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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1932)
I THE KEYHOLE What Medford Scribe Served Tomato Juice Favors Christmas Eve? T he J acksonville M iner Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, December 30, 1932 / he Editor Speaking HOLD TWO FOR ROBBERY DRUG STORE IN CITY GABBY GERTIE There Is Minin' talk of th« district attorney and sheriff offices usklng Hie county court to dony the A|i plegiite (¡range it dance franchise Loot, Damaged and Valurlrsa, for the new year ns a result of Is Recovered; One of the mito accident which occurred Pair Confesses near there UGH, NO SHOES? MARSHAL SEES LOSS IN TRASH Minion of Law Finds Himself Barefoot and Minus Pair Violin Case* Friday r How would you like to walk down the long, long trail of time with your philosopher and see man in the making? Many doubtless have taken a few little Journeys into the part via the school histories, but school histories deal with na tions and wars and Individuals; In discovery, invention and other material achievements, and the perspective of man In his long climb to our present degree of civilization Is lost. Some day those who prepare the school histories will learn that nations and Individuals are mere things of the passing mo ment that dead nations, like dead languages, are Just excess baggage of useless Information —that time devoted to their study could be better applied to acquiring knowledge useful to the human race in meeting its daily problems. It would be useful, too, be cause there are no new prob lems. True, we have man’s his tory covering but a very few of the millions of years he has (Continued on page two) _______________________________ truded from his right sock hfs wife frowned. "I knew it was coming,” mused the victim to himself. To make a long story short. Mike suffered the same fate one of bls sons would should he return un- shod. City .Marshal Rurdell left in quest of the Holy Orafi—both of them, Hack to the city hall went the barefooted and shivering Dfg- nity of the l-aw to look for his shoes. Sensing foul play, Mike’s Conan Doyle mind began deducing "Now th«y couldn’t walk off by them- m lvc« even if they are pretty '•trong." eulogized the stockinged ”1 smell a rat." warrior. "I rat.” Rummag Rummag- Ing around In a trashpile nearby discovered not a dead rat, but his shoes, none the worse for their experience. Exultfngly Jackson ille’s city marshal and constable-elect rushed home, leather heels pounding out a tattoo of victory at every step. AL SS 125,00* la Hope We believe either office would Stille police Tuesday night ar Walter Michael Burdell, con- be unfnlr to in.d"' ¡.u' li qi ."fiii'Ht rested Murk Wilkerson, 32, of this stable elect of Jacksonville and of the county court, and we also city In connection with the repeat present city marshal potern dur- ILTOM believe the county court would be ed robbery of th« Jacksonville Ing the illness of Jim Llttell, was Of vegMablss. With 45 In error to grant It The mere fact 'ilinriiiiicy, mid Wednesday arrested put back on his feet last week in anned at the fruit» that mi accident occurred follow Robert l.iitigenbacher, 27, also of spite* of the depression. And, Mike impany plant Ing th« Grange dunce should not tills city, for the same offense. related, due to the depression he'd ■t passed, the during the be taken us n signal to limit a« have stayed on his feet If prank Questioning by state officers dis < are saw lay- man agerú < tlvitl«s of any community group sters hud done n more thorough Job closed that Langeiil>acti«r, better Xdftrj of hiding his shoes. » * known as "Stub” here, had been Although the greater proportion an accessory after th« fact, In that It all camo to pass last Friday I!*,me” brand durtac the ceaitag of accident* occur within or near Wilkerson had brought him the afternoon when Marsha) Burdell, ng season, according W. the larger cities, one nevor hears loot for concealment after the rob who Is Just a plain gold miner (;ates, sates manager the of a move by officials to bar social bery had been committed The when not engaged In houndin? • (*m any. • and entertainment activities there loot, soln« of which had been stolen criminals, was working near the v sy ia «ave land in. If someone Is n poor driver w« twice, was recovered, but was city hall. It had been raining and suitable to or doubt very much If dancing will damaged from exposure, having Mike discarded his shoes In pref . are al- ether vegetable pg is the bridegroom wi affect their ublllty or lack of it. erence for a set of hip boots and been hidden under a culvert near ready layiita tor larger can say on hie wedding night, ’A placed the remnants of civiliza the cemetery. * C lantings during igM jmt . and tion’s progress op the running There had been much public loan at last.