Jacksonville Post
Friday, July 11, 1924
ELIZABETH BLANCHE COOK
Publisher and Editor
ROBERT J. COOK, Assistant
Published Every Friday at Jacksonville, Jack
son County. Oregon
Entered at the poetoffice at Jacksonville, Oregon
as second-ciaKS matter.
SMILES
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE
Costs only' five cents a line
to advertise in The Post’s
Want Ad column.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Grover of Medford were
guests at the Chester Wendt
home one evening last w eek.
“Smile- -and tbe»Wor!d Smiles With You;
Weep and You Weep Alone.” . .
Fred J. Fick and family,
“Sav!” yelled the farmer
A speaker at a ministers’
accompanied
by
Geneva
who owned the pond, “don’t meeting in Boston told the
Dorothy, celebrated in Ash
you see that sign: ‘No Fish story of a negro clergyman
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land,
spending
the
day
there.
ing Here’?”
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who so pestered his bishop
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“1 sure do,” said the dis with appeals for help that it
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you
’
d
like
to
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gusted fisherman. “The fel became necessary to tell him
trade?
Tell the
world
lah who printed that sign that he must not send any
through The Post’s Want
"AULD LANG SYNE”
knew what he was talking more appeals.
His next
“Should auld acquaintance Ad column.
about.”
communication
was
as fol
Rev. and Mrs. Edgar and
be forgot and never brought
lows:
to mind . . .” How we used son, David T., spent the
A fool there was and he
“This is not an appeal. It
to sing that song when we Fourth at Ashland and Satur
hitched his star
is
a
report. I have no pants.”
were in high school back in day in Grants Pass.
(Even as you and I)
—
The
Bay Stater.
Iowa!
(We suppose we
Frank Thurman, Aaron
To a battered flivver all mud
should say “yell” it, for we Roaten and Douglas Zell de
I
and tar—
never could sing, but, any parted Tuesday for a camp
We called it a joke that had Down in the mouth and feel
way, we were sincere in our ing trip on the Applegate
gone foo far:
ing blue;
effort.)
river.
But the fool, he called it his
Bereft of joy and light?
We were reminded of that
motor car
Remember Jonah—he was,
Among the visitors to
song Saturday when a man Diamond Lake were: E. H.
(Even as you and I)
too,
called at this office who was McIntyre, C. W. Cully and
—Eugene Register.
But he came out all right.
at that time a member of family, Tom
Dunnington
our class and who, no doubt and Jack Sharp.
An editor and merchant
“Don’t complain to the
sang it as loudly as did we.
were discussing the virtue of
and
Capitola Swinden
He signs his name “H. L.
billboard advertising. The editor because he does not
family,
Aaron
Roaten
and
Jones/’ but in high school
merchant contended that print all the news,” com
Don Dorothy enjoyed a
“You’ll
days he was Homer Jones.
more people read the bill ments one paper.
holiday trip to Crater Lake ^OOOGOOGOOOOOOGGOOOOOOOGOCGCGOOQOOQOOOOGQOOOOOOOOOOCXi
He left the old home town
boards than the newspapers. probably see the time when
and Klamath Falls.
ç
soon after finishing high
After a lengthy conversation you will be mighty glad he
doesn’t.”
school and came west. He
Mrs. Amy Dow and Mrs.
AGENCY FOR
8 in w hich neither man would
is now living at Oregon City Kate Stephenson and son,
give in, the two men parted.
and is engaged in railroad Joe Wetterer and George
The next week the mer
I
Suddenly young Giles
work. This was the first Eaton enjoyed a trip to
and
g chant came tearing into the turned to his fair companion
time we had met since—and Klamath Falls over the
i newspaper office, wanting to and stammered:
that was a long time.
week-end.
know why the obituary of
“Mary, w-will ye m-m-
his
wife’s mother was not in marry me?”
Of course the old scenes
11 is reported that Carl
F’ilms and Camera Supplies Now on Hand the paper, especially after he
passed before our mental Larson is “gitting into busi-
“Yes, Giles.” replied Mary
had seen that the copy was
vision so rapidly that we ness” by setting up a bicycle
in soft confusion.
could not talk fast enough. shop at his home,
No ■JOOOaQIXiiX'XXX'XJQGiXJQOOiXXJOOOOOOOOOaQOQOOQOOOOOOOOOGOaC ! taken to the newspaper of
T hen followed a silence
fice. “Well,” said the edi-
He had not kept in touch doubt he will soon be adver-
deep,
and the girl got impa
t
! tor, “1 know you wanted the
with the home town as well tising in The Post.
tient.
obituary to be read by the
as we, and we were pleased
TH E
Friends of Miss Alice
“Why don’t you say some
| people, so I took it out and
to inform him of some of
Hoefs are pleased to see her
thing,
lad?” she asked.
nailed it up on your bill-
the happenings back there,
back at her duties as assistant
1 board.”
“Nay, lass,” replied Giles
and then, too, there were
to the postmistress after a
O. C. DOROTHY, Proprietor
in desponding tones.
“I
the sad events of which he
month’s absence, which she
A
dapper
little
man,
so
the
think
there
’
s
been
too
much
had not heard.
