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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1933)
NRA ANI 13 1 T he J acksonville M iner Volume 2 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, November ¡0, 1933 JIM CANTRALL, PAUL GODWARD NEW CITY DADS ‘We One’ Claims South Precinct at Noon Vote Here 5c a Copy But You Rsally Oughta Subscribo Number 45 Controlled Inflation Is "We one the election" claimed the election board of south .JiickHonvIlh' |pr>-< lu< t at ihhiii Tuesday, city election day. It seems that, due to the un usual Interest not being dis played In the city’s |*olitlcal af fairs. one lone solitary ballot hud been marked In the south ern half of this here town by about noon, the vote being a landslide for tho only two run ning for councilmen to replace Jim Cuntrall and Punk Dunnlng- ton. Tuesday’s election came aa a surprise to nearly every Jack- sonvllllan, even the press being unawsre of its proximity till City Recorder Ray Coleman hap pened to think of It the day before election barely in time to have the ballots printed. Chamber of Commerce Presi dent Duke Lewis even admitted he knew nothing of the great day till along towards noon Tueaday, when Dan’l (Boone) Hhuss came skipping down the street humming to himself "I’ve voted already; I’ve voted al ready.” JHxn’l was the first, and only, voter In the city for sev eral hours after the historic city hall opened. The calm and Indifference with which this week’s election was received was attributed to u lack of the usual lailltical fer vor sometimes displayed In the old town, which has divided it self Into enemy camps armed with sluice box gratings, picks, shovels, wagon tongues and, in fact, everything but stink bombs (the writer not having yet been Involved in local turmoil). Jim Cantrall and Paul God- ward, the two candidates, A ere said to be leading the vote by a safe margin In south precinct at noon time, score standing 1-0. - STABILIZATION! FOR MINERS IN GOLD SALE HERE ------- So out controlled m- | Savings of Nearly $3 Ounce flation, gold standards, stable dollars and re- Expected Aa Result of Domestic Sides monetization that the whole mess has become an impenetrable jumble to most of us. Every week sees more good news I for gold miners of southern Ore We e mountings out gon and all United States gold pro sections. Gradual increase In of moles. I hat is why we often have so much ducing worth of the metal in silver dollars bad legislation and worse voting. But there continues, with an expected saving of nearly 33 an ounce In present really is nothing very complicated about Presi shipments due to President Roose ’s action in authorizing the Re dent Roosevelt’s controlled inflation reached by velt construction Finance corporation buy gold In place of open sales way of his gold-purchasing on the world mar to on world markets. ket plan. The method employed a few days ago reqnired the shipment of gold, The more dollars Mr. Roosevelt is willing to j after refining, to point of sale, often ports, with resultant cost. give for an ounce of gold the less gold value that European Now delivery of gold to the mint expense to the producer. dollar will contain. If he was willing to swap ends In addition to a saving In hand 30 unce of gold a week ling charges, miners have seen the red tape accompanying the greater ago, a dollar was worth one-thirtieth of an I returns cleared somewhat. Miners who pool small amounts—less than ounce of gold. If this week the price offered is ■ two ounces—now are not required sign affidavits concerning origin $32, then a dollar is worth one thirty-second I ■ to of the metal. Shipper's affidavit alone suffices under the new or part of an ounce of gold. z der, issued a week ago greatly But that doesn t mean much to we average simplifying preliminaries. Next re finement in marketing of the persons. What significance it has, however, will - yellow metal is looked for In a I hastening of returns to the pro- mean a lot to us. For example: 37 Ray Coleman, recorder Wo are wondering what Saint | ducer, who must be content to re C. C. Chitwood, treasurer . 38 Pete said the first of the week I hree years ago $200 borrowed money ceive an advance of about $17 an J. M. Cantrall, councilman M when he was greeted with "Hello, ounce, with consignment margin Paul Godward, councilman M Sucker!" would represent about five weeks labor return delayed two weeks or more. Re -VC to miners are increasing to There were no write-ins. for the average working man. But this money turns After remembering tho venom a point where approximately $8 ous feeling held toward strikers by above former price is being re when due, say last winter, represented then the ceived. moat farmers, wo cun readily un ting to be all sound. Judging from with a steady climb indi derstand why tho midwestern farm the noise which Jias arisen con eating miners soon may be getting equivalent of two or three months labor — if la strike la called a "holiday.” It Just cerning It. $10 more than the former average bor could be found at all. In other words, the t rice of $17 as a direct result of depends on whose ox Is being tin- deruold on the market. So far, the only code we country Roosevelt’s action. borrower had agreed to pay back (through a I President Local miners and prospectors are i editors have Is accompanied with Many ties of friendship are clip the sniffles. and heading for the hills. medium of exchange) five weeks labor. But rejoicing ----------- ped hy being too snippy. •------------ One Jacksonville housewife, who State officials of California re due to the depression he was forced to pay back does her own washing, avers there cently issued a warning aguinst re More Bear Skins more than twice this amount of