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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.
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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
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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
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)(1
four
chi|dre||
werc
bor
„
to
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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and were able to return home Sunday
equipping and plumbing the city camp
Grandma Tungate has left for Port­ evening. Tho Maibohm was completely
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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.
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We have a few pair
of Men’s First Quality
OVERALLS
we are selling for,$1.50pi.
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