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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1919)
JACKSONVILLE:- A M ountain T own W ith RESOl RCES:- F ruit , M ines L umber C attle , C lay P roducts A V alley C limate . VOL XIII JACKSON VILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, Al GUST 16, 1919 NO NEED FOR IDLERS With Shortage of Men and High Price for Labor, Men need not Leave Valley to Obtain Employment HAH CHECK ARTIST CAPTAIN BiJTLER DISCHARGED. ARRESTED. RUMPUS NO. 16 THE SAW MILL Operations on Gagnon Mill Getting Along Nicely. Public Service Commission Dr. F. E. Butler Receives Alleged Forger Arrested Army Discharge and Within Hour of Misdeed to Hold Hearing to Con The work of setting up the G inyon Returns Home. sawmill is getting along nicely, all of sider Present Charges. A floater in the valliy, whose nani the ma erial and machinery is on the Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Butler arrived I is suppose 1 to be E. McDonald, was in ground, and everything in ship shape. This office is in receipt of a com in this city Sunday evening from San ' Medford calling on the business men Mr. Gagnon stated this week, that munication from the Public Service Francisco, Cal., where Mr. Butler and incidently got rid of a spurious if operations continue as at present, After considering the number of ranchers and indust Commission of the state of Oregon, his plant will be ready for operation received his discharge from the Army i check for $32.65. ries looking and practically begging for men, the editor wherein the commission announces that service. They have been visiting this The man had purchased some cloth week after next. it will hold a hearing in the City Hall week at the home of Mrs. Butler's ing and other articles in one of the The site of the mill is on the old would like to know why the men are headed for other in Medford to consider the raise in the father, ' clothing stores in Medford and tender- cyanide property and is close to town Mr. C. Hoefs in this city. charges. Dr. Butler was early offered a com ■ a check in payment. Soon after the and still very close to the timber hold sections of the state. The reason is obviously to obtain telephone The order calling for the hearing mission in the army and was taken to 1 man whose name was signed to the ings of Mr. Gagnon. employment at good wages. was made upon motion of the com France in 1918, where he has been un ’ cheek, F. R. Sloan, happened into the mission itself and states that sufficient til a short time ago, when he received I store and the merchant made inquiries Now right today there are in this valley employers who grounds exist to warrant hearing and the glad tidings "stand by to get under I and found the check wasn’t worth the * | | JACKSON COUNTY paper it was written on. The sheriff’s are wanting men and wanting them badly. The contract investigation being made as to the way.” MINES. legality and reasonableness of the While in France Mr. Butler was at office was notified at once and Deputy ors on the highway are wanting men, the orchardist are rates contained in a schedule recently tached to the X-ray department of the Sheriff Terrill got on the job right by the telephone company. base hospital at Geivers. While there away, with the result that the culprit wanting men, in fact almost every branch of industry in published So remember the date, September 8, he was promoted to the rank of was arrested soon,- about a mile and a U. S. Geological Survey Re 1919, in the City Hall at Medford, I, at captain. the county are in need of men. I half out of Medford on the highway. ports 12 Producing 10 A. M., and be on hand to tell your Accused was given a hearing Monday . ----- ♦ f»» — — When the man considers that by working here he can grievance morning before Justice Taylor, when Mines in County. INDUSTRIAL REVIEW - * »ai» he pleaded guilty and was bound over live at home and apply his deduction for board to his 1 I to the grand jury. Ten Years Ago, family store bills, it seems only reasonable that he would Previous to his arrest Cole is said to i Manufactures, Enterprises and have been practicing on writing sig- . In a report of the U. S. Geokgical Survey activities in this region, recent- be better off in this county. While working away from natures of other prominent business | ]y received at this office, is contained From The Jacksonville Post of Improvements, Providing home he must pay between $1.00 and $1.50 for living ex men in Medford. ! the information that during the year August 14, 1909. Payrolls and Promot 1918 there were 12 producing mines in penses, besides laundry and incidentals. The lowest wagas Jackson county. Among the other WAR RISK INSURANCE. ing Development counties, Jackson ranked fourth. here are around $4.00 a day for unskilled labor, and in The 18th annual re-union of the old Baker, with 42 is tiist. Josephine, with soldiers and sailors will be held in this of Oregon. other communities it averages about the same. Last year city, commencing