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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. JULY 17. 1920
NO. 12
Tersely Told
NEWS OF THE WEEK JACKSON COUNTY MAY TRUE TALES OF PIONEERS
WHAT OUR NEIGH
By
Conscientious
IN TABLET FORM. REVOTE ROAD BONDS
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. McCully Crossed th«* Plains to Oregon in
Correspondents
BORS ARE DOING
1851. Mrs. McCully Had Distinction of Being Second White
Henry Ford purchased the Detroit,
8. S. Smith, manager of the Med­
Toledo and Ironton railroad, thereby ford Mail Tribune, recently stopped off
Woman to Arrive in Jacksonville.
assuming an adequate fuel supply, in Salem while on hid way to Portland,
ASHLAND
for his various -factories and shops. and conferred with Governor Olcott,
The distinction of being the second moved to Oregon. From 1852 to 1862,
20,000 employees of the road will re­ Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer, white women in Jacksonville, with all Dr. McCully was a resident of Jack­
Mrs H. F. Pohland has returned
ceive the benefits of the Ford wage and otner state officials, with regard the honors and difficulties the position sonville, Oregon. The succeeding five
from Marshfield where she visited her
bonus plan.
I to the opinion handed down last Tues­ implied, belonged to Mrs. Jana Mason years he visited Idaho, Montana and
daughter for several weeks. Mrs.
Hundreds of girls and women have day by the Oregon Supreme court de­ McCully, wife ot' l)r. J. W. McCully and St. Louis, at the latter place taking a
EAGLE POINT
Pohland had the misfortune to fall
| lately joined the Polish army to save claring the Clackamas county road mother of Miss Issie McCully of th s course in a medical college. He also
while changing cars at Eugene, badly
I their country from destruction.
bond issue of $1,700,000 invalid. It was city, The chivalry and respect invari- studied medicine and became a pract­
spraining her knee.
During 1920, Mexico will export ¿ver held by the court that these bonds, to­ ably shown by frontiersmen to the itioner during his residence in Iowa.
Mrs. Anna Corum passed through
Miss Jessie Hathaway, who has
Eagle Point Thursday en route to her 135,000,000 barrels of oil more than all gether with other outstanding securit­ first white women appearing among From 18(58 to 1878 he was purser on
spent the past year at Los Angeles
.
become almost proverbial and . the Willamette river steamers, and
the rest of the world, including the ies, aggregated more than 2',b of the them has
home at Butte Falls.
where she was attending the Bible
was usually well deserved. Even with I was a resident of Joseph Bince
assessed
valuation
of
the
property
in
United
States.
Road supervisor Joseph Gebbert of
I
Institute, have returned to Ashland
A land army of 100,000 men, re­ Clackamas county at the time the this wealth of consideration to brighten I the year 1880. He was a member of
the Butte Falls district was a business
to spend the summer.
cruited ard organized by the Depart­ botids were issued, and consequently I i her lot who can properly appraise the 1 ! the last Oregon Territorial legislature,
visitor in Eagle Point Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Storey of Long
thiir sale would be in violation of the j sacrifices uncomplainingly made and representing Jackson county in that
Gus Bray of Newbury, Oregon, is ment of Agriculture, are moving 1913 act of the legislature.
I hardships bravely met and endured by body. Dr. McCully was honored by a
Beach, Calif., are in Ashland for a few
northward
across
the
western
wheat
months. Mr. Storey is recovering looking aster his property interests on belt harvesting the nation’s grain
Mr. Smith said Jackson county also ; j women of education and refinement, large acquaintance throughout this
Indian creek north of Eagle Point.
from an attack of appendicitis.
had voted many thousands of dollars ' such as Mrs. McCully, in coming to the state, and it is only a just tribute to
crop.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Riggins ar.d
then unformed western wilderness. his virtues to say that his death
Miss Lucile Hays, who is a teacher
Jack Johnson, former heavy weight of bonds for road construction work, A descendant as she was of a family
daughter
of San Francisco are visiting
occasioned much sorrow. Among the
of domestic science in Portland, is
and that the opinion of the supreme '
champion,
now
a
fugitive
from
justice,
spending her vacation with her mother Mrs. Riggin's sisters, Mrs. A. B. has offered to surrender himself if he court in the Clackamas county case I from a part of Scotland famed for its Masonic fraternity, an order to which
Zimmerman of Butte Falls and Mrs.
fervent and religious teachings and' he gave much attention, he was
in Ashland.
were accorded certain privileges. De­ probably would effect the highway observances, the free and eas\ atmos-
Swihart of Derby.
honored with high positions and was
program
in
Jackson
county.
