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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1933)
Page 2 The Jacksonville Miner The Editor Speaking { won't surprise us a bit if sonville spirit busts loose I whlng ding this year as Kush Jubilee swings into the Jack in a real the Gold action. (Continued from page one) ing. Dresses were burned, clothes ruined and, all tn ail, Jacksonville That spirit, not far removed from spread herself tn raising early-day vandalism, but still coming under { whoopee. the heading of good clean fun. isj one of the things that made old Heaven only knows Just how Jacksonville both feared and re much of that mischief lies dormant spected when men like Ralph In the old natives here yet. but it i Woodford were In knee pants. 1 wX V.J.BEACH JACKSONVILLE’S JEWELER You'll have to excuse us now. We’re going down into the storm cellar for a few da*a. “All Europe is ready for war." according to Henry Morgenthau ' Sr. In which regrettable eveut, war is probably ready for Europe — ' Weston Leader. ----------- .«------------ Jacksonville, Past and Present of Gold Lure By ALICE APPLEGATE SARGENT This is a story of bygone days when this sleepy old town was young. A story of the olden, golden days, when Jackson ville was the richest town in Oregon.« A story of the days when men with picks and shovels turned out the gold to the tune of hundreds and thousands, yes, millions of dollars. A story of the day when Jim Cluggage, booted and spurred, and with belted revolver ami Bowie knife tramped over these hills and found nuggets of gold in the sand in a dry ravine In two months from the time Jim Cluggage found the nug gets of gold a thousand men were on the spot. Not half of the wonderful story of their coming has ever been told. The 130-Year-Old Quilt trails were dusty with the tramp of many feet—they Pride of Old Family came on horseback, on mule- A leader fan asks to know; "If a family became impoverished be- , cause of corn ‘ltkker.’ would they Guaranteed Watch and be known as corn paupersT" Find Clock Repairing . out by tuning in to the cornstalk. | 7 I—Weston Leader. By MAUDE E. POOL back. and on foot. They filled the ravines and swarmed over the hill« ■ A log fire crackled merrily in a where Jacksonville stands today. | great stone fireplace where an No time was spent in building cab Iron kettle hung over the flames. A REAL, COMPLETE, ONE-PRICE ins: some put up tents while oth The children cracked nuts as they ers built shelters of bark and listened to the twice told tales of brush. , Grandmother rocking in the chitn- Through that awful winter ofr| ' ney corner by the spinning wheel. 1851-2 provisions gave out and the Maggie was sewing quilt scraps miners lived on wild game, meat from calico. cooked without salt. Such is the story one may read Fortunes were taken out that between the stitches of an old. old winter and many who had families quilt made some time in the late i in the east and elsewhere went i 1700’s. This quilt is the cherished back in the spring and summer of possession of M. W. Maxwell of 1852 and brought them to Jackson- Ruch, whose grandmother, Maggio ' ville. i Wallace, sewed the time honored When the covered wagons rolled relic with deft and loving fingers : into Jacksonville in the fall of 1852 { in her girlhood days in North they brought the first white wo Carolina some 130 years ago. Complete men. Its colors still are bright despite There were only four white wo- the probable fifty launderings in Plenty of Real He-Men’s Food Like Grandma ! men in Jacksonville through the old fashioned soft soap. in the Used to Cook winter of 1852-3, but with strong substantial homespun. together ' hearts, undismayed, they estab- with the excellence of hand stitch 1 lished their homes in a wild land, ing common to those days more I Often young mothers watched the than 40 years before Howe's first I long nights through by the rustic i {sewing machine was in use. has beds where their babies slept, lis-1 been wrought an article which has tening, hoping, praying the savages withstood the test of time and long ' would not come—their only light I use. i the blaze from some pitch pine Nine blocks of 120 piece pattern {knots or a twisted rag in a battered suggesting tho sun's rays consti- Amy Dow, Proprietor tin plate of grease. PHONE 293 JACKSONVILLE tute the quilt, which has an indi- i Then came days of prosperity viduality all its own. More than for Jacksonville—beautiful homes mere cloth has been pieced into | took the place of the rough log cab- this pattern. There is thrift and | ins. There were churches, schools, love and romance, and visions ' I hotels, a courthouse, for Jackson- known to every young girl of hap | ville was the county seat. There piness down through the years in were drygoods stores, millinery a new home somewhere with child stores, jewelry stores. ren tn it (there came to be eleven Some As early as 1855 Jacksonville had children in that home.) a newspaper. “The Table Rock where In tho making of this old Sentinel," published by G. W. T’- ' quilt has been caught wisps of sad | Vault. Later there was “The Sen- i ness and sorrow, perhaps, as well tlnel" and "The Democratic Times." i as the Joys that centered around I Copies of these papers can be seen the I home hearth in simpler days today at the Native Daughters mu- I In the yellows, greens, reds, and The Only Real Confectionery i seum. 1 blues ranging from the white cent-j of each block lay memorials of There were at one time 1600 era < in Jacksonville ______ _______________ member of the family—red Chinese in Jacksonville. ______ There ____ was every < I a brass band and tickets to a dance from little sister’s first school | at Veit Schultz hall were $20 each, dress, blue from the shirt of a bare Then men began to talk of a lost f°°l