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I % I JACKSONVILLE:- A M T ountain ow n A V ai . lky C i . imate . I VOL. XIV W ith ,___________ 1 - -- ii&SuUKLES;- Fut it , M ines , I a ' mbeh , C attle , C lay P roducts JACKSONVILLE POS JACKSONVILLE. JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON. JUNE 19. 1920 NO. 8 Tersely Told NEWS OF THE WEEK ¡LOCAL SCHOOL WHAT OUR NEIGH By TRUE TALES OF PIONEERS Conscientious IN TABLET FORM RANKS HIGH Early History of Silas J. Day, On<*ot the First-comers to Southern Correspondents BORS ARE DOING Oregon. The 1 rip West Via the Isthmus of Panama in the About twenty persons were injured County School 4upt. Ager gives rank ' ill’s IL.tl Its Hardship- as Well as the Overland Route. Howard Dunlap has purchased a 160 ' in Minneiota when a tornado hit a of elementary schools in county outtide acre firm at Kirby, Josephine county, Northern Pacific passenger train and I of Medford an I Ashlinl as follows: There were lew in the ranks of the ! .Mr. I lay was a prominent number of ASHLAND and left Thursday with bio teams and ! tour coaches were blown from the Tnirty schools in Jackson county have pioneers of S luthern Oregon mire the I. ().(). E tn 1868 he was elected farm implement». Mrs. Dunlap and ^rac*{- 1 been awarded Standard School (‘ertifi- public spirited and far seeing than the Grund Mu*ter of the Independent Order Rev. C. A. Edwards was called to children and her mother, Mrs. Smith, The tooth of a mastodon of pr<-!®a^es by the State Department of E<1- late Silas J. Day, who for many years j of O<ld Felloes of Oregon, and in the LsGrande last week to officiate at the will follow next week. historic age was found on a ranch near i ucation for having met all the require- played an active | irt in state a d followiug y. nr was Grund Reprisenta- funeral of a former parishioner. Mrs. Percy Merrill and children ar- . Baker, Oregon. The piece was three j ments a3 1 <id down by that department evunly affairs. He war rerponsib e I live to tl e Sov reign Grand Lodge of Supplementary work in advanced rived from Nebraska Saturday to I and seven-eighths inchee long and two > ^or an Oregon standard school. They '1 ;■ f°r many permanent improvements the ord. r in ih_- United States. g-'adas under specific instruction began ! speid the summer with Mrs. Merrill’s and three quarters inches wide. have also been awarded large signs, during his olli -ial career and transact Mr . 1) <y reived in Oregon in 1851. at the high school last Monday. six by th'.rty iichis in size and contain ed the public business entrusted to Irm ■ oning by way ot the Isthmus of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paulus Olsen. The great gambling establishment at1 Charles Holmes has purchased 120 Miss Doris Cowley, Frank Ross, Jack Shanghai, which flourished for years as ■ ing in large le'.'ers the words Standard ! in a manner th it won the contid. nee . I’.ii.-irn •, and, though but a chil l, re acres of land from Dr. Jarvis, to add Cowley and Floyd Kyle, all students at the Monte Carlo of the Orient, is to be ' School. These are placed on the out i and lasting esteem of the early settlers runs a vivid i .collection of the hard- side above the duor way so that those i in this part of the state. »hip; connected with the trip. The to his ranch property east of Ashland the O. A. C. at Corvallis, recently ar converted into a charity hospital. Mr. Day was born in Ann Arundel purtv of emigrants with whom Mrs. passing by may know that the schocl The tract is located on the Pacific rived in Central Point for the summer ¡county, Maryland April 3rd, 1826. He Day erosaeJ the isthmus, was compelled A wholesale grocery concern in' is standardized Highway. vacation. | arrived at San Francisco, Calif., in the to voyage up the Chagres river in open Huntington, West Virginia, was fined j The standard schools of the first rank The American Lagion is