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VOL. XIV
JACKSONV ILLE, JACKSON (OUN I Ï
Tersely
WHAT OUR NEIGH
Conscientious
Correspondents
BORS ARE DOING
Told
By
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NEWS OF THE WEEK P. 4 E. SOLD
IN TABLET FORM.
FOR $’90.000
IDEAL ORCHARD LOCATION
Local I'ruitgrowrrs are Unanimous in Declaring that Better Re­
More than 5000 immigrants are ur
sults Are Obtained From Trees Planted on the Hillsides
The Pacific 4- Eastern railroad wa s
were transacting business with Eagle riving daily, according to Ellis Island sold Tuesday afternoon at the auction
Near Jacksonville Thun Frt.in Orchards Situated Elsewhere.
. immigration officials. Foreign steam held al the I’. & E station to M. D.
Point merchants Friday.
ASHLAND
i ships report all accomodations booked Olds of Sheboygan Mich, for 1190,600.
Mrs E. S. Ravmond and sons of
Orchardists in and around lackson- | Parties contemplating a fruit grow­
a year in advance.
I There were no other bidders though
Crescent City Cal. were in Eagle
ville.report
an excellent crop of pears i ing venture would do well to investi­
I
Seven
Americans
were
kidnapped
Rev. C. 1''. Koehler, pastor of the , Point for a short time Thursday
a large crowd attended fiom all parts
| by Zamora, a Mexican bandit recently of Southern Oregon and as far north this year ami a very fair apple crop, gate the possibilities offered in this
Presbyterian church, has returned
John W. Smith of Medford was
sections of the valley. Among other
from an outing spent at Lake of the ' among the business visitors ir. town e itering the limelight. Five thousand as Portland. The Miller Grier Con- but owing to unusually severe weather I
advantages and by no means the least
troops are reported in pursuit of the struction company
Woods.
. „ of I Portland was last winter, peaches, apricots and it may be said that it is very seldom
' Thursday.
I
bar.dits.
•
represented
and
their
$12,000
check
Dr. an! Mrs. J. S. Parson have been j L. O. Bragg of Evanston, HI..
grapes will not approach the average if ever necessary to use smudge pots
The Olympic, games or athletic events I deposited but no bid was made.
enjoying a visit with their nephew. I spent Thursday afternoon at 1 Eagle
yearly yield. The months of Decem­ in hill side orchards in the early spring
i held in Antwerp, Belgium, closed Mon­
Mr. Olds who has purchased consid- ber and January were marked by al­ months.
Rev. Artley Parson, whois returning Point.
day with America far in the lead, hav­ I arable timber near the road and holds most unprecedented frosts and cold
to his home in New England after a
I C. Culbertson of Lake Creek was ing 210 points against 165 of Finland, : a large block of the road's bonds, I weather ami the vineyards in particu
lengthy sojourn in the Phillipines.
¡a
business
visitor
at
this
place
the
Mayor Emil Britt
I
and other countries with lesser points. i had nothing to say after the purchase l.v suffered severely.
Conductor C. O. Porter and family I beginning of the week.
1
except
that
his
plans
would
be
an
­
Attorney
General
Palmer
has
in­
Acting City Treas.
returned from San Francisco Friday
August Petard who conducts a 20 acre
R. M. Conley and George Cantrall
evening. Their son, .<ame3. who has I of Butte Falls were calling on Eagle structed United States attorneys to nounced later.
' vineyard situated on the hill side the
been attending a military school in I Point friends the latter part of the investigate alleged combinations and , Mr. Turner, receiver of. the rail­ ' southern part of town and who is I At a spa rial meeting of city council
conspiracies to raise the price of coal. road snd a former Medford resident thoroughly acquainted with all angles j mid Thursday evening Mayor E nil
Maryland accompanied them for a ' week.
Sugar will be ten to eleven cents in ' announced before the sale that the of the grape industry is authority for Britt was apoointed city treasurer to
visit.
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¡January
according to authorities. It is I road would not be junked. He said the ■ the statement that in this valley frosts act until such time as the council ap­
Ashland experienced several hot
i
said
that
the new Cuban crops will be i i Miller Grier Co. was prepared to buy j heavy enough to play havoc with points a successor to W. H. Johnson,
When We Strike oil.
days last week, the thermometer reg­
I the road and if successful would see
president of the defunct Bank of Jack­
about
three
times the former crop.
istering 106 degrees, the highest- re -
■ that it was operated and the develop- i < grape vines are so infrequent as to be sonville As there was pressing need
Seven men were arrested and a num- I
cord in twenty years.
