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VOL. XIV.
(JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 18. 1920
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WHAT OUR NEIGH
BORS ARE DOING
Tersely Told
By
Conscientious
Correspondents
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NO. 21
IASS MEETING PRO-^LOCAL ". . . . ' "
YOUNG PEOPLE ff^WS OF THE
NOUNCED BIG SUCCESS! ATTEND MEDFORD HI 11
WORLD IN BRIEF
The Bolish armies on the north west the location by radio communication
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front delivered a series of suceis- or tlag signals.
The mass meeting at the City Hall
As a result of the local school board
ful
attacks,
taking 3 Du prisoners a id
Georges Carpentier, Europe in heavy
Wednesday evening is generally con-' being unable to sign up a requisite
Point Friday.
weight champion arrived in New
sidered one of the most successful' number of teachers Jacksonville high | two armored trains.
Louis Baker , formerly of Jackson­ assemblages of the kind held in Jack- , school has temnnr irily at least been i Earth quake shocks cont.nue in Italy York with his manager, His bout
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ville but now of Portland passed thru sonville in recent years. At 7;3O p. . closed and Jacksonville’s young idea ‘ causing much danger to rescuers with Battling Levinsky will be staged
town on his wav to Butte Falls to m., the hour at which the meeting I to the number of 95 pupils are attend­ ■ searching for victims. The people are on October 12.
The initial fall entertainment of the visit relatives.
Air Dianes leaving five cities on
was scheduled to begin, the hall was ing Medford high school. Considerable panic stricken.
Ashland post of the American Legion
Sept. 13 b’gdn the daily coast to coast
Miss Nvdah Neil of Medford went filled with representative citizens of difference
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of opinion
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exists as v to the
was a dancing party given at the arm­
Olive Thomas, famou s motion pict­ mid service. Each plane will carry
. up to Derby last week to visit her Jacksonville and vicinity, all imbued 1 advisability of our young people at- ure star died of accidental
ory Friday night, a special feature
poisoning I SOO pounds of mail.
I parents Mr and Mrs Frank Neil.
with tne one thought of making a suc­ tenling the Mriford sehoil an 1 what in Paris. She
being classical dances given by the
was the wife of Jack
E. H. Hill of Derby was in town cessful fight against the removal of is believed will prove a lutly con test ' Pickford.
A reduction in the p’ice of refined
Charleston Kiddies of the San Fran­
soliciting
for the Pacific Record Her­ the county seat. The meeting was ed special election has been called for
sugar to j ibbers on the coast of from
cisco Winter Garden.
A Tacoma boy, aged nine years, 17 to 15 cents a pound is announced.
called to order by Mayor Emil Britt, ■»!.j*?n>ir 21 to decide w lath ir
ald last week.
The Pruitt-Myers Co, of Medford
who was quickly elected chairman, and ' the present arrangement shall continue. who with his mother was visiting in I_____
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Forth coming
allotments should retail
H.
E.
Armstrong
of
Medford
U.
S.
have leased the Stephenson building
appointed T. W. Fulton to act as sec­ | The argument is made that by send­ Ireland was shot and killed by a Brit-
on the Plaza and are putting in a line live stock inspector for Washington, I retary. One of the first steps takes ing them to Medford pupils are bene- | ish soldier in a clash between Irish j ' at 18 cents a pound plus freight.
I An army of 4000 *^rab insurgents
Oregon
and noithern California,;
of auto accesories.
factions. The father wishes the mat­
was in town, having been inspecting I was the appointment of a committee i fitted by the services of fifteen teach-
rushed a British train in Mesopot­
John F. Bateman, who is connected,
which will have charge of the cam­ ! ers a number of whom are specialists ter laid before the state department,
thejstock in this vicinity.
amia.
The train crew made a reso-
with the large lumber comDany at
county
seat
removal,
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in
the
branch
they
teach
an
advantage
paign against
Naval patrol seaplanes in Chespeake lute stand, but were finally overpow­
Miss Mildred. Patton who has a Members of this •committee are: j which Jacksonville could not afford.
McCloud Cal. was in town last week
bay are helping bav fishermen to make ered and are reported missing to the
visiting friends. Mr Bateman lived in position in a book store in Marsh­ Lewis Ulrich. D. W. Bagshaw, H. K. On the other hand opponents of the
field is visiting her parents at Butte Hanna, T. W. Fulton, Dr. J. W. Rob- arrangement are firm in the belief the largest hauls of fish on record, number of fortv including two Brit-
Ashland vears ago.
i The planes snot the fish and signal | ish officers.
Falls.
inson, Fred J. Fick and Emil Britt. that teachers can and should be secur­
T. K. Anderson, manager of the
A second committee to cooperate in ed and a high school maintained in
Pilot Knob mine near Gottville, in
the work is composed of the following Jacksonville.
Siskiyou county made a business trip Small Blaze in
J ladies: Mrs. D. W. Bagshaw, Mrs. E. / The state law provides that where
to Ashland and valley points last week.
