Jacksonville post., August 29, 1924, Image 1

VOL. XVIII.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUG. 19, 1924
NO 18
A Weekly Newspaper—-On’y I aper Published at the County Seat—Devoted to the Interests of the People of Jackson County
U. S. HOTEL
TO BE RECLAIMED
PLAN TO USE AS HISTORICAL
BUILDING
y cREOH TO whom DUE
The Letter to Mother
ness visitor in town Tuesday.
Five-room modern house to rent.
L. Roe.
By William F. Kirk
Mr. ar.d Mrs. Harry Porter and
daughter, of Portland, were guests of
the Hanna home last wetk.
A special meeting of the Jackson­
Attorney and Mrs. Herbert Hanna |
ville Chamber of Commerce was held
were
week-end guests of the George i
Monday evening for the purpose of
Neuber
home near Butte Falls.
discussing the matter of restoring the
Enos Conger, of Medford, an old-
U. S. Hotel on California Street, which
in its present state of neglect is far time resident of Jacksonville, was over
from being a credit to the city. The taking a look at the old town Tuesday.
plan is to restore the structure and
Fred Opp of San Diego, Calif., is
make of it a museum in which may be
vi ¡ting his brother John at the Opp
housed the many interesting and valu­
mine.
able collections the owners of which
are only waiting for such a place.
The Oregon Irrigation Congress and
The meeting was adjourned until Klamath Produets Show will be held in
Monday night, September 1, when Klamath Falls September 6 to 9.
definite plans for the work to be done
The next regular monthly meeting of
will be made.
the
City Council will be held at the
The U. S. Hotel was built by George
city
hall at 8 o’clock p. m. Tuesday,
H. Holt in the year 1880. Its first
September
2.
guests were President Hayes and party
who were touring the west, traveling
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoefs and two
by stage. The hotel was not com­ children and Mrs. Hoef’s mother, Mrs.
pleted when the exciting news came Abbott, of Eutte Fails, were Sunday
that the presidential party would vis­ visitors at the C. F. Hoefs home.
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it Jacksonville. True to traditional
Mr. nnd Mrs. J. W. (.’lark arrived
Western hospitality, Madame Holt
hastily fitted up rooms and the dis­ Tuesday from Ukiah, Calif., for a visit
tinguished visitors were entertained. with the lady’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Some Jacksonville folks remember Geo. L. Yost.
this visit and that President Hayes
Mrs. Pauiine Vogt and daughter,
spoke to the people from the veranda
Maxine, Miss Elizabeth Reuter and
which ran the lull length of the hotel
Miss Mollie Britt visited friends in
front and which has since been toin
Ashland V» ednesday.
away.
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Mrs. Pauline Vogt and daughter and
Miss Elizabeth Reuter, of The Dalles,
•7/W CAN ALLEY"
Complaints are being made that some who have been visiting their old home
persons are Violating a city ordinance in Jacksonville, spent a few days last
by dumping tin cans and otner rubbish week at £ ••la L'pringc.
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along the street leading out to the Ap­
M. M. Taylor of Oakland, Calif., at
plegate road. An effort is being maUe
one time a merchant of Jacksonville,
to apprehend violators of this orui-
was calling on old friends here Thurs­
nance, who are said to be from a
day. Mr. Taylor was enroute home
nearby town. Jacksonville folks are
from a visit to his mother near Port­
making an effort to beautify tms city
land.
and resent this violation.
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Tuesday morning at the gravel lqad- j
STATE EXAMINAIIONS
ing trap of the paving plant, a horse'
There are boys and girls of Jackson fell off onto a tiuck. The driver es-|
County who have been stuuying during I caped serious injury, but the horse j
the summer months in order to clear oil was injured so it was unable to walk
some unfinished subjects. The slate and the truck was badly damaged.
examinations occur on September 4
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fick and daugh­
and 5. Unless other arrangements are
ter Virginia, Mr. Fick’s mother, Mrs.
made with school districts, children
II. W. Fick, and iiis niece, Thelma Lar­
should come to the county superin­
son, departed by auto Sunday morning
tendent’s office in Jacksonville to lane
and will visit relatives and friends in
the examinations. Information will be
San Francisco and other California
given on request as to just when cer­
cities.
tain subjects will be given.
J. W. Shirley has resigned his posi-'
tion as chief deputy in the tax depart­
ment of the sheriff's office. Mr. ar.d
Mrs. Shirley will leave soon for Queen i
City, Missouri (the "show me” state)
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where they have property interests
needing their attention, and there is
also a little homesickness in the family
which this trip will probably cure.
Mrs. Frank Gibbs and two children
of Fallon, Nevada, arrived early in tie
week for a short visit with relatives.