Recent reports indicate the Tri-
ment of the lumber country east of ! almost unknown. Mr. Petard raises of some one to look after the city’s
I table grapes exclusively and says that
The construction of the new Ford gonia Oil Co is determined to thor­ ber wounded as the result of a riot be­ Medford allowed to proceed.
finances at this time Mayor Britt con­
gararge will be started this month. oughly prospect its holdings in an I tween railroaders and strikers in Chi­
"The people of Medford need not the lull sides bordering Jacksonville sented to fill the office temporarilj.
cago.
!
are
admirably
adapted
to
this
industry.
The building will occupy the entire effort to ascertain whether oil in
fear the Pacific and Eastern will be
| One-third of an acre of this land last
Leon Trotsky, soviet minister of torn up” said Mr. Turner,
block where the Ashland Hotel now commercial quantities exist, in the
Harding’s Library.
i
war
in
Russia,
issued
a
call
for
volun
­
stands and when completed will be valley.
The P. & E. has been in the hands j year yielded Mr. Petard 100 24 pound
one of the largest and best equipped
The discovery ot oil in any locality teers for service.
of the receiver for over a year and a ‘crates of grapes and the average
garages outside of Portlan 1.
invariably means an era of prosperity,
Andrew Morrison, a man aged 100 half. It was forced to suspend opera- yearly yield will compare favorably
There are many more homes along
with that of other grape growing sec­
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Strickland of progress and improvement which years, was married to Maty Barney, ; ■ tions when the railroads went under tions. There are hundreds of acres of Mt. Vernon Avenue in Marion, Ohio
which are larger or more costlv, of
I government ownership and the small
Portland and Dr. Leslie Kent and either directly or indirectly affects aged 72, a friend of long standing.
these hill sides near Jacksonville now
daughter are enjoying a reunion with the entire adjacent country consequent
The first wireless message to be i feeder lines as represented by the P. lying idle, which, if set out to grapes more pretentious architecture than
ly the discovery of oil would im­ I heard around the world was received ' 1 & E. were not given proper care.
that of Warren G. Harding. The char­
the Swigart family.
or small fruit would bring swift and . acteristic of simple living which marks
measurably
benefit
all
sections
of
at
gan
I
For
some
time
the
rotsdhas
been
opei-
at
San
Francisco
from
France.
A
j
Miss Helen Kinney who has
sure returns. Mr. Petard has no diffi- I
enjoying a vacation at the home of Rogue River valley. As far as can eq series of test messages will be conduct I ated exclusively as a logp i ig road and ' culty in finding a ready market for the exterior of the Harding house and
ascertained
the
advent
of
a
gusher
grounds is also said to abound on jhe
I will undoubtedly be so continued.
ed for a period of thirty days.
I er u tele, A. E. Kinney, has returned to
his product; good quality table grapes j 'aside, where comfort and contentment
means the following improvements,
her home in Oakland, California.
The Poles are making some headway l
selling
readily
at
from
6
to
7
cents
per
additions and conyeniencea in Jackson­ recently. Six Bolshevik divisions were ' Notes From County
are the ends sought. Most of the
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kruse of Port­ ville’s business world:
pound.
keepsakes were taken to the Washing­
trapped and 19,000 prisoners taken.
land are visiting at the home of
School Supt’s. Office W. I. dclntyre i« another side hill ton home of Senator Harding when he
Lewis
Ulrich
will
install
elevator
Women
and
young
boys
are
joining
the
W H. Day. They have been en-
enthusiast. Mr. McIntyre’s business acq tired one there, and where in
joying a vacation in Gottville. Sis- service from the ground floor to the army.
The Annual County Instil ute will is fruit growing and he has shown his recent years more ti—e has been spent
roof
of
his
place
of
business
—
kiyou Co., with Mrs Kruse' father, T.
