Ashland tidings., April 22, 1915, Image 1

"Ashland Grows While Uthla flows"
City of Sunshine and flowers
Ashland, Oregon, Lilhia Springs
"The Carlsbad of America'
VOL. XXXIX
ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1915
NUMBER 95
Charter Amendment Election
Called For Third Of May
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION.
Notice Is hereby given that, pursu
ant to a resolution ot the Common
Council of the city of Ashland, Ore
gon, duly adopted on the 20th day of
April, 1915, and approved by the
Mayor on the 21st day of
April, 1915, the following pro
posed amendment to the charter
of the city of Ashland will be sub
mitted to the legal voters of said city
for their approval or rejection, at a
special city election to be held on
Monday, the 3rd day of May, 1915,
to-wit:
An act t amend Sections 4, 5, 7,
8 and 10 of Article XX of the charter
of the city of Ashland as the same
now exists, "which Article XX was
added to said charter and became op
erative upon the proclamation of the
Mayor of said city, made the 27th
day of June, 1914, and to add to said
Article XX a new and additional sec
tion, to-wit, Section 11, and by such
amendments to more fully define the
duties and powers of the Springs Wa
ter Commission and to more definite
ly provide for the expenditure of the
funds on hand arising out of the sale
of the bonds of said city provided for
by its Ordinance No. 572, and the
ratification of said bond issue made
by charter amendment of said city
which became operative by proclama
tion of the Mayor thereof on the 21st
day of November, 1914, and to direct
the disposition of such of said funds
as may not be required for the In
stallation of the city's auxiliary water
plant, for which said bonds were vot
ed, and to ratify and confirm the
issuance of said bonds, the sale there
of and such of the acts of said Com
mission as shown by its report filed
with the City Recorder on April 20th,
1115, and tatifying and confirming
the contract of said city with Smith,
Emery & Co., and to fix the liability
of the commissioners composing said
Springs Water Commission, requiring
them to give a bond for the faithful
performance of their duties, defining
the terms of such bonds and repealing
all charter provisions, ordinances and
resolutions in conflict herewith.
Be it enacted by the people of the
city of Ashland, that Sections 4, 5, 7,
8 and 10, respectively, of Article XX
of the charter of the city of Ashland,
as said Article XX was added to and
made a part of said charter by an
amendment made effective by - the
proclamation of the Mayor of said
city on the 27th day of June, 1914,
be amended so as to read as herein
after set forth, and that Section 11
be added to and made a part of said
Article XX of said charter, to read
as hereinafter set forth:
Section 4. The said Springs Water
Commission shall have full control
and management of the auxiliary wa
ter plant, and is hereby given power
to construct, install and maintain the
same and do all things in and about
the premises necessary for its com
plete construction, Installation and
maintenance; to enter upon and use
for such purposes the public grounds,
streets, alleys, parks and ways of the
said city of Ashland in so far as nec
essary for such construction, installa
tion and operation, but when so used
the same shall be restored by said
commission to as good condition as
formerly existed before such use.
Any and all expenses occasioned by
such restoration, and all expenses
No More Liquor Ads
On Billboards
Advertisements for all spirituous
liquors hereafter will be barred from
the billboards throughout the United
States and Canada when the present
advertising contracts expire, accord-
to a decision reached at the annual
convention of the Poster Advertising
Association, composed of all the bill
posting firms in America, which re
cently was held in Palm Beach, Fla. La mouth for the next six months for
(Continued on Page ElgUt.)
Number of Matters
Occupy Council
The city council met last Tuesday
evening in regular session with Coun
cilman Cornelius absent at roll call.
Recorder Gillette was also missing at
first and the council reversed the
proceedings slightly and Councilman
Ware read an ordinance prohibiting
the drinking of liquor in public places
and providing for the forfeiture of
same. On his motion the ordinance
was read by title and passed.
At this time Recorder Gillette ap
peared on the scene of action and
the regular order of business was re
verted to. The recorder read the
minutes of the previous meeting,
which were approved.
During the course of the evening
the council was entertained with
beautiful and harmonious selections
from some inmates of the city jail.
