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ln the Social Realm
Arch Deacon Chambers of Port
land will hold the evening services at
Trinity Episcopal church Sunday, the
14 th.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Greer enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Dill and Mr.
Emery Smith of San Francisco at
dinner Thursday evening.
Invitations are out for a big valen
tine party for Wednesday of this
week, given by several of the promi
nent ladies among Ashland's social
elite.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shinn enter
tained Mrs. Alice McDaniel and son
Roy at dinner Sunday, the occasion
being the wedding anniversary of the
Shinns.
The Chautauqua Park Club met at
the home of Mrs. F. Q. McWilliams
Friday afternoon. Twelve members
were present and plans were laid for
spring work.
The regular meeting of the Wom
en's Civic Improvement Club will be
held at the library Tuesday evening,
February 9, at 2:30. May Cambers,
secretary.
Alex Pellett, better known to a
host of Ashland friends as "Heck"
Pellett, was married in Yreka yester
day to Miss Helen DeWitt of that
city. They passed through Ashland
today.
A number of out-of-town people,
including members of the Klamath
Falls basketball teams, attended the
dance at Memorial hall last Saturday
evening. Herndon's five-piece or
chestra furnished music. '
Several Ashland high school ctu
dents attended the reception given by
the Medford students to the Klamath
Falls basketballers at the Medford
high school last Friday evening. A
program and refreshments were fea
tures of the evening's entertainment.
C. Y. Tengwald, W. Howard Har
rington, Artemus Spooner, . James
Vance, John Demmer, Adrian Rose,
William Beveridgo and Wesley Judy
of this city attended a house party In
Ashland Saturday night at the home
of Miss Agnes Dlake. Medford Sun.
Miss Inez Austin and J. C. Oswald,
Roseburg young people, were married
oh the stage at a Roseburg theatre'
last week. The stage wedding was
the result. of a darge by the theatre
manager. Several hundred people
nocked to the wedding. The newly
weds have several friends in Ashland.
The Wednesday Afternoon Club is
Invited to meet this week with Mrs.
George W. Scott, 668 North Main
Btreet. Mrs. Choate and Mrs. M in
ner will assist In entertaining. The
members of this club are urged to be
present to help in making arrange
ments for the entertainment to be
given February 22.
Mrs. Frank Jordan and Mrs. Aug
ust Schuerman entertained last
Thursday evening In honor of Mrs.
Will Gordon, who leaves in the near
future for Iowa. A theatre party at
the Vlning occupied the early part
of the evening, after which the party
were taken to the Schuerman home,
where refreshments were served and
the remainder of the evening spent
with cards. The guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Winter, Mr. and Mrs
Barneburg. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon,
ant the husbands of the hostesses.
The Hikers' Club spent last Friday
In walking over King's Highway
Eight members made the trip. Mrs
Frank Jordan was initiated Into the
organization and was required to
walk the plank, and while doing so,
to perform beautiful Interpretations
of the terpsichorean art. Mrs. Homer
Barron also became a member, her
initiation consisting of walking a
water pipe. Mrs. Cassius Miller was
asked to emulate the exultant crow
ing of a rooster and climbing on a
stump, and did so to the gratification
and edification of the other members.
The hikes of the club are weekly
growing In popularity and by' sum
mer the membership promises to be
quite large.
The Ground Hog's
Shadow is Minus
Tuesday was ground-hog day. The
genus ground-hog being a minus
quantity In this part of the country.
weather forecasters of the old school
had to cast about for a suitable sub
stitute for the custom-honored hog.
The scientists who had the matter
under their care rose early on the
fateful day and set forth to look for
a fit subject for their observations.
Hogs were found in plentiful num
bers, but the hogs were all of the
above-ground variety.
Woe is ours, quoth the forecasters.
Odd bodkins, how shall we tell
whether to order our spring suits to
morrow or wait until six long weeks
have passed o'er, before we invest our
sparkling dollars in fair spring checks
and plaids?
Discouraged, the delegation were
wending their' downcast way toward
the resting place around the big
stove, where - affairs of state are
threshed out daily, when, hark!
What Is the cry that's floating o'er
the air, causing the motley crowd to
slow their pace? Fast making cups
of hands behind their ears, transfixed
they try the shrieking sounds to
place. Ha, cries their leader, old and
bent, from down beneath yon meat
shop come the cries. And lo, again
the morning air Is rent, with groans
and shrieks, which make their whis
kers rise.
