T H K COLD H IL L N IW g , JACKgQN C O U N T Y , OBBGON T H I RHDAY. OCTOBER 21, 192«
U ia iu K Y OF COUNTY
I »ion of all angles of the matter Io a
Hl*.AI REMOVAL ISHl I*. vote of the people of the county
without unnecessary delay.
The court udopted tin- following
Some lime early in the year of
1925 llir county Court, worricil by resolution:
the luck of fire protection for the
"Whereas, resolutions have*been
valiialtle rrcordl of the county, ami presented to tlie county court by the
by the large expense to which the city council and directors of the
tnxpuyrrx o f the county were being Chamber of Commerce of the city
put, such h i jurors witnesses, coun of Asldand, also by the city council
ty officials etc. In order to transact and Chamber of Comim rce of the
county business, announced thru city of Medford, und also a large
the pres» that they contemplated committee of the Jackson County
repairs to the present structure.
Bur, urging the removal of the coun
This notice caused considerable ty scat of Jackson County to a more
discussion ull over the county ami u central location, and pledging an
lurge number of the people expres curly expression by the people of
sed the idea thut the proposed re Jackson County on such removal:
"It is tiic opinion of tlie county
pairs would not only cost between
$30,000 und $10,000 but when com court that further expenditure for
pleted would not furnish proper repairs and improvements ,o the
protection for the rounty records present courthouse be deferred.”
Following the action of (lie Jack-
and would not provide adequate
quarters for the growing business son County Bar Association, the
of* the county, in a few years 11 Chandlers of Commerce of Asldand
would be liupernllve to erect a new and Medford, nnd tlie city councils
courthouse, in which case the pro of both cities, the city council of
posed expenses for additions, al- MedLrd, on the Nth day of Oclober
though admittedly imperative, nec of lust year submitted the question
essarily woud result in u complete of building a concrete city hall,
twice the sire of the present court
loss of that much money.
house nnd donate same free to the
The individual directors of the
county for court house purposes for
Ashland Chamber of Commerce ut u
a period of five years. This meas
ri-gulur meeting Monday, April 5, ure carried on the ballot almost un
1025 and the Ashlund city council
nt u regular meeting Tuesday, April J animously and the city council
stands ready to build u court house
7, udopted resolutions urging the
for Jackson County without any
county court Io defer action In re-
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.cost to the taxpayers und give them
gurd to expending additional money
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. .. free use nt it for as long as they de
either for improvements or addi
sire.
tions on the present courthouse in
The question of moving the comi
Jacksonvile, und that mutters re
ty
scut to a central location at Med
main as they now are until such
time as the people of Jackson coun ford is on the ballot al the coining
ty shall have been given an oppor November 2nd election nnd it is gen
tunity to vote U| miii the question us erally conceded thut inasmuch ns
to whether it would not be advis the County Court w ill have to ex
able Io move the county scat to Med pend thousands of dollars if the
ford und Io erect a modern court court house remains in Jacksonville,
while it w ill be furnished commod
house there,
A committee upimintcil by the ious cpiarters without any cost if
Medford chamber of Commerce also moved Io Medford, thnt the taxpay
unanimously adopted a resolution ers with the exception of some in
asking thut the proposed additions Jacksonville and the Applegate, will
to the courthouse he |>ost|M>ned un lie almost unanimous in voting to
make the change.
til the people of the rounty have a
chance to express their wishes ut on C O t'N TY SKAT REMOVAL COM
M ITT E E
election.
The Jackson County Bar Commit
tee compose I of attorneys from d if
ferent parts of the rounty, includ
ing Ashland, after thoroughly con
sidering all sides of the question
from the standpoint of actual needs
of the county, passed a resolution
asking the county court not to ex
pend money for further improve
ments to the present structure or
erecting other buildings, calling at
tention to the fuel that a large ma
jority of the |x*o|ile of the county,
when visiing the court house pass
through Medford und travel about
ten miles furthc- in order to trans
act necessary business at the court
house, thereby incurring a loss of
time and considerable expense. The
resolutions also state that Medford
is more centrally located und more
convenient to the people of the
county, and the removal of the
rounty seat to Medford would not
only greatly benefit all the people
but would be an actual saving of ap
proximately enough money in a few
years to pay for the erection of a
permanent courthouse.
