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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1921)
1 */••!» JACKSONVILLE: A M ountain T own W ith FltUIT, MiNfri, A V alley C limate . C attle , C lay P roi t.< t .- VOL. XIV Xliss Aimed» Fuller, the Rural Sup' ervi*or was visiting schools in this »art jf the county last week. the farmers are taking advantage of these few sumhiny days to get the b dated crops in. Joe Goldsby is moving his family to Jacksonville where they will occupy part of the house of Mrs. Anna Schmidt, who is a sister of Mrs. G hds- by. A number of people from this vicin ity are attending court this week. Mrs. F' E. Pursell of Ruch is visit ir.g her sister. Mis Roland Mitchell this week. A. S. Kleinhammer is having.quite a bit of land cleared un his ranch. The work is being done by local oontractoi s. Wm Heckman recently purchased a ranch from J. W. Goldsby. Ralph Jennings is serving on the jury in thfrcircuil court this week. EAGLE POINT About twenty ladiei met at the borne of Mrs. Frank Brow n and organized a I Ladies Improvement club, its object being civic bei terment. John Howard, a civil war veteran living near Eagle Point, made a tr'p to Medford Thursday. Mr Mynning, a civil engineer super intending the construction of the Cra- ter Lake highway; was in this city on business F’rday. C. M. Speck and C. J. Brommer of Medioid were in tbis section in quest of cattle. ( hai les Deiin has ten men working on the highway near the Cingcade bill and expects to put on a full crew us soon ns the weather is more sc tied. C. A. Pickle, meter reader for the power company, made an official visit to thia city Tiihrsday. Charles Blown of Medford, agent for Fordson tractors, was a businsss caller Thursday. Dr. J. F. Reddy was an Eagle Point visitor last week. ASHLAND Prof. A. R. Sweetzer and Prof. George Butler, of athletics, from the State Univeisity, were in Ashland last week, the former addressing the high school. It is announced that Hillah Tem ple will hold a ceremonial at Eugene A number of candi- on May 28. dates will be initiated. Mrs. W. H. Leeds and sons left for their home in San Diego Wednesday, after the death of Mr. Leeds in this city recently. Miss Verna Gilman of this city has gone to Eugene, where she has a position as stenographer at the tele phone exchange. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Lowe and son George left Friday for a vacation in the east, which will extend over sev i eral months. Fann Loan Council Names Col. Sargent Ad Clean-UD Da\ dresses Convention Mr. and Mrs. Claire Beebe, who have been spending a brief vacation | day night when the Canadian and the Interstate Limited, on the Michigai Central and the New York Centra lines, respectively, crashed at a cross ing here. Some seven of eight of the bodies which were badly mutilated, may never be identified. The Michigan Central train had been derailed by the automatic block system. It plunged ahead on the ties No cigarette has until it came to rest across the New thesamo delicious j York Central right of way, with two day coaches at the point of inter flavor as Lucky section. Strike. Because— At nearly sixty miles an hour, the New York Central train came on, the glare of its headlight warning many of the doomed passengers, who leaped from their reats. One or two reach ed the doors, but not one escaped the crash. The wreck occurred at this lonely junction point, which is about 50 miles f from Chicago. The accident was caused, according to railway officials, when the Michi CIGARETTE gan Central train crew failed to ob serve stop signals at the intersection ' of the two roads and was thrown onto 1 the New York Central tracks from the ¡derail switch. Flavor! ’s toasted LUCKY STRIKE FOR MEN AND BOYS 37 H At Greatly Reduced Prices K h Siq hishmen Are Executed by Military Cork.—Despite the appeal for clem ency made recently by the Cork cor poration, the six Irishmen in jail here, whose deaths were fixed for Monday on charges of levying war against the crown forces, were executed by the military. The men wore shot in batches of two each at intervals of 15 minutes. The men executed were Timothy Me Carthy, Thomas O'Brien, Patrick Ma honey, John Lyons, Daniel Callaghan and John Allen. The first five were condemned for pn attack upon th crown forces at Dripscy. County Cork, in January. Allen, whose home was in Tipperary, was sentenced for possessing a re volver and ammunition. It was his sentence which the king's bench confirmed February 24, In d' cidlng that a state of war existed In Ireland, giving the military full power to act without interference by the civil ourts. Made to Measure and Guaranteed to Fit M. Born & Co., Old Reliable Tailors ewis UI rich Pioneer Merchant Jackson ville II II LITTLE APPLEGME N’:WS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS niportant than the preservation of | our natural cenery, and especially (Cor ti ib ited) tho trees. A number of Ashland citizens at 1 think it was bhakesreare who | tended the organization of tlie Scen Old llni was all weever called him dead, I n as we came to the bedside lid: "'¡'lie groves were God's first War Laws Repeal Voted by Senate. ic Preservation Society of Jackson Oh, be might have had a regular Ac - mi . a wan. weal; smile and Washington, D. C.