Mos-ba» k Club wlm h holds its meetings an<! (leniocratir parties this awful threat
th1 same evenings us docs the lx>ard of is a matt* r of sen<»us moment to tin* im-
trade, thus preventing him from attend ¡>ortiiiiat< cotincilmen.
ISHI'I'll ON
ing the board meetings and gaining the
Tlie annual meeting of lhe Jackson
FRIDAY OF EACH
WEEK. much desired information, tin- Sentinel
County Sto< kmeiis Association is to lx
will endeavor to enlighten this Jackson
C uasi .»-.* Misi'UVk
E kitom
ville Rip Van Winkle.
Nurserymen held this year in Ashland on Saturday,
; think wln-n they get 80 to !<0 per cent of February 13 at 2 p. in. Every person in
Entered in the poat office of Jurkaonvtllr,
their grafts to grow that they arc having I Jackson county intereste I in the stock
jMckaon County. Oregon. aa accotid cteaa mattet
j very good success, but of the grafts that industry should make it a point to attend
Mr. Kenney is familiar with, smooth this meeting for there will lx matters up
Hi nscmi-tKis M ats *
One y es»
.....
ft .AO workers have lxen known to make us I for consideration that will lx of much
Hix mouth*
.....
i importance to all stockmen.
ki high us 100 ¡»er cent grow and produce
Three mouth*
....
bountifully. As to whether Councilman
The regular meeting for February of
Cl.eiiiiiNut Tr.KMH
Kenney, chairman of the street commitee the Jacksonville lx>ard of trade w'ill lie
Thr H« tititi« I rii <I lhe Weekly
will
lx- nrnt to unr addrcM for
a year
The bmti- under whose su|x*rvision the breakwater held next Monday evening at the town
nd |(ive« the Jackwit cunnly fi«*wa mid th«' <>rr
gouinii give« the atMlr. national and world new», was constructed ami the cottonwoods are hail. There will lx several matters up
thua a reader ia whir to cover tin rntir«* nrwa to lx planted will have so good success
for consideration that have a large bear
Arid at m I mhji thr pi kr of but one pa|>er.
with these grafts remains to lx- seen.
ing on the prosperity of Jacksonville and
lAPUQilldVIl I P QfMTIMfl
v MU r OU n 11 LLC
0 L11 I 111 LL
Iowa I umber and Box Company.
Affairs with the low i Lumlxr & Box
Company are shaping up for a fine sea
sons business and there is every certainty
that their output for this season will lx
more than double of any previous year
since they lagan work here. Their big
planing mill and lx»x factory in Midford,
which is to lx 80x150 feet is almost com
pleted and the work installing the mach
inery has been commenced and it is ex-
jxeted to have the fa- tory in ojx-r.itii n
by the first of March. Adjoining the
factory a him) er house will be erected
60x80 feet in which to season dressed
stock. These buildings are located just
north of tne stockyards and the South
ern Pacific will at once put in a spur so
that car* may lx placed for loading along
side of th- factory. Manager Edgar
Hafer has lxen working early and late
and he is employing some 25 men in
construction on the factory buildings.
The
Conqianv will continue their yard
rm ai . Hesses I er loss The Jacksonville Hr nt met
will be sent |u nny add re» wt uny |>>>al<>fFicr in
Tne Jacksonville board of trade has all who are willing to make theendeavor in Jacksonville with a full stuck of all
thr I lilted Mali- lot
w .« k . I o , I'l . < |H
kinds of building material.
won out in the effort to secure the im- to push the town along are asked to
All sulMc riptlon*. r.-gulsr or iriul.will In-prom pt
The C<>mpmy has let 'lie contract for
attend.
ly Mot»lx<l ul thr itale <8 expiration. unit-» » re
provement of the Jackson creek road not
! operating their saw mill and logging
newal Is tcccivetl
withstanding th<’ strong opposition of the
I camp located west <>f Jacksonville to M.
