X
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I a shaft, which does not need to be down
vrn deep, and a tunnel run each way
ISSI I'll ON
from the shaft ¡it right angles to the flow
of w.'iter to give a storage reservoir. In
FRIDAY OF EACH
WEEK
taking electricity from a distant power
AND
station the current comes in at a high
Huiro*
voltage and transformers are required to
step down the current to a volt ige that
Hntrml in the
of J mu k »on vi I!«-
Jin k«MH» l ounty, Off'goii, mm Arconti < I mam matter can la- used on the pumping motor anil
the light system, and these transformers
Miss Katharine Chpman,
Mr». J. H. Reeve
could la- placed in the same building with
11 U) the rest of the machinery.
A pumping
Ml station located beyond the fair grounds
Full stock of Seasonable Hats trirned to order in the
would afiord Medford a supply of water
,
• Latest style.
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Cl.'KKIM, T imms
both in quality and quantity the equal of
Thr Mriituirl mi :-! I he Weekly Oregonian will any town in Southern Dragon and it
I h - M-ni to nix-n>lip, m for
a year
The Henil
nel give« the Jackson comity new« and (hr orc- wi^uld not la- expensive to install.
K'.aiuoi xn< »lli.- .tai. ii.ilK.nul alni woiiil u,u«
Orders taken for tailor made suits, and perfect fits
The trend of the times is for niunieijial
lima a reader 1« aide to cover the entire new«
held at ala,ut I hr price of but one paper.
guaranteed.
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ownership of public utilities and for
Medford to disfxmc of its light and water
rMIAl.ht HM-MII'TIONS The Jn< kMHIVlII«- I m - til I lie I
Dressmaking and General Sewing
will I m - «ent to any address, st any poatofficc in plant is but to take a step I »ack wards and
the I nurd Slate«, lor four week» lor III cent«.
one
that
the
taxpayers
will
rue
in
the
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All «ulnt riptioii», regular or trial, will tar prompt
ly «toi>|x-<l al th< date of expiration, mile»« u re years to come.
It
the
voters
of
Medford
newal 1« received
arc alert to their interests they will vote mail that comes from the north and the
should not tie wasted, for it is a_ most-fit
Friday, March 4, I9U4 the proposition down.
south by the night trains to the next day ting occasiqp for teaching patriotism by
' noon. 1 n addition to the 12 hours delay bringing to the minds of the children the
Jacksonville is now free of the small to Central Point mail it causes a delay patriotism of Washington, whose fealty
A SCHEME FOR MEDFORJi’S LOSS
pox which in a mild form has been pre oi 2-1 hours to mail for Eagle Point and to his country and the public weal is an
Medford is to hold a sja-cial election on
valent in the town for the past three the lOother jxrstoffices that receive their example that all Americans should heed
Marell 22 to vote on the proposition to
months, but the town is no sooner free mail by way of Central Point, for the and follow. The rapid spread of anarch
sell the city light ami water plants amt
from one disease than it is threatened stage for these places leaves early in the ism that is producing the modern Goths
turn that servile over to a private com-
with another disease. The mumps is morning. As the railroad company has and Vandals of America must be checked,
|>aiiy.
The argument of the faction
now good* for a run of the town, there no night operator at Central Point there and not by the bayonet as in Europe
favoring the turning these public utilities
now being several cases here, it licing so is no one to receive the mails from the where armed force but makes it grow the
over to a private corporation is that the
severe that several adultshave lreenquite trains.
