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ASHLA!CD TEMKGS
Monday, April 13, 1914
Ashland Tidings
SEMI-WEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 1876.
THK BIG THING.
Issued Mondays and Thursdays
Rett R. (irew.
It W. Talcott,
- Editor and Owner
... City Editor
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One Year $2.00
Six Months 1.00
Three Months 50
Payable in Advance.
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At the Commercial Club meeting
Monday night Professor Vining spoke
' of the necessity of Ashland centering
her entire force on the mineral
springs. "Let us spend our money
making a creditable and attractive
display of our mineral waters at the
depot; one that will be artistic and
alluring. Ashland is about to be
transformed into a watering resort.
That means more to her than all she
has ever attempted before. Let
ROILROADS DO BIG THINGS OX A
-. . BIG SCALE.
The future of Ashland as a water
ing resort depends mainly upon two
things: the attractiveness given the
resort and the energy and enthusiasm
with which the railroad gets behind
the enterprise. No railroad can af
ford to advertise extensively a resort
unless it can feel certain that when
it attracts people here they will be
satisfied, glad they came and willing
us and anxious to come again. The rail-
'j center our funds and force on that i roads cannot afford to induce people
i display, and not detract from it by a to buy tickets over their line by false
CHIEF PORTER'S BOX CAR TOUR.
19TS.
' I multiplicity of pumpkins and prod-
It is like the display window
representations. Two classes are
attracted to a watering resort such
There are two kinds of tourists
box car tourists and palace car tour
ists. The first we have had in large
numbers and want to get rid of. The
last we are mighty anxious to get.
Why? Because one is a parasite and
the other a benefactor.
But both of thorn follow the main
traveled roads in large numbers.
Ashland is on the main traveled road.
Since the first of the year 2,004 of
the box car kind stopped in Ashland
and Chief Porter pushed them on.
Eight hundred and fifty-seven of
them stopped last month and 275 al-
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Capital and Surplus, $120,000.00
Advertisins rates on aunlieation
Equipments second to none m the in a store, nil it tun or one article; as Asniana win ue: tnose in searcn ; ready this month. At the same time
interior. I artistically and attractively displayed I of health coming to drink and bathe j 250,000 of the other kind the pal-
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, jand the attention of the spectator! in the waters in the hope of gaining j ace car kind the "kind we need and
Postoliie as second-class mail mat- ( will not be muddled with variety but ; physical benefit, and those who come j want passed through Ashland on
ter. will be fixed on the one big thing. In t to spend a vacation in the hope of ; Southern Pacific trains, but they did
: : the future the mineral springs will j getting relaxation and rest. A resort ! not stop.
Ashland. Ore., Monday. April 13. '-i1)e thfi p bi thins jn Ashland and j of the kind must appeal to both to j in working out the watering resort
southern Oregon. Fix the visitor's ; be a success. And above all, the rail- j proposition let's do it on a scale that
THK PRESS A.M Til h t .1I- attention on that and do not be afraid '. roads must understand that the nlans !
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DATE.
The changed attitude of the press
toward office-seekers (luring the past
few years is marked. Prior to ten
years ago practically every newspaper
in the country was intensely partisan.
It fought for the platform of a party
and for every candidate on its party
ticket. It mattered not if the party.
for political expediency, had nomi-i
Tated the greatest blatherskite in the L
of making the display too elaborate, j are to make the resort attractive
said Mr. Vining. who has traveled ex-j enough to justify their best efforts
tensively abroad and knows what he j before they will spend big money in
is talking about.
Mr. Vining's illustration applies as
well to all of our future advertising.
The watering resort feature must be
j advertising to bring people here. Co
operation between the resort and the
railroad. The more people the rail
roads haul, the more money they
The sale of land, the exploitation of
fruits, mining, and all other indus
tries will be none the less real and
attractive bv making them incident
community, the newspaper fought for to th th5n .. Ashland's waters
him to the last ditch and solemnly J wj atuat,t the ,llultitude. When
bewailed his defeat if the electorate j they .ome t)ley ., make note o QUr
exercised good judgment enough to j other advantages and thousands of
turn him down. But all that is now j them be ln(luced t0 locate penna.
Thn nnlWiiilni! -1 rt t Vt A ......
forced to the front as predominant. n,ike and the greater benefit to the
city. Railroads do big things ou a
big scale.
