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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1924
NO. 8
A Weekly Newspaper—Only Paper Published at the County Seat—Devoted to the Interests of the People of Jackson County
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WE. ARE ON
ANOTHER BOOZE CASE
PERSONAL ANO OTHERWISE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
WRITES FROM CAMP LEWIS
MORE PAVING
IS PROPOSED
Sheriff Terrill went to Medford Wed-
Our subject for Sunday morning is i [ The following letter will be of inter-
Mrs. Chester Wendt is renorted ill.
i est to friends of the Jacksonville boys
nesday night armed with a warrant for
Mrs. Barbara Reiter spent Tuesday “Getting Things From God, ” or ‘‘Does
who recently went to Camp Lewis.
j searching the premises of one Dale
God
Really
Hear
and
Answer
Prayer?
”
in Medford.
! Smith. On the charge of manufactur­
The time of worship is 11 o’clock sharp. We hope the boys may never see worse
MEDFORD EDITOR ADMITS FACT ing liquor both Mr. Smith and his wife Mr. and Mrs. Otto Neidermeyer we e Our Sunday school convenes at 10 service than guard duty or kitchen po- SOME OWNERS WANT IT NOW
—EULOGIZES EX-PUBLISHER
were placed in the county jail to await dinner guests at Miss McCully s home o’clock when an hour is spent in a very ■ lice:
— OTHERS WISH TO WAIT
Camp Lewis, June 11, 1924.
trial. The evidence was a still, about 1 Sunday.
I profitable way by singing, reviewing
The Pacific Record Herald, published i thirty-five gallons of whiskey, mash,
Wayne Sprague and the Misses scripture and Bible study. We are i Dear Editor:
Is Jacksonville’s case to be like the
at Medford, has the following to say sugar, yeast, etc., all of which the of­ Evelyn Childers and Floris Babb visit-d | organizing new classes as the need for
Just a word to let you know that the
case of the first locomotive? The story
the caves Sunday.
of Jacksonville:
ficer confiscated.
| doing so demands. Mr. Geo. Yost, following went to Camp Lewis with
is like this: The first steam railroad
Mrs. Blanche Cook, a veteran news­
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Lawrentz and Mrs. Frank Lindley and Mrs. Otto Company A, 186 Inft., O. N. G., with
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| engine was to be tried out. An old
paper woman recently of Mount
family of Medford were Sunday vis­ Neidermeyer are some of our new i Medford:
A JACKSONVILLE TREASURE
Morris, Illinois, has recently purchased
2nd Lieut. Lindly, who looks like he man shook his head doubtfully and re­
teachers. We are still in need of
itors at the O. C. Dorothy home.
I
would
rather be in Jacksonville; Sgt. marked: “They’ll never start ’er.”
the Post—buildings, real estate, ’n’
others
and
trust
that
the
Lord
might
One of the historic treasures of Jack­
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Butler of Ash- ;
everything—as is—where is, etc.
Pitz,
who
looks very lovesick; Corp. i After a short time the engine started
sonville is the Beekman bank.
land spent Sunday at the Wm. Eaton lay on the hearts of others to volun­
Pardon us, if at this time we become
| Leonard Osborn, who would like to put down th1 track at what seemed a ter­
teer their services.
Attorney B. B. Beekman of Port- home. •
a bit reminiscent, for we have watched ! land was visiting his mother and sister
on a baseball uniform again; and Pri­ rific rate of speed, and the same man,
The
ladies
’
missionary
society
will
Miss Bernice Polly entertained six
looking after it, removed hiB hat and
the Post with some little interest ever ’ here the past week and it was through
meet with Mrs. Geo. Godward on vates Vance Hill, Emmett Phillips and
since Mr. S. P. Shutt and Mr. H. M. his courtesy that the P ost force had friends at a dinner party at her home Thursday next at 2:30 o’clock.
myself, also Earl Killborne, which shouted: “They’ll never stop ’er!”
Sunday.
Some of the property owners on
Shutt took it over, some time ago.
