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» J ACKSUN V1LLE:- Lt? A M ountain T own W ith A V alley C limate . Ï fck- VOL. XIV ---- —I------ r - RESOURCES:- F ruit , M ines , L umber , E C attle , C lay P roducts JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 16. 1920 NO. 25 Taxpayers, Protect Yourselves, Vote 323 [xINO Oratorical Tersely Told by Conscien tious Correspondents c This Court House Cost $75,000 Jack Dempsey of Jackson County Scores Knock-out at Nat Tuesday Evening. Communicated IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS What Some of Our People Have The city hill at Cork was blown up to Say About County Seat by bombs and valuabl** records destroy Removal ed. 230,090,1») bushels of Canadian Despite the inclemency of the weath To T he E ditor : wheat entered duty free, demoralized er an unusally large crowd, including There is no go>d reason why the the grain market and prices are be ASHLAND 40 or 50 people from Jacksonville County seat should .be removed to coming lower. turned out to hear Col. H. H. Sar- Me Iford for there is io neeesiity at vent, the oratorical Jack Dempsey of Thirty five hundred employees of a Mrs William Rogers left for the this time of building a new court etst last week from where she will Jackson county deliver his first address house. Jackson county has a goi.l sun Massachusetts manufacturing company sail for the Bermuda islands, her for- in the campaign against the county stantial brisk court houu in excellent have offere I to accept reductions in seat removal at tbe Natatorium in mer home for a two months stay. state of preservation and provide! wages in order that the factories may Medford Tuesday night. The address with steel fireproof vaults for the safe continue in operation. Rev. Charles A. Edwards was re which is universally considered to be a keeping of valuable records, also a The exodus of Jews from Polan 1 to appointed to the Ashland Methodist masterpiece abounding in wits, humor concrete fireproof jail. At comparatively the United States still continues. Pol church for the next year at the recent ! and sarcasm was delivered in the small expenditure the building can be ish army officers say that it is certain Methodist conference. Colonels happiest manner and was | m i le adequate for m iny years. Why that more than 250;000 have left. Mr.- and Mrs. George Dunn were warmly received by the audience. The j then should ths taxpayers of the A Berious coal shortage again looms among the Ashland people who atten speaker being frequently interrupted | county be burdened with additional in the eastern states. Serious measures ded the Pioneers reunion at Jackson by bursts of applause and laughter, ■ taxes to the am runt of no less than to prevent hoarding are being made. ville last week. The Colonel prefaced his speech by I $5090,000 principally to gratify the A record corn crop of over three Tag day in behalf of the county Pub remarking that he considered that jn F ambition of a few Medford bioiters billion bushels is forcasted for this lic Health association was observed bestowing the title “ihe oratorical Taxes are already very high in Jack- year. The wheat crop however is under last Saturday. The school children ass Jack Dempsey of Jackson county” up son county and frightfully high in the estimate. isted with the Bale of the tag,. on him, Art. Perry of the Mail Tri- cities and towns. They are high en In considering the matter of county seat removal sev ough now so that the burden of pay- Sugar from Java was placed on sale Rev D. J. Gillanders, pastor of the bune had paid him the greatest com- Congregational church has resigned pliment he had yet received. The ■ ing them is felt in the present pros in Tacoma at a price of 12)^ cents a and gone to Ontario Ore. to take up speaker also paid his respect to the eral questions will naturally propound themselves to the perous time, but they are gain; high pan1 retail. Medford Chamber of Commerce. Co). voter. the work there. A shipment of $10,000,00(1 in gold “Will the proposed change of location make for I er and higher yo ir by ye u. W 1 it th > Sargent is scheduled to speak at many The republicans of our city organized paying of th am will be in hard ti nes arrived in New York consigned to the a Harding-Coolidge club last Friday points in the County before Nov. 2, economy in the administration of county affairs? Will it we h it3 to ca r.nplite. Vtnv of t he federal reserve bank from the Bank of ovening with election of officers, The and judging by the reception he re result in increased efficiency and added protection to the taxpayers pirhaps remember what England. speakers were B F. Lindas, Bon ceived at Medford will capture his I they said or thought about high taxes audience wherever he goes. He add county records? How will it affect the rate to taxation?” | when they (received tneir tax state- Sheldon and C. M Thomas. it means that during the period of 5, ressed a representative audience at The city is contemplating the pur or paid their taxes- Keep ili"in 6 or 7 years that will be necessary to Phoenix Thursday night and will speak The removal of the county seat, under present conditions, I 'ments mind when you vote on re nival mia- chase of 100 water meters which will at Ashland tonight. On the 18 he will means placing an intolerable burden of taxation on the sure, and help to