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Monday, February IS, 1015 W. W. Watson Tells What He Sees After 35 Years' Absence The following address was deliv ered by W. W. Watson before the Ashland Commercial Club at a recent meeting. Mr. Watson is an old rest; dent of Ashland. who has been away from the city for thirty-five years and who, during that time, has been associated with the development of a number of California cities which have grown from villages to be big resorts. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I feel Just like a paradox what ever that may be: an old-timer in Ashland and yet a stranger. I ought not to consume a moment of your time this evening in an effort at extended talk. I'm sure, should I attempt it, you would be Just as Borry for me as I could possibly be for myself. I have for many yerB been so accustomed to talking through the medium of typewriter keys that I feel scarcely competent to deliver an oral message to an audi ence. However, since you have extended me this courtesy, I will take time to say that, after an absence of nearly four decades, looking for "something better," I have come back home. And I'm happy, to be able to give you an other assurance: I am Indeed glad to be here. I feel that I am qualified to make this final choice by compari son, for I have been in nearly every valley and city of consequence be tween the British line and Mexico during the past thirty-six years. In many of these places I have served syndicates, chambers of commerce, commercial clubs and other civic bod ies as publicity agent, an employment that made it necessary for me to col lect and collate facts and figures con cerning the resources and advantages of these several localities. By comparison 'of these with those of Ashland and vicinity I can say to you without a stammer that, consid ering all natural advantages, re sources and assets possible of devel opment, the Rogue River Valley and particularly Ashland and vicisjity ex cel them all! You have the best climate in the world, considered from season to season; the purest water that washes the pebbles of mountain streams anywhere under the sun; a wealth of soil that produces the finest and most luscious staple fruits and' vegetables of all climes. You need just one thing more in larger measure, gentlemen, and that Is a combination of public spirit and personal energy to develop these mag nificent resources and sufficient civic pride to let the whole world know about them by systematic pub licity work. And, gentlemen, while touching the atter of publicity, let me say a word or two on behalf of your local news papers and, through that medium, on behalf of every material Interest of the community. Do you realize' that a good news paper is one of the chief assets of any community? Do you appreciate the fact that no town or city can be suc cessfully built i.nd maintained with out publicity? and that the local newspaper is absolutely the most ef fective medium through which to do that work? Do you understand that it is one of the leading and most con stant promoters of local enterprises? and that the interests of local busi ness men are so closely interwoven with and wedded to those of their local publications that they cannot be DR. V. EARL BLAKE, DENTIST. First National Bank Bldg., Suite J and 10. Entrance First Ave. Phones: Office, 100; Res., 230-J. DR. D. M. B ROWER, GENERAL PRACTITIONER. Residence, 21.6 Factory St Phone 247-J. Massage, Electric Light Baths, Elec tricity. JULIA R. McQUILKIN, Superintendent. Payne Bldg. Telephone 300-J. Every day excepting Sunday. DR. ETHEL J. MARTIN, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, In charge of the practice of Drs. Saw yer and Kammerer. Pioneer Building. Office phone 208. Hours 9 to 5 and by appointment. DR. B. FONTAINE, OPTOMETRIST OPTICIAN. Glasses Scientifically Fitted. Lenses Duplicated. Citizens Bank Building. LTTERBACK & IIAWLEV, - Chiropractors. Swedish Massage, Spray and Cabinet Baths. Hours 9 a. m td 6 p. m. Sundays by appointment. Room 6-8, First National Bank Bldg. Phone 48. 69-lmo. CHAUTAUQUA PARK CLUB. Regular meetings of the Chautau qua Park Club first and third Fri days 'of each month at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. A. G. McCarthy, Pres. Mrs. Jennie Faucett Greer, Sec. CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB. The regular meetings of the Ladles' Clvlo Improvement Club will be held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 2:30- p. m., at the Carnegie Library lecture room. separated without seriously crippling both? The conditions intimated In these queries have become absolute facts. I am disappointed, therefore: to ob serve that the business institutions of Ashland are so generally ignoring the existence or tneir local newspapers. Positively, I have never seen else where a like situation, standing out, as it does, so shamelessly in bold re lief and