*** Gates said aha «ttmated that Well, we feel like Will board of his auto (at least that’s wb«n told it wns u merry Christ sentiment uroused when the local 7*0 acre«*« I ’Md vege the term Burdell uses whep refer mus All we know Is what wo road druggist. C. C. Chitwood, was rob table« will be planted -to Satisfy the ring to his mode of transportation). bed last summer, und ugaln a week GRAND JURY WILL In the papers. demands o< the eannors in filling "You know how it is when a ago. when articles of value includ a.« orders, most of vbteit.aro already RECONVENE JAN. « feller loves hfs work," related However, the Yule seuson did | ing cameras, compacts, vanity sets, on file. Mike the other day. "I Just got so remind us of days Kono by and of ' razors, cigar« und other Items were "We are making additions to our the Joys of boina alive. And one of stolen First entrance had been The present Jackson county doggone Interested In the Job that plant to bandlo the next year's the most pleiiHunt reminders was , gained by prying open a window, grand Jury, which to date has com- I forgot times were hard and that ack,” Gates said, "sod we expect the wonders of mothers, never too mid the second time a transom pleted two partial reports, will re- a good pair of shoes laying around lantings of about 790 acres. With might have an unusual appeal. ” poor to buy Klfts for their children was broken. convene for the conclusion of its the addition of wecninery, we will And It seems that the city marshal, In addition to merchandise be- work Monday. January 8. who. oven If mature nnd raising be able to pack as many tomatoes fumllies of their own, are still Just . longing to Chitwood, n«w boot«, as tl>e valley will produce.” Recommendations Include plac bls work completed, failed to find shoe« and other dry goods items ing of the county Judge and the th* digit coverings when be laid youtiKslers to them. The making of a many-crop val- were recovered, Indicating that county commissioners under bond; plans for the trek back home. A leX °Ut of the Rogne river valley thorough search was instituted, some mercantile establishment in Sometimes we suspect mothers abolishment of two justice of the is the underlying Men behind the are right, too, when they regard this city—probably the bankrupt peace districts, that marriage fees but to no avail. Jacksonville’s city development Of the tomato indus- marshal was Just naturally bare hicksonvlllo Cash store had been offspring as mere children. Al be turned Into the general fund, ln the yaDey, ^the^ managers though we don't like to think of burglarised. Although Wilkerson land thut husband and wife be not footed and there was no getting often have declaired. With pears u around It. "And I was going to would make no statement to offi ourselves ns diapered, squalling Ion (he county payroll at the same »he only major agricultural pro- spend that |3.19 I saved up on the cers. they stated that a clear case bruts, we must ndmlt that the sum« ¡time. The grand Jury will make a too acutely duct, the valley suffers M tin III -it III ■■ op ! *•■ 11 mu u mys was made In the arrest and con re|>ort for the year on the prohibi kids,” mused Mike as he reluct ’ price failure. The a crop or _ terious Christ mas gift today a* fession of Lcngenbacher. tion fund and on the conduct of antly—and somewhat fearfully— valley will never come into its own, traveled homeward. Wilkerson has been under parole when we first were big enough to the county offices A new grand 'bey contend, until the production Once inside his house and under rip open a package. That same for some time from state peniten | Jury will be drawn In February. is diversified. Mrs. Burdell ’ s surveillance, he re tiary. and more recently Justice of childish delight enlightens our Now there are about 15,000 reived orders to doff the soiled features whenever someone reniem the Peace Ray Coleman, rather a* r* h planted tn fruit in the val tiers us with a little favor In mu- than break the man's parole an J • Walter (Salty) Stephenson of boots. Hesitantly, and with appre- ley’ Gates saMr “and there is an- return him to confinement, was Star gulch left Monday for a motor hension. the head of the house com terlal form. otht-r 175,000 acres which should, plied. The instant his big toe pro- I lenient enough to advise Wilkerson trip to St. Louis, Mo. and will, produce a crop equally Grown In body and activity, to pay damage wrought while in M a I liable. Wo have the market Wilson Injured As pleasure and play still dûtes buck ebriated and to leave the city and f>*r the tomatoes, we can grow to our first gurgling attempts ut reform his conduct. He, with laing He Offers Help to >h<- best tomatoes ta the nation. crawling across the kitchen floor «nbneber, Is being held In the Car on Hiahwav and there u no rMwn whr « or th« days when we screamingly ¡county jail. Hail had not been set V.ar on mgnway should not be oaeof <mr leading -- - !!