Monday Sept. 13th, second; Grant, with 13, is third and Amendment Urged by 31 Jackson fourth. In the entire state and continuing through the entire in Klamath Falls the working men were paying $2.00 a during 1918 there were 120 producii g week. The camp will be pitched in American Legion. Co. Aug. 11. — St. Helens Lumber day for their board and a place to sleep. mines, as compared with 70 in 1917. Ulrich’s grove in the southeastern spending $50,0*10 to increase capacity During the year reported on, Jack- of the city. Water and wood will to 200,00*'. What we need is for some individual with a little pep part Ameiidment of the War Risk Insur son, county mines produced a total of be provided at the camp, also straw Clatsop county to get two new co ance Act will be urged by the American 1,810 short tons of ore, the value of to start an up-to-date employment bureau, let the men for use in the tents. Coffee and other operative cheese factories. Legion, through its legislative com which is divided up as follow: gold, know just what there is to offer them, and tell tne em- supplies will be furnished free. L irge fuuit warehouse at Park Place mittee in Washington, in order to allow $49,384; silver. $595.00: lead, $1,676.00, A resident of this city is owner of a men insured under the act to elect making a total production of $50,091.00. ployers that you have the men. Compared with the con- dog which is gaining a reputation as a being rushed. The total value for the total state Department jf Interior lets contract whether their insurance upon maturity canine edition of the mysterious Mr. ditions in 1916, the laboring conditions are improved by Raffles. for draining 100,000 acres at Klamath. will be paid in installmnnts or in one procuction in 1918 was $1,983,942, as payment. compared with $2,270,874 for 1917. 100 per cent, now the thing to do is to make it known to A Washington man who has been ex Coduille-$100,000 coal and coke lump The present form of War Risk in company incorporated here. with poultry, has produced the laboring men that this is the best county under the a perimenting Sunnyside—Masonic order to erect surance is known as term insurance J VILLE LADY TO VISIT "erowless” rooster. Maybe some- and is payable in monthly installments fine temple here. sun to work in. will produce a barkless dog. for a period of 240 months. This may OLD HOME. Hood River vinegar factories paying be converted into ordinary forms of Street Commissioney Haney has se — cured the contract of hauling gravel $10 a ton for cull apples. insuraned such as straight life insur The University Bulletin. The principal of fair play is a pre on the road leading towards Applegate. Oil well drilling started on well near ance, twenty or thirty year paid-up Mrs. F. J. Fick Leaves for dominant trait of American character. The work is being done under the di McMinnville. life insurance and endowment insur In consists larely in allowing to others rection of the county court. Klamath Falls gets new candy fac- ance. Except in the case of a matur Visit to Old Home in Iowa. This office is recently in receipt of every right or privilege which we ask ed endowment, these forms of insur It has been decided to hold the re tory. the University of Oregon Bulletin. or claim for ourselves. As American ance, under the present act, are pay union of the Southern Oregon Pioneers Coos Fairview, McKinley and Dora, The pamphlet contains descriptive, citizens we insist on *he right to select Mrs. Fred J. Fick left Sunday for a able only in installments, extending county, planning big highway. concise information of what the uni and purchase our supplies in the most at Ashland August 26th. visit to her old home at Neola, Iowa. over a twenty year period, the amount The City Council advertises for bids Portland—New fruit cannery organiz versity is doing, has done and expects I satisfactory market. Any interference Mrs. Fick’s daughter. Miss Virginia, of installments depending upon the for excavating tunnels at the city ed with $75,000 capital. to do. accompanied her. They expect to be with the principles of fair play is bound amount of insurance. It was gotten up and printed by the to react. The right of liberty and the well. [ gone about two months. Salem—Per capita expense inmates Service men say that their benefic I Diversity Press and is a good example right of property have so long been Mr. Fick, who is staying with his asylum $15.57 per month, state prison iaries in many cases are too old ever of what the students are doing, and fundamental principles that every dis- Portland —Four 6,000 ton steel steam $36.39, feebie minded $17.07, training to realize any usefulness from the mother during his wife’s absence, would do credit to any commercial turbance or denial is sure to disturb 1 ships to be built by Albina machine school $30.48. states that lie is lonesome already, and insurance if paid only in monthly in print shop. does not wise the travelers any hard essential relations. Cove sheepmen selling lambs at 13j* stallments. I