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EK31TT r-.u " A6HLAXD TIDINGS Thursday, April 2, 18(4 Classified Advertisements ( Continued from Page Threat) TOO LATK TO CLASSIFT. FOR SALE Buick automobile, $300. Floy Dickey. 89-lmo. Editor Declines Senatorial Honors (From Medford Sun of March 30.) To the Medford Sun. My Dear Mr. Kuhl: Allow nie to thank you for the kind mention you made of me as a suitable candidate for state senator from Jackson coun ty. It is indeed gratifying to feel that a strong newspaper and so many influential men in a neighboring city look to me as worthy timber for such a responsible and honorable place. I am free to admit the prospect strongly appeals to me, and since reading your kind notice puting me forward as an acceptable and possi ble candidate, and since receiving personal assurances of support from so many of the business men of your city, as well as my own, i have seri ously considered entering the can vass. I would hold it a very great honor to be elected from Jackson county to the state senate. Indeed, it is a prospect which, it seems to me, should appeal to any citizen am bitious for the future of this county. Hoped to Serve District. It has always been my hope to be of use to my community and I have made from time to time what has amounted to some personal sacrifice in pursuit of enterprises for the ad vancement of my locality, but what I have attempted so far has been only as a newspaper man and private citi zen, never having been a candidate for office, either elective or appoint ive; nor have I ever privately aspired to political preferment. There is a grave responsibility attached to seek ing and holding public office and it would not appeal to me on any ground other than that of material good to be gained for the community and a firm conviction that I might prove the instrument through which the most good could be accomplished. Men Good for Something. It is unfortunate for the country that so many men aspire to office with but motives of personal aggran dizement and for private ends. I shall never be one of those, for the tinsel of distinction does not appeal to me as such. The notion is becom- j ing common that a public office is a 1 sacred trust that the power at tached to it is but temporary and representative, to be used by the In cumbent in executing the public busi ness to the best of his ability, with out private design or political bun combe. As that view broadens the demand is increasing for higher pur- posed men not only good men, but men good for something and who stand for definite principles. The people no longer look upon public offices as sinecures for good fellows. There is need for hard and conscien tious work, and only those who have the ability, the disposition and capac ity will hereafter be looked favor ably upon as candidates for political honors. That growing sentiment au gers well for the future of our coun try. Party rawiioa Subsiding. Party passion Is subsiding and ere long it will bare been entirely subor dinated to that larger patriotism through which, alone, wholesome gov ernment can long endure under dem ocratic form. The people now groan under heavy tax burdens. When they exercise less partisan zeal and greater care as to men and results, those now ad ministering government recklessly and extravagantly will be brought to see that carelessness, corruption and .waste will no longer be tolerated and will mend their ways to save their political necks, even though they have no higher purpose in doing it. Administration will prove juster and our system will gain a firmer bold on tbe people when It becomes impractical for designing politiciani to attempt to force favorable action fa unfavorable legislation by crack Ing the party whip. PartiDMtilp Hurt Kfficlency, An Independent, hfgh-mlnded cltl tenohip, demanding service and econ omy from its public men, will quickly breed a generation of courageous, In dependent, retiponslvo politicians. Vltra partisanship and over-organization Is fatal to economical govern ment. Political organization has, Is and always will bo most effective when the spoils system Is rigidly en forced, for spoils hold a political ma chine together as nothing else can. Private favoritism and spoils In pub lic administration results In spolia tion of the people. So. you see, I am not ultra-partisan. The greatest reason for my never having been a candidate tor political favor is that I have never been ready to sacrifice that principle in order to gain the support of a party machine. .. . ' Will Xot Be CawbSdate. ' v This is but preliminary to saying that I have decided not to become a candidate for the state senate at this time. I am now engaged in a work that is considered of vast importance, not only' to my own city but the whole Rogue River Valley. The city of