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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1895)
fl/ The Ashland Advertiser. o - ■ ASHLAND, ORKtiO.W, WEDMCSÜAY. JL’XK f«. 1*95. Vol. 111. - ----------- VOTED TO PURCHASE IT. F .'IK 5o. « — lit«.11 MCltUOL PK ii I’ l I i . i WILL GRIZZLY VISITE!» AGAIN. SOO.V BKLOMO TO TIIK CITY. A school meeting wan held at the City Hall last Saturday afternoon for the «'onsideration of the proposition to pur chase the High School property. In spite of the hot weather, the citicens were awake t»» their interest* and turned • »ut in large number*. The meeting opened at 2:00 o’clock, Mi*. D. E. Hyde presiding. A motion to the effect that the whool «lirvctors l»e granted authority to buy the property lor <3,000, to i«e paid in one, two or three « veam, the rate ol interest not to rx«ved seven |»< r cent., was made by Roliert Taylor. The motion was put to a vote and resulted in seventy for, and fifteen against the purchase of the property. UNIVERSITY TO BE STARTED. There are bright prta*l»ecUi for the es tablishment of a State Normal School in the University building, on the Boule vard, soon. Professor Van Seov, of the Drain State Normal, is the one upon whom the re- sponsibility rests. He i* now in Ashland making investigations, and is to have a meeting with the owners of the High School projivrty to-night, when it will la* determined whether the Brlnail will I m * started or not. FOUND. In Ashland, last Saturday morning, on Iowa street, near <». W. Pennebaker's residence, a jsw-ket memorandum look containing Road Su|«vrvisor’s notes dat ing from January 20, 1SS1 to April 1, 1SK2. Ow ner may have same by calling at the A dvkrtiskr office and paying for this notice. This Season’s neach crop is variously estimate« I from ¿0,000 to 200,000 I sixes, the former figures Indng mon* nearly correct. Grixslv Peak was visited by the Senior class of the Congregational Sunday Schoo) last Thursday. Those who went on the trip are Bertha Williams, Irene Mark, Theresa Brvant, Jessie Grant, Susie Homes, Rosr i>odge, Violet McCall. Wm. Grubb, Bernard Spencer, Fred Homes, Edward Spencer and ye editor, W. Y. Cr«>wson. The day was perfect, and a fine view <>f the surrounding country wasobtained. Mt. Shasta. Mt. Pitt ami Mt. Hood, looming up in majestic grandeur, pre sented a picture not soon to be forgotten, and so loath was the party to leave, that it was ten o’clock w hen Ashland was reached. THE NEW BERRY. Mayor J. R. Casey has I »ven exhibit ing a very queer lierry called the *‘lx>gan,” grown on his place in Ash land. h is neither a straw I errv. a rasp- l«errv nor a blackberry, vet it is all of them. The lierry is very much larger than a black l»errv but similar in appear ance, having the tame shape amt the same core ; its color and it* flavor are n««t unlike those of a rasplwrry, while it has a hull like that of a straw I erry. The berry is firm and w ill undoubtedly l»e a gnat shipper. The plants wen* «»btained from the Ea*t and cost one dollar each. When a man decides upon improving hisshop, factory or farm, by the addition of jxjwer, he naturally looks for some thing entirely up to date. He investi gates, considers, and finally «lecides to buy an Ajax Coal Oil Gas Engine as meeting his requirements more fully, ami living safer, »han any other powerohtain- able. Palmer A Rev. San Francisco. Cal., the manufacturers of this engine, have earned the gratitude of the public by placing within its reach a reliable, econ omical power, that defies the restric tions of the insurance companies. It is the latest ami l»est.