that, too, in a community so happily supplied with business op portunities and so constantly yearn ing, eagerly and impatiently, for rec ognition by the outside world. Your newspapers are faithfully publishing column after column of descriptive and promotion matter and vigorous editorial appeals to the world to come and Investigate your natural resources and their wonder fully picturesque environments' of which you are so proud. They speak convincingly of the solidarity and substantiality of this ideally located little city and yet, if the distant reader turn to the business columns of your local newspapers, he will find only an abrupt and impudent contra diction of your editors' news and edi torial presentations. That sort of thing discredits the newspaper at once and very positively. The reader will not be slow to conclude that, if your editors will lie about that mat ter, they will lie about your lithia water; that they have lied about your soda and sulphur springs; about the integrity of your citizens, the fertil ity of your soil, your prize-winning fruits, your unequalled climate, the happy blending of your seasons and everything else of merit and virtue that you possess. Gentlemen, that is positively shameful and outrageously suicidal! The world will judge your com munity as a business center by the life and substantiality of the advertis ing columns of your newspapers; and, if that judgment be at all adverse, it will be severe, gentlemen, and you can't escape its consequences! The newspapers cannot live on your compliments, men! They do not grow and thrive' like skunk cabbage or huckleberry bushes. They need your protection, support and encour agement, and it is both your busi ness and duty to yield them gener ously. No business man gives more time, thought, labor and money to the advancement of general and spec ial communiity interests than the editor. - The newspaper business is not a dream, get-tlemen. . Too frequently It Is a haunting nightmare, from a busi ness' standpoint. Its pursuit is not a pleasure excursion Into realms of delight, luxury and leisure. Too often it is a mad and disheartening chase after the meanc.wlth which to insure the morning doughnut and the evening flapjack. You have here, gentlemen, a beau tiful little city In a charming garden spot; but you cannot hibernate, like the bear, without consuming your own substance. The newspapers must call the outside world to your assist ance. TenE of thousands of people who are either ioo ri.ih or too sick to stay at home would glndly come to Ashland If they knew the glories of your attractions and the magnifi cent abundance of your resources. Therefore, men of Ashland, add your business announcements to the products of the editors' strenuous la bor and send thousands of copies of their special editions into other states, so the world may know what you are, where you are and what you have. Other-vise, your newspapers must, of sheer necessity, degenerate into a mere reflection of the prosaic exist ence of a handful of people too in different to create impressions be yond the'.r municipal boundaries and too wholly bereft of public spirit and civic pride to enjoy the bounty of good things with vhich they have been so abundantly blessed or to per mit people of other sections of the country to kaovr that they abound here in oufflcient measure to gladden the lives of 50,000 people. It has been the custom of tens of thousands of people with ample means to nake an annual tour to Eu rope, visiting noted watering places and universally advertised health re sorts. For obvious reasons thejviU abandon that habit this year; and for equally apparent excuco this sus pense will continue for several ysars before this great army of tourists, who have not le.irned the value of seeing America first, will be able to resume its arduous and expensive Itineraries In tho now desolated and blood-drenched countries of tho war riddled Old World. Now is the time, gentlemen, to make the publicity ten-strlko for Ash land and Rogue River Valley. This is the most opportune morrent to her ald abroad the beauties, the glories, tho richness of resources and health fulneBS of clime of this peerless re gion. This la tho moct favorable op portunity you have ever enjoyed to turn the tide of tourlct travel to Ash land, not only r.s a health resort, not only as tho Carlebad of America, but as one of tbo pleaspntest places in ill the world In which to make a home and enjoy all the bounties of nature at nominal rnRt. If there be a place on the Pacific 'T coast whore a civic body, such as your Commercial Club, should regard its task 9s a love-work, that place is your own Ashland, Oregon. I know of no place like it In that respect no place with so many palpable and permanent p.dvantages and bo few dis advantage!!, indeed, K I were asked this moment to name a slnglo disad vantage, I confesa frankly that I could not do It unless It be found