Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, January 27, 1913, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMonday, January 27, 1913. AsitLAvn tidix&s PAGE rim S An Obect Lesson For Your Boy Every father wants his boy and girl to learn the lesson of ha bitual saving. Do you know, fathers, that one of the beet ways to teach your children to save regularly is to have a savings account your selves? Let that boy of bring your savings deposit to the bank as "regular as clockwork" and he will get the habit himself he can't help it. Incidentally, a little nest egg will be good for father, too. GRANITE CITY SAVINGS BANK Ashland, Oregon A. P. and A. M. Ashland Lodge No. 23 A. F. & A. M. There will be work in the Third degree Tuesday evening, January 28. All sojourning brothers cordially in vited. H. L. WHITED, W. M. E. A. SHERWIN, Sec. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Clif Payne makes stepladders. C. B. Watson was at Medford on business Friday. The Tidings is for sale at W. M. Poley's Drug Store, 17 East Main St E. J. Mahan went to Medford on a business trip Friday. C. C. Gall went to Gold Hill Fri day morning to visit friends for a few days. Insure against fire. Clif Payne can save you about 40 per cent. , tf V. O. N. Smith was transacting business in Medford, Friday. F. G. McWilliams was in Medford transacting business on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Carter have been spending most of the last week in Portland. Tom Pankey, Jack Graves and William Gardner of Gold Hill were in Ashland on business Thursday. Irma, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hintze, is recover ing from an attack of pneumonia at her home on Nutley street. Harry Silver went to Medford on business Friday forenoon. Depot hotel wants chickens of every kind. Will pay 13 cents pound. 61-tf John B. Patty of Seattle is here to spend the remainder of the win ter with his son, John F. Patty. Glenn Eddings of Roseburg was here last week for a brief visit. Miss Tomlin and Mrs. B. R. Greer went to Medford Saturday to spend the day. Krypoioks, tonics, and' difficult special lenses 'matched and replaced at Whited's optical rooms. f 6S-3t Charles Rose and family went to Medford this morning to spend the day at the home of his sister, Mrs Aikens. W. A. Flackus was at Medford and Central Point on business today. J. F. Norman and family were up from Talent over Sunday, guests at the home of Mrs. Norman's sister Mrs. Riley. A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX Every one has documents of value, such as policies, deeds, wills, contracts, etc., the loss of which would be seriously felt. The bank depositor has, in his canceled checks, receipts for money paid which if de stroyed by fire or otherwise might cause great inconven ience. Every household has its jew elry, heirlooms and other pre cious articles which can be kept about the house only at great risk. A safety deposit box in the fire and burglar proof vault of this bank will insure perfect safety for things of value. Rental nominal, and renter inly has access to his box. Citizens Banking & Trust Company ASHLAND, OREGON. Capital $50,000.00. Surplus $5,000.00. "The Bank That Helps the People." Rev. T. G. Bunch went to Medford on the motor this forenoon. Mrs. C. G. Rush and son Frank are spending a few days near Tolo, with relatives. Di. Swedenburg was at Medford Saturday evening to perform a surgi cal operation and went to Grants Pass this morning to perform an other in the hospital there. Thomas L. Stewart was down at Taleut Saturday forenoon on busi- nesS. . 'Doc" Sanders was a Medford vis-1 itor between trains Friday. Mrs. Luttrell. at 130 First avenue, has returned from Dunsmuir, where she has been for the past three weeks attending her sister, who has had tvnhnid lever WANTED Fat hens at 12 cents a pound. Bring them in. East Side Market. 64-tf Mrs. T. W. Hill went to Medford today to visit friends for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Wagner went to Portland last mursaay ana are enjoying a few days visitirlg friends. Billie Briggs has traded his Metz automobile for a Stanley steamer and now leaves a trail of steam like a comet's tall as he speeds along the streets. The best cleaning and pressing is done at Fuller's. Ladies' work a When examined yesterday ny Kei speclalty. Phone 119. We call. eree Baker, who is taking evidence Peter Vandersluis was up from Talent on business Saturday fore- noon. The Western Union Telegraph Company is having its windows deco rated with brand new signs that he who runs may read. Miss Shafer, one of the Bellview school teachers, nas the Euest of Mrs. J. G. Miller one evening last week. Call at the Hotel Ashland din ing room and get rates on boarl by the week or month. 