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About Jacksonville sentinel. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1903-1906 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1903)
JACKSONVILLE Vol. 1 LOCAL SENTINEL Jac Kaon ville, Jackion County, Oregon. Friday, September 25, 1903. NOTES. Ladies Mr. and Mr. H. Von der llellen of Wellen were in Jacksonville Tuesday guest» of Mr. and Mrs. Nunan. J. Parks, the Buncoin postmaster, is hauling »hakes this week from Jackson We offer you for inspection our Fall ville to the Sterling mine for Henrv line of WOOL and COTTON Fabrics Ankeny who is building another barn, this barn to lx- for his carriage horses consisting in part of and cows. Earl Kane, whose parents were former residents of this place, but who now re side at Vancover, where Mr. Kane is <!<>- ■ uawH paafttabte bo sine»- with a harness shop, is in Jacksonville this week on a visit to his friends and schoolmates. H you want to rent a farm or have land to rent see T. C. Norris, JackMinville. Mrs. Gus Newbury entertained Tues day Mrs. Adrlia Gilmore of Sacramento, j who is her great aunt and Miss Bertha ; Rom- of Phoenix, a sister. Mrs. Gilmore I is »trending the fall in the valley visiting | Our line of Ladies’ and Children’s Wool and Cotton Knit with relatives in Phoenix, Medford and i JackMinville. Underwear, also Hosiery, are EXCELLENT VALUES. No Frank Kirby, a we’l known stock buy trouble for us to show our Goods ar submit samples. er of San Francisco is hi Southern Ore gon buying lx-rf for James Mcfhimolt, a big wholesale dealer of that city. Mr. The Steck is th* largest and the Prices always the Lowest. Kirby has Ixaight 150 head of Wm. Bespectfally soliciting your patronage, Ulrich ami he is looking over a number of other herds in the valley. Surprise < gg whifis, best on the mar ket at Boyden s hardware store, Medford. H. C. Shearer, who with J. H. Mattoon is doing the logKing for lx>th the Jack- son County ami the Iowa Lumber Com pany's mills, bus moved his family from the Jackson County mill where thev have resided during the summer to Jack sonville and they w ill occupy Lhe Voyle house on South Oregon street. ('•eorge Ix»ve w ho has been in buaineaa in Tauana. Alaska, for the past two years ami who came l*ack a »bort time ago on i business trip b . decided to spend the winter in Sotitticrn Oregon ana he sent for Mr». Ixive, wl»o ha» been in Alaska with him and »he wilt be Medford Book Store, the leader in Jackson County for here in alxiut three or four week». Mr. School Supplies, will have every liook in stock required Love will probably return to Alaska in in the grade and high schools. Pens. Pencils, Tablets. lhe spring. Rulers, Combination Desk Boxes, Slates, Erasers, Sheriff J. M. Rader went to the Dead Sponges. Etc. We make prices that makes the Indian range Wednesday to anrist hi» brother John to bring in 130 head of beef pocketlmok hold out. cattle, which they will put in a pasture on the Rawlins place near Central Point. Rader Brothers had 40 head of other beef Mail Orders Filled Promptly cattle that they intended to bring it, but the price of t>eef taring too low to meet their figures thev turned them t>aek on the range and will hold them over until another season. The kindergarten music school is get ting to be quite popular in the East as in it little folks are given a start in the study of music at a time when it will not interfere with their school studies and it | prepares them for a thorough understand-1 ing of music with little effort on their part or loss of time. Mrs. Susan Neil will organize a children’s class in music if she can secure a sufficient number of pupils to make it an object. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Myers will move FOR. from Jacksonville to their farm a mile east of Central Point alxiut the middle of Oct- Ober, While their departure from Jack- j sonville is regretted by the many friends that they have made in the year that they have lieen residents of the town yet Couchées from $5.50, $6.00 and up; as they arc going to what can be made Rockers from $1.75 and up, good val one of the most home like places in the Valley and a fruit farm that will lx- more ues; Iron lieds cheap, ornamental; Crib profitable than any ordinary town ven Beds, Canvas Cots and Pillows, Odd ture, so only the best wishes is theirs. Calling cards, the latest in style and Dressers, Suits and Sidehoards. printed so neatly as to resemble copper plate work at the Sentinel office. Also agent for the Rev. Edwin B. Lockhart preached his farewell sermon for this conference year NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE Sunday evening in the M. E. church, which was well filled with an apprecia tive congregation. So well has his work pleased his parishioners and the citizens in general of Jacksonville that a petition has been quite generally signed asking that he be returned by the conference, which meets in Salem on September 30th, to this circuit for the coming year. Rev. Lockhart is an