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VOL. XXXVIII
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1914
NUMBER 82
LAND
DINGS
Boys' Club Is Preparing
For Parliamentary Stunts
The Hoys' Vocational Club hold a
very interesting meeting Thursday
night. Prof. Vining outlined an elec
tion for a boy mayor, boy councilman,
and the rest of the city officers. This
will be an exciting election, as the
positions are places of high honor.
The boy officials will be expected to
attend the council meetings and to
find out all there is to know about
the duties. Governor West is ex
pected here to meet the boys' club in
the near future and will make a
speech and recommend changes in
the city affairs. Next Saturday there
will be a hike to Durkee Falls. Oth
er treks will be made to Wagner
creek, Crystal peak and various
points. Next summer Pror. Vining
will take some of the older boys to
Josephine Caves, while a trip on
which all can go will be made to
Lake of the Woods. Dr. Jarvis made
a report of the examinations which
have been given the boys trying for
the Marathon, and also an'interesting
talk on training. He said the fault
he found in the entrants was poor
standing position, poor teeth, unkept
teeth and poor eyes, all weaking the
circulation and digestion.
H. L, Whited gave a heart-to-heart
talk to the boys about the qualifica
tions for business. He presented
three types of boys: the boy of a
financial turn of mind, of construct
ive type, and the boy taught through
aecessity to be able to work bard.
The things which a boy of ny type
must have to become sum-. :;ful are
a feeling of responsibility, gentle
manly bearing, and stamina to stick
to anything they start. He spoke of
the environment which a goving boy
should have. Always have an atmos
phere of success, not to associate
with people who are shiftless and
lazy, but who are capable and have
been successful in what they have
undertaken. Hoys should always
have the idea of, when growing up,
settling down and having a home, not
to be of the average bachelor type.
. with a grip in hand most of the time.
Thomas Urges Amendments
C. M. Thomas of Talent delivered
a very interesting and profitable talk
to the Belleview Growers' Club Fri
day evening. Mr. Thomas, who is
manager of the Talent Orchard Com
pany, one of the largest apple grow
ers of the valley, talked along vari
ous lines.
In discussing waste in orchards ho
urged the growing of hogs to eat the
windfalls, explaining why the can
neries could not profitably handle
the wormy and misshapen fruit. He
discussed waste in management and
urged the support of the canneries
aa a market for good fruit, but de
clared they could not, at least at
present, handfe defective fruit effect
ively. He believes the law should
be amended so wormy and fourth
grade apples and pears could be sold
as such for the use of mining and
lumber camps and to hotels for cook
ing purposes.
Ashland Dairies
Rate Very High
Ashland is to be congratulated on
the high ratings which her business
bouses received in the food and dairy
commissions' report. In a recent is
sue of the Tidings the confectioneries
and meat markets were presented. A
further investigation of the report
shows that Ashland stands high in
several other instances. The Hotel
Oregon received a grade of 89.5. This
was exceptionally high in comparison
with the other hotels of the state,
the highest being only 93.2. The
commissioner said If the Oregon Ho
tel had been a new building he could
have given It a grade which was al
most perfect.
Of the dairies in Ashland Sanders
Sl Sanders was the highest, having
a grade of 75.3. The top dairy grade
was 86.6 and Sanders was second in
the list. W. D. Million,, E. W. Nor
ton, H. Howard, C. E. Abbott and
Nora Sullivan received grades 49.6,
49.1, 47.9, 45.7 and 45.7, respective
ly. All these are pretty high in com
parison to others. , .) ' "
. It's time, to go to Studio Ashland.
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Mr. Whited touched on the things
which have a great influence and are
the basic principles of making a suc
cess of any boy's life.
Mayor Johnson made a gratifying
impromptu speech. He told the boys
they must take advantage of their
opportunities. He presented a simile
of the stagnant pond and the power
ful waterfall, the latter being
snatched up at the first chance, while
the former remained idle and was of
no use to humanity. They were left
to draw their own conclusions
whether they would be the idle stag
nant pond which none desired or the
waterfall which was full of energy
and whose services were sought for.
