Friday, July 6, 1934
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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Personal News Notes
<L Both from JACKSONVILLE and OVER the HILL
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• Mr and Mrs Ernest I-angley
of this city, accompanied by Mrs
loangley's brothers, Tony ami Al
fonso Blenvenue of Appiegate, are
spending thia week at Eureka,
where they are visiting relatives
• Miss Slilrlcy Catiliull mid two
friends of Jacksonville spent a few
days camping on Applcgute last
woek.
• Miss Enid McKee, little «laugh-
ter of Mr and Mrs. l^eonard Mc
Kee, 1s devoting her spare time to
the whooping cough at pii-Hcnt
• Mrs
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Wllllnm Heckman at.lived
on Applegat<> Tuesday to spen«l
the Fourth with her parents, Mr
and Mrs M R Buck.
• Mrs Bartiara Hudson of Holly-
wtxxl, wh«> is employed by inau
dette Colbert of movie rarne, la
spending a short time on Htar
gulch, where she is doing assess
ment work on her mining claim
• Mr and Mrs Bert Hukill, ac
companied by Mrs. Jack O'Brien
and son Donald, spent Saturday
night at Perk's pasture In th«* Sis
kiyou cattle range
• Mr. and Mrs R A Brrx-eda <«J
Marshfield motored through tlx
Applegate Sunday enroute to
Phoenix to spend the Fourth with
Brcct'da's father, James
Mrs
Rock.
• A large group of Salvation
Army workers from Medford
spent Monday evening plcnlcing at
the Two Oaks camp ground on
Big Applegate.
• Two additional lookouts and a
guard station In the Applegate
country have been put on duty
during the last few days Georg«-
Ellis, local man. who will be Joined
by a Brush Marine a little later,
has been placed at Whiskey |x-ak.
Robert Lindsay of Eagle Point has
charge of Anderson Butte lookout
and Jess Townsend has returned to
Fir Glad«- guard station. Jack
Crump is on guard duty at Star
ranger station, and will drive the
red fire truck
• Among those spending the
Fourth at Squaw lake were Del
bert McCaleb and party of six
from Medford and R. R Patrick,
also of Medford.
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• Mr and Mrs E. J McMullen
and son of Glendale, Oregon, mot
ored to Applegate to spend the
Fourth with Mrs McMullen's sla-
ter, Mrs. Fred Btraube.
• Mr and Mrs W II Miller and
son and Mr and Mrs K E David
son of Gold Hill spent July Fourth
on Htar gulch
• Glenn McDaniel, who wax in-
lured in u car wreck In Washing
ton over a month ago, is Improv
ing. although still confined to a
Yakima hospital, relatives here
say. Mr McDaniel was given tw«j
bl«Mxl transfusions a short time
igo.
• Western Union at the Nugget.
• Among those Issued campfire
>ermlts Tuesday to camp on the
Applegate during the Fourth or
hroughout the week were J. E.
iperry, E. B. McEwen. Mark Car
er an«l Erlends an«l Mr and Mrs
Francis Edwards of Medford; Her-
«ert Good of Talent an«! Mr. an<i
Mrs. Vcrn Cantrail of Jacksonville
V Mr an«l Mrs Fred Dutton of
tterllng planned to entertain a
arge number of friends with a
lance at their home during the
fourth.
• T. J Enright. Medford attorney
vho was bound for upper Apple
rate section Tuesday evening,
ourneyed buck to Medford behind
I wrecker later In the night as a
eiiult of falling to make a turn
>n the Big Applegate, which
■aused bls car to lan«l In a farm-
ir’s flume Th«’ attorney was un-
njured in spite of two boxes of
’lumc removed in the accident.
• Miss Helen Kubll of Roseburg,
tccompanled by Mr and Mrs
Theater Kubll and Wtxxl Jeeters of
'Sold Hill spent the Fourth at
tquaw lake.
•S Among those l«x-al folk to spend
'he mid-week holiday in Crescent
’tty, Calif., were Mr. and Mrs
Lee Hmlth and Mr and Mrs. Ray
Coleman, who made the trip to
gether ; Calvin Lusk and Miss
Alice Walton, and !x*onard Hall,
who made the trip ax n member of
Medford's Gilmore IJons baseball
club, playing nine of the bay city
the Fourth
• Stop at the Nugget.
