Monday, February IS, 1915
ASHLAND TIDINGS
The Burden of Proof
. In case of disputes over payment of
a bill, the burden 'of proof lies with
you to prove that you have paid It,
and a receipt must be shown.
If you pay all your bills by check,
you always have the necessary proof.
The check is a good receipt and you
cannot lose.
Open your account here. ' -'"'"
First National Bank
ASIILANp, OREGON.
Oldest National Bank In Jackson
County
Royal
Arch
Husons
Siskiyou
Cliapter
No. 21
Knight Teniplar, Attention.
Regular meeting of Malta Com
mandery, No. 4, will be held In the
asylum Wednesday evening, Febru
ary 17, at 8 p. m. Work In Red
Cross degree. By order of the Emi
nent Commander.
W. H. McNAIR, Recorder.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Bag sale at Enders' this week.
Miss Elizabeth King spent Thurs
day in Medford.
R. Farnham of Sams Valley was in
town last week.
Eugene Is taking up the question
of a public market.
Annie B. Harris was up from Tal
ent on a visit Sunday.
Suitcase sale at Enders' this week
only. 500 extra votes.
A. S. Meyer of Eugen eregistered
at a local hotel Thursday.
T. Froelic of Klamath Falls was
in the city last Saturday.
Buy a case or bag this week at
Enders'. All reduced.
J. I. Clapsdell of Portland was a
business visitor last Saturday.
Miss Minnie Rickman of this city
Is visiting friends in Roseburg.
Extra exposition votes at Enders'
this week at the trunk sale.
Earl Hemphill and Don Stout spent
Saturday in Medford, visiting friends.
C. A. Malone went to Medford Sat
urday to attend to business matters.
G. A. Linhart Is a business visitor
from Portland who arrived Sunday.
E. B. Radcliff of Philadelphia, Pa.,
was registered at the Oregon Sun
day.
Hugh A. McKenzie of San Fran
cisco registered at the Oregon Sun
day.
G. C. Wlrth of New York city
transacted business in town last
week.
W. W. Ussher was in Medford Sat
urday evening attending to business
matters
New embroideries, Tipperary veils
and rosebud trimmings at Ashland
Trading Co
Miss Clausing is the guest of her
brother's family at his ranch near
Phoenix.
The Gold Jlill Commercial Club
will help the Gold Hill band secure
uniforms,
Dr. Brower left yesterday for a
business trip in the northern part of
the state
Ask for scrip when you buy gro
ceries or dry goods at tbe Ashland
Trading Co., phone 122
Ul CITIZENS O
W BANK
EyO FASH LAN DA
PAGE FIVB
Carry
Little
Money
It is a matter of pru
dence and safety to carry
little money about with
you.
When you pay by check
you are not afraid of be
ing robbed or lotting money
yet you Itave the funds
at your command when,,
you have your check book '
In your pocket.
Your account solicited.
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A tfnw SAVINGS
DEPOSITS.
R. L. Nedley of Medford was un
last Thursday attending to business
matters. -
J. A. Freeman of Portland came in
Sunday evening and remained here
over Sunday.
O. Winter and R. L. Burdic are in
.Grants Pass today attending to busi
ness matters.
Josephine county is to have a
$100,000 court house, to be erected
at Grants Pass.
Myron Grover of Hilts, Cal., was
in Ashland over the week end visit
ing with friends.
Benton Bowers was in Medford
Friday evening and attended the re
publican banquet.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray of Medford
have been guests at the P. N. Hogue
home on Beach street.
Ralph Billings lost a valuable colt
last week, the animal getting tan
gled up In barb wire.
E. G. Bunz of Los Angeles spent
part of last week here. He sees great
possibilities in Ashland.
A. L. Wilber of Albany registered
at the Oregon last Saturday and
spent Sunday in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cummlngs of
this city are spending a few days vis
iting friends in Roseburg.
A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls came
up last week for a few days' visit
with friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warning were
in from Mr. Warning's station at Dol-
larhide trestle this morning.
J. II. Wright and wife of Inde
pendence, Ore., arrived Sunday and
will spend some time here.
C. N. Gordon, who has been In Ash
land for some time, returned to his
home in Hornbrook last week.
James Butterfield of this city spent
Wednesday afternoon and evening
transacting business in Medford.
Monroe Childers of Corvallis, Ore
is visiting at the home of his nephew,
J. N. Dennis, on Allison street.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. (Jack) Peebler
are the proud parents of a baby girl.
