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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1896)
The Ashland Advertiser. Published Every Wednesday. nonarch 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, tsF'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 tile in his office. 1 , The “ADVERTISER” han the Largest Circnlation of any Amateur Newspaper in the World. ASHLAND,............WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896 Additional Personals. —L. L. Jacobs visited Ashland Tues day. —W. M. Holmes, of Central Point Precinct, was in town yesterday. Decoration Day. Members of Burnside Post No. 23, G. A.R., and the W. R. C. will meet in their Hall at 9:00 o’clock a . m ., Satur day, May 30, and form in procession at 9:30 on the plaza as follows. 1. Ashland Band. 2. Co. D, 2d Regiment. O. N. G. 3. Cadets. 4. Burnside Post and Old Soldiers and Sailors. 5. Burnside W. R. C. 6. Civic Socities. 7. City Authorities and Citizens. The procession will then move to the Ashland Cemetery and decorate the graves of departed comrades and the un known dead as per the G. A. R. services: 1. Address ‘ - by - Post - Commander. 2. Music by the Band. 3. Prayer by Chaplain. 4. Music. “America.” Thirty minutes recess w ill be taken to decorate the graves. The procession will then form as before and march to the Chautauqua building, where the fol lowing program will be carried out: 1. Vocal Music. 2. Reading Orders. 3. Post Exercises. 4. Vocal Music. 5. Oration by Prof. C. A. Hitchcock. 6. Vocal Music. After the program, a recess will l>e had until 2:00 p. m ., when a part of the Post will proceed 'to Hargadine Ceme tery and a part to Talent, to decorate the comrade’s graves at those places. Memorial Sabbath. A Memorial Serrpon will be delivered —Miss Elvera Victor, assistant teacher by the Rev. E. P. Childs, assisted by the of the Ashland High School, intends to other ministers of Ashland, in Ganiard’s leave for her home in Hillsboro Tuesday. Opera House, Sunday, May 24, at 2:30 P.M., under the auspices of Burnside Post No. 23, G. A. R., and W. R. C. Horticulture. The members of the Post and the Corps will meet at their hall at 2 P. M. and go [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.] in a bodv to the Opera House. W hereas , This occupation is fast be All Old Soldiers and Sailors and the of Ashland and vicinity are in coming our greatest industry, and one in citizens vited to join with us. which the general public is and should Central Point Pointers. be interested; and Miss Cora Brown, of Eagle Point, who W hereas , It would be a life long ben has been spending the w in ter at Port efit to the recipients whether the life’s land and Mount Tabor, returned home labor was spent in country or city occu last week. Mrs. A. S. Jacobs returned home from pation : and W hereas , It is impossible for the State Ashland last Saturday evsning. Wm. Holmes now’ occupies his new’ Board in its w’ork to reach the youths of residrnce on Laurel Street. our land in this fundamental instruction Miss Mary Jacobs contemplates mak as they desire; therefore ing a visit to Ashland again shortly. R esolved , That it is the judgement of Rev. Pratt, of the M. E. Church, oc this Board that the State Board of Pub cupied the pulpit in the Baptist church lic Instruction should take measures to Sunday morning and evening. He will deliver a lecture »in the M. E. church introduce into the Public Schools of this Tuesday evening. State a rudimentary line of instruction L. L. Jacobs, deputy treasurer of Jack in horticulture, as the essential elements sonville, was in town Monday. of our education to fit men and women Stephen Cornutt, of this place, who for intelligent labor on the farm and in has been contemplating going to Califor nia for some time to find a permanent the orchard. location, has been detained by the sick D r . J. R. C ardwell , Pres., ness of his wife, who was stricken with H enry E. D osch , 1st Dist. heart failure last Wednesday morning, << but at this writing, is some better. C has . L. D ailey , 2d J. R. Sovereign, of Ark, delivered a J. R. C asey , 3d << very able address at the Fair grounds E mil S channo , 4th it Monday, in behalf of the silver question. G eo . A. H obbs , 5th tt A. S. Jacobs is confined to his bed J ohn M into , Secretary. with a very severe cold. “ M.” LOCAL SQUIBS. School will close Friday. Fish every Thursday at Poley & Co’s. General Coxey is campaigning this w av, from Portland. Put out your “keep off the grass” signs. Don’t forget to call around when vou want anything in the Job Printing line. We turn out, without exception , the best work in the city at the lowest price. E.B. Smith has purchased the Myer & Gregory stock and will ship to Drain, where he will engage in the merchantile business. ; Plain washing 25 cents per dozen at the Ashland Steam Laundry. Mrs. B. H. Hatch’s sample books of over 400 different kinds of wall-paper have arrived and are on exhibition in the A dvertiser office. J. M. Hicks informs us that out of his crop of a prospective three thousand gallons of dewberries, he will have less than one hundred gallons. Hani wood for sale. Leave orders at the A dvertisr office. Final examinations are being held in the schools this week. For quick, first-class service, go to the Ashland Steam Laundry. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mail orders solicited. Street. Commissioner B. R. Willits has finished the east half of the new bridge on Main street. If you don’t read the A dvertiser , you don’t get half the news. Subscril>e. Virgin’s Granulated Patent Flour— teldom equalled ; never excelled. A recent communication from Kansas conveys the information that crops there are nearly ruined by lack of rain. The weather is very hot and sultrv, com- fort l>eing out of the question. Surely, Oregon’s rain is to lie preferred. 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. White lalxir only at the Ashland Steam Laundry. The Graduating Exercises of the Ashland High School will lie held in the Opera House next Thursday eve ning at eight o’clock. The Grammar School Commencement will lie held in the Opera House next Friday evening. The annua] meeting of the Ashland High School Alumni will l>e held in the parlors of Hotel Oregon next Saturday evening. Millfeed $12.50 per ton, wholesale; $14.00 per ton, retail, at Ashland Mills. jD^’Remember us for J ob P rinting . Last Monday afternoon, a few Popu lists of Ashland, w ith some of their Re publican and Democratic friends, as sembled in the Chautauqua building and endured a couple hours of an almost freezing temperature, to listen to a lot of aged, time-worn jokes and stories (‘stories’ is used in its double meaning) from the tongue of Mortimer Whitehead, the Grange speaker.
