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ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1914
NUMBER 40
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Ralph Parlette's Lectures
Were Much Appreciated
The Elk, If it can be judged by
their first booking Thursday night,
have certainly got on the trail of a
fine lyceum course for this winter.
Ralph Parlette was all and more than
he was represented to be, and the
people are still talking over his lec
ture. His forceful illustrations and
humorous similes, were interesting
and compelling. His lecture was at
tended by a large crowd and everyone
left the theatre saying that that one
lecture was alone worth the price of
the season ticket. There is still
room for a few more seats in the
theatre for the course, and all who
have not bought their tickets should
do bo as there are other great treats
In store for them.
Sunday afternoon Mr. Parlette re
turned from Medford. and delivered
his famous lecture, "Why I Quit Ly
ing," to a big crowd in the Methodist
church. The Punday school rooms
were thrown open and even yet every
seat was taken. His lecture was hu
morous, but full of deep, penetrating
October 20th is
National Apple Day
October 20th is National Apple1
Day. The Portland Commercial Club
and the Oregon Development League,
realizing the critical situation of the
apple market in Oregon, are planning
to throw all the strength of their
combined support to the enlivening
of the apple market during the week
of October 20 and hare inaugurated
a "Buy a box of apples" campaign.
In the furtherance of this movement
they are asking all the commercial
clubg and fruit' associations through
out the state to advise them what
supplies of seasonable apples the dif
ferent communities are arranging to
send to the Portland market at that
time. The letter received by the
Ashland Commercial Club reads in
part as follows:
"What supplies are you arranging
to send to market here at that time,
or what stocks have you that would
be seasonable? Prices, as you know,
are low and trade very sluggish all
over the country, but it is hoped to
make the week commencing October
18 the biggest apply-buylng week
that Portland ever knew and get ap
ples to the consumer at attractive re
tail prices. The time is short. Please
write your advise on this movement,
with any suggestions as to the cam
paign, and specific Information asked
for above, at once."
Will those who have apples that
are seasonable for sale please inform
either the Commercial Club or the
Fruit Association In order that we
may co-operate in this movement and
help you find a market for your ap
ples?
Liquor Campaign
In San Francisco
A rather unusual campaign for
prohibition 13 being carried on In San
FranciBCo by the Alpha Chapter of
Delta Fraternity, which is composed
of about one hundred high school
graduates who are now in business
or college. The members have al
ready secured in the past three
months two thousand converts to the
cause of prohibition and are expect
lng to reach a thousand more before
November. The work is being car
ried on by a personal canvass of their
relatives, friends and acquaintances
Doctor Frederick Mahoney, a pro
fessor at the Physicians' and Sur
geons' College, is at the head of this
movement. With his clinical work
at the college and among his patients
Dr. Mahoney has seen much experi
ence in the results of liquor and the
necessity for a wide campaign for
prohibition.
Augustus C. Linn, a young lawyer
and orator, Is assisting In this fine
work. Mr. Linn is at the head of the
.Prohibition League.
Doctors Mahoney and McMartry
aided the work by giving a series of
lectures in the college showing the
effects of liquor on the tissues of the
body.
truth. His words were a power. He
likened religion to one of the first
gas engines that was ever put on the
market. It was always kicking and
backfiring, and alternately stopping.
He said that he used to own one of
these himself and gave practical dem
onstration before admiring villagers.
He afterwards found out that most
of the contrariness was due to the
lack of proper Bpark. This, he said,
was what religion lacked in most peo
ple, the spark of real insight to what
true religion was, rather than the
narrow-minded hypocritical religion
that the majority of ardent church
members carry around with them.
His words were a fire that did not
fail to convince. Ralph Parlette ap
peared Sunday afternoon at the re
quest of Mr. Billings, and delivered
the lecture free of charge, merely for
the good that he thought It might do.
People are already wishing that
Ralph Parlette might be secured on
the next summer's Chautauqua
course.
First Big Show
Is "Baby Mine"
"Baby Mine," Margaret Mayo's
play of a thousand laughs, which kept
New Yorkers in convulsions of laugh
ter for one solid year at Daly's Thea
tre, and which duplicated its New
York success at Sir Charles Wynd-
hara's Criterion Theatre, London,
will be presented at the Vining Mon
day, October 19.
- Any play or drama in which a
mother or husband, or real home hap
penings are strongly depicted, is al
ways of interest to theatre patrons,
but when the realisms and situations
make genuine'eomedy with a mother,
father and babies as central figures
and the whole abounds with extreme
fun-making and peals of laughter
there can be but one result- success.
