I
Our boys lighting i i Fr i" are ¡'.’ht-
The smoke from the smudging pots
Mrs. Laura Me G1 melon ar.d Mrs
ing uselessly unless we stand behi- d
in the valley orchards was something Mary C. Cook of Gold Hill transact«!
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t . m with plenty o -hi;'. in plenty of
tierce Wednesday forenoon.
business in this city Monday.
time.
■»kl’J.lDAY, APRIL 6, 1918
Supt. Ager announces that the next
One year . go today the U. S. gov-j
American so'diers have taken their
county spelling contest will b< held •rumen! declared that a st >te of war ;
lbs' bit of tel l itoi , l. om the Vienna, s
May 7th und will include lessons 131 to existed between this country and Ger
—and th.- Arne lean th g never gees
LOCAL NEWS
160.
many.
backward.
Miss Josephine, daugh’er of Mr. and
Mrs. T. Gallnger of Gold Hill visited
Profe- s >•• I) -ar I rlf and family were
If it came to a choice between build-
Harry Helms cams down from the Mrs. Pat Swayne of Watkins, left friends in this city Friday after Medford vi- t v Saturday.
in'» en ugh sh.ps on tim-- or being de
Monday
for
St.
Louis,
where
she
will
noon.
Blue Ledge this week.
oil i we
Olin Kn x who has been seriously iii feated by G.-r limy, wh. n
t ike treatment in a sanitarium for sev
Mrs. Bertha Ecklestun was a recent
The county court was in session for
in n Poeti.-i 1 hospit il is slowly improv choose? Well, it has c 'in ■ to that
eral months,
visiti r in Medford.
the transaction of county business
choice.
ing.
Wednesday.
D. Saltmarsh of Buncom was a re
Luke Ryan of Medford was a recent
The promised 30-ceiit cut in c >al will
Mrs. Josephine II.ci-tnn of Thomp
cent visitor in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Cantrall of Ruch visitor in this city,
son creek visited, relatives here last set the true optimist to ii»uimg on
Mrs. Herbert Hanna and Mrs. Ri.s week and attended the Red Cross meet what be saved lint 0 -.-ember ween he
were recent visitors in this city.
Roy V. Frick of Medford, a private
hadn't any.
At Ashland’s special election Monday in the marine corps, died at the naval i Chapman were visitor in Medford ing.
the charter amendment carried by a hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. Monday, fol! Thursday afternoon.
The refusal of the young 1) i.-lu-ss of
Ben Thurston was a Mulford and
I lowing an illness of three weeks dura
vote of 82 to one.
Jack Retel* was a recent business Jacksonville visitor Friday.
Luxembourg to accept any of th.- i’ri •us
be poor
The county registration list which tion. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. visitor at Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. McDaniels and sian princes as a husband may
Mrs. Lee Jacobs of Medford was -a children visited relatives in Jackson diplomacy, but it shows that her hear,
closed March 31, shows the number John S. Frick and hail been in the ser
is in the right place.
registered in each party, as follows: vice since the latter part of 1916. He visitor in this city Friday.
ville last week.
was 24 years old.
Republican—5731; Democrat 3319: Pro
It is reported that a new manager
Miss Bessie Bunch who is attending I Congress votes itself enough mileage
gressive-34; Prohibition-225; Social
Several hard frosts were in evidence will take charge of the Blue Ledge
allowance to enable it to get somewhere
the Applegate school ¡spent Easter at
ist—309; Miscellaneous—394. total- here this week: Wednesday morning mine, May 1st, Mr. Carnahan retiring
occasionally- with more speed than it
10,012. Of the total, 5708 were males there was a regular freeze, the ther to take up mining work in another part her home near Leland.
-does.
Ed Hernott moved his family to Med-
and 4304 fpmales.
mometer registering 22 degrees, just of the country.
After this war we Americans shal
f. rd whers he has employment.
degree above the lowest record for
Mrs. Jessie Beery who has been un
either be free or we shall oe si ives of
E. J. Brown was trading with Grants Prussia's militarists, and it will! b - a
dergoing treatment at a Medford hos the winter. It is thought that most
Oregon road bonds approved and per-
of the almonds and peaches were kill m-nent construction to amount of $600,- Pass merchants Friday.
pi tai is expected home soon.
lot better to die fighting than to ubmit
BORN-To ¡Mr. and Mrs. Warren to the Prussian slave yoke.
000 goes.
Dr. R. J. Conroy of Medford was a I ed.
