JACKSONVILLE POST
Official Paper of the City of Jacksonville Oregon
A weekly newspaper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson
County, Oregon.
Tom
Fulton,
Editor.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER JO, 1920
face was wreathed with smiles. He
was whistling Home, Sweet Home, in
fact, he was Just bubbling over with
i good cheer as he rushed in to liqui­
(Contributed)
date his indebtedness to Jackson
As I passed into the court hOUHC county. In a short time my jolly
to pay my respects to the tax collec­ looking gent came out. Well, you
tor, I met my friend Pat ------ com­ have, no doubt, seen lightning
ing out. I said. “Hello, Pat, what's changes on the stage. His hat was
the matter? You look like you were pulled down over his eyes, the smile
suffering from she’l shock.”
was gone, his fists clenched, an apo­
“I just paid my taxes,*’ said Pat; plectic color in his face. At this mo-
“and I had a eollapse of the spinal I ment he spied a Medford friend and
column, and I couldn’t spake for a | bellowed:
"Here, Jack, where is
time.”
that ------ petition to move the court
"Ah, I say, I heard you were going house you begged me on your knees
to vote to move the court house and to sign. Take my name off. Court
add another million dollars to cur house—taxes—taxes.
Just
paid
debt,"
enough to bust Vanderbilt.”
“Bejabers,” said Pat, “show me
the llelng spalpeen and I'll knock !
bis block off in a minute,” and Pat THE COURT HOUSE ON THE
GREEN.
faded away.
Just Sketches
Then
wig out
singing
his fist
J Tell me not in mournful numbers
I met Brown and Jones com-
but neither one of them was
Happy Day. Brown shook
in Jones’ face and said:
II_______
- you, you are going to help
Medford's big four increase our taxes
by voting to move the court house."
Then Jones whispered:
“I was, I
Brown, but I changed my mind. Say, Il
Brown, loan me a quarter, I want to
buy a sandwich; that — tax collec-,
tor got my last cent.”
That it’s all a passing d rea in,
Nor pretend like one who slumbers
O'er the court house on the green
For she stands there in earnest,
Anil the jail 1« all serene—
And all is neatly furnished
At the court house on the green.
Facts ”.nd Figures
Ci nt n oed fr. -rn page 1
' until we have the money ready to
build a new court house.
If Medford wished to do the right
thing she would have asked the county
court to put on the ballot an act sett-
! ing aside the 6 per cent law ar-p creat-
i ing a levy for a sinking fund which
1 would run a number of years Th ;n
when the money had been procured,
asked for the measure providing for
the removal.
A levy approximately 59 4 mills will
be made in Medfold this year. Con­
sider this burden! no wonder that some
of Medfords citizens think they have
enough to carry!
We have now practically $96,675,98
in warrants issued in 1914 15 and as
I he statue of limitations provides that
they must be called th's year or ba re­
funded. If you hold a $100 warrant is­
sued in 1914, you will have $42 due in
interest and as thera is no money to
take up these warrants we will either
have to refund them or issue a new
warrant for the face value plus the
interest or $142.00 and after seven
years we must start pay ng conoound
interest on these warrants. No one
can tell us what we will do or whe' e
it will end. Inquiries of the judge elici­
ted no satisfaction.
Like a note with no interest paid on
it is null and void so are these war­
rants and when the people who are
holding themy demand payment, the
county court will either pay them or
refund or they will be collected by Jaw.
I will leave this with the statement
made by Judge Gardner when he
quoted Judge Calkins as saying "If I
thought the court house would cost
what Col. Sargent says it would [
would feel like voting against Jit,”
which Mr Gardner replied that
would be near the Colonels figure.
Yours for lower taxes.
J. B. W etterer .
She stands there stout and massive
Long ways from Medford it may
seem,
Where the law of Jackson county
passes
Then I met a sweet-faced, elderly I
Judging Materials.
At the court house on the green.
lady and with her a young girl. She
When buying woolen materials hold
.hem up to the light and look through
(mid in a gentle, trembling voice and Medford's profits sure are fleeting
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And all trials have their scenes; I them; the best qualities are free from
with moisture in her mild blue eyes:
“Susie, it took about all to pay the nut why keep up that constant bleat­ uneven and broken threads.
ing
taxes on our little home and our I
winter's wood yet to buy." Then I I O'er the court house on the green.