The petty larceny and small thefts
partment of Justice officials refused
phere of a pioneer mining camp must | universally esteemed. When a good
Mr.
McDonald
of
Klamath
Falls
is
by amateur burglars of Ashland still
After the governor and Mr. Smith | in itself have been a severe shock. Mrs. I
his terms.
man dies, the highest tribute that can
continues. Two of the cup vending visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
had received a copy of the supreme
Enemy
aliens
interned
during
the
McCnlly,
however,
appears
to
have
be
paid to his memory is the truth
Wm.
Knighton
in
this
city.
machines were taken from the park
war were to be given their liberty »his court decision and confered with En­ always made the best of any situation j that his death was sincerely mourned
H. C. Pardy, representing the Chem­
for the nickels they contained and the
gineer
Herbert
Nunn
and
other
officials
i week, except those cases under eus-
in which she was placed and performed j by all who knew him. This can be said
silver was taken from the gas meters. ical Fire Apparatus Co. of Portland, I i picion.
of the highway commission and learned
her
full share in the upbuilding of the1 without exaggeration concerning the
County Commissioner T. H. Simpson was in Eagle Point in the interest of
Further investigation into the cam-' that three of the six or seven counties community. For a time with only one deceased.
his
firm
Saturday
of
last
week.
that
voted
bonds
at
the
last
election
attended a meeting of the state high­
1 paign expenses of Attorney Genera! A.
white friend of her own sex to rely
“Jane Mason McCully was a brilliant
George W. Frey and son, Edward,
desired to revote their bonds owing to
way commission in Portland last
i Mitchel Palmer were postponed by the
upon for comfort and aid. she fearless­ example of high endeavors and brilliani
of Lake creek were in Eagle Point for senate investigating committee for a the fact that they had made no proper
week.
ly faced the danger of famine, dread of accomplishments. She was born in
estimates on the price per unit for
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sams and son, a short time Saturday.
few weeks.
hostile Indians, and the countless hard­ Edinburg, Scotland, March 31st, 1821,
building roads and owing to the fact
Mesdames Ernest Peachy and R. M.
Lyle, have returned from an extenued
ships which pioneer life entailed with and was baptized in the old kirk, in
The most serious coal crisis in its
auto tour through southern California Robinson of Eagle Point were visitors history confronts New England unless I that the highway commission and the unbroken resolution and a cheerfulness which Robert Burns, her favorite poet,
Jackson county court made arrange
in Eagle Point Friday.
and northern Mexico.
speedy relief is procured. A ton of meats to go ahead with the state and 1 of spirit that was an inspiration to lived. Leaving Scotland with her par­
Mrs.
John
L.
Robinson,
Jr.,
a
much
ents she landed in New York in the
Miss Eleanor Greer has. accepted a
coal afloat in Boston harbor recently county road work in this county, it I her companions.
year 1831, remaining there but a short
position as book keeper for the Ash­ respected resident of this community, sold for $23.00 a tor, whereas before decided to drop the idea of a special
For a short time
died at the family horn“" Friday night the war the price was $4.50 per ton.
land Lumber Co.
time and removing thence to Indiana
Oregon
Mrs.
McCully
acted
as
instruct
­
session to validate the county bond
F. L. Pickering, general agent of j of last week. She leaves a husband
Five thousand draft evaders or issues. It will be necessary, however or in a private school at Salem, and in in the same year. From Indiana the
the Southern Pacific passenger traffic and three children, the youngest a slackers have been convicted in federal for all counties to revote their bonds. later years opened a similar institution family went to Iowa in 1843, in which
I
state she was married to John W.
department in New York city, has babe of three weeks.
courts and given sentences from thirty
Another fact that was brought out in Jacksonville. A pioneer paper pub­
been a recent visitor in the valley. He [ Noble Zimmerman, who has been days to one year in prison. Thirty by this conference was that the six lished at the lime devotes considerable McCully in 1848. With her husband
will visit Crater Lake before leaving. visiting his parents near Butte Falls, thousand cases remain to be inverti- per cent limitation law will have to be space to a diseriution of a school en­ she crossed the plains in 1851, arriving
at Salem, Oregon, in the fall of that
validated by the legislature to make it tertainment given by Mrs. McCully’s
A bench marker has been embedded left recently for Davis, Cal., where he I gated.
year. From Salem she came to Jack-
;
has
employment
in
a
lumber
camp.
pupils
and
the
names
of
Mrs.