labor due whol should bo no "blue Monday” In a call petition peddlers, who have Back Up Yams of uudlat colony. been working a racket throughout ly to the fact that the dollar had fluctuated in the west lately. They generally ac Applegate Hunters “Can I dish It out!” boasted the company their pamphlets with the value simp|y because it had not fluctuated with sculptor ns he carted a dish-faced request for n dime to cover "ex There are enough bear stories bust. pense.” evidently realizing that one conditions. emanating from the Little Apple who would sign a recall petition is Many of us, back a few years ago, were in gate section to last until the next Suggested theme-song for those a sucker anyway. Ruch Miner Recounts Early political speeches start. Harold California nudists who encamped debted to the limit. We had figured we could Crump can tell the beat one—how Days of West When behind the protection of the Cas- Many a man. says Jim Owen, who he played the part of Goldilocks caues: "The Haro Went Over the never has se«n an Oregon lumber a Cowpuncher pay back five weeks ’ income all right, but when and broke up a happy bear family. .Mountain.” camp can whistlepunk. Mr. Camp had Just discovered a Although southern Oregon little the time came we found it necessary to dig up j mother bear In his trap, when her There are times, too. when Call Art (Hie) Powoll of the Central suspected it, she has several men brought her mate from over fornla's ego changes to ague. Point X iiu ii in boastH his remark« In her midst who know as much 10 weeks’ income. A great many people found ! i a growl hill. After shooting the pair, Mr. the fair weather brought on about i1 impossible to do this simply because matters Crump heard a cry of grief up in And some pad news has leakod Inst week’s rain. Now If Art will :: tree and discovered cubby, who out concerning Mae West. only write a treatise on the de- set down in bookn a series of ar beyond their control had changed, and were a soon met the fate of his parents. presston. tides dealing with buffalo hunt r 1.1 .1 • 1 .1 • 1 .1 • Glenn Saltmarsh trapped a 250- ing in the southwest has set off i forced to lose their homes, their farms and their Now we understand why nudists pound brown bear Monday. Mr. chose California for their home. Art. in his naive manner, refers automobiles. It is this evil President Roosevelt Saltmarsh was excited yet at the They heard it was th« Bear State. to us as "that unspanked youngster of the interview and said that who poses as a great martyr on ac jnected with the settling of ore- ¡s attempting to correct through devaluing the time he only was guessing at its weight, While Roosevelt Is fixing the count of bls connection with an gon or the founding of Jackson- . n 1 ° 1 fluctuation of the dollar, he would unfortunately interrupted horse- vine, there is a close affinity be- dollar to a point where a man indebted today adding that it might have weighed only 100 pounds. Mrs. Saltmarsh • • • • • • • • confer us a distinct favor if he i whipping episode.” Powell, we tween all western life and exper- can repay his debt with a like amount of labor confirmed the first theory, how- also would do something shout Its hear, also has been unlicked—dogs 1 iences regardless of the locale. j ever. The trap and bait were dis- Famous as the "Prospector-Poet," deuced portability. Or cross a Just never feel thataway about him. which he borrowed. 1 turbed three times before a bear homelng pigeon with the eagle on •.'< J. C. Reynolds, 70-year-old Ruch captured. the tails side. With 14 electric servants at their miner, has Jotted down a few lines Every businessman will agree that a high j was There are others with a story .command every day of th« year, In which he editorializes on one It develops that Weston, Oregon, home-loving Americans are kicking of the most misunderstood points rate of interest will eat up the profits in any to tell, although it was impossible to make the contacts for this Is I home of Clark Wood’s Leader) can because the pow/t companies of American history—"bad" In sue of The Miner. The proud trap When the depression hit, many business dians, and Illuminating sidelights raise Homething besides the devil charge almost as nuft'h for a week’s with Olin Miller down In Georgia. supply as a hired hand could eat on why we whites were taught in were forced to pay not only high interest, but pers are J. T. Lovel, Willis Scott and Leo Fields. school to look at them as we do. Weston is staging a potnto show 1 up in one sitting. ;• ----------- •------------ Reynolds, in his day, has been also had their indebtedness doubled in signifi over the coming week-end. We People have gone soft. They ride mixed up in two cattle wars and knew Editor Wood got a lot of Medford Legionnaires to work, burn oil in their stoves, one sheep and cattle war, has been cance if not in numbers of dollars. And as one starch from somewhere. use automatic ovens, leave the ra a deputy sheriff, guard on stages to Present Applegate’s The question is, if the Iowa farm dio on all day and keep their homes and special deputy on occasions. business after another ran into trouble and fam ers continue on the rampage, will bright on the darkest nights, yet He has been among 21 Indian ilies—the smallest business venture—hit the Armistic Day Program j complain because it costs more to tribes, has lived where stage rob Russia want to recognize us •. » live than back in the good old days beries were an almost dally oc- rocks, the nation did the same thing, for the na Captain O. L Overmeyer, com We understand Henry Ford would when people didn't have seven^cor- j currence, has seen the rattlesnake mander of the Medford post of the like to take General Johnson for a