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JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 17. 1920
BASKET BALL
CITY COUNCIL
ORGANIZES.
SCHEDULE, 1920
t chedule ot Games for Jitney Ordinance Passed
VV. H. Venable Named
Championship of
Marshal.
Southern Oregon.
LIBRARY WELL UNDER
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INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
WAY.
Manufactures,
BEAT THEM TO IT
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With the organization of the Improvement Club was
The city council a meeting Tuesday
Jannary 16, 1920.
night
at
the
City
Hall.
Present:
Mayor
'macle the provision for a cornmitttea of three to act as an
Applegate at Jacksonville
I Britt; Councilmen Bishop. Fick, Mc­
Phoenix at Talent
Intyre and Smith; Recorder Bagshaw, advisory committee in the ways of clean-ups, paint-ups,
Central Point at Rogue River
Treasure Johnson, Street Commisstonei
etc. Nearly everyone in town is behind this clnb and by
January 30, 1920
! Ulrich and Marshal Kenney.
Jacksonville at Phoenix
Minutes of the last regular meeting summer it is expected that the membership roll will con­
Talent at Applegate
i and of the special meeting were read
Gold Hill at Central Point
I and approved. Claims against the city tain the name of every person’in town.
February 13, 1920
< were presented and ordered paid as
The civic improvement committee will no doubt make
Applegate at Phoenix
follows, except the street commission-
Jacksonville at Talent
*
suggestions
for cleaning up the place and probably some
I er’s salary which was held back until
Rogue River at Gold Hili
repairs to the water mains might be
of the suggestions will be acted upon.
The league is divided into divisions I made.
With Jacksonville, Applegate, Phoenix j W. H. Johnson, salary
$33 33
Now why not get busy and beat the Club to it. Clean
and Talent forming the Southern di­ I Chris Ulrich, pipe .20, paid boys
up your property! Make the town of neater appearance,
vision and Central Point,
I
for work 5 50, paid Fred
Rogue River and Butte
Hoesiy work on road 4.50,
j Build Jacksonville into a modern city, instead of a camp
Northern division.
paid Ernest McIntyre work
1 of fifty years ago.
February 27, 1920. The two teams
3.00, hauling gravel 1.50, haul­
having won the greatest number of I
ing brush and rock 2.50, haul­
True, in some respects, the town is a great museum,
games shad play each other, and the
ing lumber .75, paid Allen
two teams having won the least num­
for bands 25.00, filling two
i a vast storehouse of the days long gone by. But as we
ber of games shall also play each other
patch holes 1.00, paid Fred
are unable to construct a high board fence and collect ad-
but the latter shall not be considered a
Hoesiy digging out pipe 3.00
championship game.
salary for Dec. and 13 days
mission fees, we had better go in the other direction and
March 12, 1920
m Jan. 73.26
Total
$141.71
Champion of north end of Jackson
The ordinace granting to the Inter­ make a modern city out of Jacksonville.
county vs Champions of south.
urban Auto Car Co. Inc., the license
The coming year will witness a great inrush of
The games on February 13, except as to operate an auto line was placed on
pacifically stated, and the ones on its third ar.d final reading and upon j people, second only to the days of ’49. Will we be pre-
March 12 all being final games to de­ roll call was passed by the following
Get busy! Remove, the eyesores,
termine winners for the north or south vote: Bishop, aye; Fick, aye; Smith, ' pared for the crowds.
end of the county or for the champion­ aye; McIntyre, aye; naes, none.
j use a little paint where it is needed (most every place in
ship .of Jackson County, shall be play­
The ordinance was immediately ap­
ed upon the floor of one of the partici­ proved by the mayor and as it contain­ jtown).
pating teams, which floor shall be de­ ed an emergency clause it went into
Make Jacksonville the neatest, most beautiful and
termined by lot. However, by mutual immediate effect.
agreement between the teams a neutral
That being all the business for the | healthful town in Oregon. The prospects are here,
No
floor may be selected.
old Council, Mr. Smith retired and
Chester Wendt and Mr. McIntyre were city has a better foundation to worn on, no city in the
in as councilmen.
