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Oinil Britt JACKSONVILLE:- A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate . VOL. XIV JACKSONVILLE POS RESOURCES: F ruit , M iner , L umber C attle , »' lay P roduct * NO. 16 JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. AUGUST 14, 1920 Tersely Told WHAT OUR NEIGH By Conscientious BORS ARE DOING Correspondents NEWS OF THE WEEK BANK OF JACKSON TRUE TALES OF I IN TABLET FORM VILLE CLOSES DOORS A Well Remembered Incident of the bid. c tljort» cally Related by Pioneer Newspaper Alan Harris Yet Unlearned. PIONEERS 'ar of 1S.*5 Graphi Fate of Little David ( Rejecting the wage demands offered W II. JuhnNou. President of Bank Lodged in County Jail ard at his ranch near Kirby, Oregon, by the sho-- workers union twenty <l>oe factories in Massachusetts shut down. returned home. Charged twith Misstatement ASHLAND preaching within a few feet, one of Over six hundred employees are affect I (Continned from last weex) ot Bank’s Condition. The Central Point Camp Fire girls thorn smelt the blood with which little ed. enjoyed an outing on Butte Creek last I The ael doubtiesa save I her iue and i Sophia's cl.we were saturated, and it 2000 auartR of whiskey, wines and The proposition to have the govern week. They are chaperoned by Mrs Although for the preceding few days that <>f her daughter, for the Indians, set i.p a howl that was answered from oriental liquors were destroyed in Seat- I it was generally known ment pay the sum of $10.000 to the Rav Henderson. that the who had made a second rush, shrunk ! hill to hill by others and the howl ttle. The liquors had been seized by families of the men killed during target Miss Ruth Lull, who has been attend customs inspectors on trans-Pacific Bank of Jacksonville was in diffi- back under cover of a large pine tree rose an^swelled in melancholy cadence practice at Camp Lewis recently seems culties, the closing of its doors Wed- which V <>od twenty paces from the on the night air till the stricken woman only fair. Ralph, the youngest son of ing summer school at Sisson, has re shipments. nes.lay morning on order of the state door, not knowing that the house had feared they would gather and tear Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fraley of this turned to Central Point for a months Combination peace and war airplanes superintendent of banks and subso ; bill single defender. Fortunately them tin pieces. How she prayed tor visit with her parent s after which she city, was one of the victims. which can be transformed in three | quent arrest of W. il. Johnson, presi- Mr. Harris had prepared a large num mornirjg unmindful of the dangers it will leave for San Jose to complete hours from a passenge r machine to a dent and cashier of the institution, ber of cartridges for a possible emotg- ; might bring. Her mmrt was also ah- The late census gives Ashland a her normal course. “flying tank” carrying 11 guns and came as a distinct surprise to local eney, and perfectly familiar with Are [ sorbed bv the fate of her little bright population of 4283 as against 5020 in Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Paxton enter - 2000 pounds of dynamite bombs has people.| As late as Tuesday evening it arms, his wife commenced loading and 1910. This came as a surprise to mar.y eyed boy. He might have escaped to who had placed the number at nearly tained last Sunday evening in honor of been invented by a Chicago concern, was generally believed that the diffi [ firing toward the tree, which was hide and perish from cold and hunger, their guests. Mrs E. S. Paxton and and may possibly be purchased by the culty’ was merely temporary and I afterward found to be scarred with 6000. or be torn to pieces by the wolves, Miss Leila Paxton of Missoula, Montana. government. would be satisfactorily adjusted. i bullets. (hanging nor position from or he might have been captured to The revised irrigation schedules, A musical program .consisting of violin The British Commons voted an ad President Johnson claiming at that up to down stairs, always keeping one undergo tortures indescribable. Could recently affected by the council, pro and piano selections and vocal solos vance of five million pounds to Ger ! time that if there was no run on the barrel in reserve, and carefully guard sho have known that he had been killed vides only a few hours each day for was enjoyed as was the picnic lunch ing all approaches to ths house, Mrs. outright it would have relieved her many to purchase coal. bank he could pull through. lawn sprinkling and two days a week served on the lawn. For the past three weeks it has been Harris kept up a steady fire for hours, I mind. Paper suits, much in vogue in Ger for irrigation. Again the morning dawned and com many and Austria, may make their kjown that the local bank was in diffi- and the Indians musf have been con- Dr. A. J. Fawcett, who will resume appearance in the United States. 