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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1897)
The Ashland Advertiser. Published Every Wednesday. Honarch 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 Tenn" V Agents', | application; tyAll 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. 1 The “ADVERT18KII** haw the Largest Circulation of any Amateur Newspaper in the World. ASHLAND,................ WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1897 The tax levy of Klamath county has been set as follows: County tax,................................. 11 mills. State tax,..................................... 4 “ School tax,.................................. 5 “ Total levy,.................. 20 mills. The tax levy of Jackson county for 1897 is as follows: County School tax,........... 3 14-20 mills. County General Fund,.... 12 5-20 “ Ss f t m t ‘1 Y Soldiers’ indigent Fund,’ -1 1-20 “ Total levy,....... 20 mills. Look out I What for? For the An nual B Class Entertainment to be held Saturday evening, January 23, 1897. All come and be entertained. Secure your seats at the Opera House Grocery. The San Francisco Mining and Scien tific Press announces that, a Tutthill WaterWheel Co. has been incorporated in Oakland, California, with a capital stock of $300,000. The principals of the company are S. J. Tutthill, C. A. Tutt hill, E. B. Norton,C. S. Booth and C. E. Chamberlain. The annual city election of Medford was held Tuesday, January 12, 1897. The officers elected are:—Mayor, G. H. Haskins. Trustees, Fort Hubbard, F. M. Plymale, J. R. Wilson, A. M. Wood ford. Recorder, W. W. Stanfield. Treasurer, Chas. Strang. Marshal, William Churchman. If you don’t read the A dvertiser , you don’t get half the news. Subscribe. Normal School Notes. The reception on last Friday evening was a decided success. The students entertained at least four hundred guest?, who so filled the chapel that the recep tion committee found difficulty in per forming their duties. A short program was rendered after which refreshments were served. The remainder of the eve ning was occupied w ith marches and old college song. The following new’ library books were donated bv the guests at the reception: Old Curiosity Shop, Jessie Wagner—Les Miserables, Bachelor Club—Reveries of a Bachelor, G. W. Vaupel—Selections from the Poets, H. C. Galey—Stanley’s Adventures, Earnest Crowson—Golden Thought, L. Leo Hopkins—Sketch Book, American Girls in London, Autobiogra phy by Trallope, Letters to the Joneses were received from anonamous sources. Among the new pupils are Nellie Tor- one, Minnie McClaskey, Florence Lav- ton, and Mr. Layton. The Model Literary Society held their first meeting in the Model room on Fri day afternoon. The little ones had pre pared an excellent debate and some good recitations and essays. Success to the little ones! On last Saturday evening the Bellview literary society inaugurated the follow ing new officers—Rosa Dodge, Pres.; Lester Newton, Vice Pres.; Fred Ulen, Secv.; Nelly Dickey, Treas.; Grace Nick erson, Editor; Percy Wells, Censor. Have you read “Reasons why the Southern Oregon State Normal should receive an Appropriation?” If not, procure a copy that you may know what the Board of Regents think of this matter. Interesting Articles from our Exchanges. The senior law class of the Kansas Un iversity has invited William J. Bryan to deliver the commencement address before it next June. A majority of the class are Populists. Edward W. Emerson, of Concord, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has been chosen as poet for Phi Beta Kappa day at Harvard next June. A dispatch from Vienna says: Professor Friederich, of Elbing, has notified the Vienna academy of his dis covery of a new kind of Roentgen ray, which will infallibly determine in a sub ject whether death or catalepsy has in tervened. J. T. Carmood$, aged 22, who says he wagered $3000 that he could walk from Washington, D. C., to San Francisco in one year and earn $2000 en route, was in Guthrie, O. T., last Saturday evening, and claims to have already earned $1600. He left Washington last August. John A. Howard, who with a detach ment of the famous Chicago Board of Trade battery captured Jefferson Davis at the dose of the war, is dead. He was If Taken at Once, buried Friday, the funeral veing held at his home. Less than 40 of the 156 w ho Two story, 8-room house; good barn and went with him in 1865 are now’ alive, wood house; one acre of land in bearing and most of them surrounded his bier. orchard and small fruits. $500; $300 down. For particulars, inquire of L. M. Goodwin, or at For Sale at a Bargain, Hargrove Sisters’ Millinery Store ¡JfT" Rememl>er us for J ob P rinting . Wanted-An Idea Protect your idea«; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN A CO., Patent Attor neys, Washington, D. C., for their $1,800 prize otter and new list or one thousand Inventions wanted. The second meeting of the citizens of Ashland, to complete the organization of a local republican club, was held in the city hall last Friday evening. The meeting was called to order by chair man Geo. Lynde. The report of the by laws committee provided that the organ ization, to be known as the Ashland Republican Club, should have a presi dent, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and an executive committee of five memliere, the president acting as chairman. Each member of the club to pay a fee of twenty-five cents. Protec tion and sound money to be favcred by the club, and the endorsemement of the St. Louis national platform was advo cated. Order of the club to be governed by Robert’s parliamentary rules. The report of the committee was accej ted. The following officers were elected : President, Geo. Lynde; secretary, C. H . Gillette; treasurer, Eugene Wairad; executive committee, J. P. Dodge, Geo. Engle, G. W. Crowson, and D. Allen. A grand ratification toH»e held March, 4th, next, was proposed ami the matter discussed. A committee was appointed to consider proceedings along that line. It is with much regret that fate calls upon us to chronicle the death ol Mr. Prank Myer, one of the oldest pioneers of Southern Oregon. For some past, he has been troubled with heart disease which resulted fatally last Tuesday eve ning alx»ut 5:1k) o’clock. He was sitting in H. C. Myers hardware store reading the evening paper when death marked him for its own. He tipped back in his chair against the work bench and life quietly l>ecame extinct. Mr. Myer has l>een a familiar figure on our streets and his departure is keen ly felt by all. He was alamt 75 years of age. The body of the deceased was re moved to the home of H. C. Myer. Ladies and Gentlemen :—As I am well known to all, I ask this favor as a New Year’s call. Please come around early and not so late, to purchase your goods as I may state. The roads are very bad, as well you know ; so please l>e prompt and not so slow. Rememlier there is a tomorrow as well as today, but if you wait and lie slow, you’re sure of delay. I can’t do all my work in half a dav; so if you wish your goods early, please don’t delay. I write this to see if it will come t-ue, that in half day I will not have all my work to do. C. E. L ank . The aveiage numlier of persons paying water rents to the City of Ashland the past year was 375. Amount paid by them during the year, $3677.60. There has been received into the water fund during the same time from the County Treasurer, realized from the 5 mil! levy for that fund, $2370.80, making the total from rents and taxes, $6048.40. D ied .—At the home of Nelson Church, near Ashland, Friday morning, Janu ary 15, 1897, Nelson St. Claire Cun ningham, son of Arthur Cunningham, of San Francisco, and grandson of Nel son Church, of Ashland, aged 4 months and 5 days. Funeral services were held Saturday, January 16. Interment in Ashland cemetery. D ied .—In Ashland, Saturday, January 16, 1897, Gladia P. Walker, daughter of F. M. Walker, of Ashland, aged 4 years, 6 months and 18 days. B orn .—In Phoenix, Saturday, January 16, 1897, to Mr. and Mrs. Gus New bury, a son.