West has a better opportunity for development.
Good Plan to Control the sworn
The first business to’ come up was
“Make ’er Hum.”
the selection of a head of the depart­
Strikes.
Civic Club to Give Public
Entertainment
Enterprises and
Improvements,
Providing
Payrolls and Promot­
ing Development
The meeting of the Improvement
Club held Monday evening was poorly
attended, probably because of so many
counter attractions.
One of the important matters taken
up at the meeting was the appoint
ment of the regular and standing com-
mittes. The Executive committee will
be composed will be composed of the
following busines men: Lewis Ulrich,
D. W. Bagshaw and W.H Jonnson; the
committee on Advertising and Publici­
ty of G. A. Gardner, Emil Britt and F
J. Fick; and the Civic Improvement
committee of Dan Bagshaw, Jr., Mrs.
H. H. Sargen* and G W. Ager.
Members of the Jacksonville Library
Board were present and asked for fi-
nancial assistance.
Mr. G. W. Godward. Mrs. H K.
Hanna and Dan Bagshaw were appoint­
ed as a committee to plan and prepare
an entertainment for St. Valentine’s
night.
of
Oregon.
Salem State spends $1,696.0 0 on
highway bridges in 1919.
Eugene —Milk
built.
condensary
to
be
Harrisburg—Bridge to be built across
river here.
Pendleton—34,516 acres under irri­
gation in Umatilla county.
Roseburg—Two large farms of 2100
and 3100 acres to be divided into tracts
of 50 and 60 acres for fruit and l> rry
culture.
Joplin, Mo., News Harald: Of one
thing the labor union members may
rest assured —if the unions are killed,
they will be killed from the inside, not
from without. So fur as any cause w
good, it flourishes by opposition So
far as it is bad, it grows weak from its
own maladies.
Ten Years Ago
Salem—65 carloads apple cider order­
ed by New York firm from Puez <’o.
Portland — Pacific Steamship
Co.
From The Jacksonville Post of closes
contract to carry 4,000,010 feet
of lumber to Orient.
January 15, 1910.
Portland —Lumber prices will soar to
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I unprecedented levels during winter and
The City Drug Store was entered , spring, according to lumber officials
and robbed of about fifty dollars in here. Demand for Douglas fir and
other woods from this section by east­
cash Sunday night.
ern building manufacturing industries
In regard to the railroad situation, will reach an enormous volume during
there are good reasons for the belief next year.
that actual work will be done this
Coye—Hay bringing $25 a ton here.
summer, on a road to the coast by way
Astoria—New $100,000 business block
of the Applegate, but whether an ex­
tension of the K. R. V. or an entirely to be erected.
new project, we are at present unable
Albina —Fisher flour mill buys lots to
to say.
build plant on.
North Bend—Union Oil Co. to build
T, L. Devore has purchased the stock
plant here.
of
the
Jaeksonillve
Furniture
Co.
and
ments of the Street, water, marshal
Corvallis -S. P. Co. to remove
and sexton.
io Air. Washburns company for help assumed possession.
tracks and pave Washington street.
A plan to minimize frequency of
The
Air
Nitrates
Corporation
was
Word
was
received
here
Thursday
Mr. Ulrich presented a bid for the
railroad strikes bv prohibiting arbi­ position of street commissioner and
formed, with Mr. Washburn st its that Judge Hanna had resigned his
Marshfield—75 ranchers to plant 175
’«4, to luiild the Muscle Shoals plnut. liooition has Judge of the First Judicial acres of berries.
tration of points at issue while the water superintendent at a salary of $65
It was assisted by several other Well
strike is in progress is proposed by with helD in making patches to the
New company t > operate boa’s on
known corporations, such ns the West­ District and that Frank M. Calkins
L. S. McIntyre, traffic manager of the
hail been appointed as his succesor.
