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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1932)
The Jacksonville Miner The Jacksonville Miner Published Wtekly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON TOPNOTCHERS Enter'd ai MCond-elMi matter Fibrati? 19, ISSI at U>e poet office at Jacksonville. Or scon, under the set of March 3. 1879. LEONARD MAUDE HALL POOL.. Editor and Publish" . . . Applrçat» c T p title duarded /farviPÚj làr/rt girl, ¿y tie J lof/igder (ixuifyfi/r' Editor Addie« All CummunleAtlons to Box 138 Subscription Ram. In A thane«: One Year............. 81.00 Six Months............... I I- Il'adquart'cv: THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY T'l'pbone 162 Mpp¿bíter; ¿ a yrnpptrtion mcfaiíng My/bletung rrulimg ? Ctfarrtung 'fdrid au nltna STATIC By JOHN BYRNE Scotchmen will no doubt pleased that Christmas falls Sunday. They will save a day. + + ♦ Most people are careful, but height of caution honors go to a young buckaroo of the Applegate section who refused to get on a merry-go-round without a curb bit. ♦ ♦ + Earl Fehl seems to favor using the unemployed to con struct a lake out on the fair grounds. This is not such a bad idea. When they get through, if there is nothing to do. they can go jump in the lake. Another good feature, after the lake is constructed, would be to install a circular track on the outer rim for the gravy train. ♦ ♦ ♦ The new flivvers will now run better since Henry has his new cut-out. + + + Christmas shoppers are now having a permanent put in their pocket books. ♦ + + Miss Houston: “What is a composition ?” Jimmie: "A composition is what dad half-soles his shoes with.” + ♦ ♦ Several young sheiks are home for the holidays. They are using a good grade of gas, but owing to the depression, are running on a retarded spark. + + ♦ Our lame duck congress seems to be infested with a lot of dry jokers. ♦ ♦ ♦ An optimist is one who be lieves licensed beer would lift the farmer up by his boot straps and pay off the national debt. ♦ ♦ ♦ Yellow hammers nnd one-lun« wood saw3 are camped on the trail of the lonesome pine. ♦ ♦ ♦ “I sure got a bargain,” ’ said the farmer as he drew on i a 69-cent shirt with three cents worth of cotton in it. ♦ ♦ ♦ Some local barbers are tak- ing a post-graduate course in reforestation at Garibaldi uni versity. ♦ ♦ ♦ “Don’t bother daddy, children, he is carrying a heavy load.” Johnny: “Yes, but mother, where did he get it?” ♦ ♦ ♦ We have tried to give you shrap-1 nel this time. The heavy artillery will be wheeled up into place for the next issue. ♦ ♦ ♦ Most men have their wives but only the miner has his pick. ♦ ♦ ♦ Teacher: “If you saw a police- man slip on an icy pavement, what great Indian chief would you be reminded of?” Johnny: “Sitting Bull.” Teacher: “Correct; you may move to the head of the class.” ♦ ♦ ♦ “We will just use the bark and limbs,” said the hill-billy as he nosed out the falling snag by a scant three feet. ♦ ♦ 4» Famous Last Words: "I didn’t think the bark would slip.” in aoi7dnd.pytóen gwpdgo fhe hdp fcvn. rii tip (J.ß turo yttírrp “An Open Letter to Santa Claus (Continued from page one) subscriptions and support their Head Man. ('Ibis is an emer gency order.) A Law which will deny opponents the privilege of doing business where they please anti take away the authority to say who sticks posters up in their windows. A double-capacity Truth Twister and an auxiliary Chopper which will reduce Truth to halves and quarters at will. A tube of skull cement, ‘guaranteed to restore cracked domes to original alleged sanity. And please, Mr. Claus, hurry along with a new set of Legs to Stand On. The Hogwallow editor simply hasn’t a single one left. Your friend, LLEWELLYN A. BUNKS. While Just a kid we once cm- barked on a cross-country tour a la box car. Starting In the north west, we ended up In the wilds of no less a place than Kansas. And enroute. In our association with other bums and hoboes, we became acquainted with some of the great est philosophers and most gener ous souls we have ever met. and make him understand, as everyone else does, that to return his stolen Rights As a Free Citizen of the United States would automat’cally destroy all privileges and constitutional guar anty’s of every other citizen in Jackson county. Please include in this order a Mirror which will effectually show whether everyone else is out of step, or whether the Battling Senator Non-Elect is a bit awry in stride himself. Also you might include a basket of nourishing food for all employes of the man who depend on his bouncing checks for their sustenance—they’ll need it. And by the way, you’ll prolrbly find a chattel mortgage on his sock Christmas morn, I but pay no attention to it—merely another conspiracy of the Bar Association and Subordinate Banks of Medford. P. P. S.: In case you can’t supply all the above mentioned needs, a one-way ticket to Salem would do just as well. I Thank you too much.