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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1914)
PAGE SIX ASHLAND TIDINGS. Thursday, December 17, 1914 FILdDHJIRg Our price on best hard wheat grade 49-lb. Sack $1.75 Less 5 J8! Mel - - - $1,661- Is what it costs when bought at the White House Grocery Special for This Week: Colombia brand and Swill's Premium Hams, 23c lb. Extra Baking For Christmas will Im easily done if you une Crescent Baking Powder IT RAISKS TOE DOUGIl and leave it light, moist . mim1 U-nder. 25c All Groceri Elks Bulletin Tells Lodge News i Brother Harry Harrison writes from San Diego that he 1b about to make a tour of Imperial Valley on his motorcycle. Brother E. L. Hosley, who sold his feed store in Ashland last spring, has acquired a ranch and a big bunch of sheep near Malin, Oregon. Brother Jim Potter, formerly in the banking business at Weed, has gone back to the newspaper business as editor of the Montague Messenger. Laurant, the Magician, who gives the next number on the Elks' Lyceum Course, December 18, is an Elk and a boyhood friend of Brother J. K. Choate. I Brother Roy Davis and family moved to Medford the first of De cember much to the regret of the brothers. His duties as court re porter made the move necessary. Brother Walter E. Newcombe is one of several aspirants for the Job of postmaster. His management of the local branch of me Western Un ion leaves no question of his capac ity. Letters come quite regularly from Brother Charles Pierce, our former secretary and Past Exalted Ruler. He is recuperating his health in South rn Caifornla and will spend the win ter there. ' Brother Paul Lambert had the mis fortune to cut his leg badly while clearing his homestead in Klamath county, twenty-five mlloa from a doc tor. Brother Sparr lived neighbor to him and helped him patch It up. Brother J. K. Choate recently cot his -name in the Portland papers as a prominent young attorney from Ashland. That's what our . geniai Espee traveling auditor gets for look ing distinguished. Brother Bert Mattern has decided not to buy the Catalina Islands, which he looked at last summer. He expected to start a kingdom on them. but bis girl went -back on him and be is now looking for another queen. Somebody will do Brother Thorn ton a great kindness by leaving a goat on his porcn Christmas morn ing. He doesn't want any goats, but his two boys are making his life mis erable in their desire to acquire a goat that will drive. The big illuminated clock used at the dedication of the present temple and since that time relegated to the storeroom, has been swung in front of the club room and is an attractive reminder to the public that old 944 is on the map. Brother "Dad',' Provost and his three boys were for quite awhile the biggest family in the lodge. Now comes Brother J. J. Murphy and his three sons. "Dad'' still has his son- in-law, John Hughes, in reserve, however, in case war breaks out k The lodge Initiates only once a month now on the second Saturday night in the month. This makes the classes larger and more inspiring and the work more Impressive. It also shortens the other meeting and relieves them of tedlousness. The brothers like the new order. Brother John A. Harvey, formerly cashier of the Citizens' Bank here, has recently organized the Citizens' Commercial & Savings Bank at Santa Ana, California, and is vice-president and a director in same. He left Ash land two years ago and spent six months in the Imperial Valley and eighteen months at Los Angeles. The trustees have the best bunch of tenants that have occupied the Temp'e stores since It was erected Brother McGee's dry good store, Brother Crowson's Confectionery and R. J. Smith's Jewelry store. In the rear of the latter the Pennlston Gran ite Company has a small shop for polishing agates and other Btones. Brother H. C. Sparr, former sec retary and Past Exalted Ruler, has moved wita his family into the city for the winter, He has been for the past two years on his homestead in Klamath county. Being twenty-five miles from civilization, he . reports some experiences tuat sound like tales of the pioneers of fifty years ago. Those mournful sounds which many of the brothers thought were wireless echoes of the European war turned out to be nothing more than the remarks of one of Brother Sta ples' Stanley steamers getting under jo) 15) (3 pjj A fl JNJ ALWAYS RELIABLE Footwear lor old and young should be on your Christmas list Shoes Shoes Shoes Our shoes are all you could wish for style, durability and price. Slippers Slippers Slippers Men's comfy slippers in all colors. Men's comly and leather slippers in all styles. A nice selection tor boys and girls. s way. Brother Staples has one of them trained so he can run it over a bank. It takes genius to run any thing over a bank these hard times. Brother Frank Roggers, residing at Lakeview, met with a terrible ac cident last spring. While doing road work a premature blast terribly lac erated his head and face. He suf fered greatly and recently went to San Francisco specialists In the hope of saving the sight of at least one eye. After an operation the hope was found to be vain, and he is totally blind for life. Brother J. S. MacMurray, our pres ent organist, is a musician of' whom any lodze mltrht well foel nrnnrf The brothers are glad to see him back at nis station alter undergoing a surg ical Operation at a lno.nl sanatorium He elves th loHc fin ma flna tnnaln w- 13 - .w both vocal and instrumental. He has also done much to make the Elks' OuartettA the mnat nnnnlnr mala quartette the city has ever had. Medford Lodge, No. 1168, will be in Its new temple within a few weeks. Everything will be up to the minute in every department from cel lar to garret. The Medford herd never does anything by halves. We are advised that Just as soon as they nave sunned their horns in the warmth of their new nest and Bort of got the velvet rubbed off, they are go ing to have a regular old ripsnorter of a house warming and invite all the antlered herd far and wide. The replacing or the old style memorial tablet with a design in pol ished brass with intaglio lettering in black enamel is a great improvement to the lodge room and facilitates the keeping of this record of departed brothers. The new system consists of a large brass plate with the words "Our Absent Brothers" in raised let ters. From this are suspended, by short chains, three columns of indi vidual tablets, each bearing the name of a departed brother, together with the daten of his birth and death. The ease with which new plates may be attached and the beautiful appear ance of the whole make it a subject of much favorable comment. There are thirty-one names on the tablet now. Conductor Louis Hilty is in the Southern Pacific hospital at San Francisco. He was threatened with erysipelas as the result of an effort to extract an ingrowing hair in his face. Monday evening Mrs. Hilty re ceived a message that he was improv ing and the case would not be as seri ous as at first feared. Don't worry over disappointments. Not unoften the disappointment of today proves the greast blessing of tomorrow. Dainty Handmade Needle Work is ever suitable for Mother, Sister or Girl Friend and is something appreciated and prized for years. Burnt Wood Collar Boxes, Handkerchief Holders in a. great variety for father broth er or gentlemen. s Needle Art Shop, Mrs. Lniith Hall 303 East Main Street. 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