works. luck, but hopes they get homesick be a pound alive. In order to extend civil service pre- fore the two months are up. Coos Bay shipbuilding plant and saw ferece to honorable discharge j soldiers, | sailors and marines to federal positions mill to work as one plant. And Still They Picnic. Farmers co-operative fruit associa throughout the entire country, the legislative committee of the American t or to build plants in valley. Legion will urge amendment ot the Portland—In July shipping board Several crowds of Jacksonville young ■ Van Dyke bill which gives such prefer- pent $225,000 finisnmg ships here. people have been out picnicking lately. I ence in Washington, D. C. only. ft arshfield—E. A. Smith mill to be Articles on the organizanion of the I j Sunday morning a crowd of approxi- open.ted on three shifts. American Legion‘in Oregon and Wash- j [ mately twenty twenty-five people en K1 i:.inh Indian reservation to have j ington, giving lists of posts and their joyed a piviic in the upper Applegate 3600 acr.J put under [irrigation. > I officers in both states, together Jwith country. A fine time was had by all Bolsheviks, I. W. Ws. and radical I other news of interest to ex-service blinds. One of the features was a socialists find them selves to be quite | men, may be found in the current swirning party in the afternoon. The as useless to society as the fifth wheel ' issue ot The American Legion, a editor was invited along, but forgot to [ monthly magazine published in Port get up early enough, so missed the to a wagon. trip. Marshfie'd —Loos county organizes land, which has been chosen organ of , Portland post. Another picnic partv was held in fruit cancry. I A vigorous effort will be made by Ashland ParK Tuesday evening. The St Johns wants street car line and , the American Legion, to aid relatives young people in the party were: Mr. electric terminal. ' to receive as quickly as possible the and Mrs. F. E. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. State Highway Commission lets ' personal effects of soldiers who died in G. R. Chapman, Misses Flora Thomp $1,000,000 contracts August 5. ! the service. State branches of the son, Alice Hoefs and Edith Hoefs, and Salem threatened with new telephone American Legion haye been instructed Messrs. Herman Offenbacher, Dan strike. I to obtain by investigation through local O’Donell, George Griffith and Daniel Portland Masons plans $40,000 coutt- I posts, all available information in Bagshaw. Later in the evening a | cases in which there has been prolong swimming party was convened at ry club. Bend to have new $65,000 catholic ed delay in forwarding deceased soldiers Helman Baths. effects and to notify National head hospital, quarters in New York of each case in Portland—$50,000 sphagnum moss which the assistance of the Legion is State President of Degree oroducts company organized. desired. of Honor in Town. Newberg —$49,639.50 contract let for Mrs. Lulu D. Crandall of The Dalles, construction of 580 ft. concrete bridge Near Casualty on Road. Oregon, was in town this week in con over canyon. Florence—Delta Shingle Co. resumes Last week while coming up from ference with local officers of the De operations. Medford in his hack, Chris Ulrich was gree of Honor. Mrs. Crandall is state president of that organization and is Bend Water, Light & Power Co. treated to the supprise of his life. at present working the state in the Down the road a short distance below starts building plant. interest of reorganizing local branches Bybee ’ s corner, thinking about nothing Strahorn again plugging for his except getting home and getting some of that organization. central Oregon railroad. The organization is now a national of Ma Ulrich’s doughnuts u ider his Silver Lake—Over l.«f00 head of belt, Chi is was suddenly brought to organization instead of a state organ- cattle change hands. Price said to be life when a Ford came up behind and ization as formerly. $55 per head. crashed into the rear of the hack We are pleased to see many of our Roseburg—Construction will begin The jar threw Mr. Ulrich out of the this fall on Roseburg-Myrtle Point seat, but he managed to stay in the citizens taking active interest in I in- highway. rig and hold the lines. After some proving their homes and grounds. A Loganberries in Benton county yield difficulty he managed to quiet the team little effort on the part of each citizen would give our town a prominent posi $1200 per acre. and upon examination found himself io tion upon the map. Nature has done Republic—First carload shipment of be all together, except some minor much for us in pietuesque scenery, butter from Curry county sent. Weignt troubl s and some bruises. The h ick now let us do much for ourselves Along however, did not fare so well, several nearly 20,000 lbs. the improvement line. Albany —Work begun on new store parts bei' g broken and urn ished up. room. J Dallas to have another large prune Roseburg -Wilbir academy to be le< Oregon is visited by oil excitement. packing plant. built. I i
