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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner 2 The Jacksonville Miner Published Weekly at JACKSONVILLE OREGON Entered as second-class matter February 19, 1932, at the post office at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Wandering Sourdoughs Dig Up Plural Killing Ontario. The most recent find of gold-bearing ores is in northwest ern Quebec, in a strip of territory more than 100 miles long and with a width of from three to 10 miles. VIEWS of O ther P eople IIE KNOWS POOR PEOPLE I Medford Typewriter Exchange Edgar Wallace, English author eral water. Just as I attempted to do so a disappointed looking lady of more than a hundred mystery stepped to my side, handing me a novels, was a foundling who was card which, upon perusing, dis adopted by u London fish porter. LEONARD HALL. Editor and Publisher closed different minerals all in this He knows poor people and he loves MAUDE POOL................. Applegate Editor one water. Upon taking a generous them because they are so clean- «waller 1 discovered the taste re spoken and clean-thinking. Typewriter "It is the habit to think of the Address All Communications to Box 138 sembled the odor of a bantam egg poor in terms of slumdum, ” he Subscription Rates, in Advance: Specialists that had been mothered for per One Year...... $1.00 Six Months.........50c says, “but there is a poor which haps 22 days. Joe had butted in by Headquarters: By W. SMITH BLAIR this time and 1 asked the lady if lives in shabby streets and cleans Corner Main and Grap® St«. THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 162 (Whisker Bill to You) Medford she carried sodawater. She did. We its windows and whitens its door steps. A poor w hose horror is char Resting at Shasta City 45 min- had soda water (Joe paid for it). ity, and whose haunting fear is PHONE 1363 utes we proceeded merrily on our While sampling this old stand-by that it may la* buried by the parish. way. When leaving this place we the lady began telling us about A proud, self-reliant poor that passed block after block of shade some terrible prehistoric animal scorns relief and guards the secret tree lined highway which was a her neighbors had in their camp of its poverty most jealously. And Men's and Ladies' for M iner Readers treat to the eyes of the most hard beds. Upon further discussion I de these are the vast majority. The termined this same animal—in my writers of theses never meet these SHOE REPAIRING ened sun-tanned sourdough. We soon passed through Duns youth I had met them—would fill people, ami, if they met them, Forest Grove, Oregon in the Modem Way muir and Costella, two old mining the soles of their feet with air bub would learn nothing, for they do To the Editor: bles and noiselessly walk along the A FULL LINE OF SHOE Just this morning I read in The towns with a past history. An ex ceiling and carefully take aim just not talk about themselves, and re FINDINGS Jacksonville Miner the story of the deputy sheriff gave me a touch of to gard with sour suspicion those who one side of your air course and song you are selling of Crater lake. past high life that happened at drop. come prying into their affairs . . . the course of time ydu In some ways it is very much Costella years ago when stage would In develop an uneasiness hard Starvation and dirt are not the coaches were yet in fashion. like the song poem I have in my hallmark of poverty: they are the 1 to describe. An old miner worked by the day S hoe R epair S hop book, “Under Oregon Sky,” that I normal condition of thriftlessness.” By this lady’s accounts her Fred L. Johnson, Proprietor am getting out. Naturally I like in the placer diggins. He would get neighbor Wallace adds this tribute, which had the largest specimens the song you have written by Mr. tired of honestly earned money, fix 1 have heard will be recognized as the truth by We Give S4H Green Stamps of—bed bugs. Tengwald and am going to invite himself up an ironclad alibi for his anyone who has been poor and has 135 West Main Medford Inquiring the distance to Red him to join the League of Western absence and proceed to hold up a ding, lived with poor people: 43 miles away, I gave Joe a st; ge when it was carrying a good W riters. “The clean, decent poor! Their noiseless wink and we were soon The correction I have to offer is shipment of gold. He pulled this out women are more wonderful than of this terrible zone. Landed this: You state that this is the stunt on the Yreka stage once and in Redding the daughters of kings . . . You just at dark. first musical composition written was recognized. saw them hanging out the wash The Yreka sheriff came for him Driving to the south side of town ing: stout women dying of cancer about our national parks. This is an error and in all fairness should and deputized the constable to go we found a fine camp ground—up- and smiling through it. Gripping PAINTING be corrected. 