Ashland is just now being trans formed into a watering resort. Min eral waters of unusual medicinal worth are available and the natural ! environment is here to make it the greatest health and home resort in America. If this can be successfully accomplished and tourists attracted i here from, all parts of the country it will be of vast material benefit to the whole valley and to every city in the valley. I have already as sumed the responsibility of forward ing this enterprise, having been en gaged in' the work for the past six months, and it will take more time to complete it. I am quite sure, therefore, that I can be of more ser vice to the Rogue River Valley In helping to establish this section of the state as a tourist resort than I could possibly hope to be in the sen ate at this time, and I am convinced that I cannot make a succesful po litical canvass without neglecting this important undertaking. There fore, I am determined to sacrifice political ambition in the interest of this work. Accept my appreciation of your kind words, and through your paper allow me to express thanks to those business men in Medford, and those throughout the valley, who by per sonal assurance and correspondence have offered me valuable support should I decide to make a canvass for state senator. I am exceedingly grateful to the Medford Sun for its kind offices in my nenair. l nope i may prove worthy of your confidence and be able in tbe future, in a measure at least, to reciprocate the kindness. Yours for a greater Rogue River Valley. BERT R. GREER. Does Advertising The Shasta grocery advertised soap in the Tidings Monday. The copy read '.'ten bars for B5 cents." An er ror was made in the printed ad and read "ten bars for 25 cents." Since Monday they have been selling some soap. The Tidings being re- ponsible for the error, is paying the difference, rather, than leave the re flection on our advertiser that he ad- ertises one price and asks another. But the big point is that Ashland people do read advertisements and know a bargain when they see it. The merchant who spends as much ffort hunting bargains for his cus tomer and spends what money the in getting suitable quarters for his family there last season and says the bungalows built by the Conway Com pany filled up as fast as completed. The proposed apartment house will stand at the corner of Sixth and Central avenues and will thus be four blocks from the waterfront on the main retail street of the city. The design i typically mission. The structure will be thre stories high with English basement. The exterior will be finished in stucco with Span ish tile cornice etcetera and will be highly ornate. The cost approximates $30,000 without the $10,000 lot. The foundation is now being put in by the Conway crew who are also en- rade will justify in telling the peo-j gaged on other work there. pie about it through the Tidings will t The apartment house will accom- get the business. HKJHW.AV WORK HOYS' CLUB IIKAKD TALK ON DAIRYING In his address before the Boys' Vo cational Club at the Elks' Temple last Thursday night Dr. Withycombe of Corvallis declared he had never ad dressed a more numerous or attentive gathering of boys on vocational top ics. He predicted that the influence of the club would not only be felt in future years by a more sterling man hood among the boys themselves but that it would be reflected in no un certain manner in the future citizen ship of Southern Oregon through higher ideals and fixity of purpose in life. Specializing on his topic of Farm ing and Dairying, he designated this section as the best in Oregon for dairying and referred to the days wheu the Ashland Creamery was started and tbe analyses of cream showed the highest percentage of but ter fat on record at that time. He declares the farmers here are mak ing their great mistake by selling their products iu the form of grain and hay thereby exhausting the fer tllity of the soil and gaining but a small return. He argued for feeding the farm crops to livestock as far as possible returning the fertilizers to the soil rather than bankrupting it The de terioration of the soil will thus be small and the returns for the live stock and other products marketed will be much greater. He gave illus trations of various communities which "prosperity has followed the cow," and declared also that those who raise hogs in Oregon "will wear diamonds." Stock raising will go far toward solving the cull fruit prob lem and thus frequently pull tbe orchardist out of the hole in an off year. PARCEL POST BEING EXTENDED RAPIDLY CONWAY TO BUILD ON BIG SCALE (Continued from Page One.) HIIII I IIIIMimtllllHMM John Kelly $4.00 Boots for Women IN CALIFORNIA The California State Highway Commission last Thursday announced the preparation of bids for the con struction of various links in