Columbia and Willamette.
water mains, or $75 per month to do I
inghouse
Church
Karr
Company,
which
West Coast Lumbermen’s Association. the work alone. Mr Kenney asked i
put up the plant buildings, the perma-
Prineville Mrs McDowell io buil I
Mr. McIntyre’s proposal provides in
for his old job at $35 per month plus Big $60,000,000 Nitrate Plant ■ ent city and utilities; the J. G. White
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bungalows and 100 room hotel.
brief, that the boards or commissions to
. Corporation, which designed nnd con- Turn Loose the White Coal
fees collected from sexton’s duty.
a Defense for Future
Newberg Graphic enters 31st year
be created for the purpose of adjusting
I
structed
the
power
plant;
the
Cliem-
Frank Zell offered to administer the
under E. H. Woodward as Editor.
wages, hours of labor and other work­
■ leal Construction Company, which de
Generations.
affairs of the marshal, street com­
signed and built the nitric acid plant, j Our country and especially the west
Gold Hill cement plant will resume
ing conditions tor railroad employees
missioner and water supertendent for
1 and the M. W. Kellogg Company, which I is on the eve of the greatest hydro- operation) this month.
“shall tie prohibited from a considera­
$95 per month, while Mr. Horace INSURES NATIONAL DEFENSE furnished the piping and built th» ' electric development ever known in
tion or determination of the issues
St Helees Sauvies Island sawmill
Venable offered to act as sexton,
chimneys.
i history. The electric era has been
while the men are on strike.”
marshal, street commissioner and I
Beginning work In November, 1917, I hastened by the coal strike an) by the j starts operation.
In this way, he points out, the em­ water superintendent for $100 Der I Assurance of Abundant Ameri­ the big plant and new city at Muscle
! Portland stove works to uuild . e
I need of conserving coal resources.
ployees will realize that the board can­ month The mayor called for a vote
Shoals was completed within one
Demand for oil products are growing I plant. Carman manufacturing company
can Explosives a Reason
not function until they return to work, by the council and Mr. Venable was
year's time. Had the expected spring
’ to build addition 80 by 140.
that political presure could not be ex- i declared elected.
drive of 1919 materialized tills one ' faster than crude oil resources can
Why Germany Quit.
Hood River claims to have $500,000
plant alone wonld have been able to 1 possibly be developed. Electric light,
erted in the effort to secure a compro-! There being no] further business an
re
new
construction work planned.
heat
and
power
mu«r.
come
to
the
supply
13
per
cent
of
all
the
high
mise and that labor cannot contend ! adjournment was taken.
explosives used by all the Allied ar­ lief of the world and the west has the
By GARRET SMITH.
Klamath Falls box factorits and saw
that it is being deprived of any of its
mills increase capacity.
One of the chief fortresses of Amer­ mies on nil fronts during that drive west has the undeveloped power.
constitutional rights. There would be
nnd the United States was secure for
Whin congressmen quit waving the
ica’s now military defense system ill time to come against an amniuni
Eugene fruit grower gets $771.31
nothing in the law to prevent them j Breaking Down ot
! black flag of “conserving" our powers I for crop one acre rasnberries.
developed out of the World il.r shortage.
from striking, but a return to work '
Regulations which
to the sea, and wave
War is the Ammonium Nitrate Plant
would be a condition precedent to a '
When the arrangement was finally which are wastir
Umatilla county—67 per cent ot the
at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on the ■unde for building (lie big air nitrate I the American fiagof advancing progress school children are in school districts
consideration of their grievances.
“While the better judgment of this
For several years past, managers of Tennessee River, over three hundred plant, work was begun on n power ' to the new era of electricity —relief having but 36 per cent of the assessed
co intry is unanimously agreed tnat public utility companies have pointed miles from the seacoast, capable of lam nt the same point. This work Is ’ will come.
value of the county. Co. Supt. Green
there should be no cessation of trans- out that utility rates could not re­ turning out 300 tons of high explosives icing conducted directly hy the Unit­
“To say tl at a man shall not strike savs present system of collecting school
ed
States
Engineering
Corps.