It
takes more than a back door hand
out to do it. There must be a fine
display in the front window to catch
them.
Firs! National Bank
Oldest National Bank in Jackson County
A branch of the San Francisco re
gional bank is wanted for Portland.
Saturday, April 18, will be fire
protection day in Oregon.
Depository of (he United States, State of Oregon, Coun
t t ly of Jackson and City of Ashland.
4,ii?if"fi "a1 ! ' ii y ii mmi 4m1'I ! "I1 h ''h tip 'H H "fr 'J1 ! fr 'H
The Royal Bakery and Cafe
serve "home cooking" at all hours,
and dinner at noon. They also take
special orders for cakes for parties.
Mr. Drake does his own baking and
makes the best bread, cakes and pies
in Ashland. Call and see. 89-Gt
VAWTER FOR JOINT HEP-I
RESEXTAT1YE.
Statement.
To the Government, as required In
law: The Ashland Tidings, owned by
Bert It. Greer and B. V. Talcott.
Known bondholders, F. G. Wagner;
editor, Bert U. Greer.
nently in this valley, even though our
advertisement put them as but inci
dental. If Ashland hopes for a big
party and the party ran the news
paper. The party was used mostly by
the politicians for private ends and
the newspapers were meekly and
honestly engaged in bewildering and
misleading the public. The editors
themselves thought the country j Ashland t0 nave one hundre thou
would go to the eternal bowwows If j 8and tourists here during the summer
their party was defeated and tried to i seasoni even though not one of them
convince everybody else of the possi- I stavp(i n(,rmnentlv. This would ot
leave one to one and one-
Miiltnomah has picked out twelve
of her strongest men to stand for
election to the legislature. That's
what Jackson county should do.
More attention must be paid to the
selection of members from this toun-
ble calamity in the ascendency of the
opposition. Time passed on; poli
ticians grew fat; taxes rose high, and
the people began to see that political
parties, instead of standing for great
basic principles as they were sup
posed to do, were now changed into
machines through which politicians
were raised to power to help the pol
itician and the machine instead of
administering economical and effi
cient government, as the people, by
pre-election pledges, were led to be
lieve was the coveted object of their
dear old party. When the people first
discovered the fact things at once
began to pop. Weak enough, indeed,
ai me nrsi, uui growing ever sirons- ; hoped for.
r, until at last their thought is illus-i ..bjS thing'
trated in such laws as the Oregon
corrupt practices act, the direct pri
mary and the restriction of party ma
chines by a general election law that
makes united party effort at an elec
tion nil.
What the people discovered early
future the potency is in her mineral jty in order to compete with the grow-.
resort possibilities. These should be ling tendency of the north state sec
placed at the front in all that we do i tions to send brainy, capable men to
and say. Think of what it means to I the front. W. I. Vawter of Medford
has at last yielded to the solicitation
of his town to become a candidate for
joint representative from Jackson and
Douglas counties. Mr. Vawter is the
kind of timber Jackson county needs
in the legislature. He is a man of
large business experience, a good law- i
yer and a man capable to compete
with strong men to advantage for his
district.
necessity
half million dollars in ready cash in
the city. That is as much as we now
reap from the total fruit crop of the
valley. The number of new hotels
necessary for their accommodation,
the new apartment houses for light
housekeeping, the number of rooms
for which there will be a demand, the
number of furnished cottages needed
for their accommodation, the amount
of fruit they will consume from our
local orchards, the vast amount of
vegetables that will be needed, these,
all of them, will double the taxable
value of the city and create a home
market that cannot be otherwise
Center your force on the
and lets push it with all
our might.
AKTEI
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
AKSOCIATIOX.
The National Editorial Association
MOTION'
PICTURES AS
TEMPERANCE.
AID TO
Unintentional praise for the mo
tion picture shows comes from the
District of Columbia. The excise
board reports that liquor dealers
there are complaining that the "mov
ies" hurt their business. The man
who formerly spent his evenings at
a saloon is now more likely to take
his family to a ten-cent theatre.
EAGLE POINT NOTES.