A. Thompson, Mrs. H. K. Hanna, Mrs. a district Tn the county has no stand­
County
Bastile
The bathing privileges at the Nat.
Mamie Nelson, Mrs. Chris.JUIrich and ard high school the-county must pay
are now closed for the season, but a
the tuition of all pupils from that dis­
An alarm shouted by prisoners oon- Mrs H. H. 8 argent.
dance will be given there every Sat­
The first and principal speaker of trict attending another district high
urday night.
fined in the county jail Sunday even­
school. Therefore so long as we have
Lynn Mowat, ex-secretary of the ing apprised passers-by that fire had the evening was Colonel II H. Sar­ no local high school Jackson county
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commercial club, has entered the em- broken out in the attic of that struct­ gent who delivered a short and elo­ will be called upon to pay the tuition
ploy of the American City bureau, and ure. The alarm was quickly responded quent address which was warmly re­ fees of local pupils attending Medford
has gone to Napa Cal. to begin his to and the blaze extinguished before ceived by the audience. He empha­ high and the Jacksonville school board
any material damage was done to the sized the necessity of making a strong
duties.
building. The fire started by a defect­ fight to retain the oourt house— such i has issued a call forbids for trans-
The visiting members of the cattle­
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ive joint in the stove pipe where it a fight as will make our opponents re- j portation of pupils between Jackson-
man’s Association were guests of the
enters the roof. Owing to chilly weath­ alize, even though the prize be wrest- ; ville and Medford and it is expocied
city last week, courtesies being ex-
er a brisk fire had been started in ed from us, that they had been through • our school district will bear tins ex­
tende d by the commercial club.
the heater and flames escaping this a fight. The colonel gave it as his pense.
A Christian Endeavor Institute is aperture in rhe pipe ignited the opinion that Jacksonville, Central
So far as the financial end of the ¡íh
scheduled for the 18th and 19th at the rafters. As the jail building is con­ Point and Phoenix will eventually be-; matter is concerned the difference in
Presbyterian church. Lloyd Carrick, structed mainly of cement and steel come suburbs of Medford and if the cost between sending the pupils to
well known worker in the organiza- and is practically indestructible, but present attempt to move the court Medford and maintaining a high school
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tion is to be present.
little apprehension as to their personal house is successful it will be but a here is too small to be considered as a
Miss Blanch Hicks, city librarian, safety was manifested by the prison short time before there will be a de­ factor in the master.
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has returned from the convention cf ers, who showed their unconcern, mand to return it to this section of
to
state librarians held nt Portland.
The first dirigible passenger carry­
after giving the alarm, by resuming the coming metropolis, where “there
Mrs J. L. Harner, who has been an interruped card game, which con-, is no smudge smoke or fog and the ing line in America has been inaug-
visiting friends and relatives in her i.inued while the fire was being ex­ climate is better.” The speaker aritsd between Los Angeles Calif, and
cslled attention to the fact that taxi's Catalina Island.
former home in Missouri for several tinguished.
Damage caused by the fire is very for 1919 were more than 18 per cent
months past has returned to Ashland.
A small babe fell from a fourth
Ashland is making ptans for increase slight and repair work on the building higher than for the preceding year and story fire escape in a New York tene­
asked his hearers to consider the ad­ ment, landing in a baby carriage, un­
an 1 improvement in her water supplv. is now under way.
ditional taxation if the county is called harmed.
Two elections have been called; one
upon to erect a new and expensive
considering the purchase of Ruck lake
The Turkish crown prince made an to
court house at this time.
in Klamath county, will be voted on Local People in
unsucessful
attempt to flee from Con­
rq
Sept. 23; and the other of spending
Auto Collision C. R. Watson of Gold Hill, in the stantinople, but w is arrested.
$100,000 to enlarge and improve the
course of a short address remarked
to
to
present system is called for the 18tli,
that while the time was coming when “ $9000,000,000 in gold bars, said to be
An accident which might have had the county seat would be removed he the largest amount of gold in one
Mrs Elva Hobart, former pastor of
the Ashland Free Methodist church, more serious consequences occured at had never advocated such a step and place in the world was transferred
who went to Los Angeles to engage Medford Wednesday afternoon when a urged taxpayers to see that a suitable from the sub-treasury to the new
in evangelistic work last spring’ visi­ Chevrolet driven; by D. W. Bagshaw court house, thoroughly equipped tor essay building in New York.
of this city collided with a car operat­ the protection of county records, be
ted friends here last week.
The concert given by John McCor­
erected at Medford before the removal mack noted tenor, in Australia, end­
Mrs M. R. Griffin has recently pur­ ed by the Liberty Taxi Co.
At the time of the accident Mr Bag­ was made.
ed in a riot, because the singing of the
chased the Central rooming house,
In replying to Mr. Watson’s speech British anthem was omitted.
opposite the Hotel Austin and rechris­ shaw, with Mrs Bagshaw and Mrs
W. P. Railey was driving at an easy Colonel Sargent aroused much merri­
tened it the Alpa hotel.
