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VOL. XIII.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER S. 1919
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BETTER
ROADS
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Do We, or Do We Not Get Better
Roads Tributary to Jacksonville?
AMERICAN LEGION
SCHOOL CENSUS
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MEETS.
COMPLETE.
Plans Perfected for Armis
174 Children of School Age
tice Day Celebration.
in Jacksonville District.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Medford Post of American Legion was
e
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i held at the Hotel Holland Tuesday, a
The question uppermost in mind with the residents large membership being in attendance.
Segt. McKee, the Medtord aviator,
of Jacksonville and the Applegate Valley this week is . was
present and spoke for a short tune
whether or not the State Highway Commission and the i°n
trans-continer.tai air race. . Mr.
McKee was observer in the machine
County Court intend to take any action in regard to mak whicB won the east bound race, defeat-
j ing the nearest rival
30 seconds.
ing the Jacksonville Hill road passable for winter use.
I Reports were had from committees
The visit of the State Highway engineer to this in charge of plans for the celebration
Armistice Day. It is planned to
place has caused no little speculation, concerning a new ' of
hold a big parade, in which it is hoped
1 every ex-service man in Jackson coun
road over the hill.
ty will participate. The Ashland and
The present road is in such a condition that it is unsafe Goul Hill Posts wid attend in a body.
Every ex-service man in Jacksonville
and in winter will be almost a bar to traffic from the should
plan to take part in this parade.
Applegate valley. The only explanation is that the Committes were named to confer
with ministers in Medford, Central
authorities are intending to build a new road in the future Point and Jacksonville in regard to
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and do not wish to expend any money on the present making Sunday Nov. 8, American
Legion Sunday. Churches all over the
road.
U. S. will observe this day as American
Sunday.
True, if a new highway is to build soon, to replace Legion
Delicious refreshments were served
the present road, any m oney spent in repairs would be under the direction of Dr. Conroy.
thrown away.
If advantange is taken of the state and federal aid
for building permanent highways this stretch of highway
would likely be paved to Ruch and the connecting roads,
both up and down the Applegate valley be graded and
macadamized.
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Then there would be a paved road from Medford to
Ruch, a road that would last, and not cut up after the
first rain.
By the people cooperating with the county court, this
scheme could be put over.
Life would be more
pleasant for the Applegate people, and incidently we
could get a little more of the Applegate valley trade.
REVIEW
Moves Law Office.
Enterprises and
D. W. Bagshaw this week m>ved his
law office from the building occupied
by this paper to the Ryan building on
California Street, near the old U. S.
hotel.
More business and a need for more
room necessitated the change.
INDUSTRIAL
Manufactures,
Improvements,
Providing
Payrolls and Promot
ing Development
of
t
Oregon.
•IIP
join
The American
Red Cross
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All you need is a
*anda>
AROUND THE WORLD
WITH THE AMERICAN
/®xRED CROSS.
• z On German Soil,
Dayton has opening for a cheese
factory.
Salem to have $250,(MX> hnuse building
Nov. 3.—Portland port commission
will fill 20-acre factory si e for large corporation planned to erect 100 new
Michigan company to manufacture houses for workingmen during the next
ready made houses on a large scale. six months.
These houses can be shipped to any
Banks wants a cannery and has suf
part of the country ar.d set up without ficient fruit for operations next season.
employing contractors or building
Lakeview wants a flour mill and
trades.
elevator. Flour mill that was in oper
Portland Railway, Light and Power ation burned last year. The country is
Co. shows on hearing before state raising about 150,000 bushels of wheat
utility commission that rates of wages this year and will probably double the
are higher than at other cities of simi yield in '920.
lar size and costs of living lower than
One of the useless railroads in the
similar cities.
Des Chutes canyon to be abandoned
and converted into a wagon road.
Portland bread price jumps again.
The single tax measure bobs up
Swan Valley ranchers helping them again with accustomed regularity and
selves with irrigation wells and pumps. will be on the ballot next year.
Hood River pears going at $4.00 a
Burris Henking in Kansas City Post:
b«x,
After all, the main thing lacking in
Noti—Timberman here closed a con America is willingness to work. Every
In the City Square of Treves, Ger
tract with the Postal Telegraph com body wants shorter hours and higher
headquarters of the allied mili
panv for the delivery ot 1500 cedar wages and as little work as possible. many,
ary forces, an ancient cross surmount-
poles on hoard the cars at Walton, on On that basis, we snail never compete •<l monument mnrks the city's center
the Coos Bay branch.
with Germany and Japan.