The report of the springs water
commission was received and filed.
The recorder reported that the car
load of pipe had arrived and also a
bill for the same. The amount was
$1,845.70, and since the provisions
of the purchase provided for a 5 per
cent discount for cash within ten days
after the bill had been received, the
recorder was Instructed to draw a
warrant for the amount.
Councilman Ware presented some
bills in regard to improvements on
llargadine avenue, both inside and
outside of the park, and on Mill
street. The bills and time warrants
were ordered paid.
The matter of the Orange street
grade crossing was dealt with In a
communication from the city attorney
in which it was stated that the com
mission had decided a grade crossing
to be permissible and including the
conditions under which the crossing
could be made. Other legal reports
dealing with the proposition were
read and the matter of the crossing
referred to the street committee.
A petition was read from the post
mflster regarding restoration of street
signs, some of which are missing or
obliterated, thus rendering the work
of the mall carriers more difficult.
The matter was referred to the street
committee.
A petition from Charles Ilalght,
asking permission to erect a cow
barn, was refeired to the sanitary
committee.
A letter from J. H. Ackerman, sec
retary of the state board of regents,
regarding the care of the apparatus
and buildings on the normal school
grounds was read and the council,
deeming action necessary on the mat
ter, referred It to a special committee
to consider the matter and confer
with the Commercial Club.
A 'communication from Howard
Figures on County
Tax Collection
Incomplete figures from the coun
ty treasurer's office on the tax col
lections for the year show that about
C5 per cent of the total assessment
was collected. The total levy was
$789,316.13. making the amount
turned in approximately $493,055.85.
Of this amount $180,000 has already
been diverted to town and school
funds throughout the county. Treas
urer Colvis says that definite figures
should be available the first of the
month. A force of accountants are
at work on the final tabulations.
Always an educational picture for
the candy matinee at the Lyric Saturday.
Rose in regard to grading of Terrace
street where it goes Into the Bcenlc
drive, and requesting that the place
be fixed so that it would be passable
to teams, was read and the matter
referred to the street committee.
The resignation of R. A. Minkkler
from the springs commission was
read. The matter was laid on the
table.
Councilman Ware moved that
when the meeting adjourned it should
be until next Tuesday. Motion car
ried. SA petition from D. D. Norrls, sec
retary of the Commercial Club, was
read concerning an appropriation for
the band. Action which was taken is
discussed elsewhere in this Issue.
A communication from the water
superintendent and fire chief in re
gard to installation of several fire
plugs at stated places, was read.
Councilman Ashcraft moved that the
water superintendent be instructed to
place these pings. Motion carried.
A petition from the fire chief and
driver asking for minor pleres of ap
paratus was referred to the fire com
mittee. At this point the imitators of
CaniRO In the city bastile began to.
beat time on the cell door and the
chief left to quiet them a little.
A requisition for twenty-six meters
by the city electrlclau-was authorized.
Councilman Ashcraft moved that
the mayor appoint two men, one for
each sfflo of town, to check up the
water and acreage. Motion passed.
The campgrounds proposition and
matter of signs was stirred up and
work on the grounds will be started
at once. The mayor delegated the
matter of attending to the erection of
signs to the special commltte In
charge of the campgrounds.
A resolution calling an election for
a charter amendment on May 3 was
read and passed.
At this point the council decided
This news was brought to Portland
by George W. Kleiser of Foster &
Kleiser, billposters of that city, who
returned last week from an extended'
trip through the east, during which
he attended the convention.
"There was little opposition to the
resolution to ' refuse to accept any
more billposting for liquors," said
Mr. Kleiser. "Nearly all the mem
bers of the association believed it was
the proper thing for them to do.
There are some big contracts for
posting liquor posters and, of course,
these have to be fulfilled. After the
present contracts end there will be
no more renewals and liquor adver
tisements on 'the billboards in this
country will soon be a thing of the
past."
