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About Jacksonville sentinel. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1903-1906 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1903)
SUMMER GOODS • • • IO per cent discount for this next week. laKr X È i! LADIES’ CHILDREN’S CRASH SKIRTS HOW TALL ARE YOU? I SUITS Plain and Fancy and Fine assortment and all the Latest styles. all good values. It you don't know, come in to nee u* and we'll put you under the ••INTERNATIONAL" HEIGHT MEASURING DEVICE and tel) you to the fraction of an inch. Incidentally we'll »how you the “ I ntk *. national " line of samples comprising over six hundred of the nobbiest and newest patterns for Men's wear. STRAW The International Tailoring Co. ^ d N c * ic 25 is the largest and most reliable tailoring concern In the world. The clothes made by them fir perfectly and cost little. Let us send in a trial order for you and we know you'll always wear "INTERNATIONAL” garments thereafter. The Big Store with the Small Price. HATS For everybody and in all sizes, styles and prices. H B. NYE & CO r 10 A. F & A. M. was organized. Its of ficers were T. Me. F. l’alton, 1*. Dunn, A. M. Berry, A B. Carter, S. II. Taylor, Lewis Graf. J. Holman and J. S. Burpee. The greatest step of progress wet made in 1855, which was the establisltme.it of.« printing press. The first patter was "The Table Rock Sentinel,” published by T. Vault, Taylor and Blakely. The first number was printed Nov. <5, 1855. There wi re several other papers published later. The Democratic News was published in lsti'.l by P. 1». Hull and Chas. Nickell and its office was destroyed in the disastrous fire of 1872. Means were m » oii raised, a new"outfit procured and the Democratic Times were slatted by Mr. Nickell. Jacksonville w«i* incorporated in I860, having a population of 8B2 jieople Con sisting of 871» whites, 10 negros, and 3 Indians. The beautiful knoll on which the Poole residence was situated was purchased in 1807 by the school district and the resi dence coverted into a school building. The main ¡»art of the school building was built in 1868 by Langell and Bigum. The el part was added on some years afterwards by the district. The school house was the oldest school building in Southern Oregon. In the fall of 1868 a case o! what was pronounced chicken-pox vas discovered among some half-breed Indians near town. There was no alarm until it was found to be small-pox of the most maglig j nant type. The town was quarantined but in spite of all precaution the disease spread. A death soon occured in the town. The widow of John Love, a lady of refinement an«l culture, was attacked and with her youngest child was carried awav. Her mother and 111«- rest of her children were in the country and could not approach her. All that remained of human lieauty was borne to the cemetery in a lumber wagon without a single follower. Colonel T. Vault, who had filled a prominent place in Southern Oregon, was buried at midnight. The number of deaths exceeded forty. In the summer of 186», one afternoon in July a cloud burst. alx»ut a mile and a —A i . eai . ea H aying N ow U nder W \ y — half west of town, causing an immense Haying has commenced in the alfalfa volume of water to flow in Jackson and meadows and while the quality i- very Daisy creeks taking every thing before it. fine and is lieingput up in good condition Jacksonville survived the pestilence the yeild is proving to lie less than usual and the flood, but there was another fur the first crop. The shortage is due the unusually dry weather of this calamity in store. In the spring of 1873 t a fire broke out in the Union Hotel own spring. There is a probability that the ed by la.‘wis Horne and within an hour secoiid crop of alfalfa will be much heavier #75non worth of property was destroyed. | than the secornl crop usually is for the In the year 1881 the Presbyterian plants not being exhausted by a big church was erected ata cost of nearly growth for the first crop, will lie able to the heaviest contributors being make a greater growth for the second i crop. Even with the shortage on the I C. C. Beekman and William Hoffman. The crowning glory of Jacksonville is first crop there is a certainty that the ! its magnificent court house which was total yeild f«»r this season will exceed that I erected in the years of 1883 am! 1884 at a of any previous year for