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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1932)
THi J Al KS0NVI11I M ini r to mention here that, in harmony with lower prices everywhere, we have cut Published Weekly at in half the usual subscription rates We are fully aware of the experiences JACKSONVILLE, OREGON of editors who have gone before us and are not expecting success to come easily. Rather do we expect to work Editor and Publisher hard and grow with the community. We L eonard H ai i know we will make mistakes, but we Add'ex All Communication! to P.O. Pox 118 promise you this—we will do our level By R ( LAV CHAPPELL SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: best to be an asset to Jacksonville and The first newspaper established in Six Mont hi 50c One Year SI.00 always be open minded and willing to Jacksonville was "The Table Rock Sen- headquarters : the nugget confectionery learn the many things we don’t know • I." published hv T Vault, Taylor TEI.FPHONE 16.’ and Blakely and its first issue appeared Just now the biggest turnover is in November 24, 1855. Two years later new leaves. Beggs and Burns entered the journal istic field with the “Jacksonville Her Turnips may not yield blood but they ald. ” certainly squeeze into an awful dish. Both papers were prone to be in- + tensely partisan, not only on the great Howdy, folks—1 ere is the first issue This year people who have never seen of Jacksonville’s own newspaper. And, a fruit tree are mighty busy doing some national issues but equally so on purely local affairs. As one historian puts it, as all good things usually start in a pruning. speaking of the Sentinel, it was fair to <• small way, we are beginning with this depression-sized sheet. However, we It’s a good thing the Sino-Japanese its friends but uncompromising toward hope that by concentrating on news war is over. The " League of Nations its opponents. _ This spirit led to many merry liattles concerning Jacksonville and the Apple would have soon run out of note paper. and insured its editors fully against en gate country and shying away from all * nui. It also brought alx>ut a rapid suc boilerplate fillers and padded features Now that the writer has accomplished cession of ownership which seemed al we will be able to give you a weekly his first edition and goes crashing to most a race between the two sheets. newspaper you w-ill be glad to get and wards another, he solemnly promises, The Herald won by a nose, th«* score eager to read. even if some-one buys a subscription, being 10-9. The Jacksonville Miner, as the name not to interpret this as a landslide and The latter also appeared undei 10 suggests, will feature Jacksonville's run for the senate. different titles, the last being "The most interesting and most valuable as Democratic Times,” while the former set—mining, its thrilling past and abun only succeeded in changing its name dant historical wealth. We believe you once to “The Oregon Sentinel." readers have an interest in our chief Perhaps this contraversial attitude local industry and will welcome de Right here and now we want to ack was due to the town’s isolation from tailed news of it. nowledge the help and encouragement the outside world for it v as not until As to our editorial policy, we shall we have received in launching The 1864 that telegraphic communication always endeavor to make it constructive Miner on its career in Jacksonville. was established. At any rate the fight and helpful to the community which The splendid cooperation of the resi ing spirit left its impress upon the town supports us. We aim to fight for the dents and the merchants both in con for even today its citizens are ever interests of our city and this territory tributing news matter and through ad ready to engage in civil war upon the and to try to do our share toward ad vertising has not only made publication slightest pretext. The Sentinel died a vertising southern Oregon’s oldest and of this paper possible but promises to natural death in the 80’s while the most interesting community. W’e intend far exceed the writer’s most optimistic Times, after a long illness, finally com strictly never to indulge in personalities hopes. It will be but a matter of course mitted suicide by moving to Medford or to publish stories that serve no hon for The Jacksonville Miner to advance The only paper since then was the est purpose. in its field and increase its usefulness Jacksonville Post. Under various man We believe Jacksonville needs a with such support agements it was a credit to the town but new-spaper of its own ■dited and pub- We know that if we can accomplish unhappily it lost its life a few years lished by a local resident whose per our part as well as the town as a whole ago in a terrible explosion caused by a sonal interests are the interests of the is doing, this paper will take its place social error. community as a whole. We think such as one of the permanent institutions of It is worthy of note that just as the a newspaper will serve a very definite Jacksonville. We give you our most first papers in town sprang to life dur purpose here and hope to make The sincere thanks. ing the days of gold, so now. when gold Jacksonville Miner fill that position. is being produced again, The Jackson The size of the paper at this time Opening a keg of nails won’t put iron ville Miner makes its appearance. Can it be that newspapers and gold have may be accounted for in several ways. in a person’s system. an affinity? Like our present gold rush Jacksonville is not a large city and * times are hard. We do not want, at this And it is just about the season for a it is not overlarge. But with papers, as time, to place a burden upon the local lot of balwed-headed babies to appear. with jewels, it is quality and not size that counts. And anyway we were all 4* merchants in the form of a larger sheet and added expense. We believe that we Depressions affect people the same little once May The Miner grow as big and im can serve our purpose for the present as a young couple getting married. They in the smaller size by eliminating all all want to say just how such troubles portant as we sometimes imagine our selves to be -and far more prosperous. superfluous matter irrevelant to and should be handled. not concerning our readers, and by con + densing local news so as to get the Seems like the harder the times are WHY BUSINESS IS ROTTEN maximum service from the minimum the more they strengthen people’s char The best speech we have been able space. We feel that The Jacksonville acters and make them appreciate the to locate to date about conditions in I Miner should observe the rules of good elemental things of life. And how large general and particular follows: economy and thrift practiced by other a silver dollar can jjet to looking . . . Imagine a ponderous business man, lines of business in these trying years with a