1 am enclosing words along to this holdup cabin. The to-date cabins—could lock our car their clothes-pegs in their teeth, of a song dedicated to Rainier na sheriff knocked on the door, which and load safely up for the night. propping up lines, arresting their PAPERHANGING tional park three years ago, set to was opened by Mr. Robber. Greet Joe unjointed a patent camp rocker labors to wipe wet foreheads with ings were exchanged. The robber, he keeps on hand at all times, say ETC. music and sung by Don Raymond, wetter arms and exchange a jest who won national fame after he shaking hands with the sheriff, ing you long suffering old gas ped- with the woman next door. Work Estimate 8 sung it on one of my programs. jerked him inside the door, grabbed daler sit in this chair and rest ing, bearing and dying. The insur Then, last summer, I featured it in a .45 off a bench and shot him while I get supper. Which I did. ance man calls once a week that (Radiy Giv( n a Medford theater with a singer through. The sheriff grappled with Joe knows how to cook—he is an they may make provision for a robber to keep from falling, the expert with a tea bone steak, but decorous burying -their very am from Central Point while Don Ray Phone 13 or Drop a Card to mond was singing in Fox houses. i the constable shot over the shoul- is a little particular about washing bitions are headed toward the P. O. Box 51, Jacksonville I also made this into a picture der of the dying sheriff and killed dishes. I tried to convince him grave.” which has been written up inter the robber instantly. Two lives one’s system needs a certain In the reading I have done I snuffed out in a matter of seconds. amount of coarse food but ail my have nationally. never before seen the thought Will you please run a notice in Such were the gold mining days in pleadings seemed to go in one ear expressed that “burial insurance” and out the other. your paper that any author or their prime. is the poor man's badge of no CARPENTER AND From Costella it seemed to me I must say that Joe is a gentle bility. Millions make weekly pay writer interested in joining the we drifted downhill for miles. Joe man from the bottom of his cal ments on policies of $100 and $200, League of Western Writers to send CABINET WORK me their names before convention sat calmly by my side, uttering not ' loused and laminated feet to the because they are determined to pay a word except when one of those top of his curly and foliated hair— their own way right into the grave. in August, to be held in San Fran Screen Doors, Window cisco. I have organized a unit in squeaking autos (some people call he insisted 1 have the best bed in That is real character. The way the them Ford coops) would pass us. the house, he sleeping on a camp Screens and Bui It-ins Portland. poor look after themselves is one In my new book I have given Then he would make an unmanly cot. Well, anyhow, his job was do of the most tragically beautiful a Specialty Jacksonville a full page and will remark to the motormeter, which ing the cooking and mine the gas things in life.—William Feather. would go up to twice blood heat peddaling. I hope in his old age he have a picture of the historic Britt ' Estimates Cheerfully Given with indignant shame. I kept my j may wear a bright and shining ar home on the opposite page. FIND GOLD OVER CANADA I should like for you people to 12 and a halfs calmly on the gas : gentum crown, symbol AG, atomic The Canadians seem fortunate Thos. Laughead arrange for a showing of my pic pedal—w’hich was the only way to weight 107.78, melting point 1761 in finding gold all over the coun- 1 degrees Fahrenheit. tures in a hall there as I go get to the next town. try, from the Yukon region and j Bex 19.1, Jacksonville On nearing a roadside camp I Good night . . . through to convention. I am sup British Columbia to Manitoba and spied a sign reading “ free mineral posed to give a showing in Klam The boys are just getting ath Falls if I can enroute. I have ! water.” Setting the air I came to started on their long trip— my own projection machine and j a hissing stop. I said, Joe, here is watch for the next episody. operator and would like for the where I get a drink of nice min- citizens there to cooperate and furnish a hall. This fall my films! 