in the fact that a majority ol the peo ple of ttin city, having resldad here so long, do not : ppreclate tho neces sity o developing at once tbo grand opportunity now offered of more than doubling the population and business volume of Ashland In tho next threo or four years. If, on this point, there be a okeptlo in this city tonight, I am willing to wager my Interest In the Assets Twice Liabilities. " San Francisco. The business af faire of C. A. Smith of Berkeley, head of the Smith Lumber & Manufactur ing Company, and numerous subsidi aries in California and Oregon, are in the hands of a committee of cred itors. The interests were once valued at $15,000,000. Those connected with the committee state Mr. Smith's transfer of his affairs to the commit tee is due principally to his alleged inability to pay the interest on 15,000,000 wherein the companies are bonded. This interest and $112, 000 principal fell due in February. C. A. Smith is in Chicago, but due home shortly. The committee is com posed of C. R. Johnson of San Fran cisco, J. E. rianeher of Detroit' and Herman Waldeck of Chicago. Mr. Smith's friends say he is "land poor." The assets are more than double the liabilities. You -have something you do not need. Somebody else needs it and has what you want. Twenty-five cents puts your proposition before two thousand people through the "For Trade" column of the Tidings. future that he will continue to bor row his neighbor's paper and stick around to enjoy the fruits of this pro posed development. Hustling, bunding little cities in California owo the'r existence today, almost wholly in many cases, to the presence of one or another kind of mineral water of some medicinal valuo and tho nearness to mountain streams fringed with scabby willows. But their people know tho value of advertising. They appreciate the ad vantage of supporting their newspa pers sufficiently to enable the local publishers to put out attractively ar tistic special editions and of sending them to thousands of friends and oth ers in distant states, thus making known to tourists and homeseekers alike the virtues of their climate, soil and water. And, by the way, I know of no town In California the size of Ashland that has not at least one and generally two daily newspapers liber ally supported by local business men and women and civic bodies, loyal first to their newspapers and through them to their communities. Show me a municipality in which there is a good newspaper to which Its people are not generously loyal and I will show you a publisher, bent with his burden of responsibility and disappointment, trudging along wear ily over the hill directly toward the poorhouse. Show mo a municipality without a newspaper and civic pride and I will show you a community deader than a putty rabbit Juried in the hot em bers of Perandihese! Report of State Board Interesting Some very interesting statistics are brought to light in the report of the Oregon state board of health for the quarter including October, Novem ber and December. In the state we find that there was a total of 2,380 births as against 1,413 deaths, not'so very far from two to one, and this in the worst months of the year. The noble redman, far from time honored traditions, is not disappear ing, but is increasing, there being seven born and only five died during the three months. During the winter months there were 1,226 marriages. If there were that many in the cold, cold winter, what may we expect In June? Tuberculosis took by far the great est toll of lives, while some of the in fectious diseases which in former years proved fatal to so many caused the death of few. Altogether, the report Is very fa vorable to the state of health of the people of Oregon and is a good ad vertisement when compared to that of other states. The Man-It Home Com. Woman's pnnion. In the March Woman's Home Com panion is started a movement for bet ter motion pictures throughout the United States. The editors of the Companion are to have submitted to them each month several hundred films In advance of their release to the motion picture houses. From these they will select from forty to seventy-five which are especially SHERIFF'S SALE. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, in and for the County of Jackson. Margaret Read, Plaintiff, vs. William A. Aitken, Clara M. Aitken, his wife, and George F. Hall, De fendants. By virtue of an Execution, Judge ment Order and Decree, duly issued out of and under the seal of the Cir cuit Court of the State 'bf Oregon, for the County of Jackson, to me duly directed, and dated the 21st day of January, 1915, upon a judgment ren dered and entered in said Court on the 2nd day of November, 1914, in favor of the plaintiff, Margaret Read, and against the defendants, William A. Aitken and Clara M. Aitken, for the sum of Two Hundred Forty-four and .75-100 ($244.75) Dollars, with interest thereon from the said 2nd day of November, 1914. at the rate of 10 per cent per annum and Fifty ($50.00) Dollars attorney's fee', and the further sum of Seven ($7.00) Dollars costs nnd disbursements, and the costa of and upon this writ, com manding me to make sale of the fol lowing described real property situ ated in the County of Jackson, State of Oregon, to-wit: The Southeast quarter (SEV4) of the Southeast quarter (SEi ) of Sec tion One, Township, Thirty-three South of Range Two East of the Wil lamette Meridian, in Jackson County, Oregon, Containing Forty acres. Now, therefore, by virtue of tho commands of said Execution, Judg ment Order and Decree, I will on WEDNESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915, at the hour of 10 o-clock a. m. at the front door of the Court House In lacksonvllle, Jackson County, Oregon, offer for sale and will sell at public auction, subject to redemption as Is by law provided, to the highest bid der for cash, all of the right, title, interest and claim that the raid de fendants, William A. Aitken, Clara M. Aitken, his wife, and George F. Hall, or either of them, had on the date of the mortgage herein (the 15th day of July, 1912) or have since acquired commendable both from an artistic and ethical standpoint. Each month ' in and to the above desciibed real they will publish this list of films, property or any part or parcel there recommending that their readers see ; f- to at,sfy sall Judgment order, , th -in ui decree, interest, attorney's fees, eoHts them. This will enable parents, , and disbursements and the accruing women's clubs, teachers, librarians i costs of sale. Dated at the office of and others to help raise the standard 1 the Sheriff In Jacksonville, Jackson of motion pictures, thus providing for jthe children and the young .people of our country clean, wholesome, edu cational and genuinely entertaining pictures worth seeing. This move ment is predicted on the fart that motion pictures are of gigantic im portance In this country inasmuch as they now draw every week more young people han are In the churches on Sunday or in the schools on weekdays. County, Oregon, this 22nJ day of January, 1915. W. H. SINGLER, Sheriff. By E. W. Wilson, Deputy. 70-5t-Mon. C. S. JOHNSON Carpenter and Contractor CHARG ICS REASONABLE . SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 423-Y 52 Roca St. SHERIFF'S SALE. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, In and for the County of Jackson. Jackson County-Building and Loan Association, a corporation. Plaint iff, vs. R. L. Bennett and Louella R. Ben nett, husband and wife. Defend ants. By virtue of an Execution, Judg ment Order and Decree, duly issued out of and under the seal of the Cir cuit Court of the State of Oregbn for the County o? Jackson, to me duly directed, and dated the 21st day of January, 1915, upon a judgment ren dered and entered in said Court on the 16th day of January, 1915, in favor of the plaintiff, the Jackson County Building and Loan Associa tion, a corporation, and arcainst tha defendants," R. L. Bennett and Lou ella It. Bennett, for the sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-four and 2-100 ($1,234.02) Dollars, with interest thereon from Raid 16th day of January, 1915, at the rate of 10 per cent per annum and One Hun dred Twenty ($120.00) Dollars attor ney's fees with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from January 16th, 1915, and tha further sum of Twelve ($12.00) Dol lars costs and disbursements, and tho costs of and upon this writ, com manding me to make sale o' the- fol lowing described rerfl property situ ated in the County of Jackson, State of Oregon, t'o-wlt: The East one-half of Lots num bered One and Two, in Block num ber Two of Gray's Addition to tha City of Med ford, Jackson County, Oregon. Now therefore, by virtue of tha commands of said Execution, Judg ment Order and Decree, I will on WEDNESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1915, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., at the front door of the Court House in Jacksonville, Jackson . County, Stata of Oregon, offer for sale and will sell at public auction, subject to redemp tion as is by law provided, to tha highest bidder for cash, all the right, title. Interest and claim that the de fendants, R. L. Bennett and Louella R. Bennett, his wife, or either of them, had on the 26th dayf Febru ary, 1912, or have since acquired in and to the above described real prop erty, or any part or parcel thereof, to satisfy said judgment order, de cree, interest, attorney's fees, cost and disbursements and accruing costs of sale. Dated at the office of the Sheiiff in Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon, this 22nd day of January, 1915. W. H. SINGLER, Sheriff. By E. W. Wilson, Deputy. 70-5t-Mon. Standard legal blank forms of every kind may be procured at tha Tidings office In any quantity. 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