It
will
piriation or essential industry of any > main stationary while cost of labor and a day. It assures to the United States not be completed, however, for two or
ii one thing, but to enforce the man- tax is very inequitable and suggests
kind there is nevertheless not the same supplies advanced, without finally forc- for all time an abundance of ammuni­ three more years. It was necessary.
d ite is another. Aside from ones’ that it be put on a pupil and te..< her
unanimity with respect to the methods i ing public utilities to the wall. The tion without which an army Is a help­ ' herefore, In order to Insure Imine
constitutional rights in the premises of basis.
best adap ed to insure uninterrupted j butcher, the baker, the laborer and the less encumbrance and It has made dinte operation when the nitrate plant such a law is generally so obnoxious
Warmer buildings nee ed <, P
employm mt while the grievances of i supply man of every kind increased this unlimited supply of explosives ias completed to construct a $10,000,
root crops Hnd live slock in we- <in
as
to
foreclose
i'
against
passage
by
the men are being considered by the ' prices steadily but all seemed to think available without resort to raw ma­ itMj steam power plant, one of the Inrg
•st steam plants for the production of Congress, and even if in some way it states.
properly constituted tribunal,” says they could get the same old car rides terial from outside of the country.
The farmers of t, istern () e. OU II .V.
The essential Ingredient of all mod­ ontlnuous electric power In the world would become part of our statutory
Mr. McIntyre.
for a nickel, the same old telephone
It Is pointed out that even hud the law, it is hardly conceivable that it , fired Biown as president of ,h Eq 1 11.
ern
military
explosives
in
nitric
acid.
bill and in face the same old rate for
I
plant been completed dur could be enforced without inviting dis­ Society for being too soci distic and
Before the World War, America was water-power
public utility service.
Ing the war It would have been neces aster to law and order generally The elected a conservative farmer in his
Copper.
entirely
dependent
upon
Chile
for
the
Many articles have been written on
Miry ills., to have constructed u steam thing to do therefore is to address the 1 place. The same war is on in the
the break down of our railroads and supply of nitrate of soda, the only plant to Insure the nitrate plant work law to the Committee or board to be
j Grange against Stale Master Spence.
chemical from which nitric acid can ing at full capacity at all times dur
In marked contrast to 1918, »he cop- utilities but we believe the time is
created
for
the
purpose
of
adjusting
Hood River apples sell $3.59 to $1 50
be
made.
In
case
this
country
became
ing the year.
par market in New York closed 3trong ripe for an article dealing with the Involved In war with any nation that
wages and working conditions to the a box.
Plant
Worth
All
It
Cost.
subject
of
the
“
break
down
of
public
wiih foreign and domestic sales increas­
could control the sea our foe would
Now, Ibis entire job cost the Govern­ emoloves, i. e.
Gold Hill $5000 fir • proof g ru> e
ing in volume. England and France regulation”
“Provide by appropriate language in
have us at her mercy, for she could ment SGii,Ot>0,000. It was put through
to l.e built.
This
regulation
has
been
carried
on
have increased buying materially and
pending
bills
dealing
with
those
wage
cut off our essential means of striking nt a time when the prices of materials
Scio lumber mul to be enlarged.
Japanese takings continue strong. Ger­ with but one object for many years back.
and labor were at their auqiinlt. Il c immittees and boards are prohibited
;
past;
namely
cheaper
rates.
Astnria
—Clatsop
county
many has bought several million pounds
from
a
consideratk
n
or
determination
adopts
was
built
at
record
speed,
and
speed
Other nations, however, were
Theoretically we have had cheaper
through Scandinavian countries. Ex­
costs money. The question naturally of the issues while the men are ()Ut Oh $427,119.50 budget. $195,000 to go on
equally
dependent
upon
the
Chilean
arises, then, ns to whether Uncle Sam strike. ”
port copper is selling for first quarter I rates due to regulation. As a matter nitrate
roads.
supply. Germany was pur- got Ills money's worth.
