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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner V olume 1 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, April 22, 1932 N umber 17 WILL TRY FOR COUNTY TITLE • GOLD DIGGERS WIN STARTER HOLD PLAY PRACTICE DAILY FOR SENIOR CAST Members of the cast chosen for the senior class play, “Ixjve a la Carte,” to be presented at the school auditorium May 6, have been rehearsing daily under the direc tion of Miss Helen Kafoury, upper class teacher. The play, a hilarious comedy written by Adam Applebud, prom ises to be an evening’s entertain ment. of the first order. Cast for the annual senior presentation is as follows: Florence Conger as Cookie, a colored kitchen expert; Andy Smith as Jack Huff; Barbara Dur ham as Jill Huff; Malcolm Jones as Horace Huff; Doris Clark as Hannah Huff; Lula Metzger as Marjorie Mansfield; Forest Thoma son as Billy Boxford; Margaret Norvell as Tillie Tickle; Robert Forbes as Tommy Taddy. In a double-header between Tal ent and the Jacksonville Pirates, and the Jacksonville Gold Diggers, strictly home talent, and the Pal mer Creekers, which was featured by a wealth of laughs and excite ment, the Pirates dropped a game to Talent while it remained for the newly organized nine to uphold the traditions of the old town. One brief fistfight introduced the day’s festivities and aided greatly in making the crowd feel at ease. In the first game, both of which were six-inning goes, play was air tight and simmered down, urtftil the lust round, to a pitcher’s battle. In the sixth, however, Hughes, Pirate hurler, ran out of everything but home run balls and it was ncces- sary to substiti/te Ben Coffman, Jacksonvillian pitcher, to retire the side. Ben’s freak delivery, com pletely hiding the ball till it was near the butter’s stand, was very effective and had the Talented men guessing and swinging. Final score, after the visitors’ rally in the last, As result of a visit here the first was 4-1. * of the week by Ben B. Beekman, In the second tilt, between the Portland, son of the Banker C. C. Gold Diggeis (which is the name Beekman, the old bank building, fa chosen by the locals) and the Pal mous in the early history of the mer Prides, the first inning, so far west, will be refinished on the ex as the Jacksonvillians were con terior as soon as weather permits. cerned, was a merry-go-round, the R. C. Chappell, painter and dec Diggers batting around twice and orator, was awarded contract for nearly every man getting a hit the work and stated that the late from Nate Smith, who started for banker’s son plans to keep the in the mountaineers. Nate, however, terior of the historic landmark in- was washed up before he threw a tadt and that in the near future ball because the crowd, in a single Beekman expects to go through the voice, began to razz the prospector | fund of old records housed there till it would have been hard for and sort out the more valuable even a bowler to roll the pill across treasures for exhibition in this city. home plate. McIntyre was called in The old Wells-Fargo license and and handled the situation nicely for scores of vital records, along with the remainder of the game. There the renowned gold scales which seems to be no way of knowing just weighed more than 20 million dol how many scores were made in the lars of the precious metal, are first round but the final total was stored in the building. While the set by the scorekeeper at 7-5 for room, just as it was left the last the homeguards. Paul Hess, Bud day of business years ago, has been Reinking and Doc Gillis hurled for under lock ami key, it is Beekman's the winners. Hess pitched his first intention, also, to make this an ad game a few weeks ago and shows ditional natural museum for tour promise as both a junior league and ists. town player. Bud Reinking, for such a small ball artist, had the visitors OIL guessing and, in the closing innings CAFE SHOWING PAINTING BY HELMS when Doc Gillis was worked, a new heaver was uncovered. Doc threw A painting of one of the first his firrit game for this city last stone structures in southern Ore Sunday and, using slow, slower and gon, built nearly a century ago near slowest balls to bewilder hitters, the Klamath junction on the old proved to be a handy man to have Kingsbury place, is on display this around during a ball game. This week-end the Pirates will week in Leonard’s Rendezvous cafe. The work, done in oils on a slab play a practice game here with the of wood, pictures the old rock house Medford Eagles while the home guards will journey to Palmer in its present comfortable .setting Creek in a return engagement with on the ranch now owned by A. D. the defeated hill climbers. Jackson- Helms. Ad Helms junior, exper villians will be on their guard de ienced and talented artist, designed spite last Sunday’s victory, because the landscape. Young Helms also Babe Ruth material was discovered is the creator and painter of the in Ix»e Port, Palmerite who, after vivid murals gracing walls of the much kidding, got up