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Complete Gold Rush Jubilee Program for Jacksonville’s Hell-Raising Celebration on This Page r J. Extra! I T he J acksonville M iner Volume 2 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, August 18, 1933 5c a Copy But You Really Oughts Subscribe J Number 33 MAKES GOLD STRIKE tkm iS™" Must Clean Up City, Reform SAYS ASSAYOR polities, it ! Jackson county's seems, resurrected a horsewhip, some time back and now Jackson- vllle, In her Gold Rush Jubilee, will Finds bring out the horse and carriage Dentiat Unexpectedly that was supposed to have gone Deposit Long Overlooked with It. by Old Sourdough / GOLD RUSH JUBILEE PROGRAM Jacksonville, August 19, 1933 Sponsored by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce (Oecar Lewis, President; J. B. Wetterer, Secretary) Must Park Side- Arms Outside of Wrestling Arena HORSE TROUGHS ■FIRST IN LINE By vote of the city council last — BB^B—-- — — — - sid<- 10:00 u rn - BASEBALL GAME, Gold Hill vs. Jacksonville Miners, Ball night But don’t get us wrong Just be ' arms must be checked with attend- park, school grounds. teae rotund Henrietta thought she ____ Early ________ yesterday ________ morning. while ant at tomorrow night's wrestling j T..?o,.n? ?_‘"ld Pursuing his work. Dr. H. C. Peters. CONTEST8 ON WEST SIDE OF TOWN (across from old 'card. “We will have no display of i didn’t get to feeling Ilk«» that part Jacksonville dentist, made a rich brewery on Ruch highway) Including rope climbing, pole j vulgarity.” said Mayor Hartman in To Tolerate No Further Habit of animal anatomy for which the climbing, greased pole climbing, slack rope walking and a special statement. strike. Assayor L. H. McGuire pro of Stabling Horses on w«a|K>n waa originally Intended. “If any fans have personal feel buck sawing. nounced the find 22 karat gold, City’s Walks ings after the match, they are at CALIFORNIA STREET EVENTS (in center of town) liberty to entitle wrestlers to Daisy It seems that thia here town of Gold Buyer G. W. Godward con- Include bicycle race, tire race, exhibition of semaphore creek’s banks, where drainage is Jacksonville needs a city planning curred In the opinion. Mayor Wesley Hartman last signaling by Boy Scouts under leadership Earl White. fairly good, for their shootings. commlHHlon Just yesterday we Dr. Peters, who moved here with night launched his most aggressive Canvas of squared rings gets so noted a very pronounced variety his family fromDrain because of campaign during a special meeting 1:00 p. m —RODEO AT BASEBALL GROUNDS. messy when fans forget their finer', of the city council. “We must clean In in hitching posts and racks. In t))n climate, little expected, _ 1... he __ order that this may become the Mapj at press time, to become a part MAIN STREET AFTERNOON EVENTS Including gold instincts and blaze away at a .. • t” was his startling City Beautiful. The Miner suggests Iin,| parcel of Jacksonville’s gold panning contest, auspices Southern Oregon Mining Associa couple of bone benders straining in ; statement. a mass, ” elaborated His Honor “ “ calling contest; I that storekeepers and residents get traffic Htralght dentistry had been tlon; water relay race; water fight, hog His Honor declared that the prac City Marshal Jim Llttell and together and adopt a Uniform nis alm. Full value of the body of sack race, potato race, three-legged race, fat man's race. tice of permitting horses to slobbeT Promoter Mack IJllard agreed tbatj Hitching Post Code. orn |iatl no( yet been determined, fat woman's race and wildcat race. in troughs after partaking of their all armed displays shall be confin due to difficulty in removing the fill of water shall be stamped — WEST SIDE EVENTS including greased pig, wood chopping ed to the shooting gallery this year or stomped—out at once. By following s<rme general i treasure from its resting place. The “Time log sawing (entrants to furnish own buck saws), lifting and sourdoughs intent on shooting and again I have seen the animals scheme chaos could b«» brought out' dentiat has set