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LETTERS
To the Editor
Upper Applegaters Resolve
Prompted by a desile to learn
the truth, a large gathering as
sembled at the Watkins school
house the evening of February 22.
Practically every inhabitant of the
upper Applegate was present with
the exception of a few who were
so fed up on the vitamin 1 that
they thought they had no room
for new ideas.
Mrs. Martin and associates of
the Good Government congress had
promised to speak. Opposing fac
tions had been notified, as it was
desired to hear both sides of many
questions which puzzle us.
When the promised speakers of
the evening failed to appear the
resourceful patriots entertained
themselves with an impromptu pro
<r. X aj
gram of music and readings. Wor
thy of special mention were piano
selections by Mrs. Frank Dawson,
several numbers played on the har
monica by Jack Daley, two cowboy ranged. Three days were spent in
songs by “Slim” Crowell, two duets fishing. Three days were spent in
in Spanish by Mr. and Mrs. George collecting gifts from Oregon manu
Siple. violin selections bv Hester facturers. Three were spent 'at the
Knutzen, and an especially well end of the trail' down at Seaside
BE GREAT BE SIMPLE
traveled in a special car—Lin
received recitation by Knox Me frolicking in the surf and learning
coln rod«* in the day coach;
Cloy reminiscent of old-time school. of the winter which Lewis and
Sooner or later, a man if he
Rockefeller wears knit mittens
days. A solo, in Chinese, by Frank; Clark spent there following their
and rubber overshoes on the golf
Collings, would have been very fine tong trek oyer the route I covered is great, will discover that life
is a mixture of good days and
course; Coolidge never rode tn
had it not been quite so low. In coming out.”
a Pullman uutil he became vice
fact so much local talent was un-
¡th his letter he included four bad, victory and defeat, give and
president.
earthed that a movement is on foot' snapshots of Oregon scenes, in take.
He learns that it doesn’t pay
to give a strictly hand-forged pro- eluding Mount Pitt. Mary's peak,
When man has the spirit of
gram at a date soon to be an- and two of the Rogue. This young to be a sensitive soul—that he
true greatness he thinks little of
ac should let some things go over
nounced.
journalist writes an interesting ac-
and cares little for what we call
Near midnight the gathering re- count of the highlights of the en his head like water off a duck’s
fame. Ralph Waldo Trine says,
luctantly dispersed after unani- tire trip, which required consider- back.
“An undue sense of one's im
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ohla the
drill following
tn nnvnr reso-
In a amnll
able unflro
skill to cover in a small space,
He learns that he who loses
portance or nn undue propensity
passing
mously
since he says “the trip to me was his temper usually loses.
for show or desire for recogni
luttons:
He learns that carrying a chip
tion indicates always a weak
Be It Resolved, that the county incomparable to anything that has
on his shoulder is the easiest
mental strain that may make an
turmoil is caused by a bunch of ever come my way.”
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way to get into a fight.
otherwise honorable and success
crooks who are hurling accusations
He learns that the quickest
ful life a failure.”
of fraud at each other while their
MOVING MONEY MAKES
way to become unpopular is to
What does it take to be really
hands are shoved deep in the tax-
MEN MERRY
carry
tales
and
gossip
about
great?
Here is Zane Grey's an
payers’ pockets.
Bill Bybee sells a toad of wheat) others.
swer. "To bear up under loss—
Resolved, that the wives of tax-
And all the town grows fair and
He learns that buck passing
to fight the bitterness of defeat
payers cut out and securely sew sweet;
always turns out to be a boom-
and the weakness of grief; to
up their pockets, which have only
He starts off humming cheerful erang, and that it never pays.
be victor over anger; to smile
one good use left anyway, viz., to tunes
He learns that most of the
when tears are close; to resist
carry the jackknife, and it is be
for
his
And pays Duke Lewis
other fellows are as ambitious
evil men and base instincts; to
lieved with a little practice this prunes.
as he is, that they have brains
hate hate and love love; to s<-ek
said implement can be carried over
The grocer, who has the blues.
that are as good or better, and
ever the glory and the dream;
the ear ltke the pencil of the old-
Now
buys
his
wife
and
children
that studious application to his
to look forward with unquench
style grocery clerk.
shoes.
own business is the secret of
able faith in something evermore
Be It Further Resolved, that this
That ten Godward thinks God- success.
about to be—that Is what any
aforementioned Upper Big Apple
He learns that his fellow men
man can do, and so be great.”
gate community, where peace and sent.