Inactivity crea'' idlene? :. A boy
must hve something of hln own to
do and to keep him busy, to lit him
for the things which he must be able
to compete with in after life. They
must prepare themselves to be of
service to the community airl to be-j
coine worthy of being citizens of th5
united Dimes. i
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the Boys' Vocational Club will be;
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ter.
Mr. McCoy will talk on "Cur
rency." He will give a brief outline
of the new banking laws and talk on
money and its values.
oneer Woman I)eI.
Mrs. Chloe A. Cole, a pioneer of
Jackson county, died at her home In
this city Friday and was buried at
Yreka, Cal., Sunday. She was the
widow of Bryon Cole, the founder
of Colestin, and one of the most con
spicuous figures of southern Oregon
in the early days. She was born in
New York in 1838, moving to Penn
sylvania and then to this state.
Why buy a ready-made garment
when you can buy a tailored-to-your-figure
garment for the same price
and even less at Orres' shop? He
guarantees a perfect fit. It
To Fruit Shipping Laws
He discussed the spraying matter
quite extensively and urged the ut -
most care in handling the hedgerows-
declaring the weeds, willow thickets,
etc, should be cleaned out and
sprayed as thoroughly as the fruit
trees, especially with the lime and
sulphur. He also urged the August
spraying for coddling mold, stating
that a failure so to do last season
cost them $600.
On the marketing end of the game
be favors f. o. b. selling whenever
possible, and believes it possible from
now on and much more satisfactory.
The talk throughout was informal,
many questions being asked and
much valuable interchange of in
formation being had.
Mr. Thomas was accompanied by
E. B. Adamson, tho Talent banker,
and B. W. Takott of Ashland.
It's time to go to Studio Ashland.
Excellent Choir Concert.
When Dr. Browning, pastor of the
Christian church, took this charge
one year ago last December, the
choir consisted of five ladies. At the
concert last night there were twenty
five singers, ten being absent. About
fifteen have left Ashland during the
year. Prof. Isaac has given up the
work, so Miss Bernice Foster, who
assumed her duties aa director last
week, had charge of the choir Sun
day. The singers all like her, and
their co-operation was made mani
fest In the very enjoyable program.
The choir never appeared to better
advantage. The beautiful flowers
made the platform look very home
like. The program lasted one hour.
An Instrumental duet was rendered
by Mrs. Morrison and Miss Foster In
n pleasing manner. Miss Foster sang
the Twenty-third Psalm.
LoBt, a purse, between Normal
School and Taylor place, near the
lithia spring. It contained two keys,
a souvenir of Citizens' Banking &
Trust Company, and between $2
and $35 dollars. Return to Tiding"
office and receive reward. 82-2t
Get your Raster photos at Mar
ble's. ' v ' : 81-2t
A Fin Catch at Ky Iam.
Thursday S. R. Morris and wife,
Olson Lidstrom, Jessie Jarvis and
Frances Howard went on a fishing
trip to Ray dam. A fine catch was
the result. Mrs. Morris caught two,
one weighing eight and the other six
pounds, while J:iss Jarvis caught one
weighing seven and a half pounds.
Mor-is and Lidstrom together caught
about forty-five pounds. They re
port the water is Tine now for fish
ing, and the river has been let into
the new ladder.
0'Gaia Resigns to
Prof. P. J. O'Gara, who six years
ago left the department of agricul
ture to become pathologist for Jack
son county at a salary of $5,000 a
year, has resigned to become chief in
charge of agricultural investigation
for the American Smelting and Re
fining Company at a salary of $15,
000 a year. His headquarters will
be at Salt Lake City, but he will
I have charge of all experimental, lab-
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with plant and animal diseases
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ascribed to smelter and smoke injury
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and conduct exhaustive investigations
at various smelters operrt"d by the
company.