to work, however, up the town will have to restrain. contest, rolling pin throwing contest for women, swimming of order. Picture, in your own j to gouge out hie fortune in yellow allowed to stand dozing placidly races, pie eating, wheelbarrow race (barrows furnished), 'hemselves to shooting off their while drippings from their jowls mind, a street lined with even, ¡metal. nail driving contests for women, spike driving contest for faces so far as the outdoor arena splash back into the trough. Itrtalls of the strike, as related I regular hitching racks that gleam men, log rolling, tug of war (across water), fencing on is concerned. don’t see why the horses' esthetic In the morning nun and stand over-1 by Dr. Peters, are an follows: Yea- ---------- ». floating logs. sense hasn’t stopped the slovenly ready to support some leaning hu-'terday morning ho arose at the What more could any cltypiaual hour, finished breakfast and habit. So long as horse sense man RAILROAD AVENUE EVENTS (block north of California started for his office. It waa just ask? doesn ’ t know any better, I suppose through till 5 p. m., > street) include full list of track events one of those ordinary, humdrum I the city council will have to take in charge of Joe Nee and Ray Hunsaker. I But. speaking of civic pride, w<-1 days when little or nothing is ex- the A. initiative and eliminate the ff ar«» wondering just what Salem1 pectad to happen beyond regular 5:30 p m.—PIONEER PARADE, through main part of town. Some people think Babe Ruth, thinks of Its new journalists who rise of the sun and thermometer.' Lou Gehrig and a few of the other i His remarks were seconded by are working their way up at the Little did the doctor realize what 9:15 p. m - WRESTLING CARD in outdoor arena at ball park. boys with fancy press agents are’ Councilman Ed Severance, who a surprise was in store for him. warden's camp ground? Councilman Punk Dun- But they are the 1 awakened , ' , ‘ . 'A-r About a block from bls office I>r. • 10.00 p. m.—THREE DANCES. Old-fashioned dance at I. O. O. F. hall; baseball players. ...... The latter, somewhat popular dance In U. S. hotel and mammoth street dance on ones who never heard of the fam- Mlpepf] ’ Years ago we were told that all Peters encountered «an old miner popular dance in U. B. note! anu mammou. .vrW uuuve — maVeZbe’twe^ tacksomi "‘«P«* leaped th® n°°r and California stre«-t. , °. "ame P*sye«i Detween jacason voted no. uri... bad people went where they had just in from the hills who appeared When informed of the a I ville and Applegate back in the to shovel coal. Unloading hog feod I to be drunker than 700 Indians. It issue, he merely remarked “aw, MONTE CARLO—1H80 gambling den recreated—will be twenties, at the state prison, wo suppose, is is an old prospector's custom. "B qi horsefeathers.“ A standing-sitting open throughout the day and night. But they haven ’ t seen anything if merely an apprentice <<iunie. But ye this town’s tooth yank er 7" a*-’ ¡they weren’t along the sidelines for vote was then taken and Council then there is nothing like prepar- costed the inebriate. MUSEUMS—Southern Oregon museum located ground floor that eventful game, which lasted a man Jim Cantrail voted threw — e 1' O hotel; K'nil«,« I ki utrklnru' n»na<iiim •» » » . « , “I have a certificate which says Ing for the next life, aays Parson of U. S. Native Daughters' museum, TXiko» near city Lull ball mere < 17 innings before a tie was times, explaining he had an itch. I'm a dentiat," quipped the doctor. Twitchlip on Oregon street. decided. Final score was 25-26, in Councilman Peter Fick nodded as “Waal, I'm gonna take ye inter favor of the old mining town. Ac sent as his bead dropped in slum Back In tlx- good old days, recalls my confidence," whispered the SPOT WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST DISCOVERED In Oregon cording to John Hueners, here on ber and Secretary Ray Coleman Ralph Woodford. Medford druggist, bearded sourdough as he wavered is marked by monument three blocks south on Oregon a honeymoon from Randolph Field, smacked a