M.-e. Saturday, March „30, 1918, a
business visitor in this ¡city Wednes
The house of John Ashpole at Eagle
Blasphemer Billot Pits lam loudly
Myrtle Point to get a loganberry
son.
day.
Point, together with the household juice plant.
gives God credit, at least, once a day,
for licking the Bdshevi :i Bat bow
A letter received from Merritt Dews goods, was destroyed by tire Monday
Pittsburg —St, Helens road contract
i let for $15,000.
much credit g >es fur licking tne Bol-
this week states that he is on the U. S night.
Military Tiaining To Se S'art sheviki?
S. Jason, on the ei stern coast and that
he is feeling fine after a week in the I
The idea of putting o.f general elec
ed Al 'Training School.
hospital. His present address is IL S.
tions this fall sounds good to the wab
S. Jason, care of Postmaster, N. Y. '
bly congressm m whose term is about
Sixth Ì ear Established in Jackson County.
to expire.
T. W. Fulton of Medford helped our i
Chehalis,
Wash..
Anril
2
-Thomas
i
I
job department a couple of days this
Hood Riy-er $35,914 contract let for
P, Horn, superintendent of the state
I training school, has named E. E. Pear bridge across Hoo 1 river.
week.
son, ot Tacoma, as assistant ar.d to
Miss Flora Thompson candidate for
have charge of military training in the
count» clerk, was a recent visitor at
Personally conducted by Doctors
school. The inmates ¡of the school re
Ashland.
ceived
the announcement of the be SOME REASONS WHY
Gus Newbury of Medford was a re-
Dow and Dow. Fully equipped
ginning
of military training with much
WHEAT MUST BE SAVED
c -nt business visitor in this city.
enthusiasm. George King, of Cheha
for all surgical and obstetrical
All work done in 1913 spot cash at
lis, has been named farmer for the “A Man Cannot Think, Work or Fight
W. R Sparks.
school.
When He Is Hungry"—We Must
cases.
Trained
nurses
only,
em
At the special election held Monday-
Feed Our Soldiers.
the charter amendment proposed by
ployed.
"We have the preservation of the
With
linn
Names
Streets
the council was adopted, Only a small
world on our hands. Every single
number of votes were polled, b'lt eve-
“SERVICE AND RESULTS FOR THE PATIENT”
Will Be Rechristened. living human being in this republic,
rvone was for the amendment, The
from ocean to ocean, should make it
election board were E. A. Langley,
his or her special purpose to save
Robert Finney, Onie Beavenue, Joe
I Portland, April 3 Streets with Ger- food."
These are the words of E. F. Cullen,
Wetterer and Alice Hoefs.
man names in this city are to he re
Telephone 11
I named after old pioneers ef Portland personal representative of Herbert C.
Dan Bagshaw, Jr. of the navy, who
or American patriots or statesmen, ac Hoover, in a recent address.
was recently transferred from Bremer
Cor: Apple, Fifth and Riverside
"Men will resist any power but the
cording to announcement today, by
ton to New York, wrote home under
power of starvation,” said Mr. Cullen.
Commissioner Barbur, of the depart "Hunger in the final analysis, is tin-
date of March 29, that he had been in
mint of public works. A large num j only force that can weaken a nation
the naval hospital for treatment of the
ber of streets in thi., city bear German | and demoralize an army. Food is
throat, but was out and feeling fine.
names, especially in the Führer addi strength, and without a perpetual sup
His present address is: U. S. S. North
tion in the Brooklyn district, and they ply of strength, the world can stand
ern Pacific, care of Postmaster, New
are extremely offensive to patriotic in danger of tottering, weakening and
York.
Americans. This addition was platted falling into utter chaos. A man can
Why borrow your neighbor’s paper?
i years ago by a German and was large- not think, work or tight if he is hun
You can get it yourself for $1.50 per
I ly settled by Germans and they brought gry.
year.