And runs and pays it on his rent. are not monsters, but are usually
“To love love, to hate hate"—
harmony reign, has some citizens
Next day Chitwood pays the bill | fine fellows who have succeeded
your Philosopher came to this
who are willing to shoulder the dis
To Dr. Gillis for bis pill;
through hard work and want to
valley many years ago—that is
grace of being the first to get
The happy doctor tells his frau I do the right thing.
what he found here; that is why
back between the plow handles.
That business is improving now,
He learns that getting along
be stayed. That was what made
Resolved, that copies of this doc
And adds: "My dear, you need a with folks de[>ends about 98 per
it the best place on earth for
ument be mailed to the local papers
rest.
cent on his own behavior.
him.
It still is the best place on
for publication.
You’d better take a trip out i
True greatness is usually
earth—if we will all try to be
And Be It Finally Resolved, that
marked by simplicity. Douglas
great!
hereafter the monkeyshines of the West.”
Sb in a week or so the wife
county will have to shine as best
Is on the farm enjoying life,
they can without the monkeying of
lot and it is no wonder, in
That kept our county boiling—
She pays her board to farmer minds of many, why they are the
BERT HARR.
op*
For three long years, while honest
Bybee
Jacksonville, Oregon.
j*osed to the courts.
folks
Who takes the ten and says: “I
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Were staying home a-toiling
see!
Bouquet for The Miner
The Damon and Pythias bond was
Here’s something that just can’t
To the Editor:
cut—
L.
A.
’
s
Fehlure
As old residents of this valley, be beat,
The
roar and its echo parted.
I
This bill’s the one I got for
and being one hundred per cent
Once in our town their tots did cast And for many years folks wondered
Americans, we wish to express our wheat.”
how
With it he buys more prunes— Two journalistic cranks;
sincere admiration and apprecia
i The big stink ever started.
and
then
tion for your courageous stand
By a Damon and Pythias bond held
It starts a-going round again.
against the lawless element in our
fast—
—Exchange.
midst.
Their names were Fehl and Banks. Time to Get Down
When peace and sanity again re
They sensed deep plots on every
turn to this vicinity, we believe it
To Business Says
hand,
will in no small part be due to Good Gov’t Congress
tore the town asunder.
your patriotic little paper. Three
Medford Merchant
Eating Off I They
cheers for it and its plucky editor. Officials
Hut they wrecked the greatest
MRS. C. C. HEARD
things they planned
County’s Jail Kitchen
“I believe it’s time to quit feel
THELMA HEARD.
When Banks stole Earl’s thunder. ing sorry for ourselves, to drop the
Medford, Oregon.
More efficiency In county gov- Now Fehl, he heaved a heavy ink, i idea that we all know just how
ernment, under the Fehl regime. In editorial rantlngs.
Cure for Horsewhipping?
; came to light yesterday with the He stirred a wide and mighty stink county government should be con-
To the Editor:
ducted and get down to attending
information that C. H. Brown, sec And sowed seditious plantings.
What a woman! Ouch!
retary of the Good Government He stirred a high and handsome to our own business and let the
stink.
How would you like to be Mister congress, and father of Henrietta
county officials run the public af-
Henrietta B. Meddlin’
F. Martin, its president, eats his And true, he played queer pranks
In case you have a slight itchy lunches at the county jail, at But when the stench had blown fairs—that’s what we’re paying
them for anyhow,” stated a prom
away—
feeling in the neighborhood of your county expense.
battle scars, the following treat T L. Breecheen, political war Behold, he still had Banks.
inent Medford business man and
ment is recommended:
horse of Ashland, and staunch sup When Fehl would shout of ] plots member of the city council yester-
Dissolve a handful of salt in a porter of the Fehl regime and of
and schemes,
day.
cup of turpentine. Add a cup of the Good Government congress, To steal the county kaie,
“And aH for my views on this
tabasco and a jigger of vitriol. Rub also eats at the county jail, it was And say that men like Gates and Banks-Fehl squabble, I sincerely
the mixture vigorously on all raw charged, and it was further
believe—and I have been a resident
Reames
surfaces and in a few minutes you charged, but not proved, that he Should both be put in jail.
and taxpayer here for 41 years—
should be in a frame of mind to sleeps there.