Damage from smelter smone has
produced an enormous amount of
litigation and resulted in closing sev
eral smelters. Much of the damage
is due to plant diseases caused by
negligence and not due to smelter
fumes. An exhaustive study of tho
subject is to be made by Professor
Rural Schools Enthusiastic
L. P. Harrington, in charge of the J
industrial field work for the state
department of public instruction, has
been spending the past two weeks in
Jackson county. He is organising
boys' and girls' industrial clubs.
About forty have been organized in
the rural schools of the county,
despite the bad roads and hard get
ting around. Mr. Harrington states
the club idea is taking well with the
pupils. One is formed in each school
! and the members choose the depart-
ment or departments he or she wishes
'to contest In from the following list:
Corn growing, potato growing, girls
I canning and preserving, girls' cook-
ing and baking, boys' and girls' poul
try raising, girls' sewing, boys' pig
feeding contest, boys' and girls' gar
dening contest, dairy herd record
keeping, and manual arts (construc
tion of useful or model articles of
wood, metal or concrete).
Two boys winning highest mark
ings in each county will be given a
week's camp and school at the state
fair at Salem this fall, and the ten
highest boys or girls in the state will
be given free trips to the Panama ex
position, under proper supervision.
These trips have been provided for by
Portland Stock Yards Men
Urge Raising More Porkers
C. M. McAllister, the representa
tive of the Portland Union Stock
yards Company, who has been in this
vicinity for the pat several days In
vestigating the livestock interests,
especially aa they affect the hog and
dairy Industry, is enthusiastic re
gardinK the Possibilities of the Rogue
Valley. He says thnt he has found
a much greater activity among the
producers of hogs than he had antic -
Ipated, nnd believes that this dis
trict will soon be among the heavy
shippers of swine and swine prod
ucts. Mr. McAllister says that he
finds tho farmers paying the greptest.
of attention to the breeding of their
herds, and pure-bred hogs are being
placed on many farms. While here,
Mr. McAllister visited the farmers of
the Applegate, Williams and other
adjacent valleys, giving advice upon
the hog industry, and making more
sentiment in favor of Increasing the
number of bogs rained. He was Im
pressed with the quality of the Rogue
river hogs, and predicts that ship
ments from here when the country
raises enough over home consump
tion to make carload shipments pos
sible, will top the market. He said
that one lot of 90 corn-fed hogs that
he saw now being finished Jor mar-
Oold Mining Company Organized.
The Cassada Gold Mining Company
has been organized by J. L. Corbet t,
I. 13. Corbett, Willis Morton and
Ranse Roust?. The capitalization is
$1011,1(00. The company is to oper
ate in th( Cottonwood district on
Hiliu.iy cieek. The capital is raised
for Installing the mill and operations
will i oinmence soon.
l.itvviiitiowrs
sharpened and repaired.
Will call
for iiml deliver.
Phone 2SU-Y. It
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Position With Smelters i
O'Oura, who will have charge of the I
experiment farms and laboratory fa
cilities and have under him a huge
staff.
The resignation Is to take effect at
once and Professor O'Gara will leave
in a few days. He is scheduled to
report at Salt Lake City March 25.
He returned Thursday from Califor
nia, where he met representatives of
the Guggenheims and closed the con
tract, which has been pending since
last December, when the general
manager of the American Smelting
and Refining Company visited him at
Med ford and opened negotiations for
his services.
Professor O'Gara's departure will
be severely felt, particularly at this
season, as the entire valley has de
pended upon him for frost warning
during the blossoming ant' fruit
forming period.
It's time to go to Studio Ashland.
Over Industrial Club Work
contributions from Portland business
men.
Mr. Harrington, in company with
A, ..V Chase, Incpector for the south
half of Jackson county, visited the
Neil Creek school Wednesday even
ing last and organized. They met
in connection with the Neil Creek
Parent-Teacher- Association which
held an enthusiastic meeting and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. Mor
ris; secretary, Mrs. Helms.