*_»»_ _ - O scampered a bare Inch uh cud of for either at n late hour last night, industries.'* and they probably will remain con whoever was "It” In a game of By LLEWELLYN A. BUNKS State police Investigated an , ” ”— fined until bound over to the cur cold August prevented a crop tag Th« same principles of happi auto wreck and general mlxup on | . of 45,000, ness and pleasure as applied then rent grand Jury, which reconvenes the lower Applegate road near anon, and, are Just uh true und effective to January 9 As far as Is known, thl» John Pernoll’s store early Christ- u day. even If some of us are grand- Is Iaingenhacher'a first offense of I , _ M year mas morning that resulted in in a' for gardening piiretiis ter. ah. by the way—in this nature, and his arrest came juries to Orville Wilson. 19. mem- “ expert hero tn a decade. Be case we’re a stranger to you. dou’t uh a surprise to most residents ber of a dance orchestra. Wilson I he writer of these lines (with apologies for lifting the Cache for the loot had been ts the finest tomato pro get the Idea we’re using "grand was hit while aiding tn fixing an sides nation, from a stand- parent" as a personal term—we known to officers for some time, phrase bodily) feels that if Jackson county can tolerate a self other auto, and was hurled over duced ___ content, the per-acro haven’t even reached the first step and a portion of the first haul, appointed “I’m O-K But He’s a Crook" editor to distort and the hood and sustained serious in- which was returned to Chitwood, misrepresent the truth, then Jackson county also can tolerate Juries to one arm and extensive Pjver I of the soil in the Rogue In the climb to such a position). was stolen again for the second Marly double that bruises. a writer who chooses to tell the other side of the matter— time. of c Utah and Indiana, Wilson Is alleged to have been That’s why last week we stated hence Mr. Bunks at your service. about seven tons ¡Injured, when an auto driven uriven by| oy . which sir that to be happy people must be many crops run- Our contemporary in question, the venom-spluttering editor Mrs. Bart Asher of t__ __ themselves—even If that would be LOCAL GRANGE WILL tone and more crashed into another < ar. th t ; ---- :------ ~ to the ” kinds simple We believe that the MEET FRIDAY NIGHT of the Hogwallow Blatter, that ill-composed and skinny dis- turned over twice when it failed ’largely upon the universal attempt at trying to fool , grace to the journalistic world, and the state in general, has V the neighbors and appear one or to negotiate a turn at high speed. Because of conflicting dates last With t itlon of the new two stations above our real status Friday night, regular meeting date, | seen fit to pounce upon every other businessman and public The driver of this car is not company re sales cam- Is the barrier between ourselves the Jacksonville Grange positioned i official in Jackson county. Or is it merely that he has seen fit known. A woman companion was 1 naign ' Jhunehed. and the and some real downright childish its meeting until Friday night, De (or thrown one) to fill his paper every day with his own pinned beneath the auto but un area al tabtuded on the list hurt. pleasure which, after all, certainly cember .30. Newly insta'led offi troubles and glory ? „ yW Oregon, Idaho, Is th« most refreshing and enjoy cers will take chulrs and Worthy A crowd returning from the includes Wash parts of Califor- able kind. We have sometimes wondered whether he really believes Christmas eve dance held at the nia. Master 1. A. Dew aabe that all arw heavy users, members be present because re all he writes about what were regarded as honest people or Applegate Grange hall stopped to [ and a will be opened And speaking of maturity and ports of retit ing officers and com whether he merely uses them as a tool to tell that great grand view the wreck and It was then I as soon catches up problems, the Idea occurred to us mittee unpolnlments will be given. that Mrs. Asher, apparently con-: with the jury—the people—about his own glories and sacrifices on the fused by the lights of the "visiting , the other day thnt divorce Is more Mrs. Gertrude Hank, who In or loss a product of the machine stalled the officers of the Apple altar of public uplift. There’s scarcely a shade of difference autos," crashed into young Wilson j The company of ago. Skeptical’’ Well, listen to