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"t 19'4 cents a pound. On metal for ' of fact, if we added the cost of main­ chasing
One-third wool produced in state, or
one-tldrd
of
It
She
had
ex-
Tests made after the plant was ill
Two Famous Brogues.
domestic consumption is 19 cents a taining our regulating bodies and the | pected
about 4,250,000 lbs., used ov )<> al
to hold the sea with her sub­ iperatlon showed that ammonium ill
I
curtailed
development
due
to
inability
p »end.
Broken English, Professor Bool' mills. Value $7,000,000.
marines but failed. But a process rntit of standard specifications could
Domestic copper consumers are act­ j of the camDanies to secure sufficient for extracting nitrogen from the air .e produced at this [ilunt at a cost of says, Is merely Hie Imperfect English
Forest Grove —New inachim ry to be
ively and urgently in the market. funds to build extensions as needed had been obtained by Germany some '-s Ilian one hull’ the standard fixed of an Individual foreigner. Pidgin Eng­
installed in local cannery. Will double
They have purchased copper as June, and keep up needed repairs, we would years before from Italian chemists. irice paid by the Government for am lish. the English of Ilans Brletmiinn's
.nnlum nitrate produced by the older hiillnds and of the comedy French­ capacity.
and would make commitments even for in all probability fiud that we ha I paid This process had been successful In
Oregon City —Work on foundation of
methods. This cost Is only about one man. are of that elms. Creole English
Joly and August if producers were dearly tor our past “cheaper” rates.
Any man whose wages have been producing a high grade nitrogenous mirth to one fifth the cost of other and Pennsylvania Hutch are brogues. new mill of Crown Willamette Paper
willing to accept such contracts
fertilizer front which In turn could |
Co being rushed. Over 200 additional
The west can be truly thankful if increased or who has increased the he extracted ammonium nitrate. Ger I gli explosives of equal strength
Compared with Hie oi ler process foi
Remember the Golden Rule.
price
of
the
product
which
he
sells
or
men will be employed on construction
the corner has been finally turned in
many,
therefore,
fell
to
manufacturing
mnklng ammonium n irate, the sav
Perhaps the person Isn’t living who
the copper situation as it means ad­ manufacturing, during the past five ammonium nitrate from the air on a tigs made by this plant would huvt luisn't certain little peculiarities, hut arid other work which company con­
ditional employment and prosperity in years, has no valid ground for com- j targe scale.
.ni'l for the entire plant In about out that Is no reason why some narrow- templates, will add $25,000 a month to
plaining at necessary increases in public
many sections.
nd one half years of operation.
minded Individual should take It upon payroll of Oregon City and vic niry
Americans Buy German Secret.
utility rates today The public must
The
chief
value
of
tl.
M
s>
le
Shoals
Cottage Grove—Johnson L imber «Jo.
In 1907 nn American company, head­ plant, however, will be as u defense to herself to weave Into whole cloth those
recognize tne conditions unless it wish­
liny, discordant raveling« and then purchases 19«*,0<)0,0«)0 tcet timber in
The beat way to overcome political es to severely cripple future industrial ed by Frank S. Washburn, bad secured coming generations
puss on her "discovery” to anyone who Umpqua forest.
the American rights to this prove,,
unrest and radicalism is to gh e the develooment in this country.
will listen. If the listener Is a believer
Portland Palmolive Co
from Germany and ha 1 gone Into man
Daily Thought.
pe >ple something else to think about,
In the Golden Rule she will not only
factory destroyee by tire
itTacturfng the fertilizer on the Cana
To
receive
honestly
Is
the
in the record each week of industries,
l
.in
u
deuf
ear
to
such
a
recital,
but
Jan. 12.—Roseburg—Oregon Grow­
thanks tor a good thing.—George
enterprises and payrolls throughout ers’Association to build $15,00«) pack- dian side of tiie Niagara Falla, u
<!i.-iidss her uncharitable Informant as $75,000.
America found herself In the World Donald.
quickly
as possible.—Exchange.
the state.
Portland Three 12,000 ton steel
I ing plant here.
War the Ordnance Department fornerl .
r_
tankers to be constructed.
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