"Ashland Grows While Llthla Flows"
City of Sunshine and Flowers
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Ashland, Oregon, Uthia Springs
"The Carlsbad of America'
VOL. XL
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915
NUMBER 2 .
Enders Has Dyspepsia
And Indigestion
Editor Tidings: Greer's reply to
Enders was: "I have never agreed
to print the report without charge."
Enders submits the following proof
that Greer did agree to publish a
weekly report of the springs water
commission without one dollar's
worth of expense to the taxpayers:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
city of Ashland, during a citizens'
meeting at the Chautauqua building
In the month of May, 1914, heard
Bert R. Greer make the statement
that he would publish every Monday
a full report of the springs water
commission for the preceding week
without one dollar's expense to the
taxpayers of Ashland: A. M. Beaver,
C. W.Root, G. C. Jenkins, J. E.
Hicks, J. S. Bailey, H. G. Butterfield,
C. J. Perrine, A. W. Swedenburg,
F. G. Swedenburg, James H. Doran,
F. S. Putnam, B. E. Smith, E. G.
Embree.
Greer says 5 cents per line is what
the city has been paying for city
printing. Two and one-half cents
for each paper. Why did not Mr.
Greer divide with the Ashland Rec
ord as per their agreement instead of
hogging the whole u cents per line
himself? The Record also published
the report and has a bill on file with
the springs water commission for
$78.50. If the commission allows
this bill it will cost the city $159.50
for a single report. At this rate a
goodly amount of our money will be
spent on reports, automobile repairs
and pleasure trips to Frisco.
If Mr. Greer insists on hogging all
the printing for himself, then only
about one-half of the people will be
enlightened with this report, while
if the original agreement had been
lived up to practically all the people
would get this information, and the
Record would get its share of the
business which it is justly entitled to.
I would like to make a prediction
that when our $175,000 is spent and
the city is plunged still further into
debt this climate will be too hot for
some people", even though they may
have resided in Oklahoma.
Respectfully submitted,
; H. G. ENDERS.
Greer's Reply.
Enders seems to be troubled with
dyspepsia of words as well as indi
gestion of thoughts.
'When a man of means appears ab
normally suspicious of his neighbor
one cannot help but wonder where
and how he got HIS wealth.
It is too bad when a. man becomes
so utterly selfish that he can see no
good in anything that does not con
tribute more to his own ends than
to the general good.
Enders would have us understand
that he is the personification of con
servatism. He brags that he can get
more out of a dollar than anybody
else. I have known men who ap
peared to be rarely conservative, but
a closer examination revealed a great
body of prehistoric fossilized shells
completely embedded in his brain. In
fact, his brain proved to be that and
nothing more.
; At the Chautauqua meeting of
which he refers more than a thousand
citizens were present. He discovered
twelve out of the company who think
tbey remember,1 or, at least, Enders
Bays they say they remember,' that
Mr. Greer said he would print the
springs water report without pay.
The names he presents as witnesses
(which, by the way, appears uncer
tain, for be presents no statement
signed by any of them) appear to be
those who have always opposed the
springs- proposition, or hold some
special grievance at Greer outside'of
the springs project. Greer still main
tains that he made no Buch' promise.
In reply to his charge that Mr.
Greer is "bogging" all the pointing
and not dividing It with the Record,
we have only to say that Mr.' Greer
last year "hogged" the work connect
ed with the springs matter and did
not divide that either with the
Record or Mr. Enders. We did not
bear a kick from either -of1 them
when that "hogging" was going on.
In regard to automobile bills, Itjs
only necessary to say that4the'.6.W'6
repair bills were Just and allowed st
exactly what the garage men charged,
and that Mr. Greer furnlsned the ma
chine without charge other than gas
and repairs. ' ; "
In reply to his charge of "pleasure
trips to San Francisco." Is the Inter
est the Southern Pacific Company is
taking in the springs enterprise
worth what these "pleasure"' trips"
bav costT If not, they were "pleas
ure;" otherwise, they were- business.
Has Enders ever tried to do as mtich
Federation Meets
In Portland
Club women of Portland are'busily
engaged completing the final arrange
ments for the biennial council of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, which opens May 31 with an
evening reception at the Multnomah
Hotel, the official headquarters.
There will be morning, afternoon
and "evening sessions at the White
Temple on June 1, 2 and 3. Follow
ing the afternoon sessions on the 2nd
and 3rd the delegates will be conduct
ed over the city in automobiles. June
4 there will be an all-day picnic at
Multnomah Falls. One hundred pop
ular club women of Portland will
serve as hostesses, taking lunch for
self and five out-of-town delegates.
The steamer Undine, famed as the
flagship of The Dalles-Celilo canal
celebration, will carry three hundred
or more of the club women to the
picnic place, and a like number will
go by train,- returning by vote, while
those going by boat will make the
return trip by train, thus affording
all an opportunity to enjoy the river
trip and shore scenery one way, and
a view of the Columbia highway and
other scenes from the line of the railway.