—The house reso County In Medford last week. The name, like the rest of us, sometime in Lieko’iei lution providing for general repeal of next meeting is scheduled for this his life, but we had all forgotten "Liste irds, l want to tell you war-time laws was adopted by the city on March IX. what it was. When wa would look somethir I’m a go n’ fast. Bi t If senate. Virtually all laws passed dur out the store window and see h'm i"i o'-e First Company is planning an lu back to Ind'ana, tell ing tlie war would be repealed by th? e. formal opening of tile Armory on shuffl'iig along the pavement we '• : u see her that Jim never resolution except a few given special would look at one another and say. blamed March 1 and 1500 invitations have it all. ’Cause O'-d Jim exemption, ir.i lulling the trading with- re.er wi been Issued. Company inspection. ' There goes Old Jim.” good. I told her to tlie enemy act, the liberty bond act Old Jim was stooped and feeble wait for drills and a boxing contets, followed until I made my pile in and the act creating the war finance by a dance, makes up tlie program. now. A gray beard covered his fr-e the went. A nd. pard, I struck her cm iteration. j and a few thin locks of silver Jell rich in .lack sonvllle. I was gon’ The members of the basketball from under the battered o'd black I ack, but the old town was a wild one Cc>3ta Rica Force Taken, 4 Killed. team enjoyed a banquet at the Hotel hat he always wore. He wa i wr.nk- in those days . and down next the o'd i Panama. Four Costa Ricans were Austin recently, with G. S. Butler as led and thin and the cane on ¡bank was a dance hall I met the kill, 'I ar. I nine wounded and two host. ho leaned shook constantly other one there. I forgot ail abo ut Panam.ir.ians were wounded in fight Maggie. I never even answered h r ing at Goto, on the Pacific side of the Elmer Hobbs, trainman on the trembling hands. We never knew much about O'd Ir-tters. Ond the other one, si:? clean Costa Rica Panama frontier. The Southern Pacific, was recently called Costa Rican force which occupied to Oklahoma by the Illness of his Jim. We knew that he had a littJ- "d me out anil ran away with Ditn- m Cota was captured. hut far up on the mountain side, and 'orth who had the faro game. Thn mother. » nt into Egypt. It win bearing that almost every day lie would creep I wrote to Maggie—I win a ofng back s cd wli n i'odc.i’i and I’onuirali The Plaza pool hall is closed in ac- down into Jacksonville, stand for lire this time1. At hi t her h 'ter were ilePtro'od. it was more than Portlmil War Bride Slayer Convicted. cordance with an order posted by I he : awhile at the corner near the bank. ci Portland, Or. — Thomas Lotisso, me. She was married. I 'Oil y. irs old w!:. n tlie great cities slayer of his 19 year-old English war sheriff as creditors have foreclosed I get a few provisions, and then climb "Thai was a long time t cf Babylon. NIneva’ and Tyre were bride, was found guilty of murder in on a loan to the establishment. j lowly back to the hiils. . 'Hit I’m gong home now. ill tli ir pilr.ie. They are gone, but the first degree, The jury recommend- It was a pleasant day in early old place uga'n last night. The poultry convention held here this tree l'ves on. When Christ was cd lite imprisonment. last Saturday was a huge success. A l spring when we first missed Old Jim I was ringing in the kitchen, I could boin it was more than 2000 years old, corps of officers and directors, com Several days passed and the familiar hear ■ dad a whistling out in the barn ■:der than the Christian religion Cotton Hits Lowest Figure Since 1915. posed of poultry men from all over form failed to apopai. We thought and Maggie was waving to mo from (¡today. When Columba l’scovered New York.—Cotton dropped to the I he must be sick and decided to go tlie gate. Her sunbonnet was off the valley were elected. America It was more than 3500 lowest price since 1915 when It sold out and look for him So one bright and the sun was shining through her ears old An I today, sti’l alive, st 11 at 12.5S 5 cents a pound as against tlie Revival services are in full swing morning we took the winding tr.i I ha’r making it look like spun gold. g-.ow'ng, it standi the oldest living highest price of 43*j cents a pound last at the Methodist church, conducted •hat led to his efibin. There was no I could smell the roses in the gul Hi ng on tile face of our earth. July. by the pastor. Rev. Edwards, who is sign of life as we approached, What den. Berds. hold me up won’t you And otic great redwood tie s, sor..e assisted by Rev. Bennard. Nearly a miserable shack it was. .lust a hold me up. Look there—over th re. 'hem hBv'r.g a circumference of Part’al Payment to Railroads Signed. a hundred young people from Grants few boards leaning against tlie ra : It's Maggie.” Washington. President Wilson ’ ’ ’ !'■• at th ''r ba e, height 3 ! : fed, Pass were In attendance Friday I ers. High up in one wall was a tn? That was the last word he said. A signed tlie Winslow bill authorizing - they arc nidi hlirhcr than the night. whidow, and the door looked aero !>".> cam" lazily humming in at the part's! payments to railroads under Sequoia- and reaching an age of the valley to Roxy Ann and a snow door. A snow-white cloud seemed provisions of tl’e transportation act. capped peak that peered over the to cling to the top of Roxy Ann. Far 1200 or 1300 .reais rue almost a ■ wonderful. Act Declared Valid summit. We opened the door am! below we board the faint whirr of a Small wonder that gloves ) Army of 175,000 Approved by Senate. looked around. In the corner on a car. Wa .bin itou. — 'rhe senate passed We laid him gently back on these trees are characterized an and sent tn a conference committee lagged bed was the st'll. frail fori: his bed. 