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