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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1920)
k .2..'I ——i, t »to. .■ .. ’ JACKSONVILLE:- ¡ RESOURCES:- F ruit , M ines , L umber , C attle , C lay P roduct » A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate . VOL. XIV. WHAT OUR NEIGH BORS ARE DOING Tersely Told by Conscien tious Correspandents ASHLAND The military authorities who have been investigating the gun explosion at Camp Lewis, have concluded that either a faulty fuse or projectile was responsible for the tragedy in which Ralph Fralev an Ashland boy, and two others were killed. A. B. Richards, superintendent of the Postal Telegraph company on the western coast, has been in Ashland in connection with his office. He was accomuanied by Homer Patton, anoth er official of the company. A carload of choice peaches were shipped to northern points last week by the Producer-Consumer Orchards, of which A. C. Joy is the owner. About 150 Masons and their families enjoyed a picnic feast at the home of Mr. and Mrs D. M. Lowe, in the Mountain View neihborhood last Sun day. A steer was barcecued and 250 pounds of meat served, supplemented by vegetables, cakes and sweet cider. Major Dusenberry, inspector of nat ional guard regiments of the state, spent some time in Ashland last week. While here the Major and a party of friends visited Crater Lake. Walter Barham, who with his broth er operates a saw mill on the Siskiyou» is ill at a local hospital with pneu monia. The Tavern Inn located on cast Main street is open for business follow ing extensive repairs and refitting. It is under management of A. Moreland. A special election held last Saturday in which the proposition of bonding the city of Ashland for $100,000 to en large the present water supply, carr ied four to one. W. T. Bostwick and Harrv Yeo have been impanelled to serve as trial jur ors at the fall term of federal court, which convenes in Medford on Octo ber 5th. A very successful Christian Endea vor rally was held here last Saturday and Sunday. Lloyd Carrick was the principal speaker. Dr. W. E. Buchanan was elected ■chool director to succeed G. C. Mc Allister who moved away from towm Mr. and Mrs. George Saltzman of MedfoTd, spent Sunday visiting with Mr and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson. Fred McDonald who has bien runn ing a small summer store near the Rogue Elk hotel, is having a closing out sale. His family have gone to Eu gene where they will stay for the win ter. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blass visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday. Mr. ail M i. FloyJ Hutchinion spent Sunday hunting in the vicinity of Yellow Rock canyon. They h ad no luck, not even seeing any signs of game. Miss Gwen Houston who is attend ing school in Central Point visited home over the week end. RjKeva Hutchinson spent the week end with his parents. He is attending school in Medford. Oscar and Will Stewart have gone to the mountains to look after their cat tle. They intend to be gone three days. CENTRAL POINT Miss June Dunlap is engaged as school teacher at Table Rock and left to begin her duties last week. Mfs W. C. Kahler is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Hendricks and two biysof Pom.ia, California. Floyd Kyle and his mother left last week for Seattle to visit his brother. Elmer. Thev made the trip by auto and were accompanied as far as Eugene by Mrs Tom Pankey and daughter. Mias Gladys Holmes left for Port (JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920 land last week, where she will enter a business calloze. Mr. and Mrs. Corume returned to their home in Eugene, after a visit with their daughter, Mrs Victor Bur- sell. E. F. Clark and family have return ed to Central Point after spending the summer at Condon. COMMUNICA TIONS Colonel Sargent’s Challenge. Arguments Against County Seat Removal for and Jacksonville, Oregon^Sept. 19, 1920 now used is out of date and ¡-suffic Lyle Gregory and Ruth Lull left for To M r . L ewis U lrich , * ient. It is over-crowded, unsafe and San Jose where they will enter the Chairman of the Jackonnville inconvenient for a large majority of state normal school. County Seat Club: the people of Jackson county. It is not true that the old records now R. H. Paxton, our druggist made S ir :— a trip to Crescent City recontly. He In as much as The Chamber of Com stored in the attic of the woodshed was accompanied by Mr Reynolds, the merce of Medford, Oregon is taking and elsewhere are of no further pos- jeweler. steps to place on the ballot at the sible use. Some years ago 1 had occa sion to look up the early road records Howard Dunlap who now owns a forth coming election in November of the county and found that the first the auestion of the movement of the ranch at Kirby Oregon, spent a few county court journal was “lost.” I