As the postoffice department more, but bv educating the boys and the
light ami water plants have been a source
sick with it. Thl» disease was brought would not likely pay for a special carrier girls to love the Stars and the Stripes and
of loss to the city and they attribute
from Lower Applegate where it is quite to meet both night trains the plan is to to know and to appreciate the grand gov
much of the city’s debt to that source.
prevalent. Long before the mumps have ask that the Portland and north mail ernment for which Washington strived
The truth i*. that these statements are
disapj>eare<l the measles will be in Jack- coming by the midnight train lie carried so unselfishly to aid in founding. The
not sustained by the facts <>f the case for
son ville, for that disease is now on the on to Medford and then brought back more patriotism is taught in the schools
had Medford been paying the price for
Lower Applegate and in Medford. Both with the San Francisco and south mail tne less need is there for soldiers and
lights ami water that is |>aid in other
business and the schools have been on the 4:19a. m. train and left off at police. To the credit of the greater
towns the size of Mulford where these
utilities arc owned by a private company seriously handicapped in Jacksonville Central Point, the special carrier to number of schools of Jackson county fine
this winter by the smallpox epidemic care for it until the jx>stotfice is opened. programs of patriotic exercises were had
the cost to the taxpayer's would have
1 and now if the town is to suffer from the This additional mail service for Central on Washington's Birthday that were
Ix-cn far greater than it has bet n to them
mumps, the measles and the other con Point is an imperative need for the resi entered into with a will by the children
under municipal ownership.
tagious discis«-s that may pass through dents of all Upper Rogue River Valley and the teachers and which were w itness-
To the profit side of the water plant
the counthv it is a hard commentary on and there is no doubt but what the post ed by many patrons ot the school. And
must credited the fire hydrants, street
American indifference to the enforcement office department will grant so reasonable Washington’s birthday is a good day to
sprinkling, sewer flushing ami the fire
of sanitary laws. To Ire plain it does a request which would give such needed renew the patriotism of the older people
drills. 1'ml< r city ownership no charge
seem as though the average American is improvement to the mail service of the for many of us need to be reminded of
ts made for water for the sixty odd firr
hydrants, the hundreds of thousands of quite as lax as a Hindoo or a Chinaman 12 postoffices at the small expense to the our duty to our country and to safeguard
in liis easv going methods of controlling department of one trip a day to a carrier our liberties, ami teachers do well in get
gallons used for street sprinkling, and
preventable
diseases. Were the present from the depot to the Central Point post ting the patrons of their schools to attend
the qu.inities used tor flushing sewers nor
quarantine laws enforced with rigor for office.
all patriotic exercises.
for that used by the hose companies
one year there would l»e an end to small
for fire drills ami cleaning apparatus and
pox, measles, whooping cough, mumps,
Once more Jacksonville is to have re-
hose. The amount juiid to a private
A dispatch in the Oregonian from
scarlet fever, and diptheria ami the thou s pec table, passable sidewalks for the
company for all this water would at the
Washington
announces that A. M. Wood
sand of deaths and physical wrecks that councilmen have undertaken an active
end of each year make a hole in the tax-
ford
has
been
confirmed by the senate as
are caused each year, together with the crusade for this much needed public im
payer's pocket b< <>ks. The Medford
postmaster
at
Medford to succeeded Geo.
broken homes, sorrow and financial dis- provement and there is every reason to
light and water plants have not yielded
F.
Merriman,
whose
term of office ex
trus that follow in the wale of these dis exjiect that in the near future Jackson
a direct profit to the city for the
pired
in
January
and
who
was not a candi
eases would be a thing of the past. Chol- ville will have sidewalks that will be a
reason that such a lage jiart of
date
for
reappointment.
Mr. Woodford
rea has In-come extinct in the Uuited credit to the Town and not a disgrace as
the service is required for public
is
a
capable,
careful
man
and
he will be
States ami yellow fever has had its last has lately been the case. During the re
use, ami the plant has been under the
quite
sure
to
make
an
efficient
post
big epidemic for these diseases have been cent heavy rains Jacksonville h is been
further handicap of having to lie rebuilt,
master
and
his
appointment
will
give
so effectively controlled that it was im almost with« ut sidewalks for even the
for when the city bought it at two prices
general
satisfaction
to
the
citizens
of
possible for them to spread. The great plank and stone walks on the business
from the private comp my formerly own
Medford.
