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- "The Carlsbad of America
VOL. XXXIX
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 29. 1915
NUMBER 88
County Court to
Improye Exhibit
In' a recent Interview for the Med
ford Mail Tribuno County Commis
sioner Madden outlined the county
court's plans for improving the Jack
son county exhibit at the exposition
as follows:
"We have appointed a committee
composed of H. W. Bingham, Bert
Anderson and F. W. Streets to secure
pictures, by loans or otherwise, of
orchards, orchard homes, highway
scenes, Med ford and Ashland and
Rogue River Valley scenes, also any
other articles, such as produce, min
erals, fruit, etc., that will interest the
public in the Rogue River Valley.
, "We have named Edgar Hafer and
Frank Owens as a committee to se
cure sample slabs of our fir, pine and
other varieties of native timber, one
side dressed and finished, one left
rough with the bark, to make a dis
play of our timber resources.
"Wo have named George Putnam,
Evan Reames, Bill Isaacs and R. W.
Ewing to. produce a "(porting exhibit
that will attract attention to the
hunting and fishing rosources of
Jackson county.
,(We have arranged with A. C.
Allen to get up a moving picture
reel, telling the story of the Rogue
River Valley and Crater Lake. The
county court appropriated $000 to
cover the expenses of the same, and
he is donating his services and ma
chinery free of charge. In these
movies all phases of our domestic life
will be featured, as well as the his
tory of the valley and moving pan
oramas of our beautiful scenery, as
well as the legend of Crater Lake.
"We have arranged with State
Game Warden Flnley to secure du
plicates of his reels, showing steel
head fishing in the Rogue by local
anglers.
"We have Instructed Mr. Lowe
to rearrange his product exhibit,
which is at present along lines of too
many others to attract the attention
ft merits. A few good pictures will
be added, better containers and a
more artistic arrangement.
"We haveordered 5,000 unique
booklets In the shape of a pear, print
ed for distribution, which will be kept
where the larger booklets are never
looked at.
"We have authorized the framing
of the Crater Lake pictures and
paintings loaned by Mr. Kiser and
authorized Leonard Carpenter, who is
at the fair, and has volunteered. his
services, to look after these special
features and co-operate with Mr.
Frohbach In the installation and
placing of them. Mr. Frohbach will
remain In charge of all exhibits, as
be is doing as well as his resources
permit.
"We ate scouring the valley for
fruit and ask the co-operation of the
general public In furnishing anything
that can be displayed to advantage."
Local Merchants
Form Association
More Realty Deals During March
Than During All of Last Year
About fifty Ashland business men
gathered at Moose hallv Friday night
to consider the organization of a
merchants' association. A splendid
banquet was spread at which seventy
plates were filled. Secretary Messick
of the state association was present
to assist in the organization. He ex
plained the purposes of and the work
ings of the organization and told of
the good work that had been accom
plished in the different cities
throughout the state.
A large delegation of merchant
members of the Medford association
was present and gave some interest
ing talks about the benefits to be de
rived and were being derived by the
Medford organization.
After the banquet the company
gathered in the Moose lodge room,
with Mr. Brown of the Ashland Trad
ing Company presiding, and entered
into a discussion of the subject of
organization.
A number of talks were made and
it was decided to organize, making
all business men of Ashland eligible
to membership, with a monthly due
to bear expenses.
The organization was named "The
Ashland Business Man's Association.'
Mr. Brown of the Ashland Trading
Company was elected president; Mr.
Shinn of Briggs & Shinn, first vice
presjdent; E. D. Nims of Nims &
Saunders, second . vice-president;
Monte Briggs, secretyy; Henry End
ers, treasurer. An assistant secre
tary1 will be chosen; by the directors
and will be the active and salaried
officer. The following five directors
wera.then eletced: W JL McNalr,
A..L, Lamb., A. C. Nlnlnger, J. H.
McGee and Henfy Provost. Commit
tee ,on constitution and by-laws.
Messrs. Loomls, Orres and Seager.
Membership committee, . Messrs.; Mc
Nair, Nims,' ;.Nlninger, Shinn and
Crowson. , "2" " ' ")-. f
. The next meeting will be held Fri
day evening .April 9,1 at Moose hall.