21,000 KRl’PP WORKERS OPT The Editor Speaking will be available through O. S. C. and from my own laboratory for The Krupp works, normally em (Continued from page one) educational purposes. ploying 74,000 workers, have been Very truly, and old who were possessed with a compelled to drop 24,000 from their AGNES E. HINES. yen to shoot off fireworks without: payrolls. The losses sustained by bothering to journey to the out the business last year amounted skirts. Jim admits being a bit foot to $4,500 000 and were distributed THE BIG BONUS BOYS sore from extemporaneous foot over all branches of it. Who do you suppose it was that’ races staged during the day be said the other day that “the entire, tween culprits and the law, and SCOTCHMEN CAVE DWELLERS United States lies stricken a prey j avers there are entirely too many i to the banker and corporate corners in Jacksonville for prank Unable to afford house rents groups,” and that “the big bonus sters to hide behind. It is strongly many people in Scotland are now boys of big business who milked suspected, though, that Jim enter living in caves. One elderly man the stockholders and consumers are ed into the holiday spirit and en has furnished a home for himself now getting, indirectly, big bonuses joyed games of tag with towns in a cave at the foot of a cliff from the people’s treasury”? Some people bent on ripping local air which can be entered or left only anarchist, probably; or some so asunder. at low tide. cialist; or some Bolshevist. Guess again. It was Henry Ward Beer, The Jacksonville unit of the RACING SPEEDS RISE president of the Federal Bar as Shady Side Athletic club com sociation of New York, New Jer memorated the glad event by mov In nine years speed records for sey and Connecticut and former ing. with unerring accuracy, from automobile racers at Daytona have special assistant United States at- one to tother sidewalk bench as risen from 146 miles an hour to torney general. Old Sol drifted lazily and torridly 253 miles per hour. Five of the across the clear summer sky. nine speed records in that time BYLLESBY MAGAZINE Chawin’ terbaccy had its usual were by the present holder of the FEATURES CRATER LAKE good flavor and hay stems were record. just as wont to bend when used as In addition to having a song as ever. Notes were STATE TO FISH PEARLS written about it, “The Crater Lake toothpicks compared on present-day condi Waltz,” by Victor A. Tengwald, the tions and it was clear why Venezuela’s pearl fisheries will popular phenomena in southern the Indians refuse made to take back the hereafter be operated by the state. Oregon received nationwide recog country. Your correspondent Venezuelan pearls are exception nition as a result of some splendid the Athletic clubrooms the finds most ally fine and have found a ready publicity in the June issue of popular, and by far the most com Byllesby Management, magazine. fortable, in the city. There’s cer sale in the jewelry markets of the Hot Dinner Sandwiches The issue, which features Crater tainly nothing in the world quite world. Many of them are of a deli cate rose tint. lake throughout, contains a fine sittin’ around in the cool shade article by Katherine Stewart of like holiday fiends dashing MAKES WALKING STICKS The California Oregon Power com watching madly past the peak of haste pany entitled “Jewel of the Cas and heat to in some LIFETIME INDUSTRY HEADQUARTERS FOR secluded spot cades—Crater Lake,” illustrated where only mosquitos, ants and T he J acksonville M iner with numerous attractive views of poison ivy await them. Such glor In Snodland, County Kent, Eng the famous scenic wonder in var ious relaxation and leisure, while land, there is a man who makes a ious moods. The story, which oc mildly indulging in topics of the living growing walking sticks. He mt cupies the lead position in the day, does things to a person’s soul has been engaged in the business magazine, shows the result of and puts them in a receptive mood 60 years and is considered the much careful thought and research for a true appreciation of the won greatest authority on his craft in and includes a beautiful Indian ders and abortions of the age. the world. legend of the forming of Crater Membership Shady Side has FIND CAVE IN DEATH VALLEY lake. A double-page spread of un been growing in by the leaps Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars and bounds. usual photographs depicting the Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection A huge cave has been found in lake in winter garb adds rrrtich to the effectiveness of the article. Famous last words (with apolo Death valley, Calif., and will be The front cover of the issue also gies to Life, Judge and Moore explored. The entrance is through SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE is devoted to Crater lake and pre Hamilton): “Didn’t you know bet an opening 125 feet in diameter. PHONE 162 sents a striking reproduction of the ter than to stay in the sun so The cave is located in the south long?” part of the valley. Phantom ship. Being the second of a series of yarns concerning a search for the elusive, feelthy lucre railed gold, by two old Jack sonville sourdoughs. Although the narrative is purported to be true, the management will not refund any admission prices.—The Editor. « Com munication JOHNSON’S R.C.CHAPPELL I ■ j His Food Must Be Safe NE C E NT operate a trie Re' ’ 6 H( The California Oregon Power Company The Place to Get Good Home-Cooked Meals THE NUGGET It s
