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,
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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.