The organization, has two primary
objects: Tho elimination of f the
stamp and premium nuisance and, the
proper credit rat'ng of citizens... i
The merchants' association. 1 NOT
an organization" for Ihe "purpose of
combining and regulating prices. It
is simply for the protection of mem
bers against advertising grafts, cou
pon premiums and bad accounts.
Thse objects are all , creditable.
Such organizations have proven of
vast good to merchants and citizens
in other cities and will no doubt so
prove here.
Ashland real estate is moving.
While no big deals have been con
summated, there is an encouraging
growth in the number of small deals
that augurs ell for Ashland's fu
ture. During the past three weeks
there have been numbers of deals
made. Real estate men say that
many others are on the way. Ash
land does not want a real estate boom
but wants a steady, substantial In
crease. It is coming.
We have been unable to secure
daa of anwyhere near all of the
minor deals of the past three weeks,
but a few of the Important ones fol-;
low:
J. L. Corbett sold his place on Au
will occupy one of these. The con
sideration was ?3,0u0. Mrs. Rapp
will live in Talent.
. S. L. Hoge sold land near Ashland
to "Carl Lewis for 500
F. 0. Berger sold a place in Wool
en's addition to Otto Michel for a
consideration of $l'000, and another
place in block 12 for the same price.
Miss Bertha Barnhilr has pur
chased an acre of land on Wimer just
above Aita avenue, formerly owned
by. E. A. Estes, and will erect a house
thereon.
The Nodgson-Whltrr.ore real estate
company has handled several deals
during the past week, among them
being the sale of a place belonging to
burn street to Fred Moritz. ThisjJohn Dar,er on Betfch 8treet to w
property Includes an eight-room
house. ,
A. W. Storey and V. M. Barber
have effected several real estate ex
changes dealing with property in the
Granite street neighborhood.
Pearl A. Storm purchased a lot In
the Mathews addition from the F.
M. Bagley estate.
Henry Leavltt bought a lot from
M. M. Murray.
J. R. Wick purchased a tract of
land from the D. R. Mills estate.
from William Hodgson.
Anna Bryant sold several lots to
Mollle Songer.
Mrs. C. S. Wing sold a lot in the
Railroad addition to Mrs. Nancy Cun
ningham. John Dill bought a fine place from
A; J. Smith.
Albert Whitney sold Elizabeth
Smith a nice place near the city lim
its. .
Mrs. Martha E. Rapp sold her
beautiful residence property on Oak
street to Dr. Fisher, Christian Sci
ence practitioner. The property ex
tends through with -fronts on both
Oak street and First avenue and has
two residences upon It. Mr. Fisher
Pepper. Also a 16.0-acre piece of
partly improved land on the highway
belonging to E. B. Pinkerton and sold
to Mrs. Emma Wing.
W. E. Whitmore has purchased a
160-aere ranch in Sams Valley from
John Gibson. This place was for
merly known as the Praytor place.
Besides these there have been sev
eral minor transfers.
Along building lines, too, renewed
actlyity is evident. The remodeling
of the Star Theatre and the rebuild-
"Kaolin" Deposit
Is Feldspar
Samples of the so-ca'lled kaolin de
positsi which are located near the
Dead Indian road about fourteen
miles from Ashland were sent to
Smith, Emery & Co. at San Francisco
for analysis recently. The material
which Ashlanders have always con
sidered to be kaolin is found to be
feldspar, which Is a valuable material
used in pottery work.
Investigation of this depgslt has
been made by D. M. Brower and oth
ers of this vicinity with a view 'of
turning the deposits to a commercial
use. The analysis and report of the
Smith-Emery people Is as follows:
Analysis.
Per Cent
Washed (elutriated) kaolin.. 50.5
Sandy residue 4 9.5
Analysis of Washed Kaolin.
Silica 64.40
Alumina ' 23.94
Iron oxide 0.92
Discusses New
Prohibition Law
Herbert Freeman bought a lotting of George Stephenson's building
on South Main street, the beginning
of a modern bungalow on Allison
street by Mr. Keller, numerous minor
additions and changes and additions
to residences indicate renewed activ
ity along building lines. Besides
these projects upon which actual
work is going on, there are several
other building operations being
planned. .. .
