5 c a Copy But You Really Should Subscribe Today T he J acksonville M iner “The Sheet That*s in the Pink“ 9 ’GATE SCHOOLS PREPARE FOR Thia la u great country. Just when a fellow think» he has things going hia way, they get him going • We suppose, too, one of hell's worst punishments will be the In­ evitable greeting. "la it hot enough for you?” • More than >0 per cent of Texas’ convicts have been tattoed, accord­ ing to a newspaper report which provea that criminals, and not so­ ciety In general, are the easy marks. • Yes, and if feminine styles con­ tinue their present trend. It won’t bo long now till we will catch Grandma struggling into Junior's sun-suit. e There’s thia much we can be certain of: The Blue Eagle Hint no bird in a gilded cage. • And speaking of the bin!, moat of us’d rather have pin money than pin feathers, anyhow. • A pessimist la a person who will overlook nothing to underesti­ mate. • Never let a bald barber get in your hair, e Going on a bender won’t straighten out the kinks In life. • Things are coming to such a pass that the man who gets real equality in America Is getting spe­ cial privilege • Those midwestem drouth suffer­ ers should import a lot of those brain-trusters from Washington We have It on good authority they’re all wet. • There is a lot of talk about cleaning up the movies, but wo know one personable young fellow In Medford who is much more in­ terested in cleaning up in 'em. Eh, Elno ? • enactions one day. dejections the next. • Every householder knows it is comparatively easy to make out a budget, but when it comes to rais­ ing the dough, it’s sometimes hard to budge it. • Many men carry much weight, but little oC it above the shoulders • Talk is cheap, but not half as worthless as thorn- who use too much of it. • No doubt a lot of those drouth- stricken dirt farmers back cast an- remembering, with a lump In their throats, childhood days when they used to make mud pics with down­ right extravagance. • Art (Hie) Powell of the Central Point American casta the slur that we have been apcing Clark Wood of the Weston I-cader. Mcbbe so. but about the nearest Art ever came to making a monkey out of anyone was the time he bought himself a sack of peanuts. • Readers of The Miner comment­ ed very favorably on this paper’s change to white newsprint last week We suppose the next big improvement they'll endorse will be the eradication of thia column ----------- •------------ Applegate’s Social Whirl Takes Turn Whether Its a sign of winter ap­ proaching or that Applegate folks simply refuse to let the sizzling thermometer bother them or whether its a sign of something else is hard to determine, but at any rate the Applegate has been socially Inclined during the last week. Mrs. John Byrne and daughter Gladys entertained about 40 local friends with a dancing party at their home Saturday evening. Mu­ sic was furnished by Orval May- field and Miss Byrne. Mrs. Harold Crump entertained with a similar party at her home on the same evening in observ­ ance of the end of harvest season. About SO guests enjoyed the eve­ ning, with dance music by the Purcel players. Mrs. W. B. Harlow of Big Apple­ gate invited a small group of rela­ tives to her home Saturday eve­ ning for dinner in observance of her birthday anniversary. Sunday members of the Applegate Home Extension unit held a picnic at the Star Ranger station, with swim­ ming as the main event of the Afternoon. Invitations were extended sev­ eral days ago for an afternoon party which was to be given Wed­ nesday of this week at the home of Mrs. John Matney in honor of Mrs. Lee Matney. Hostesses were to be Mesdames Ray Offenbacher and Leon Offenbacher. ★ Watkins, Little Applegate and Beaver Creek Will Open Doors Monday; All Others Start Week Later £on, 9 Number 35 Well Water Is CONSCIENCE OF School Tested, Found O-K GRAND JURY TO OLD SOURDOUGH those Enough scarcity of bugs, at least LOOK INTO LOCAL with unsocial tendencies, was Prompted by a reddish glow in discovered in well water at the the heavens, the frantic dinging WAS FLEXIBLE Jacksonville school to receive a ATTACK CASE of the village fire bell and a pe­ grade A rating from the state 1 Volunteer Firemen Make Hurried Call To Ixxal Outhouse culiar odor permeating the air, Jacksonville’s volunteer fire com­ pany made a hurried call to the Oscar Knox home on East Cali­ fornia street Monday evening about 10:30. Fire laddies arrived to discover a backyard edifice en­ veloped in flames, threatening nearby buildings and sensibilities of neighbors. With some gusto, and a roaring stream of muddy water from fire hose, the volunteers quenched the blaze .xnd washed the charred two-holer from its moorings in less time than it took