JACKSONVILLE:- A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate JACKSONVILLE POST A RESOURCES:- F ruit , M ines L umber , C attle , C lay P roducts aj "J. VOL. XIII. JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER S. 1919 I BETTER ROADS I X Do We, or Do We Not Get Better Roads Tributary to Jacksonville? AMERICAN LEGION SCHOOL CENSUS I 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 ... 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 I 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. I 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 JL 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 •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. • • • • 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 i 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. ............. •<»« 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«.