considering The W. R. C. tea, held at the home J month of April, 1819, and in 1851 made j $35,000 upon conviction of profiteering boats for a day and a night with aL- in Jackson county are: Jacksonville the platting of a bronze tablet as a me of Mrs. W. E. Price last week, was an | his first trip to Oregon, returning to1 solutely no shelter from the driving in sugar. I rooms 1-2, 3-4, 5 6, 7-8, Phoenix rooms morial to Ashland boys who died in enjoyable affair, A crowd of over 10(j , California the same year. A couple of 1 The city of Galveston, Texas, is ui. I i I 2, 3 4, 5 6, 7-8, Central Point rooms , years later lie decided to make his rain w hich fell continuously. The rc- the service. It is proposed to sink the i I people attended. m under of the distance was made on 11-2, 3-4, 5 6, 7 also 8, Lone I’i te near tablet in a huge boulder in Litnia Park Merchant E. C. Faber is purchasing der martial law as the result of dis- I home in Oregon an 1 on July 13, 1853, and the unveiling exercises will be held home grown strawberries for the firm turbances caused by the longshore- Medford, Agate, Lake Creek, Talent located a Donation Land Claim on Little ■ mule buck. As a result of thiB expos- j rooms 1-2, 3 4, 5-6, Rogue River rooms ure Mrs. Djy’s mother died and was July 4 th. of Wood, Curtis & Co,, Klamath Falls, men’s strike. 11-2, 3-4-5, 6-7 8, Galls Creek. Oak Butte ereek. Mr. Day was residing on burled al se i on the voyage between The Depot hotel, which has been for which firm he is buyer. Hay is now selling in Grass Valley, 1 Grove primary, Oak Grove advanced his claim when the Indian war of 1855 the isthmus and San Francisco. During I successfully operated for fourteen Mr. and Mrs. Eldreth of Grants Pass Calif., for $50 per ton, having doubled grades, Alderbruok, Butte Falls rooms | broke out. He immediately enlisted this voy.ig • the ship’s supply of dri ik years by Julius Wolff, will be managed spent Sunday with the la ter’s parents, in price since last October. 1-2, 3 4-5-, 6 7-8, West Side and Tolo. j I and was elected orderly sergeant in ing wijter turne I b:ul and for three by the dining err department of tbe Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McJimsey. Immediate appropriation of $125,0u0,- Those schools having won thirteen | 1 Captain Miles F. Aleorus’ company G , days the emigrants suffered severely Southern Pacific Company after July j 000 ot the people’s funds for the use of or all but one point toward standard-1 Ninth Regiment, Oregon M-litia, or 'from thirst 10th. Mr. Wolff is relinquishing his | railroads was announced by the inter ization are: Antelope, Talent grades 7 ganized “to serve against the Yakin a Mrs Day's father, J. W. McGhee, louse because of ill health, but will! an-1 other Indians,” and, up hi the had preceded his family to the western state commerce cumrn ssion. and 8, Dewey, and upper grades at EAGLE POINT J continue to Hvfe in Ashland where he resignation of Lieut. James i l. Matney El Dorado, crossing the plains in 1851. A huge meteor of intense brilliancy Wagner creek. owns considerable property. in 1855, was promoted to a lieutenancy He was a minister of the Gospel and .fell in Oklahoma last week. Hundreds The ones winning twilve points are: C. B. Howard has added a ne'.v 12- of people watched the meteor burn it lower grades Wagner Creek, Gold Hill | in the company. He, together with conducted the lirst religious servic. a J. W. Berrian of the Butte Falls fish self out. I rest of the company, was mustered held in Yreka, California. In 1852 he passenger Reo auto bus to the Ashland- room 1-2, Prospeet and Howard. hatchery autoed through Eagle Point I out of service on June 13, 1856. Klamath Falls stage Hue. , came to Ore,-on and located a donation The eleven paint schools arc: Rose Charles Hatfield, professional ‘‘rain Sil is j. Day a id Mary E. McGIie, a I land claim near where Bybee bridgi The Children’s Day