Friday, July 6, 1934 The JACKSONVILLE MINER X Personal News Notes 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. Don’t Offend » V Whether or not you realize It, there's something about the "foel" and fresh smell of clean clothes that instantly makes a favorable impression for the wearer. By keeping your ward­ robe in fine fettle all the time you will bring out one more likeable auality In yourself. Pantorium cleaning Is not only free of "cleaner’s odor" but eliminates the body <>dermlts 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. ann 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. 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G*t • drink st your Drug Star* Sod* Fountain. your horn* medicine cabinet. Keep • package In 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 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 (Continued from page one) 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 Page 3 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 /I 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 .......................................... 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 ....................................................... over the D&SP to Como. It a brakeman ordered him off the POKTEK'S FRILLETTES— ^2*4 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 PHONE 74—WE DELIVER 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 9 I know of paid for itself every three months. Jay Gould bought DANCE Saturday till 2 Jacksonville COMMUNITY BUILDERSCOAST TO COAST ! 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