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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 “
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Soldiers’ indigent Fund,’
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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.
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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 .
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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.