• Mr and Mrs Oil Gibbs, for
mcry of Medford now living at
Aberdeen. Wash . were visitors of
Mr Merrill of thia city recently.
• Leo Fields and wife of Apple
gate visited his parents. Mr. and
Mrs Clyde Fields here this week.
• Mr and Mrs Raymond Crum
ley of Butte Falls visited the home
of Mr Crumley's sister. Mrs. Fred
Butcher. Tuesday evening.
• Mr and Mrs C E Dunnington
and Roger Dunnington of Wolf
creek. C. B. Dunnington and Miss
Gertrude Dunnington camped at
Freezeout a few days last week
• Mr and Mrs. Tom Dunnington
and son, Mrs Ix’lia McKee, and
slater and Burdette Dunnington
picniced with the Leonard McKee
family on Big Applegate Sunday
• Gage Sanden has returned from
a Christian Endeavor conference
at Glendale, where 125 were In at
tendance.
• Mr and Mrs. Arthur Sleep and
son of Fort Jones. Calif., visited
relatives here over the holiday.
• Mr and Mrs George Tranta
and Clifford DeJarnett of Butte
Falls visited the Fred Butcher
home Wednesday.
• Clifton Childers has returned to
his home hen* following a visit
with his sister. Mrs Lois McKee,
on Big Applegate
• Mrs. Mildred Parr and son of
Phoenix were recent visitors at the
home of her sister, Mrs G. O.
Sanden.
• Preston Card left for a short
visit to San Francisco Sunday
morning, while Judge F. L. Tou
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Vdle and Ernest and Albert Olsen ;
returned from that city over the
week-end.
• John Coffman of Yuba City,
Calif., who has been visiting rel
atives here, left Wednesday eve
ning for his home.
• Mrs Tom Roseberry and chil
dren of Medford called on friends
here Saturday evening.
• Clyde Fields, employed at the
McCullen lagging camp, spent the
Fourth at his home in this city.
• Mr and Mrs. J. C. Green and
son Hal returned from les An
geles Thursday.
• Courteous service at the Nugget
• Mr. and Mrs A. C. Van Calder
and family spent Wednesday at
Kerby last week.
• Mr. and Mrs. A C. Van Calder,
'accompanied by the latter’s broth
er. Bill (Screwball) Turner, left
today for Hood River, Wash ,
where they will visit L H. Turner,
brother of Mrs. Van Gakler and
Bill.
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aker land
it San Francisco visited the lat
ter's sister, Mrs. Lola Hildreth,
while enroute homef rom a trip to
Wisconsin.
• Mr and Mrs. Cullle Ashlock of
<ansa* are visiting Mrs Ashlock's
listers, Mrs. C. P. Smets and Mrs
‘I. R Metzger and families
• Mr and Mrs G. W. Godward.
Mr and Mrs. Paul Godward and
laughter, Mr. and Mrs. Emest Mc
Intyre and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Heckert and Marjorie pic-
■llcked on IJttle Applegate July 4.
• Mr. and Mrs. N V. Shoolery
and son Jim and Mrs. Shoolery’s
ather, James Calms, all of Colfax.
Wash , are visiting Mr and Mrs.
Lem Wilson Mrs Shoolery is Mrs
Wilson's niece. The party motored
to Crater lake over the Fourth.
• Ivan Goodman has accepted
•mployment at the Union Creek
illing station.
• The Nugget for magazines.
• TA Bumfield and family and
Jtto Hurst and family spent the
Fourth at Diamond lake. T. A.
aught the limit.
• Ti>nsfer of the Jacksonville
antique shop stock to Klamath
Falls was completed over the
week-end by Peyton, who pur-
hased the property from the Toft
estate The antique shop, a well-
known local Institution, had been
■perated by Frank Zell here for a
number of years.
• Mr and Mrs Wallace Haskins
<>f Pekin, Illinois, are visiting rel
atives at Ruch and other points in
Applegate.
• Mrs. Inez McDonough and
daughters Lillian and Irene spent
a few days with herp arents, who
reside at Persist.