>f traffic. For this reason American
Eugene—Farmers composing valley
Stanfield gets another mercantile Red Cross officials converted It, as
shown by this picture, Into a directory
mint growers association holding out store.
of all Ited Cross activities In the city.
for $8 a pound for oil. Offered >7.15.
Purchase of a forest, erection of a
Salem offered vacumn street cleaner sawmill and addition of a plat to Pend-
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary,” but
aparatus factory to be bulit at once.
ton to provide meane of alleviating the the Red Cross is there.
"I have confident nope tnat the
Roseburg —Automatic electric brake house shortage is aivocated.
American Red Cross' world wide plans
to be manufactured here.
Stanfield —Flume building on Furnish for charity and mercy will be largely
With bar silver in New York selling ditch to cany 150 inches water.
realized, bringing the grateful appre
at $1.28, the highest price in 20 years,
1000 car apple crop for Western ciation of suffering millions as a par
long abandoned silver mining claims Oregon is prospect for next rear.
tial recompense, and a greater reward,
in the west are being onened up.
Pendleton-Umatilla hard wheat the richest blessings of God.”—Car-
Politicians who do nothing but fight brings record price of $2.45 a bushel. dinal Gibbons. • « • «
for cheap paving will have half the
Five year old loganberry patch near
“One is honored by the privilege of
state highways in Oregon crumbling Salem returns $1600 to owner from membership in the Red Cross, and
before the bonds are half due.
acre and a half this year.
blessed in being permitted to make any
Stayton wants a mattress factory.
Lumber milis of state are cutting to kind of contribution to its work.”—
Have an abundance of water power, capacity with big rush of business ex- j William Fraser McDowell, Presiding
labor conditions excellent and woolen pected during next few months. All Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church.
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mill at Stayton from whieh wool waste . elements of the industry are agreed
"The Red Cross is America at her
could be obtained.
I that the building boom calling for such best. . . . Money given to the Red
Joplin-News Herald: The worst enemy ! heavy supply of lumber this year will Cross is not an investment, nor is it
of organized labor is the radical who is !c»ntinue with increased vigor next a charity. It is a sacrament.”—Charles
permitted to become a part of organiz year.
A. Eaton. Pastor Fifth Ave. Baptist
ed labor. The one is a part of America
Redmond—Contract let to Warren Church, N. Y. ♦ • • •
the other is an enemy of all that Construction Co. for complete Silver
"It is extraordinary what can be ac
America means.
Lake Irrigation System.
complished when a free people all
Marshfield has recently comple‘ed a
Fruitvale—School district No. 72 unite and work together for their com
ver.eer plant and is desirious of secur votes bonds for modern school build mon good and for the good of human-
ing a paper mill plant.
1 ity."—Cardinal Mercier.
ing.
Albert H. Gammons, clerk of the
Jacksonville school district, has just
finished taking the school census. He
reports the number of children of
school age in the district as being 174,
divided as follows: boys, 93; girls, 81.
Mr. Gammons secured the names of
some school children who had been
missed at the census taking last year
and says that many new children just
arrived in Jacksonville hive been add
ed to the census. As the state pays
$10 to the local districts for each child
of school age, it can readily be seen
where a thorough canvass of the dls-
tnct is a financial benefit.
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
MENTIONED IN BIBLE
“I commend unto you Phoebe, our
sister, who is a servant of the Church
which is at Cenchrea,” wrote St. Paul
to the Romans, "that ye assist her in
whatsoever business she hath need
of you, for she hath been a succorer
of many and of myself also.”
Phoebe, explains Biblical history,
was a woman who went about nursing
the sick and teaching them better
methods ot living. Phoebe was the
first public health nurse.
Public health nursing, which is one
of the most Important enterprises in
the pea.ee program of the American
Red Cross, is not a new movement,
■ but it is one which heretofore has
; never received its just meed of atten-
i tion as a factor in maintaining the
i health of the nation.