exercises at the on his way to Medford the latter part maker” succedel in producing two dale, Ruch, Eagle Point upper grades, of the week. native of Boone count'-, Missouri Methodist church, which were schedul inches of rain at Ephrata, Wash., to Applegate upper grades and Elk Crock. whose family is alto numbered among now stands. He was known ti the Miss Enid Middlebusher, who has save the crops. ed to be held last week, but wore The ones winning ten points: Eagle i the tiioneers of Oregon, were mui ried , Indians as a ‘‘Bible man” and as such, tie Id in great respect by them. Before postponed because qf the absence of been visiting Medford friends for some Point lower grades, Willow Springe, Eleven people were killed and a Portland, Oregon, on May 22, I Sil, the Indian outbreak of the *50’s, Old the pastor, Rev. C. A. Edwards, will ■ lime, returned to her home at Trail score injured in a collision between an Independence, North Phoenix, Apple- [ at B , )(1 four chi|dre|| werc bor „ to ____ __ _______ _________ -o them, Friday morning of last week. ’ be held tomorrow. express and a passenger train near gate lower grades, Reese Creek, Crater , : Mary 1. , Elsie C., Silas E. and Edward S ini and Old Joe, chiefs of the Rogue Ira Tungate of Butte Falls passed River Indians, warned Mr. McGhee First Company’s social event, a Lake, Gold Hill rooms 3-4, 5 6, Wimer, Schenectady, New York. M. Day. that trouble wai brewing and advised Hab-hery and Fern Valiey. society cabaret, will usher in the cele- through Eagle Point Thursday en route By an act of the Legislative Assemb Violent diir.o :sti at o.is over the higu biaiion period, on Friday July 2nd. In j dome a^tcr atrip to Medford, Those winning nine include: Neil ly of the State of Oregon, approved him to leave ths country for a lim . cost of food occured in Vienna, in Grant Wartz of Rogue River was a I addition to the many other attractions, Creek, Provolt, Foots Creek, Pilot October 23, 1872, a Board of Comtnis- | Mr. McGhee followed this advics and which a number of people were killed. Mias Kathryn Swem of Medford will recent Eagle Point visitor, Rock, L ist Crevk, Soda Springs, Bybee i sioners was appointed to lay out ai.d returned after the uprising was quell Police intervention was necessary. ed, only to find that his claim haei be .-it Springs. direct a spot light dance. William Taylor, a pioneer and much 80’1 fine steers on board the Ameri Those winning eight: Dar2anelles, i construct a wag >n road through Jick- |‘‘jumped.” whereupon he moved t> C. H. Vaupel and H. C. Sparr will esteemed resident of the valley died son, Grant, and Baker counties. It was I the Willamette valley where tiie fam can steamer St. Charles, off the coast be the representatives of the local very suddenly Thursday night of last of Cuba, stampeded and plunged over Derby, Meadows and Pineburst. known as the Southern Oregon Wagon Tne ones winning seven: Griffin 1 Road and was 343'( miles in length. I ily made their home. Shriner lodge to the big doings at week. He leaves a wife and several _ board where they were devoured by qcc .¡. pan|tey _, Trail, I Portland. It is expected that a goodly children and grand children to mourn lerty, Got ! At the orguniz rion of this board Mr. I In 1855-55 Mrs. Day attended the sharks. ||j j gra(jeg 7*S’ !^UAe.lh i ?'! his loss. t: . ! D^y was elected chairman and continu- i Tualaton Academy at ForeBt Grove, of number from her* will attend. , which institution Dr. Marsh was presi Dr. C. H. Mayo, of the famous May .reek Brophy, Little Applegate. Cen- Kay Looseley, a prominent Fort Tne daily V .cation Bible School, i ed tn office until July, 1874. when, its dent. Among her school mates were a Bros., Hospital at Rochester , Minn., | tral, Copco, Colestin. which is being held each morning in Klamath stockman who is ranging a I recently was awarded a distinguished labors bring completed, the board was number of Walker, Owens and Spauld The ones with but six are— Climax, dissolved. tbe Chautauqua Hall, has enrolled over bunch of cattle in this neighborhood, ing children, survivors of the Marcus > service medal. business the latter part the of I Nine priionersof the Yakima, Wash., S.