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s «F Jr'H JACKSONVILLE:- A M ountain -T own W ith A V alley C limate . JACKSONVILLE POST I JACKSON VILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 11 1920 NEWS OF THE WORLD SHERIFF TER.ÍIL CAP WHAT OUR NEIGH IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS TURES “RED” BLACK BORS ARE DOING Tersely Told By c » ¥ K. •i c F huit , M ines , L umber , C attle , C lay P roducts i VOL. XIV Conscientious Correspondents and Miss Mollie Britt of Jacksonville, ASHLAND RESOURCES:- Ì were Eagle Poi»t visitors one day y ' last Mrs week. John Rader spent a few days Rev. C. F. Koehler and Rev. C. A. ' at Rancheria Prairie, returning Wecl- Edgar of Central Point have been I nesdav. on a hunting trip to Josephine county. Mrs John Obenchain of Medford Mr, and Mrs. C. B. Howard, who 1 passed thro town on her way to Butte have been living in the Neil creek ! Falls, her former home. neighborhood have moved to Ashland. Ma and Mrs Walter Paintor, former Mr Howard is operating the auto , residents of Eagle Point, now living stage line to Klamath Falls. ! in Washington, returned here for the Mrs Clara Bomar of this city has purpose of shipping their household gone to Hilt, where she is holding the goods to their new home. position of post mistress and tele Dr. J. E. Paul and family of Santa phone operator. Anna Calif., passed thro town enroute Mayor C. B. Lambkin and E. D. to Crater Lake. Briggs attended the Chamber of Com Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley went merce luncheon in Medford last week. huckleberry ing last week returning A full complement of city officials with several gallons. for Ashland will be elected at the general election this fall. Two park commissioners holding four year terms Many Fatalities in will be elected besides a mayor, Klamath Falls Fire. city recorder, city treasurer and six councilmcn. Klamath Falls, Ore. Sept. 6.—Nine Miss Lucille Havs, who has been charred bodies has been recover- spending her summer vacation in ed at noon today from the ruins, of a Ashland left for Portland where she fire, which totally destroyed the Hous will assume her duties as domestic ton hotel and opera house and burned science teacher in one the city schools. two blocks of dwelling and business Lieut. Charles H. Howard left Fri houses. Five of the bodies have been day for Texas, whence he was sum I identified. Four persons known to moned by aviation headquarters. Lieut. , - have been in the hotel have not yet Howard has been ip Ashland with his been accounted for. The identified parents for a couple of months, recup- I i dead are; Charles Horman, Klamath Falls. - erating from s severe illness. Mrs. C. Builderback, Ashland. Mm. William Rogers will leave.soon Miss Leona Builderback, Ashland. for the Bermuda Islands an a business Miss Margaret Hanley, chamber maid. trio. Mrs. Rogers is a native of the ----- thadrick. islands and has relatives there which Among the unidentified dead is a she will visit. 1 girl of about 17 years of ag6 who is Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Barthouse re said to have come here from Medford. turned ■ from San Francisco accom Mrs. Marv Compora, to whom a panied by thafr son. The young man, baby girl was born last Friday, threw who is a radio operator, is convalesc the infant from a third story window ing from an attack of tropical fever into the arms of spectators, then contracted in Africa. jumned herself. The infant was unin An examination was held in the high jured but Mrs Campora sustained in school building last Friday for pupils juries which physicians say will not who have previously failed in various result fatally. ' subjects. Dr. F. G. Swedennurg has been en Klamath Falls, Ore. Sept. 6—From joying a visitwith an old friend. Dr. ten to fifteea persons are be J. W. Andrist of Minnesota. lieved to have burned to death here Clyde Young bas accepted a posi early today in a.fire which destroyed tion as clerk in the post office to the Houston opera house and other succeed Ed. Mow at. business and dwelling houses nearby. Flo«d Fraley, son of Mr and M rs Eight bodies have been taken from C. W. Fraley, who is engaged in Y. the ruins of the hotel which had been M. C. A. work in Rumania was re filled with people here for the Labor cently married to Miss Gabrielle Mas dav celebratio n. son, a young lady whom he met in Origin of the fire has not bee n as certained. Two entire blocks of build Paris during the war. Guy Carey procured a two-pronged ings were destroyed and city officials buck on Sept. 1, the first day of the say the loss ot life may exceed even the estimated fifteen inasmuch as open season . First companyr company,- C. C.’ A C. is planning there was no wav of ascertaining how manv strangers were occupying roams a harvest ball to be given in the arm in homes adjacent to the |hotel which ory, Friday evening, Sept. I 7. ( were destroyed. Rev. M. C. Reed and R. P. Camp bell, who have just completed appoint ments with the Ellison-White Chau City Council Holds Regu tauqua circuit retnrned to Ash and lar Monthly Meeting. recently. Mr. |Keed traveled over 35,0'0 miles, including the voyage to The regular monthly meeting of the New Zealand in the past year. city council was held at the city hall A largo number of Ashland priple Tuesday evening, Sept. 7. Mayor atteniel the deiicati'y service« at Britt, councilmen Mclntvre and Fick th? aviation field last .Vf ?nlay. Recorder Bagshaw and City Marshal Mr anl Mrs Fiovd Dickey hive re Borde being present. A n umber of turned from an outing at Lake Tahoe. matters connected with the city’s welfare were discussed but no business A large number of friends and of importance, With the exception ot neighbors surprised Mrs Mary Good allowing the usual monthly bills, was year, Friday of last week, the occa transacted. sion being her birthday. A bonntiful -----------»ws*----------- lunch was served on the lawn. About A Village Without seventeen persons were present. Gas, which possesses explosive I “Rid” Drvley alias Black, who qualities sufficient to drive an unto made a senia ti mat escape from the mobile and which may also be used county jail last Saturday night was for lighting purposes is beinfc nro- captured Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff duced of ordinary field straw -it an i Terrill who traced his man to a deser- experimental station in Virginia. ' ted cabin at Steamboat, Biack was American Red cross physicians in tired out and in.a half starved condition Constantinople have found a Turk, who and when the sheriff walked in and is reputedly 145 jears old. He is the covered him with his revolver made no father of 15 children, the onf^ living attempt to resist arrest. Black was son'being 96 years old. This oldest returned to the county jail Tuesday living man still has employment as a evening and says he will make no janitor. further attempts to escape. Two young women inmates ot the I At the time of Black’s escape about Los Angeles jail made a daring escape 9 o’clock Saturday night, Jailer Aleck by climbing to the jail roof ttjro a Norris began the regular routine of skylight, crossing the roof to a win locking the prisoners in their cells by dow opening into a police bureau, asking if everybody was in bad Upon from there they summoned friends being answered in the affirmative he and an automobile and drove away entered and started to lo ck the cell doors. Black who was hidin g under a without discovery. table took advantage of a moment Two Italians, apprehended by the i when Mr Norris turned his back and I police in Illinois confessed a plot t o made a dash for the coiridor door, the wreck a train on the Illinois Central jailor heard tho m ivemant an d rushed road. A fifty pound box of dynamite | in pursuit Arriving a momeut too late. was confiscated. Black slammed the door shut and fas The crew of the U. S. submarine tened it with an ingenious contrivance S-5 was rescued after having spe nt manufactured from an old bed spring, two days beneath the water in the and the jailor was imprisrned. Mr Norris immediately began shouting foY Atlantic Ocean. Economic conditions in India are the help but it was eight or ten minutes worst in forty five years; famine, before he could be liberated and Black, unrest grips who made good use of his opportunity, thirst, cholera and had disappeared. the country. Black is held on a charge of having Leading Japanese shipping com- stolen a Chevrolet car at Medford panies are planning to build bigger about three weeks ago. He drove the and faster steamships to meet pass- “flivver” as far as Dunsmuir, Cal. enger competition in the United where he was arrestei and brought to States shipping. Jacksonville to await action of the The J. P. Morgan company has grand jury. arranged to loan France $100,009,000 for war loans maturing in October. Illicit Still Dis The loan is to be repaid bv 1945. covered at Medford A Texas man who has been pro nounced dead and come to life again 9 times, has died. He narrowly escaped What is described as the largest burial several times. illicit distillery and bootlegging head Trans-continental air mail service quarters ever located in Jackson was inaugurated, when an airplane county was discovered the beginning carrying 400 pounds of mail left New of the week in a house situated on S, York for San Francisco Peach street in Medford. The discovery Scores of lives tre believed to have of the plant came through W. T. Van been lost in a severe earthquake in the Voris, who owns the property and region north of F’iorence. Ilaly. Build rented it last July to a man giving the ings collapsed and many people were name of C. C. Russell, having occasion to call on his tenant. Failing to gain buried. admittance to the house, after repeat A charity guest in a New York lodg ed summons Mr Van Voris used his ing house, was found, after his death, pass key and upon entering the kit to be worth $125,000. He was former chen discovered a complete still, in ly an Alaskan miner. cluding a gasoline stove, copper boiler The mayor of Cork, at the end of with the lid fastened down with dough the fourth week of his hunger strike to make it air tight, a copper tank in Brixton prison, was still ¡alive, but I and coils of lead pipe which served as growing very weak. a worm, not to mention an old coffee A Trenton, New Jersey, pastor was > mill in which barley used in the manu rotten-egged by girl bothers and ; facture of the homemade decoction was friends, because he had criticized the ground. Elsewhere in the house was bathing costumes at the summer ' found quantités of corn, barley and colony. Fifteen