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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1932)
The Jacksonville Miner Host Features Added To Long List Events SPECIAL JUBILEE ISSUE NEXT WEEK (Continued from page one) hotel building; that is, recreating a true 1882 gambling den with all the trimmings, has been pushing work in that department and al ready has hatched a host of new ideas and stunts which will take visitors by storm. Anyway, Punk says, they will take visitors. Dozens of unique races and con tests are being arranged and prizes for the various winners have been gathered in, totaling well over Jacksonville’s Gold Rush Jubilee, naturally enough, will have a Journalistic ac companiment of sorts in The Miner, which next week will issue a Gold Rush Jubilee edition, with pictures, stories and yarns as will interest hundreds of outsiders who will visit the old town. You scribes who know a bit of interesting tale which would be appropriate send it in— not later than Wednesday of next week, and earlier if pos sible. Interesting yarns of anything which comes to mind, a snatch of past his tory or some humorous inci dent connected with southern Oregon and Jacksonville will do much to grace columns of the paper and will be greatly appreciated. And another thing—more than 1000 extra copies will be printed for visitors and home folks alike, and will sell at five cents a copy. Place your order early. FRANK BUCK’S “BRING ’EM BACK ALIVE” Wed., Thurs., Aug. 17-18 ROAD SHOW $100 in cash and merchandise. There will be fun provided for all and prizes for most. Contact has been made with teams of drillers, who will chisel the local granite at a furious clip for a substantial prize, and husky woodsmen are be ing solicited to enter a log-chop ping contest. Horseshoe courts, sack, fat and lean races and other events will add hilarity to after noon hours. Arrangements are being made for gala street parade at 7:30, with the fight card following at 9 o’clock, and both modern and old- fashioned dances starting up an hour later. Concessions and inter ior games will operate as long as crowds warrant. The American Legion drum corp from Medford is expected to be present in uni form and music aplenty, speeches in the old courtyard and hosts of other features are arranged for. Nick Kime, with a staff of as sistants. has been engaged for the old-fashioned dance, and callers are being coached in the intricacies of '82 steps and melodies. The town, acting through the local Legion club and its executive committee composed of President Oscar Lewis. Clint Dunnington, Ray Wilson and Leonard Hall, has made a terrific effort to put over the venture and, if gossip and comment from Klamath Falls to Roseburg can be depended on, it will far ex ceed all expectations in number of people attracted for the day. In terest and excitement concerning the return to 50 years ago, a Gold VAUDEVILLE 6—ACTS—6 Headed by James HALL Motion Picture Star IN PERSON Mats., Week Days........... 25c Nites, Hols., Sun. Mats. 35c Coming Friday, Saturday THE THE ARIZONA WRANGLERS MEDFORD TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE Typewriter Specialists Corner Main and Grape Sts. Medford PHONE 1363 THE Jacksonville Exchange ANTIQUES—NEW AND USED FURNITURE ELECTRIC FANS—CAR WASHING BRUSH—CLUTCHES AUTOMOBILE LENS WHEELER & WILSON No. 9 SEWING MACHINE HEAD SINGER ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE COAL OIL STOVE (PERFECTION) GOOD AS NEW Post Office Box 61 Stock Reduction Because of excess quantities we are for two days this week, Friday and Saturday, reducing our prices on the following items APPROXIMATELY 20% 1x6 No. 2 Common Shiplap 1x6 No. 3 Common Shiplap 1x10 No. 1 Common Shiplap 2x4 and 2x12 Culls 1x6 Double Run Clear Rustic No. 3 5 2 Cedar Shingles SEVERAL OTHER ITEMS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IT WILL PAY YOU WELL TO CALL AND SEE THIS STOCK Porter Lumber Co. 204 SOUTH FIR—MEDFORD PHONE 124 Applegaters—Mounted, Dusty and Weary— Investigate This Here Lookout Business Pronto Nothing but implicit faith in our selves .or something or other could possibly have made the trip such a howling success with nothing of more seriousness happening than poison oak. a general good dusting and slight weariness. Anyway the horseback Journey to Tallowbox lookout got started off not very pronto at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, midst dire predictions for two solid weeks of general failure, rain, hot weath er. deserters, rattle snake bitea, and a dicker for an automobile ride on the last stretch of the homeward journey. Nine lusty mountaineers (?) with eight horses, a shetland pony and a yellow dog made up the party. The young folks included Misses Lola Straube, I »ah McKee, Beryl Cunninghum and Frances Port; Morris Byrne, Louis Straube, Free- mont Jordan, Clifton Childers and ■ CMMkl onlooker Not much of importance hap pened on the upward journey ex cept sight of a deer and two jack rabbits. Lou did say something about eating, but that’B not un usual. and Cliff got perturbed over being held up half an hour foi the fair members to get a snapshot focused. Snapshots have to be had. but 10 miles was a long jump be tween us and noon. The gang war whooped all around the foot of the mountain to let foreman Dean Salt marsh know we were coming. We landed safely about 12:30 only by Dean sitting out on a rock with his whiskers to guide us to shore. He and his wife had felt a hunch somebody was coming, but they didn’t know just who. Water is mighty scarce up on these mountain tops, so the party slid their horses down the moun tain three quarters of a mile to a shady spring where the lunches were opened. A very quiet hour was spent eating, dodging water