70-2t Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Roese and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. John Sandquist, of Hudson, Wis., went to Medford Saturday forenoon, return ing the same day. Fred North, formerly a messenger in the U. S. mail service, but now a residpnt of I.aGrande. Ore., was in ' the city Saturday en route to Los Angeles, Cal., with a car of apples. Mr. North contemplates locating in central California. I. F. Settle was able to get down town Saturday for the first time af ter an illness of two months. Ensign James D. Moore has ar rived in San Francisco from Japan and will visit his mother and family In Ashland the last of the week. He will spend some time with his broth er, Frank M. Moore, at Eugene. J. C. Stanley was called to Grants Pass Saturday on matters in connec- tion with the Bailey Gulch Mining bulb a coating which made it re and Milline Cominnv. of which he semble burnished copper. It was a has been superintendent for some years. lf thinkine of snrins sewine. have a Grey dress form made now at Enders'. They are durable and reli able. 69-tf An enterprising farmer east of town has planted 5 acres to spuds which he expects to harvest early enough next summer to realize top- notch prices. Mrs. C. H. Bodell of Snake River Junction. Wash., who has been visit- ina Qf iho hmno nf her mint Mrs. M. W. Wheeler, lCc this morning for the north. She will visit at other Rogue river valley points before re turning home. One-half off on trimmed hats, shapes and fancy teatners, ana Dig reduction on piumes, ai juts. Simon's, 167 East Main. 64-tf Mrs. S. A. Petsrs left Saturday forenoon for Galveston, Texas, where t0 Dea(j Indian. The trip.' generally she expects to make her future home, takes one day, but tho ilee snow Many friends here hope to hear of compelled them to mukoi the trip her prosperity in her new home. slowly. For three days they were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Seager of St. James, Minn., who are spending the winter of a son In California, came be one of the iiardest trips ever up Saturday night to Bpend some made by cattlemen or southern Ore time at the home of their son, At- gon. torney Seager, of this place. w. D. Hodgson offers for Gypsum is a good fertilizer. We have it at $12 per ton for cash, Should be used soon before the rains cease. Asniano: f ruit & rroauce as- sociation. 90-2t W. J. Mooney went to Dunsmuir Sunday evening, having been tempo- rarily transferred to that place for the next two months by the Califor- nia-Oregon Power Company, by whom he Is employed in the capacity 1ts return from Klamath Falls. Af of lineman. ter it had played one selection the Harry Bates has gone to Stockton to become assistant night chief oper- ator in the S. P. dispatcher's office, His many friends will be pleased to learn of his promotion. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Trefren went to Medford Saturday forenoon on the motor. Mr. Trefren transacted busi- ness at Jacksonville Saturday, while Mrs. Trefren stayed at the home of her brother, G. B. Conwell. They spent Sunday at the Conwell home In Medford. ROOSEVELTWAS MISLED President Was Deceived as to Con dition of Absorption of foul nd Iron Company. New York, Jan. 23. Admission that former President Roosevelt was misled regarding the true condition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany when he sanctioned its absorp- tlon by tne United States Steel Cor- nnrnHnn wn marta frnni the u-itnpas stand here today by William Ellis Corpy, former president of the steel trust. Corey was a witness in the government's suit here to dissolve the corporation "Colonel Roosevelt was told,' uorey testinea, tnat tne SIOCK 01 the Tennessee company was worth less. As a matter of fact, it was the largest manufacturer of open hearth steel rails in the country and a strong competitor of the steel cor poration's subsidiaries." Corey admitted that the purchase wa8 urgei at a meeting of directors of the Carnegie Steel Company in 1907. "The trust,'1 he said, "has an agreement with foreign companies regarding the selling price of steel rails." He would not deny that rails made in this country are sold cheap er abroad than here for the government. Colonel Roose- velt reaffirmed his declaration made before the Stanley investigators, that he agreed to the merger be cause he believed It necessary to pre vent widespread disaster to the peo ple of the nation. Mrs. E. A. Hunter aud little daughter went to Frederick Satur day to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. King. Mr. and Mrs. King are recent arrivals from Wisconsin, and Mrs. King and Mrs. Hunter were schoolmates. John F. Patty was called to Seat tle last week by the illness of his daughter Ethel, who had been visit ing there since Christmas. He found the young lady much improved on I h,g arrlval therei and ghe was abie t0 ......... hinl hom Prda.. B- Fisher. superintendent of traffic and office equipment of the I IVActyn Vnlnn T til atri'Q tiIi Pnmnanv " witn neaaquarters at seame, was in the city several days last week in- specting the Ashland office. It is needless to say that he found every thing in good shape. F. G. McWilliams went to Jackson ville Saturday on business. Pete Spencer brought to the Tid ings office recently a curiosity in the way of a burned out tungsten lamp. The filiament had burned out and deposited over the interior of the perfect mirror and beautifully col ored. The lamp had been in use at the high school gym Professor Dick Posey, Ashland's popular entertainer, appeared in Phoenix Friday evening, January 17, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church of that place. The Phoenix people were well pleased with the Rogue river poet. Professor Posey is an able en- tertainer and the ladies expect to arrange for another of his ;entertain- nients in the near future, Potatoes We have them. Good ones at 80c per hundred. Ashland Fruit & Produce Association. 