This term applies to the best and
biggest comedy play of modern times
-"Baby Mine" and which all man
agers agree is the most genuine the
atrical find of years. The authoress,
Miss Margaret Mayo, got her inspira
tlon for her ideas and lines from a
newspaper article, and the play has
been whipped into shape so that a
genuine laugh factory is the result
"Baby Mine" is a play that has
been a positive and legitimate sua
cess from its first production. The
aim of the authoress and producer
has been to create fun, merriment
and laughter, and they have succeed
ed almost to the limit.
There has been nothing so strong
as fascinating and Intense comedy
during the present age at least. This
comedy is a sensational success, as it
abounds with situations and fun that
produces cyclonic outbursts of laugh
ter. There is unbridled gaiety ere
ated all the time, and there is not a
dull or solemn moment in it.
The methods and acting of the
young mother, and the deluded young
husband, are close to real happiness
and impress most of an adult audi
ence personally. It is rib-expanding
fun and merriment, and the sent!
ment is so strongly fascinating that
many are willing to see "Baby Mine'
over and over again.
Everyone should make use of the
opportunity and accept such pleasing
stimulant and health restrotive as
this big cortedy affords, which
sending a gale of laughter around
the world.
Republican Com
mittee Organized
The republican county central cort-
mittee was organized at Medford
Thursday, by the election of Bert
Anderson of Medford, chairman, and
II. F. Pohland of Ashland, secretary,
A resolution was adotped favoring
the normal school bill by unanimous
vote.
S. S. Smith was re-elected as mem
ber of the state central committee
and F. W. Hollia as congressional
committeeman.
Pbone newi Items to the Tidings.
Normal Booster
In Ashland Today
W. S. Payne of Weston, who is
campaigning for the Eastern Oregon
State Normal School, is in Ashland
today. Mr. Payne has been traveling
through this state outside of Portland
for the past five weeks, practically
maMng a house to house visit and
distributing the yellow posters con
taining their claims. A separate com
mittee is operating their campaign
in Portland and in the closing week
their committees will practically
flood the residences of Portland with
personal appeals and literature. Mr.
Payne says he beard of the campaign
being made in behalf of the Southern
Oregon State Normal at, various
places and it is his judgment that
both schools will win. He was sur
prised at the small amount of knock-
ng that was met with in this cam
paign.
Mr. Payne was pleased with his
reception here. "We are co-operat-
ng with you in every way and appre
ciate the broad spirit of the people
of southern Oregon on progressive
measures. All the southern Oregon
counties gave the Eastern Oregon
Normal fine majorities four years ago
and Jackson county gave us the larg
est county majority in the state.
Southern Oregon regularly votes
overwhelmingly for all the state edu
cational institutions because it be1
lieves in them as a matter of princi
ple and does not do it merely for self
ish reasons. That is certainly a high
spirit that is worthy of the respect
and consideration of the voters In
other parts of the state. However,
the entire state looks upon Jackson
county and southern Oregon as con
taining the most progressive people
in the state.".
He will visit the teachers' institute
tomorrow.
Weston's population is given US
447 by the federal census and it
raised in a few weeks a campaign
fund of $4,000. The sums were
raised from its wealthiest citizens in
sums of $200, Jloo, ?ioo, $00 and
$23. This is a fine showing for a
small town. Besides that, the friends
of the school are doing a lot of per
sonal work at their own expense.
D. M. Lowe Takes
Toll of Fair Prizes
D. M. Lowe exacted his toll from
the list of fair prizes at the .state
display. He had the honor of win
ing the Great Northern silver cup as
a sweepstakes award on farm prod
ucts. He also received a prize of
$150 for his farm display. Mr. Lowe
will represent the county at the Land
Products Show in Portland, begin
ning October 14. Mr. Lowe is look
ing for some boxes of fancy fruit and
will pay a good price for them.
Autoists Repair
Jackson Hill Road
Friday morning, at the request or
the Commercial Club, about thirty
five autoists and good roads enthusi
asts gathered on the Jackson hill
road to smooth down the highway.
At this point the road is very rough
and makes it difficult for the cars
to make the hill on high. Also the
rocks were very bad on tires.
All the workers pitched In with
pick and shovel and removed the
sharp rock and put a smooth coating
of dirt over most of the road. They
repaired the extremely rough patch
of highway across the covered bridge.
Mr. Boyd was even so enthusiastic
that he drove clear to Talent and
hack, claiming that he has fixed all
the bad spots between there and
where the rest were working. Every
one enjoyed the work hugely and
many blisters resulted. D. D. Good
used his big steamer to haul workers
and shanghaied many innocent by
standers from the city streets and
made them go to the scene of action.