days in Central Point visiting his Court House from Jacksonville to Med searched for it for a year or more ford, I desire in case they are success mother, ful in this effort, to challenge and I Mr Beekman and others declared that Mr, and Mrs. Jess Neff, who have do here by challenge, Porter J. Neff ' it was irretrievably gone. As a result recently leased the Williams rooming of Medford Oregon to a debate on of my search through the great mass house on second street, are now open this question at Medford and at Ash of stuff in the attic of the woodshed, I not only unearthed and restored to for business. land. If Mr Neff accepts the challenge, the Clerks office numerous records Misses Verona Brenen, Joy Hame- that had been thrown promiscuously reck and Clara Hathaway are teaching I suggest the following details: into the wood shed “scrap-heap”,but That tne first debate be held at their first schools this term. Medford; that a chairman agreeable to I also suggested to W. R. Coleman, both Mr Neff and mvself be selected then Clerk, that I, somehow. , had a Jail Sentence for to preside; that for this debate the hunch that the old county court journal might be found in that same attic. He question be: Drunk Truck Driver Resolved, that the Jackson County caused the search to be made and Court House should not now be moved found it. A most interesting volume, starting with the organization of Jack- Because he was intoxicated and to Medford; that 1 be allowed 30 min son countv and carrying its official utes to open the debate; that Mr Neff driving a motor truck around the histrry up into the sixties. No oue streets of Medford in that ‘condition be allowed 45 minutes in reply; and will say that this was not the restora Monday afternoon, finally winding up that I be allowed 15 minutes to close tion of a very valuable r ecord. It will his joyride with a woman by driving the debate. That the debate be held in Ashland, only be necessary for any citizen to off the road between here and Jack Oregon; That a chairman be chosen look into that old “scrap pile in the sonville and capsizing the truck, Klmer wood shed and perhaps other places to Bertelson was fined $50 and costs in to preside there agreeable to both satisfy himself of the nacessity for parties; that for this debate the ques Judge Taylor’s court to five days in more room and more safety first pro the county jail. In sentencing him tion be; Resolved that the Jackson County visions for our records. Judge Taylor gave a severe lecture I am satisfied too, that the people of Court House should now be moved to and followed out his policy of impos Jackson connty in view of the present Medford; that Mr Neff be allowed 30 ing a jail sentence whenever a driver inconvenience of the court house site, comes before him on the charge of minutes to open the debate; that I be will not vote any considerable amount driving a car when intoxicated. Bertel allowed 45 minutes in reply and that of funds tor temporary make shift at Mr Neff be allowed 15 minutes to son pleaded guilty to the charge. the present site. 1 appreciate the Officers of the War Eagle Quick close the debate. sentiment of Jacksonville, but realise I suggest that Jacksonville County silver mine company by which con that the people of the county who Seat Club pay half the expenses such cern Bertelson was employed learned share that sentiment are few. Most of as advertising the meetings, hiring the ot his driving around the streets intox us are growing gray, and bald and icated with the truck and, fearing halls and that the Medford 2hamber I wabhlv kneed: besides that, I regret that he would have an accident got on of Commerce pay the o. ecurelf. And in this connection I would to say Deople are growing less and his track and coursed around in cars suggest that in case the people show less sentimental and those who have unsuccessfully trying to locate him. considerable interest in the debates not shared the pioneer days of Jack It is claimed the intoxicated man in and it is agreeable to Mr Neff, that sonville can not be made to visualize, his reckless driving narrowly escaped or appreciate the attachment that has collision with other cars in the busin we continue them in some other towns been the result of more than a half of the county, the details to be arrang ess section of the city.