After summing up all of the real
estate activities of the past three
weeks we can confidently state that
there has been more activity along
these lines during the past weeks
than during the past year. Ashland
is awakening to her opportunities
and things are going to hum.
. Attorney-General Brown addressed
a mass meeting at Salem recently and
the following article contains a part
of the speech hieh explained the
provisions of the new prohibition iaw.
It is the first general construction
of the measure by a high state offi
cial, and the one which will guide
the authorities in its enforcement un
til various phases of it re passed on
by the courts, which they probably
will be called upon to do after it be
comes operative next year.
Mr. JJrown explained that because
of his official duties the number of
addresses he would deliver upon the
law would be limited, but R. P. Hut
ton of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League
will urge the attorney-general to
speak In at least one town in each
county.
"I will not undertake to discuss
the question as to whether a better
law could or could not have been
Lime 0.46 . devised," Raid Mr. Brown, "but I
Magnesia 0.10
Loss in Ignition 9.66
Alkalies (by difference) 0.52
Total 100.00
It will be noted that the washing
test does not very materially change
the chemical composition, as will be
seen by a comparison of the two an
alyses. While the first analysis
showed a chemical composition ap
proximating raw kaolin, the washing
test shows that the material is not
kaolin, but a feldspar, probably
orthoclase.
You will note that In washing prao
tically 50 per cent of the material
was rejected, and the analysis made
on the balance being almost the same
as the former analysis. This shows
that the portion rejected was of the
same composition as the washed pon
tion. '
Feldspars have an important use
in pottery work.
Yours very truly,
SMITH, EMERY & CO.,
Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
There is a large number of acres
of land open to homesteadlng In
southern Oregon, according to the
Rosebnrg land office. Information
regarding this land and lists of ap
proximate acreage may be had by
writing to the United States Land
Office at Roseburg, Ore.
A Few More Days
Of Fair Contest
Sixty-four thousand people Is the
average daily attendance at the San
Francisco exposition. Every brilliant
In the Tower of Jewels will glitter
a welcome to the fortunate and per
severing Ashland young lady who
leads the list in the exposition con
test next week. Only a few days left.
hhe contest standings to date are as
follows:
Blanche Salsbury 834,205
Bessie Homes 725,140
Maple Payne 666,510
Erfle Oslin 415,040
Madge Putnam ............ 331,331
Elvera Netaosn"" . . 280,086
Ruth Hadley ........ ..230,019
Myrtlo Dougherty 203,928
Mrs. Elsie Churchman 69,721
Beulah Caldwell 34.437
R,uth Scott ....... "... 21,172
MIUIo'.Lowe .". . .4 18,344
Reta Card 16,179
Edison Thacker has opened a ba
nana store In the building next to
Patty's second hand store and Is sell
ing at surprisingly low prices. Stop
in and get a bunch. Mr. Thacker will
bo In Ashland from time to time as
he receives new shipments of fruit.
Hear the Crucifixion at armory.
The Springs Project
Under Way
The springs surveys have been com
pleted and the engineers are work-
ling out the right-of-way maps. Mr.
Lamkln is securing rights-of-way as
fast as the plats are finished and is
meeting with much encouragement
and little opposition. Practical op
eration on development at the springs
will likely be begun the latter part
of this week. The ditch work will
not be commenced until the pipe ar
rives, which may be some three
weeks.
In the meantime plans are being
perfected by City Engineer Walker
for the park boulevard and likely
work will be begun on that some time
this'week. Several teams and many
men will be put to work on first
street grade as soon as the plans are
ready. R. P. Cornelius will oversee
the work and hire the men. Just tie
day work will start will be fully de
termined by Wednesday. It Is the
purpose of the commission to fill in
the gap for the employment of labor
ing men; between now and the time
the pipe for the springs work begins.
Dramatic Club to . .
Present Burlesque
The first of a series of three enter
tainments to be given by the Ashland
Dramatic Club will take place in the
Vining Theatre on Monday, April 12.
The entertainment promises to be the
llivest one put on for many moons.
Beautiful costumes, brilliant dia
logue, catchy scngs and artistic danc
ing and acting will place the produc
tion on a plane high above any ever
attempted here. The production is
to be a burlesque on the Frisco fair
and Is guaranteed to be entirely new
and a scream from start to finish.