industrious, capable young man who makes friends readily and who has the education anil the abil Superintendent P. II. Daily was taken T W. ". P. .. Wetsel, who bought this spring ity to preach a sermon worth listening to suddenly ill the last of last week and for the E. Farra place at Willow Springs and his rise in the ministry is a fact several days he was quite sick but he is will plant 20 acres - to orchard • • this -■ winter that is certain and will be an honor that j now gaining steadily with every prospect and increare each year until he has KM» he will have fully earned and deserves. | of soon regaining his health. acres to fruit trees. Vicugna Cloth Teazle Down Daisy Flannels Percales Amoskeag Ginghams Simpson Novelties THE NUNAN-TAYLOR CO JACKSONVILLE, OREGON Boys» Girls School Begins Soon MEDFORD BOOK STORE W. Conklin’s BARGAINS. C. W. CONKLIN UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER / No. 20 T. C. Norris returned Thursday from a three day’s trip to Big Butte where he had been to show Thou. McC lander, a prospective s-ttler, the rich land of that section. Mamma Schmidt left Tuesday for Dunsmuir where »he will spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. L. Savage, after which she will go on to San Francisco to spend a week with friends. iMiring Mrs. Schmidt’s absence the Schmidt boarding house is presided over by her daughter Mrs. B. F. Hanney, with Papa Schmidt as officer of the day. George Hamilton moved his family Ixick to Jacksonville last Sunday from Woodville where he has been hauling lumber from the Evans creek mills to Wixxiville. Mr. Hamilton is now help ing S. C. Swaggerty and Basil Gregory on a contract of hauling lumber from the Iowa Lumber Company’s mill to the Ray dam on Rogue river. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. James left Friday for Tacoma where they will reside for this winter, but there is a likelihood that they will return to Jackson county next spring. Mr. James is a millman by trade and has been employed in the saw mills in this vicinity for some months past and as the mills «rill soon shut down for the winter he goes North where he can get steady work at good wages. The mill of the Iowa Lumber Company is now making an average of 25.000 feet a day, an output that has not been had pre viously since the mill was started over a year ago. Another fact that is of special interest to the stocknolders is that the output for last month was 150,000 feet greater than any previous month and with a much less expense account and the output and lhe expense account for this month promises to lie even more sat isfactory to the stockholders. President C. Hafer and Treasurer E. E. Hart, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will arrive in Jacksonville the middle of next week. Their coming is in connection with pos sible changes in their plant here that if carried «rill be of great advantage to Jacksonville and vicinity. J. S. Herrin, a pioneer of Rogue River valley and who had a donation claim six miles east of Jacksonville, but who for 21» years past has been a resident of the up per valley, four miles north of Ashland, ; was in the countyseat Friday. Mr. Herrin has one of the finest bands of sheep on the Pacific coast. He is breed ing the Rambouellett, a celebrated i French wool and mutton sbeep. These sheep average 200 pounds in size and as wool producers have no superiors. From j two bucks Mr. Herrin sheared this last j spring 86 pounds, the heaviest clip being i 46 pounds, a record not equalled in this I county and excelled by few sheep in the Unite*’ States. He has many ewes that shear 18 pounds each year and raise a lamb. The wool is fine in quality and brings the top prices. Mr. Herrin has 2000 head of these sheep and he has never fed a pound of bay or grain in any winter. In the summer he runs his sheep on the mountains on the head of Applegate and when the snow drives them out in the fall hs takes them to the l high hills east of this valley until again j compelled to move when he takes them to the lower levels where he has pastures that have been held in reserve for them. In the winters when snow covers the pastures he puts them on brush land and they brouse twigs and such grass as they can dig out of the snow. He says that he has a smaller per cent loss of sheep or of lambs than do the sheepmen who feed whenever snow is on the ranges. He \ has all his fall and winter ranges fenced and is thus able to hold the feed until wanted and he lets the sheep on only a small part at a time instead of running on the whole of it and then starving. Men Wanted. 10 woodsmen at the mill of the Iowa Lumber Company. Has Sold ■ Pile of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for more than twenty years and it has given entire satisfaction. I have sold a pile of it and can recommend it highly. —Joseph McElhinev, Linton, Iowa. You will find this remedy a good friend when troubled with a cough or cold. It always affords quick relief and is pleasant to take. For sale by City Drug store.