“The allies today are practically
! to this city the names that were fa wholly dependent upon the United
Nick Mitchell of Buncom has gone to
miliar to them in the land of the Hum. ; States for food. Upon this nation
Weed. Cal. where he has employment
Among these streets are K: rl, Bis- ] rests the responsibility of preserving
in the lumber camp.
mark, Rhine Rhone, Frederick and I the world from i’russianlsni. This is
W. E. Phipps of Medford was a re
Frankfort. Patriotic Americans have | the task of the people of this nation—
cent business visitor in this city.
appealed to Commissioner Barbur to to produce and save food enough to
h ive them change ! and he wdl start j keep a steady stream of essential sup
Mrs. J. A. Wilson of Medford was a
proceedings before the council as soon plies moving towards the front so
visitor in this city Friday.
as he has made a cheek on the streets | long as it shall be necessary to wage
Comply with the law and use Butter
of
the citv for a list of all German [ this war. If at any time we fail in
Wrappers with your name and address
this, we must inevitably go down, with
nan es.
printed neatly. 100 for $1.25; 200 for
the allies, to defeat. This is no ex
aggeration, but a serious fact. It is
$2.00, at Jacksonville Post.
the purpose of the United States Food
j Says Farm Labor In
Superintendent Ager announces a
Administration to bring the realiza
contest in the schools for four-niinure
tion of this fact home to every Ameri
'
H
’
r.s/
Is
Plentiful.
kJ
speakers in support of 'he war savings
can man, woman and child, and to en
drive. One boy or girl will he selected
list the individual aid of our hundred
from the contestants in each school,
million people in producing and sav
Washington,
April
2-
A.
L.
I
’
ark-
the victor being awarded a certificate
ing food. The Food Administration
man, chief of the farm service division is not asking you to eat less; it only
of enrollment as a junior four-minute
of the department of labor, announced urges that you substitute one nutri
speaker.
on returning Jfrotn a ten-day trip tious food for another equally nutri
George W. Trefren of Ashland was
through the west, that there is no foun- tious food, thus saving the vital sta
a business visitor in this city Thurs
datian for reports of a serious shortage pies needed by our armies and the
day.
armies and peoples of the allies. We
in farm labor there.
Sam Sandry of the Blue Ledge min
“There is a good steady demand for must, during the next three months,
ing district was a recent visitor in this
firm labor,” Mr. Barkman said, “but saie wheat especially. Our surplus
has already been shipped abroad, and
city.
present calls are being met general a hundred million bushels more are
Jacksonville Post, one year $1.50.
ly.”
needed. When you eat a slice of bread
Oklahoma farmers, he said, are hav less, omit the crackers with your soup,
A number of persons ¡from this city
ing more applications for farm work or otherwise conserve on wheat prod
attended the dance and box social of
than can be filled.
acts, you are contributing towards the
the Little Applegate Junior Red Cross,
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hundred million bushels needed over
at Ruch, Saturday night. Among
there by our fighting men and the
those attending were: Mr. and Mrs.
exhausted
people of Belgium, France
Ries Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fin-
and England who have for more than
Dey, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dunnington,
three years been bearing the brunt of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe ¡Goldsby, Mrs Min
(From Off Our Wireless)
this war, which is our war. Keep this
nie Kelly, G. Howard, Mrs. Anna Broad
The Chinese troops fought gallantly in mind, and bring it before the minds
Ralph Jennings, Cora Goldsby, Harry
under "Chinese” Gordon, but they have ot your thoughtless friends and neigh
Walsh, Bert Goldsby, John Broad, Joe
not had a good leader since, and had bors."
McIntyre, Mary Bagshaw, Flo Thomp
| not had one for centuries before.
son, Ora Goldsby, Edith Bailey and
I "What is the difference between to FOOD ADMINISTRATION FACTS
Paul Jennings.
see and to spy?”
In another column appears the ad of
One ounce less of meat each day
Rumania must have carried out her for everyone means a saving of 4
The Dow Hospital. Drs. Dow and Dow
exacte 1 pledge very promptly to ‘sp ed 400,000 meat animals a year. Save
having moved this institution from Cen
the going guest. ” The Gerrn im are your ounce, The sacrifice is small,
tral Point to Medford, first |of this
reported as having re ached Ode-si-i, af hut the result for your country is
month, on account of lack of room in
ter traversing Rum i >ia.
lart^e.
their former quarters for gthe handling
The Kaiser is a shrew I pr .flleer. He
of the rapidly increasing business.
1,185.000 tons of sugar will lie saved
planned the war, and then invested
Both of the Doctors reside at the hos
the first year if each of us uses one
he
ivilv
for
himself.
with
money
prop,
i
pital and give every case their 'person
ounce less each day. This will keep
Iv b longing to the German people, it sugar plentiful and cheap.
al attention and care. We cheerfu l.-
! stock of the great Krupp gun works.
recommend the institution to our rea-i- j
ers.
