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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
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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
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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.
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certainly squeeze into an awful dish.
Both papers were prone to be in-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,”
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Pencil Sketches
Why doesn't some guy we owe ever
get this moratorium bug?
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The tough part of this television idea
will be tuning off scenes of food along
about three o’clock in the afternoon.
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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
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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.
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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
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