mosquito, which made every boy In southern Oregon look in the dentist’s direction. “I'm hot street from main Intersection. Texas, that was in the days of real the vote unanimous. ed forward to the annual doings In on the trail of the real thing!" Henceforth, it will be unlawful, BACKYARD GOLD MINES will be found hiding behind baseball^ when the horsehfde game Dr. Peters, who had heard of Jacksonville. ft was something illegal, illigitimate and darned un was a man's ~ game. every pile of gravel in town. worth hitching the nag up for and. such miners’ dreams and how every Along in the fourth inning Pitch- thoughtful for a horse to stand and on one occasion when McKinley little drink of firewater made a ■ = er Joe Sullivan’s arm got sore, so lazily slobber in the fair city’s was Inaugurated, Woodford relates pocket hunter out of the poorest , _ »is Hueners, for Jacksonville, filled horse troughs. ’ fireworks really burst loose in the sluicer, paid little heed But the ther reflection he elaborated by — As an anti climax, another issue out the rest of the game—13 iri- old town. man was so InHlstent that he fol- saying "Hm-m-m hm-m-m!” concerning horses was brought up. . ... . . .. . nings. "The first 10 innings were lowetl the course of least resistance “Have you any Idea why the In the hardesL though,” he explained It seems that the mayor dislikes A It seems that political sympa- and herded the miner into confines struments pull toward you?” said _____ as he rubbed his arm reflectively. muchly the practice of some people thirers started a ratification par of his office away from th«* watch the dentist, taking a random shot in Barnum’s Special, that iron “We’d just about settle the tie and of stabling their horses on the city’s ade down California street, but ful eye of City MarHhal Jim Lit- the dark. board walks. "Darned near every horse that pants its way between someone would sock out a home little reckoned with the spirit of till Between hiccoughs the old day I git switched in the eye or “ Waal, I heerd of chickens git- Jacksonville and Medford, is late run - w ® ,O8t three pecks of base- the old town and its many ways of prospector's story was unfolded. kicked somewhere because of this It seems that thia old fellow had tin' nuggets In their craws, and I again, according to advice just re- balls that way during the day, but thoughtlessness,” complained Hart finding expression. Scarcely had come to town looking fer someone celved at The Miner office. shucks, I believe I could have pitch- the parade been organized when sent for one of those "doodle-bug" man. “Not to mention other in The train, following a right-of ed ‘he Rame a11 over aRa,n” some arch-fiend had distributed a go|d finders. He had placed utmost to squint down my gullet an’ see conveniences of the practice. Why If maybe I halnt swailered a real way some six miles in length, was ™ ere , we l rp ma px Pla^s. ac- couple dozen roman candles among i confidence in the contraption and just this morning I bumped heads , had set to work in the Jacksonville cleanup," said the miner bashfully.' due at the local depot—occupied by POrdl"R ‘° Hu.ener ’ acco,unt- *ho with Lem Wilson as we met on the he-men of the community. Tom Rudy — 14 years ago but, due tbemselves homeless, the Dr. Peters, he said, then had the' 'V-r- hills to take a shortcut to riches. the walk. Both of us had been Inatead of pointing the fireworks But Hiunethlng went wrong, as he man get in his chair and say to sale of locomotive to China and t<*«d™ maur®. aa<i away when watching our step. We had just skyward -the usual procedure—the . explained. "Every time I git them "ah-h-h!” The miner, true to his the ripping up of rails and rotting fheyret«'’ned*ip, Van Winkle had shined our button shoes.” P1«/®™ that game roman candles were waved back . doodlebugs set ter pull, they ailus hilltop brogue, corrupted the phrase I of bridges Barnum’s Special will “ ,ove.r A yawning vote was taken at thia late only in that he slept instead of and forth In front of the paraders, i itoints toward my hald,” he com to “ugh-gh,” but he opened his point, due to the late hour, and I pursued the great American game. spraying them with a couple hun plained. "They gives a big yank mouth. Close investigation revealed The Miner, always first with the Several barbers starved to death all yawned in assent but Ray dred fiery balls which paid but like I was encirclin’ a real pocket!’” what appeared to be a sizeable nug news, declares this is the only before the score was unevened, as Coleman, who burped just to be "Hm-m-m,” mused Dr. Peters.) get hidden In the folds of the man's 8('°op of its kind in Oregon (thank p]ayers were not allowed uptown different. scant heed to where they were go- Coleman has no vote I Then, after a few moments of fur- jowls. . (Continued on page two) anyway so. save for the undainti God!). Engineers Wetterer and (iurlng the games “Boy, she’s a nugget, if I know Dunnlngton walked over almost a Some of the players. recalled by ness of his gesture, it meant noth anything about the standard Uncle decade ago when they tired of wait- Hueners. included Sullivan, Chase ing. After the vote was taken It Sam just went off of,” gasped Dr. ing for the thundering mass of Oftadahl, catcher, Robert Broad, was decided that horses, if picket Peters. “Waal.” butted in the ex steel, and are still watching the call ed on the sidewawlks, should be Hartman and Jack Moore, amined one, “do somethin’ about board. turned stern streetwards so as to _______ .________ _______ B ________ I “ her; yank the danged thing out!”i No business code will amount to delete objectionable features. Our city council, and mayor, are In less time than it took Dr. Pet-| The __________ ______ ___ __________________ ____ ______ Sacramento thieves who much unless made ____ effective by the ers to relate the yarn, he had stole a hearse may have heard it Blue Eagle’s claws.—Weston I.ead- to be commended highly for their . ... At- «-I..-. object ...lik _ t_« . _____ nr . » » ! foresight, hindsight and dam’ Clean streets have been guaran stuff down the sidewalk, instead grasped the ____ golden with his ___ war a bier-wagon.—Weston Leader.‘er. sight. A bigger and more beautiful teed for Jacksonville during the of stopping his mule in front of forceps and had removed the heavy city is their motto, they declared. —Gnirf Rush Jubilee, according to a God ward’s place, and scattered gold object with one deft motion. He ^Ofesolutfon passed by the city coun- dust for two blocks on account of ----------- -e----------- Mppil of Jacksonville last week^ a hole in the sack.’’ “It has to be .. stopped, if we All gold nuggets and rotten . 4 have „ "Hanged if it aint the purtiest quartz will be swept from the main Pa8H an ordinance against it, nugget I ever did see!’’ he gloated. thoroughfares by Saturday morn-IP"nk Ihinnlngton, another council-, "Hm-tn-m. must be float from a Ing. when the guests guests start sl-rt to .n-., ;nen me tu ar:Jna ------ .. v_oJ,ln^r_pd ' ledge somewhere, thar’s a piece o’ Paul Bunyan’s famous blue ox, on the “cleanup Mr" Dunnlngton was dusting quartz sticking to her right there.”. rive. Work ------ ----------- --------- , drive” the house and wiped up eight which was so powerful it could was started last Tuesday. and he pointed to a white spot in j ounces of gold dust off the piano straighten crooked roads, will be Carelessness of minors coming to the bottom of the nugget. that blew Into the house during the in Jacksonville jubilee day. The Jacksonville, and the refusal of wind storm Friday, and when I "By heck," said Dr. Peters, “that J blue ox has been assigned to spec residents of Jacksonville to keep' took a bath that night there was a isn’t quartz—that’s a tooth sticking ial duty hauling a huge nugget— ” their dogs from digging in the quarter inch of the stuff in the out of one of the prettiest crowns the largest ever seen in captivity streets wore given as the two chief ! bathtub. Some of it got down the I ever saw!” —during the old fashioned parade causoH of so much gold being * drain, and I had to have the plumb- Dr. Peters says he now is looking) to be