The Allies are all in the same boat,
Better is it for Holland to give up its
and help protect our boys at
| ships to the cause of humanity th m a long way from shore and on limited
D. H. Cronemiller is driving a new ’
keep them to helo the cause of tne rations anil Uncle Sam is running
the fror c who are giving their
Huptnobile, recently purchased.
the relief ship. It’s up to us to save
,
junkers.
R. D. Hines has a new Vehe auto.
the cargo.
lives to-Jay*for Freedom’s Causev
Siam will noth.- able to contribute
This is the opening day of the cam
her once-fsmois twins to the ca ne of
Reductlon, Production — the 1918
paign for sale of the Third Liberty
the Allies, but sue is sending along an watchwords.
Bonds and from present indicaiions the
armv just as big.
loan will be largely over-subscribed.
Food will win the war. Save It.
Tne pigeon that took 24 hours to fly
As we go to press Jacksonville has
from Washington to New York may- Predace it.
subscribed $9,850, over 150 per cent of
have ha I "red tape” around its wings.
the quota and it is likely that the old
If yon run your household on three
Space Donated by
town will reach 200 per cent. Lewis
Poland’s love for her saviors d > s i’t pounds of sm gar a month per person,
Ulrich, W. H. Johnson, G. A. Gardner,
prevent ths latter from carrying a few when lail comes the grocer won t have
Emil Britt and A. H. Gammons are tht
machine guns along in case of an em r- to hang up the sign "No Sugar."
comftiittee.
I geney.
I
At ¡he Churches
Correspondence
Jacksonville Post
P resbyterian
Albert’ll. Gammons. Minister
.
iku1 ■ -■ 6- v.is:
loan) A. M.’Subbath .School Cla.-scs
for all ages.
11:6 > A. M. Morning worship. with
Sermon.
6:15 P. M. Christian En-'.'avir ray-
r meeting.
7:3'11*. M. Evenii g worship, with
• rmon.
Prayer meeting cn Wednesday
i ng at 7:30.
Ev.-i yone welconie tn these meetings.
“1 waa glad w hen they said unto me
-t u go into the (he hou e of the
.ord. Ps. 122:1.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Services hell every Sunday mornin;
at 11 o’clock in I. O. O. F. Hall.
Everybody welcome
Highest quality, jewelry],
repairing, diamond set-?
ting, watch repairing, j
X agate mounting and jew I
if elrv manufacturing. I
Martin J. Reddy, I
ill Si .
rosox
1
MEDFOnn. ORFGON. |
work '
Dr. S. A. LOCKWOOD
Physician and Sur y eon
JACKSONVILLE HOCHS
THE DOW HOSPITAL
Weather Report.
Following is the report of U. S, Vol
unteer Cooperative Observer, E. Britt;
Jacksonville. for month of Mai.
Latitude 42 deg. 18. min. north; longi
tude 123 deg. 5 min. west.
The Dow Hospital
Medford
Oregon.
Buy Liberty Bonds
Help them to win the war
The City Drug Store
I
Minimum
1
I
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
11
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
to
11
61
60
51
4t)
43
51
45
19
11
45
51
•15
;>2
68
(ill
61
62
49
55
60
59
til
62
62
58
57
58
69
79
76
67
13
i
25
17
55
.04
.07
Temperature—mean max. 57.06; mean
min. 31.15; mean 45.75; Max 79. on 29.
Minimum, 19, on 6. Greatest daily
range, 39. Total precipitation 2.39
inches. Greatest in 24 hours, .55 in.,
on 19-23. Number of days with bl.
inch or more precipitation, 10, cleat.
Ill; partly cloudy, 6 cloudy, 15.
Total snow fall l1 . inches
Precipitation for season, 19.06
Precipitation for ast season 17 80
Seasonal average
E. B ritt ,
Cooperative Observer.
Southern Oregon Traction Com-
pany Time Tabie No. 5.
Effective August 23d, 1917
Leave Jacksonville,
a. m. daily except Sunday
a. tn. Sunday only
a. tn. daily except Sunday
a. m. Sunday only
P-
P
P-
n.
I’-
a.
a.
a.
<1 illy except Sunday
Similar
m. daily
m. daily
m. daily
m daily
From Riverside Avenue.
10:30 p m. daily except Sat Sr Sun.
11.00 p. m Saturday# Sunday only.
(Note 1)Runs to Medford depot and
waits until 5:50 p. m. before going to
East end ot l:ne.
(Note 2) Runs to M?df rd depot only
unless carrying passengers fur beyond.
R. S. Bi l pis,
Gen. Freight & Passenger Agent.
p-
p
p.
p