the reason that there is now a greater acreage to alfalfa in cost of #32000. Since 188«» Jacksonville has been visit Jackson County than has ever lieen here ed by two fires which were very destruct tofore grown. With from three to four ive. In 18!M) provisions could not l>e crops each year alfalfa is one of the most shipped in on account of the heavy snow profitable crops a fanner can raise. storms. Therefore provisions became These crops are raised without irrigation short, especially sugar. A party was and tile yeild is from three tons down to held in the U. S. Hotel in which sugar a ton an«l a half for each crop. As for was lacking, but Mrs. Meritt Bellenger the price it is almost like a gold mine had laid in a supply that winter so they and far out-distance* wheat and other borrowed enough to answer for all pur grains in profitableness, for lialed alfalfa has been selling this spring at from #22 poses. In 1002 the Democratic printing press to #28 |>er ton and the new crop is being moved to Meuford and Jacksonville was sold in the yield at #8 and #11 per ton. left without a paper. The next event of any note was the ■ P rofitable C rop for J acksonville burning of our school house early Sun- I G ardeners —During the past week J. day morning, Jan. 25, 11103. The fire ■ M. Hicks, the market gardener, lias sent was of incendiary origin. to Seattle two or three shipments of We now have a paper printed in Jack-1 green peppers, which have brought a sonville called "The Jacksonville Senti-' fancy price. These hot house peppers, nel,” published by Charles Meserve. shipped in ordinary peach boxes, were Jacksonville may grow no larger but it [ sold at #3 jier box, which is at the rate will long remain one of the must interest- [ of 4(1 cents a pound. A Seattle dealer ing towns in Southern Oregon. Peopled immediately wired for more shipments largely by citizens imbued with broad from Ashland, of anything in the fruit and liberal views, it has always been re- [ an I vegetable line, indicating an un cognized as one of the most hospitable limited demand at to]» notch price?. towns in Southern Oregon, and it is to be ; Mr. Hicks has since expressed some hoped its character in this latter respect' cucumbers to the northern city, which may never change. have also yielded him very profitable re turns.—Ashland Tidings. M. Olsen and A. Rodn, of Minnesota, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke of Capt. Caton of Phoenix, was a visitor of this city Saturday. this place. L ibrary F or the C ounty J ail —Rev. J. H. Comer, of Marquatn, Oregon, traveling missionary of the World’s Faith Missionary Association of Shenan doah, Iowa, a society that has for its work the placing of libraries in peniten tiaries and jails spent Monday and Tues day in Jacksonville solicting money with which to put in a library in the Jackson county jail. From here he went to Med ford and from there to Ashland to solicit funds for the Jackson county jail library. Rev. Comer states that he put in libraries costing from #15 to ¿30 each, the size of the library being regulated by the amount of his collections. In this state he now has libraries in to all of the county jails from Clackamas county south, including the Coast counties of Coos and Curry. Rev. Comer has spent three years in this work and he has visit ed much of this Coast canvassing for funds and placing libraries. He has several letters from sheriffs commending the good effect that his libraries are hav ing upon the prisoners under their charge. Rev. Comer travels by wheel and his Association pays his expenses, but for salary he gets none, reiving upon the Lord to provide for his needs. From this county Rev. Coiner will go to Klam ath county anil thence on through East ern Oregon counties, exacting to make the circuit and arrive in Wasco county by next October, after winch he will go to his home for the winter. No C elebration A t M edford —A canvass revealed the fact that not suffi cient funds could be raised for the appro priate celebration of the Fourth of July in Medford. We feel ashamed to make the announcement. Our city should cele brate that event in a magnificent man ner.—Southern Oregonian. II. M. Coss, the hustling manager of the Co-s Piano House in Medford, was in Jacksonville Saturday afternoon work ing up business for his house. Mrs. Coss accompanied him and spent tile time with Mun ...a .Schmidt.