• Mr and Mrs. Earl Bigalow
spent Thursday in Grant* Paa*.
• Mrs Ivan McDonough ia hay
ing thia week at the Armpriest
ranch.
• Lloyd Newton and Bud Peebler
have been cutting wtxxl at the
Peebler ranch the past week.
• Sunday school ia being held at
.he Ruch school house each week
from 10 till 11 o’chxrk am. All
have been invited to attend.
• Earl Bigalow ha* been spending
several dayat his week in San
Francisco.
• Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell and
family enjoyed a picnic lunch on
the Applegate Sunday.
• The Nugget for cold drinks.
0 Mrs. Mamie Venable of Ashland
spent last week visiting her son.
Ray Offenbacher and family and
her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Smith
and family.
• Bill “HHdy” Johnson this week
launched Into the mysteries of ye
village printte shoppe when he ac
cepted employment at The Miner
office as Official Printer's Devil.
Bill's new position comes as a re
sult of the departure over the
week-end of J. W. Peckham, until
a few days ago partner In the
newspaper, for Kansas. Bill will
seek news and "leamin'’’ from
now on, he says, and warns his
friends to keep out of the hell-box
HOBO SPECIALS
NOT WHAT USED
TO BE, SAYS JCR
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get a ticket and ride like a white
man. One thing that helped me to
reach this decision was the rail
road's cutting their exorbitant
rates down. The other reason was
Jay Gould. You know,
"Jay Gould said,
Before he died,
He'd build a car
The hoboes couldn't ride."
And Jay Gould did that very
thing. He originated the vestibules
that have been in use on nearly
all trains ever since and which put
a quick ending on the little trick
which I had been using so success
fully. I was in Arizona at the time
and, having an attack of home
sickness for my old stamping
ground in Platte canyon, I had
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quit my Job and climbed on the the DAMP and unloaded it in 90 get to make them heavy, packages
fastest train that would take me days to another outfit, clearing up i of bricks, ham*, canned goods,
there. I was so impatient to get three and a half millions for him anything. But, of course, that wax
back that I was even paying my self.
legal robbery and nothing was
fare (in the daytime), which was
In fighting with each other over I said about it. But when a hobo
nothing less than remarkable for the right-of-way to some new beats a train, or a trainman gets
me to do.
point, the roads spent money like away with 50 cents, that is very
I remember we ha«l to take the water hiring armies of gunmen at Illegal and a tremendous fuss is
sidetrack at some point In New *5 per day for each man and fur raised.
Mexico and after a long wait I nishing guns and ammunition free.
became nervous and inquired of Once I saw two parallel roads cut
the conductor why we did not pro ting rates on each other and let
ceed. He replied, so that everyone ting passengers ride for nothing.
In the car might hear, that the Then one road actually, for a
first vestibule train ever built in week, furnished each passenger
the United States wan on its way with a free ticket and gave him
west from Kansas City to the fl.50 besides. They also made the
coast, coming in three sections, government deed to them every
and that he had orders to wait alternate section of land within a
there until it passed. A few min certain distance of their lines,
utes later the first section of nine which runs up Into many hundreds
coaches (there were 25 in all) of millions of dollars, and was,
hove In sight and was greeted with comparatively, a free gift.
loud hoots from my fellow passen
Before letting a mall contract to
gers, who appeared to take a dis
like to the new innovation from a railroad, the government re
the first. It did indeed seem that quired all mail sacks to be
passengers riding on a train so weighed for 30 days, in order to
thoroughly boxed in would have form an estimate of what it would
scant chance of escaping from it be worth to carry it by the year
in case of a wreck. The three sec It was common knowledge to
tions went on by and we resumed everybody that during those 30
our journey but the sight of those days every trainman along the
vestibules had thrown a damper route who had the handling of the
upon our spirit* and it was quite a mail was required to load down
while before sociable conversation the sacks with anything he could
was resumed. And it is a fact that,
with all their advantages, I have
(Vit/ I G A STORE
ic* iroso us« >
I $ HOMI OWNED
never been able to form a liking
jortt two STAT«1
for them to thia «lay. Another rea
son to Influence me to quit beat
ing the trains was that all the
Help
build )<>
r 0 >n
u >t 1(y
roads hired detectives to check up
on the employes who were "knock
ing down" on them, with the re
sult that on several systems 90
per cent of the conductor*, brake-
men and ticket agent* were fired
and their place* filled by men who
wouldn't carry of photograph of
their grandmother free.