Beek
­
in a boulder at the park entrance by
Six members of the American flying active. —Tribune.
man, Mrs. Kate Hoffman, Wm. Bybee son county in 1852, where she resided
the U. S. Geodetic Survey.
Dewey Hill of Derby arrived b^ club have responded to the recent call
and other well known people appear until her death. ”
A meeting of the organization of the stage Thursday morning and spent the from Poland to volunteer for service
A resolution of condolence adopted
!
in the list of pupils taking part.
Young Couple Married
against the bolsheviki.
local Daughters of the American Revo­ day in our city.
j by the Pioneer Society of Southern
accomplishments
Among
many
other
lution was held last Friday at the
A terrific hailstorm swept tbro'i/o
' Oregon at the time of her death has
Mrs. McCully was a poet of no
home of Mrs. J. P. Dodge on the
Iowa Saturday, doing a quarter mil-
the following to say of Mrs. McCully’s
Frank E. Coleman and Valesca moan ability and was the author of character:
Boulevard. Mrs. John Keating of World’s Production of Gold. lion dollars damage to crops. Corn
many
poems
of
merit,
among
which
is
Portland, state regent, was present
fields were destroyed and fruit stripped Truax were married on Friday at the
“In the death of Mrs. McCully we
home of the bride’s parents, Rev.' a song dedicated to and adopted by the 1 have lost a faithful member of our
and administered the oath of office to
The United States Geological Survey, 1 from the trees in the orchards.
Pioneer
Society
of
Southern
Oregon
of
the new officials. The name ot the Department of the Interior, has given
society, a genial and inte'ligent com*
Legislation making all Mexico dry Henry <1. Hanson officiating, only im
newly organized body will be the Mount out some preliminary figures showing is being prepared by President Huerta. mediate relatives being present. The which organization she was a member. panioi: and friend and the beloved ones
Ashland chapter.
the production of gold throughout the He thinks it will be the means of re­ bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | The following bri-f biographical an indulgent mother.. May we try to
The Chautauqua began yesterday world in 1919. The production in the generating the Indian and half-breed H. L. Truax and was born in this citv. sketch of Dr. aqd Mrs. .McCully is tak- emulate her virtues and cherish her
She is a graduate of the high school 1 en from old newspaper clippings and a memory. She was a women loved and
and will continue till the 22nd.
United States was $58,285,196; Canada races.
and tor some time past has served as a copy of resolutions of respect adopt­
is reported to have produced $14.687,-
A white man’s judge is to be sent bookkeeper and cashier for the Pacific ed years ago bj’ the Pioneers' associa­ respected by all classes of the com-
munity and dearly loved and sincerely
000; India $10,028,009; Australia (not 1200 miles into the Hudson Bay terri­
and Telephone company. tion and treasured ns heirlooms by mourned by those who knew her best
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CENTRAL POINT^j . including New Zealand or the Islands) tory to try an Eskimo man cnarged Telegraph
and we feel that a delightful presence
$29,268,000; the Transvaal, 171,640,123; I with murder. The prisoner was found The groom is connected with the busi­ surving members of the family:
Rhodesia and West Africa, $18,631,-1 and arrested bv a member of the Royal ness office at the Collins Auto company. j “Dr. J.W. McCully was born in New has been exchanged for a beautiful
The happy couple left immediately . I Brunswick May 22nd, 1821. In 1822 his memory.”
070. There was a probable large de- j Northwest Mounted Police. White law
The Boy Scouts of Central Point, in crease in the production of gold in Rus- . has never penetrated into Eskimo after the ceremony lor Medford and parents moved to Ohio, where they re­
other valley points.—Grants I’ass mained until 1811. From that time un-
charge of Commander Ray Henderson, sia and Siberia in 1919. Some increase j
All work done in 1920 spot eash at
land.
Courier of July 9th.
. til 1851 they resided in Iowa and then W. R. Sparks’.
have returned from a ten-days hike was probably made in the increase of
Ten
auto
bandits
robbed
the
bank
at
and outing trip to Crater Lake.
