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
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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
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