three-dav’s old shave, corns on of promised prosperity. And it takes a couple of meals that his hands, two flat feet and a hump on And here's another angle. This small, never showed up and a night or two his back as he rears himself on his hind tabloid size sets The Miner apart from sleeping out for the average man to un legs and begins to orate: other weekly newspapers just as much derstand what the milk of human kind “Optimism is the keynote of business. as Jacksonville is different from any I ness really is and what a sweet and The profitable part is always, like pros other city on the coast. We want not good thing it can be. This from expe perity, just around the corner, or the only the name of the paper, but also the rience. profit now going through by some mir appearance, to tell the reader at first acle is about to materialize but somehow glance that here is a town unlike any While speaking of hunger, we don’t it seldom does. Always something suf- other they have ever seen. believe there is any such thing as char i fers from charley horse or sleeping We have talked with representative ity. From the time we first started to^ si<H»ness. Unexpected miseries crop up merchants and residents of this city and Sunday school we were told how we and if nothing else in the world can have learned that, for the most part, were our brother’s keeper and, if we happen to put a crimp in the profit, the ‘ they feel that a newspaper devoted ex really are, we’re just bragging when we power line will get shorted and burn clusively to this locality is needed at the claim we’re being charitable. It’s really out all the fuses. Somewhere along the present time. And, quite naturally, that just filling an obligation. line the profit goes AW.O.L. paper should be a permanent organ and “The prospector for gold is a pessi one that added to—and not detracted BUY NOW mistic piker compared with the business from—local business and income. This is the greatest time in all history ; man, who never gets it into his nut that We have recently bought a modest lot to buy, we read. And the world needs there is no pot of gold at the rainbow’s and house in Jacksonvile and, being a buying, needs it urgently, needs it right end, and that no sudden wealth can be printer already and aspiring to an now as never before. (We found that snatched from a business that is more editorship, launched The Miner, not out, too.) chancey than a game of pinochle. with the object of earning a living Buy now and that will enable the “He gambles with credits and is bash- | thereby, but with the end in view of other fellow to buy. Buy a house (or ful as fourteen-year-old girls used to j filling a community need and, incident have one built, if you would rather), be about asking for his money for fear ally, earning as recompense the expense buy a set of tires or a hammer or an he will lose a customer and he breaks involved (which we have cut to a bare oil painting, or an extra pair of socks , right out in goose pimples every time he minimum) and possibly enough more to or a suit of pajamas. There never was bids high enough to pay himself a little I supply the family larder with edibles. a time when your dollar would do so profit. We are young, ambitious and content much good. “The bozo who hesitated between the i to start at the bottom of the ladder so devil and the deep sea was sitting soft far as income is concerned . . . none of Imaginary ills have their uses. They and pretty by comparison. He might you will be called upon to donate some keep doctors out of the poor house. swim over the sea or he might strike thing for nothing. We only want your up a friendship with the devil, but what good will and support and, after an Our minds may be likened to icebergs to do with an unprofitable business is other issue or two more to show you which, when floating in the ocean, show a problem that only Mr. Einstein can we mean business, you will be asked to only a small portion of their mass above solve. cooperate with us by subscribing for the water level. The great bulk is below “Always we are at the mercy of the The Jacksonville Miner. And we’d like —out of sight. shop that has to run, or the genius who THE JACKSONVILLE MINER Jacksonville a ^own of ¿Many ^Papers EDITORIAL thinks he known how to beat the game A shop muv lx’ fully equipped and sta bilized today, smoothly running and making a little money, and tomorrow some fellow may move in next door, shooting tear gas and minenwerferx and laiinbs into the joint, until it is a chaos of hubbub and confusion like a bti.ted^^ hill "Manufacturer« weave about like p<>l-^^HP lywogs in armud puddle trying to T evolve new machine« that will cut the cost of making something one mill and when they succeed in devising such a machine it is hardly started until some one else makes a better one that cuts off two mills and then the first patriot begins, as »oon as his gums are healed so that he can use his new teeth, to make some dingus that will cut off three mills. . “There is almost as much dead ma chinery standing idle as there are used automobiles, and it is worth less pound on the hoof.” MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS Missionary society of the Presbyter ian church met at the church parlors Thursday at 2 p m.. with Mrs John R Knight as hostess Roll call war an- wervd with items of interest about Persia and Syria. Tin- study of the new book. “Christ Comes to the Village,” c57 CityCfsDitha tytne Spirit Pencil Sketches Why doesn't some guy we owe ever get this moratorium bug? *r 9 The tough part of this television idea will be tuning off scenes of food along about three o’clock in the afternoon. •E Bridge playing has grown to I m - abouL as peace-loving and quiet as an ol model T flivver. And if you are look» mg for a sure way to make a few ene mies, mention contract, or worse yet, try to figure it out + The schoolgirl complexion, save for the soap ads, has come to be a thing schoolgirls . re fresh out of At that they may have a peaches-and-cream skin but only their pillows are ever allowed to view it. We humans as have eyes to see must be content with several coats of cheap pigment which all young ladies religiously believe surpass the original package. •r The new diesel engines are reported to lx* much more economical to operate in motor cars than the present variety of gasoline guzzlers. But wait and see— whenever diesels are on the road thick as statements the first of the year crude oil, which accounts for the present sav ings, will be as precious as an old maid’s love letters. And the new type engines will be just another thing to make us wish we’d waited another sea son before starting a two-year debt for the newest model. New Year Greeting from THE NUGGET Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks Candy, Cigars, Barber Shop & Pool Hall in Connection Headquiirterf for T he J acksonville M iner PHONE 162 » ' r &