Local boosts will feature the even
ing's fun.
This will be the first of a series of
three entertainments put on by the
dramatic club. The other two will
follow on May 10 and June 10. The
'affairs will be for the benefit of tho
! Civic Club Auxiliary and tickets' for
the series pi three entertainments
will be put on sale tomorrow at
ICrowson's Rose Bros.' and Butler's.
The one price of one dollar takes the
buyer to all three. The proceeds will
go toward fixing up the Auxiliary
club house.
Pioneer Passes
Quietly to Sleep
Must Control
Blight Now
I wish to warn all orchardists' that
now Is the 'most critical time in pur
campaign against the blight. With
the blossoming season upon us, the
danger from blight infection Is In
creased to lt3 maximum. One piece
of holdover blight may cause thou
sands of Infcct'ons and may ruin en
tire crops.
If we would keep the blight under
control it behooves us all to do our
utmost to cut out all infections and
burn all Infected wood Immediately.
Get busy now. A. C. ALLEN, '
District Horticultural Commissioner.
Medford Choir at
Armory Tuesday
Albert G. Rockfellow, one of Ash
land's oldest pioneers, passed away
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Mr.
Rockfellow was in good health until
last Friday when he took to his bed.
The end came quietly and without
pain, the deceased passing off quietly
while, asleep. He was 89 years, 8
months and 25 days old.
Mr. Rockfellow was born in New
Trenton, Linn county, Indiana, and
came to Ashland in 1852. He was a
writer and poet of more than local
repute. He has been a familiar fig
ure on tho streets of Ashland for
many years and is known and revered
by all of Ashland's prominent citi
zens. He leaves one son, Alfred Rockfel
low, who came down from Seattle
Saturday. Mr. Rockfellow is related
to several of the old families of Ash
land, among them being the Meyer,
Walker, Anderson and Wagner fami
lies. "Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from
the Methodist church.
The Klamath Indian reservation
has been chosen for maneuver
grounds for the artillery of the coast : liquors for sale.
shall content myself by taking the
act as I find it and explain and apply
it as it is written. I shall summar
ize the most important crimes defined
by the net:
"It shall be a crime to sell intoxl-"
eating liquors from and after Jauu
ary 1, 1916.
"It shall be a crime for any phar
macist to sell any ethyl nlcoliol until
he has filled in and read a prescribed
affidavit to the purchaser and the
same has been signed and sworn to.
"It shall be a crime for pharmacists
'to sell more than two quarts of alco
hol to one person in a period of four
weeks, except such alcohol be sold to f
public -of charitable hospitals for
medlcij.1 purposes.
f "Tlfa. Oct provides that any regu
larly lfcense.d physician In , good
standing In his-profession, and fol-Iowing-the
practice of medicine, may
administer intoxicating liquors to pa-J
tlenta when the same Is actually' nec
essary as a medicine In the treatment
of any disease. v
"It shall be a crime for any per
son -to solicit ordersfor the sale of
liquor. , . .j, - '
"It shall be a crime to advertise
pending permission from the Depart
ment of the Interior. About 3,000
artillerymen from Oregon, Utah and
California will encamp there this
summer. It is thought that there Is
a possibility of the government choos
ing the Klanath country for maneu
vering grounds for the whole of the
United States, In which case about
20,000 men would drill there.
Hoboes Spear Fish
In Bear Creek
Coming as it does during passion
week and just preceding Good Friday ;
seemfj a particularly opportune time ! state of affairs along Bear creek,
to hear Stainer's "Crucifixion," as it; There are several camps along the
The absence of a game warden in
this district has led to. a very bad
will more fully prepare not only all
professed Christians of all creeds but
the general public to appropriately
observe and reverently approach the
most momentous 'evenfln the world's
history, whether considered from a
religious or secular standpoint. The
strong Impressions for good that will
be made on all who hear the First
Methodist Episcopal choir of Medford
at the armory Tuesday night deserve
the united and hearty support of all
church-going peoplo of all faiths, for
they certainly will leave with us the
ever-new story of Christ's awful
agony and suffering on the cross. It
Spray pumps, both In hand and
power; spray hose, spray rods and
nozzles. All kinds of garden tools,
and everything In the Implement line,
at Plel's Implement house. 85-tf
Try Enders' line first.
creek where the hoboes "jungle up."
