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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1896)
The Ashland Advertiser. Published Every Wednesday. Monarch of the Amateurs. E ditor , . . P ublisher , P roprietor . — TERMS. — Subscription, One Year,................. $.50. “ Six Months,.................. 25. Sample copies mailed freely. Advertising rates, Made known upon Discounts,.......... application. Terms to Agents, i^*All ads., notices, etc., when not paid in advance, run until ordered out. Entered at the post-office at. Ashland, Oregon, as second-class matter. P. FISHER, NEWSPAPER AD- vertising Agent, 21 Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco, is our author ized agent. The A dvertiser is kept on file in his office. I The “ADVERTISER” haw the Largest Circulation of any Amateur Newspaper in the World. ASHLAND,........... WEDNESDAY, APRIL City Council Proceedings. A pril 6, 1896. Monthly reports of city officers receiv ed and filed. Also quarterly report of city treasurer and sexton of cemetery. Rev. F. G. Strange, being present, made a motion and presented a petition signed by several business men, asking for an ordinance to close saloons ami business houses on Sunday. A petition signed by the barbers of Ashland, requesting the passage of an ordinance closing barber shops on Sun day, W'as presented. Both of the above petitions w ere re ferred to committee—J. W. Schmidt, C. H. Vaupel and D. F. Fox—for consider ation and report. City marshal was instructed to inspect all premises and back alleys where gar bage or other refuse detrimental to health may be found, and to notify the occupants of such premises to remove or abate the nuisance at once. Bills to the amount of’ $533.36 were approved and ordered paid. On motion, the Council adjourned to meet again Thursday, April 9. 8, 1896. EDITORIAL. If there ’s a hole in a’ your coats, I rede ye tent it ; A chiel ’s amang ye takin’ notes, And faith he ’ll prent it. —B urns The Populist primaries will be held next Saturday only, instead of Friday and Saturday as printed on first page. The convention will occupy two days. An unusually large run of job work this and the past week interfered w ith the publication of our poetical supple- w’ith this issue. It will be out in a short time, however. Our April Fool “apparition” in last issue worked like a charm. In your de sire to see what you were looking for, you may have been gratified, but—it is hardly probable that you w’ere. The firm of Virgin & Co. has begun suit against the City of Ashland for full possession of 1,000 square inches of water under a six inch head from Ash land creek, and damages to the extent of $500. They sue for twice the power required to run the mill before they went into possession, and about 200 more square inches of water than the stream runs in the dry season. If the Mill Co. own the water, it is right that they be given possession, and, the city needing the water, must condemn and take it. The people must have the water, flour or no flour. Snowy Butte flour is sufficiently good,—and already its sale is increasing. Normal School Notes. Mr. George Alford returned from Har risburg Saturday, where he has been visiting his brother. Remember the Burns’ Entertainment at the Normal, Saturday, April 11, for the benefit of the Band boys. Admis sion, ten cents. The Junior class has been taking ex aminations in physics and algebra this week. Miss Downing has gone to Asliestos to teach. She w ill return next year. Don’t miss the music by the bag.pip- ers next Saturday evening. There will be no lecture next Sunday, but two weeks from Sunday, when we expect to get Rev. Skidmore to lecture. The bus will make three trips Satur day evening. It w ill leave tow n at 6:15 7:00 and 7:30 o’clock. R. E. P orter . The Albany Convention. LOCAL SQUIBS. “Save the gunsI” Friday night. Emil Peil, doctor of sick mowers, etc. A good cow’ for sale. B. H. H. In- < uire at this office. Virgin’s Granulated Patent Flour— teldom equalled; never excelled. The G. A. R. and the W. R. C. have changed their quarters from the Mason ic hall to Odd Fellow’s’ hall. The change was made yesterday. If you don’t read the A dvertiser , you don’t get half the news. Subscribe. White labor only at the Ashland Steam Laundry. Not cheap paper, but paper cheap. If you are thinking of buying wall paper this spring, don’t buy ¡until have seen fine samples of paper for sale by Mrs. B. H. Hatch at less than half price. Millfeed $12.50 per ton, wholesale; $14.00 per ton, retail, at Ashland Mills. Hard w’ood for sale. Leave orders at the A dvertibr office. “Yes sir ! Abner Decker of Arkansas, the 27th Arkansas, sir!” in Ganiard’s Opera House next Friday night. Fish every Friday at Poley Gris wold’s. Don’t forget to call around when you want anything in the Job Printing line. We turn out, without exception , the best work in the city at the lowest price. The fruit crop aliout Ashland has not turned out to lie as badly injured by the freeze last week as was feared at first. There will be plenty of early and late fleaches, with some Crawfords. Also arge crops of pears, cherries plums, prunes, apples and small fruits. F or S ale .—Coal, in any quantity. Emil Peil, Blacksmith. For quick, first-class sendee, go to the Ashland Steam Laundry. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mail orders solicited. The “District Skewl” w’as very largely attended last Friday night The stage wedding “after skewl” was the draw ing card. The contracting parties were Mr. William Murphy and Miss Lulu Blanton. Plain washing 25 cents per dozen at the Ashland Steam Laundry. SPRAYING.—M. Crisler & C. Lind A lbany , O re ., April 8.—At the dis sey have purchased a large spraying trict Republican convention, T. H. outfit and are prepared to do custom Tongue was nominated for Congressman work on short notice. with a plurality of 46 votes. Virgin <fc Co.’s suit against the city is There were five names before the con a good advertisement for Snowy Butte vention, Binger Hermann, Timmon Ford, S. H. Tongue, H. B. Miller, Truitt. flour. 1st ballot : Hermann 55, Ford 18, Mil H. L. Whited has added a new Tutt- ler 10, Tongue 28, Truitt 11. water wheel and a dynamo to the 34th ballot: Hermann 31, Tongue 83, hille mechanical apparatus of his jewelry and Ford 1, Miller 5. repairing store, affording him the most complete and efficient establishment in his line in Southern Oregon. New Time Table. The Southern Pacific Railway Co. is at w’ork on a new’ time table to go into effect April 12. The train from the north w’lll arrive in Ashland between seven and eight o’clock in the morning, and the train from the south w’ll arrive lietween five and six o’clock in the eve ning. —Frank Grieves came over yesterday from his ranch for a stay of several days. “It looks as though the North and the 8’outh may come to blows, in which event it would be rather unpleasant to have a-a Houthern-n—” “A Southern wife, I see” “No, to have a Southern mother-in- law.” Friday night. Don’t miss it.