1 culties and recently the clearing house ' vinced that the house was full of arm- manding a view of the house she soon his practice here in September, is at Many df the garments are on display Ii 1 refused to honor checks on the bank, ad men. for they never exposed their observed three persons boldly approarn EAGLE POINT Glendale, filling the position of Dr. in England. A suit will cost about six- the same being held in Medford until cowardly forms. They returned the and break down the door. Supposing Knott, who it taking a months vaca* the cash had been produced by’ Presi- fire, however, sending their bullets the savages had returned in force, tyAtent*. tion. Congressional invetigation of the gas dent Johnson. Tuesday an unusually through the chinking of the house, Mrs. Harris now gave her self as lost, M. H. Nichols and Charles Gilmore filling the room with splinters, hut Mrs. Mary Newman and daughter, were in Eagle Point in the interests of oline shipments on the Pacific, coast large amount of paper was presented, without effect. Just at two o'clock and to add to her terror, it was Agnes, of Harrison, Arkansas, is unable to the Jacksonville bank was scarcely a moment till a band of the Western Electric Co. of Portland, will be asked by Senator McNary of visiting at the O. H. Johnson home. the latter part of the week. Oregon. An embargo on shipments to to meet the obligation, so the order the Indians drew off in a body, striking l mounted warriors poured down the I from Salem followed as a matter of for the Haines ranch about a mile to valley. But a second glance disclosed E. R. Hal) resigned from the office Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ditsworth of Pey Europe will be urged. the westward, where they soon did the faet that they were in flight, and course. of Consul in the Modern Woodmen of ton were Saturday morning visitors in The new rail rates will go into effect Wednes lay ; some bloody wJrk. Their retreat took she knew that succor was at hand. America at the;r last meeting. The our city. about Angust 26. The increased rates I Johnson was arrested a load from the mother’s heart. Scarcely were the Indians out of sight lixlge presented him with a gold em will inc-ease government revenues ap j by direction of Prosecuting Attornev Strung up to its utmost tension for five S. D. Hill and daughter, Mrs. James blem in appreciation of his four years when her quick ear caught the sound G. M. Roberts and committed to the I long hours, that seemed ages, it now McCord of Napa City, Calif., are proximately $106,000,000 a year. of service. of heavier hoofs thundering down the county jail by Justice of the Peace relaxed, and she who had fought like a visiting relatives at Derby this week. road from the south, and in a few A negro and two white men who President Wilson in a proclamation Bagshaw. There was no question of tigress for her offspring was now her minutes a detachment of dragoons and Al Young of Sheridan, Wyoming, were arrested in Ashland were taken asks observance of December 21, as securing bonds for his release as he self but a sobbing child. Was it a few volunteers under command of to Yreka by Sheriff Andy Calkins of spent Thursday night in Eagle Point, Pilgrims Day it being the tercenten stated that he preferred to remain in | strange that the mother heart should Major Fritzgerald, came sweeping resuming his journey to Crater Lake Siskiyou county. The men were sus ary of the landing of the pilgrims on confinement. Johnson admitted that ] be bursting. Trickling through the across the valley. When Mrs. Harris pects in a hold-up at Weed a few days Friday morning. Plymouth Rock in 1620. he had falisfied statements of the I floor 'hove were drops of blood, and recognized their uniforms she ran A. J. Anderson and family ot Med previously. Sugar has taken a decided drop on Rank’s condition for the past three Mrs. Harris ran wildly up stairs. Nearly all of Ashland’s peach crop ford and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey the Pacific coast, the price to jo bbers years. A deputy sheriff was placed in Little Sophia, her lips pallid from the with Sophia in her arms to meet them. Drawing rem suddenly the boys gath will be shipped north instead of to are rusticating at Union creek. having declined to tw enty dollars per charge of the bank and on Thursday a | loss of blood, was lying on the bed in a ered around the fugitives, who, cover- Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hubb* of Med- hundred pounds. California as in preceding years. Man bank examiner arrived to determine [fainting condition,' and her mother er with blood and blackened with ager A. C. Briggs of the Asoland ford and Miss Saben Frazier of Oska- the true condition ot the institution. 