All are invited to attend these serv­ shows that old Jacksonville has a good
the coveted privilege of viewing the in­
California
Street east of Fifth Street
Messrs,
and
MesdamesC.
C.
Murphy
Generally speaking, one does not ex­ terior of the bank building. Every­
representation.
ices.
are advocating pavement for East Cali­
pect to see a post start growing after thing is just as the aged pioneer left it and F. J. Ayer and Mrs. N. E. Robe-
Aside
from
the
fact
that
there
is
Edwin H. Edgar, Pastor i
it has been ‘set’ for years, but that is when he closed his banking career two dee of Trail were visiting friends in
horror of guard duty and k. p., all look fornia Street while paving is being
done through the city. Others say
o-
precisely what the Jacksonville Post did years prior to his death—and in the the county seat Sunday.
fairly happy.
that this is not the time for taking up
as soon as these men took hold of it.
J.
W.
Gibney
and
family
of
Grants
j
Buck
Privates
wear
leather
leggings.
lobby are the badly worn benches,
such
expensive work, as the owners of
IN
JUSTICE
ROE
’
S
COURT
| I might add that Emmet Phillips is
Jacksonville looked on in amazement. relics of the days when the lobby was Pass were visitors at theG. L. Yosthome
abutting property would have to pay
The old Post was ‘greenin up’ a bit, and used as a stage waiting room.
Sunday. Ray Yost and family were also Three boys about thirteen years old,
^he snappiest looking soldiers in
the entire expense of grading and pav­
so it was. It took on a ‘fresh’ appear­
all living in Medford, were arrested | the barracks and has the high ambition
It stands as a fine monument to the guests in the parental home.
ing along the proposed extension of
ance, and the first thing Jacksonville memory of a well ordered life, Jack-
A.
Carpen-
|
ot
becoming
a
corporal.
Tuesday
afternonn
by
C.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul God ward of Med­
■ pavement.
knew it had a Newspaper.
GEORGE KEYE.
son County should make an effort to ford were Sunday guests of the pa­ ter, who lives a short distance above |
The paving through the city soon to
That little thing, in itself, made the have this relic preserved where it rental G. W. Godward home.
town. The boys had two new guns [
be done will be done by the state and
old town turn over in its grave, and be­ stands lest the State Historical Society
THOSE WHO WROTE
Misses Bernice Polly and Clara Cle- and several boxes of cartridges and
county, except a strip on each side of
fore long, there were unmistakable step in and claim it.
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Following uie
jruiiuwiug
are the
inc nambs
names ui
of teachers
teuciiers about 12 feet which will have to be
man spent Tuesday and Wednesday in were amusing themselves by indis-
signs of returning life to be seen on all
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shooting along the road, who were taking examinations in Jack-
Central Point, guests of Miss Doris criminate
paid for by the property owners. The
i One shot •«»
<» c fired 1 through
11 V/til fvll the stove
■
»
sides.
was
sonville last week:
Kendall.
expense of this will not be very great,
MINING IN ROGUE RIVER
Of course, a lot of folks never gave
pipe of Mr. Carpenter’s tent and was
Vida Bradshaw, Dist. No. 66; Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lamb, lately of
the Post any credit for it, but just the
“It’s an ill wind that blows no one Rogue River, now residing at Ashland, said by Mrs. Carpenter to have passed Hope Nye Clerke; Mrs. Leona C. but where all the grading and paving
same, they began to brush off the cob­ any good.”
very near her while at the spring near Crane, Dist. No. 49; Olive Daniels; of a street is paid for by the owners
were Sunday guests at the home of
webs and keep their eyes open.
the tent. Other shots came near some Elvine Fluro, Coos; Mrs. Mona W. of adjacent property the cost will be
Miners are taking advantage of the I
Like the ‘drunk’ who came to in a low water in Rogue River and are min- ' Mrs. Lamb’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. children who were playing nearby. Ferns, Dist. No. 4; Frances Fitzger- J much greater.
grave-yard, as each one woke up, he ing the bedrock between the towns of | Wm. Arthurs.
