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I I AGES SEX ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, July 18. 1014 I THE PEOPLE'S FORUM I These columns are dedicated to the people for the discussion of pub lic questions or the diffusion of general information. . Articles must be limited to 300 words and name of writer must accom pany articles. Sectarian, Partisan or Personal Criticism is pro hibited. Opinions expressed here are the expressions of the writers only, and not of the Tidings. Character Reading. To the Editor: The various sug gestions called forth by your request for names to be given to prominent points in this vicinity are interesting in the variety and shade of viewpoint of the individuals making them. They suggest the trend of mind of the dreamer, and the thoughtlessness as veil as the thoughtfulness of the writer. One can almost tell from them the character of reading in dulged in and whether the writer is an actor or only a spectator; whether he or she climbs the hills, or remains on the level and looks at them from I Ik. -3 1... . . V.. .1 a 11 L.ll. I me u.aiauue. iuuctu mau leu ueui-i er ne or sne is a newcomer or a "pioneer." The ease with which old names are pushed aside and the place supplied by one taken from the latest novel written. Sometimes, too, one wonders whether the dictionary has been consulted; for instance, one wants to call Mount Ashland a "butte." It is not a butte in any sense of the word, but a mountain, and a big one too. Another wants to call it "Siskiyou Peak" because they have found it so designated on the U. S. Geological map, but if the, .writer will examine various editions of these maps they will be' Impressed with the fact that In some of them "Dutchman's. Peak" is called Siskiyou Peak, in others Sterling Mountain is so designated. "Siskiyou Heights" appeals to anoth er and "Siskiyou Drive" to still an other. "Mount Ashland" is the pioneer's choice. It is the most ap propriate. Don't try to obliterate pioneer names; they are all of them significant and historic. "Grizzly Peak" has a significance in its name. Some of the fiercest grizzly bear fights have occurred there. Some one wants to call it "Prospect Height" because of the prospecting done there. There are few places surrounding the valley where less of prospecting has been done. Someone Is doing a little in that. line there now, but that is practically the first. Let "Grizzly" alone. I still think "Vista Point" better for "Roper's Bunion." Look up the j definition of "vista," then climb the, "Bunion" and, looking toward Mount 1 Ashland, consider the canyon with Its! bounding sides as an "avenue" and you have a perfect vista. One Bug- gestg "Vista Point sounds rather in definite." We are not hunting for cound, but for significance, besides "vista" Is sufficiently euphonious and not at all indefinite. The JULY 28th-AUGUST 1st UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LADIES CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB Foley ATTRACTIONS OF MERIT Topsy Turvy Land Circua Unique Pilgrim's Progress Elizabeth, Living Doll, Baby Land Poo.ile Dog Home Free Out-Door Vaudeville $15,000 English Jumping Horse Carrousall Eli Ferris Wheel Modern Cabaret Nettie, Giantess- Trip to Mars Picture Land Oriential Bazaar Parades each night by local people Election and crowning of Carnival Queen Bands of music to enliven the visitors Unique and surprising features for all Special rates on railroad from Weed and intermediate points. Be a Booster for the Ladies Organization which does so many things for Ashland and its vicinity. Don't forget the dates. 5 BIG DAYS AND NIGHTS OF FUN AND FROLIC 5 JULY 28th-AUGUST 1st pioneer name was not "Roper's Bunion," but "Hargadine Hill." This would be significant for its history; but I suppose there will be no per ceptible scars left by this slashing of names. Someone says, "Every city that is the proud possessor of a hill always calls it the 'heights.' " We ought not to be so poverty stricken in nomenclature that we must copy the name given by "every city that possesses a hill." C. B. WATSON. Cummlngs and Peters Write From VIUCU. Tne Tidings has tried as far as possible to keep In touch with the movements of the different members of the class of 1914. All who are familiar with its members know Kenneth ('Tuckee") Cummings and S. A. Peters ("Pete"). Both are now at Chico, Cal., and working hard. Below we print an extract from a letter received from them by "Billie" Briggs: "We have been having a great time here and have been spending altogether too many evenings out to agree with hard work, and there is lots of that hard work here, too, both of us getting our share of It. But speaking of good times we have had here doesn't mean that any eclipse or come anywhere near to those we had with the members of dear old '14. "The only way we can hear of any of the class members' doings up there is through the 'Tidings, which we have had sent here from Ashland to enlighten us of the old home town activities. Believe ub, it sure is wel come, too, and when the Wednesday and Saturday mails come in we al ways make a rush for the paper to hear of some of our classmates and others in Asnland in whom we have some Interest or other. Heinle End ers' marriage was a good example, and though a big surprise was re ceived with the best of wishes for Mr. and Mrs. Enders' happiness. "The weather here has been scorchingly hot and the mercury has to be cooled off every fire or ten minutes with ice water to keep it from