The boys' and girls' industrial
club, which was organized that night,
elected the following officers: Presi
dent, Viva McDonough; vice-president,
. Harvey Taylor; secretary,
George Scribner; treasurer, Obera
Morris; advisor, Mrs. McKinney. The
club staita out with thirteen mem
bers. A night or two previous Mr. Har
rington and Mr. Chase organized a
boys' and girls' club of 4 5 members
with the following officers: Presi
dent, Merritt Randall; vice-president,
Zena Chapman; secretary, ICthel Mil
ler: treasurer, Harry Moore; advisor.
Prof. A. C. Joy.
-It's time to go to Studio Ashland.
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ket would class with the "tops" in
the Portland livestock market.
Mr. McAllister advocated the heav
ier planting of corn lit the valley,
nnd co-operation among the hog
growers to get their product ready
Tor market at stuted periods when
co-operative shipments can he made.
He is optimistic over trie outlook for
the profit that will come to the pro-
! dm er, saying that In his opinion the
price of beef was up to stay, and that
of necessity the price of pork would
follow It. He speaks encouragingly
of the efforts being made to open a
home market for pork und for pork
products, but says that the Rogue
Valley should proruce a great ninny
times the amount of swine that home
markets can consume, and that this
district should he among the leaders
In putting the eastern porker out of
tho western market.
FOR BALK Millinery, up-to-date
styles. Owninfc my store, expenses
are lighter, so can offer goods cheap
er than would be possible otherwise.
You are invited to call and Inspect
the stock. Miss Porter, 'It
Michaels-Stern & Co. suits are
arriving now at Enders'.
Yreka Awake to Need
Of Great Pacific Highway
uavw h. uu Ker in the Portland ,
Oregonian writes from Yreka, Cal.,
in part as follows:
When Jackson county in Oregon
ueiiueii to mum a good road to the i city the meeting place of California's
California boundary line, as the story Uwo great, state-length highways,
goes here. Siskiyou woke up. They ! And the plan will he a tivinoiidoiiM
decided to call Jackson's bet. They j boon to lower Oregon, ton. It meaiM
have done it. Then they passed the that all travel over both highways
buck to Shasta county, south of them, ( will have to pa?s over Jackson con li
the one broken link and the last j ty's splendid road into Oregon.
'coiintv to nirree to the ntnteV nrnii.it
- v iiiMt-1-11 ni muni- iiiul Lilt' M,'jl
sv;;ke and at onoe vou,d Bbh
On May 1 work will he begun on !
the first unit of the Siskiyou section
from the boundary line to Horn
brook. June 1 work will be started
on the second unit, reaching from
Hornhrook to Yreka, and after the
roadway is completed the Pacific
Highway signs will be moved from
that disgraceful stretch of mire that
lends to Montague and set up along
side the 20-foot wide, cement-surfaced
avenue that will crawl through
the splendid canyon of the Siskiyou
and meet the hard-surfaced road of
Jackson county on the mountain top
a mile north or Cole.
Rut the work of the state highway
is not all that Is starting Yreka's
heart to beating again. Noel K.
Graves, county road engineer, de
scribes with move than ordinary en
thusiasm the great road loop that is
being planned by the state highway
i commission. This loop forms a fig
ure 8, with San Francisco as the cen
ter between the two lobes. One lobe
will circle south to Los Angeles,
sweep through Santa Barbara, and
return to San Francisco by way of
FreFno and Merced.
l"pHr Hulf Arouse Yreka.
Hut it is the upper half of the S
that has started Yreka's pulse. It
embraces the California coast high
way, which climbs tip the coast miles
inland, sweepR over the ocean at
Eureka, and then follows the Red
wood and Klamath rivers east to
Yreka and the Pacific Highway which
conies up through the center of the
Jayhawkers Will Hold Their
Meeting Wednesday, March 18
All Kunsans who reside in Ashland
and the Rogue River Valley are
urged to attend a meeting In the city
council chamber at 8 o'clock Wed
nesday evening, March IS.
Since, the organization of a Jay
hawker club was started three weeks
ago the list has grown to about
seventy-five, and the mail Is bring
ing in additional names each day.