b<>7' perhaps, The large blocks ________________ are attractively 1 vein, mines closed down. Men who bad made fortunes In the ravines set together with strips pieced of in Jacksonville moved with their homespun In the manner of the old families to San Francisco and else- familiar "« ’*« Peter to pay ......... rob Paul' where where they could spend their design, A six-inch border re wealth. There was no longer a sembling the present day cretonne Try Our Sandwiches and Beer and Coffee rush of gold seekers and the old stitched around the outer edge adds town fell into decay. charm to this quaint piece of work,; on Jubilee Day But may we not hope that some which is finished with yellow time, somewhere, someone will find hand turned binding. A first glance the lost vein of gold, and that there would mistake this binding for bias may be a renewal of the glory of tape, yet inspection reveals that those bygone days when Jackson it is not cut on the bias, and its PHONE JACKSONVILLE 162 ville was the richest town in Ore good condition shows a quality not found in tapes today. gon. Sewing scraps to reach a meas I/1 urement of more than eight feet square would astound the modern THANKS, CLARK WOOD quilt maker, but Mrs. Maxwell's heirloom is of these dimensions,) One of the oldest towns in and its massiveness suggests deep., Oregon is served by a bright {restful slumbers upon an enorm and readable little weekly called ous wool mattress topped with The Jacksonville Miner. That its Have Been Supplanted by those downy gray goose feathers, editor knows good stuff is shown with a big bolster and fluffy pil- by his generous use of duly- 1 lows to grace the huge wooden credited Weston Leader para- bedstead of those colonial days. graphs, And by the way, one Into the intricacies of the quilt country newspaper can bestow ing went 1.400 yards of thread (7 no higher compliment on anoth , spools), and who knows, some- in Jacksonville. We can look at your er than by clipping from its edi | where in those delicate stitches torial page.—Weston leader. motor’s teeth, however, and tell its forming wreaths and fence rows' may be woven the story of "Aunt age and requirements. We can pick The “little red schoolhouse’’ is Dinah’s Quilting Party.” ------------ e------------ out ignition systems with the heaves l apt to turn blue when railroads and ! utilities are no longer able to pay The doctor who suggests hard at a glance and know how to handle { the taxes required to maintain it. work as a cure for nervousness will spavined connecting rods . . . —Weston Leader. never be able, in our Judgement, to popularize a remedy worse than "We wonder what kind of code the disease.—Weston Leader. YOU WILL LIKE OUR SERVICE ------------ a------------ the hitch-hikers will get up," specu lates Carey Williams of Georgia, Man Is said to have had a marine | AND OUR WORK who might ask Olin Miller.—West origin, and we figure that Olin on leader. Miller isn’t far removed from the ------------ a------------ starfish. It has no brain.—Weston 1 The farm women of a North Leader. -------------•------------- Carolina community wear hats braded of corn shock, but when As to the question of closing the (C. B. (Punk) Dunnington, Proprietor) they’re young and pretty the effect I New York stock exchange when PHONE 282 JACKSONVILLE Is said to be by no means shock- surcharged with tear gas, the eyes ing.—Weston Leader. *had it.—Weston Leader. Pioneer Dinner Served from 11 a.m. cm Jubilee Day in Bough-Covered Outdoor Dining Room 40 c DRAFT and BOTTLE BEER Amy’s Place The Nugget Confectionery GOOD EATS, COLD DRINKS and COURTEOUS SERVICE Always 100 Per Cent for Jacksonville HORSE DOCTORS If there's to tie n blanket code for A three-your-old Rt. Paul hopeful swallowed his mother's wrist the stock market, no doubt there’ll wateh. Now hla time Is the doc be lambs enough to furnish th«' wool. Weston leader, tor's money.—Weston Leader. ' Jacksonville Pharmacy n When Jacksonville Was Young Eggs Were A Dollar Apiece . . . Salt Was Worth Its Weight in Gold and Flour Was Priceless! TODAY, THE We’ve Been MEATING Jacksonville People for the Past 22 Years ... The BASKET GROCERY Supplies the old town with Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, the best of Groceries and other needs at low prices and with a prompt free delivery service. Jacksonville Meat Market QUALITY MEAT HAS BEEN THE FOUNDATION OF OUR BUSINESS TOM DUNNINGTON, Proprietor | C. C. Chitwood, Proprietor One of the OLDEST STORES in Southern Oregon Is Still Buying Gold • Established in 1858, We Have Catered to the Needs of Jackson County Ever Since. Last Year We Bought More Placer Gold Than Any Other Store in Oregon! DROP IN AND SEE HOW WE HANDLE GOLD . Godward Merc. Co. “Where the Miners Bring Their Gold and Where the Gold Brings tho Bargalne" WE DELIVER PHONE 74 WENDTS MILK PURE JERSEY HAS BEEN DELIVERED TO SATISFIED CUSTOMERS IN THIS COMMUNITY SINCE THE YEAR 1888! RULY, a caae where QUALITY, combined with Good Service, Fair Treatment and Square Dealings have stood the test of time. T Our modern, sanitary equipment, expe rienced operators, our young, healthy, vig orous Jersey herd properly fed and cared for permit us to offer each day a raw market milk that is unvarying in richness, purity, flavor and freshness—which makes every meal a feast for health and goodness. PHONE JACKSONVILLE 402 GOLD PANS AUTO MECHANICS Dunnington’s Garage I THE —If You Can Shake That Thing DYNAMITE —If You Have Heavy Lifting But If You Are Just a Home-Loving, Average Citizen, Our Full Line of PAINTS and HARDWARE WILL INTEREST YOU MOST ♦ Serving Jacksonville, Ruch, Sterling and Applegate District* ♦ WE ARE SOUTHERN OREGON’S LARGEST DISTRIBUTOR OF POWDER, CAPS AND FUSE ♦ Coleman’s Hardware “We Sell for Cash and Sall for Lose" LEWIS AND LEWI8 PHONE 52 PHONE 53 PHONE 13 JACKSONVILLE