—L. A. B. nle hcve to grow uo and become disillusioned at the wo’ld and its ¡wavs: to mature to realize that all , (Continued from page one) Then, after feasting eyes on the our jovs and palnltatlons of young dimly lighted room, we would re er years were paid for in misery, member our slumbering parents labor and privation in a world be nearby, tiptoe back up stairs and set with troubles and possessing crawl into bed, resolving to be but a faint glimmer of the real alert to the first gray spears of cause for Christmas and gift giv light on Christmas morning. And ing. The Editor Speaking We mature to learn that civiliza tion and commercialism have all but destroyed that real spirit of giving which enthralled us so at a tender age. That spontaneous, un bounded Joy we knew as youths didn’t exist in the world of grown ups at all. We became disillusion ed, not only about Santa Claus, but also about every other thing we thought was beautiful and which should have been made a fact by simple preference. And we always wondered why life to men and women should be so complicated. As kids we thought existence on earth was a rather simple, thankful affair. We could not understand the greeds and ani mosities of advanced years, and our only samples of the sordidness of life was when the neighborhood bully took a swing at us or an af- It’s certainly a shame that peo- ternoon of mischief rated a stlng- Harold B. Gillis PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office in Jacksonville Sanitarium -or Were we to return to the cus- i toms of Adam and Eve's day, just before they took to clothing them selves, we believe man would be sized up for what he really is— ami not for what he wears. When we took to clothing we adopted the principles of deception and dis honesty. Today wo are parading ourselves according to whatever we can don at the moment. We have grown accustomed to looking at another human and not s’t-eing character, Intelligence and the milk of human kindness. No, they have become of background Importance. When we look at others today we note whether they, if of the fe male species, are well formed, pret ty of face, wise in the selection of attire and versed In the best up proved manner of seducing mah», And when we look at a pants-wear- branch of the •pecio» we note P. S.: Also please see what can be done about our contem ing his features, the curl of his hair, porary’s Persecution Complex and see if you can’t arrange crease of trouser and general stat We find out what humans are some phenomenal cataclysm which will reveal the light to him ure. really made of later. invariably, at about this point, tired systems would refuse to fur ther listen to the call of Christmas and pull us into the hands of Mor pheus. And, several hours later, after all the family had arisen and broken that still, sacred enchant ment of the living room at night; with their chatter and presence, we would be called and Informed that Santa had remembered our ad • Ray Coleman, Jacksonville’s dress. pride and joy when it comes to Half dressed, with long under knocking ’em over with bullets and scatter barrels, got his finger in wear protruding beneath hastily- the Medford Gun club’s pork bar donned knee pants, shoe laces rel to the tune of a ham, bacon and swishing the air furiously, we tore sugar in last Sunday’s final shoot down stairs at a dangerous clip of the season on the neighboring , and nervously cast a dazzled eye city’s course. Coleman ranked 1 over the panorama of parents, ninth, among a group of southern , aunts, uncles, cousins and brothers Oregon’s best shots. It is not un l ripping open neatly tied packages usual for the local hardware deal and plunged into the melee in er, however, to come off the range search of tags which indicated bundles of joy and pleasure for us. with high honors. Subscribe for The Miner today. Ing whipping just before supper steal Items which could gratify vhen the man of the house re only one of tho less worth while senses of man that of being a turned. “big shot” in front of the ladles. -or Somehow the Idea lingers with us that life should still be a rut her Entering once before and talJ* simple affair- at least if it is going such Items as municure sets, fl^p to approach realms of that un owder and cameras, evidently the bounded pleasure and appreciation same talent reappeared last Sunday of youth. We sort of suspect that It is man’s ability to misuse his night to repeat their stunt. Had It capacities that makes the present been food and clothing tuken, there might have been some offsetting troubles which beset him so. It is either human nature by Inheritance reason for such an act, but who or cultivation that we lik«* to as- ever Is doting on stealing from sumo an air of mystery and im ('hitwood, the last merchant In portance to appear as something town who can afford robbery at this time, seeks only merchandise ve really aren't at all. which is almost useless to them, yet of much value to the druggist. And we have a definite convlc- -oC Ion that if people would tuke hon- 'st looks at a mirror occasionally We believe every JacksonvIHIan, and make an effort to be Just them- should the culprits be found, would selves, almost overnight we would be more and more appreciative of be mighty glad to become parties the glories of nature and the privi- to a public flogging of such con scienceless vandals, There seems lege of existing in such a wonder- to be an Increasing supply of like land as the earth undoubtedly Is. characters filtering Into Jackson- But we like to make everything ville at times and effective and look complicated to the man in the drastic punishment of the drug street. store burglars might go a long way -or In clearing the air of uncertainty We can arrive nt no other con and Insecurity which I settles over elusion except that man Is tila all storefronts as < darkness ap- greatest enemy. proaches. And. not Infrequently, too much later. For the second time within a few months C. C. (’hitwood. Jack sonville’s well-known and well- liked pharmacist, has been the vic tim of some youthful vandals who have so much disregard for the rights of others that they stoop to Hours—Mon., Wed., Fri., 9-12 6-9 Every Evening PHONE JACKSONVILLE 81 Announcing New Low Price« on Beauty Work! 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