'TIs murder being ' done beneath
that shop. As gentlemen of Ashland,
brave and true, we citizens must call
the village cop, a procedure which
none were loath to do. Then close
behind the minion of the law, down
underneath the shop they wend their
way. Each has decided quickly to
withdraw, like all good generals.
should there come a fray. What do
they find here In this den? A butch
er long and lean, and lank, while all
the shrieking Bounds which scared
these men shriek forth again, while
slow he turns the crank. By misad
ventures such as these we find long-sought-for
things that clear away the
fog, for while Into the top he fed
fresh pork, In doughy mass from out
the bottom comes ground-hog.
Moral: The rainy weather could
n't last six weeks because It was too
dark In the cellar for anyone to see
his shadow.
Eyesight Specialist
Defective eyesight causes many
troubles. A large percentage of
headaches are caused by eye strain.
Many children are backward In their
fttudles, caused by a refractive error
which they do not know exists. Quite
often people become nervous wrecks
by straining the eye nerves and mus
cles trying to overcome a refractive
error.
Properly fitted lenses do away with
all these troubles.
I make a specialty of torlct and
the famous Kryptok lenses. All oth
ers supplied. Broken lenses dupli
cated. All kinds of mountings and
repairs.
Dr. B. Fontaine optoatirist
Uzona naalc IUdg AsliUnd.
Obituary.
Judge E. B. Watson. Jackson
county pioneer, well known locally
and Oregon war veteran, died last
Monday at Portland of heart trouble.
Judge Watson was elected county
clerk of this county in 1872, later
county Judge, and afterwards named
for the supreme court bench.
Following his service as a member
of the supreme court, Judge Watson
removed to Portland In 1884, where
he has since engaged In the practice
of law. He was also a republican in
politics, although he had but little
political aspiration. In 1906, how
ever, he was Induced to become a
candidate In the primaries for the
position of United States senator.
Judge Watson is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Eleanor Kubli Watson,
a son, James Owen Watson, an at
torney of Roseburg, and one daugh
ter. Mrs. Rufus C.'Holman of Medford.
E. B. Watson was no relation to
our own Judge Watson, but an op
ponent of C. B. Watson's In a politi
cal campaign several years ago.
WELL-KNOWN IRISH POET.
EDITOR NEAR DEATH
London, Feb. 8. News from the
region of the Argonne, France, is to
the effect that the Hon. Patrick
Starkey, Ireland's well-known poet
and editor of the Irish Patriot, Dub
lin, wao severely wounJed while
leading his company In a charge near
Dnalhsa, on the 6th Inst. "Mr. Star-
key Is said to be one of few livlnt
descendant of General O'Brien Star-
key, who took an active part in eriy
Irish wars.
Phone Job oiders to the Tiding.
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OREGON SENATOR ,
. TALKS ON "BOOZE"
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100,000 Extra Votes
on the Grafonola with
every stove sold.
On Wednesday, Feb.
10th, and Saturday, the
13th, 1,000 extra votes
on the Gralonola with
each 10c bottle ot sew
ing machine oil, and
5,000 extra votes with
every 25c bottle.
Cut prices on bath
room fixtures and all
plumbing supplies.
V, (By Burton K. Standlsh.)
Washington. Senator Harry Lane
of Oregon, who made . the original
and interesting discovery that United
States senators are Just plain mutts
like the rest of the male humans, has
offered a solution for the blind pig
problem, insofar as It relates to gen
tlemen Xrom other states finding
liquor in states that have gone dry.
His experience in Alaska furnished
the inspiration. .
"For the benefit of those states,"
he declared, "I would suggest they
adopt the method of the Eskimos to
protect their food supplies from the
ever-hungry malamute dog, which Is
to cache It upon a platform about
twenty feet above the ground. By
doing this they would compel other
states to seek their solace in the open
air by means of a ladder."
Alaska, by the way, has furnished
Senator Lane with considerable argu
ment against liquor.
"In the interior of Alaska," he
said, "where the temperature goes
down to 70 and 80 below zero, they
do not allow any one to set out upon
a long trip and take whiskey with
him. If a man is met on the trail
and it is ascertained he has whiskey
with him, it is taken away from him
and the bottles broken. They do not
do that out of any feeling of kindli
ness toward him particularly, but
they have found, and from experi
ence, that it is necessary to do so.
for the reason that under the influ
ence of liquor a man on the trail will
take chances that he otherwise would
not take. If his feet or hands be
come frozen, the whole expedition is
tied up taking care of him. So they
go right through his pack, and if he
has whiskey or alcohol they take it
away from him and break the bottle."
Other views of the Oregon senator,
who is a physician, are not exactly
orthodox on this same subject.
"I do not think alcohol is a direct
cause of a large proportion of insan
ity," he says. "I do not think that
large tables of statistics if carefully
analyzed will show that it is the old
alcoholic, the chronic drunk, who. as
a rule, goes insane. He becomes a
hobo; he becomes a nuisance; he is
the cause of misery to his children;
he makes his wife unhappy and Is the
cause of his children not having
enough to eat and to wear; he may
become shattered physically, but. as
a rule, he docs not become insane.