staged at 5:30 p. m. sharp strewn about the city streets, nc-| for more drunken miners with ier out." Saturday. cording to Mayor Wesley Hartman, Possibility that the cleanup doodlebugg jabbing them in the eye The nugget, some six feet in cir who instigated the cleanup drive. campaign would not only apply to or trying to crawl down their [ cumference, and typically heavy, "If the dogs of this town Would the streets, but to some of the throat. "Forty-one more pannings will require a special carriage and do their digging down on the flats miners as well, was voiced by like that one and I’ll have enough the powerful ox to transport it and or In back yards, instead of in the Councilman Fick. gold to pay off the old mortgage will be guarded by City Marshal city streets,” Mayor Hartman said, “If these miners don’t wash the with," he added as he separated Jim Llttell, state police, national “there wouldn’t be all thia gold ly gold dust out of their whiskers be- tooth and metal In a special re- guards, boy scouts and the ladies' ing around for people to stumble fore coming to town, it's going to tort. aid. The nugget, it was explained, * over. Yesterday the marshal re- raise the price of shaves in this Jacksonville is Justly famous for was personal property of Paul ported that Emil Britt’s Cocker town,” Fick said. “A couple of her many gold strikes and a dento- Bunyan back in the good old days. ► Spaniel got out of the yard and miners came down out of the klondike rush Is expected here. He wore it as a watch charm. started to bury a bone in front of head of Poor Man's creek last week Molar deposits are superior to bi ------------- •------------- Charlie Chitwood's place, and roll- and got shaved, and the barber cuspid stratus, it was discovered by' Seattle has 22-year-old girl twins ed a hunk of gold down the hill as ruined two new razors when he Dr. Peters. who announce that they will marry big as your hat. Roy Smith came whacked Into nuggets in one guy’s ------------- •------------- twins only. Well, with two pair ^^drlving along and nearly busted a beard. Something should be done We hear now that Franklin D. there'd be a better chance for a wheel on ft. Such business has to about that, too." is a philatelist, when we thought full house.—Weston Leader. " stop, or people will be afraid to So the streets are expected to be all along he was a Democrat — Lem Wilson (shown above) has been characterized by former Briga come to the celebratlcr..” dier-General Frank D. Bullock as “the bravest man In America” for cleaned of hazardous gold nuggets Weston leader. “We have had our bust and now -• having ihrlce saved his life In early Indian wars and i.iuffalo hunts we’re busted,” observes the es 'These miners around here are by Saturday morning, thanks to the gosh-awful careless, too.” < Council- decisive action of the city council, honored by congress for his bravery. Wilson Is a resi teemed Oregonian, in a tax editor Wonder, now, if Uncle Sam would ard was Z a F 1 and n M rl visitors w I ci I 6 n »ra will 111 Lrr m»n Jim Catltrall said. “Ono of be nVwIrx able Lt to uirrtll stroll reimburse us for cutting down our dent of Jacksonville, Oregon’s first gold camp, and will take part In ial. Still, we’ve noticed that an them came in from up Star Gulch about in almost any condition wlth- newspaper production? Undeniably, her Gold Rush Jubilee to be staged Saturday, August 19. this year. other bust for the busted is not laHt week with a flour sack half out breaking a leg on a piece of there's a newspaper surplus. — He Is shown with the prospector’s make-up with which he hopes to what you would call impossible.— ^^fttll of gold dust. He dragged the rotten-rich quartz. again win first prize In the town’s annual pioneer parade on that day. Weston Leader. Weston Leader. fit PURITY Ul I will I I Mlll/h IvlUsla Jacksonville Wins 17 Inning Game 25-26 1 1 Barnum 8 Special Late 1» Word from Medford I I MUST SWEEP NUGGETS, GOLD DUST FROM CITY STREETS FO*R JUBILEE DAY *’ NATION’S ‘BRAVEST MAN’ AT JUBILEE Paul Bunyan’s Ox to Haul Huge Nugget I » i VI ■. I 1