to bat and new cafe. I^eonard Swensen, proprietor, has poled out a homer with the first invited Jacksonville and Applegate ball thrown. Players on the visiting people to drop in and admire the team last Sunday were Ross, Mc samples of fine paintings. Intyre, N. Smith, S. Smith, Scholer, Culy, O’Brien, Bobb and I xm * Port. The Gold Diggers used Reinking, same players will tangle at the Chuck and Ray Ward, Hunsaker, creek diamond this week-end, when Clark and Hall. No doubt about the nuggets and home runs are expect ed to fly. Lineup for the Jacksonville Pi APPLEGATE EDITOR ILL rates was: Stine, Williams, Hof- ford, Harrington, Coffman, Corbin, Maude Pool, The Miner’s Ap Coleman, Bradley, Witter, Hughes, plegate editor, has been unen Ix!wis, Runtz and Swanson. Butler, joying the discomforts of in Hewland, Kennonstar, Purvis, D. Montgomery, Barnes, Kennesto, P. fluenza the past week or so Montgomery and Simmons played and has been confined to her bed till the latter part of this for Talent. week. Miss Pool, as readers of “Scoop” Puhi and Leonard Os the paper well kno' , enjoys the borne are steering the Pirates while H. H. Farley has fallen heir to reputation of being southern Oregon’s ablest correspondent management of the Gold Diggers. A good crowd turned out for the and has gained an indispens last games despite the intermittent able part in the editing of this showers, which dampened no fan’s paper. Naturally, bedridden ardor for the great American game. newspaper folk are exempt from labors as are normal peo ple and this week columns of DEATH VALLEY IS NO LONGER Death Valley, Calif., once one of The Miner are not graced with her efforts. Miss Pool, at this the most dreaded spots in America, now no longer exists as what it writing, is managing to over throw Demon Sickness and it is once was. A highway traverses the hoped by all her friends she territory, and in the heart of the will be up and doing and feel valley a comfortable and attractive ing well as ever before another hotel, the Furnace Creek inn, pro edition goes to press. vides accommodation for the way farer. WILL REFINISH BEEKMAN BANK The Editor Speaking In view of the fact that our larger, daily papers are more or less bound to silence because of large chain-store advertising accounts, and because The Miner has nothing to lose (not having, or ever expecting, any of these titanic display funds), we herewith pre sent the first of several articles concerning truths which, we hope, will show the wisdom of trading with your home-town, home- owned, independent merchant». THE POWER OF ADVERTISING PICK STUDES FOR VARIOUS EVENTS An interesting and exciting intra mural track meet was held last Thursday and Friday evenings to enable athletes of Jacksonville grade and high school to gain ex perience for the county meet which will be held at the Medford fair grounds Saturday. Participants of the school were divided into two opposing groups, called Browns and Buds, and these groups in turn were subdivided ac cording to ages into C and B class es. C class included boys between the ages of 16-20 years, while the B group took in those from 13-15 years. The Browns, after many close events and a novel bicycle race in which several unexpected things happened, finished with a grand total of 15114 points against 102 */2 for the Buds. The winners were, class C: George Brown, cap tain, M. Jones, R. Jones, R. Forbes, R. Card, P. Hess, L. Gilbert, P. Card, H. Pitts and Applebaker. Participants for the class C Buds were Bud Reinking, captain, E. Ol son, C. Ward, L. Norman, A. John son, D. Forbes, T. Babb, A. Olson, G. Hueners, P. Andre and E. Cran dall. In the class B Browns were R. Card, F. Mee, H. Pitts, H. Daily, W. Combest and L. Whitney. Boys on the C Buds were E. Crandall, R. Cherry, G. Watkins, W. Martin, M. Byrne, E. Olson, G. Hueners and W. Branam. Poirtts scored in the various events are listed below: Class C Browns Buds 6 9 High jump--- ---------- 8 Javelin throw ............. ... 6 5 Shotput ......................... 10 100-yard dash ............. .12 3 50-yard dash ............... .... 6>4 8% 3 880-yard run ....... ....... ...12 8 Polevault ...................... .... 4 3 Broadjump ................. ... 12 6 200-yard run................ .... 9 5 0 Relay race.................... Don’t go away, folks, this isn’t going to be what you might think—it’ll be worse. Just a country edi tor’s views on the power of advertising—for good and not so good. It seems that many of us have been taught, through misleading statements and bolstered price tags, that great sums may be saved by merely going to the larger cities and buying from the ever-expanding chain store. Let’s look into this a bit. And right off we declare ’taint so. Great one and two-page advertising spreads have shouted to us for years that at so-and-so’s chain, cut- rate, starvation-wage, eastern-owned store we could save dollars by the gross and get par excellent quality with the concern’s blessings thrown in. But don’t let the printed word fool you. Look around for yourselves and be rather