One of the entertainment features
of the week will be a pageant at the
Heilig Theatre, "Every Woman's
Road," a morality play by Professor
Josephine Hammond of Reed College,
for which advance seat sale Is an
nounced. Out-of-town delegates de
siring to make reservations for the
play may communicate with Mrs. J.
J. Frankel, chairman finance com
mittee, 270 East Seventeenth street
North, Portland. In blocks of ten the
$2 seats are offered at $1.50 and the
$1 seats at 75 cents, for mail orders
only. Misses Ruth Shoudy and Jose
phine Saunders of Ashland take im
portant parts in this production.
Ample provisions have been made
for taking care of the two thousand
delegates expected. The reception
committee will have a delegation at
the railway stations awaiting all In
coming trains. Delegates are direct
ed first to the White Teiaple, corner
Twelfth and Taylor streets, to regis
ter and receive credentials.
The program for the three days of
the convention is made up of a num
ber of interesting and instructive dis
cussions and speeches by men and
women of nation-wide reputation.
Deals Closed For Properties
Which Will Go Into Upper Park
The springs water commission,
working in conjunction with the city
council, have closed deals for the
following properties between the low
er park and the picnic grounds: The
planing mill property, the Wagner
bottling works property, the J. C.
Gibbon, E. M. Fowler, Christiana
Holly, R. E. Cowley and Farnham
properties, both the upper and lower
Robert Casey properties and the old
Chestnut property. The cost of all
these totals approximately $25,300.
Ashland is indeed fortunate in be
ing able to secure all of the land
from Granite street east, as no dis
reputable appearing barns or houses
can be built In sight of the park..
The only property facing the park is
that on the upper side of Granite
street end as a matter of course some
of the prettiest homes in the city
will be built along this Btreet.
-With the deals for the necessary
lands closed the commission will at
tack with new vigor the work of
laying out the most beautiful park
in America.
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NO Fill EC-HACK HUM.
Banker McCoy on
State Council
San Francisco, May 28. Members
of the California Bankers' Associa
tion, meeting In joint convention
here with bankers' associations from
Oregon, Idaho and Nevada, went on
record today in the closing session In
favor of an American merchant ma
rine. The officers elected were:
For Oregon: President, J. M.
Poorman, Woodburn; vice-president,
F. L. Myers, La Grande; secretary,
J. L. Hartman, Portland, treasurer;
William B. Tait, Tillamook; execu
tive council, E. D. Cuslk of Albany,
E. fl. Crawford of Portland, J. W.
McCoy of Ashland, T. G. Montgomery
of Baker 'City, Mark L. Tisdale of
Sutherlin.
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Five Scientists
Scale Volcano
There is an ordinance which
prohibits shooting of firecrack
ers, cap pistols or fireworks
within the cily limits. This or
dinance has been violated by
numerous small Ihjs lately and
the iMtlice will ni rest and prose
cute all offenders. The Fourth
of July is the only day in the
year when firework are permis
sible. Uy order of
CHIEF OF I'OLK'K.
A party of five men headed by
R. S. Holway, professor of physical
geography at the University of Cali
fornia, scaled Mount Lassen Thurs
day. This is the first party which
has attempted the volcanic peak
since the recent devastating erup
tions. In a telegraphic report the
intrepid scientists say that the two
craters of the peak have been filled
up where formerly there was a de
pression of several hundred feet.
They attribute this to lava pressure
from underneath. That the ,mud
which caused such devastation In Hat
Creek valley was the tesult of the hot
ashes melting the snow was the belief
of the party after investigation. The
mud was not thrown out of the cra
ter. The outline of the rim of the
rim of the crater has been greatly
changed. .
for Ashland in a disinterested way?
In regard to leaving town: Let's
see who goes first, Enders or Greer.
From what talk we have heard on the
street, Enders Is not likely to be
here to see Greer leave. If the End
ers crowd should succeed in running
Greer out of town, however,-he "will
go with the consciousness that he did
the best he couldaand failed trying
to do something for his community
in the hope of making a better town,
and helping the whole citizenship
moM than himself.
Enders has Indigestion; Outside
of that he Is a pretty good fellow.
His first bad stemach symptom ap
peared aboat eighteen months ago
when he realized that if the springs
went successfully through, the bats
might fly i away from "the plaza
hole." It got worse when he failed
to land a job oh the commission him
self In order that he might block, tne
success of the enterprise. ' And he Is
growing worse every day; pity 'tis.