Those received since the last publien-
I). A. llerley of Talent, native of
Jewel county, Kansas.
Mrs. Rett n C. Dunlap, 159 Nob
Hill, born in Michigan, lived in Kan
sas 155 years, at Ottawa and Inde
pendence. Mrs. J. C. Perrine, mother of Mrs.
Dunlap, horn in New York state and
i lived in Kansas ninny years.
I Mrs. S. H. Stoner, born in Canada,
lived in Kansas 25 years, at Hamlin,
llrown county, Kansas.
S. H. Stoner, born in Pennsylvania,
I County to Aid in Seem ing Crescent
I Harbor.
I .Indue John l. Cliilds, one of the
foremost citizens of noil hern Califor
nia, of Crescent City, appeared be
fore the county court recently nnd
asked that $1100 be upppprinted by
Jackson county to send a local repre
sentative to Washington to appear
before the rivers and harbors en
gineer board anil committee to out
line the benefits to be received by
this section from (lie expending of
$1,81)0,01)0 Improving the harbor at
Crescent City. Tho Medford council
will be asked to appropriate $200 to
wards the same cause, making a total
of $500.
The Improvement of the harbor Is
held by Mr. Cliilds to be the keystone
of the proposed Crescent City Rail
road, giving to southern Oregon a
commercial outlet by sea for timber
and fruit, the first-named resourco
being still lu a virgin state, and tho
heavy timber lund holders of south
ern Oregon and northern California
will be at the Washington session to
urge the Immediate expenditure of
tho money.
One grade of 40c coffee In tin
to close out, while it lasts, 35c, at
the Plaia grocery. 82-2t
passes through Sacramento,
Weed. Sisson ami Dtinsniuir. ami
meets the coast half of the circle aC '
Yreka, thus making this time-felt
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from its nrescnt course mid mnbu it-
pass through this quaint, historic
town, the seat of the county that ha
.produced more gold than any other
county in the world, and which in
still producing gold to such an extent
that the constant bank deposits in
Yreka average $1,000,000.
Civil Service KvumimiUou.
Civil service commission annouiK en
a forest and field clerk examination
will be held in Ashland on April 4.
A knowledge of stenography, type
writing and bookkeeping is required
in connection with this examination.
Work Commenced
On Pacific Highway
The surveying crew which has been
working on the Pacific Highway in
the northern part of the valley re
turned to this city Tuesday morning:
to do some more work in this vicin
ity and run the grade down tho
Fourth street, route, says A. K. Rader
iu Central Point Herald. A crew
was started the first of the week on
the actual construction work of th
highway between this city and Med
ford. The big cement uiixer belong
ing to the county was steamed up
and taken out on the road Tuesday.
Ironclad hos for children
Enders", in the heart of the city.
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lived In Kansas 12 years. R. C,
Stoner, born in Brown county.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Con well wer
residents of Decatur county for 2X
years. Their children, Glenn 11. Con
well, Mrs. May Gniley, Mrs. Pearl
Trefren, Mr. Olin Conwell and Mrs.
Dale Brown, all natives of Decatur
county, and Mrs. Glenn H. Conwell.
native of Greenwood county,
W, M. Grubh, Lovelwell, Jewel
county, Kansas, native of Pennsyl
vania, lived in Kansas 18 years.
Mrs. Anna E. Grubh, native of
Peiinsv lvania, lived in Kansas I X
years.
Mrs. Anna E. Giubb, native of
I wa and lived in Kansas IS years.
Mrs. G. A. Morse of Talent, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Grubb,
native of Kansas, lived in Ashland 11
years.
It's time to go to Studio Ashland.
The ladies are certainly appre
ciative of the beauty of the sample
shown by Fuller & Paulscrud. Tim
line is complete an 1 the styles up tit
the minute.
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EASTERN FRIENDS POSTED f
ON ASHLAND!
Ashland Is on the eve of her
greatest era of development.
Your friends in the Kast are X
naturally Interested in the com- t
uiunity In which you have lo- T
cated. Keep them posted by
sending them the
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