Phoebe’s sister in the twentieth cen-
I tury is the community nurse who
i teaches better, cleaner living. Because
■ the betterment of public health is now
: definitely accepted as an individual
i and a community responsibility, the
( Red Cross will make a definite effort
! I to raise the standards of living in the
| United States by urging the employ-
[ ment of public health nurses in all
| cities, towns and rural districts, par
I ticularly in those where there are no
organized public health activities. A
healthier, happier America—that is
what the Red Cross is striving toward
in its Roll Call the first weeks in No
vember.
WHOLE WORLD EMULATES
AMERICAN RED CROSS
With the Red Cross societies of
twenty-six nations co-operating as
members, the League of Red Cross
Societies is now actively engaged in
extending Red Cross efforts through
out the world, says a cablegram to the
American Red Cross from Sir David
Henderson, director-general of the
league.
The membership roster now in
cludes, the cable said, the Red Cross
of the following countries: Argentina,
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Great
Britain, Greece, Holland, India, Italy,
Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
Portugal, Roumania, Serbia, South
Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United
States and Venezuela.
MOTHERS MUST NOT DIE,
SAYS THE RED CROSS
Sixteen thousand mothers die in
childbirth every year in the United
States of America, more than are thus
sacrificed in any other country of im
portance in the civilized world. The
American Red Cross has announced
its belief that these mothers, the very
flower of the womanhood of America
and heroines every one, shall no longer
die through ignorance or neglect, if
the public health nursing resources of
the country can possibly be extended
to give them the necessary care. This
is one of the reasons for the Third
Red Cross Roll Call which begins Sun
day, November 2.
MERCY WOMEN PRODUCE
FORTUNE IN GARMENTS
More than 8,000,000 women and girls
participated in the sewing and knit
ting of the American Red Cross dur
ing the war. Most of these workers
will be active In soliciting members
for the Red Cross for 1920, during
the ten days ending Armistice Day.
When it is remembered that these
women and girls in two years’ time
produced nearly $100,000,000 worth of
surgical articles and garments, includ
Ing more than 375.000,000 surgical
dressings, the fact that they are to
assist in the Roll Call Is a practical
assurance that universal membership
will be achieved.
"The help given by the Red Cross
is but another proof of the great heart
and sympathy of the American peo
ple." — Prince Regent Alexander of
Serbia.
NO. 28
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MILK SURVEY.
THE
CITY
ELECTION
Local Schoo! to Hold Milk Smallest Vote Polled in
Memory ot Oldest Citizen.
Survey.
McIntyre and Wendt for
Councilmen,
Bagshaw for
G. W. Godward, principal of the
schools of Jacksonville, and the teach
Recorder and Johnson for
ers of the local schools have been ask
Treasurer.
ed to co-operate in making a milk
survey to asceatain how many children
are getting no milk in their diet. The
work is simple but is regarded as im
portant in that it calls attention to the
great food value of milk and dairy
products The plan is that of the
Oregon Dairy Council, an educational
organization that has the co-operation
of the state agricultural college and
the indorsement of the burea of health,
and ’he state superintendent of schools,
the Oregon Parent-Teacher’s associa
tions and the Oregon Federation of
Woman’s Clubs, the State Chamber of
Commerce and other organizations and
persons of prominence.
In portland it was found when the
survey was made that there were 5702
children under 14 years of age getting
no milk. Follow up work, teaching
the food value of milk and dairy pro
ducts, lectures at meeting and talks by
teachers, all voluntarily done, increas
ed the use and raised the health stand-
wonderfully. In Prineville in a school
jf 200 there are 86 who are getting no
milk. The returns will be sent by the
principal to the dairy Council’s edu
cational director, Edith Knight Hill,
807 Broadway Building, Portland, who
will compile and publish them.
The eity election went off very quiet
ly in this city Tuesday. The number of
voters who turned out was the smallest
in the history of Jacksonville, due no
doubt to the fact that there was no op
position.
The candidates whose names appear
ed on the pallot all ran about even;
McIntyre receiving 36 votes for council
man, Bagshaw 39 votes for Recorder
and Johnson 39 votes for Treasurer.
Chester Wendt, while not having his
name on the official ballot, received 32
votes for councilman. A few scattering
votes for Councilmen and one for Re
corder made up the total. About 40
votes were cast.
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MANKIND RANCH SOLD
W. O. Garrett Takes Pos
session of 1400 Acre
Ranch on Poormen’s
Creek.
Ten Years Ago.
From The Jacksonville Post
of
November 6, 1919.
