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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1896)
The Ashland Advertiser. Published Every Wednesday. flonarch 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, t^“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. I, 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. The “ADVERTISER” has the Largest Circulation of any Amateur Newspaper in the World. A8IILAND,............WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1896. EDITORIAL. The political card of W. M. Holmes, of Central Point Precinct, candidate for County Clerk, appears on third page. In hi3 letter accompanying card copy, Mr. Holmes requested us to announce to the public that he “ knows a good thing when *he sees it,” in the A dvertiser ’ s advertising value.—Many thanks. An error is make on first page in the account of the special meeting of the City Council. During the dry season, Virgin & Company will shut the mill down on Tuesday’s and Friday’s of each week, allowing the City the use of all the W’ater on those days for irrigating purposes. It is with no little satisfaction that the people of our i tate learn that the “ Oregon ” is the fastest ship of he” kind afloat, to say nothing of her ac knowledged superiority as an engine of marine warfare and peace perpetuator. The “ Oregon ” leads the world. Gold Hill Barbecue. LOCAL SQUIBS. Fish every Thursday at Poley & Co’s. W. 8. Vanderberg will speak in Ash land in the interest of the People’s Party Thursday evening, May 14. Virgin’s Granulated Patent Flour— seldom equalled; never excelled. School children are rejoicing that the end of school is so near at hand. If you don’t read the A dvertiser , you don’t get half the news. Subscribe. The Republican candidate for Con gressman, Hon. Thos. H. Tongue, will address the citizens of Ashland in the Opera House next Saturday evening at eight o’clock. Hard wood for sale. Leave orders at the A dvertise office. For quick, first-class service, go to the Ashland Steam Laundry. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mail orders solicited. Yesterday was the first day for weeks throughout the whole extent of which the sun shone. It is the hope of every one that more such pleasant days will follow. Plain washing 25 cents ¡ kt dozen at the Ashland Steam Laundry. Mrs. B. H. Hatch’s sample l)ooks of I over 400 different kinds of wall-paper ■ have arrived and are on exhibition in the A dvertiser office. The trial of P. H. Donoughue, that was to have come off yesterday, upon the non-appearance of the plaintiff or the prosecuting attorney, was postponed until Friday morning at ten o’clock. The defendant was released without bail. 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. Last Sunday afternoon, Mr. Virgil Wright, who lives about a mile south of Ashland, succeeded in trapping a large coyote that had been catching his chickens for some time. 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. The peddler’s licence will be raised from three dollars per month to three dollars per day, and the hawker’s license will l>e raised Jrom five to ten dollars per day at the next regular meeting of the City Council. White labor only at the Ashland Steam Laundry. The barbecue near Gold Hill last Monday, to celebrate the breaking of the ground for the large mining canal of the Rogue River Water and Mining Co., was a complete success, with an attend ance estimated at one thousand. Gov ernor Lord w’as present and turned a few shovelfuls of dirt, adding much to the notoriety of the occasion. The excur sion train—four cars—from the south ar rived about one o’clock. The follow ing program was rendered: Remarks—Governor Lord Remarks—Hon. W. W. Thayer, ex- Governer of Oregon Music—Grant’s Pass Band Remarks—Hon. C. B. Bellinger Music—Spanish Students’ Quartette Remarks—Brigadier-General C. F. Beebe, Brigade Commander O. N. G. Remarks—Rev. Roland D. Grant Music—Spanish Students’ Quartette Remarks—C. H. Chapman Remarks—Hon. W. S. Crowell Music—Grant’s Pass Band Address—J. W. Northup, President of of the Company Music—Spanish Students’ Quartette Breaking of the ground by the presi dent of the company and invited guests Barbecue. I Normal School Notes. Mr. John Harvey was visiting at his home in Central Point Friday and Sat urday. Pres. Campbell, of the Monmouth State Normal, and Pres. Chapman, of the State University at Eugene, were looking over the buildings Saturday and were well pleased with them. Rev. Wm. Hart, of the Episcopal church, will lecture in the chapel Sun day afternoon, May 23, at 2:30 o’clock. Misses Julia Fielder, Maysie Foster and Lila Sackett returned Sunday from Medford, where they had been attend ing the institute. Miss Rachael Whipp left on yester day evening’s train for Grant’s Pass. Examination in Astronomy was held Monday; examination in Book-Keeping is being held to-day. R. E. P orter . Injured by a Falling Door. Last Saturday afternoon, w’hile play ing in the store-room back of the Ash land House, the little three-year-old son of F. M. Stephenson, *the proprietor of the hotel, was seriously injured by a door falling upon him. The door was standing up against an open window and was blown down by a gust of wind. The door struck the child on the right side, making an injury, that, although the child is resting easily, the attending physician says is serious. We are in receipt of a copy of the Klamath Republican, a new’ paper pub lished at Klamath Falls by W. E. Bow- doin. The paper is neat, beyond the ordinary, artistically made up, and, in Professor (to first arithmetic class)— all, a first-class country sheet, w’orthy of “ How many in a family consisting of liberal support. Success to it. husband, wife and child?” Kmart Pupil—Two and one to carry.” — Exchange. Tommy—“Pa, what is the board of education? ” The third annual meeting of the W. Mr. Figgs—“When I went to school, C. T. U. of Jackson county is now in it was a pine shingle.”—Santa Cruz Hi. session at Medford. Millfeed $12.50 per ton, wholesale; $14.00 per ton, retail, at Ashland Mills. President C. H. Chapman, of the Eu gene State University, conducted the morning service in the Presbyterian church last Sunday. He iB an interest ing and instructive talker, and all sjieak well of his sermon. ^W“Remember us for J ob P rinting . Tw’O deserters from the U. 8. Army passed through Ashland on Friday’s train, enroute from Vancouver to Aiea-’ tras, in custody of a guard. The penalty of one of the deserters is five years’ im prisonment, and that of the other, three years’ imprisonment.