The tramps have been and are In the
habit of spearing fish from the creek.
No doubt great numbers of them
have been taken In this way, as It Is
well known- to local fishermen how
easy It Is to spear the big fish which
congregate In the deep pools. A stop
should be put to this practice. The
local police In the ediirse of their
work of breaking up hobo camps have
run across several fish which were
speared. Police Jurisdiction does not
extend over this lawbreaklng, how
ever, and they were powerless to net.
Some action should be taken by the
game authorities.
The Commercial Club requests the
names and addresses of parties who
are considering coming to the const
this summer. We wish to send them
literature and give them a good, con
ception of Oregon. 74-tf
Large Crowd Sees
New Playhouse
About seven hundred peoplo at
tended the opening of the new Lyric
Theatre last Thursday evening. The
building had been completely remod
eled and bore no resemblance to the
! dingy old Piar. An addition of twen
ty-five feet on the rear nnd the drop
ping of the floor make a spacious
theatre. Tho ceiling is beamed and
the whole inside la most artistically
decorated. The beams and wood
work are mahogany finish and tho
walls and celling are dono in tan and
cream with green border. Tho in
direct lighting system is used alto
gether. Several lights are hung from
the cellfng and green bracket lights
adorn the walls. New and comfort
able opera chairs lend greatly to the
comfort of an evening spent In the
new playhouse.
A first-class seven-piece orchestra
dispensed music during the course of
the evening and was highly appreci
ated by the crowd. While the man
agement promises that the pictures
will bo still clearer when proper ad
justments haze been made, tho pa
trons found no fault to find and com
plimented Mr. Lawrence highly on
the class of pictures which were
shown. Altogether the evening was
a most auspicious opening for the
new picture house and the Lyric is
sure to have good patronage.
"It shall be a crime for any per
son, by hliijr.elf or by association with
others, to aid or abet in keeping any
locker room, club room or slniilai
place In which intoxicating liquor Is
received, or kept for the purpose of
use, gift, barter or sale as a beverage,
or for Jllstribution.
"It shall be a crime for any person
to carry intoxicating liquor to any
dance hall, or any public gathering,
or have Intoxicating liquor In his os
session at such place.
"It shall be a crime for any com
mon carrier or agent of such com
mon cnrrler to deliver Intoxlcatlnff
liquor to. any person until the pro
scribed affidavit is made.
"It shall be a crime for any person
or family within tho state to receive
from any common carrier more than
two quarts of spirituous or vinous
liquors, or more than twenty-four
quarts' of malt liquors, within a per
iod of four successive weeks."
Mt. Lassen at
Its Old Tricks
The driver of Good's steamer has
Informed' the Tidings that the ac
count of the recent smash-up In the
Park garage was sadly out of line
with the facts. It seems that Trask
had started out of the garage behind
another car and that Grlsez had sup
posed that there was no car follow
ing and started In. The steamer
picks up quickly, and was on top of
the little car before either one knew
the other was there. All concerned
say that the affair was merely an un
avoidable accident.
Mt. Lassen wns at Its old tricks
most of last week and has now
brought tho total number of its erup
tions up to more than eighty. Train
men running. In from the south re
port being able to see the eruptions
from tho railroad. On Saturday, the
20th, the mountain waH enveloued in
a cloud of smoke during most of the
day.
If the old mountain keeps up Its
nntownrd actions It will prove to be
a good drawing card for the Shasta
route. Mt. Lassen. Is featured In re
cent Southern Pacific, advertising.
On Friday tho iriountaln threw out
a rock as big as a houso which cut
a swath fifty feet wide through the j
fifteen feet of snow which lies on
the mountain. Tho rock mowed
clown huge trees and created consid
erable havoc In Its course down the
mountain side.
Tho first frost of tho season oc
curred last Wednesday evening and
found the orchardists mostly unprepared.-
However, no damage was
done as far as has been ascertained,
as It Is too early for danger to be
great. Soveral of the orchard men
lighted their sinudgo pots and a
heavy veil of smoke hung over th
lower valley Thursday morning.