porallons doing all their work for god of a Pueblo tribe, to whom a tion travels on the backs of its people. American Legion, with 10 or 12 Le new-born baby was fed once a year, ride In his v-hate. If they come to I them. gion members, will present an Ar When discrepancies are readjusted and dol and Apache Indians who could blows, however, it Is doubtful mistice program during the lecture If an electric light globe uses cover 80 miles a day on foot. He lars are back to pre-depression levels, then the hour at the meeting of the Apple whether Henry would give Hugh much of a Lincoln. (Our humor three cents worth of Juice where It has been in every big mining ex- gate Grange Friday, November 10. may not be good, but there’s plenty would have taken eight coal-oll i eitement in the west, beginning average American home-owner, farmer and Two of the members who were in France during the World war will of low-grade ore for us to work on. lamps full to furnish a dim substi with Ijeadvllie, Colo., In '78. clear. give able to see his way clear, an address on their expe Reynolds has promised The Min businessman will be able We can crack pun right after an tute at three times the cost, the power trust Is robbing 'em blind. er he will delve into the past every And when they can < do riences there. other.) • __ that there will be no Talks also will be given on the once in a while. His first recount National Recovery act and other A good citizen, along about this ing follows: If Shnkospeare were alive today more national problem. national topics. Musical numbers he might rewrite one of hlH famous time of year, 1 h best defined as President Roosevelt is following this simple, will be presented by the Medford By J. C. REYNOLDS quotations to read, “AU tho world , one who will pay his share of gov My travels in the west have Glee club. The lecture hour is open Is a stage and thoro are too many ernment cost without yowling and squirming. Although the power brought me into contact with 21 logical plan in his every act, coupled together to the public and the Grange in bad-actors.” companies, the railroads and other different Indian tribes, some of with emergency relief pending the completion vites everybody to attend the pro "Why is It," asked Jack WurtH of public service corporations are whom I have lived among or close gram, which will begin at 8 o’clock. Medford the other day, "that all commonly referred to as "loaches by for quite a while. The others, of his slower readjustment in the form of the Grange members will retire for the homelng-pigeonH seem to have devouring the common people," long enough to become well ac- their regular meeting after the pro been born nour my house?" He I h they have a peculiar way of paying quainted, so I consider myself CCC camps, federal building projects and di gram. ----------- •------------ not interested in nitrates, he says, THEIR «hare of the tax bill, which fairly well posted on Indians in rect relief to the farmer in various well-known and is guano do something about certainly I h large enough, while the general. WANTED—Second-hand cook stove the pests if he h«s to turn nlnirod. Buffering herd rants and raves, re While I will admit that any of I forms. Roosevelt not only is administering to and heater. Inquire at Lyden ■or fuses to pay such exhorbltant gov thene tribes were bad enough when House, Jacksonville. The American dollar may not bo ernmental charges and buys itself on the war-path, I state without | the results of error, but he also is at the same LOST—Indies’ purse, with name Quiet Election Comes and Goes After three years or sleepless Without Arousing Man nights wondering what's wrong Or Beast Here with the nation, America rudely awakens to discover that maybe In oil« of th« quietest and most things would liuve been different If only she had been using u liquid obscure city elections to be h«ld hern In many years, 39 Ja< -kson- laxative. v IIII hiih Tuesday nauntorcd Into tho It la because too many greedy old town ball to l>'lHur<-ly murk would feather their nests with Ihdr ballotM, exchange greeting« plumes of the Blue Engle the bird anil go on their way. City council t«rnm of Jim Can was born with talons. trail mid Clint Dunnlngton expire < * Americanism: Radio stations January 1 and Dunnlngton failed tumbling over one another to be to run on the new ticket, hl« va first with new songs and then, cancy being Nought by I’aul God- after saturating the air with them, ward city Recorder Ray Coleman racing to first proudly announce mid City Treasurer C. C. Chitwood “this station does NOT play 'The also were up for reelection. There wax no opposition to uny vacancy. l.uat Round-Up*!” All offfcera-olect will be sworn 'a'C And people have been pinning In Junuary 1, the councilmen to everything on the Blue Eagle but serve two year terms, city recorder and treasurer to serve one-year Itili feathers. periods. God ward will be the only What a pity It I m those crooners new member of the city’s official who murmur “Pin Heading for the staff, all others being Incumbent. Out of n possible 300-odd list of I mim I Round-lJp” aren't telling the registered voters, but 39 found truth. their way to the polls In the city Where there's a will to diet often election Official tabulation by the election board, composed of Emil there la too null.! weigh Britt, E. A. Langley, Jo« B. Wet- 'V-C The way of the transgressing terer, Mrs. Nellie W. Fick and An na F. Coleman, was as follows: turkey Is paved with cranberries. ‘BADINJINS’NOT UNLIKE MODERN BREED OUTLAWS too stable, but it certainly is get- a new automobile. (Continued on page four) S MATTER POP— Oomp! He Showed One Of Them, Anyhow! (Continued on page two) Alice Hoefs. Return for reward. By C. M. P a YNE