1 learned for the first time she had been powder, they were hardly recognizable, Picketing against unnecessary buying Fruit and Produce association, thinks loosa, Iowa, passed through Eagle Besides about $60,000 individual de | wounded. Carefully bandaging the that the yield of peaches will be about Point recently enroute to Crater Lake. is in effect in Berlin and prices are be posits Jackson county had funds to [ wound and applying restoratives her i and the Major exclaimed, “Good God! 40 per cent of normal. D. S, Simpson of Central Point was ginning to fail as a result. 25,913 per the amount of $100,000 in the bank at i next thought was for little David. are you a white woman?” The pursuit of the Indiuns was at a business visitor at this place Tues sons are with out work in Berlin. j the time of its collapse. the The sum latter The new additon of the auto camp of Just before the attack the little fellow once discontinued. After attending to Hostilities against the Huerta regime deposit is protected in loss will be i had accompanied Samuel Bowden, who ground is completed and open to camp day. the immediate needs of the survivors ers. It is equipped with plumbing ana Emil Britt and sister, Miss Mojlie in Mexico have begun. Cantu seized $33,0.90. How heavy the lived about a quarter of a mile north, and burying the dead. Major Fitz cooking facilities. Britt of Jacksonville were Eagle Point Mexican warship and killed its skipper. is not known at this time. is a severe 1 to his home, and as neither made their gerald ordered a diligent search for Unconditional surrender is demanded i •The failure of the bank All business lappearance the mother feared that The Epworth League Institute will visitors Sunday oil last week. the boy, but not a trace could be blow to Jacksonville, I they, too had fallen victims. Anxiously found. Mr. Bowden, who fled toward be held in Ashland next summer, ac Dr. W. 8. Holt of Philidelphia was of Cantu. houses are hard hit and many of our cording to Rev. Charles Edwards, I the guest of his son, Dr, W. W, P. Great Britai n has taken steps to citizens had deposited life-time savings 1 she waited, patiently she listened till Grave Creek on the first fire, stated I evening fell and still the boy came that the little fellow had started home who returned from Jefferson last [ Holt in this city Wednesday. nobilize an army to aid Poland. Men 1 there. There is scarcely one who is i not. week. It will be conducted somewhat before the attack, and the most care Verr.on Edwards, a civil engineer of and supplies are to be rushed and vol not more or less seriously affected not I Evening came and a new danger ful examination revealed no trace of along the line of Chautauqua and over Portland, was 'in Eagle Point for a unteers may be called. only financially but in loss of confi- i threatened. Should the savages desire his remains in the Bowden house, five hundred delegates are expected short time the middle of the week. The British cableship chartered to denc. Unlimited trust was reposed in [ they could steal to the house under to attend. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Burke of Ash lay the South American cable is await Mr. Johnson, who for a number of I cover of darkness and fire it with per- i which was burned. There was but one O. T. Bergner, manager of the Vin land were among thestrangers in town hypothesis: the child had been captured ing permission from the state depart years past had been connected with l feet safety, so Mrs. Harris determined ing theater, has returned from a busi Thursday and carried away, but this was aband I ment to enter American waters. the institution and his defection is I upon flight. Taking Sophia in her oned. During the war that ensued ness trip to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Nickel and family and felt almost as keenly as the monetary I arms and giving a sad parting look at captive squaws and strolling bands of Bandits who have been terrrorizing The three troops of Ashland’s Boy Robert Harnish returned home Sunday loss. He has always been prominent the whits face of him who had given Scout* are planning on a trip to the night from a trip to Crater Lake and the peonle along the Yangtyze river in public affairs, a deacon and one ! his life for them, she stole from the Indians were closely questioned, but were put to flight by American and they denied any knowledge of the Lake of the Woods for their summer Fort Klamath. ! house to a bunch of chapparal. British gunboats which were dispatched of the leading members of the Presby Now and then the stealthy foo'steps child. encampment. terian church and was universally con of a coyote was heard quite close to George Gehman and Sam H. Harnish Miss Mildred Million recently re left recently for Cinnabar Springs, from Shanghai. sidered a man whose integrity could the hiding place of the fugitives. Ap- (Continued on prge 2) A drove of intoxicated hogs gave not be questioned. turned from attending the summer one of California’s