<m< Valley, Siskiyou. Brownsboro, &W students for the course, which will was here on Mr. He was elected county cler>< of Jack- Loosely reported" Table Rock, Pine Grove, Watkins, so.i county at the June election of 187<> i Whitman party massacreed by th.* last week, f” ; extend over several weeks. Beaver Creek, Rogue Lands, High and in 1876 was elected caunty judge, t Cayuse 1 nd ins at Waiilatpu in 1817. Dr. F»wcette, of Newport, who theft of his auto Friday morning, the ' jail escaI,ed while the warden slept Two of Dr. J. W. Robinson’s sisters, soundly. Thirteen other prisoners, five land, lidding the latti r office continuously practiced medieme in Ashland some guilty party leaving no clue. Tne one with five com; o :e, Union for a period of eight years, It was I Jane and Ellen Robinson, attended lite of whom were I. W. W., refused to go, yea-s ago, has returned to the city to David Rosenberg of Medford and s ime academy. niece. Miss Georgia Crape of Columbus thlJUgh Ule do0r8 WerC Open a,ld vseape Town, Flounce Rock, Thompson Creek, during his administration as county locate. Since 1871, the date ot her marriage, /-v« • ... _ . _ ’ 1 tvaa Savage creek and Dead Indian. was easy. judge th it the n-.eient Jackson county : M-s. Diyhas resided in Jacksonville. Roy Conover, an attorney from In Ohio, autoed to Eagle Point the be- | Dec'ine in the colt of the necessities Tile ones with only four are — Antioch court house was erected. dianapolis who has been visiting Ash ginning of the week. I She shows few traces of the hard and Ft rest Creek. After the expiration of his term as ships she was called upon to endure Charles Blass of Trail was a business , of life is becoming general throughout land relatives, has purchased the Neil The ones winning but three are Mis France. It is said that the attitude of county judge. Air. Day opened a real a id possesses a we .1 li of reminiscences property oc Laurel street and will re visitor in our city recently. 1 the public in buying only what is souri Flat, Chaparral, Anderson Creek, 1 estate and insurance office in this city. of early days i . i Southern Oregon, main here. W. H. Crandall, one of our success-1 ! strictly necessary has much to do with Black Oak and the Ward School at waJ u|so Bl) Bb3lractor of land I 11 >ur war sometimes an almost Lynn D. Mowat, who served so faith ful orchardists, was in Medford on the reduction in prices. Butte Falls. Two points were won by titkH an1 lloUrv (mblic a„j .„»intuinctl when unknown quaint v ai d an ounce of salt fully as secretary of the Ashland Com- business the middle of the week. Laurel Hill and two by Butte (.reek. ai) o fjj ce here until the tune of his war plac.-d in the s.-iles an I traded for The country nome of Enrico Caruso, m-reial Club, baa gone to Poitand death some few years aoo. an equal quamty <> L'old dust. County Clerk Chauncey Florey and famous tenor, in New York, was robbed No school won so few as one point. where he may locate. R, B. Blodgett of Los Angeles, Calif., and jewels taken to the value of $500,- The final meeting of the Alpha were in Eagle Point for a short time 0W. TT . awr jawf " Chapter, No. 1, Eastern ttar, was recently. I The Argentine government has per held Tuesday evening June' J5t.hr, be ' Mr. and .