E. B. Briggs of Ashland, for the
Ashland committees, und bar asso
ciation nnd committee members
from the Medford Chamber of Com
merce went before the Medford city
council Tuesday evening, stating
what had been done by the direct
ors of the Chamber of Commerce
and city council ut Ashlund, also
the committee of the Medford
Chamber of Commerce und County
Bur association, asking that the
Medford council take some action
regarding the matter, nnd submit
ted a plan which they claimed had
been thoroughly considered and
which they believed ns business like
and sensible.
After thorough consideration the
mayor nnd council unanimously de
cided to pledge, on behalf of the
city, subject to a vote of the people,
to furnish free of charge to the coun
ty n permanent site for the court
house when needed by the county
court, if the people of the county
should decide to vote the county
sent to Medford: also to furnish free
to the county suitable temporary
quarters for a courthouse until such
time as the county court has suffi
cient funds raised to erect the new
courthouse.
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A delegation of citizens, with E.
D. Briggs of Asldand as their chair
man, appeared before the county
court nnd presented the several res
olutions, nnd a thorough discussion
followed by the members of the
eourt nnd the citzens. The court
explained the fact Hint the county's
business enud no longer adequately
he transacted in the present struc
ture nnd that some relief would
have to be given within the near
future, hut that they were entirely
willing, if prompt action were tak
en, to await the w ill of the people,
if the citizens present actually in
tended to proceed w ith the submit-
Facts About
COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL
Jacksonville lias made this public statement in a
page ad signed by Jacksonville citizens:
County court should those who prepared the
statement have desired to be fair.
"The removal o fthe County seat to
.Medford means the ultimate outlay
by this County of a half a million
dollars for a new court house."
I lie County Court has been considering the
needs of the County, making plans, talking with
architects and contractors and looking over the
Josephine County Court He use and other struc
tures for many months with a view c f forming
an opinion as to what is the best for the taxpay
ers of this County.
This statement is absolutely untrue as could
easily have been determined by consulting the
What Competent Contractor Says About Old Structure
ITiey have been advised by a competent con
tractors that it would be wasting money to re
in» die the present court house, as it has served
its purpose, having been erected in 1883 and is not
fire proof.
He further advised the court that it
would he far better to build a new court house
cither now or in a few years.
Why Not Accept New Court House Free Free For 5 Years Offered
by Medford?
\\ hy not accept Medford’s proposition to
build a new structure, twice the size of the pres
ent Jackson County Court House and about the
size of the Josephine Court house— which the city
of Medford recently voted to build and to start
work immediately upon the people of the county
voting t oremove the county seat to Medford—
and to give rent free to the county for five years.
Free Site A lso Offered by Medford
Medford also agrees that when the county
'decides to erect a new court house the city will
give a site absolutely free to the county to be se
lected by the County Court.
C onvict» S tag ed P lay»
Though the first regular theater
In Sydney, N. S. W ., won Levey’s
Theater Royal. opened by Burnet
latvey, a hotel kee|>er. buck of his
puhllr house on O rtolier 6, 1X13, some
performances w«>re given In n build
lug erected on Church hill, erected
at a cost of J.'itSl ns enrly us 179R
These
eurller
performances were
staged hy convicts who were warned
Chat nny Impropriety In the show
would canse them to be banlslied to
the outlying settlements. T hat w arn
ing apparently was heeded, but It wns
discovered that the homes of people
• who went to the theater were persist
ently robbed, probably by other B rit
ish penal exiles In league with the
players, so the theater wns closed nnd
the building razed shortly thereafter.
— Sydney Bulletin.