—Tribune. century of growth. ed hereafter between us. If the above meets with the appro But, I stand with you on the pro-1 For the second time in five months val of the Jacksonville County Seat position that the records should not Henry Blummer, believed by immigra club I request that you send a copy of be taken from the vaults where they tion officials to be the leader of a this communication to Mr Porter J. are comparatively safe, to a make smugglers gang, made hi? escape by Neff an 1 also furnish copies to the shift somewhere else. There is no plunging thro a window of his home, Medford and Ashland papers and to other practical building in Jackson just as immigration officers arrived to such papers of the county as you may county for the proper storing of these arrest him, think best. Very Respectfully, The Mayor of Cork, who has been H. H. S argent . on a hunger strike for over a month w s still alive as were the other men New Pide Creok, Oregon, Sept. 18 on fast with him in the prison. Jack Johnson, former worlds cham To T he E ditor : Just read a copy of the Jacksonville pion heavy weight failed i>i his appeal post dated Sept. 4th sent to me from and began serving his one year sen tence in Leavenworth prison for vio Jacksonville which contains the article of the Medtord Chamber of Commerce lation of the Mann act. making a move to have the County Paul Deschanel, president of France seat moved to Medford. It looks to me has resigned from office, because of that they have chosen a mighty poor ill health. time to do this as material is very Mrs J M. Lane, a resident of high at this time, and the County Roseburg Oregon, recently completed just recently suffered heavy financial a forty-day fast, by which she hoped losses, which two items alone no to recover from a chronic stomach doubt will cause the tax payers to trouble. She lost 25 pounds in weight vote down at least 3 to 1. and as roads but wu not confined to her bed at are splendid from Medford to the County seat and such a short distance any time. we surely can not see hut what it Exclusion of all Japanese immi would be a big waste of thousands of grants was urged in a resolution adop dollars of tax payers money to make ted unanimously by the veterans of this short move. And if tne Medford Foreign wars, holding their encamp Chamber of Commerce exDected to ment in Washington. make this change for the convenience Neil Hart, convicted of killing She of the attorneys living at Medford, riff Taylor during a jail break at why not'suggeat that the county buy Pendleton Oregon was sentenced to each a touring car or a good home at hang. He is tbe first man to receive Jacksonville. Would not this be the the death penalty since the restora cheapest way out of it? Inclosed please tind check for two tion of capital punishment in Oregon. dollars for one years subscription to Internal revenue officers in Chicago the Post. were conducting an investigation to Very Respectfully account for $2,225,000 in the federal H enry W endt . building vaults with nothing on the books to show where it cams from. To T he E ditor : Official reports from the earth I fegret very much, if my sugges quake zone in Italy indicate that six tion of a mondment at Jacksonville to ty thousand persons were made home coInmemorate its pioneer character less. and historic importance, in the event of a removal of the court house, has caused anv offense. If any one feels Please Take Notice. aggrieved or hurt by it, it is because they misunderstand or misconstrued me. After day sol date all w>-’< done- In the first place I will say that in positivel y cash, irrespective of per the very nature of things there will sons. have to be a new court house before W. R. Sparks. many years. We all know that tbe one NO. 22 reccrds, or the handling of the county business at this time, and these records and this businesi shiuld not bs m >vad until a proper and suitable building is ready to receive them; a regularly constructed and completed court hiuse of such character as will do ere lit to Investigations of the explosion in the great county it must be made to Wall street. New York supplied co b: serve. If it should be moved now to ; a bo nb explosion are still unler way. some temporary quarters it would be | Subpoenas for scores of eye witnesses many years before a genuine coirt ; have been issued. house will ever be built. Insist that The fifty fourth annual encamp- the court house shall be built first and that the old one be made as Jackson ‘ ment of the Grand Army of the Re- counties official home until the new | public opened at Indianapolis. Thou- I sands of Civil war veterans from all one is prepared for it. Insist, too, that any proposition over the U.iitel States were in atre-ia- placed on the ballot to be voted unon ance. looking to such a change of the countv William of Hohenzollern former seat shall carry such nroper guaran tees from the residents of the place German emperor, has written a new will which he declares to be his last (Cont nued on page 2 col. 3' testament. NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS For 32 Years I The « Jackson County Bank I « Has been Giving Sound, Safe and Courteous Banking Service to Its Many Satisfied Patrons « 0 I Your Business is Invited i Established 1888 Ready for School Tablets, Pencils Note Books and School Supplies Lewis Ulrich Pioneer Merchant Jacksonville, Ore. S