keep unnecessary create a sinking fund adequate to be installed next summer on an ex construct a new court house and a appear at Central Point and at Talent expences J and ’consequent taxation new jail that the county will be called perimental basis. already heavilvladen shoulders of, property owners on the 20. dow n. upon to pay a high rental for tempor Senator Chas. L. McNary was a Lewis Ulrieh acted as master of E mil B ritt . because — ary court house quarters and tempor guest of the Commercial Club at lunch ceremonies at the Medford meeting Mayor of Jacksonville. ary jail quarters while the present eon Friday. and introduced Colonel Sargent who If the measure carries it means that within a limited court house, jail and site are scrapped. A. H. Harris district deputy organ said in part: To T he E ditor : We run the risk in every move of re- time — 90 days — substantial and adequate county build- izer of the Modern Woodmen of Am The law of Oregon provides that if I oppose th 3 rem >val of the cou ity M» , eric» ha« perfected plans for a rally the petition for the removal of the ings and property valued at several hundred thousand seat from Jacks invi le to Medford be ! cords becoming lost er damaged and I when all these thousands of dollars ■nd banquet on Nov. 9th. court bouse from Jacksonville to Jf.'d- cause it mearns th it within ninety days The Womens College club met with ford carries at the coming election dollars would be abandoned—a dead loss to the county. after the election we must abend in a . ot property have been scrapped and 1 when these thousands of dollars have Mrs Victor Mill Saturday afternoon. A then the county seat and the records, Pending a tax levy and creation of a sinking fund to be court houie which ranks 7th in the been spent in remodeling temporary number of Medford women were in files, office furniture and all public state and which serves its purpose i quarters and in rental we will not attendance. property pertaining to the county offi expended in the construction of a new court house, tem well and could not be replaced for • have made one step town rd the secur- First company O. «. A . are plann ces shall be moved to Medford within porary quarters in Medford would have to be provided $225,000 it m >ans that we also aban | >ng of a new court house or a new jai don a modern, sanitary jail erected in It will be money needlessly squandered. ing to give au elaborate masquerade ninety days. The law is compulsory. ball at the armory on October 29. The The county seat must be moved within and as there is no building in Medford ever intended to be 1911 an 1 which could not be replaced It is no time to squander money, in for $100,000. It means that we I the near future we will be called upon Imperial orchestra of .Medford will the specified time whether there used as a court *house it can readily be seen that the abandon a site that to replace in Med ! to spent thousan is of dollars to carry furnish music and prizes will be given 1 >a anV place for it or not; and for the best and most characteristic ! “■* the records and files must be cost of remodeling and equipping an ordinary business ford means an expenditure of 10 or oit th3 good rial program of our I moved whether there is any vault for $12.000. It means that temporary county —good roads will afford conven costume. Mrs R. W. Elden of Willow Springs ' them or not. As you can not ! build a block to meet requirements would amount to a very con quarters must be secured at Medford ience to an immeasurably greater num court house in ninety days even if 90 days, un ler the present pin- ber of people th in would a change in spent the week with Mrs Wagner. Add five or six year’s rental, within you had the funds already provided siderable sum of money. acle prices of labor and building mat the county seat but if upon top of our Rev. A. Werden from Salem has think what that means. A temporary which time must elapse before a court house can be con erial this means a treminlous expense already greatly increased tax burden been appointed pastor of the Free vault would be nec-.ssary; where would in remodeling some large budding if and on top of our $5'39,000 bond indebt- Methodist church. you build it? Medford has not yet structed, and the sum total of needless expense the tax it is available. It means at heavy ex ness and on top of our irrigation dis- Harrv K. Tomlinson attended the even selected a site. In the mean time payer will be called upon to beat^vill prove staggering. pense the construction of temporary enjoyable Elk doings at Medford last where would court be held? Mr Neff vaults that will safe guard the records. (Continuee on page 2) week. i said in his reply to me at the banquet of Remember, this expense is for merely temporary quarters, Mr. and Mrs. H.O.Frobach of Med . the Chamber of Commerce that the ford were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. use of the federal building might be which would be vacated upon the completion of a new H. Vaupel one day last week. obtained. But the United States does court house, and suitable permanent quarters cannot be 72 A nu uber of local people attended not loan its federal buildings to coun- 7Í the opera “Robin Hool” presented at tiee. In a great emergency where, for erected at less than $500,000 instance a county court house had Medford Thursday night. Considerable