A local telephone com, sin y has Ix-en H Roundtree, E C. Stieger, S. S. Walsh
Friday, February 5, 1904 Jacksonville Mossback Club, ami a fund organized by the biisini *s im n of Browns andl-
.M. Roundtree. These men are
of $1220 has been secured toward m iking
ville, Halsey, Shedd and the farmers of all j,radical sawmill men and loggers
this needed mad Ixtterment. Of this
JACKSON CREEK ROAD A GO.
Asli Swale neighborhoixl and of the vicin and are from Centralia, Washington, the
The Jacksonville board of trade road amount citizens ami projxrty owners ity of the above towns. Work of putting heart of the big lumlxr district of that
Committee had the best of Success in contributed $5| ii , the county $5)0 and the in the lines is to lx commenced at once state. H. M. R< undtree will lx general
managir, S. S. Walsh, wrxxls foreman;
canvassing for funds for the improvement town of Jacksonville $200. To secure a
it is ex,x-cted to have the system in oper E. C. Steiger, sawyer in the mill aid
of the Jackson Creek road and the cre< k ¡»ermaiieiit road wav ami permanent ation within a couple of months.
F. M. Roundtree, now in a camp at Cen
tralia but to lx- here next week, will lx
channel ami succeeded i«i getting $'»1<) channel for Jackson creek the sum raised
engineer of the road dunkev and he w ill
pledged froth citizens <>( Jacksonville, may not lx enough to accomplish the
have a:i engineer with him to handle the
property owners in the vicinity of the purpose. If when the work is well under
& LOCAD NOTES.
yarding donkey.
Chas. Matney, for
road and by the businese men of Med- wav it is found that a deep, well protect
• seven years a hook tender in Washington
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Miller visited in ■ camps will take a like position in the
ed channel for Jackson creek cannot In
fore. Am>>ng tne large donors were:
Jacksonville
Mi nday. guests of Mr. and j canq> here.
J. Nunan, $65; Ettel la Levy and Paul built for the amount of money on hand Mrs. Robert I»ow.
Work will lx Ixgun Monday to put in
inc Karetiski. $50; I Iowa Dumber Comp the board of trade will undertake to raise I Trespass notices on cloth sent by mail a road to a tine body of fir and sugar pine
any, $50; Mrs. S. E. . Mi. $50; C. C. Beck such additional amount as may lx- neces- I to any addrt ss for $1.00 a dozen.
of some 3,5<M),()00 feet. The road will be
man, $20 ami C. W Kahler, $2»» The sary to make the improvement a success- ' J. C. Whipp. formerly of Jacksonville part skid and ¡»art fore-and-after. Some
remainder of the amount was made up fui |xnnanent one and to give to Jack- | and later in the marble business at Ash needed improvements will be lx made in
the mill among thtni being to put in an
largely in $!*• and $5 subscriptions. son creek a channel that will carry off land is now located in Reno, Nevada.
end slip and a bullwheel for hauling in
Thursday morning a committee of Juik the tailings that now threaten to cover
If you want to rent a farm or have land logs in addition to taking logs from the
side rollway. The lumlxr will be de
son ville citizens went lx fore the county hundreds of acres of fine alfalfa land : to rent sec T. C. Norris, Jacksonville.
livered to the wagons at the mill an<l
court and asked that the county assist in ami totally ruin it. Jacksonville never
Mrs. Wm. Broad gave a quilting party hauled direct to the factory at Medford.
improving the road. The needs of the does things by halves and it is not going at her home Tuesday afternoon to a num ; The contract to do the liaulimg has been
I ar of her friends, which was greatly en ■ let to Robert Gorvin and William Gib
road ami the equity of the request was to half do this road improvement.
iovr d by all in attendance.
son. Mr. Gibson is expected nere next
presented by Mr. Beekman and Mr. Nu
Town Record» r Henry liox has called
Kindling Wood—$1.IM)a load at yard w< ek from Redding, where he hauled
nan. they showing that in all the history
all last summer, with 16 horses and
a citizens convention to meet at the or deliverer!. Iowa Ltimixr Company.
