country. Thus the circular Is a fairly “I suppose so." planning an extension of their business accurate index to the state of the na I cast n glance aside at Helen. She Mrs. Mary Kline of Talent spen t -• this year which will add materially to tion’s health. Its uses are manifold. said not a word further but I saw the payroll as well as the income of Christmas with friends in this city.. It will show local health authorities challenge In her eye. We skated on Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson enter- I how their home towns stand In com in silence. Presently we passed over the concern. The local lodge of the Eastern Star tained a few friends at dinner at the ' parison with other towns in respect to thin ice; the crackling stimulated me; mortality and when a town has a bad made me reckless; I have always installed officers for the ensuing term Hotel Medford, Tuesday. record the publicity given to the fact prided myself on going Into mutters Thursday night. WILLAMETTE VALLEY TRADE. should spur the authorities to seek the with coolness mid deliberation; n 181 A. on Pacific Highway between 1 Judge and Mrs. F. L. TouVelle re cause and remove It. Insurance com woman tins the faculty of taking that turned Tuesday from a Christmas vaca Eugene and Cottage Grove, close to panies will fln<l the reports of interest. out of a mull If she chooses. Helen, store, P. O., 2 room school. Rv sta The circular Is Issued in Washington the frosty scene, the ozone In the air, tion spent with friends in California. Tuesday, and is distributed free the crackling Ice stole away my County Superintendent Ager was at tion, Highschool, church etc. 80 A. 1 every of charge. plow land, lots of piling timber near j bruins. Srlem Monday and Tuesday, assisting "Do you see that point up there and in the grading of teachers’ examination switch. 2 sets good buildings, fruit Positlve Signs. the little ¡milling for bouts extending trees, rich soil, pure soft spring water i papers. Even some public signs come direct into the lei1?” I asked. piped to buildings. Fenced hog and | S. S. Bullis, president of the S. O. goat tight. An ideal home. Want to the point. They do not waste any "Yes." replied Helen in a low voice. Traction Co. has returned from a busi good hay and grain farm in dry climate time in wondering how the reader will She knew wlint was coming Just us ness trip to New York and other east to same value. Price $210)0.00 clear. feel about it. well ns the spider knows what will In a garage is posted: happen when lie sees the fly put hi ern points. Or will seli X down and 2 years on “Don’t smoke around the tank. If J. W. Opp was in town Friday morn bal.—Owner, B. Johnston, Saginaw, your life Isn’t worth unythlng gasoline foot on the well. “1 think I can give you forty is I” ing. Oregon. strokes mid beat you to that landing.' The friends of Col. J. M. Williams "I don't think you can," said Helen will be glad to learn that he is improv under her breath. ing rapidly in health and will be able "Suppose we try. Yon skate on Illi til you have taken forty strokes, then to return home soon. stop. When you hour me say “go' During 1617, the fees for hunting li the race begins." censes in Jackson county was $1655.; “Very well." fishing licenses $1595.5n and for combi She skated on leisurely while I nation hunting and fishing $958. The counted the forty strokes. When the total amount is considerable less than number was completed I called lu r to in former years. stop. She took ten more strokes. I won Dan W. Bagshaw of the Naval Re dered If she had It, because a woman serves at Bremerton navy yard, who must take every advantage of a mini spent the holidays with his parents in she can. Perhaps lifter all she In this city, left Wednesday evening for tended to beat me If she could. The the north and will report for duty Frt- true answer was find she wanted me day evening. Dan reports that the to think (lint she was going to do her Jacksonville boys and girls in the s r- best. But that solution I did not think vice are all well and getting along nice of then. She looked back at me, then abend, ly. then turned again: The county court was in session for "It's fully a mile to the goal, I need the transaction of county business more handicap.” Thursday. “Very well make it n hundred Fred C. Hoffman of Thompson creek strokes.” transacted business in this city Wed She took the hundred strokes and nesday. since I saw that she was going to take ns mmiy more ns sin. liked I gave the James Buckley of Ruch was a busi signal, and the race was on. ness visitor in this city Wednesday af Helen did her best on the start. 