In a month or so the smoothing oper
ation will be repeated, and then a
smooth road Is assured. The paving
will probably not join up with the
railroad track until spring.
Pbone Job orders to the Tidings.
Supervisor's Letter
; To Boys and Girls
While several of those sending ex
hibits from Ashland to the state fair
received prizes, yet there were neces
sarily some who did not got prizes.
Supervisor Peterson has written the
following letter and asked that it be
published to reach those boys and
girls who sent exhibits:
"To the boys and girls who have done
industrial club work in Jackson
county, or who entered exhibits at
one of our fairs:
"For the present year the fair sea
son is over, having closed with the
state fair at Salem. Many of you
won prizes at the different places.
Some of you were disappointed in
this respect, although you did splen
did work. But I trust that those of
you who won no prizes will not be
discouraged. You have not failed.
Someone else did better than you,
that's all. Just remember, 'Real fail
ure is not for the boy who fails once;
it's in not getting up there's proof
of the dunce.' So if you diJ not win,
make up your mind that next year
you are going to give the other fel
low a harder race than he had this
year.
"If you made a real effort to pro
duce something, hut did not get a
single prize at any of the fairs, your
efforts have not been in vain. The
greatest prize of all and the one that
will really stay with you Is the great
er efficiency that you have gained
through experience. If you were in
the potato-growing contest during the
past season and stuck to your work
ratthfully, you surely know more
about potato growing now than you
did a year ago. The same Is true if
you followed any one of the club
projects. The knowledge and skill
that you have gained through your
efforts, and your experience and the
ifcal -interest that you have acquired
for the work may prove of untold
value to you in time to come. At
any rate you are better prepared to
enter the race next year than you
would have been had you not tried
this year."
G. S. Butler returned from his trip
o Douglas county today.
Subject of White
Slavery Discussed
Dr. F. II. Essert, the president o
the International White Slave Associ
ation, Is giving some stirring lectures
at the Baptist church. Sunday after
noon he addressed a large crowd o
men at the church on "A National
Peril the Taxpayer's Burden," and
his lecture was very stirring Indeed
Ills is a campaign for the abolish
ment of the terrible white slavery
He presented some staggering facts
and figures concerning the traffic
and brought into light some of the
plans that the traffickers are making
for the fair year in 1915. He brough
out the fact that the person voting
wet this November was merely giving
the white slavers a better chance, as
white slavery and saloons are hand
maidens of one another.
Sunday evening he addressed
large audience, using as a subject o
the lecture "The Blackest Crime in
History." All the religious organiza
tions were asked to join in this ser
vice. This afternoon at 3 p. in. he
addressed women only, while this
evening he will speak on the subject
of "The SacredncHB of Parenthood.'
These lectures are absolutely free and
everyone is Invited.
Jurors Drawn For
The October Term
Thirty-one Jurors have been drawn
for the October term of the circuit
court at Jacksonville. None of the
petit Jurors were drawn from Ash
land, but James McCracken and Wil
liam Fox in Talent were named. The
llHt of grand Jurors for the October
term are J. C. Barnard of Ashland,
J. II. Fuller of Talent, Sylvester Pat
terson of Ashland, George H. Patrick
of Gold Hill, D. H. Barneburg of Ash
land, R. A. Roblson of Talent, and
Anderson Moe of Applegate.
Joint Debate May
Be
C. J. Smith and James Withycombe
ay enter into a joint debate in this I
m
city tomorrow evening, H arrange-!
ments can be made. Mr. Withyconibo,
republican candidate for governor, in
billed to speak at the armory Tues
day evening. Mr. Smith, democratic
candidate for governor, arrived in
the valley today, and the local com
mittees at once sot on foot plans for
a debate of the issues. Dr. Withy
combe is In Klamath Falls today and
has been wired to consent to a de-
Mrs. Erma Taylor
Meets Sudden Death
Mrs. Erma Patrick Taylor, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A.
Patrick of this city, met death at
Corning, Cal., yesterday in an auto
accident, according to a telegram re
ceived here this morning by her par
ents. No particulars were given In
the telegram. Mrs. Taylor is well
known in the city, having grown up
here. She was married a few years
ago to Fred S. Taylor, and her hus
band was in business here for over a
year. Later they sold out their in
terests and moved to Corning, where
they have resided ever since. The
news of Mrs. Taylor's death will be
a shock to many in the city who were
her intimate friends.