Fire Chief Ray Wilson to describe the incident next nslble, and a pump has been Installed on the grounds by the school board, which also expects to place u fountain on the grounds The Little Applegate school build­ ing Is receiving repulrs, and the floor at the Beaver Creek school EVANGELIST SELTZER SETS house has been enameled. The ma­ REOPENING NITE FOR LOCAL jority of the schools here begin September 10, although Watkins. MEETINGS SEPTEMBER 9TH Little Applegate and Beaver Creek Opening date for meetings which open Monday. Three new teachers have been will be held in Jacksonville by employed here this term: Miss Evangelist L. M Seltzer at the Mary Beatty of Ashland at Ruch, Norris store building has been set Carl Ayres of Ashland at Little for Sunday, September 9, in the Applegate, and William Ludwig hope that turning point in hot will teach the upper grades at weather will have been reached by Applegate. Mrs Ludwig will re­ that time, and to extend to those- tain her position in the school as working in fruit harvest a greater to be in attendance at primary teacher Teachers reem­ opportunity meetings. ployed are Min Ina Purcel at Wat­ all Mr Seltzer will play and preach kins, Miss Lucille Reeder at Beav­ five nights a week, beginning er Creek. Miss Eleanor Maull at here Uniontown. Mrs. George Brownlee the 9th, and will continue his se­ at Sterling, Miss Mary Davies at ries of gatherings which preceded Forest Creek and Miss June Rudd his departure for religious camp meeting in northern part of the at Thompson Creek. state a few weeks ago. Mr. Seltzer -------•----------- • Blackberry pickers are busy in is a noted pianist, and his playing has been one of the attraction in the Little Applegate region. hia local meetings. • Mr ii <’ Luton of Medford made u business trip Wednesday to NEW BEAUTY OPERATOR Seattle. Washington. JOINS STAFF BOWMAN’S • Bill (Screwball) Turner, broth­ BARBER SHOP, MEDFORD er of Mrs Arthur Van Galder, got a rock in his eye while mining Miss Marie Hammerley, recent­ on the Jack Green place a few ly <>f the Brookside beauty shop in an out some of eral years. Spiral permanent waves that "yellow stuff" that has been and manicures are among Miss flowing so freely around this city. Hammerley's specialties. ----------- •------------ They're just a couple of kids but they got a pretty good piece Wed­ • Word has been received from nesday afternoon, so let's all wish the Rev. S. H. Jones that he will them lota of gold and no poverty. not be back from his vacation trip (Bill Johnson, reporter.) in time to fill his pulpit next • Miss Lirraine Offenbacher is Sunday, but there will be preach­ spending the week visiting friends ing services held at the local Pres­ and relatives in Rogue River val­ byterian church nevertheless, it ley, Including her grandmother, was announced yesterday, with the Mrs. Daniels, at Medford; her Rev. E. Iverson filling Rev. Jones’ aunt. Mrs. Emmett Klingle, of Ea- place for the day. gle Point, and Miss Helen Knadler • Mr. and Mrs. Jack Green of of Central Point. this city, Victor Del Mazo, repre­ • It is thought that Farmer Bill sentative of the ArgenUne govern­ Car) is going to do a little farming, ment inspecting fruit handling in as he was seen passing through southern Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. B. Jacksonville with a roll of barbed Daly and Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Keel­ wire on his auto. er of Medford spent Sunday on the • Some of Jayville's sidewalk ex- Rogue fishing. perters might find employment at • Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lusk and Ruch, where a siphon just com­ son Gail and Ken Purcel of Jack­ pleted refuses flatfootedly to sonville motored to Applegate Sun­ siphe. day. -- •----- —•----- S’MATTER POP 9 board of health, reported Stella W. Beach, secretary of the district. J. Noel Colby, 30, Bound Samples of the drinking water Over to Grand Jury As were sent to Portland recently for analysis as a precaution by the Judge Coleman Hears local board in anticipation of open­ Preliminary Arguments ing of school here one week from Monday, September 10. By J. C. REYNOLDS ----------- •------------ Accused of criminally attacking As I have stated before, I have local 14-year-old girl „«.J July o, 3, .J. TENA JANE BROWN OF RUCH a----- worked underground first, last and Noel Colby, about 30, of Grants between times, 14 years altogether, PASSES WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2» Pass, was bound over to action of in mines all over the west. the grand jury by JusUce of the Tena Jane Brown, wife of Ray Peace J. B. Coleman at prelimin­ I have become acquainted with thousands of miners who follow W. Brown of