After he quits drinking, as a rule he
resumes his normal mental condition
and lives along without becoming In
sane. I do not think much of statis
tics which try to show that he fur
nishes the largest proportion of the
inmates of insane asylums, for the
reason that my experience Is to the
contrary."
But if you are going to drink, says
the senator, drink straight "booze."
, "I think my friend from Mississip
pi, Senator Williams, Is mistaken If
he thinks that alcoholic drinks de
rived from the grape, the fermented
liquors in contradistinction to those
that are distilled, are less harmful.
It is my opinion that he is decidedly
mistaken. The Englishman and the
Scotchman and those people of Eu
rope who drink heavy port wines are,
I think, killed off as quickly, and I
think more quickly, than those who
confine themselves to the use of pure
whiskey.
"If a person is going to drink at
all, if he wants to get drunk, if he
desires a stimulant, as a physician
who has practiced for forty years I
would say to him, 'Get good, pure
whiskey. Leave wine and beers out.
You will last longer and do yourself
less harm and' the result will come
cheaper in the long run. It is a
matter of economy. If you really
wish to use alcohol and get the effects
from It without any subterfuge or
fooling about it, it is the safest drink
of all.'
"I say this In order that those whd
are going to continue the use of it
may have the advantage of my study
on the subject. If they want straight.
unadulterated liquor upon which to
get drunk, let them use pure alco
hol, cologne spirits, the alcohol itself
diluted with water. You will all do
better to stick to pure whiskey rather
than to go fooling around high-wines."
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 th
Hobart Bosworth in the striking romance
in five parts
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HOUSE 58 TO 2
FOR PROHIBITION
Salem. By a vote of 68 to 2, with
full membership voting, the lower
house of the Oregon legislature
passed the prohibition bill on Friday
and sent It to the senate. As passed,
the bill prohibits the sale and manu
facture of liquor within the state, ex
cept for sacramental purposes, pro
vides that a physician may adminis
ter It personally or that druggists
may be allowed to sell pure grain
alcohol for medicinal uses. It per
mit the Importation Into Individual
households of two quarts of splrltous
or twenty-four quarts of malt liquor
monthly. ,
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APPROPRIATIONS
FOR OREGON
Washington, Feb. 8. The sundry
civil appropriation bill reported to
the house by the appropriations com
mittee contains the following Oregon
items for completing public build
ings: Albany, 110,000; Medford.
$20,000; Pendleton. $73,000; The
Dales, $60,000; commencing Rose
burg building $1,000; road In Crater
Lake park, $50,000; protection Ore
gon & Cailifornla Railroad grant
lands, $25,000; reclamation projects
Umatilla, $366,000; Klamath.
$317,000; Yakima, $1,250,000:
Okanogan, $51,000; continuing Til
lamook Bay improvements, $172,
000. The committee omitted the appro
priation for the Deschutes project,
but an effort will be made by Sinnott
to have the item added In the house
and by Senators Chamberlain and
Lane In the senate. If Sinnott is unsuccessful.
; Mrs. Clinton McCurdy will give
piano lessons after February 1. Mrs.
McCurdy is a teacher and graduate
of the College of Music of De Pauw
under Elizabeth Patterson Sawyer
and Julia Druley, both pupils of Les
chetezky. Phone 371-J-4. 74-lt
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
oimiiiiii lnnnnt mm
i SKating' at Natatorium Rinh i
Every Saturday
1:30 AND 7:30 P. M.
RinK will be rented for nrivnt kt;nrf i.. Z
.. on dates not conflicting with above. Apply to
: ! A. L. LAMB, 343 Mountain Avenue, or Phone 463-J : :
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iiiiiiiiina Ml, mum
I TO INSURE in a company you do not know
is like loaning money to a stranger.
The following letter tells its own story:
To Whom It May Concern:
We have this day received draft of $800 In fnit it.
policy carried by us in the California Insurant cS .h.0,thJ
and fixtures which were destroyed by fire "on January 13?h w
cannot speak too highly of the prompt uettlement bv thi We
and the courteous treatment arfd 'efflclSnt irv" rieliJd frnmSI
adjuster and their local representative, Mr Eiinngl m the
Dated Ashland, Oregon, January 20, m5?KE & DE WITTl
BILLINGS AGENCY
! INSURANCE THAT INSURES. X
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J. P. Dodge Sons
UndertaKers
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First Class Service ; Moderate Prices
Free use of chapel for. funeral services
Stale licensed Embalmer ' Deputy Connty Coroner
ASHLAND, One.