Why pay rent? Better own your
own home. See Beaver Realty Com
pany for facts and figures. 93-tf
"Bohemian Girl"
Is Big Production
The new scenery for the "Bohe
mian Girl" is progressing splendidly
at the hands ot Miss Bomar, Miss
Grubb and Miss Walker, under the
direction of Miss Harris. It would
be difficult, indeed, to have finer
scenery arranged by imported talent
than the local girls have been able to
construct.
Nearly everyone is familiar with
the story and music of the light
opera. Seventy-five voices will be
included in the cast.
Mr. Klum and a crew of boys are
rearranging tho drop scenes. All the
new scenery and apparatus will be
made by the local boys in the manual
training shops.
This is the most ambitious musical
entertainment that has ever been at
tempted in Ashland, but the cast has
been drilling hard and a fine produc
tion Is assured.
The part of Thaddeus, a Polish ex
ile, is taken by Mr. Brlggs. Early in
the play he is seeking concealment
from Austrian troops and rescues the
infant daughter of Count Arnheim of
Austria from an infuriated stag. The
grateful count asks the stranger to
join in the festivities about to take
place. Thaddeus finally accepts but
refuses to drink to the health of the
emperor. The count is angered and
Thaddeus departs with a band of
Gypsies. x
The part of Devilshoof Is taken by
Mr. Howells. He Is one of the Gyp
sies and is iruprlsoned by the count,
but he escapes and steals Arline, the
count's child.
Arline, tho count's child, is Miss
Nell Peachey. She has developed a
wonderful range of voice and will be
a pleasing surprise to her many
friends. .
The part of the Gypsy queen Is
taken by Wins Prfstilla Carnahan,
who appears nt her fcry best In this
difficult part.
The count is Mr. Percy Blackstone.
Mr. Blackstone's voice Is well suited
to the range of this part and will be
quite a favorite at the production.
Mr. Aubrey Redlfer takes the part of
Floresteln. He is the count's nenhew
and from him Is stolen the medallion
which the queen hangs about Arline's
neck. When she Is brought -to the
court the count recognizes her as his
long lost child.
The high school orchestra will fur
nish music during tho course of the
evening. Tho play Is to be put on In
the high school gymnasium next
Wednesday evening, April 28.
Band Concert In
Park Next Sunday
A high-class band that will play
high-class music is practically assured
for Ashland. A weekly concert dur
ing the summer, band dances, and the
inspiring strains of the latest marches
at all of the big occasions this sum
mer will be realities Instead of
dreams. At Tuesday nieht's council
meeting the council appropriated $25
the support of the band. The Com
mercial Club had already decided to
donate a like amount, and this morn
ing it was announced that the park
commission will furnish $10 a month.
The ladies of the Civic Improvement
Club have started agitation for band
support and will no doubt take some
action at their next meeting.
V, L. Bentson, the band man who
Is here from San Francisco, directed
the I and last Friday evening at re
hearsal and expresses himself as be
ing amazed at the array of fine band
musicians which Ashland has and pre
dicts that the band will make a name
for itself all up and down the coast
before the summer is over.
Mr. Bentson will direct the band in
the first concert of the season next
Suu;tay afternoon In the park, weath
er permitting. Everyone is urged to
turn out and give the band a good
sendolf. The concert is free.
State Funds To Pave Billings'
Hill And Five Miles South
The $50,000 apyroprlated by the I Whether the state will turn over
state for Jackson county roads will i the money to the county to be expend
be expended on the Billings hill and ed under Mr. Cantine's supervision.
in paving Ashland south. The mat- or whether the state Itself will take
ter of paving the Billings hill has 'complete charge of the work, will
been deferred until the action of the also be determined.
Charter Election
Called for May 3
Tuesday night the city council
called an election for May 3 to so
amend the charter that the contem
plated improvement In the park could
go forward Immediately.
This was deemed advisable for two
reasons:
1. When the charter amendment
is duly adopted an Injunction will not
lie against the expenditure of funds
for the park development.
2. Without the charter amend
ment any funds paid out by the
springs water commission for park
development would stand as a per
sonfl liability against the individual
commissioners. For this reason the
spilvgs water commission declined to
ibaTlvouchers against the auxiliary
water fund for park Improvement un
til they could do so legally.
