The Ashland Advertiser.
The Ashland Team is Victorious.
The final championship foot ball con
test of the season was played on the
Central Point fair grounds last Saturday
Honarch of the Amateurs
between the A. A. A. and Eagle Point
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teams. The laurels of championship
P ublisher ,
are held by he Ashland boys, who de
dealer in —
P roprietor . feated their opponents bv a score of 18
to 0.
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The merits of the Ashland team being
$.50. well known, and the Eagle Point boys
Subscription, One Year.. ...
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Six Months...
. .25. boasting that they had a team that
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Sample copies mailed freely.
could successfully opjnise them, a con
test of unusual interest and excitement
Advertising rates, Made known upon was anticipated; and in this, no one was
Discounts,............
disappointed. A large crowd of inter
application.
Terms to Agents,
ested spectators was in attendance, de
dT'All ads., notices, etc., when not spite the bad condition of the roads.
At 2 o’clock, after much spirited objec
paid in advance, run until ordered out.
tion taken to some of the Ashland men
Entered at the post-office at Ashland, by the Eagle Point ¡»layers, the teams
lined up, each confident of success, in
Oregon, as second-class matter.
the following order:
new’ subscribers who pay one year in
ASHLAND.
advance
before July. Gall at. this office
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and
see
sample
or write for one direct to
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“FRUITAGE,”
ized agent. The A dvertiser is kept on Cornutt ..
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• • • • • 1 t • . ........... F. Nichols P ortland ,
file in his office.
Fruían........ ............ re.. W. Vonderhellen
flail Clerks’ Excursion.
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The “ADVERTISER'’ has the Largest Circulation
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of any Amateur Newspaper in the World.
The excursion train carrying over 300
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delegates
to the convention of the Rail
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ASHLAND.............. WEDNESDAY, MAR. 10, 1897
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Advertised Letter List.
Berrv.......... .. ............. 1 h. ................... Safford sociatimi which convenes in San Fran
White.......... ............ full. . ....................Walch cisco, March 17. will pass through this
List of letters remaining uncalled for
The Eagle Point team had the choice place Sunday alte noon, March 14. The
in the Ashland, Oregon, Post Office,
of goals and the Ashland team had the excursionists will take dinner at the de
March 8, 1897.
first kick off. After a brief period of pot hotel in Ashland.
Rummel, Alfred,
Stongus, Geo.,
good plays by the Ashland boys, Fox,
Robinett, Mrs. M.
Normal School Notes.
Persons calling for same will please their left tackle, made a dash and
scored a touch down for his team. Be
Hurrah for the football players!
say “advertised.”
fore the first half closed, Fox made a
. .
bbvxk . p . m ,
Those in the drama are all hard at
second touch down for the A. A. A. No
work
on their ¡»arts.
goals being kicked, the score at the end
A New Treaty With Japan.
Two young ladies from Talent were
of the half was 8 to 0, in favor of the
among
our last week’s visitors.
Ashland
team.
Carter,
the
Ashland
A commercial treaty between the
Mrs. Hinman, Mrs. Crocker ami Miss
United States and Japan, which was ne right guard, made two touch downs in
the
second
half.
Full
back
White
con
Stephenson ¡»aid us a visit last week.
gotiated two years ago, containing a sec
verted
one
of
the
plays
into
a
goal,
scor
tion providing that, as to patents and
Miss Susie Homes, of the class of ’96,
trade-marks, the citizens of each country ing 10 points for Ashland in the second 4 spent Fridav at the Norma! visiting her
should have in the territory of the other half. Score for the game : Ashland, 18; many friends.
the same protection as the citizens of Eagle Point, 0.
Rev. F. G. Strange visited the Nor
While the hopes of the Eagle Point
that country, says the Youth’s Compan
mal
Monday morning and conducted the
ion. But this treaty does not take effect boys were not realized, the team is cred
until July, 1899. and in the meantime ited with putting up a good game. They chapel services.
the highly ingenious Japanese have been were, however, no match for the boys of
One can scarcely suppress a smile when
imitating successfully American patent the A. A. A. Several times during the he observes the battered condition of
ed articles, and by the aid of cheap labor game, the Eagle Point boys put in sub our dignified football heroes.
have produced them at a cost which stitutes.
Prof. Miles, one of our best football
The invincible A’s are champions of
makes American competition difficult.
players,
had his ankle hurt in the game
the
Southern
Oregon
gridiron.
To obviate this, a new treaty has been
Saturday, but is able to attend to his
negotiated with Japan and has been rat
school work.
A Valuable Fruit Paper.
ified by the senate, by which the section
referred to in the earlier treaty is given
The members of the elocution class
As fruit is rapidly becoming the lead
are
all sympathizing with one another
immediate effect.
ing industry of the Northwest, and as
for
they
each have to prepare a recita
this county can easily get to the front
Struck by a Locomotive.
ranks if the farmers will only take hold tion for class work.
and push things, we have made arrange
Miss Theresa Bryant, the deputv
Jake Beck, while sowing wheat in ments to do far more than our share
county
clerk at Jacksonville, and Miss
Cardwell’s addition, near Jacksonville,
toward
pushing
the
county
forward
in
Bertha
Williams, of Ashland, both of
Friday, left his team and wagon stand
this
respects
and
will
do
more
if
the
the
class
of ’96, visited the Normal Tues
ing near the Rogue River Valley rail
farmers
will
show
’
the
proper
spirit
of
day afternoon.
road track. As the evening train was
enterprise.
There
is
now
published
at
coming, the horses became frightened
The Bellview and the Excelsior Liter
Portland, not only the most valuable,
and started to run. They __
__________
rushed
across but the only fruit paper in America ary Societies will Ixrth hold their meet
the track in front of the train, and the
which admits no reading matter to its ings Saturday evening. All members
engine struck the wagon, in which were
should be ¡»resent as it is desired to
two plow s, and entirely wrecked the out columns except that relating to fruits— change the time of holding the societies.
fit. The horses escaped uninjured, and their culture, care, marketing, etc., ¡»re
sented in such a form by prominent
»Saturday the big Normal bus was
no damage was done to train or passen
fruit
writers
of
the
Northwest
and
Amer
nobly
bedecked with the football colors
gers.—Oregonian.
ica that none can read and study it with and well filled with a jolly crowd of Nor
out becoming proficient fruit growers. mal students on their way to attend the
The report that J. N. Dolph, ex-Unit- We will give this fine 32-page paper match game between the Eagle Point
ed States Senator from Oregon, had deid free for one year to all subscribers of the and the Ashland teams. The game was
is false. As we go to press this after A dvertiser who will pay their back sub a very exciting one and ended with 18 to
noon, his hold on life is increasing.
scription and one year in advance, or to 0 in favor of the Ashland team.
Published Every Wednesday.
. G. M. Van Natta,.
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