A Lowell, Massachusetts man made
pace alopg Ninth street and met the ment by remarking that location ap­
a successful att empt to swim the
\ Miss Margaret O
( ’Neil, post-mis- taxi at the intersection of Central ave­
tresi in Hornbrook, , visited Ashland nue. Mr Ragshaw, having the right of parently had much to do with the English channel.
preceding speaker’s opinion as at a
friends last week.
way and feeling confident that the Medford Chamber of Commerce forum
Mrs F. J. Shinn entertained the taxi wculd slow down to allow him held recently Mr. Watson voiced his
Wednesday afternoon club at a picnic to pass continued on his course. In
belief that the court house should be
supper last week, this being the ini­ place of slowing down the driver of the
moved to that city,
tial gathering of the autumn season. taxi suddenly dashed ahead in an at­
Lewis Ulrich called attention to the
W. H. McNair spent last week in tempt to pass him with the result that
fact that the county was planning
Portland serving on the State Phar­ the Chevrolet crashed into the side
a vast highway improvement campaign
macy board. Mrs McNair accompanied of the Medford car, and to add to the
the people’s money would much
and
him to the metropolis for a pleasure general demolishment at the moment
trip.
of the collision the front wheels of better be expended in betterment of
county roads than in the construction
A number of the local G. A. R. post Mr Bagshaws machine swerved sharp­ of a new court house and D. W. Bag­
ly
and
the
car
rammed
a
shade
tree
attended th« reunion held at Gold Hill
at the curbing, the shock throwing shaw assured his hearers that records
Thursday and Friday.
stored in the woodshed at the court
Mr and Mrs P. L. Spencer left re­ the occupants of the car from their house, about which such a tempest in
seats.
The
members
of
the
party
were
cently tor Eugene, where Mr Spencer
conveyed to a hospital where it was a teapot had been raised, were prac­
is taking an advanced course at the
ascertained that fortunately they had tically all old valueless documents
University, as well as teaching.
sustained nothing worse than severe which would much better be destroyed.
Other residents who spoke briefly
bruises and were able to teturn^to Jack­
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sonville on the auto stage. Mr Bag­ were: Dr. J. W. Robinson, H. C. S.
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shaw ’s car, however was badly wreck­ Gallup, Mrs. Mamie Nelson and Mrs.
EAGLE POINT
H. K. Hanna. After a commitee
ed.
meeting had been arranged for Friday
night the meeting adjourned.
A. E. Hildreth and wife passed thru
Replanting
The
Forest.
Considerable disappointment was ft It
Eagle Point on their way to Butte
Falla.
Reports from the Forest Service over the non arrival of an expected
Mr A. W. Hubbs, proprietor of “the show that all replanted burns and log­ delegation from tee Medford Chamber
of Commerce.
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Hub” store and wife of Medford had ged-off areas are prospering.
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For 32 Years
The
Jackson County Bank
Has been Giving Sound,
Safe and Courteous
h-
Banking Service to Its
Many Satisfied Patrons
Your Business is Invited
Established 1888
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Ready for School
Tablets, Pencils
Note Books and School
business in Eagle Point last week.
Mr and Mrs D. W. Bagshaw of
Jacksonville were visitors in our citv
one day last week, as was Emil Britt
snd sister, Miss Mollie, also of the
county seat.
D. R. Patrick has completed his
work on the Thomas Farlow house,
and has gone to Brownsboro where he
will erect a barn for Jacob Monia.
, Western states whose prosperity
I depends largely wil
on UIC
the lUIllUUl
lumber II1UU3-
indus-
^tries are vitally concerned in refores-
i tation.
The great co-operative movement is
well under way to accomplish replant­
ing forests on a large scale, sawmill
and timber land owners, the federal
and state forest service and lumber
manufacturers are generali} united
on this.
Wm. Lewis and D. H. Thornbrue
f„, the
of Central Point were business visitors , The supply of raw material for
i lumber and wood .pulp industry is in-
in town Friday.
volved.
Butte Falls people in Eagle Point
Friday were; Mrs W. W. Parker and This policy of private owners of for­
•on Kav. Mr. and Mrs. Al Hildreth, est land and manufacturers joining
Rsy Parker has since left for forest hands with the government is very
1 important. It Vneans that policies of
Grove to enter a college there for a
mere forest destruction are at an end
two year course.
and a real program of productive con-
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall of servation for future generations has
Brownsboro were shopping in Eagle been inaugurated.
Supplies
Some Funny Ads.
Wanted-Women to work for hus­
bands board and wages.-Detroit News.
Wanted-Cook; one with some Scotch
in her preferred.-Indianapolis News.
Wanted-Movie theater piano player;
no experience necessary.-New York
Globe.
Wanted Housekeeper; for a
and two middle-aged children.-Balti­
more Sun.
Wanted-Respectable sales girls No
flirts need apply. We’ll teach you.
•Canton Ledger.
Wanted- Fifteen girls. Apply Young
and Wilde at 10 a. m.-New York Even­
ing Mail.
Lewis Ulrich
Pioneer Merchant
Jacksonville. Ore
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