Mrs. Gibbs will be accompanied home
by her aged mother, Mrs. J. C. Whif p,
who has spent several weeks with her
sisters, Mrs. Kate Hoffman and Mis.
Julia Beekman. The Whipp family
were old-time residents of Jackson­
ville, Mr. J. C. Whipp having laid the
cornerstone for the court house in lc83.
Rev. R. E. Close.
The Law Enforcement Picture,
"Last Raid of Sheriff Kendall of Linn
County, ” will be shown in the High
School Gymnasium Sunday, August 31,
at 8:' 0 p. m. This picture has many
thrilrng features such as the showing
of the poisonous conditions under which
"moonshine'- is made; crooked officials
‘ 'tipping off” the moonshiner and de
picting a raid upon desperate moon­
shiners—as thrilling as though it hap­
pened in the mountains of Tennessee.
Rev. R. E. Close, Assistant Superin­
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of
Oregon, will deliver a short address,
taking for his subject "The Price of
Victory.”
A party of young folks, chaperoned
by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Ycst, most
of them being pupils in Mr. Yost’s
Sunday school class, enjoyed a trip to
the Oregon Caves, making the trip
there Saturday night and returning
Sunday evening. The y< ung folks were:
Harold Wakefield, louis and Gle-
Yost, Saloma Stillwell,
Youthful love is fierce and flaming, and when
writing to your love
You will rave about your passion, swearing by
the stars above;
Vowing by the moon’s white splendor that the
girl whom you adore
Is the one you’ll ever cherish as no maid was
loved before.
You will pen full many a promise on these pages
white and dumb
That you never can live up to in the married
years to come.
But a much more precious letter, bringing more
and deeper bliss
Is the letter to your mother from the boy she
cannot kiss.
She will read it very often v hen the lights are
soft and low,
Sitting in the same old corner where she held
you long ago,
And regardless of its fiction and its spelling or
its style,
And although its composition would provoke a
critic’s smile,
In her old and trembling fingers it becomes a
work of art,
Stained by tears of joy and gladness as she hugs
it to her heart.
Yes, the letter of all letters, look wherever you
may roam,
Is the letter to your mother from her boy away
from home.
Ladies’ Low Shoes
Including Valu s Up To
remarkable low price of
l.
$3.95 Pair
NEW STOCK JUST IN
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Geo ge and
Mildred Witter, Jesse Col* .nan,
Ed
Gilmore, Mary Parke, Andrew Larson,
Vivian Miller, Margaret Frenna, Rob-
ert Cock. Ed Stillwell, a Mr. Kerr
and Mr. and Mrs. Kerr, of Medford,
were also of the party.
You may write a thousand letters to the maiden
you adore,
And declare in every letter that you love her
more and more.
You may praise her grace and beauty in a thou­
sand glowing lines,
And compare her eyes of azure with the bright­
est star that shines.
If you had the pen of Byron you would use it
every day
In composing written worship to your sweet-
heart far away,
But the letter far more welcome to an older,
gentler breast
Is the letter to your mother from the boy she
loves the best.
JA CKSONVILLE CASH STORE
Jacksonville, Ore
]GOOD NEWS
In The Medford Sun of August 24
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appeared the following item:
Among the twenty years ago
items in last Friday's Portland
Journal appeared the following:
SCHOOL WILL OPEN MONDAY,
"B. B. Beekman, a native son of
SEPTEMBER 8
Jacksonville, the oldest mining
camp in Oregon, has presented to
the American mining congress a
The day for which Jacksonville
gavel of manzanita wood, bound
youngsters
have been longing (?) will
with gold taken from Rich Gulch
soon be here. School will open Mon­
this spring.”
We are informed that the gavel re­ day, September 8.
The board has hired a corps of good
ferred to was presented by the Jack­
sonville Board of Trade through Mr. instructors and it is predicted the year
Beekman and bears the inscription, will be a profitable one for pupils who
"Presented to American Mining Con­ try to make it so.
The teachers are: Prof. C. Cook,
gress, Portland, Oregon, August 22,
superintendent; Miss Mabel Stephens,'
1904, by Jacksonville Board of Trade.
assistant; Miss Sherlock, commercial’
The gavel was made of manzanita
wood grown on the slopes of Rich Grades: 1 and 2, Miss Abbott; 3 and 4,
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Gulch and the inscription plate from Miss Ruth Fleming; 5 and 6, Mrs. C.
gold taken from that stream within Cook; 7 and 8, Mr. Gould.