'Cod’s First Temp’? -." Wo thought be v.a: ’he a ■ my bill providing for an army of Washington.—The farm loan act, de of Old Jim. Poor Old Jim bad gone home. But Id us come nearer ho Ifa.OtO. signed to assist agricultural develop When Mr. Emil Britt, the pre ment by providing readily accessible mayor of Jacktonville, was born, 42 States Attack Transportation Act. credits to farmers through federal land father who was a lover of all ki Washington.—»Validity of the trans banks, was declared valid by the su 'of tree“, celelii i <1 th? event portation act was attache I in a lire f preme court. fil d in Ilin supreme court by forty- iunttng a seq.ioi tie". I' lias gri In an opinion, which Commissioner !wo slates and defended by counsel for into a splendid specimen, it is i Lobdell of the farm loan board de the railways, The suit, the first of nt the ii,-,e of 58 years, m : clared removed every shadow of ques At the regular monthly council I Cdl. II. H. Sargent, who with many several similar ones to reach the high- tion as to the legality of the banks or meeting held at the city hall Tues other prominent Southern Oregon- | feet hlgn and about 10 feet in est court, was filed by the state of it their bonds, the court held congress day evening of th s week it was de ans. attended a convent on at Med- i cumference at Its bate. Her? Winccnsin, but the attorneys goner .1 had authority to establish the land cided to designate Friday and Satur ' '”d Thursday of last week for the >f its ft liage blown off by t' ■ v and railway and public utilities com banks and to exempt the bonds from day, .March 18th and 19th as clean •uanrvat’on of Jackson county rcen- . nd picked up by me. state taxation. As I stood beneath its I r; ache;- missions of forty-one other stat s, up <iays, at which time citizens are ry, responded to Mayer Gales' ad- were permitted to become parties to il. He announced there would be an asked to devote tlicr energies to ■'rwi of we come in the following 'a it Tuesday, I aid to myself, immediate issue of farm loan bonds is something worth preservin' g 1 thoroughly cleaning and beautifying words: President Signs Alien Property Bill. to finance the hundreds of millions their premises. In this matter the It is with pleasure that 1 say a : Her my dus! shall have v Washington. — President Wilso i of dollars in loans approved by the council stands ready to lend any aid few wo:<13 in response to Mayor Into nothin nes i, this tree v s igned a bill providing for the return board. be in its babyhood and mav vc in its power and on i the days speci- Gates’ warm welcome to those who by the alien pr i r "'y custodian of Farm loans aggregating more than I fied will furnish wagons for the have assembled here In the interest to be the oldest Mving thing ■•roi-Tty seized I dii.’lng the war and $50,000,000 have been held up since I transportation of rubbish and gar- of r-ving from <’.;iruct’on the tree:; face of our ea:th. Should it which belonged I to women citizens of May, 1920, as a result of the suit. I bage fi-ee of charge. Naming of a and shrubbery along the highways let us hope that .Med ord an lie United Si.” 1 ; rd the allies wh > Applications to this afnount were land and the other citieu of married cue . objects before the pending when Commissioner Lobdell date for clean up day was requested of Oregon. I take It that those be n.ay sti’l be flourishing and n declaration of v. announced at a conference of farm by a committee appointed at a recent fore me. and many other good people loan officials here that official ap- Civic Forum and the council in full of Medford not here, are Interested > one with Ninevah and Tyr proval would be withheld pending a sympathy with tlie movement, named two days in order to give every citi decision of the court. Officials placed the total amount of zen ample opportunity to do his bit loans to farmers held in abeyance by toward making a cleaner Jackson the suit at many times $50,000,000, ville. however, the receipt of applications Col. Sargent, assisted by school having stopped with Commissioner children and a few clean up enthus Lobdell's announcement. On March 1. iasts, has worked wonders in remov 1920, the farm loan board reported ing yeaio’ accumulation of tin cans that $182,897,000 had been advanced and rubish which encumbered vacant to 75,384 farmers and that applications from 179,734 persons then pending to propelty on Fifth street and the marked improvement in this section talled $471,000,000. is an illustrat'on of what may be done in other parts of the city. People Killed in Train Wreck Beyond ordering payment of the monthly batch of bills and the usual Porter, Ind.—Thirty-seven bodies routine, the council transacted no were recovered from the wreck Sun business of Importance. Hi Tersely Told by Conscien tious Correspondents in Ashland after a year’s sojourn in Africa, leave soon for New York, where they will take ship for Mex ico. II! WHAT 00« NEIGH BORS ARE DOING JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COI N Oregon