Camping Ground
Facilities Needed
At the meeting of the council
Tuesday evening the matter of pro
vlding suitable camping grounds for
the next spring's campers and auto
ists was brought up by Mayor John
son. He believed that such a thing
should be instituted and should be
under the especial supervision of the
city. A committee was appointed
some time ago, but bad not been able
to come to any satisfactory arrange
ments for camping sites. The mayor
was of the opinion that the place
provided for the travelers by auto
should bo able to accommodate one
hundred cars, for there Is but little
doubt that during fair year, and as a
result of the fine highway, hundreds
of campers will go through the city.
The matter was discussed by the
counciinien, all of whom were heart
ily in favor with the movement. It
was brought out that these camping
grounds ought to be advertised by
means of billboards within n radius
of fifty miles along tho highways.
On the campgrounds it was thouhgt
to supply drinking taps of city wnter,
and Mayor Johnson thought taht It
would be a good Idea to provide free
wood for the auto campground. The
plan was to have the team and auto
campgrounds separate.
The campground proposition is now
in the hands of the committee, who
will take action.
Movement For
Valley Irrigation
in 1
Steps toward the securing of Irri
gation In the Rogue River Valley,
entailing an expenditure of over two
million dollars by the RoguelandB
company, will soon be taken, and a
campaign launched to secure signers
to twenty-year contrnrts among the
landowners. All portions of the val
ley north of Talent will be covered.
The irrigation committee of the
Fruit Growers' League, consisting of
Messrs. Beckwlth, Anderson, Sumner
and Parsons, announce that the canal
company expects to be able to present
in the immediate future and Irriga
tion contract to the land owners of
the Rogue River Valley, containing a
twenty-year claim for payments. The
contract will provide a water right.
at $50 an acre and an annual main
tenance fee of $2.50 per acre, the
landowner being given from three to
five years to make the first payment,
the payments to extend over a period
of twenty years.
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Heard in Ashland
bate. If his consent can be secured
Dr. Smith will return to Ashland
Tuesday evening to meet him.
A debate between these gentlemen
has been under discussion by their
respective committees for several
days and it is probable the citizens ot"
Ashland will be favored with hearing:
the opposing candidates from tho
samo platform.
At any rate Dr. Withycombe wilt
speak at the armory tomorrow even
ing. Eastern Tonrists
Looking To Ashland
A letter to the Commercial CIul
from Royer'a Transcontinental Tour
ist Company of Reading, Pa., states
that his company will have two tour
ist excursions to the coaBt during;
1915. The first will be through Ash
land on July 10 and he wants to
know whether Ashland can accom
modate 100 guests as they pass
through. The other excursion wilt
consist of two cars and will come thU
way later.
It Is through these booking ageu
cies that Ashland will get great bene
fits when she is established as a re
sort center. These tourist agencies
arrange all details of excursion tripss
and make their hotel and resort
bookings before the excursion starts,
so that a complete itinerary is ar
ranged in advance.
This Is the second inquiry coming;
from eastern tourist agencies during
the past two months. Ashland enter
tained one couple on September 30
that was booked at the Oregon
through the Cook company of New
York.
Making proper connection with
tourist agencies throughout the coun
try will be one of the important
things to be worked out In forward
ing tho publicity campaign for Ash
land as a tourist resort.
Attention, ShrinorH.
Copies of several photographs?
taken of the Shrinors at Marshfioid
and Shore Acres may be seen at Mc
Nair Bros.' drug store. You are in
vited to call and see them and order
copies for yourself, If desired.
Political Pot to
Boil This Week
One governor and three candidates
for governor are billed for a visit to
Ashland this week.
Dr. James Withycombe arrives
from Klamath county Tuesday even
ing nml will remain in Ashland Wed
nesday. W. S. F'Ren, Independent candi
date for governor, will speak In Ash
land Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock:
at the city hall. Ho is the author of
the Initiative and referendum.
Dr. C. J. Sin'th will spend Monday
and Tuesday in Jackson county and
Is expected to run Into Dr. Withy
combe in Ashland on Tuesday.
Governor Oswald West will address,
the people of Ashland Friday even
ing at 8 o'clock. Place of meeting
will be announced later.
Col. V. K. S. Wood will speak for
William llanley In Ashland Thursday
evening at the city hnll at 8 o'clock.
A Beautiful Walk
For An Afternoon
One of the most beautiful rutin
trips suitable for an afternoon's walk
Is a stroll up the private road leading;
to the old Mahan place. This Id
reached by following Nutley street to
the top of the hill and then taking;
the road that lends to the left. Tho
trip Is a good Jaunt for an afternoon,
and the view gained by the cllmri
and the woodland scenes are well
worth the effort It takes to mount
the hill.
F. D. Palmerlee from Long Beach,
Cal., a brother of our 11. 8. Palmer
lee. Is visiting Ashland. He camu
to try our llthla water.