climbing through the roof. The hottest it has been yet is 117 degrees Fahrenheit, but the people here de- clare it mild as yet and ask us to wait till August for the nice weather. It looks as though we won't be able to get out much before the middle of August, either, at present. "The water isn't cold here like the ASHLAND'S MID-SUMMER LKsIjnj L AMUSEMENT COMPANY snow water from old Mount Ashland, but has .to be cooled with ice in order to make it drinkable. And they say it's best in this part of the valley! The scenery all along the Southern Pacific is very beautiful, but we have n't found any yet that can compare with our own canyon nor our own natural park. Of course, you know that the mineral waters of Ashland excel all others in quality, so we need make no mention of those. "Saturday morning's mail brought a letter from Leila Mitchell, who Is located in Los Angeles for the pres ent, and all Mitch can think of Is the grand old '14 reunion next win ter. Her folks have purchased a confectionery shop and she expects them to be on the coast at the time of the reunion so that she may at tend. "We have both fallen for the lure of stream and spend nearly all our Sundays fishing. We have had var ied success, but generally bring back a good bunch of fish. The three days' vacation on the Fourth was spent In the hills near the upper part of the Feather river and we had a swell time all around." City to Take Forfeited Property Ashland will delay no longer than necessary hereafter in the matter of taking over properties which her cit izens desire to give up in lieu of the payment of paving Hens. The coun cil voted Tuesday night to appoint a committee of three, Including the city attorney, to canvass the matter thor oughly. Ashland has comparatively few properties where the cost of street improvements exceeds the value of the property or is so high that the property owner prefers to give up his property rather than assume the pay ment for improvements. The city is not at all anxious to take up these properties but figures that where such action Is necessary or desired by the property owner it should be done as soon as possible in order to obviate the payment of taxes on the properties many of which have delinquent taxes also. The city pays no state or county taxes on properties it owns. In the course of discussion of this matter Mayor Johnson casually re marked that Medford adopted this policy some time ago and declared she now owns eighteen per cent of the property along which she has laid pavements. The mayor says he has an old friend who had forty-nine lots In a bunch at Medford and he let them go to the city when it paved all around them and taxed him $18,000. The discussion came up over the disposition of a small point of ground on Iowa street and the Boulevard. It belongs to the denomination of the Methodist South. An Ashland citizen wants to buy it for $1000 and that is said to be all it is worth. Yet the city has a paving lien of $2208 against It and there are taxes due to the amount of about $350. The long er the city delays taking It over the greater the tax lien becomes. It is argued that the city should acquire it at once and thus eliminate the taxes. Prohibition Pays In Banked Cash The regular program was held In the morning before a Rood audience Mrs. A. H. Russell suDerintendort the decoration of v the Chautauqua plat- iorra, which was effective Mrs. Lillian Mitchener, speaker of tne day, was introduced to Ashland In an unusual manner. The Young People's City Union sent a numher nf beautifully trimmed automobiles filled with representatives to the tram to meet her. With them went various W. C. T. U. leaders, and they. together with Mayor Johnson, gave the word of welcome. Sunflowers were in evidence, as she hailed from Kansas. They proceeded up the Boul evard, then escorted her to her room. where cherries and berries, daisies and roses proclaimed the beauties of Ashland. No wonder she said that ours was the prettiest small city she had ever seen. Various W. C. T. U. presidents from other localities as well as of our own town were on the Chautau qua platform in the afternoon when the exercises opened by prayer by Mrs. Horrel, county president. Then a band of Ashland's smallest darlings clad In white and carrying banners and pennants marched to the front and sang two rousing temperance songs that captivated those present Immediately afterward Mrs. Mitch. ener was introduced. She told her audience just why Kansas was the pivot on which the whole universe swings. Swings true, because her population is the richest per capita in the whole wide world. Because, also, her children are counted the best educated and rank highest in morality. To .prove her contention she contrasted Kansas with other states, particularly Missouri. The latter has richer soil and greater rainfall as well as greater mineral resources, and yet with these natural advantages is Just ten times poorer per capita. The cause of this is proved to be because Missouri likes her 4,000 saloons better than she does the water wagons' of her sister state. Missouri is so busy filling the almshouses and Jails with liquor soaked products that she is $80,000, 000 poorer than Kansas. The boys of the latter state like money In their pocketbooks, and so the second gen eration since prohibition was In force have sent their young representatives to the legislature to declare that their fathers were not enough prohi bitionists. They have revised the liquor laws and made them even more stringent. "No