our gate and Jacksonville Granges two between a writer trying to push himself up by pulling everyone Some of the witnesses alleged that! story. weeks ago. has drawn much fav else down and one who pulls everyone down to push himself up. Mrs. Asher wa^ traveling at a high ¡’’ver rate of speed. both * on th* mdfb and tn newspa- orable comment on her thorough And whenever we read his dripping sheet and then investi The state police and district at ’ s «nd baa greatly Increased Y ou know, back In the days when and Inspiring work In Installation mother and father were young, ceremonies. The Grange has ex gate the facts of the case, which are just as available to the torney’s office said this week that the demand for the “Del Rogue" bro*<icast8 over radio people used to drive horses and pressed Its appreciation for Mrs. Hogwallow editor as to any citizen in the county, we know they probably would ask the coun £™"d- ty court to revoke the license to . u ' ,n *oi*lMd also advertise buggies, live an easy-going, restful Hank's Installation team. life ns a rule. And, If you've ever D«1 Rogne" pack. The Jacksonville officers In- darned well he doesn’t believe all he writes and is not sincere hold the dances on the Applegate, That toasato culture must be de lived around any of those old tim stalled were I. A. Dew, master; in anything except his attempt to gain attention and acclaim as complaints had been received of speeding to and from the affairs. ' veloped in the valley Just as the era you doubtless noticed how their Weldon Hartley, __ overseer; _______ r______ Leona from the downtrodden taxpayers. 7>ar Industry was is self-evident, every act was directed towards Nledermeyer. lecturer; G O. San While speaking of downtrodden taxpayers, we’d like to HEPPNER—(Special)—A cam those interested in the cannery de thrift conservation and permanen den, secretary; Ted Sims, treas cy. That Is why today we have urer; George Wendt, steward; Rob thrust in the observation that the most downtroddening thing paign is on in Morrow county to clare but last year, with a bad what whnt we believe to be the greatest ert Cook, assistant steward; Irma that has happened to them in recent years is the crop of self- test enough of the beef cattle to ' P.Tnln£ ••**>»», many growers nation on earth. Nledermeyer, chaplain; Frank ' appointed saviours who are attempting to rise on a tide of nermit the county to be placed on ' • tted better than >125 an acre on the tuberculosis accredited list, re their crops. One grower, W. J. Cum When grnndpaw got out the Henspeter, gate keeper; Anne wn*ron he carefully greased her up Wendt. Ceres; Reva Henspeter, taxpayer acclaim when they damn everyone and everything. ports County Agent Smith. Many mings of the Midway road, received ) And we always had thought taxes were burden enough for tests have recently been made by a grots return of >1100 from four before starting the three-mile trek Flora; Mabel Sims, Pomona. to town because, as grandpaw al- Edwin Taylor wns Installed as | the people to bear without suffering the extra burden of a Dr. H. H. Green of the state veter acres of beans, Gates said, and inarians office with almost no re some handsome profits were made (Continued on page two) master of Applegate Grange. group of yipping kid-minded scribes, who ought to have their actors found. 1 Continued on page two)____ Once Too Often « & Lies Hurled Annoy Cupid; Frighten Nuptials All Atoay Í Another dramatic example of alleged best Interests of the coun- the toil Jackaon county Is paying I ty—the malicious propaganda because of Its support to newt- snread so eagerly has been swift printing In Its work of impairing the once papers which delight in pri misleading Information and I un- splendid standing of Jackson founded charges is In the marriage ----- county. license business formerly enjoyed. No longer do the cozy confines Sale of "lifetime” knots has drop of the Rogne river valley appeal ped to less than half the usual num to northern California as an ideal ber. spot to say "I do." Rather, thanks When It was rumored that Coun to the self-appointed saviours run ty Judge 6. B. Lamkin, appointed ning wild In the county, they re to fill "the unexjdred term ot the gard it more as a place where cor late Alex Sparrow, held office 11- ruption and yice run rampant , legally after the election of Earl where officer« hold forth illegally Fohl for the coming term, both a and where justice Is dead. In ad Medford dally, well-known for ma dition to being already the laugh liciousness, and Fehl’s own paper ing stock of the rest of Oregon, pounced ttpon the apparent mis the two Medford newspapers have take and shouted the the four cor succeeded in carrying Jackson’s nera of the