Monday evening, April 6, several
members of the W. C. T. U. gave a
pleasant little surprise to their presi-
Next year it will
make a
of Amprir:i meets in Hnustnn Tevnu I Aon Mic Tl II Tlrt-ont (ha nnnaairtn
meet in San Francisco and
uor a.scoverea .aier wa. mu.-u.au,, t0l(f of northwest. The Xiding8
because editors of all people were the, and ciMng of AMand tQ
blindest partisans, being led most 1 rtajQ MBOt.,Bton here next year
penecuy ana conienieuiy vy me pui
for two or three days. The matter
has been taken up so when the west
ern itinerary for the next year is
arranged the Rogue Itiver Valley will
get on the list of stops. This asso-
cintlnn la rrminntl nf AVArv ftriltnr
orerr editor knows that the clamor;. . . , . . , .
, . , . .., ,j , In America who has two dollara to
pay the dues and
tirian, and misleading the people as
well as himself. Then be awoke and
the politician began to refer to him
as a "muckraker." And so the change
fcas come about until now practically
for office is largely an Individual
matter whether Tom, Dick or Harry
geta the Job and the emoluments, J
with mighty little care for the people,
or high taxes, or big principles.
And as the editor discovers this he
becomes less of a partisan and in
dividual advocate and more of a pros
ecutor. He fees there is less impor
tance attached to the name of the
man or the party and more to the
performances. He is beginning to
demand service, not party regularity,
and the people are following bis sug
gestion, and he becomes at once a
leader and follower, for the things he
now advocates are what the people
had long demanded.
We consider what we here say
apropos, for at this time there are
ight republican candidates strug
gling for the nomination for gov.
ernor, and it matters not a whit to
the people, or the newspapers, which
one of them wins, but It matters
greatly what kind of an administra
tion they give when elected. There
fore, unless a candidate Is notorious
ly unfit, the newspapers should take
little part in the advocacy of candi
dates but should rather expose the
unfit. But, when men are elected to
office and enter upon their duties,
the newspapers should at once train
an eagle eye on them, and at the first
corruption or unwarranted expendi
tures and waste of the people's
money, the application of the recall
should be advocated and pressed to
action.
get-np-nnd-glt"
enough to take an Interest in his fra
ternity. By the time the association
reaches here next year Ashland will
have several big hotels, the best min
eral waters on earth will be gurgling
forth in her park, and the impression
we will make on these editors will
get us hundreds of thousands of dol
lars' worth of advertising for our re
sort. The assocltion will travel in
special trains specially fitted up for
the occasion.
TEN-DOLLAR GOLD PIECE FREE.
The Tidings will give a prize of
ten dollars in gold to ' the person
guessing closest to the number of
tourists that will visit Ashland dur
ing the season of 1915, If the springs
are brought in. All guesses must be
In by May 1, 1914 (30 days from
now), and the prize will be awarded
at the end of the season next year.
The person winning this prize will
no doubt be the one who studies tour-
i 1st movements at other resorts clos
est, and makes the most correct com
parison between the attractions of
the other resorts with Ashland after
the springs are In.
Address all guesses to the Mineral
Springs Guess Department of the
Tidings.
Sometimes a woman is so hard tip
for something to brag on he will
brag on a husband who brags on
himself.
holnfr liar liirt h rl a V Aff.il a chnrt I
time spent in social conversation a
dainty luncheon was served, at which
time the ladies presented Mrs. Bry
ant with a handsome present. Dur
ing the evening Rev. Lindblad of
Ashland gave a couple of short talks
that were both interesting and help
ful. At a late hour good nights were
said to our friends after an evening
enjoyably spent.
Evangelist Lindblad stopped over
Monday night with C. S. Painter, he
being on his way to Peyton to hold
special meetings.
Our city council took a very ad
vanced reform step at their meeting
on Tuesday evening. They passed:
an ordinance prohibiting bicycle rid
ing on the sidewalks. They gave as
their reason that it endangered tbej
life and limbs of our women and i
childreu. That Is all very good, and
we are glad for It, but at the same
meeting they granted a license to a
man to sell liquors to our fellow citi
zens, that they might get drunk and
go reeling down the streets, taking
all of the sidewalk, and then on home
to their families, to abuse them. Oh,
you awful bicycle! "Consistency,
thou art a Jewel."
The Parent-Teacher Association
met at the Church house on Tuesday
evening. After the reading and ap
proving of the minutes of the last
meeting Mrs. Von der Hellen read a
short paper on gardening, which was
followed by a general discussion ot
plans for a school garden. It was
decided that steps should be taken to
Been re such a garden and Professor
Buchanan was appointed a commit
tee to secure ground for same. It is
hoped that more of the parents will
attend these meetings. Next meet
ing will bo Monday evening, April 13.