Administrator’s Final Notice
wondered, with sorrow in my heart '
how many, many dear little homes' Trust no “price-come-down" predic­
tion
Notice is hereby given ’that the un­
will be taxed to the utmost to build '
With the moving law thy theme.
dersigned, administrator with the
Medford’s million-dollar court house. '
Think and think without restriction will annexed of the estate of Maria
About the court house on the green Friederika Johana Holst, has filed in
Then I saw a jolly, good-natured '
| the above entitled Court his final ac­
—J. R. O’D.
looking fellow, I judged from the
count and said Court has fixed Mon-
country. Hie hat was on the back of
,day, November 8, 1920, at It) o’clock in
bls head, his eyes sparkled and his
VOTE 323 X NG
i the forenoon of said day in the Court
One Lot of
Waist Oves alls
$1.65 per Pais
Pinne 112
Jacksonville
room of said Court, i.i the Court
House at Jacksonville, Oregon, as the
time and place for the hearing of said
final account; and any an I all persons
having any objection to said final ac-
c mnt are hereby notified to maio or
file the same with said Court on or
before the said rime.
Ot. 9 192(1.
JOHN D HOLST.
Administrator with the will annexed
of the Estate of Maria Friedcrika
Johana Holst, Deceased.
Store
Oregon
Nc'ict to Creators
Notice is hereby given that the un­
dersigned his been appointed by the
Comity Cotl-l f Jackson County, Ore­
gon, as adtifnis'rator with the will
annexed of the estate cf Jessie Wat­
erman M- nroe Washington, otherwise
known as Jessie Waterman Monroe,
deceased, au l has qualified. All p r-
sons having claims against said estate
are hereby n itinii to present the :
same tithe un lers'gn? 1 at Medford
Oregon, with proper vouchers and
duly verified withi 1 six in inths from
the date of this notice.
Date! a" 1 'i s piainhel October!),
1923.
M. PURDIN.
. Administrator with t'l • will annexe I
of the estate of Jess e Waterman
Monroe W ishiu rtmi, otherwise known
as Jessie Waterman Monroe, Decea
;ed.
a >
mo
IF THE COUNTY SEAT IS MOVED lb
Do Not Re Deceived
i
Why waste Taxpayers’ Money for what we do not need?
The Records in the Woodshed? ? ?
Tiie records are all safe in the Vaults in the Court House, Medford partisans and their so-called in a fire proof vault communicating
with the county clerk’s office, wilhin
nothing in the woodshed but Was^e Paper, such as elec­ newspaper have Peen making a great the
court hot.se and not in the woed-
hurrah about the “invaluable records”
nor have they ever been in the
tion returns Ten to Fifty Years Old. Reports about re- in the woodshed at the court hi use, shed,
e
| the danger from fire, and the loss to | woodshed at any time.
cords, circulated by Medford parties are untrue and the people of Jackson county if these Tl s al ove are facts that can be cas­
ily verified bv anyone and in fact are
records were destroyed, etc.
made to deceive voters.
well-known to nearly every attorney
However, they DO NOT state
The adv ertisments rrccntly | t.blith- I merce stands re uiy to provide tempor-
ed in the Medford papers by the pro­ | ary quarters for county officers for two
moters of the county seat removal years or will pay the sum cf $5000 to
rchemc, while seemingly at the first I the county authorities for that purpose.
glance to be fair, yet on closer stujiy This might be an obligation (if it were
are shown to be misleading and liable onejat all) hard to realize on, —no se­
to deceive the voters, as was no doubt curity is offend and nothing is said
intended by the writers thereof.
about any assets t hat the Chamber of
The statement over the signatures of Commerce may have. In these times
Porter J Neff and John A. Wester­ it is easy to promise but sometimes
the invaluable papers consist of.
lund if in efii it® an I dm s not evi n y very difficult to turn promises into
writer has made a poraonel ex:
lax Levy Increased 212 Per Cent
that the building they propose to con­ coin
tiori of the p ipers stored in the
tract is for use of the county, or at
shed and ca i truthfully say that
One of their advertis 'incuts or artic-
have
the
county
seat
and
an
expensive
VOTERS, do yen know that the rate I
whose cost it will be erected or what I les states; “That inspired by t he in- of levy for taxes for Jackson Coun’y, court house?
than 90 per cent of the so-called re­
the rental will be. Notice! nowhere do , sistent demand from the citizens ot the | has increased from 8 mills in 19)9, Li
cords are WASTE PAPER, pure and
If
you
do
not
wart
to
increase
the
they flitv
say that
that thia
this htitl/ISncr
building tuill
will ko
be rent county residing outside of Medford and 25 mills in 1920? ! This is an increase of debt and taxes t > be assesse I then vole ' imple and of n i value to anyone for
free to the county, nor when it will be in the rural sections of the county, etc. more than 212 1-2 per cent,
a iv purpose oth r th in tr sell to the
Do you 323 X NO.
ready for use.
” ' the Chamber of Commerce endeavored know that the rate for school tax and
p iper mills as "was'e paper” for ap­
The statement with the name of C. |
secure the sentiment uf the Med-' for city taxes in the towns has also
proximately on' -half cent per pound.