skeptical. Compare prices and quality carefully with those offered by your local, independent merchant. And consider other things. Let’s pick at random three representative items sold in Jacksonville, and for that matter by all independent merchants in all lines, as an example. Now there’s a homely little thing like ketchup. And tooth brushes and lawn mowers. These little red bottles of ketchup, common in every home, have been sold here for weeks at a moderate figure, 25 cents a bottle. A chain store burst forth one week-end with bold statements an nouncing a special purchase of this product, marked down to the drastic price of 29 cents a bottle! Investi gation reveals that it is exactly the same brand, size and label as that offered here four cents under the Totals ........................ ...85^4 50 Mv claimed “reduced” chain-store price. And tooth Class B brushes: A week ago a prominent Medford chain Browns Buds .... High jump .................... druggist advertised to the world a popular make of Shotput ........................ .... 8 3 12 4 cleansing tool marked down from 35 to 29 cents for 100-yard dash ............. ... 9 6 4 a short, special sale. This same tooth brush, trade 50-yard dash................ ...11 7 ...................... .... 7 name and all, can be purchased right here in Jackson Polevault 6 Broad jump .................. .... 9 6 ville for a quarter, and it’s no markdown either. And 200-yard run................ .... 6 0 Relay race.................... .... 5 lastly, take lawnmowers, which are beginning to Bicycle race................. .... 8 4 whirr at this season. One of the country’s largest chain stores a few days ago advertised a special 16- Totals............................ ...66 52 and alternates, chos inch, ball-bearing lawn nipper for $11, with a grass en Participants Thursday of this week, who will catcher thrown in free. All spring this same product, go to Medford Saturday to compete the county track and field meet, with the identical width and ball bearings and, if any in will be as follows: thing, superior construction, has been offered by a Class C Boys Jacksonville hardware dealer at $8.75, with grass Bud Reinking, Charles Ward, (Continued on page two) COUNTY OFFERS TO OIL CITY STREETS The Jackson county court, ac cording to word received in this city a few days ago, has offered to oil city streets at a moderate cost of $3 per 100 lineal feet. This surface, when applied, does away with clouds of dust and makes roads semi-weatherproof. Oiled thoroughfares in Jacksonville would add greatly to comfort and clean liness of the city during the long, dry summer months. The exact width to be oiled is not known definitely but it is under stood that the city will be required to prepare roadbeds for treatment. Residents seeking further informa tion should get in touch with Paul Rynning, county surveyor. DEMON’S ACT OF MALICE At Bridgeport, early in February, a colored man 70 years of age was ordered by invisible voices to cut his arm and throat and go to police headquarters. He obeyed this voice of demoniacal origin so thoroughly that it was necessary to take 13 stitches to close the wound. STOCKS MAGAZINES HERE A varied, ample array of the more popular magazines is being stocked by the Nugget confectionery in this city, according to a staitement made by Ray Wilson, proprietor, this week. The new line will offer residents another service, much needed here, as it had been necessary to go to Medford for magazines in the past. The variety of publications will be increased as the market expands. ART COLONY GATHERS Another artist of note, son of Colonel Voorhies, prominent valley fruitgrower, has rented space in Jacksonville and will spend many days at his canvas during the com ing year. The old Tom Crump place in back of the Beekman bank build ing, recently occupied by Dr. Forbes, was rented to the young Voorhies, who comes here from Arizona. It is understood the water color and oil painter was attracted here partly by the unusually moderate climate and the surrounding na tural beauty. Malcolm Jones, Robert Jones, George Brown, H. Johnson, Robert Forbes, Harry Pitts, Leonard Gil bert, Theron Babb, Paul Hess and Preston Card. Class B Boys Roger Card, Edison Crandall, Wayne Combest, Frank Mee, Hous ton Pitts, Walter Anderson, Gerald Branam, Stewart Forbes, George Hueners and Morris Byrne. Class C Girls Anna Smith, Margardt Edens, Thelma McKinney and Lulu Metz ger. Class B Girls Jessie Smith, Bemadine Arnold, Luella West, Regina Pittock, Al berta Hart, Valera Winningham, Winnie Rowden, Madeline Metzger, Mary Ward, Ida Bowman and Ge neva Cottman. Class A Girls Evelyn Coffman, Dolores Smets, Ruth Lyons, Jessie Gaddy, Dorothy Hilton, Melva Anderson, Mattie Norris, Freda Butcher, Evelyn Ly ons, Eunice Sanden and Annes Nor ris. M. E. Coe, principal and member of the Jackson county track com mittee, stalted that five places would be counted in the Saturday meet and that no change has been made in plans. First starting gun is expected shortly before 9 a. m. at the fair grounds.