Initiative petitions are being clrcu-
The guesses, together with a short
reason why, by the guesser, will belated here for the Oregon Dry con
printed In the Tidings. Sign your j stltutlonal amendment and are being
own name to your guess. signed quite freely.
Humility is a beautiful virtue, bull The Northern Pacific-Great North
ladies In limousine cars never look ' em Railroad intends to SDend mil-
like they think they need It.
Phono news Items to the Tidings.
lions of dollars at Tillamook.
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Staple and Fancy
Dry Goods
Fancy Waists
VAUPEL'S
Uq QUALITY :STORE
Bntterick Patterns
SK0ES
GENTS'
FURNISHINGS
We Give Vo Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase
New Arrivals for Easter Trade
LADIES' SILK GLOVES.
16-button white silk, 75c, $1
and $1.50.
2-button, 50c, 75c and $1.
16-button black silk, white
stitching. 75c, $1 and $1.50.
2-button, 50c, 75c and $1.
16-button white chamois suede,
50c and 75c.
16-button kid in white, tan and
black. ,
2-button kid gloves in all col
ors. LADIES' SILK HOSE,
50c, $1 and $1.50.
DRESS MATERIALS.
Regal silk crepe in white, pink,
tango, tan, new blue, lavender,
5-yard patterns, 90c yard.
Brocaded crepe in tango, blue
and purple.
Ratine French crepe In pale
blue, ecru, white and grey.
Silk ratine, in tango shade.
White and colored ratine in
great vnriety.
Ratine voile in white and tan,
white snowflake voile, white
snowflake crepe, and many other
novelty weaves in white dress
goods.
Crispine cloth in light blue, tan,
new blue, pink, white, cream,
brown and lavender.
Dovetine cloth for afternoon
and evening wraps, in white and
pink.
New lace flouncing
signs. .
in many de-
New Spring Waists in voile, lace and lawn, at
$1.00 and up
JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER LOT OF FANCY SHOES IN SOROSIS
MAKES. INSPECTION INVITED
MEN'S $3.00 FELT HATS, SPECIAL AT $1.95
i ,
j& Boys' Suits, Boys' and Men's Shoes and Furnishings j&
Let us fit you with a pair of SOROSIS or ITZ & DUNN shoe?. They are right in price, style
and quality. Satisfaction guaranteed.
THE STAPLES REALTY AND AUTO AGENCY
Ride In a Stanley Auto
-AND-
Buy Land From Me
I have secured the agency for the Stanley Motor Carriage Company of Newton, Massachusetts,
manufacturers of the Stanley Steam Auto, a car that has increased In popularity in all places intro
duced more than any other automobile made. Recent demonstrations have proved satisfactory to '
several Ashland residents who have in some cases taken long rides over mountains in a Stanley. I
have made some advance sales and have ordered four cars of the latest models, and those who are
looking for the latest thing In automobiles will do well to wait and see a sample. NO SHIFTING
OF GEARS. NO SPARK PLUGS TO CLEAN. NO CARBURETOR TO ADJUST, NO ELECTRIC WIRE
SYSTEM TO KEEP IN REPAIR. GREATLY REDUCED TIRE TROUBLE AND UPKEEP DUE TO
EASY STARTING 'AND REGULAR MOVEMENT. So superior In hill climbing ana speed that it is
barred from all automobile contests, in both racing and hill climbing. Reduced cost of operation,
burning either gasoline, coal oil. distillate or turpentine. Guaranteed absolutely safe, most simple
car made for operation. Simplest car for lady drivers made. Only 13 moving parts in engine.
A STANLEY AUTO FOR YOU
Make it "Ashland the Beautiful.'
80-acre rsnch producing from two to three thou
sand dollars per year, beautiful location.
$11,000.
800 acres under plow near Condon, Oregon, $40
per acre, on terms, or will take some clear prop
erty in exchange.
A 30-acre alfalfa ranch, fine home. $14,000.
640-acre ranch, fine improvements, in Missouri, to
trade for orchard and town property to value of
$30,000.
75-acrc improved irrigated aiiana ranch well situ
ated in Idaho. Value $10,000. Clear. Will
trade and put In some cash for mercantile stock
same value.
Large and Small Tracts to Suit
Hotel Ashland Bldg.
Ashland, Oregon