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Brookings-Harbor Pilot — Brookings, Oregon
Page Eight
Thursday, July 26, 1956
Motorlog Leads to Jacksonville.
Storehouse of Pioneer Memories
Hi-Way Market takes great pleasure in an
nouncing the opening of its new huge park
ing lot -- in rear of store.
★ Turn off highway at Mill Beach Road dir
Old Courthouse
In Mining Town
Used as Museum
ectly across from Texaco station.
★ Entrance and Exit in rear of Building makes
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Reason why it Pays to Shop at Hi-Way Mkt.
M o to r
HI-WAY MKT
Stockton
Hi West
TOM ATOES
PEAS
216 Tin
303 Tin
5
for
$1
8
for
$1
Sure Jell
Yacht Club
or
SWEET PICKLES
MCP PECTIN
16 Gal. Jar
2
for
25c
99c
Wilsons
Puritan
CHOPPED BEEF
STRAWBERRY JAM
12 oz. Tin
20 oz. Jar
3
for
$1
39c
GERBERS BABY FOOD
Strained
Junior
$ 1 Doz.
1 0 c ea.
Snows
7 oz. Tin
MINCED CLAMS
4 for $ 1
3
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Nalley
Durkees
POTATO CHIPS
MAYONNAISE
7 oz. - Reg. 39c
Large Jar
3 9 c ; ____
29c
2 lb. Tin - ONLY
MJB
$ 1 .8 9
COFFEE
Field Grown
- No. 1
CELERY
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BY GW LADl'S BOWEN
Tn V 7 E‘” '0r' Th<Or,™ ,‘ n
In Jacksonville, Oregon has
a potential rival for Nevada^
i " ? ed tourist fr a c t io n , V ir
ginia City. For the tree-shaded
. ' « « Í X ' J ' b " , ' ' ' ’,
* * * ,n ,hta
streets of this old southern Or-
•g°n mining town, a few miles
y p oneer cameraman Peter B ritt, still stands.
tTe s°f nMedfOrd- are lined with museum, open week days from
she,,s of Pioneer buildings
J a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 2
forAT h '' V ° Und ° n a ™ to rlo g to 5 p. m. on Sundays.
ror 1 he Oregonian and the O r * tinnr.°St r<?,Cent Of ,ts acquisi
lm n n T ate M° tOr ass°clation. tions are furnishings from the
among many other attractions home of the late Peter B ritt
there are graceful old churches early Swiss pioneer who settled
one of them the first Protestant m Jackson In 1852 and became
church built west of the Rocky
the first photographer In south
mountains.
ern Oregon.
’The old United States hotel
By fa r the most Interesting
where President Rutherford B*
part of this collection is the as
Hayes was an overnight guest sortment of early cameras B ritt
on his stage coach trip through uaed;
on,y In his portrait
the Rogue River valley, was in
but also for his scenic
in i e? day the finest to be studio,
work.
found in a wide area.
v ^ arlj a11 of bls cameras are
a/ e ° ther pub,,c build- Voltlanders, ranging in size
ings. and lovely old homes hrnm ¿ He 4 u5 b° X cemera he
dat,"K back to brought w ith him from Swit-
the 1850s. when Jacksonville in r 3d d t0 . latGr models, which
was overcoming Its growing include a huge 11x14 Job that " h i t « m otoring car paused
fnd°K 8S
ear,y mln,nc town, more resembles a small cannon wnid majesty of redwoods
and becoming a well established than a camera.
b ong Sm ith riv e r to coast«
community.
a
There is even a stereo cam- ing county seat of Jackson
2™, h
\ Iarge vievvin8 box,
Old Home» Predominate
ano hundreds and hundreds of county, 289 miles south of Port-
Some, of these old homes are P ates that may take years to | land on U. S. highway 99.
A pleasant round trip from
nart
T * ’ bUt f° r the m0St classify and identify.
part Jacksonville today is just
As time permits, Miss Mary Portland that can comfortably
another small community living Hanley, curator of the Jackson be made In a long week end
among ghost buildings.
ville museum, plans to recon- would be down 99 to Medford,
One of the old buildings that' I J K ,Peter B ritta P°rtra it then across to Jacksonville and
is playing a new role in present studio In one of the museum on through the Applegate val-
h aCi S° nvUle ,s the stately rooms, and have It set up with ley to join U. S. highway 199
red brick courthouse This was cameras, posing chairs and va south to Crescent City. C al.
tb.udt ,n 1J84. on the site of nous backdrops.
and return north on scenic
B ritt is reported to have been L. 5. 101 to Portland. A sug
« hi
? °.a wooden courthouse
ere°tcd in the the first photographer to make gested bypass over an old high-
IJpdd
50s and burned in the a picture of Crater lake, first day north of Crescent City
through the Smith River cut
1853- He lite ra lly
off
to Brookings w ill save a
had
to
build
the
mad
to
the
It served as the court of Jus-
few miles.
KUHrUni 1’ the ,ate ’20s whpn lake In the early ’70s. I t was
Another suggested stopover
Medford succeeded Jacksonville i i ^ f Unth ?874 that he made h,s
nrst photograph of the lake. on L. S. 199 to the coast is the
as the county seat.
Oregon Caves, 20 miles east of
to the story, he spent Cave Junction.
*n h i 95?’u historical material
nearly
a
week
at
the
rim
w
ait
which had been collected by the
The road from Medford to
Southern Oregon Historical so- ing for good weather and was Crater Lake, some 81 miles. Is
finally
forced
to
make
an
ex
i n,C’’ and boused in the
kept open throughout the year,
old hotel, was moved into the posure of several hours.
Jacksonville is just five miles although there are no accom
courthouse. Now It's the official
west of Medford, now a th riv- modations available at the lake
until mid-June.
T "W •
Hunting
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Large Size
2 ibs. 2 7 c
TOM ATOES
1
a a s n r la t ln n .
(Fresh Stalks)
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pound 7 c
W A T E R M E L O N S .................. pound 4 c
io pounds
GROUND BEEF
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3 5 c lb.
Fresh &Lean
3 Ibs. $ 1 . 0 0
Seasoned Just Right
COUNTRY SAUSAGE
SWIFTS PREMIUM
PICNICS
Lean and M eaty
BOILING B E E F ...............
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