‘-frs, L. W. Pijmerene. of « mitted the shipment of 19,000 tons of fore the summer vacation period. Central Point spent Thursday evening sugar to the United States to relieve Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Galey will drive in our city. the existing sugar shortage. to Newport by auto, where they will The Rockefeller foundation has ju3t spend tbe summer. contributed $500,000 to the Grinnell £ BUTTE FALLS college at Grninell, Iowa. The government of Chile, S. A., I CENTRAL POINT endeavoring to buy $8,000,000 worth of .Mrs. Mary Cadzow left Saturday for railroad rolling stock, in the United a vacation at Long Beach. During her States for use on its government owi • Oscar Lewis, qf Yreka, Calif., has absence, her position in the post office ed railroads. accepted a position as clerk in the will be filled by Miss Aelene Mahoney, In Alaska the price of hair cuts has Theiss store and assumed bis new duties Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cobleigh are the been raised to $1 and shaves to 50 Saturday morning. Mr. Lewis and parents of a ten pound boy, born last cents. family formerly lived in Jacksonville week. -------- . ... for several years. Luther Hughes, who has been living Lloyd Sparks’ €ar Mrs. L. B. Hadley,, who has been in Seattle for the past twelve years, visiting with her mother, Mrs. Mary returned to Butte Falls Saturday and Wrecked in Accident Price, for the past few weeks, left for intends to remain here. her home in Jersey,-Calif. ■ H. Snyder, who is in the mercantile Lloyd Sparks new Maibohm Six was Fred Terry and family accompanied business at Beni, Ore., is looking after badly wrecked and Misses Thelma, by Clifford 1 Gardner Gardner and Leon Love, li’» timber interests in this section. Lois and Evelyn Childers of Humbug, arrived in Central I _______ point from ______ Merlin The telephone company have moved Mr. Sparks and sister, -Miss Marguerite lest week. After a Visit with relatives here, Mr. Terry «nd fatnily writ leaye their office to the Dupree building and Sparks, had a narrow escape from for Michigan by automobile, where ar* iriatailm>< a larger switch board, death or serious'injury ‘when their car Miss Noma Stewart has been secured turned turtle in a cut on the highway they will spend several weeks. about 10 miles north of Grants l’ass, as operator. li R. Gleason has gone to Kerby. last Sunday afternoon. Miss Aelenc Mahoney and May Clev Oregon, to spenj his vacation. In his Miss Thelma Childers was driving absence tbe barber shoo is being con enger attended the dan?e at Beagle the car at the time and in turning out Saturday night and report a good time. ducted by Glen Owens and Clifford to pass another car the front wheel Gardner. Mrs. Gertie Spencer left for Eugene struck the embankment at side of the —. — .. road. The car was traveling at such a Mis« Lola Freeman and Clifford Hat asfSaturday.- field, who bava just complated their Dr. Buchanan and 'son Don were i speed that before Mr. Sparks could make any move fo avert the cats <tr >phe ooursa at the Oregon Agricultural Col guests of Mrs. Clevenger Sunday. Jacksonville Oregon lege, have return»! to their homes The big white car belonging to the the auto climbed the bank to a heignth ksr«. of ten feet an I fell back into the riad, Olds' Lumber Co., brought up a load uruing eo.ppletely over. Beyon I a Tbe Central Point Community Ciub, tren ^is week. severe shaking up and sundry brunea which was recently organized here, it E. A. Hildreth, Sr., who has been raisirg money for the purpose of quite iil, it feeling somewhat improved. the party miraculously escaped injury 11 and were able to return home Sunday equipping and plumbing the city camp Grandma Tungate has left for Port evening. Tho Maibohm was completely 11 grounds In tbe Oak Park addition. land where she will visit her daughters wrecked and was loaded on a truck and Mr. and Wra. Louis J. Gay of Seattle for same time. taken to Benj. Collins’ garage at are rieiting the former's parents, Mr. Mrs. Mary Beele visited friends in Grants Pass for repairs which, it is atri Mrs. J. H. Gay, Eagle Point tbia week. estimated will cost from I3V0 to -0J. ( ÍÍ II H il 3 We have a few pair of Men’s First Quality OVERALLS we are selling for,$1.50pi. >wis Ulrich h II ó II III Pioneer Merchant