solicitude has been expressed by people been totally destroyed bv earthquake f x i ——— • m x---------------- or fire perhaps the use of a federal who desire county seat removal regarding tne safety fa 72 building might be temporarily per of county records stored in the present court house. EAGLE POINT It fa 1 mitted but never could permission be A. C. Spence, supervisor of the road obtained where a county has a good can easily be shown that all documents of value to the 72 district of Brownsboro and Mrs. Spence court house of its own only a few county are filed in fire-proof steel vaults where they are 1. wera business visitors i > town one day miles away. Even after the money is much safer than they would be in make-shift quarters. las) week. 72 provided which of itself would take E. V. Peterson has been engaged as several years it would take several •A change of location at tnis time would not only expose mail carrier from Eagle Point to Per more years to teuildthe court house and county records to the danger of loss or destruction but 73 sist for the next year. , fa in the mean time temporary quarters would result in more or less disorganization and less ef Mrs, Day spent the night here on her would have to be provided. 72 way home to Butte Falls from Medford ficiency in the different offices. And there is another phrase of the where she had received medical treat matter to which I wish to call atten 72 ment for a dislocated shoulder. tion, and that is that if the measure fa Rudolph Peck has begun hauling his passes, it necessarily carries with it 72 potatoes to Medford, of which he has the purchase of a site, unless in the Considering the exaggerated value Ask a Medford man to give a reason fa a splendid crop. mean time Medford has chosen one that the promoters of county seat re why the county seat should be removed | William Brown, our merchant, un and deeded it to the county. The rea moval place on the mass of waste pa to that city and invariably the reply is . 72 derwent an operation at the hands of son for this is tnat the law is compul per now stored in the woodshed at the ' that Medford should have the court fa Dr. Emmem in Medtord last Tuas lay. sory. The court house must be moved courthouse, it might not be a bad idea house because it is situated on the rail i Dave Rosenburg, owner of the Boar and if moved there must, of course, be to hang these relics up as the k ger’s J road and easily reached. Tolo likewise fa creek orchard south of MadfofM, was a ' i place to put it: hence it follows that end of the purse in a catch-weight ora- i is situafed on the railroad and easily 72 husiness visitor in Eagle Point Sunday. if Medford does not give a site, the torical contest between our local Jack reached. The difference is that people 2 county must buy one. But it is doubt Tbe Rogue River Canal company has ful whether Medford will give a site Dempsey and some silver-tongued word of that vicinity have not, so far, taken | three trucks hauling lumber f-iom the since it would reauire a favorable vote bruiser from Medford. advantage of their fortunate location depot out along the canal. ot her people; and, under present con Colonel H. H. Sargent, the oratories to clamor for possession of the George MacDonald, who has a poai- ditions with such an enormous burden Jack Dempsey of Jackson county, after courthouse. in the construction work on the Crater ot taxation Already r-sting on them — vainly endeavoring to induce various We are informed that the .Med ford Lake highway, was transacting busi their bonded indebtedness is now $1,04 Medford aspirants for championship Nat is one of the buildings considered 73 ness in town Tuesday. 2,000—they wouii be very reluctant to ' honors to climb into the ring with him, suitable for temporary quarters in cane W, Y. Marshall came ¡over from increase that burden moreover there is ia staging a scries of shadow-boxing court honse removal measure carries 72 Central Point to have his horse shod by littl e time to bring the matter before exhibitions at different points through Nov. 2nd, Gee! Anybody know, the people before the general election out the county. Cui. Sargent is a ring county records will be lots safer Mr. Chiidreth the blacksmith. and if a site is not given before then general of marked ability. He is quick bath house than in a woodshed. there will be little inducement and no and shifty in argument and repartee, Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork was necessity f >r the Medford people to has a fine assortment ot eloquent hooks One way for Medford to gain noticeably brighter on the sixty-first give it afterwards since a favorable jabs, swings and wallops and sarriee a session of the court house is to day of his hunger strike. He is saic Vote on “"easure will necessarily carry k. o. punch on the tip of bis tongue until ‘ bleedii g” Jacksonville bleeds to be deriving nourishment from grape which he is liable to put across at any to death and then put in her claim as j ilce and wi le. I (Continuée on page 2) time. next of kin. 7 In 1920 It Would Cost About $300,000 Why Vote a Needless Burden Upon Ourselves For 32 Years I The Jackson County Bank Pertinent and Impertinent Paragraphs Has been Giving Sound, Safe and Courteous Banking Service to Its Many Satisfied Patrons jfa Your Business is Invited Es tab I is he (I 1888 I ssesss BstssesEssBesis