1 ternoon. hud all I could do to make any lessen Jacksonville Post ' A Midwinter Picnosal Drop In And Order That Stationery CITY DRUG & GIFT STORE Another auto accident occurred on the Pacific Highway near Central Point Monday night in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Myers who were walk ing on the highway were run over and severely injured. Mr. Myers skull be ing fractured besides other injuries. Mrs. Myers was thrown from the road into a puddle of water from which she was taken in an unconscious condition about half an hour afterwards. The victims were taken to a hospital at Medford where the unfortunate ma i died from the effect of his injuries. Mrs. Myers is still in a eritical condi tion and up to Thursday night w~s not aware of her husband’s death. The car was driven by A. Conro Fiero Xmas Cards & Booklets Gift Books Fine Stationery Toilet & Manicure Sets Fountain Pens from $1.00 to $3.50, Perfumery Fine Toilet Soaps, Correspondence Cards, etc. J. W.Robinson, M. I)., Proprietor Jacksonville - Oregon. A/ Hie Chuiches SON JERERS BURNED AT STAKE Cu.ttm of an Early Age When Thou- tends of Unfortunate Students Were Put to Death. P resbyterian A bert’H. Gammons, Minister Suibl.iv cet vices regularly .is follow J: ltcOojA. M. Sabbath School Clan's tor all ages. ll:9’i A. M. Miming vor«hir, with sermon. 0:45 P. M. Christian Endeavir 1 ray- ■Mn-- in;. 7:39 P. M. Evening worship, with s.rmon. Prayer meeting on Wednesday even ing at 7:3'1. Everyone welcome to these meetings. “I vv.i i glad whim they said unto me fi t us go into the the houje of the Lord. P< 122:1. .’ I. hcmlsis often believed that by ■ !e p thought they could find a way to urn base metals into gold, but al b my itself was much deeper and re -1- r tl- n this uccordli ■: to a wrlt- i i It was supposed it this lime that ' il. r • were seven heavenly bodies— ! the sun. moon. Mars. Mercury. Venus, ill pi ter and Saturn—and seven metals - gold, silver. Iron, mercury, copper, tin and lend. There were also seven lays in a week mid seven colors In a rainbow. There were twelve signs In tin- iodine, twelve months In the year, twelve precious stones, mid twelve i ports to the body. It seemed to the alchemists that there must be some hidden connection between these CHRISTIAN SCIENCE things of nature, mid in trying to find Services held every Sunday morning it they spent much time In watching the sky mid In bending over their at 11 o’clock in I. O. O. F. Hall. crucibles mid retorts. Î Everybody welcome liming mi age when su|>erstltlon was rife such nocturnal activities could not fail to arouse suspicion, and *o be accused of being a sorcerer was generally followed by burning nt the stake. Many thousands of such un fortunate students were put to dentil luring these dark centuries, hut In spite of the dangers men secretly studied alchemy. RUSSIAN NAMES WERE EASY 67> Ii low Zero at Dawson Pronunciation Not to Be Compared With Talk Between Baby and Parrot, Proud Parent Boasts. Reference ut it social session was made to lingual dexterity when Con gressman John M. Evans of Montana. <ald he was reminded of a little Inci dent along tlmt line. Down nt the cigar store one night the regulars were talking about the war and remarking how it gave one something worse than face ache to pro nounce the Russian names that appear ill the news. “Those Russian names are nothing," remarked a man named Johnson, with an expansive smile. "You Just ought to hear what I stack up against in my own home every day of my life." "What’s that?" demanded one of the regulars, amazedly. "Do you mean that you have somebody In your family who can put a kink In those Russian syllable twists?" "Well. I should say that I have,” re joined Johnson. “You should come around some time mid hear the baby and the parrot whin they get to talk Ing together." Africa Second Largest. R suits In Pneumon ia Epidemic. Dawson, Y. I’., Jan. 1 —Dawson's thermometers have registered between 50 and 60 below zero for the past month and an epidemic of pneumonia an I colds is sweeping tie* town. All the hospitals are crowded. Eighteen death« have occurred during the cold spell and no f literals are possible until the weather moderates. The latest deaths include George Het,ley, former city li brarian; Peter Brouchu, a pi meer of the Cariboo section, and John Nicholas a mining promoter. One day during the cold spell ther mometers dropped to 86 below at the mouth of the Pelly river, about Io0 miles up the Yukon river from here. At White Horse, the head of naviga tion on the Yukon, it was 72 below. The British once took Jerusalem lo turn it over to the Turks; they are do ing better now and turning the Turks out. Even the Austrians denounce the Bulgarians for their atrocities. It seems that there still are some thines that are horrible enough to shoe.; the Huns. Africa Is the second largest of the continental divisions of the earth, con taining 11,032.000 square miles. Eu rope contains 3.071.004; Asia. 17.470,- 280; North America. 