Therefore all work In the park has
been discontinued until the charter
amendment Is ratified by vote.
ork continues on the Smith,
Emery & Co. contract for the physi
cal plant, the piping of the water to
the city being legal as the charter
now stands.
The object of the proposed charter
amendment is simply to allow the
sin ings water commission to do legal
ly what everybody thought it already
had the right to do.
The amendment was drawn by the
city attorney and attorney for the
springs water commission and adopt
ed by the -council without change.
The amendment election should
carry wtihout opposition as there are
no new matters or authority granted
to the commission that were not al
ready Implied in the original plan
state officials could be learned, but
it now seems probable that the work
of removing the main obstacle to
travel between Ashland and Medford
will go forward In tht very near fu
ture. V
County Cor.imlssioners Leever and
Madden and Representative W. I.
Vawter returned from Salem Tuesday j
where they appeared before the state
highway commislHon In an endeavor
to reach an understanding regarding
the expenditure of the $50,000 appro
priated for use on the Siskiyou sec
tion and a basis for road work during
the coining year. State Highway En
gineer Cantine will be down within
the next few days and the program
will be finally agreed upon.
Commissioner Madden th,us sum
marizes the result of the conference:
The state money will be expended
on the Siskiyou section, but tlSo Siski
you section will comprise, subject to
approval by Engineer Cantine,, all
that portion of the highway from the
southern line of tho present complet
ed paved road at the base of the Ash
land hill to the California line. This
will enable the expenditure of the
state money on the Billings grade
and the paving this year of probably
five miles from Ashland south under
state control.
The office of the state highway en
gineer at Medford. will be abolished.
Engineer Kittredge will be retained
until Mr. Cantine makes his visit, and
his future employment will then be
determined upon.
The balance of the county ' bond
issue, left after the Sweeney settle
ment, approximately $80,000, will be
expended by the county. The road
will first be graded through to Rogue
River and then as much of It paved
as there are funds left for. Bids will
be asked on . tho grading and local
contractors will be given a chance to
bid on sections as well as on the en
tire work.
The state commission acknowledge
that $8,000 Is due Jackson county
from last year's highway fund, ai
well as $13,000 for paving equipment
purchased for the state, and this
$21,000 will be forthcoming in the
future, though pressure from north
ern counties: has exhausted the fund
for this year.
The. men who have the taking of
the moving pictures Tor the valley ex
hibit at the exposition In charge have
been busy the paRt few days staging
an Indian tight near Tolo and a train
robbery near Jacksonville. Both in
cidents were taken from actual Jack
son county history. Inctend of the
usual drv slides of views the valley
will be represented at the fair with
moving picture dramas which work
in views of the valley towns and
beauty spots.
Telephone 190, Plaza Market, for
a choice, juicy pot roast at 15c pound.
Get next to Enders' bargains in
ladles' suits and dresses.
June 24th Ashland
Day at Exposition
The following letter was received
recently by II. O. Frohbach:
P.-P. I. Exposition,
San Francisco. AimtIJ 17. 1915.
Mr. II. O. Frohbach, Ashland Ore.
Girl Hikers
Arrive Today
Some time today three young ladies
who are walking from Portland to
San Francisco are due to arrive in
Ashland and will appear tonight and
tomorrow night nt the Lyric Theatre.
Dear Sir: 1 have been appointed The trio started out from Pnril.mcl
commissioner of special days at the with just five dollars, but are making
exposition, 'for the territory which
embraces the state of Oregon. In
recent conference with Mr. George X.
Ilyland he suggested that I write you
good money with the vaudeville en
tertainment which they have put on
in practically every town nlong tho
line. The managers of theatres to tho
to see if you wished to program an north recommend their stago work
"Ashland day," or "Medford day," or
a "Rogue River Valley day," or, in
fact, any spet-ial event at the exposi
tion. If you do, I suggest that you
advise us at once, addressing me at
Room 202. Service Building, so that
I can make the necessary reservation
on the program. I expect to be in
Oregon in a few weeks, nnd If you arc
there at that time will see you. It
is also possible that I can see you on
your return to Kan Francisco.