E. Gates, Mayor of the city of Med- Uiod people as to their willingness to largely increased and that the total
The papers found there consist prin­
Porter J. Neff and John Westerlund cipally of o'd, many of them unused,
ford, Oregon, attached, is worth exact-
deep down in their pockets and oi­ levy in several towns in the county will
ly the value of the waste paper ution J fer a bonusto the county, etc. This is be more than 51 mills, or FIVE PER want to build a one story shack and I election tai y sheets, Fta'e nents, tax
which it is printed and no more; it is bunk, an i out of whole cloth, at that, CENT on the assessed valuation for rent it to the county for enough'to pay ! receipts and other forms which have
tne cost of contraction, then they will been discarded and move I out to the
conceded by people who know anvthngi the facts being that the only “insistent 19’0?
have the building for u e as a -(>re- wo .dsbed because they Were of n> use
about the authorities and powers vest­ demand” was by a small clique in Med­
Do you kn>w that besides the regu r>om for waste papers from the Hol. and had been superseded by more up
ed in municipal officers generally, that ford, less than half a dozen in number’
that the common council of a town has i who probably had axes of their own I |ar taxes special assessments hav • land hotel. It would make a fine pack t > date forms; that the deed records,
no p»wer to purchase or contrae t for i to grind, and t(ie “digging down deep" been levi ed in many towns for street I ing house for Uncle John if it does not th > mortgage records, mining records,
and all records affecting or shoving
the purchase of real estate for any ot­ | in their pockets was unheard of until 1 improvements and that water rates in i b irn down in the m.'antim.'.
the title to lands ¡¡r d all r al estate
her use or purpose save that of the cit the petitions were being circulated and i the different irrigation districts of th
transactions of the people of the coun­
or its inhabitants, Ti e statement re­ a large numner of taxpayers refused I coun’y, will have to be paid?
ferred to is pure bluff.
to have ain thing to do with the matter
Do you know that the indebtedness
In seeking evidence to convict a sus­ ty are to-day, safe in the vaults ii the
The atraement over names of the unless Medford would donate a site for of Jackson Couiitv, thevariius citits pect of an offense, detectives and law­ recorders’s cAbe in tbe c ¡art house
four Medford banks, also is not to the the proposed new court house and fur­ and towns of the county, and the lrri- yers always endeavor to find the mo- ’ where they are far safer from de-
ation distr.cts, total a sum of mor • tive; in the scheme for moving the stru'tiou f om fire th in th».v w mi l be
point, it simply says "The $5000 cash nish temporary quarters, etc.
necessary for renting tomporary quart- ' Ikwever. it is evident that the "dig­ than FIVE MILLION DOLLARS and county teat, fathered l y four or fit e if moved to Medford an 1 put int i an.
era has been subscribed.” It doos not ging down deep” did not prove very tint th is indebtedness aloi'e is nearly Midford promoter.’, the motive is be­ building which M -dford could or would
say that any money has been paid into effective, as all that was brought twenty per cent of the total assess. 1 coming apparent and will become more supply at any price; the sa ne state­
the banks or either of them, neither forth was a subscription, not actual valuation of the property, real and pe • so if the proposition shou'd carry at the ment is erf tally true of the rec rds and
does it say what the temporary quart­ cash, to the amount of $5000. Perhaps sonal, within the county?
polls, in which event it is expected that files of the circuit and countr courts;
ers are for, nor for what time the the bottoms of the pockets were
Do you want to increase the indeb - a large, juicy ‘ melon” of county mon all judgment rolls, pleadings of all'
money will pay the rent.
burned out in the $100,000 fire last ednesa of the county from Four Hui ev will have to be cut and divided. kinds, decrees, orders an I everything,
The next atatement is to the effec summer when
Medfotd’s fireproof dred Thous mJ to Five Hundred Tliuus- Will the taxpayers of Jackson county pertaining to the work of both the?'
that the Medford Chamber of Com-’ warehouse wa« destroyed.
and Dollars, in order that Bedford may stand for it? We anewer NO!
i ('hurts are satcly filed in metal boxer,
and to many other persons who have
bad business to transact at the court
house. We suggest that the county
officers have a "clean-up” day, at
leas’ once eacn yea’- to pack inte bun­
dles the waste papers that l ave ac­
cumulated in their resusetive offices
and ship the same to s >me paper mill
when they could bo used in making
r
County Judge Gardner has served as
a county ffl.-i >| for nearly eight yea s
six years as county clerk and two
years as J idgo and knows more about
actual conditions of the business ard
records of the various offices than any
other man in Jackson county, today.
In a recant conversation with the Jud;
ge the remark was made, that 93 per
c • it of the stuff store 1 in the wood
.'¡¡cd at tne court house was valueless,
the Judge replied''tcy, and you can
safely gay th it 99 per cent of it, there
is nothing there of any value to any
one. Say, voters do you for one min­
ute b.di-ve that Georg ■ Gardner, with
b s knowledge of county affairs would
permit the etoring of valuable records
i 1 the wood shed? No. not on your life.
Vote 323 (xj NO and Save Money
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