68-4t Several cattlemen of the lower vallev. consisting of Fred Dntton. Cflr, R, R Harnish, Poe Moo maw and Carl Von der Hellen, were recently caught in a snowstorm whne driving cattle from Eagle Point without food, not daring to leuve the cattle to secure it. This is said to $4,500, on terms, his 200-acre wood lot about a mile and a half from Ashland, on which is estimated 6,000 to iu.uuu coras oi wooa. uooa roaa made to it and bunk house. Phone him, 427-J. 1 65-6t There was music galore at the S. p depot Saturday night. The Ash- Iand 8.hool baud was at the de- ,,ot t0 ,neot tile basketball team on Central Point band, which had been over in California on a concert trip, filed out of the car and treated the assembled crowd to several fine se- lections. Central Point has certain- ly a band of which it may well be proud. The boys report that they had a fine time and that the trip was a financial success. SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland idings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset J Magazine ia $1.50 per year. BIG IRRIGATION PLAN Plans Set on Foot to Irrigate 30,(MH) Acres of Idiiid in the Rogue River Valley. Medford, Jan. 25. Initial steps toward the Inauguration of a cam paign to- secure irrigation in the Rogue river valley wero launched Thursday when President J. A. Perry of the Commercial Club ap pointed a committee composed of Professor P. J. OGara, E. A. Welch and A. C. Allen, to arrange the pre liminary details. One plan will be a mass meeting with representaties from every section affected present. The committee and the board of di rectors of the club will also meet and confer upon the plan of action. The Merchants' Association will take action along similar lines the first of the week. As soon as the 30,000 acres are signed up. and the committee to be appointed by the landowners to In vestigate the financial standing of the company, their ability to furnish and adequate supply of water aud the feasibility of the plan attested by an expert engineer chosen by the landowners, but paid for by the ca nal company, actual work will start on the construction of the project, entailing the employment of 000 or iuu men and teams. 1 he company agrees to furnish water in 1914, a year before the rush of eastern peo ple to the coast to see the 1915 ex position. Early Beginnings of GckmI Koads Work. "When some progressive antedi-l , ( I. I. .1 1. ; . . . t 1 iuyiuii saoLReu ins i.oiueiiiJoraries t by bringing his game to camp on a I horse, the good roads movement was inaugurated," says E. F. Ayers, highway engineer, in bulletin No. 67 of the extension series of the Ore gon Agricultural College. "Had he shown proper respect for precedent he would have shouldered his load, although ' custom sanctioned the use of rude boats in case he was fortu nate enough to be near a stream. "Other members of the tribe soon appreciated the many advantages or control-namely, the Instep. the new method, and well-defined! When 'tm set vour f,,ot u',(m the . ,. , . . . . mi floor or pavement in the act of walk- trails were opened through the wild- , ' m, , , ing the shoe adheres, and if it be loose erness. These weie laid out by the I .. . . tUtk . , ,iW animals .themselves, the only assist ance rendered by their drivers being the occasional removal of a tree which fell Across the path. "No further progress was made until the advent ol wheeled vehicles. These required a wider path, and the trail began remotely to resemble a road. No attention was paid to proper locat'on. grades or drainage, but even the slight amount of work required was bitterly opposed by the owners of the pack teams, who fore saw that their business would be ruined if the newer transportation gained a foothold. "They claimed that the wide roads were unnecessary; that the new con traption was simply a passing fad, suitable for a rich man's top, hut im possible as a practical vehicle; that the taxes would ruin the country un less the wagon men were forced to pay the entire cost of the improve ment; in short, that the roads which had sufficed for their fathers should be good enough for them. "These same arguments were re- vived on the advent of the bicycle and the automobile, the teamsters in the meantime having forgotten their early trials and joined the reaction aries. The highways of America re mained as horribie examples until 1SS.", when the modern good roads movement rode in on a bicycle. Now only 15 states remain which do not In some form give state aid." Mr. and Mrs. f. R. Bateman have returned from Los Angela, vsl'-re r.