The boys were brought before Justice aid. Crook; Mrs. Edith L. Good, Vestal
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Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dorn of Ber- Roe, who disarmed them and turned j. Goetze, G. A. Gould, Frances Greh,
thought that the ‘last day’ had arrived Rogue River and Gold Hill.
and that he was the first one ‘up’.
Miss Lois Parke, having completed
W at^r in Rogue River is reported i nett, Wash., having spent two weeks their weapons over to the sheriff’s Ruth Hackler, Glenn Hale, Elizabeth
as guests of the parental Wm. Dorn deputy for safe keeping. They will be Hutton, Lou Vina Harper, Doris Kin- a post-graduate course she was taking
But, like the ‘timber’ in the tunnel, j the lowest it has ever been.
and Geo. Adam homes, departed for brought before Judge Gardner in the | (]|e> Howard G. King, Tillie M. Kinps, in Medford, returned home Sunday and
the Post has kept Jacksonville from
their home Tuesday morning by auto. Juvenile Court. Two of them have
‘caving in’.
Mrs. Ruth MacCollister, Mrs. Bertha will spend the summer with her
Summons.
Under the influence of its progressive |
Geo. Howard, of San Francisco, who been before the Court before, All McKinney, Elsie Montgomery, Mabel parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Parke.
influence, Jacksonville acquired two I In the Circuit Court of the State of is making an extended visit at the minor offenders can be punished only Moore, Dimple Slack, Mrs. Mabel Miss Parke has accepted a position as
‘Post-offices’—side by side, being the i Oregon for Jackson County.
home of his uncle, Wm. Eaton, drove in the Juvenile Court under the laws Thornton, Mrs. Pearl D. Turner, Mrs. teacher of Forest Creek school for the
Fred O’Kelly, Plaintiff, vs. M. C. to Portland Tuesday to spend a few of this state.
first and only town to be so honored in
Ruth Wallace.
coming year.
Miller, and D. L. Miller, Defendants. days.
this country.
To: M. C. Miller and D. L. Miller,
New homes sprang up. Buildings were
The ladies of the Presbyterian
rented. Jacksonville had a newspaper, Defendants:
church held an ice cream social at the
In the Name of the State of Oregon, church Tuesday evening, which v
so why not.
Nobody wants to live where there is you are hereby required to appear and well attended considering the coolness
not a newspaper, Jacksonville had one answer the complaint filed against you of ' he weather.
CALIFORNIA OREGON
in the above entitled action within six
so people came to stay.
POWER COMPANY
C. F. Hoefs and daughter Edith,
Then, they wanted a highway. And (6) weeks of the date of the first pub­ Miss McCully and Mrs. John Williams
the highway is on the way now. Jackson­ lication of this Summons, which date attended the Argue meetings in Med­
ville has a newspaper, so why not a of first publication is May 23, 1924, and ford Tuesday night. Mr. Hoefs re­
unless you so appear and answer within
highway.
ports a good meeting with fine music.
But we must desist from rambling said time the Plaintiff will apply to the
Mrs. Masters departed Thursday for
Court
for
the
relief
prayed
for
in
the
down the lanes of the Past.
TOUR PARTN KUS
For judgment her home in San Francisco, having
Jacksonville is on the map, and the Complaint, to-wit:
IN PRocrxss
spent
several
weeks
here
caring
for
against
you
in
the
sum
of
$106.20,
and
indications are, it will stay on, forquite
her
mother,
Mrs.
Kasshafer,
who
is
for his costs and disbursements of the
a spell.
seriously ill.
We wish, for the new owner, the action.
This Summons is published by Order
W. R. Kirkpatrick, who. with Mrs.
greatest possible measure of success.
of the Hon. C. M. Thomas, Circuit Kirkpatrick, recetly came from Corning,
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Court Judge of Jackson County, Ore­ Calif., and located in Jacksonville, has
If you know of a friend or relative gon, which order was dated May 19, completed repairs on the cot’.age he pur­
C. F. PRUESS,
who is interested in Jacksonville and who 1924. *
chased of W. W. Green.
is not a subscriber to the Post, give us
Attorney for the Plaintiff.