Ruch, died at the ary hearing late yesterday after­ mining for a business and with Sacred Heart hospital in Medford noon Bond was set at $1500, which numbers of prospectors, many of early Wednesday morning, August was not fumsbed. whom work in mines for a change, 29, after an illness of the past According to testimony by the or to make a stake to finance eight years. Mrs. Brown was bom them through another prospecting in Pike county, Kentucky, April complaining witness and her par­ trip, and I have yet to meet a man 7, 1884. and had been a resident of ents, Colby had taken three young who would not "high-grade” under Ruch for the past five years. She children for an automobile ride and certain circumstances leaves her husband, Ray W., and had given the two younger ones a three children, Arpha Gibson, Mrs. nickel each to go up town for an There may be men somewhere C. L. Clark, Klamath Falls, Mrs. ice cream cone while he and the who would not high-grade I simp­ 14-year-old Jacksonville girl drove Dixie Crawford of Medford. ly wish to state that I never hap­ Last rites will be held at the to the cemetery. Testimony re­ pened to meet one. I have heard vealed that the crime was sup­ men everywhere declare up and Perl funeral home today, Friday, posed to have been committed in down that nothing could induce at 10 a m., the Rev. W. H. Eaton a period covering not more than them to do such a thing, but these officiating, with interment in Log about 10 minutes. men had never been up against Town cemetery. Colby, who first met the com- temptation when they said it and plaining I have personally seen numbers of turned loose high-grading (as hap-1 previous witness several weeks to July 3, had not been 2.3m fall and fall hard when the pens frequently) it would be just right opportunity was presented. a drop in the bucket compared to seen in Jacksonville until about a The statement of anyone who has what the mine was producing. I week ago, when he was identified arrested on complaint signed not been up against the real thing have seen miners in a fairly rich and by the girl's father. is not. worth listening to. He does- '___ _______________ _ ______ . mine like the Atlantic, which pro- Principal witnesses taking the n’t know what he will do when j duced about two hundred thous- brought fare to face with tempta- and in a short time, who, if they stand fo rthe state were local chil­ tion. He thinks he knows, but he ran across a particularly fancy dren, who identified Colby. Con­ doesn't. chunk of gold quartz they wanted. wanted, viction on the charge carries a The majority of these men were would turn it in at the office and penalty, under Oregon law. of not as honest as could be wished for offer to buy it out of their wages less than three or more than 20 in everyday life So were millions And I have seen these same men years imprisonment in state peni­ of p«-oplCj in J.hese^United^ States ¡n a mine like the Camp-Bird in tentiary. and is considered a se­ until hard gripped them on Colorado, which sold for $13,000,- rious offense. i > times “ ■ > *•. the one hand, while on the other 000, after having produced much Colby, a married man, now in­ the attempted enforcement of un­ more than that, where the tunnels carcerated in county jail awaiting welcome . . prohibition offered a way and stopes resembled jewelry next session of the grand jury, did for making quick and easy money stores, who would get away with not take the stand in his behalf. by dealing in the illegal business much more than their wages every Mrs Colby appeared in court with of making and selling liquor. day and think nothng of it. And her husband. Honesty is a virtue that, like there were plenty of mines where Testimony also brought out the everything else, can be overdone. one would either have to play fact that the 14-year-old girl is Take the fellow who recently sent along with the gang and receive not mentally developed or compe­ to the conscience fund in Washing­ his share of the cut. or he wouldn't tent, possessing the mind of a ton the price of a cancelled post­ stay long. If he refused to stand much younger child. ----------- •------------ age stamp he had unlawfully used ; in with the bunch, some fault a second time 25 or 30 years ago. , woulds shortly be found with his ¡Armorv G rappiers Vie That kind of honesty is painful, wurk wurk land he would be ^^¿ discharge If T I had to do business with 1 All s it mine owners knew this was and if :•Ä.'S: a guy like him, I would be sus­ going on and some mines displayed for Chance to Jitter picious of every move he made. A large signs at the entrance to man with a conscience like his their mines offering good sized re­ Jumping Joe Savoldi ought