-ey have been spending t'.'.e past i.iiintli. U. F. Billings was at Medford Sat urday transacting business. Rev. S. A. Douglas was a Grants Pass visitor Saturday. F. E. Conway left Saturday even ing for Seattle and Mt. Vernon, Wash., where he will spend a month visiting and looking after business mutters, ioininc Mrs. Conway and their little son, who went to Seattle some weeks ago. P. B. Fuller has moved his tailor ing business into the storeroom in the Miekle block recently vacated by Win Crowson. Mr. Fuller Is fixing the place up in first-class shape. Watch for his formal announcement. The Klamath Falls basketball team left this forenoon for Central Point, where they play tonight. To morrow night they play the high school at Medford, and the Medford team returns with them to Klamath Falls for a game. The water pipes of the Christian church broke Saturday afternoon and workmen worked all Saturday night to repair them. Mrs. Van Sant has gone to Port land for a couple of weeks to visit her mother and sifter. jr. f .;.Vfi-Xy"?.V , Pk Vtffif 0LGSTEEB Pianist, who SHUN LOOSE SHOES. They Giv tho Feot as Much Trouble as ths Pinching Kind. Seven persons out of ten suffer ex cruciutiiig in at one time or another with their feet. A single com no lar ger than a grain of wind can take all the snap and vitality right out of you. Two-thirds of modern foot troubles aro due to the fact that almost every out man, woman and child wears shoes too loose. The shoe itself uniy be correct as to size and shape, but it is not fastened tight at the only poiut of pushes down Into the toe or the shoe. At certain spots on the foot this slip-j ping causes motion. These spots are the Holes of the feet, the tops, ends and Inner sides of the toes, the great nud little toe joints aud occasionally even the buck of the heel. When the friction thus caused is con tinued hour after hour ami day after dav one or more of these soots are ill- lnost 8ure t0 become inflamed and soce. j a slight thickening, called a "callous." is formed. As the friction mid pres sure go on the resulting callous may thicken up unevenly. Then It Is called a corn. Woman's Home Companion. Beware of the Dog! In Jersey they have au Interesting device for keeping off tramps and bur glars. A watchdog, too ferocious and too valuable to be allowed to run loose, is tied to a rope alnnit four feet long, and this rope Is tied to a ling t hat runs loosely over a long wire about four feet from the ground. The wire stretches from the back porch to a pole at the end of the yard, and as the ring slips easily over it the dog has the full run i of the yard without being able to bite visitors or Innocent passersby. The wire Is practically invisible by night. and many a prowler has gone on his way a sadder but a wiser uiuii afler assuming from the looks of thlugs in the front of the house that there wasu't any dog. New York Mail. Had No Fault to Find. "Look here," he mild to the groom, "are you the man who put the saddle ou Miss Jennie's horse?" "Yes, sir. Anything wrong, sir?" "It was loose, very loose. She had no sooner mounted than the saddle slip ped, and If 1 hadn't caught her she would have been thrown to the ground." "I'm very sorry, sir." "But 1 did catch her." went on the young man meditatively. "I caught her In my arms, and hero's half a crown for you, John. Io you suppose you could leave the girth loose when we go riding again tomorrow V" Lou don Telegraph. Both Members. Belle and Bon had just announced their engagement. "When we are married," said Belle, "I shall expect you to shuve every morning. It's one of the rules of ,(1)0 club I belong to that none of Its. mem bers shall marry a man who wou't shave every morning." "Oh, that's all right." replied Ben, "but what about the mornings I don't get home in time? I belong to a club too." Llppiiieott's. I JL v - - . :-yf?w&-w-s ft. ' -mm. fyf Mi MMturt"'tt ,H.lj P. DODGE & SONS House Furnishers AND Undertakers I Deputy County Coroner rVTTTTTTTTTi -.Mr: ) ' '4. VV X-SS appears at Elks Hall tonight. "CAN YOU BEAT IT?" The Chef s pride a bowl of well-cooked, well-served 44 Golden Rod Oats" SPRCIAf, NOTtC Atpllbtr h'al let tar In awry itrkatf of "clnld-ii Bixl" prwlaru. gar thrin till ftu ran apll "linldan Rod" mid -at a flnc a'J-plrc Plnurr Si-t. , LIGHT AND BEAUTY Light and beauty give zest to life. Light i3 beauty-if it's Electric Light. Good illumination adds Joy to every social function. The dance, the dinner, the card party, all are more enjoy able when proper illum ination is used. Perfect light Electric Light lends itself to any desired effect. Send for .our representative and let him prove It Ashland Electric Power and Light Company Lady Assistant m agist, fritJ C II