Rev. Edwin H. Edgar went to Ash­
their address and we shall send them a
Post Office address: Grants Pass, land last evening, where he gave the
sample copy.
1i Oregon.
m23 j27 Charge to the People at the services
installing Rev. J. C. Mergler as pastor
The California Oregon Power Company an­
of the First Presbyterian Church of
IM
nounces
the completion of arrangements for the
that city.
The Ladies’ Guild of the Presbyterian
immediate investment of several million dollars in
church held its regular meeting yester­
Southern Oregon and Northern California.
day at the church. The ladles are pre­
paring for a fall bazaar and invite all
This new investment will become a permanent
AT
ladies to bring their work and meet
asset
of the entire territory served by the company,
with them.
as
it
will
be converted into new power plants, dams,
I>lr. and Mrs. Roy Martin and son
transmission lines, equipment and other productive
(motored to Ro ;eburg Wednesday morn­
ing, returning the same day. They
additions to its properties.
enjoyed a visit with relatives and
friends and brought home some fine
This announcement is made to our customers in
cherries.
appreciation of the wide public interest in construc­
John B. and M. H. Howell of Grants
tive developments of such magnitude.
Pass were greeting old-time friends in
Jacksonville Sunday. They resided
9:00 a. m.—“THE BUILDING OF AN EMPIRE.” Mon­
Its Real Significance
here a number of years ago and noted
strous parade bringing in review all the his­
the many changes that have been made
torical events that have transpired in the past
The California Oregon Power Company points out, .how­
»
in recent years.
in Oregon’s history. Prizes for best entries in
ever,
that
the
importance
of
this
construction
program
to
the
parade.
Mrs. Edwin H. Edgar went to Ashland
communities with which it is a “Partner in Progress” does
Monday to attend an executive meeting
10:00 a. m. —Baseball game at Fair Grounds.
not lie in the mere investment of millions of new capital in
of
the
Presbyterial,
a
ladies
’
organiza
­
12:00 noon—Patriotic Program.
the territory which it is privileged to serve.
tion
of
the
Presbyterian
church.
She
1:30 p. m. —Round-up of ten fast and furious events.
was accompanied by some ladies from
$1,000 in prizes to winners. No paid actors.
The chief significance is found in the cold facts that justify
Medford.
All contestants win on merit. Band concert.
the investment; in the continuously incre "-mg use of electric
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Gillings of
6:00 p. m. — Barbecue at Fair Grounds.
power and light; in assurances and contracts already in the
Oregon City are guests at the home of
7:30 p. m. —Fire works in front of grandstand. A massive,
possession of the company which guarantee the profitable
the lady’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
fiery pageant of fire works of ail kinds.
absorption
of this increased production of electricity.
Fleming, in the east part of town. Mr.
Dance at pavilion and other events.
Gillings is a printer and has been hold­
THE MAP
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An eAnnouncenient by
THE CALIFORNIA OREGON
POWER COMPANY
WE CELEBRATE
Grants Pass, Ore.
PROGRAM OF DAY
July 4, 1924
Grants Pass invites Southern Oregon to come
and enjoy the biggest day this town ever saw.
BARBECUE TICKETS, 50c AT GATE
Entire Program
FREE
lag a situation in the shop in which a
son of S. P. Shutt is employed.
A very pleasaut day was spent at
Ashland last Sunday by T. C. Norris
and wife and O. H. Norcott and wife,
of this city, with Mr. Norris’ nephew,
C. A. Barker, wife and daughter, of
Myrtle Point, Coos County, and the
j following friends who accompanied
them on the trip: E. E. Weekley,
Mrs. R. J. Montgomery, Earl Steel and
wife, Lyle Marcy, Russell Royer, Rob
Ray; and Miss Edith Weekly, who, by
the way, is one of Coos County’s very
i efficient school teachers and remained
| at Ashland to attend the summer term
1 of the Normal Training School.
The Company is als» pleased to be able to inform its
Preferred Stock holders that as soon as the new construction
is placed in service the financial strength and net earnings of
the company will be even more satisfactory than at present.
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THE CALIFORNIA OREGON
POWER COMPANY