U. S. grand jury in session at Salt
John M. Williams Co. will establish Lake city, returned indictments against not be held until November 3, 4, 5 adility bv transforming a practically than in the Marion house. But a
R. Anderson and are returning to
this fall so that all schools wil 1’have ruined property into one of the best feature of the Marion home is Senator
up-
to-
date
rest
rooms
on
every
floor
Portland where Mr. Kruse is an em-
the Utah Idaho Sugar company, its been in session about two months be­ commercial orchards in the vallev. Harding’s library, and the feature of
of the department store—
ploye of the First National Bank.
officers and many prominent business fore the teachers are called together. One of Mr McIntyre’s specialties is the library is its books on statecraft,
•Jack Refer will import a brunette
Mrs F. D. Wagner, Mrs Ellen Wag­ hoof polisher from Senegambi i and a msn. Warrants for their arrest have
peach culture ami his peaches are for Senator Harding is one of the
Mr. R. E. Morris, Rural Supervisor just a little more luscious than can be nation^ greatest students of this sub­
ner and son Paul left for Seattle last blonde nail polisher from any old b.'en issued.
week for a visit with relatives.
The unveiling ceremonies of the is not yet able to return to his work found elsewhere. Mr McIntyre is firm ject. And among these heavy books
place—
statue
of Lafayette, presented '•> after a months enforced vacation at in the belief that this is because they are many on Alexander
The employers and employees of
Hamilton,
Fred J. Fick will paint the town
France
by the Knights of Columbus, the coast.
are grown in a side hill orchard. In whom Senator Harding regards as
the city laundry celebrated their first red-or any other color the property'
were held. Marshal Foch was pre­
one season the vield from 8 acres of about the greatest of American states­
anniversary this week and a social owners select—
Eighth Grade examinations wiii be
peach trees in this orchard was 3000 men.
time was enjoyed by all.
Water Superintendent Borde will sented with a jeweled baton.
held on Sept. 2 and 3rd but compar-
boxes and the average yearly yield is
The men of Marion say that Senator
Engineers
in
charge
of
excavation
Mrs. E izabuth Buesin was at Tal­ charter a steam shovel to facilitate the
ativly few boys and girls take these
about 2000 boxes. By far the greater Harding is not a “loafer” in the sense
ent Wednesday, a guest at a dinner work of excavating leuking water near the sub-tre;.sury building in New fall examin ations.
part of the cron being disposed of in that when in his home town he does
York Citv, found flakes of gold in the
given by Mr. and Mrs. W. N. MAiils, mains —
valley towns. About two acres of the not idle away any time at clubs where
in honor of Mr and Mrs J. Houston of' Local people will renew subscriptions dirt. A further search for the metal
orchard is set out to prunes the fruit there is no important work in hand.
All He Wanted.
Klamath Falls.
to the Post and see that the names of will be made.
There was a plate of cake on the of whicr is dried on the premises and He and Mrs Harding participate in
The R-80, Britian’s latest airship, fable
Ralph W. Elden of Willow Springs out-of-town relatives and friends are
and Guy's grandmother asked for the past, two or three years has social affairs here about as they do
on
the
mailing
list
—
and
is
larger
has
been
given
a
trial
stopped in Ashland Saturday on his
1dm which piece he would have. “I'll been taken over by the government in Washington, but when Senator
way to Lake of the woods where Mrs
And the city council will purchase a and faster than former makes. The take nn.v piece so long as it's a good at a profitable price. As a proof th it
Harding has any leisure, which is sel­
Elden has been spending the summer. mowing machine and set a man to craft has a total housepower of 960.
big one,” was ids unselfish reply.
the hill sides are peculiarly adapted dom, he plunges into study in his lib­
It is reported that soviet Russia in­
Professor Irving Vining and his taming the untamed jungle now grow­
to fruit growing, Mr McIntyre cites rary. Neighbors and friends “drop in’’
brother from Los Angeles are SO- ing so luxuriantly on some of our busi­ tends to seek an alliance with Germany
All work done in 1920 spot cash at the fact that apple trees high on the at the Harding home as neighbors and
ness streets—
to make war on France, and if suc­ W. R. Sparks’.
journing at Lake of the Woods.
hill produce larger and better
fruit friends do in any other American home.
—When we strike oil.
cessful to undertake a conquest of Eng­
Miss Anna Hargrave who has bean
than similar trees situated in the low- If Senator Harding has a hobby it is
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land and eventually America.
enjoying a trip to Vancouver and Sea­
both quartz and placer. Jacksonville er portion of his orchard where there golf, while he likes
baseball as
The removal of 32 antiequated piers Post.
ttle and inspecting the advance
is more moisture.
another relaxation.
and the erection of 18 ne v and larger
styles of fall millinery, return ed home Oregon Survey Makes
piers is contemplated for New York
last week.