F o rtu n a te E x c la m a tio n
A friend of Prof. W illia m I.yon
Phelps related this odd incident to
him : My nephew nnd 1 arrived In
Parts at 2 a. m. and later went to the
Gare SC I.nzare to get our trunks.
We knew no French and the porters
at the station could not »peak English.
A fte r fallin g to make them under
stand w hat we wanted, nty nephew In
despair exclaimed : "Oh. b'gosh I" Im
mediately a porter replied. "Out, bah
gabs; nut, out. hnhgnhz”' nnd soon
he brought the trunk. We never knew
before that the French language con
tains the word "baggage" or how It
was pronounced.—Boston Transcrip t
Sound C om m on Sent»
Between the value of a man's work
and the money n buyer w ill pay for a
finished article, the capitalist has his
Indispensable function. He must sup
ply what people w ill find they want,
itut thnt w ill not In itself make them
want good things. Sir Ernest Beven
advises them to save rather than to
spend, hut only taste nnd morals enn
teach them spending. And when they
hove done both, they w ill need to ad
just the social organism by some giv
ing, which means as much from mind
ns from pockets. I f the dues for that
are left to the stnte, hundreds of mil
lions w ill be thrown away.— Robert
Lencourt In the A tlantic Monthly.
T h e D o m e td a y Book»
When Queen Victoria came to the
throne the national archives were
scattered In about sixty places, hnt
by nn act passed In 1888 they were
concentrated In the public record of
flee, which now contains records of
the
chancery,
exchequer,
various
courts, nnd departments of state such
ns the treasury, home office, foreign
office, w a r office, adm iralty, board of
trade nnd customs.
Amongst the principal exhibits are
the Domesday hooka, thnt are the out
come of n general survey of England
ordered hy W illiam the Conqueror at
the end of 1086.— London Answers.
Court House to Meet Demands for $210,000
The County Court has also been informed by
a competent contractor that a court ho.ise twice
the size of the present Josephine County Court
house, which the Jackson County Court believes
would be sufficient to meet the requirements of
this county for the next quarter of a century or
more can be built for about $210,000 or less than
half what the committee who issued the Jackson
ville statement claimed.
W h y don’t the Jacksonville committee stick
to facts and not try to mislead the taxpayers of
the County.
County Court to Erect» Court House Either In Medford or Jacksonville
The county court believes that the time has
come, in order to meet the demands of the coun
ty, to safeguard the records— involving the title
to all property— which if destroyed by fire could
net he replaced at a cost of millions of dollars, to
save the office rent, time an,d expense of the
county offices, extra time and expense of the tax
payers traveling to and from Jacksonville, paying
taxes, attending court and transacting other bus
iness estimated to be nearly $50,000 a year— that
the wise and economical thing to do is to build a
new, modern, fire proof court house regardless of
the outcome of the election.
The Fuels Are
|Thc present court house is not fire proof and
cannot he made so without excessive cost.
Jacksonville has not sufficient water for fire
protection, neither has it an adequate fire depart
ment.
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Jacksonville has no banking facilities.
last bank there having cost the taxpayers over
$100,000.
Jacksonville has no hotel accommodations.
Only One-Twenty Fourth o f Population West of Jacksonville
Another reason why the County should not
build a new; court house in Jacksonville is because
only about one-twenty fourth of the population
lives in Jacksonville and west of there.
M hy should twenty-three
conscience.’ --Washlugton Star.
twenty-fourths
of the people have to be inconvenienced and taxed
extra to please one twenty-fourth.
WE SUBMIT THAT THE PRO
POSITION OF THE REMOVAL OF
THE COUNTY SEAT TO MEDFORD
IS THE WISE, SAFE AND ECONOM
ICAL THING TO DO.
WE ASK THE VOTERS OF THE
COUNTY TO—
Vote 5 0 0 X YES
D a r k y P h ilo to p h y
“D o r aln' no such thing us easy
money, tf you count In de hard ex
planations an’ de wear an' tear on
The
Paid Adv. County Seat Removal Committee