Enders Is and has been every moment
of the enterprise against the whole
'springs matter, his ' protestation to
the contrary notwithstanding. He Is
afraid' It will help ' plaza property
more than It will Enders. That is
all the trouble, with his mind. He is
supremely selfish. . "
Improvements In
Park Are Many
The arbor in the park which has
housed the round table during Chau
tauqua meetings for many years was
torn down last week and will be re
placed by a larger arbor. The old
arbor was rotted until deemed dan
gerous. A drinking fountain has been
placed in the park near the bridge
which crosses to the creamery. A
framework which will be filled with
sand for little children to play In
has been placed in the park.
Nearly all of the old buildings In
the upper park are being torn down
and the work of transforming the
park is under way. One of the pret
tiest places in the park will be the
little island Just below the auto
campgrounds. This has been filled
in and built Into a boat-shaped
Island with a wall of rock around It.
Bruce Evans Opens
Revival Meetings
"A mule can't kick and pull at
the same time. That Is true of a
church member as well."
"There are three classes in every
church workers, strikers and jerk-ers."
"A lot of people do not come to
church because we fleece them, flay
them, fool them but fail to feed
them."
With epigrams flying from his lips
as sparks from an anvil, Bruce
Evans, the "live wire" evangelist
who has been stirring the towns of
central Oregon as they never have
been stirred before, this winter,
opened what is hoped will be the
greatest effort along revival lines ever
undertaken in this city last night in
the Baptist church.
Mr. Evans has just closed a won
derful revival in the city of Oakland,
Ore. The ministers of the churches
of that town wired the pastors of
Ashland that there never had been
such a campaign before in their city.
Even the places of amusement were
compelled to close, so great was the
crowd which swarmed to the opera
house to hear this young man.
A movement is on foot whereby
the Chautauqua tabernacle can be
secured for the meetings.
AWut 600 people heard him last
night.'
Evans speaks tonight in the Bap
tist church upon the subject, "The
Church With a Hobble Skirt."
Polytechnic Goes
Out of Business
The Polytecrnic Business College
of Ashland sounded its death knell
with an auction sale of furniture Sat
urday. The commercial course at the
high school has done away with the
necessity of an institution of the kind,
as a full commercial course may now
be had by Ashland boys and girls
without the necessity of the payment
of the tuition fees necessary to the
life of a private business college. The
next step will lie to arrange the high
school commercial course so that the
boy or girl who could not afford to
spend the four years required for the
standard course at high school can
take the commercial course. Super
intendent Briscoe has heretofore been
unable to make the commercial course
as inclusive as is possible as he did
not wish to break Into the sphere of
the business college. With the clos
ing of the business college the com
mercial course at the high school will
be strengthened ami extended. A
course of night school will be estab
lished providing there Is a demand.
Tills is a new innovation in high
school work and one which is worthy
of the progressive spirit of the Ash-
I land schools.
Any boy or girl over the age of
seventeen or eighteen who has had
the rudiments of an education may
take the commercial course, but must
also carry spelling and English. This
course will be arranged only for those
who through some pressing reason
are unable to finish the whole course
of standard high school work.
At the start of school in the fall
there will be offered to the student
a strong typewriting course, shorts
hand, bookkeeping and a fine course
In accounting. Spelling and penman
ship are also among the courses of
fered, making the commercial course
most complete.
Get scale receipts, legal blanks,
etc., at the Tidings office.
Fire Destroys
Home in Canyon
A bouse belonging to W. A. Conner
burned between 8 and-9 o'clock Sat-,
urday. evening. The house was lo
cated above the city reservoir In the
canyon and was comparatively new.
A portion of the household goods
were saved. Since the house was
outside, the city limits no alarm was
turned in. Particulars of, the fire
and the cause were unobtainable this
morning. Mr. Conner has moved his
household goods to a city residence.
. It is doubtful if the house will be
rebuilt as It Is the only residence on
the Ashland watershed. 1
There Is, a well-defined rumor prev
alent ,that Washington parties' who
have taken, over a lease on the old
Ashland mine property will start de
velopment work In the near future.
This mine was at one time one of the
blggeBt producers in southern Oregon
and la believed to still be a most val
uable property, ;
Will Entertain
Many Specials
Committees are being appointed
among the Elks, Shriners and the
Commercial Club to take care of the
entertainment of the various special
trains which are coming thick and
fast, and the majority of which,
through the co-operation of the
Southern Pacific Company, will have
stops here of from one to three
hours. It Is thought that this ar
rangement will greatly facilitate the
work connected with this most Im
portant part of our publicity activi
ties this summer. G. N. Kramer will
receive notification of all special
trains in time to make the proper
arrangements and will in turn notify
the proper parties in charge here.
Co-operation should be the. first word
in this work and we must have It If
we expect to be successful In our ef
forts.
We Stand Corrected.
Ashland. May 28, 1915.