Special Study harbor. The improvein.nt will cost
A unio.i service was heli in the
$50,000,000 and will require 10 years to
Chautauqua auditorium last Sunday
complete.
morning. This was in the nature of a
Miss Mozelle Hair, secretary of Ex­
The lives of 29 persons were lost
finale to the various summer schools
tension Teaching in the Extension when the steamer, Superior Citv,
and institutes held this summer.
Division of the Universitiry of Oregon
Pee pie are beginning to return from Eugene, has just completed the gath- , went down ir/Lake Superior, following
vacations spent at various summer ering ot data concerning the insane I a collision.
resorts and younger people are get­ b >th in and out of institution i in the' Since the raising of the blokade,
ting ready to depart to institutions of western nart of the state. Miss Hair Germany has imported 10,000,000.01:0
learning in Oregon and California—a has been acting as one of the spe ial marks worth of candv, perfume, cig­
arette, etc., while the poorer classes
sure sign that fail is approaching.
field invests a'ors of the Oieg >n State
lire starving. America is conduct ng
Survey of Mental Defect, Delinquency I
the feeding ot German children
and Dependency which the United
are in a starving con .idion.
| States Public Health Service is direct-!
EAGLE POINT
ing for the Universitary of Oregon at !
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j the request of the legislature. The Higher R.R. Rates
W. E. Spence of Orland, Cal., is facts concerning the insane in ths
Now in Force
visiting his brother A. C. Spence, the eastern part of the state were con­
tributed
by
Dr.
V^ilson
D.
McNary,
Brownsboro road supervisor.
Washington, Aug 25 -Increased
superintendent of the Eastern Oregon
Sadie Mathews, the nine year old State Hospital at Pendleton.
transporta tion charges on virtually ah
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Gwen Math
“The Oregon State Survey contem­ railroad and steamship lines of the
ews who reside near Eagle Point, died
plates making a study as to the num­ country will become el., live at mid­
at a Medfcru hospital Saturday Aug.
ber and type of cases of mental dis­ night tonight. The gi eral increases
21st. Death was due to an attack of
order in Oregon as part of its studies approximate 33 1-3 per nt in freight
appendicitis.
in mental defect, ” said Dr. Carlisle, rates 20 percent in pn.—enger fares
Mrs Anna Cole and son Ke nneth, of director of the survey, “Having no and excess baggage an i milk charges
Roseville Cal. were visiting friends in , state appropriations, the survey is' and 50 percent in chai get for pjllman
Eagle Point last week.
I being carried forward entirely by accommodations.
W.W.Parker of Butte
Falls re­ citizen cooperation. This active coop­
turned recently from Sacramento, Cal. eration of Oregonians in this pioneer he has contributed a distinct service
where be had been visiting relatives. movement in mental hygiene indicates to his state. There are over 69,000
H. H. Noel representing the Treich- j that every one is interested in pushing [ square miles of territory to be covered.
ler Motor Co. of Medford was in Eagle forward a project which has for its ' Much work has been accomplished but
. ultimate end the increased happiness, | as director of the s irvey 1 wish to
Point last Thursday.
Mrs. Owen of Walla Walia. Wash, ' through better care, treatment and , invite all who have not so far taken
aid Mrs. Martha McCord of Napa i training, of the handicapped,” con- part in the work of the survey to do
City Cal., are visiting at the home of tinued the doctor. “Sorrow, failnre, j so. This is a non-parti-an project of
and inefficiency touch us all so closely the people, by the p< opie, and for the
their brother Frank Hili at Derny
Ira Tungate of Butte Falls was a in our every day life that a scientific people's benefit Any of the special
business visitor at Eagle Point Friday analysis of ways and means to avoid voluntary assistants who have data
such grief and disappointment is of
Mrs. Dora Plymire of Portland, Mi3s vital interest to village, town, state cards in their po?s< ion which have
Dorothy J. Anest of Roundup. Mont., and nation. The cooperation of hun­ not yet been return«-1 are requested to
and Mrs. MarionPlymire of Meiford, dreds of your cities in this great refer­ fill them out and e«-n I them in to the
paised through Eagle Point the latter endum on matters relating to mental,1 headquarters at Etig' ' i at their earli­
part of the week on the i eturn journey child and - social hygiene has been est convenience. E.erv citizen of
Oregon as well as t .cry public officer,
from Crater Lake to Medford.
wonderful. Every one who has taken , institution and hospital head is urged
Jeff Conover and daughter of Trail an active part in it may well feel that' to actively participate.”
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Pioneer Merchant
Jacksonville, Ore