<>( Jacksonville not a dollar of county
Mrs. G. W. Lance ami Mrs. W. P. eight wagons. Four four-horse teams
Town hall on Monday evening. February
money had ever lxen expended <»n a ro.nl
Bailey, l»oth of Foots creek were in Jack will lx used with a trail wagon to each
15, for the purpose of nominating candi
sonville over Friday night, guests at the team. One trip a day will lx- made ar.d
<>r a bridge in this district.
In fact the
dates for the various officers to lx- voted home of W. H. Miller, whois a brother the teams will lay over night at the mill.
Applegate, Sterling ami the old stage
for on the town election to be held Tues I < f theirs.
Death of Chauncy Nye.
road {Missing through Jacksonville were
Wedding stationery, the latest
day March 1. The citizens ami business
Chauncv Nye died at his home in
each opened bv private eiitcrpr.se. The
I Flounce Rock precinct Sunday night
men < f Jacksonville should make it their the Sentinel office.
court after considering the matter decid
I.inuary 31. Mr. Nye had not been feel-
Miss
Olive
Tailgate
ami
Miss
Nellie
business to attend this convention and
ed to appropriate an amount equal to the
Hudson, students in the Medford Busi ' ing well for several days and XI) hours
not stav aw iv. as so many of them have ness College, came ovt r Saturday and n - preceding his death he passed into a
amount contributed by the citizens, or
done in the past ami then find fault be mained until Sunday at lhe hotneof Miss i couiotose state from which lie nevi r ral
$510. < )f the $200 given by the town of
cause the candidates nominated and Tongate's parents. Mr. ami Mrs. F. M. lied passing from apjxirent sleep to death
Jacksonville the court would not give an
without a struggle. The funeral took
elected wire not the men they desired to Tung.it’
equal amount. Judge Prim holding that
place Tuesilay; interment Ixing in thi
Matt
Selby,
fattier
for
vocation
and
min
have charge of the town affairs, Another
it would set a precedent that would bring
er for pastime, was in Jacksonville Mon cemetery at that place. Mr. Nye leaves
matter that should lx borne in mind day from Stirling, Mr. Selby has lxen an aged wife, a son Nelson and daughter
a burden to the county by reason of the
is that the citizens owe a duty to plowing of late, the ground being in tine Elsie, both residing at home and Mrs.
towns making appropriations tor roads
their own and the public good that makes Condition and Saturday he finished sow Etta Florev of Eagle Point and a brother
hi their vicinity possibly so large that
N. B. Nve of Medford.
it lmj < rative that they should accept a ing his wilt at. Mr. Selbv is a strong be
Mr, Nve was born in Macoin county.
the county could not well meet them
liever in good roads ami holds that good
position in the town government, should roads will do more than any other one Michigan. May 21». 1827. In 1851 lie
The county court will have County Sur-
they 1«'called on. To shirk this duty factor to advance the properly of Jack- came to Oregon, stopping first at tilt-
veyor Junes relocate the road so that its
new mining camp, now Jacksonville.
is but to make it {xmsible for incom,x- ron county.
lM>iin<laries may lx- definitely known,
Later on he took up a donation claim on
lion. Henry E. Ankeny came up Mon what is now the Bybee Bridge place.
tant or unscrupulous men to get into
general
The county court will assume
office, with the sequence of high taxes day from Eugene and was met by Mrs. After a few years lie moved to Foots creek
supervision of the improvement. Coijjitv
Frank Ankeny with a buggy and taken where he was married and resided, when
and neglected public utilities.
to Stirling, w here he will spend a few lie moved to Upper Rogue River, where
Commissioner Patterson be ng in charge.
days at his mine of which his son Frank
Mr. Patterson expects to secuie J. P.