Pacific coast that all reputation over the Slsklyous as marriages performed by I-anikln "rotten to the core and smelling were Illegal, that couples would to the high heavens," terms loved have to remarry and that the Judge and abused by the publishers. would have to refund fees col It simply is a swift, conclusive lected. It happens, however, that both example of where such táctica as Fohl and the publisher of the Daily those employed by the coming News knew when stories were county judge and hiH lieutenant printed that an opinion 'handed will lend the community, in view down by the attorney general of of such developments, harm done the state of Oregon held thnt Lnm- by malicious criticism has been kin was official Judge and that hls I mnde so plain that the man wlio act« were In order. Yet always I runs can grasp Its significance at ready to criticise nnd nag—in the a glance. Why So Much Bunks” toy printing presses taken away from them, trying to play a game of "you support me and I’ll cuss them.” “Sleek philanthropists who labor Gratis for mankind each day, Ever prompt with prayers to aid you, Always seem to make it pay.” —uz “A Tiny Thing it Was, Bundled There in Darkness”--First Miner Once upon a time in the pitch wishes for the success and steady Perhaps you remember seeing some youngster at some blackness of a cold starlit night I growth of southern Oregon’s one time, when conversation wandered to other topics, who kicked . found it. A tiny thing it was. hud newspaper With individuality.— the family dog in the shin or yanked little sister’s hair, just ; dled there In the darkness waiting X Y. Z. me in the young hours of the to gain the coveted attention? Every time the Hogwallow ' for New Year’s morn as 1 prepared to scribe’s fist gets well and the public eye is not directed toward depart from a dance. It had crept RELIEF PROVIDES himself, lie promptly sets out to abuse someone or something [ under the covering used to keep CHRISTMAS CHEER the radiator from freezing, and as and winds up with a fist-lxinging orgy all over the office. car rolled away, I glimpsed the Two hundred ninety residents of But, of course, we must admit our contemporary is some the first Issue ot The Jacksonville Jackson county Saturday received what successful. Yes. sir. He certainly has the attention he Miner In the dim rays of a flash welcome bits of wherewithal to wants, but we’d just as soon take a double order of mother- light. I did not investigate further spread Christmas cheer when road in-law’s caresses as to change places with him. We fear the then than to scan the general ap relief work checks were issued to pearance of the paper and to see them by the county court attention he is getting will expand until several keepers take who the new editor might be. My Judge C. B. Lamkin and the a guardian interest in the poor fellow. first impression was that some county court purposely had em Oh yes, by the way. Speaking of poor, downtrodden tax stranger had a lot of courage and ployed as many men as possible payers who enjoy the vitriol of a self-elected champion, what initiative to start a newspaper the week before Christmas and pay the obstacles of a depres averaged about |12 per employe. does our friend, the publisher of the Hogwallow Miscarriage, against sion and two neighboring dailies. Issuance of the warrants at the know about taxes? Next morning, still weary from court house started at 4 o'clock For three long years he has been extracting money from i the night before. I read The Miner the day before Christmas and pay Jackson county in the form of fruits of the soil and to date ; over thoroughly. 1 liked its friendly ments were made to the year's and the editorial be- largest crew of relief workers. he hasn’t paid one cent of taxes. Although he alleges this . atmosphere with the simple MHowdy, county is “rotten to the core.” overrun with "dastards” and * 1 ginning folks—” and ending with the inior- “stinks to the high heavens," he has seen fit to stay here in 1 mation that “we are young, ambi- • Mr. and MYs. George Demmer California, who have been vis his own interests, ship fruit to eastern markets and bleed I ; tlous and content to start at the of of the ladder . . .” Cor ono iting Mr. Demmer’s mother, on the and bleed southern Oregon without so much as putting a frac ' bottom year The Miner has been a good old home place, have decided to tion of his profits hack in the form of wages. f’icnd of mine, and I congratulate spend the winter here and have And if he is such a community asset why has no one profited I ¡Its editor on the success of his en- rented a cahin of T. S. Cady near (Continued on page two) I terprise, t wish to extend best I the Summit service station.