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the city limits of Jacksonville, where
the first big gold find was made in
ON TO PORT ORFORD
Oregon that built up the first mining
The meeting held at Port Orford re­
camp in the state and out of which
cently for the purpose of making pre­
Jacksonville grew, the discovery being
liminary plans for building a paved
made by James Poole and James Clu-
road to Port Orford, was well attend­
gage, Yreka packers, in December,
ed and the representatives of the
1851.
three counties, Jackson, Josephine and
o
Curry, agreed to cooperate in this
TO BUTTE FALLS
project which, when completed, will
Mayor Emil Britt, Miss Molly Britt give this valley a direct route to an
ocean port.
and John Miller motored to Butte Falls
It was decided to send out a scouting
Sunday, taking the editor of this paper
party
to select a tentative route for
along to show us some of the "tall
survey.
A resolution was adopted
timber” over that way. Everything
appointing
Judge G. A. Gardner of
was quiet and peaceful in the village.
Jacksonville
to name a committee of
We clip from an exchange the follow­
tiwe
with
power
to act to get a survey.
ing paragraph which appeared in the
The
Judge
named:
F. J. Newman,
Butte Falls correspondence:
Medford; Chas. Hall, Marshfield; H.
Your correspondent traveled the
N. Larson, Port Orford; W. B. Lind­
town this morning in search of
news for this column and in the ab­
say, Merlin; L. D. Jones, Medford.
sence of local items of general in­
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terest hit upon the general facts of
climatic conditions. Twelve win­
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ters spent here huve witnessed not
Wanted,
500 girh and boys to attend
more than two feet of snow, and
Sunday
school
on Sunday next and
that only twice. Old citizens testi­
every Sunday thereafter, with teach­
fy to its healthfulness and new­
comers have left with regret be­
ers enough present to supply the de­
cause it has been healthier for the
mand. Our vacation season is prac­
stomach than the purse. But the
tically over for this year; so let us
purse is now getting fatter. The
gather up the threads where we let go
nearby snow-covered hills gives us
some weeks ago and enter into our
cool nights in summer, while the
temperature by day is lower than
year’s work with a real interest.
in the valley, and the influence of
There will be preaching service at 11
the Japan current reaches from
o’clock on Sunday morning, and it is
the coast to the range of the Si­
hoped that we may have a good at­
erras ano secures our mild winters.
Butte Falls folks have a fine view of tendance.
Let no one fail to hear Mr. R. E.
Mt. Pitt. It also has something else
Close
of Portland on Sunday evening
that all small towns do not have —a
at
8
o
clock in the high school gym­
neat, clean, “homey” little restaurant
nasium.
His address has to do with
where the service is good.
"The
Moonshiner
and His Still” or law
A visit to the state fish hatchery was
enforcement.
His
pictures are based
interesting and, judging by the beauty
'
upon
the
last
raid
of
Sheriff Kendall
of the place, Mr. J. W. Berrien, super­
and
similar
raids,
If
you are inter-
intendent of the hatchery, has an eye
ested
in
real
house
cleaning
and back-
for landscaping as well as a knowledge
ing
up
our
officers
who
are
elected
to
of the nature of the "finny tribe.”
do the job, come out and hear this
The return trip was made by way of
splendid lecture and see his pictures.
Eagle Point, and we saw no eagles, but
Edwin H. Edgar, Pastor.
we did see a neat village with well
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painted buildings, proving that the
folks who live there care for appear­ ART GALLERY AN ATTRACTION
ances. Leaving there, we visited the
Scarcely a week passeB that does not
Britt ranch, through which flows Little bring visitors to see the fine art gal­
Butte Creek, and the view from the lery at the Britt home in this city.
: bridge made us think of Riley’s
Visitors within the past few days
Hoosier poem:
were: Judge Brown, wife and daugh­
FOR CHILDREN
"Oh, the old swimmin hole, whar the ter of Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Bellows
of Roseburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred
crick so still and deep
Looked like a baby river that was Lockey of Portland (Mr. Lockey is a
layin’ half asleep;
special writer for the Portland Jour-
And the gurgle of the warter ’round | nal); Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Menefee,
the drift jest below
| Mr. ane Mrs. M. E. Thompson and
Sounded like the laugh of something daughter Dorothy, J. P. Menefee, of
that we onct used to know,
Portland and Mrs. M. D. Cole of Med­
Long before we could remember any­
ford;
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Meyer, of
thing but the eyes
San
Francisco.
Of the angels looking out as we left
paradise.
Oh, the merry days of youth is bey. nd
¡AcKSON COUNTY FAIR
our control,
And it’s hard to part fereVer with the Larger and better than ever before is
old swimmin’ hole.”
mildly expressing the true facts regard­
We also had a look at the new school ing the Jackson County Fair next month.
house being built in Ixmg Mountain Every department of exhibits is en­
school district, for which the Britts larged; the number of horses entered
in the races is three times as big as ever
gave the land.
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before; the automobile show double
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that of last year; free attractions in­
With a heat wave loitering in the creased one hundred l>er cent in number;
valley, it has been hard to pursue the and a sham battle depicting actual war­
pursuit of printing this week.
fare is the crowning feature.