Central America and South America Plainfield, III., of $12,1*00 in cash and
Mrs. E. S. Paxson and daughter, which, however, was doubtless offset bonds and escaped after sweeping the
Miss Lelia, of Missoulea, Mont., have by decreases in the output of other main street of the town with rifle
irç
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Fax- countries. The incomplete returns now fire, wounding seven persons.
available indicate that the world’s pro­
son of this city.
H. H. Lampman, who has been editor duction of gold in 1919 was between [
of a newspaper in North Dakota since $345,000,000 and $350,000,000. The • Chas. W. Prim Interviewed
last September, arrived in Central worlds’ production in 1918 amounted to
by Washington Post.
Point for a visit with his wife and $380,924,500.
The Geological Survey further 3tatcs
many friends.
Chas. W. Prim, well known in Jack­
that information received during the
The city camp grounds are now com-
first six months of 1920 indicates a sonville where he was born and reared,
pleted, with fire places, benches. still further decrease in the production during a recent visit to Washington,
plumbing and ail the items to make it of gold in the United States and that I). C , was interviewed bv a repre­
an enjoyable place for campers. Many the output for the year will probably sentative of the Washington Post. Mr.
tourists have stopped there lately and
be less than $50,000,000, The produc­ Prim said:
have expressed their appreciation of tion in Alaska, Colorado, California,
“The time has come when there
the comforts provided.
Oregon and Montana will be much less should be the most cordial and efficient
I. C. Robinett and family accompani­ in 1920 than in 1919, because water is co-operation between the American
ed by Miss Esther Pankey, left Wed­ very short for placer mining and many government and American business in
nesday of last week for a motor triD to stamp mills are closed. Canada as a furthering our foreign trade. This is
Yosemete and Yellow Stone national whole may increase its output, althou­ not merely a matter of making money;
parks. They will begone several weeks. gh the production of the Yukon district it has become an integral part of the
new political life of our country. The
A large crowd attended the services will be smaller this year. The output
world war projected us into world
held in the Brick church Sunday of of Russia cannot be estimated. That
afTairs for all time, whether we like
of
South
Africa
and
South
America
last week and greatly enjoyed the
it or not, just as the Spanish-American
music furnisned by the Cochran- will probably show no radical change.
war enlarged our influence in Latin
According
to
the
Geological
Survey
the
MeReynolds quartet of the Los Angeles
American and threw us wholly to our
indications
are
that
the
decrease
in
the
Bible Institute.
world's production of gold in 1920 will own surprise, into the Far Eastern
Miss Betty Price left recently for not be so great as it was in 1919.
situation through our unavoidable con­
Jersey, Calif., where she will spend
quest and development of the Philip­
the summer.
pines.
“When I speak of co-operation and
Miss Ruth Lull returned to Sisson, He’s Got the Kight Idea.
efficiency between our government and
Calif., where she is attending summer
our business interests, I do not, con­
school, after a few days with home
There have been rumors for severa trary to the belief of most business
folks.
weeks that several different mon have men, ..think ail the co-operating and
Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, former in mind the purchase or lease of the all the efliciency should be on the part
residents of Central Point, are enjoy­ old United States hotel at Jackson- of the government."
ing a several weeks visit relatives and i viile, remodeling it, and operating it.
During the world war Chas. Prim
friends here. They are accompanied One man at the Hotel Medford the served as staff officer at General
by their ¡»rand daughter, Roberta ; other night, a guest who refused to Pershing’s headquarters in France. He
Kellerman.
i give his name, said he had been trying is now engaged in business at Portland,
The citizens of Central Point are J to purchase the old structure, and that Oregon.
greatly enjoying the city park, which I he was willing to spend $5o )0 or more
A business education is merely learn­
is at last created. Many choice flowers, ■ in remodeling and furnishing, but ha I
including Paxson’» famous dahiias, j oeen unable to do so yet because the ing* plus learning how. Our intensive
are now blooming and the many trees : property is still in litigation. He said morning and evening sessions and es­
he regarded the hotel opening at Jack­ pecially low rates for the summer
make it a cool, pretty, little park.
sonville as enticing and worth an in­ make it easy to learn how. Yours busily,
The Community Club have been vestment.—Medford Sun.
Medford Business College.
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placing attractive signs for the benefit
of tourists, one large one being placed
across main street, reading, “Gateway
to Crater Lake, 80 miles."
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