The Medford poatufiice w*ar is still on Ankeny is superintendent. Mr. Ankeny he has resideil. Mr. Nve was elected a
True, of Griffin Cie« k, who has had large ami is growing in intensity and it has in is an earnest advocate of good roads and member of the first territorial legislature
from Jackson county in the session of
ex|x-riencc in rood work and in handling volved all lhe prominent republicans of while seldom traveling the Jackson 1853-4. He was a Whig and with Dr.
a grader and who is a hustler to work to Medford as well as a number of the ¡»arty Creek road lie contributed $10 toward Louis Thomson of Douglass county
take charge of the grading gang. Com leaders in other parts of the county to the fund that the board of trade is rais were the only- representatives of that
ing for the improvement of this road.
party in the lower house of the legis
missioner Patterson will exert his utmost gether with a number of the ministers of
To get jxrfect rest use one of those lature. Later he became a Republican
to secure the construction of a road ami Medford. Charges and counter charges silk floss or cotton felt mattresses. They and was for years a leader in that party
the opening of a creek channel that will and denials have been sent on to Wash are the best. C. W. Conklin.
in Jackson county.
He wasa man of
be as permanent as is possible to lx had ington ami it is |»ossibk- that neither Mr.
Last Friday afternoon Principal Wash sterling integrity, respected by all who
under the difficult conditions that are to Woodford nor Mr. York will get the burn gave the- scholars a long recess dur knew him and he was a pioneer who was
truly a credit to the state he helped found.
Ire contended with.
Those knowing coveted ]M»sition, but it will go to a new ing which they cleared the school yard
of every bit of trash and old papers that
The Eastern Starjladies had with them
Mr. Patterson have no hesitancy but man. As matters now stand Mr. Wood- ; so quickly show up alxnit a school house
Thursday Mrs. Helen Gatch, grand
what the work will be done in a thorough ford has had his mime sent by the Pres ami made a big bonfire of it. There is a
worthy matron for Oregon of the ordtr.
manner ami that the money will lx ex- ident to the senate for confirmation, but • fine growth of young oak sprouts ami Lodge work was first carried out, Mrs.
landed to the very lxst possible a<1- Mr. York lias the endorsement of the trees in the yard which the larger boys C. W. Conklin Ixing the recipient of the
propose to trim so that these oaks will
vantage.
i Oregon delegation and they are holding grow into shapely trees thus adding very large and beautiful uoquet that each can
didate earns who safely and successfully
much to the appearance of the school survives the shock given by AderalChap
, up Mr. Woodford's nomination.
Councilman T. J. Kenney at the
park.
ter's frolicksome goat, after which a re
Marshal W. G. Kenney, who himself
council meeting Tuesday evening when
Wednesday evening the Masons had ception was tendered the Grand Worthy-
the matter was Ircing considered of hav is aspiring to the nomination of sheriff on the honor of an official visit from Hon. Matron, followed by one of those elegant
ing cottonwood cutting, planted along the republican ticket by reason of his F. M. Voran, of Eugene, grand master lunches that the Jacksonville ladies so
for Oregon, At the conclusion of the well know how to prepare. The even
the breakwater to protect that feat of hy fine record as marshal of Jacksonville, is lodge work a reception was held, follow ing was one of the delightful ¡>1 »astire to
draulic engineering remarked with hit making dire threats of political death to ed by a fine banquet in the lodge banquet both the memlxrs and their guest. Mrs.
usual sarcasm that it would be well to the councilmen w ho voted for the appro- hall. Grand Master Yoran compliment Gatch is a woman of high intellectual at
consult the board of trade as to whether pi iation for the improvement of the Jack- ed the lodge on its prosperous condition tainments and an enthusiastic worker in
and did his part, which lie can do well, the discharge of her duties as the ex
the cuttings would grow or not. As son Creek road. As the Kenney push is a to make the evening a most pleasant one ecutive head of one of lhe most promin
Councilman Kenney is president of the tremendous factor in both the republican to all in attendance.
ent fraternal order» in Oregon.