The newcomer arrived last Friday.
Archdeacon Chambers of Portland
came in Sunday and will be here over
today attending to church matters.
H. W. Niles and wife, who have
been visiting at the Arbuckle home,
returned to Los Angeles last week.
E. G. Roberts and wife of Medford
spent last Wednesday visiting rela
tlves in. east Ashland and Belleview.
Bounties paid for the Scalps of
predatory animals have cost Siskiyou
county $1,700 during the past two
months.
H. V. Richardson leaves today for
San Diego, Cal, He will be gone for
several weeks and will visit both ex
positions.
Mrs. F. D. Wagner and son Paul
left for Salem last week for an in
definite stay with Representative
Wagner.
C. Walker was up from Medford
Thursday afternoon, transacting bus
iness and enjoying the beauties of
the first springlike day.
Louise W. Connor left today for
San Francisco, . where she will take
up the duties of auditor in the Argo
naut Hotel for a month.
The bright weather of the last few
days has given the orchardists of the
valley a chance to get at the pruning
and it is now on full blast.
Friday being Lincoln's birthday,
the banks and postoffice were closed
and the school children were dis
missed early in the afternoon.
J. D. Lowe, son of D. M. Lowe of
Ashland, came up from Weed Satur
day and spent the day visiting rela
tives in and around the city.
G. A. Briscoe was In Medford Fri
day evening and attended the repub
lican banquet at the Medford Hotel.
He read Lincoln's Gettysburg speech.
Fashionable dressmaking. Gowns
and suits. Prices moderate. Mrs.
W. W. Watson, late of Los Angeles,
Cal., 232 Vista street, Ashland. 75-tf
Miss M. Armstrong and Miss Ethel
Berge arrived from Portland Sunday
evening. Miss Armstrong will take
charge of the millinery department in
Enders' store.
School shoes for boys and girls, the
Walton kind. Better shoes for less
money. We give scrip with each sale.
One mile in travel for $1 in trade.
Ashland Trading Co.
Mrs. Francis Murphy and son will
leave this evening for Clatskanie,
Wash., where they will Join Mr. Mur
phy, who is in the employ of the tele
phone company there.
The members of the Ashland high
school basketball team went to Med
ford last Friday evening to see the
Roseburg-Medford game. Several
other Ashlanders also went down.
"Rattlesnake Jim," barefoot tour
ist who passed through here several
weeks ago, has arrived In Portland.
He tells the Portland newspaper men
that he has never bad a shoe on in
his life. Maybe some of the local
railroad boys could disprove his statement.
SPECIAL
SALES
4 Days
Wednesday 17th
Thursday 18th
Friday 19th
and Saturday 20th
50,000 Grafonola
Votes with each
Washing Machine
100,000 Votes
with each
Incubator
f Spring goods in all lines are arriving and, while in-
complete, the advance showing for early buyers
v is very comprehensive and indicates the
tendency of the season's trend in
fabric and style.
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or
Brooder
500 Extra Votes with Spring coat or suit
1000 44 44 44 Winter 44 44 44
THIS WEEK ONLY
Visitors to the Exposition will find it necessary to have either a
suit or coat. You will find it financially to your advantage to purchase it
here. Knowing the necessity and that hundreds will visit the Fair we
have provided in a larger wav than usual for the spring season this year
in coats and suits.
A Big Line of Coats $10.00, $12.50, $15.00 and up.
This weeK with Extra Votes for your favorite for
the free trip to the Exposition.
X
New SilKs
$1.00 to $1.25 SilKs, 89c.
This a special larire purchase of a
great variety of fancy silks that
could not be sold at this price if
bought in the regular way. See them
and examine them and fee if they
are not good values.
40-in. silk crepe de chino, yd. $1.25
40-in. silk & wool crepe, $1.25, $1.50
Good variety black silks all prices
New Goods.
Curtain Scrims and Marquisette
plain or taped edge, or fancy borders
Muslin wear, gowns, corset covers,
chemise and other garments.
A big assortment of crepe and mus
lin gowns at 98c.
Embroideries and Laces 4c and 5c
laces, new assortments.
Fine embroideries in all widths.
Convent edges, dainty organdie
edges and all-overs, and anything to
be desired in pretty embroidery.