thousand painters, paper hangers and decorators in New York have decided on a new wage - ale of $10 a day for a five day week. They have been receiving nine dollars. Jack Dempsey, worlds heavy weight champion received $55,000 for his bout with Billy Miske on Labor Day. Miske was knocked out in the third round. Italian labor has launched a g-jueYal offensive a^ihst*industry in Italv, seizing all metal plants and threaten ing to wreck machinery and call gen eral strikes if troops are called. A daily mail service by airplane has been assured to carry mail between Key West, Florida and Havana. Germany declares that it will take a neutral stand an-l will neither aid’ or Ashland people are returni r.g to an Old Maid oppose the soviet. town from vacations at Crater Lake, Turkish Nationalists have proposed Lake of the Woods and other popular an armistice with the Armenians until , A village without an old maid sounds Pres, Wilson settles the boundaries of resorts. somewhat like a fairy tale, but several th£ new state. such places exist down below the Mason and Dixon line. McNary Campaigns “All the women get married in the Sen. EAGLE POINT I mill villages oT South Carolina, and at tor Harding. I an early age,” says a Y. W. C. A. H. H. Nori, representing the Treich- industrial secretary stationed at ler Auto Co. of Medford was a bus Greenville, where she works among 'Iany speakers in various parta of iness visiter at Eagle Point Saturday. the girls in thirteen mills. ths State are volunteering for ser Dr. W. P. Holt’s family who have Perhaps economic independence has vice in the Oregon Republican cam been spending the summer at Oak something to do with it, as marriage paign. Unitef Statei Senator Charles land, Cal. arrived at their home in is not looked upon by the girls as a L. McNary was one of the first men Eagle Point Thursday. meal ticket, but as a fifty fifty pr»- to offer his services fora few speeches Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, and the position. The wives do not give up in Oregon. He will campaign princi latter’s mother. Mrs Anderson of - their Jobs but keep right on working. pally in Montana »nd Idaho. Represen That the textile industry in South ts ives McArthur, Hawley andSin- Medford who have been camning near Union Creek, returned to Eagle Point Carolina absorbs a large number of n itt have also offered to speak for ! women as well as men workers is not the entire Republican ticket. Knowing Thursday. C. Com best of Jacksonville wa3 an surprising considering the fact that Senator Harding personally they are there are as many as 152 mills in 29 strong for him. Many other speakers Eagle Point visitor Thursday. counties. With the population ot the report that they are just ’rar in' to go. H. H. Will lama, salesman for the I state estimated at 1,590.015 people, Hubbard Bros, implement store at - - ■ — ' 62,904 are mill workers, and 190.268 Medford, was in town Thursday. For Sale—LOCATION NOTICES are dependent on mill pay. The valu- Dr. J. A. Reuter of the Dalles, i ation of the mills is 75 million and the both quartz and placer. Jacksonville Mayor Emil Britt, Mias Lizzie Reuter weekly pay roll is one million. Post. NO. 20 wheat usei in makiug ‘hoitch", and Silica Brick Made in 191" l"0 gallons of prune mash .in barrels. : _ Russell, who evidently suffered an The (inanity of Silica (refactory) attack of nerves is reported t l,lick Produced in the United States in departed from Medford about the 1919. according to an estimate made middle of August, giving his destina- , by the United States Geological Sur- I tion as 1 ortland and there is no clue I vev, Department of the Interior, was as to his whereabouts. ! the equivalent of 216,363,000, 9 inch The apparatus was left on the pre | brick, and was valued at $11,798,000 mises under guard of the Medford a decrease of 120,199;000 brick and of police force until Wednesday, when $8,191,000 from 1918. The average Sheriff Terrill removed it to the . price per thousand decreased from $59. county jail. : 29 in 1918 to $54 53 in 1919.» The out- Sheriff Terrill now has in his keep- ’ put in 1919, through mueh ___ > smaller ing a supply ot “hoitch" that would than that in 1918 was much larger bring tears to the eyes ot a prohi: or than that made in any year pr ¡or to moisture to the mouth of a tippler, 1916 and the value in 1919 was much the entire floor space of a large cell larger than in any year urior to 1917. at the cointy j lil being filled with booze in flasks bottles, bemijohns and Notice Fire Insurance kegs. All He Wanted. There was a plate of cuke on tho table mid Guy’s grandmother asked him which piece he would have. "I’ll take any piece so long ns’lt’s a good big one,” was his uuseltlsli reply. I have accepted the agency for sev eral first class Fire Insuran?e com panies and am prepared to protect your property at reasonable rates. All business entrusted to me will receive prompt and careful attention. Call and I see me. D. W. B agshaw . I1 or 32 Years The Jackson County Bank Has been Giving Sound Safe and Courteous Banking Service to Its Many Satisfied Patrons Your Business is Invited •» > - ,-c Established 1.8S8 < -A Ready for School Tablets, Pencils Note Books and School V 1 I ? IM 91 M Supplies ill il II 111 III U I« H II H Lewis Ulrich Pioneer Merchant Jacksonville, Ore H HI
