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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1896)
The Ashland Advertiser. Central Point Pointers. Published Every Wednesday. Miss Cora Brown, of Eagle Point, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Holmes, last Friday. Miss Bessie, a younger sis ter, is now staying with her a few days. George E. Scott, of Grant's Pass, but formerly a resident of Seattle and an in timate friend of Orange Jacobs, who was once an old time resident of Jack sonville. but now resides at Seattle, ■ made us a call on Monday last. Mrs. Stephen Cornutt, who has been been quite ill with heart trouble, is able to be out again. A. S. Jacobs is improving very slowly. , Mrs. McDonald, of Tolo, is reported very ill with stomach trouble. Noah Baer, who lost a horse at Tyler’s Soda Springs last Summer, went to Ash land last Saturday to receive the same from Eugene Spencer, who had found the animal near Butte mountain. The Central Point nines played a game of baseball at Gold Hill last Saturday. L. L. Jacobs, of Jacksonville, visited Central Point Friday. “M.” Honarch of the Amateurs E ditor , . . P ublisher , P roprietor . — TERMS. — $.50. Subscription, One Year,.... “ Six Mouths.. . . • o* —• ♦ F • Sample copies mailed freely. Advertising rates, )M.u]e known Terms tQ3 A ge n ts , | application/ 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. J 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” ha« the Largest Circulation of any Amateur Newspaper in the World. ASHLAND,........... WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1896 A Communication. EDITORIAL. An eastern paper, says an exchange, has adopted the method of inverting the names of delinquent subscribers when ever it becomes necessary to refer to them in the paper. If our readers are unable to decipher the matter in the columns of the A dver tiser this week, on account of errors in spelling and typography, we ask them to bear with us this once, with the as surance that it will not happen again. It is no fault of the editor’s that they occur. A Creamery for Ashland. W. J. Curtis, of the California Equip ment and Construction Company, held a meeting in the Talent school house last night in the interest of establishing a creamery in Ashland. The farmers of that vicinity favored the project. A meeting will lie held in the Ashland City Hall to-night. Mr. Curtis desires to establish a creamery of 400 cows capacity, which would cost aliout $3,000, stock company. A creamery of that size would separate cream from milk at the rate of 1500 gal lons per hour. If Ashland favors the establishment of the enterprise, Mr. Curtis proposes to take a committee from here to Edgewood, to investigate the creamery business there. This is a subject that should interest every citizen of Ashland, and a large turn-out is expected. LOCAL SOI’IBS. Fish every Thursday at Poley A Co’s. School is out for the summer vacation. Plain washing 25 cents per dozen at the Ashland Steam Laundry. County election will be held Monday. 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. The past few days of sunshing have done much toward bringing the straw- berry crop to the front. A number of persons have reported that they have picked ripe berries this season. Mrs. B. H. Hatch’s sample books of over 4(H) different kinds of wall-pa ¡»er have arrived and are on exhibition in the A dvertiser oflice. W. 8. Crowell speaks in the Chautau qua building to-night. Hard wood for sale. Leave orders at the A dvertisr office. The A. A. A. will give an entertain ment Friday evening, June 5. The as sociation is a worthy one and deserves the support of the citizens of Ashland. For quick, first-class service, go to the Ashland Steam Laundry. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mail orders solicited. The first crop of alfalfa will be ready to cut the coming week. If you don’t read the A dvertiser , you don’t get half the news. Subscril»e. Be sure to attend the lecture in the Congregational church to-night. Virgin’s Granulated Patent Flour— i eldom equalled; never excelled. An exciting Populist meeting was held in the Neil school house last Satur- urdav night. Not cheap paper, but paper cheap. If you are thinking of buying wall paj>er this spring, don’t buy until have seen fine samples of paper for sale by Mrs. B. H. Hatch at less than half price. •> We publish a letter from M. L. John son, who left some weeks ago for Arago, with a six mule team. Arago, Ore., May 17, 1896. A dvertiser , Ashland, Ore., Dear Sir; Give my friends a little squib in your paper, that we got through in good shape. We were three weeks on the road, but traveled only eleven days. Rain fell nearly every day, and is still falling. Roads were in very bad condi tion ; fortv miles of the road from Rose- burg was axle deep dee with mud. The the stages left roads were so bad I__ that . their wagons and ind packed for about twenty miles. We had the first six- mule-team that ever traveled the road > and naturally created quite a sensation when we drove into town. Respectfully, Ice cream and cake and a jolly time at M. L. Johnson. the Congregational church next Friday evening, livery laxly come ! A Charming Lecturer. Miss Milly Brcuillett, daughter of the Presbyterian minister, at Gervais, Ore gon, who comes well recommended as a bright young woman and a good speaker, will deliver a temperance lecture at The Congregational church Wednesday even ing, beginning at 8:00 o’clock, under the i auspices of the young people’s society of that church. The young lady is just on her return from California where she has been collecting material for new lectures and gathering inspiration bom grand work being done in that state by John C. Wooley and other temperance speakers of prominence. There will be no admission charges to this lecture and all are cordially invited to attend it. riemorial Sermon. The Memorial Sermon was delivered in Ganiard’s Opera House last Sunday afternoon by Rev. E. P. Childs. The discourse was scholarly and interesting, and the hall was well filled by people who came out to hear it. White labor only at the Ashland Ftearn Laundry. The Fourth of July fund is being lib- ally responded to, and the celebratic.il is an assured success. Millfeed $12.50 per ton, wholesale; $14.00 per ton, retail, at Ashland Mills. The Jacksonville Dramatic Company is arranging to produce a play in Ash land shortly. ^J^PRemember us for J ob P rintinc ;. From present indications, summer is here at last. Progressive and instructive, interest ing and pleasing; the free lecture in the Congregational church to-night by Miss Milly Brouillette. About one hundred people were ad dressed in the City Hall Monday eve ning by J. A. Jeffrey, who sang the same old songs and gave his audience no satisfaction beyond an evening’s enter tainment to those who cared to listen. .