COUNTRY CLUB AM) ROYAL CLUB
spent with her sister, Mrs.
story goes, walked into the said already.”—Edinburgh
Of course he asked about F. E. Butler, in Portland.
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restaurant, picked out a table Scotsman.
the girl in our class who al
Fresh Eggs, Bread, Meat Products, Cereals, Full^Line of Canned Goods
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Geo.
L.
at
which a very pretty young
ways had her lessons perfect
BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION
Yost
accompanied
a
com
woman was waitress, sat
ly, and we had to tell him
The Place to Go For
Perkins and Brown were
pany
of
voting
folks
to
Lake
down,
glanced disinterestedly
she had died; of the boy w ho
Soft
Drinks,
Cigars,
(
andits,
Nuts,
Ice
Cream,
Etc.
of the Woods for a week
at the menu card, tossed it walking up Main Street to-
used to live across the street
FRESH
ROASTED
PEANUTS
AND
POPCORN
Those
in
the
away, looked up at the young . gether.
from the school grounds end outing,
“There goes an old buddy
woman and began:
who always objected to saw party were: Lois and Bert
Ed Stillwell, Velma
of
mine,” Perkins remarked.
Yost,
“Nice day, little one.”
ing wood for the kitchen
Gwendolen
His manner was most pa as a man passed.
range and many were the McCready,
Brooks.
Taber
and
lra
“Who is he?” asked
tronizing and the girl knew
tears he shed, and we were
•
Brown.
him at once.
J. L. Roe, Mrs. Ralph
glad to tell him that boy is
“Bill Bristow—poor old
now cashier of a bank there, Ball, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
“Yes, it is,” she remarked
Bixby
and
the
editor
enjoyed
showing that boys who don’t
quietly, “and so w as yester Bill!”
a
trip
to
Savage
Rapids
Sun
day and my name is Ella and
like to saw wood sometimes
“Well, ‘poor old Bill’?”
day. On their return they
I
know
I
’
m
a
little
peach
j
find something they do like
I “Well, it’s this way,” Per
spent some time at the Bixby
and have bretty blue eyesj kins explained. “When the
to do; of the boy who drew
home and enjoyed the “mill
and, yes, I’ve been here quite I ■ w ar broke out 1 enlisted and
a picture of the principal ion dollar view” the Bixbys
a w hile and I like the place i i Bill got married.”
(who was very homely and have of the valley.
(No
and don’t think I’m too nice
“Yes, go on.”
very
high-tempered,
al doubt it would be advertised
a girl to be working in a
“Well, can’t you see? I
restaurant—if I did I’d quit
though very religious) and as such a view' if it were in
got
a discharge more than
The
Bixbys
my job—my wages are satis
almost got the editor of this California.)
have a fine fruit ranch and a
factory and I don’t know' two years ago!”
paper expelled because the
cosy home out on the hill
whether there’s a show or
principal thought we d re w
Low Roundtrip Fares
road to Medford.
dance in town tonight, and
That even the school
it, and we told him the artist
if there is I shall not go to teacher is human
Louis Yost, Harold, Atha
is evi-
See one or more of Oregon’s wonderful resorts
boy is now a merchant near
either with you; and I’m denced by this story which
and Aubrey Sanders and
this summer. L< w >undtrip fares rr/.ike it easy.
the home town.
In fact, Donald Myers went to Dia
from the country and I’m a
comes from Washington:
The
Tillamoi
k,
Ne'
,
ort
and
Coos
Bay
Beaches,
respectable girl and my
we told him enough that w e mond Lake Friday morning,
A little girl was discovered
the mountain resorts, Crater Lake and the Ore
brother is cook in this res
Sunday.
believe we made him home remaining until
gon Caves as wed as many other delightful spots
w hispering in school and the
taurant and he weighs over
sick and that he will be go The boys report a fine time
oiler a great vacation.
teacher asked: “What w ere
two hundred pounds and last
Or see the scenic Shasta Country along the beau
ing back for “homecoming” excepting that they needed
you saying to the girl next
w eek he wiped up this din
several more blankets for
tiful
Shasta
Route.
to
you when I caught you
in August.
ing room floor with a fresh
comfort and then, too, their
whispering?”
$50-a-month traveling man
Where is the person w ho Ford misbehaved on the
Ask f, our Oregon
The culprit hung her head
who tried to make a date
has wandered far who does steep grades and almost ex
Outdoor Booklet
for
a moment and then re
with me. Now, what will
not have a longing to go hausted their supply of in
plied: “I was only telling
you have to eat?”
back to the little old tow n genuity' in keeping it going.
her
how nice you looked in
And the dapper little pa-
of their childhood, where They tried backing up, but
your
new dress.”
tron, so runs the story, said
then the wheelswere bound
•
there are feu so selfish that
he was not very hungry and
“\\ ell, that—yes—I know
to spin. Anyway, the boys
they do not share the sor had a good time perhaps
he thought a cup of coffee — but we must—the class in
rows as well as joys of all better than if every thing had
and some hot cakes would spelling w ill please stand
]do.
; up!”—Philadelphia Ledger.
within its limits?
gone along smoothly.
I
M. xMuntgoLKry, Agent, Medford
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