Yours very truly,
C. S. HIKE.
Commissioner for Special Days.
Tlie Southern Pacific railroad com-
The full text of the piopo;
amendment will be found in another
column of this paper.
e(j I pany has announced June 21 as Ash-
With Saturday's Issue the Klamath
Kails Northwestern reared puiiliea
tlon as a dally, nnd will hereafter bo
published weekly by its owner, Sam
uel M. Evana. This leaves the daily
field occupied sole'y by the Evening
Herald,, which .vas the first daily In
the county, being started nine years
ago.
to meet ngaln Wednesday night in
stead of waiting until next Tuesday.
The council went Into executive
session to discuss a minor matter nnd
the audience departed to the melodi
ous strains of "Aloha" from the pris
oners below.
On yednesday evening the council
convened for only a few minutes with
four members present. A petition
from the Auxiliary of the Civic Im
provement Club, asking for lights and
water, was referred to the light com
mittee. The council then adjourned
to meet next Tuesday evening. '
Sprlnjr shirts at Enders'.
Street Signs to
Be Erected
land day and on that day every resi
dent of tills city who can positively
get to San Francisco should go down
and help inalte Ashland day an event
which v. Ill demand nttentlon and at
tract interest to Ashland. By co-operating
with the S. P. company a
special car or train. If necessary, can
be so" u red and (he matter of mailing
a monster and unique showing will
be taken up ut tho next Commercial
Club meeting.
All who Intend to visit tho fai
rsliould begin now to plan for being
there on Juno 21
highly. The young ladieu have good
voices and singe a twenty-minute
sketch which is reported to be excel
lent. The girls travel In high-top
boots and men's walking costumes.
In addition to the entertainment fur
nished by the young ladles, the Lyric
management will run the regular pro
gram of pictures, making a two-hour
show. Prices will be 10 and l." cents.
A complete change of pictures nnd
vaudeville for Friday night.
Ti e city council nt last ' Tuesday
evening's meeting received n petition
from the postmaster requesting that
tho street signs which have been ob
literated In one way or another, be
replaced. The city has a set of street
signs In storage at tho warehouse and
Instructions were given Street Com
missioner Frnley to place them.
Where a suitable post or fence cor
ner Is not available, posts will be
erected, and after a few days It wllj
not be such a hard matter to find a
street,
Sen the lino of sandals at Enders'
at prices that are right.
Two bits, no more, fori a reserved
seat for "Tho Bohemian Girl," high
school opera. Reserve seats at Rose
Bros.'
Ashland Slogan on
1,500 Post Cards
Tho Civic; Improvement Club has
had fifteen hundred post cards made
by Chester Stevenson and are putting
them on sale at nil of the stores that
handlo cards. The cards are somo of
the best views obtainable of Ashland.
The Ashland slogan Is printed upon
them. Ail residents aro urged to
purchase some and send them to
friends.
Fresh lot of Invisible suspenders
In the large, medium and small, all
white, at CO cents. Mitchell & Whittle.
Law Prohibits
Public Drinking
Heretofore, as long as a man was
not, intoxicated thine was no law
which prohibited him from taking a
li ink of booze In any public place that
lie wished even under the nos of
the chief of police. At Tuesday even
ing's council meeting an ordinanco
was passed which prohibits drinking
liquor in a public place and also tho
possession of liquor by an Intoxicated
person In n public place. An ordi
nance provides for the confiscation
jf any liquor found on an intoxicated
person. Tills will put a stop to the
drinking of booze around dance halls
or on tho streets. Anyone caught
violating this ordinance will lose tho
liquor which they have In their pos
session and will receive the penalty.
Minkler Resigns
From Commission
The resignation of It. A. Minkler
us springs water commissioner wa
presented to the city council Tuesday
night. Mr. Minkler has acquired -a
ranch In the Willamette Vnlley nnd
after the first 'of June will occupy his)
time most of tho summer with It.
The ladles' Home Missionary So
ciety of the M. E, church will hava
a food sale at Mr. Simpson's hard
ware store Saturday, April 24.