A "'an named Martin, who was cap
tured while trying to relieve a mar> of
his surplus change, was bouud over to
the grand iury, and in default of bail
was brought over and lodged in the
county jail.
The fru't inspector with two assist-
ants, armed with axes, arrived in town
Thursday and began the work of clean
ing up the back-lot orchards.
The Morning Mail and the Daily
Tribune, published at Medford, have
consolidated and appeared Mondav
under the name of Mail-Tribune.
The schools of Grants Pass are closed
on account of the prevalence of dip-
theria.
The Native Sons and Daughters an
nounce that they will give a Thanks
giving ball.
Olcott Can hit the Unex-
pired Term as Govenor.
W. O. Garrett, who has been living
in this city for the past four years ha»
obtained title to the Mankins* ranch on
Poorman’s creek, and expects to move
to the ranch soon.
The Mankins' ranch consists of over
1400 acres, is suitable for raising a
good crop of o'rain and is adapted to
alfalfa. Besides the cleared land there
are several hundred acres of timber
land, from which can be cut a great
quanity of wood.
Mr. Mankins will move on the
Garrett ranch on Little Applegate.
During their stay in this city Mr.
Garrett and family have made many
friends here, who will be sorry to lose
good friends and neighbors, even tho
their home will be only a few miles
away.
STATE ENGINEER HERE
Said to be Looking for New
Route Over Jacksonville
Hill.
A State Highway Engineer was in
town this week. While he did not
shout his business from the house tops,
common rumor has it that he was
looking over the proposed route of a
state hishway over the Jacksonville
hill.
The new route would be up the Jack-
son Creek bottom and up ’he South
fork and over the hill coming out at
about tbe Demmer place. This route,
it is said, would mean s uniform grade
and would be much less of a grade
then the present road.
Salem, Ore., Nov. 1.—That Gover
nor Ben W. Olcott is authorized to fill
the unexpired term of the late Govern-
nor James Withycombe, which ends in
1923, was the subitance of an opinion
by Attorney General Brown today
gived to Assistant Secretarry ot State
Sam Kozer. The attorney general re
affirms a previous opinion given in this
regard, but suggests a remedy. The
remedy is that any citizen who is a Perishing Favors He serve
voter bring mindamus proceedings
Torce
against the secretary of state, com
pelling him to certify that the office of
governor is to be filled. In this way
Washington, Nov. 1,—A volunteer
says the attorney general it would be force of officers and men who served in
tested in the court«.
the great war, so organised as to pre
serve war time designation of units,
was proposed to the military commit
Making Logged off Lands tees
of congress today by General
Pershing as thu basis for a permanent
Produce.
reserve to be maintained in tho future
by universal service.
One of our state agricultural colleges
Until universal training got under
is putting on a land clearing demon way, he told the committee, divisions
stration where all modern methods and ami smaller units now disbanded could
machinery
are employed. British be brought back into existence on
Columbia has stolen a march on the paper. With enough volunteers from
United States in clearing up thousands their former personnel to make up a
of acres of logged-off lands for re skeleton of a continuing reserve sys
turning soldiers.
tem.
With government capital, tractors,
cables and dynamite and letting con
The opening of the new pavilion of
tracts in large blocks the land can be the Pacific International Livestock Ex
cleared at wholesale. Then it is cut up position at Portland occurs on Novem
into five and ten acre tracts and equip ber 17. This show is now in its ninth
ped with a school house as a community year and will celebrate with proper
center and settlers do the rest.
ceremonies the occupation of the r.ew
The most socialistic proposition in half million dollar home. It will mark
m iny a day is offered in Oregon where an impo'tant epoch in the history of
a move is afoot to build state employ the livestock industry of the Pacific
ment centers. Lands are to be cleared Northwest. Three thousand pure-bred
with unemployed labor and no man will animalshave been entered, also.'ISO
have any excuse to be idle if he wants show horses. An important feature of
to work at one of these clearing the Live»tuck Exposition, which wid
plants.
run for one week, is the Western Dairy
Oregon and Washington with thous Products show and the convention Jof
ands of acres of logged off lands have the Western Dairy Instructors’ assoc
a wonderful opportunity to turn these iation under the same spacious roof.
lanes into productive areas through Eleven or more statesj will be r. pre
berry cultivation.
sented in tbe exhibit«.