to see a specialist and have wards for the apprehension of any With a big name and big money it fixed. high-grader, but that was all it But take these high-graders. If amounted to. In one mine in Colo­ in prospect for Mack Lillard's ar­ I owned just an ordinary mine and rado there were many Italians and mory show next week. Sad Sam they were working for me, I would all were high-grading and the com­ Lethers and George “Wildcat" Wil­ trust them to the limit, and my pany knew it. There was also a son were scheduled to sink fangs trust would be well placed. But big reward sign at thia mine, too, in this Thursday night’s bill to put them in one of the rich gold but it was never enforced. An Ital­ decide which will be the better mines, producing millions, with ian would generally work till he man to pit against Jumping Joe gold staring them in the face at had high-graded from $1500 to Savoldi, big-time wrestler sched­ every turn, working in it, handling $2000 more than his wages came uled to appear in Medford within it. living with it for eight hours to, with which he could go back a few days. A series of elimination every day and receiving the lim­ to Italy and be a rich man in that bouts at the armory “russle ring” have been held recently, with ited sum of $3.50 for each day’s country. hard toll, while the one or two, or Then he would quit and hit di­ Jumping Joe as the Big Chance three, owners of the property were rectly for Pueblo, where was a for the eventual elimination win­ becoming filthy rich without turn­ large Italian banking house which ner. Although fans have been warm­ ing a hand, it is expecting too looked out for their welfare, trans­ much of human nature to believe ferring their money, obtaining ing their palms an drasping their a miner will not high-grade a little passports and directing them as to vocal cords over Sad Sam Lethers. now and then. the best way of getting home. The the rubber-legged giant from And in one of that kind of mine, company knew they would go Texas, last week they saw their even if the whole gang of miners there the first thing they did, so champion villain, old Al arasick, when one quit the information was stay with the rolling-scissors cut­ telegraphed ahead to the com­ up for a full hour to open fans’ pany's detectives in Pueblo, who eyes, and their hearts, to the old simply waited till he had cashed warrior s wares. Al and Billy New­ in his boodle, then would take from man, last week’s referee who irked him all the extra money he had the Russian to a face-slapping de­ above his wages and let him go on. gree, were to appear as first per­ No effort was ever made to prose­ formers on this Thursday night’s cute the offender. With white men bill of fare, while Lethers and though it was a far different mat­ Football Hero W’ilson were dated ter and many thousands of dollars for the top spot. Capacity crowds have been disappeared through the conniv­ ance of clever assayors and in packing armory ringside and bal­ other ways. But bless your heart, cony lately, and Promoter Lillard in spite of all that, the four indi­ has taken the cue to import big­ viduals who owned the property ger. better and badder performers became multi-millionaires, so for his Thursday night embroglios, or wrestles, as an old-timer naive­ what? I once worked at a mine high ly puts it. Shows starts promptly up in the Rocky mountains, which at 8:30, with low ringside rates for the purposes of this story I and get-'em-while-they-last re­ will call the SP. The owner’s name served seat sales continuing. I will also allude to as Skinner. Big Business will have to make This Mr. Skinner had never done a day's work in his life. He had big money again .seems like, be­ been born in the lap of luxury and fore little business makes a little at his dad's death inherited the old money.—Weston Leader. ----------- •------------ man's wealth. Workingmen, to his Us Americans cannot say we mind, were a necessary evil and ought to realize that he was doing haven’t a supporting government. them an immense favor in allow­ —Weston Leader. ing them to work for him. Bascom, f~ ------- ------------------ — .................. the old prospector who had dis­ covered the rich ore body of the Harvey Scott SP, had tried hard to avoid selling it. being fully aware of its possi­ Great long ago editor (Jw3>e.T2 bilities. But it was too big a thing Of The Oregonian. for any person of moderate means Said Oregon 4-fE to handle. In some way Skinner Was the Fool of the Family. had discovered the straits the old Oregon needs Capital prospector was in and took a large To develop advantage of them. Her vast resources; His first efforts to buy the SP Yet foolishly, she S+iOO»-H