fatality from these diseases aroused peo streets were merely a succession of lakes
ing it there was not milch to buy of real
ple until they would enforce rigorous and islands, the sinking in places of the
worth except the franchise, that had lieen
quarantine regulations. Were the con- board and the stones causing pools of
Mr. John Develin of Applegate was in
given free of charge to the company by
| tageous diseases that now sweep over the water that were frequently shoetop deep. Jacksonville Wednesday. Mr. Develin
the city. The machinery in the station
land with the same regularity that sea Then another defect that it is proposed takes lively interest in the Japanese-Rus
has been nearly ail replaced with new
sons come ami go as fatal ascholera thev to remedy is the removal of the numer sian war for he is an old tuan-of wars
ami larger engines, pumps, generators,
man himself, serving three years and-
too wo ild soon be stamped out. but as it ous steps, declivities and holes that are three months in the United States navy
etc., making it practically a new first-
is it will take several generations of edu in the sidewalks for in addition to these in the early ’50s. He served for two
class station. All the poles for the orig
cation along sanitary lines before the • obstructions making it very uncomforta years in the American East Indian siluad-
inal light wires have been replaced ami
preventable diseases that now make their ble for pedestrians they are dangerous ron and was a blue jacket on the San
the wire system has been extended until
Jacinto, a steam frigate of 84 guns and
j annual harvest of death, sorrow and dis-1 and may cause some person to be serious having a crew of 350 men end 40 marines,
it covers three times the area that it did
tress, will lie eradicated from the land.
ly injured and a damage suit against the and which was one of the crack fighting
when the city assumed control, Almost
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city.
Good sidewalks are one of the best ships of Uncle Sam’s navy. The squad
all the old water mains have lreen re
ron was under the command of Commo
Central Point, encouraged by the suc advertisments a town can have for strang dore Armstrong, who succeeded commo
placed by new and larger pipe umi the
system lias lieen extended until it takes cess of tha Jacksonville board of trade in ers judge largely a town’s standing and dore Perry, the American officer who
forced Japan to open her ports to foreign
I securing a morning mail service between prosperity by its sidewalks.
in all parts of the city.
trade and thus paved the wav for the
Medford now has a firstclass light and Jacksonville and Medford, will make an
wonderful progress that that remarkable
There are evidently some tejchers in people have made. In 1855 Commodore
water plant, as good as any town in Ore effort to secure an improvement to mail
gon of its size and the city should retain service for that place and which will also Jackson county who have no conception Armstrong called at Vokahama with his
possession of it. Ttie cost of fuel may bring a betterment of the mail service of of patriotism and their duty to instal it squadron having aboard the San Jocinto
Consul General Harris, the first represen
make it cheaper to the city to buy electric the II post offices that receive their mail in the minds of the youth who are in tative of the United States to the court
jxiwer to operate the machinery, but the through Central Point. Under the pres their charge, or else they are woefully of Japan, and who was escorted to Tokio
plant should lie held to supply power in ent schedule the southbound midnight lazy and want an excuse to dismiss their by a detachment of marines and blue
jackets. Mr. Develin was not with the
case of a breakdown to the power and as train and the northlxmnd early morning school at every’ opportunity possible, for
i party that visited the Mikado's Capitol
a protection against possible exhorbitant trains of the Southern Pacific leave no in several districts in this county no but he saw much of the Japanese and he
rates for electric power. The station mail for Central Point, only the noon school was held on Washington’s Birth has great faith in their fighting qualities,
should be moved to the southwest part of southbound and tile afternoon north day, the teachers taking advantage of the and as sailors he thinks that they will
rank very close to American or British
the city, where an underground sheet of bound trains leaving mail at that place, day as a legal holiday. The Sentinel
tars. Of the outcome of the present war
water that comes down from the hills be the mails by the night trains being trans does not hold th.it the regular lessons Mr. Develin is of the opinion that the
yond can I k - readily tapped by means of ferred to these trains. This delays all should be held on that day, but the day Japs will be the victors.
Jacksonville Millinery
Dressmaking Parlors
Spring Stock Received March 1