health resorts, session of Chico Normal, held at Sis- where they hope to be benefited by prohibition officers the clew that led to the seizure of an immense still and son treatments. ifn the arrest of two men in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler are en- Corbin Edgell and Fred C. Bell, of The hogs were found on top of a moun joying an outing at Hyatt’ Prairie. Chicago, new proprietor of the Corbin Stephen Mather and party left Sat Edgell orchard, were in Eagle Point tain capering joyfully. The Polish capital has been moveb urday for Medford from which place on business the middle of the week. he returned to Portland Mr. Mather H. H. Williams, representing Hub from Warsaw and all foreign legations is director of National parks, and was bard Bros, of Medford, was interview left for Posen as the soviet army is rapidly advancing on Warsaw. A few in the valley for a conference with ing local merchants Thursday. Alex Sparrow, supervisor of the American Red Cross nurses and Y. J. M. Hayman, in charge of the M. C. A. workers remained. Crater Lake park. J. H. Cooley orchard near this city, The concert, which was given by the was in Medford on business Saturday The Denver Col., strike is practically valley band Friday night was greatly of last week. at an end bv the modificaion of de enjoyed. A large crowd is in attend Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Slater of Port- mands made by the union, and the ance each week and particularly dur land and Miss Grace Dye of Medford street cars are again operating. ing the extremely hot weather as the were Friday evening visitors at Eagle Eight directors of the Utah Idaho park is the coolest place to be found. Point. Sugar company, charged with profite I ering in sugar were bound over to the fall terms of court. Bond was fixed at Resolution. $10,000 each. CENTRAL POINT I ÍÍ I! H j'i [HI c Archbishop Mannix. enroute from Whereas, G. W. Ager, has resigned Ireland to France in defiance of orders Mias Rena Arnold, who has been a* County School Superintendent for was forcibly taken from a steamer and visiting relatives in Seattle and Port Jackson County, Oregon, and has re conveyed to France, according to re land for some time, has returned to quested that said resignation take ports. Central Point. effect on August Sth, 1920, and this Steamer service from Portland, Ore. Mr*. Mary Price, Mrs. Lvnch. and Court having accepted said resignation to Japan will be resumed in September Mrs. Roatel, members of the Woman's to take effect on said date, and the first since before the war. Whereas, the said G. W. Ager has Relief Corp, entertained Monday in ob been a most excellent County School servance of the birthday anniversaries of all three ladies. At, enjoyable i Superentendent during his incumbency nizes the good work done by Mr. Ager afternoon was spent and delicious re ' of said office having proven himself to n the school s of Jackson County dur- freshments served. : be both economical and efficient in ad ng hi* incum bency. Done thia 5th day of August, 1920. .Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hildreth ot Butte ministering his duties therein, and I G. A. G ardner , Whereas, Baid G. W. Ager has ex- Falls spent severel days visiting Mr. County J udge. ; erted every effort to bring the schools Hildreth's parent here last week. J ames O wens . of Jackson county into a condition Mr. and Mrs. John McJimsey left County Commissioner, creditable to a citizenship of progress Saturday for Crescent City where T hos . H. S impson , ive people as make up the population they will enjoy a brief vacation. They County Commissioner. of Jackson county, and bv such efforts were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. •ve believe the schools have been Ed. Eldreth of Grants Pass. The Chryeanthemum. 1 greatly improved, Therefore be it re Mi** Ruth Duncan left last week fur solved, that the County Court of ft Is believed that the first sped men Great Falls. Montana, where she ex Jackson County, make it a matter of of the chrysanthemum In Burope was pect* to be married. Mis* Duncan record, that the resignation of G. W. reared” at the Botanic gardens, London, cam* to Central Point with her par Ager is received and accepted with in 1764. The flower’s rise Into favor ent* a year ago and has many friends regret on the part of the County Court, was chiefly due to the Stoke Newing ton Ghr)»anthrtntun society. which held hare who wish her happiness. in losing such an able and well quali Its first exhibition of blossom* In 1**46 .Misses June and Francis Dunlap who fied official, and that the County Court and served as a school of chrjsantbe- have been visiting their brother How- by this resolution most heartily recog- muni culture for th* world- I ARE STILL SELLING B acon squares 32c. Per Pound « This is Much I ajwct Than They Usually Sell Lewis Ulrich Pioneer Merchant Jacksonville, Orc