the 270 miles of state highway between Marysville and the Oregon state line. The bids were to be in within thirty days and construction work started immediately. Among the contracts was that between Hornbrook and the Jackson county Oregon highway now under construction.' The others were links through Shasta, Tehama and other Northern California counties. The commission announced that the work of building tbe California state highway system was delayed one year by the slowness in marketing the bonds. J. W. Sweeney has a force of about 100 men at work on the contract for the grading of the Jackson county highway over the Siskiyous. They are lined out in three main camps. The cutting out of the right of way is completed and the work of excavat ing oegan at Barrons. The first cut showed that hard rock was abundant. Mr. Sweeney will this week receive two carloads of mules and one car of horses from his place near Portland, after which he will increase his work- ng force extensively and push the work rapidly. Mr. Sweeney will be one of the bidders for the California state high way contract from tbe state line to Hornbrook, and as he is on the job with his well-organized outfit will no doubt be successful. Tbe bids will be opened in about twenty days at Sacramento. The camps and cutout right of way, as well as the work of excavating, is easily seen from the railroad and the passengers take considerable interest In knowing that this is a fine piece of work Jackson county Is contribut ing to the Pacific Highway, and the usual comment upon tbe courage and enterprise of Jackson county is- fre quently heard from passengers modate twenty-one families. The plans show fifty-one rooms in addi tion to the dressing rooms, private halls and , twenty-one baths. Each apartment is the equivalent of three and five-room bungalows. Tbe build ing is to be steam heated and bril liantly electric lighted throughout and equipped for gas cooking etc. The steam heat will be produced by the latest crude oil furnace similar to that in Ashland's fine high school. Domestic hot water service night and day, and in fact everything in the line of modern convenience will be installed. Everything that modern ingenuity has thus far devised in the way of built-in features will be found in this splendid building. It will have the Portal Disappearing Oscillating Wall Beds whereby' your bed folds up and disappears into the wall and the section of wall turns on a pivot mid way at top and bottom and your side board enters the room and stands where your bed was but a moment before. The kitchenettes are a dream of compactness and convenience about the only thing that doesn't disappear is the gas range. Cupboards and cool ing closets are built into tbe walls. Laundry trays are hid away under the draining board. Tables, ironing boards, bread boards, flour bins and other household furniture generally found in the kitchen are all out of sight except when in use. Mr. Conway has been closing up a MANY women who once wore lower price shoes have grown into the habit of wearing four dollar shoes, because they pro vide superior comfort and satisfaction. We have an especially complete as sortment of "JOHN KELLY" shoes in this grade. They are good shoes, unusually handsome shoemaking. We are proud of them. We have PATENT COLTSKIN, button boot, cloth or dull top DULL CALF, button boot, low heel, English last TAN KID, button, new top and toe, 'Hp : and other top notch styles i i X I 1 $4.00 X t "BABY DOLLS" the latest creation in shoes and pumps. SEE OUR WINDOW. H. G. Eiders Soft 'Where You Do Better" II 1 I M M 1 1 1 1 1414 number of deals here and at Yreka California' and elsewhere and expects to get busy at Marshfield within a few weeks. He expects a great sea son's work over there this year aside from the building of the structure above described. Among other pros pects Is a $30,000 business block and others contemplated nearby. The PORTLAND EVENING TELE GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year, $5.00. J. F. Redner died in the soldiers' home at Rosebnrg on the nineteenth. He was a resident of Evans Valley but for the past two years has been: an invalid at the Ashland hospital. Mr. Redner was born in Minnesota and was aged sixty-six years and one month at the time of his death. He had been in the real estate busineBi in Fargo North Dakota and also ed ited a paper at Oregon City Oregon . He served in a Minnesota regiment during the Civil War. SOtPIUSKD ON 49TH BIRTHDAY Preliminary steps have been taken by the Postofflce Department to per feet its plan for reducing the cost of living by having the parcel post carry products of the farm directly to the door of tbe consumer. This use of the parcel post was tried out last season by an Ashland man Prof. A, C. Joy with good success. Ten cities have been