7.110.000; South America, 7.34-I.OOO. At the outbreak of the present war. August. 1914, Eu ropean states laid established protec torates over It. By agreement. Great Britain conf rolled about 3,700.000 OREGON and WASHINGTON square miles; France, 4.422,000; Ger many, 931.000; Belgium. 909,01X1; Por tugal, 701.ooo; Spain. 502,000, with na A Directory of each City, Town and tive ownership Ignored everywhere. Village, giving descriptive sketch of These areas of control have undergone each place, location, population, tele- gr.ph, Fhi||»lng and banking point; material changes since the war began 9 also Chmsiikd Directory, compiled by and no doubt will be further changed M business and profession. nt Its conclusion. The different areas have been held and governed as col onies, the only polities being a contest among the nations to obtain and hold as much as possible. It has been what might be called in common phrase "a grab game” on a large scale, with a continent as the spoils. FOLK’S fit Business Directory V Death to the Puppies. The details of the snatching from s this life of four brlndle Boston bulls In the prime of their puppyhood were recited when a woman reviewed her married life In the court of domestic relations In New York. "Only last week," she said, "our bulldog, Ida, had a family that would have been worth VERS, f hinqt hi , D. C,J $200 If It hud grown. My husband —5 went to n veterinarian mid the doctor told him if they wouldn’t take milk out of a saucer to put some milk In hls own mouth, but a nipple In his mouth 'Southern Oregon Traction Com and feed them tlmt way. Just like dog fanciers do. At first he didn’t even pany Time TableiNo. 5. want to do It.” "Well." said the court, "and whnt has that to do with the case?" Effective August 23d, 1917 “Because when he did do It, I tell Leave Jacksonville. you, the dogs died." 7:30 a. m. daily except Sunday Profits In Shipbuilding. 7:50 a. m. Sunday only The sale of the schooner Glynn, the <:30 a. tn. daily except Sunday first ocean commerce currier built 1:00 a. m. Sunday only south of Newport News since the wnt 10:30 a. m. daily except Sunday begun. Ims brought out facts, says the Manufacturers’ Record, showing the 11:30 a. m. daily except Sunday remarkable profits to be made from 2:01 p. m. daily shipbuilding and the operation of 1:00 p. m. daily freight ships under war conditions. l/’lj p. m. daily The company made a profit of 25 per 5:00 n. tn. daily (Note 1) cent on tile building of the vessel; her 7:15 p. m. daily (Note 2) purchaser, James S. Bndley, Jr., re Leave Medford. ceived $52.000 freight for the voyage to Italy with naval stores mid then 8:00 a. tn. daily except S m lay ing of the hnndlcnp for the first quar sold her to French Interests for $90,(MX). 8:30 a. tn. Sunday only ter of a mile. The second quarter wns After deducting $21.500 for Insurance, 9:00 a. tn. daily except Sun lay not much better for me. The third outfitting and provisioning ami the sal quarter Helen begun to Ing. At the aries and wages, the Glynn netted him 11:00 a. m. daily 12:00 Noon daily except Sunday beginning of the fourth she made u $45,500 In six months. 2:30 p. tn. daily spurt, but I did the smiie and In the Making Mineral Wool. 3:30 p. m. daily middle of this quarter I was not more An American firm operating In Aus 4:30 p. tn. daily than n hundred feet behind her. When we were within fifty feet of the tralia has started works near Mel- ; 6:00 p. tn. daily goal she seemed to be giving out. I 1 bourne for turning the local basalt into From River ide Avenue. dashed forward, she staggered and “mineral wool" for use as an Insulator I 10:30 p m. daily except Sat & Sun. wns about to full when I caught her In packing machinery and Ice chests I 11.00 p. m Saturday & Sunday orlv. and ns a substitute for asbestos, ac- In my arms. (Note llRuria to Mi dford depot and She lay quiet except for the pant cording to the Scientific American. ing Induced by the exercise. I took The basalt Is melted down with n pro . waits until 5:50 p. n. before going to a dozen kisse- -and well, the rest of portion of freestone and limestone and East end ot Ime (Note 2) Rues to Medfi rd depot only the story Is simply the beginning of •hen steam. at an Immense pressure. Is the Lapland custom, wherein the forced through the fluid. The liquid unless carrying passengers for beyond. suitor goon to papa and has It out with rock, thus nernted, flies Into the air R. S. B ellis , und falls lu flukes ou the Knot. him In the usual conventional way. Gen. Freight^ Patscngcr Agent. & COir