booze," says Mr. Young' Kansas Voter. That is why the boys and girls of that state have proved to be of greater vitality as well as of mentality. Mrs. Mitch ener plead for the interests of the children of Oregon that they might have the same opportunity to make of themselves clean men and women Her message was enthusiastically re ceived. A rousing reception was giv en her at the close in the park and then she was captured by the man ager of the round table, where she gave many witty stories of her ex periences in the franchise campaign in Kansas last year. Friday Grants Pass had charge of an excellent prdgram in the morning. Later Mrs. MacCullough introduced Dr. Smith, democratic candidate for governor, who gave his views on law enforcement. He declared that sworn officers should do their duty to the letter. At the close the Ash land W. C. T. U. presented him wtih a lovely bouquet in appreciation of his speech. They have not yet de clared they will vote for him, but they are doing some thinking, as it is up to others to preesnt before them a candidate as good looking as well as sensible. MRS. M. M. EDMUNDS. Citizens to Register ForlHome Folks People from all parts of the coun try are constantly stopping off at Ashland to look over our city and country. There are former residents of every state in the Union and many places in Canada residing in Ashland and vicinity. The Commercial Club desires to obtain the names and ad dresses and the places of former resi dence of all our people, both In Ash land and the surrounding country, in order when strangers come here it may be able to refer them, If possi ble, to some one from their own lo cality back home, and thus give them a warmer welcome. Will you call at the Commercial Club rooms and leave your name and address and place of former residence or fill out and mail the Commercial Club the form below? Former home County.. State Local address . , ; , . No. . . . Street. '. . . . . R. F. D. No . . . . 3 ) SODAS - 10 cents at yoar dealers 1 'eO" FREE, To Introduce Haradoa't 1 EE8r&"J " Supreme Baked Daiorict, a .ysS. surprlie box mill be sent you at once '"T I by parcel post, absolutely Iree sV l ' upon receipt of 12 end labcli from lia f 10 Cetltl Get IhlS 1 rJf"" ' 'Supreme" sodaa. or . . fax cf 1 Supreme baked .oud. ol any Un,a y dealers. JiAJNTJW F. F. Harauon h. Son ?,)w p TO ASH LA XI) "THE BEAUTIFUL' OXCE MORE. (Copied from the Ashland Tidings of July 28, 1894. ' Greeting. ' (To Ashland, my old home.) O, Ashland! my beautiful home of yore, How gladly I rest on thy bosom once more! I joyfully gaze on thy long-lost face And look with delight on thy beauty and grace. How well I remember thy charms all the way From the embryo state to thy tri umphs today. I knew thy green vales and thy pine clad hills; I knew thy great torrents and rip pling rills, When naught of the city that now greets my eyes Had ever attracted the orbs of the skies. I knew when the wolf and the inno cent, deer With the red man strove for suprem acy here. When he with his people their bivouac made On the banks of the Ashland, In primeval shade. I knew when the Saxon, the bold pioneer, Made his home with the treacherous red man here, And raised o'er the granite for you and for me. "In the face of the foe, the flag of the free." And I knew when the paint on the red man's face Foretold to the white man the death of his race. But the fates had decreed that it must not ce so; That the red man instead of the pale face must go. And, going, he left an inheritance here, A home for thy people of the greatest good cheer. But sickness and kindred, at least for a time, Called my wandering feet to a sun-' nier clime, Where the north winds, meeting the south winds, blend In equable climate that never hath end. Where the palm tree grows by the side of the pear, And the orange and apple grow every where. ' But, alas! on the shores of the south sun land, When others grew strong on the beautiful strand, Myself became weaker and paled In the breeze That softly blows over the southland seas. And when the grim monster with restless embrace Drew nigh, from the earth my life to efface, How oft have I wanted to lay my poor head Prone down on the graves of my long- lost dead, Where my brave brother sleeps and my dear children lie, To drag myself thither and quietly die. But the dear loving Father, regard lng my prayer, Then bade me new life with the lin ing share, And living I stand on thy borders, behold! To greet thee with blessings again as of old. When working of yore for the good of the land I sought its weal only with heart and with hand. O, Ashland! dear Ashland! with Joy and with song I greet thee and bless thee now, all the day long, And gladly exalt thee, O home of the blest, To thy place by the side of the fairest and best. A. O. Rock fellow. Ashland, Ore., July 28, 1894. COMING TO ASHLAND SPECIALISTS From the Cataphoric Medical Institute ST. LOUIS, MO. Will pay their first .visit to Ashland, Oregon And will be at HOTEL OREGON Wednesday & Thursday July 28 and 29, TWO DAYS ONLY This being an Advertising Trip to Introduce This New System, They Will Give Consultation, Examination, Advice and All Treatment Necessary to Com plete a Cure FREE. Tht object Is to get Just as man? positive curt j to their credit as they ran In the shortcut possible time, and It will be experted of alt patient taking advantage of this offer to stale to their friend the results obtained by their system of treatment. 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