At Buena Vista I worked with
4NOWDRIFT—
a young fellow named Clark Ru
J-pound can.... ....... ....... ...........
griff and liked him very well. I
FLAP JACK FLOUR—
noticed that every week he laid off
Large package ............ . ....... ...
and was absent from work a cou
ple of day*. And I wondered how
CHEESE—Swift Brookfield-
he could get away with it and
Half-pound package, pound
keep from getting fired. One day,
it so happened, he and I went to
RED “A” COFFEE—
town together and on the way he
Per pound............ . .....................
became confidential and told me
he was working for the Thiel De
SHREDDED WHEAT—
tective agency. Denver, and was
Per package ............ ........... .....
only one of a number of operatives
MAYONNAISE—IGA
who were checking up on the rail
road men. He explained this
Pint jar ____________________
branch of detective work was a
FELS NAPTHA SOAP—
losing proposition to the agency,
Per bar ......... ... .... . ... ...............
but had to be handled in connec
tion with their other business. He
FLOUR—DRIFTED SNOW
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received *60 per month from the
49-pound sack
agency and was allowed to make
what he could at other jobs that
LIPTON’S TEA—Yellow Isabel Orange and Pekoe— j C *9
did not interfere with his detective
Half-pound tin
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work. He had an understanding
with the boss at the mill where we
LIPTON’S TEA—Green Label Japan—
were employed and every week he
Half-pound tin __ __ ______________ ______________
had to lay off on a certain day,
WESSON OIL—
come to town and beat hi* way
Per quart
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over the D&SP to Como. It a
brakeman ordered him off the
POKTEK'S FRILLETTES—
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train he would put up a poor
16 ounces .............................. .............................
mouth, claim to be destitute, and
plead to be allowed to ride as far
PORTER'S CUT MACARONI—
a* Como, where he had friends. If ■
16 ounces ............ ......... . ....... . .....
the trainmen let him ride, which1
they always did, he secured their |
WHEATIES—2 packages ...........
25c
name* and telegraphed them to
PEN JEL—2 packages ______ ______ ____ _____ __________ 27c
Denver, so that they were fired as
soon as they got there This was
Chore Boy, Chore Girl or Mystic Miracles—Your choice......... 9c
repeated on the trip back. He in
ROYAL BAKING POWDER—12-ounce can.......... ...................31c
troduced me to several of his pals
GHIRARDELLI'S
GROUND CHOCOLATE—1-lb. pkg.........Sic
in town, but when he got back
21c
KELLOGG’S CORN FLAKES—3 packages
to the mill he found I had turned
him completely down and would
27c
CRYSTAL WHITE SOAP—10 bars ..........
have nothing more to do with him.
To work on the sympathy of a
trainman, who perhaps wanted to
do right, and persuade him to vio
late a railroad rule against his
will and then get him fired for
doing so. was such a contemptible
piece of business that I wanted
BANANAS—
nothingf urther to do with such
Per pound .... ....... ....... ........
an ignominous imitation of a man
—and told him so.
LETTUCE—Solid Heads-
To be truthful about it, this
Two heads for .............. .......
beating the trains and helping the
trainmen to "knock down" any ex
LEMONS—
tra money they could get hold of
Per dozen ...
was stealing, pure and simple. I
will agree with anyone on that.
NEW POTATOES—I Awal—
But all of it together wasn’t a
10 pounds .... ................. .........
circumstance to the way the rail
roads were robbing the public and
the government- and the men who
worked for them by forcing them
to labor for small wages when
they could easily have paid them
much larger salaries.
“Where the Miners Bring Their Gold and Where
There never has been a time
the Gold Brings the Bargains”
when the railroads didn't repre
sent themselves as being in danger
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JACKSONVILLE
of going broke. But most of that
Is nothing but plain hooey In the
days I speak of they were all coin-
:ng money right and left. One road
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I know of paid for itself every
three months. Jay Gould bought
DANCE
Saturday till
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