Then Banks would shout of that we had better give the county
write a stinging editorial.
schemes and plots
back to the Indians than those two
Two Jailors are now on the coun
Stay with the wagon, young man. ty payroll to care for five prison The county kale to steal—
mud slingers. There is no way of
For several weeks you have been ers, which is construed as more Anil say that men like Reames
determining the damage that pair
waging a good fight almost single Fehl efficiency, as O. W. Dunford,
Gates
has already wrought to southern
handed, and have made friends for former jailor, cared for as many as Should gaze through bars of steel. Oregon.
Just last week a new
yourself by the hundreds. Let us 25 prisoners by himself.
When one would hatch a henlous home was to have been built here,
hope that his keeper will soon lead
but the money to finance it would j
plot
The two jailors are Robert Gleen
Napoleon back to the asylum.
not be loaned by a prominent, well’
and a man named Thomas, both And spread It o’er a page,
HAPPY DAYS.
The other would catch it piping hot known investor, because he decided i
Fehlites
in
the
last
election.
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to clean up his business here and
Brecheen, who attends every And go into a rage.
move to some other locality where
worked together perfectly.
Alabama Lad Write» meeting of the Good Government They
congress, and who concludes the Like a Dutchman and his brother— he wouldn’t have to listen to this
continual, nerve-wracking squab
Impressions of Oregon meetings with telling stories, re And with parrotonlan accuracy,
bling over politics and graft. Hence
ferring to his long-standing "friend • They echoed one another.
Folks concerned In journalism, ship” with Justice Brandies and When sane men read their ribald several families and business
sheets,
houses were denied legitimate, pro
or even the publicity of their own President-elect Roosevelt, and who,
state, will note with interest the it is said, has served as an organ They shook their heads in shame fitable business and employment
letter by Shelby Southard, young izer of the congress, was accused To think that Medford had two just because Earl Fehl and L. A.
Banks can't keep their mouths
men
journalist of Alabama, which is by the California supreme court of
shut.
published in the Young People’s embezzlement, dishonesty and im Who thought so much the same.
"I can see no sense in letting a
paper, publication of the American morality. Brecheen’s real estate But when the stink came to a head
Sunday School union, Philadelphia. license was revoked in California, They found just one was thinking man, who hasn't paid one nickel
In the issue of February 12, young due to the charges. Complete de While the other one, tho far from of taxes since his arrival here, con
tinually criticise and pan upstand
dead,
Southard, who won a trip to Ore tails may be obtained from any
ing bulwarks of the community
gon last summer as a prize in an Pacific Reporter, No. 200, page Was doing all the stinking.
who pay upwards of >2000 a year
essay contest, mentions the week 1042, Brecheen vs. Riley.
in taxes toward supporting their
It also was charged that Bre- And so it finally came to psrs
spent in southern Oregon, during
which he visited Oregon caves, cheen’s complete apparel was fur- That the one who did the thinking own local government. If Ranks
wants to reshape our civic life, let |
Medford, Klamath Falls and Crater nished by Judge Fehl when he was Got tired of his bosom friend.
him pay his OWN share of expense
lake. He writes of “tramping “dressed in” for service in the Who was so fond of stinking;
first before he meddles.
through towering redwoods and congress. A new suit, shoes, two Picked up his paper and his pen
"And If Batiks will quit dodging 1
beautifully proportioned Douglas shirts and accessories were in And tore himself asunder
firs.” Regarding the rest of the cluded in the outfit, Ashlanders From the man who had an awful me and give me a chance to tell
asserted.
yen
him to his face, he’ll listen to a
state, he says:
The leaders of the Good Gov For stealing all his thunder.
tot more than that,” concluded the j
“Then on to Portland! My time
in Oregon was beautifully ar- ernment congress present a queer And thus there ended all the strife businessman.
¡JIip
'•s| money us will be spent by th«* en
tire» I'ouniy In th«* carrying on of
Its business for one entire your.
Any «>xcuse will serve a ty | Have provisions been made by Fehl
I and his goo«l boss, Hanks, for nil
rant.
I audit of the relief books lit the end
Much outcry little outcome.