50,000 Votes
with every
Heating
Stove
100,000 Votes
with each
Range Sold
On Wednesday,
February 17th
10,000 Extra Votes
with any garden
tool, hoe, shovel,
a raKe, a spading
fork, a cultivator,
a spade, a garden
trowel.
Special Sale on
all the above
WE GIVE FIDELITY TRADING STAMPS
On Saturday a Big
Broom Sale. Special
Prices on Brooms.
5,000 Extra Votes
on Grafonola with
each Broom.
Interest your friends
in above goods and
get the votes.
Warnei
The Low-Priced Hard
ware Man
Phone 146 375 E. Main
A, S. Johnson, who has been mak
ing, his home with his son, O. H.
Johnson, of this city, for some time
past, left Saturday evening for Port
land, where he will visit his daugh
ter. Miss Ruth Turner was up from
Gold Hill to spend the week-end with
her parents, who reside on Union
street. She returned Sunday even
ing to the lower valley city.
As a means of exterminating coy
otes the residents of the Applegate
section have organized a coyote club
and will initiate an active campaign
against the pest.
Sunday was China New Year and
local celestials celebrated the day
with firecrackers and beating of
gongs. The celebration was not as
big an affair as those of bygone
years.
Sunday brought the usual proces
sion of cars from down the valley.
A nicer day for autolng in scarcely
conceivable, the air having just
enough of a frosty tang to be exhil
arating. E. It. Lawrence of Grants Pass
spent last Thursday in tho city and
called on several old friends besides
transacting business which brought
him up from the Josephine county
metropolis.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Doslough left
Sunday evening for San Francisco,
where they will spend two weeks.
Tliey will take in the opening of tho
exposition and the Vandcrbilt cup
auto races.
Among new students who enrolled
at the University of Oregon at the
beginning of the spring semester are
Marian Nell, a former Ashland girl
now residing in Portland, and Wil
liam Rebec of Medford.
Medford is organizing a city band
under the direction of R. M. Curns.
They plan on supporting the organlz
atlon by public subscription and are
circulating petitions. The band will
give public concerts once a week.
norn, to Mr. and Mrs. Bart Harr
of Watklns, a baby boy. Mrs. Harr
was formerly Miss Christine Beavor
and la a daughter of John M. Beaver
of this city. Mr. Harr Is a prosper
ous rancher In the Applegate Valley.
New dress goods have arrived.
Silk organdies, embroidered St, Gall
crepes, flaxons, percales and ging
hams. We give scrip with each pur
chase, Ashland Trading Co.
At a meeting of the Farmers' and
Fruitgrowers' League held In Med
ford recently C ;A. Knight, J. A.
Westerlund and . Boone Carpenter
were appointed, delegates from this
section to the fruitgrowers' conven
tion to be held In Tacoma.
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W00D-LARKT
V TRADE MARK
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READY POR INSTANT USB.
NHVUlt FAILS.
Destroy squirrels, gophers, prairie dog's, UN
rats. Apply early in Hprinsr when the hungry
rests awake from Winter's sleep. Money baoU
f It ever falls. "Wood-Lark." for 25 years
lias stood every test. It's crop Insurance!
against rodent pests. If your dealer hasn't
It, write ua.
Clarke, Woodward Drug CoJ
For Halo by McN'uir liros.
Mrs. W. L. Morthland spent Thurs
day afternoon visiting at the pleasant
farm home of Mrs. J. C. floble on
Walker avenue. ,
Undertaker Stock was In Central
Point Wednesday, attending to de
tails of the funeral of Mrs. Josephine
Moseley of that city.
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TO INSURE in a company you do not know
is like loaning money to a stranger.
The (olio wing letter (ells Us own story:
To Whom It May Concern:
We have this day received draft of $800 In full payment of the
policy curried by uo In the California Insurnnon Co. on our stock
and fixtures which were destroyed by flro on January 13th. We
cannot speak too highly of the prompt cottlemcnt by the company
and the courteous treatment and offlclont nervlun received from the
adjuster and their local representative, Mr. Linings.
COOKE & DE WITT. .
Dated Ashlund, Oregon, January 20, 1915.
BILLINGS AGENCY
INSIIItANri.! THAT INHITKKS.
Who Carries YOUR Fire Insurance? 41 East Main Street
J. P. Dodge Sons
Undertakers
LADY ASSISTANT
First Class Service Moderate Prices
Free use of chapel for funeral services
State Licensed Embalmer Deputy County Coroner
ASHLAND, ORE.