selected by the government to try out the work of establishing direct connection be tween producer and consumer. Post niaster-Oeneral Burleson having al ready Issued an order permitting the use of crates and boxes for butter eggs, poultry, vegetables and fruit shipped by parcel post. Orders wen today to the postmasters at Boston Atlanta. BL Louis. San Francisco. Baltimore, Detroit, La Crosse Wis consin, Lynn Massachusetts, Rock Island Illinois and Washington, di recting them to "receive the names of persons who are willing to supply farm products la retail quantities by parcel post." Printed lists of these names, show ing kind and quantity of commodity available, will be distributed among town and city patrons. "By the use or the lists, First As sistant Postmaster-General Roper said, "the city consumer will be able to get in touch with a farmer who will fill his weekly orders for butter, eggs and other farm products. The consumer will receive the produce fresh from the country and the per sonal relationship established will no doubt tend, to Improve the quality. Tbe farmer will be relieved of carry ing his produce to market, an the rural carrier will make dally collec tions at the farmer' door of these retail shipments to city consumers," A delightful surprise awaited the return of James C. Ferguson, boiler inspector at the Southern Pacific round-house, udoh his return from work on Tuesday evening last. Jim, as he is familiarly known, reached his forty-ninth birthday on March tblrty firBt and his wife and children, aided and abetted by neighbors and friends, concluded to put rne over on Jim and did it. When he arrived home he found the table spread and guests assem bled to the number of twelve, all of whom congratulated bim on his hav ing arrived at a sensible age and more especially on possessing so charming a home and homemaker. After the first surprise was over Jim was bodily deposited in a luxurious Morris chair, the present of his wife and kiddies, and together with the guests was privileged to listen to some charming vocal and Instrumen tal selections by Miss Bernlce Foster. The call to the birthday dinner soon came and merriment and feast ing gave testimony to the bounteous ness and excellency of the viands pro vided by Mrs. Ferguson. After the feast a social hour was enjoyed, dur ing which Miss Foster, Mrs. Marble and Mr. Ussher entertained. About nine o'clock the hostess, host and guests adjourned to the Odd Fellows Hall, where the Rebekahs were entertaining, and rounded out a most delightful evening. Those present at Mr. Ferguson's were Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Marble, Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Ogg. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Tref ren, J. M. Casebeer, Mrs. F. L. Foster and Miss Bernice Foster. ASI1LANDBRS GOING TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Cold Hill Nowa: D. P. Blue re turned during last week from a year's absence spent at Honolulu, Hawaii, came down from Ashland Saturday and remained until Tuesday with lo cal friends. His visit to the Rogue1 River Valley at this time Is occa sioned by the arrangement of prop erty Interests at Ashland, and he In tends to return to the Islands within a few weeks. Mrs. Blue and Verne, the latter being a member of. tbe fao ulty of lolanl school, will not return for a Visit with friends In Southern Oregon until next year, when they plan to attend the Ban Francisco ex position. Mr, Blue declares the Ha waiian climate to be so uniformly Ideal that the sameness soon palls, and txlles from other climes seldom remain longer than a few years. Nevertheless, himself and family, pleasantly and profitably employed, have not yet determined to leave the "land where it Is always afternoon." and will remain there for a Dumber of years, at least. . CMH With the Law Y AND USE Printed Butter wrappers ACCORDING to the i tiling of the Oregon Dairy and Food Commission all dairy butter sold or exposed for sale in this state must be wrapped in butter paper upon which is printed the words "Oregon Dairy Butter, 16 (or 32) ounces full weight," with the name and address of the maker. To enable patrons of the Tidings to easily comply with this ruling this office has put in a supply of the standard sizes of butter paper and will print it in lots of 100 sheets and up ward and deliver it by parcels post at the fol lowing prices: 100 Sheets, IS or 32 ounces S1.35 250 Sheels, 16 or 32 ounces $1.85 500 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces... $2.65 Send your orders to us by mail accompan ied by the price of the paper and it will be promptly forwarded' to you by parcel post, prepaid. ' We use the best butter paper obtainable, and our workmanship is of the best. Let us have your order and you will not regret it. Ashland Tidings PHONE 3D
