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ILLINOIS VALLEY
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
NEWS
STARTING THE 1938 MINERS’ JUBILEE PARADE
Health Service
Acate and Chronic Diseases
Successfully Treated
Our Drugless Methods
of Correction and Healing include—
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The Miner’s Jubilee, a non-profit corporation formed to hold a civic
celebration each year, was dedicated to keeping alive the spirit of the early
mining days. The pageant, written and performed by local talent, renewed
the memory of the early history of this particular area.
The above picture shows the start of the parade. Labor Day, 1938, the
second year the celebration was held. The Jubilee was not held in 1939, but
there is considerable agitation among valley residents to hold another such
event this year. The board of directors have not decided what they will do
as yet, but if enough pressure is brought to bear, no doubt they will start
the ball rolling for another great celebration depicting early mining days.
Six Churches
Serve in Valley
People who live in the Illinois Val
ley do not want for a place to wor
ship, as there are six churches in
the area, some of them non-demonin-
ational.
In Kerby the church and Sunday
School is well attended, both activi
ties gathering for services and exer
cises every Sunday; they embrace
the Methodist faith.
In Cave Junction there are two
chruches, one non-denominational
and the other ascribes to the teach
ings of the Seventh Day Adventist
church. The Adventists hold services
every Saturday with excellent attend
ance ; this group also has a school for
kindergarten grades at the church
building. The non-designated church
has just recently constructed their
own place of worship where they hold
services each Sunday. Interesting
Sunday school classes are held before
the regular service.
At Bridgeview there is another
non-denominational church that holds
regular Sunday services both morn
ing and evening and Sunday School
classes in the forenoon. This church
is always well attended and many
evangelistic services are held there
at periodic intervals during the year.
Music is always a feature at this
church, both instrumental and vocal,
and this part of the Sunday services
is always appreciated.
All of the churches of the valley
extend a cordial invitation to the
general public to attend.
Volunteer Firemen
Organized in 1937
Three years ago several enthusias
tic citizens of Cave Junction organ-
ied what is known as the Cave Junc
tion Volunter Fire Department; they
bought a second-hand Ford truck and
made it over into a fire truck with
a tank holding 200 gallons and a
booster pump which can be put into
operation the minute the truck pulls
up to the scene of a fire.
While the truck is a home made
affair, it has demonstrated its use
fulness on several different occasions
when it saved property of the resi
dents of the valley from destruction
by fires.
The personnel of the department
is composed of the business men of
the city, and the truck is housed next
to the Cave City theatre in its own
building, built by the department with
volunteer labor.
The truck needs some new equip
ment and the organization is planning
ways and means of procuring funds.
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Area Boasts
4 Libraries
The valley is well supplied with
libraries, there being three public in
stitutions and one lending library.
Kerby, Cave Junction and O’Brien
all have good public libraries with at
tendants to take care of the readers
of the valley.
Kerby's library has been an in
stitution for many years and has a
large number of patrons, especially
among school children who find it
convenient to have ready access to
books near their school.
The Cave Junction library, only
two or three years old is located in
the Chamber of Commerce building
and has a large array of books of
all kinds.
O'Brien’s library is the baby of
the public variety, but it is not the
least in interest. The folks of O'
Brien are up and coming with their
new venture and are proud of it and
give it a lot of attention.
All have access to the lending fea
tures of the County Library in Grants
Pass and thus are enabled to bring
to people of this area the latest in
the printed word.
The lending library is opicated by
Mrs. K. C. Hamilton at the Cave
Junction Motor Court, at the junction
of the Caves and Redwoods highways.
Here books <rf fiction, history and oth
er topics may be secured for a nom
inal fee. Mrs. Hamilton’s books are
for the most part on new subjects
and she has new and up-to-date stor
ies that are in demand.
Short Wave Therapy
Chromoray (Color Energy)
Ultra-Violet Ray
Spinal Corrections
Auto-Bio-Chemic Treatment
Diet
Dr. A. W. BARLOW
Naturopathic Physician
Redwood* Hotel Bldg.
Phone 516
Grant* Pa**, Ore.
An Oldster
Sends Orchids...
As a Pioneer Institution—“Since
1900”—in Grants Pass and Jose
phine County, we congratulate
the publishers of the Illinois Val
ley News and give assurance that
we as an established institution
of reputation, welcome the
growth of the valley and promise
that our service in that sector
will keep pace with future devel
opment.
LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING PICK-UP Service
by the Red & White Truck Twice Each Week
for the Illinois Valley.
GRANTS PASS
STEAM LAUNDRY
SINCE 1900