fights, drinking, initialing hats and one thing or other. About forgot to mention that the spring boasts a wash pan. and everybody surprised himself by using it. even the girls. We tidied up the camp and mean dered back up on top to visit a while and investigate this lookout business. The first thing that at tracted attention was Dean’s long whiskers; somebody thought he Rush Jubilee, is running high and statewide attention will be focused on the little town Saturday, Aug ust 20, when she digs down into her souvenirs, prods about and emerges in all the glory, splendor and romance that made Jackson ville known and respected wher ever gold and history are familiar. A full and complete program will be printed in next week’s Miner. • Mrs. Bert Harr spent a few days in Ashland this week, having been called there as a result of the ill ness of her mother, Mrs. Emma Beaver, who was Injured in a fall downstairs at her home. Mrs. Beaver fell the full length of the stairs, having approached the head of the steps before she realized It. She sustained no broken bones, al though she was severely bruised. ♦ ♦ ♦ © Returning after several weeks visit to far-away Oklahoma, Mr. and Mr*. Harold Reed Tuesday drove into Jacksonville accompan ied by Reed’s sister and brother- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Schmidt. The Reeds had departed for Moun tain Home, Okla., home of the latter couple, and the four returned to take up a permanent residence here. Mrs. Schmidt had lived here several years ago for about six months. By the time we’ve solved today’s problems we’ll have a new set. In our forties we don’t bounce as well as we did in our twenties. Most of us forget the lucky breaks and remember only the bad ones. Flattery is most effective if given in small doses. Everybody can talk, but few can talk to_the point. The petty troubles of our friends amuse us; when the same things happen to us they seem mighty serious. Nothing happens to you that hasn’t happened to someone else. A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she’s sure her: husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should. _________________ So live that you always have enough money to buy a new tire without laying your car up for a week or two. By the time a man has been in a pantry five minutes he has uttered 16 complaints about the way the house is managed. resembled n Hollywod vililan. but other than that they are still as much of a mystery us Mars. The smoke was so thick the Ap piegate valley looked like Crater lake, and Dick Hoffman’s burn didn't even show up, when on a clear day the human eye can see a distance of 20 miles. The most amusing discovery was the fact that Tallow box is no place to cook beans. Dean says the wuter bolls there, but it doesn't get hot. He means not ns hot as it does down here. The beans are digestible, but the altitude (5021 feet) keeps them from getting us tender as they should. Ho says “wood Is worth a-plenty, boy,” and from the looks of the scratched up sticks around the place Uncle Sum must give him lots of spare time. Every time ho goes to the spring he brings back a hazel stick and carves rings, and dots and dashes and stripes In the belief that the first Import ant personage that frequents the place will pay him a big price for them. He talks about going to Hol lywood this fall. too. Dickie, who resembles his dad and will cele- brate his first birthday pretty quick next month, was pretty solemn and refused to suy much. He was minus one shoo most of the time. Five rattlers have been dashed into eternity on the mountain top this summer. Well, It came time to come hotn^ so we did Only two of the r.IrN and the yellow dog got very tired, but they wiike up when the boys began throwing at a rattlesnake and missed him. The oldest mem ber of th« party was going to take Morris by the law several times, but ho didn’t have any means of dfong ho . Got buck to the starting point at Inst just between sunset and dusk, but not without discuss ing religion, turtles, pigeons and psychology down the winding moun tain road. A good time was had by all. WANTED ORE TO RUN Mill 3 miles north of Ruch on O’Brien ranch. We guar antee to save the gold. SEE SAM WHEELER FOR DETAILS Jacksonville Big Nuts from Little Acorns Grow! Subscribe for THE JACKSONVILLE MINER and See What Happens For seven long months The Jackson- vi lie M iner has assailed you weekly with a Barrage of strictly home-town news and comment, written by home talent for home consumption. Get it? A home-town paper for we home- towners giving a news service avail able through no other source. The Miner has grown, not rapidly but regularly, and we believe it will con tinue to grow despite depressions, dry weather or mean district attorneys . . . the paper has been, and will be in the future, increased in size, news content and number of able contributors. The Miner has tried to bring you news of your neighbors in a modern, inter esting manner and has made a sincere effort to deserve the welcome and place it has received in southern Oregon. The Miner feels at home in Jackson ville, likes the people and is extremely proud to be listed as one of the per manent residents. It has made mis takes and fumbled the ball at times, but promises to always be a willing servant of Jacksonville and Applegate people and to continue to expand as conditions justify such a course. May The Miner count on your help— your subscription—to aid it through its tender first years? P.S.: Many of the six-months subscrip tions received early in the year have either expired or will in the next few days—look at the expiration date on the yellow address slip on your paper. One Year One Dollar Six Months One-Half THE JACKSONVILLE MINER Box I 38, Jacksonville