<»C the year’ Not just the regular
Outside show is a poor sub
county audit, but an audit by some
stitute for inner worth.
disinterested poison?
He that is neither one thing
Who said Gruvy Train?
nor the oilier lias few friends,
N«>d Thomas, who is the son of
It la easy to despise what you
th<< man who helped County Judge
cannot get.
We can easily represent Earl 11. Fehl buy th«» Pacific Rec
ord Heruld from under the Nlcder-
things as wo wish them to be.
moyer mortgage, is assistant conn
Cunning often outwits itself
It Is easy to impose impos ty jailor.
Toil Helmroth. who also helped
sible remedies.
In tho purchase of the Record Her
Never truet the advice of a
ald building, was yesterday a|*-
man In difficulties.
YOU can not escupe your pointed road overseer.
County Judge Earl II Fehl. who.
fat®.
by his own statement was flat
Nature will out.
J broke when he took office, hits &
been abb* to get his building back,
(and. Incidentally, snfe from the
The Gravy-Train
I’arr judgment for Just the ninount
the mortgage, which he owed
Steams Up for Fehl of
anyway, I and has mud«* a cash of
fer for th*» printing machinery in fl
Just Depends On Who’s
the
He will v b<* abb* to re fl
•
sew building.
sssss
aew
At Throttle
possess the machinery for Just
what he owed on It before the ParrK
What ho, th«* Gravy Train steams judgment wan levied. Feld's equity^
»
In tii«* building and the machinery
It's a poor barb that doesn't stick Is now saft* from attachment undo
on both ends, and those of Jackson the Judgment—and li<< leads manyv
county who hav«* felt the thorn of
persecuted byB
County Judgo Earl Fehl’a editorial to believe he was
pen during th«» past few years ar«* the Niedermeyera.
Ainos W. Walker. who conductedK
laughing up their sleeves at what
Fehl's
campaign so Hlll l OHHflllly ill®
they could do if they hud a news
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sheriff. I
puper -just In the matter of get Central Point. Is a deputy
Wasn't It Mr. Fold who us«»d toi
ting even.
th«* gruvy truiu?
It is pointed out by these victims write about
—
that Judge Fehl has hurled accuse • Mr. a'lul Mrs. Steve Krault A
lions of graft and plunder upon th«* both have been on the sick list
silghtiHit provocation In the past, the last week but are reported
and bus gotten away with it. They better now.
wonder just what Judge Fehl would
be saying now if someone else had • Mr. and Mrs Roy Hewitt und
been elected county Judge, and had baby daughter. Barburn Louise
done exactly the same things Judge spent Saturday visiting Mrs. H«*w
Fehl has.
Ill's parents. Mr. und Mrs. G. E
A few days before Judg<* Fehl Wright
took office, they |*oint out, he de
clared lie was broke, and his |>o
litical boss, the Medford Dally
News, said much about how broke
ALAINE’S
the Judge was. It so transpired.1
PERMANENT WAVES
however, that on January 7. just!
seven days after he took office,
money appear«*«] from someplace to'
$1.98 Complete
bld In the amount of the mortgage ,
with
Shampoo and Finger Wa
on the foreclosure sal«, of the Pa |
cffic Record Herald bulldign. No |
A Lovely Push-Wave
one accuses Judge Fehl of stealing |
the money, but they do wonder Just
with Ringlet Ends
what he would have said about
Phons 1518—Medford
someone els«, In the same boat.
And. strange to say, If he were ac
In Rear of Barber Shop
cused of it, there are hundreds of
113 East Main
fools who would desert his follow
ing. ant) believe the accuser.
The Qravy Train steams on-
If present plans of the county
Judge and his boss. L. A. Banks,
materialize, more than >127.000 will
Harold B. Gillis
t>e placed in one man's hands, to
be spent on relief work this year.
PHYSICIAN and
Soft jobs for someone will be pro
SURGEON
vided, and the money will be spent
with certain merchants to Medford,
Office in Jacksonville
at the direction of the "relief dic
tator.” Judge Fehl’a victims are
Sanitarium
wondering just what the Judge, ns
Hours
—
Mon.,
Wed., Fri., 8-12
an editor, would have said about
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some other county Judge doing the
same thing- say. if Pop Gatos or
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This >127,000 is nearly as much
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