Editor Tidings. The article print
ed In your late Issue about Dunkards
not being permitted to own automo
biles is a mistake. There is a branch
of the Dunkard church who are op
posed to the use of autos, but the
branch represented In Ashland, Tal
ent and vicinity have not had their
annual conference yet this year. Also
two years ago at our conference held
at Winona Lake, Indiana, there were
said to be 1,000 automobiles on the
grounds at the Sunday service.' Our
conference this year will be In June
at Hershey, Pa. "" '
Yours respectfully,
MRS. M. C. LININGER,
- rarronlz Home Industry.
Brooms made la the local broom
factory are now better than can be
shipped in from the east and we sell
them cheaper.-" We carry a good sup
ply at 25c, 35c, 50c, 60c and 75c.
Ashland Trading Co., phone 122. .
.Mrs. J. W. Lozier of Portland Is
visiting with Mrs. Miller In the city.
Inventory of the estate of the late
C. C. Beekman, pioneer hanker of
Jackson county, places his total
wealth in Jackson and Klamath coun
ties at $31 8,S4".72. This does not
include property in northern Califor
nia that will be probated In Siskiyou
county. The schedule of his hold
ings, which consist of seventy type
written pages, itemizing each and
every article, was filed with the
county court Monday.
Phone news items to the Tidings.
Greet Eastern
Visitors Sunday
A special train carrying the Amer
ican Iron, Steel and Heavy Hardware
Association and the New York
Wholesale Grocers went through
Ashland at 8 o'clock p. m. Sunday.
The train was held up behind a
freight wreck at Edgewood and was
nearly four hours late Into Ashland.
Owing to the lateness of the hour
their reception here was not what
had been planned for them, but Pres
ident Newcombe and Secretary Mor
ris of the Commercial Club and Mrs.
Norris met them with lithia water
and roses and they were started on
their Journey through Oregon with a
warm spot In their hearts for Ash
land. Tonight two special cars bearing
parties to the Northern Baptist Con
vention, In charge of W. H. Woods,
will pass through. They will be on
the first section of 16.
Trading Stamp Law
To Be Tested
That the trading stamp law, which
became effective May 22, will be
tested as to its constitutionality, is
assured from the fact that the fed
eral court has issued an order requir
ing the green stamp people to con
tinue to redeem the stamps in mer
chandise Instead of in cash, and re
straining Attorney General George
Brown and District Attorney Evans
or Aiultnomah county from Interfer
ing with the enforcement of the or
der, pending a hearing set for June
1. Upon issue of the order W. A.
Kress, Portland manager for the
Sperry & Hntchlngton Company, sent
out notice that until further action
is taken, green stamps will be re
deemed In merchandise as before
The anti-trading stamp measure
Imposes a 5 per cent tax on the gross
receipts not. only of companies deal
ing in trading stamps, coupons, etc.,
but also on merchants using them.
The complaint to Judge Bean, which
was made by Woodard Clarke & Co.
and'a number of other I'ortlaiKl busi
ness firms, who give green trad ins
stamps with purchases, attacks the
law as not a revenue measure at all,
hut a prohibitory law, Intended as
such, and therefore against the con
jstitutioir of the state. It is alleged
I also that the law violates the four
teenth amendment to the constitution
jof the fulled States; in fact, that it
deprives plaintiffs and the defendant
of their liberty and property without
due process of law, and denies to
them the equal protection of the law.
Ashland Boosts
At Eugene
In speaking of the part Ashland
took in the proceedings of the
League of Oregon Municipalities at
the university at Eugene lasfr Thurs
day, the Eugene Register has this to
say:
"In speaking on 'Individuality and
Character in the City Charters
of the State,' Bert R. Greer cited the
Ashland charter and the work that
has been done there in the btifldlng
of a large resort city which Is to be
purely a municipal project. 'There
Is a mistaken attitude on the pnrt of
the people of the state towards Ore
gon's resources,' said the speaker.
'For Instance, the legislature at a
recent session failed to appropriate
to build a highway to Crater Lake,
the most wonderful body of water in
the world, because they said It was
a local attraction.' He then made a
wonderful appenl for the awakenlnn
of the people of the state to the situ
ation, comparing Oregon with Cali
fornia and showing where Oregon
has many more attractions but does
not realize It."
Auction Sale of
Many Houses
There will be an auction sale of
five buildings and other improve
ments on the properties purchased
by the springs commission for the
upper park on next Thursday, June
3. The lot includes fences and out
buildings ' besides the houses. The
commission expects to get rid of all
and any one who Is In the market for
such propositions should take advan
tage of this sale. ,,
Woman Decoys
Girl From Train
There are trout In Ashland creek,
says Frank Crowson, who Is working
for Smith, Emery A Co., excavating
for the central station for the springs
project. While going for water for
their noonday lunch he caught a
trout In a bucket, over seven Inches
long. Frank being a law-abiding cit
izen and knowing it to be unlawful
to catch fish without hook and line,
after exhibiting it to .his fellow work
men, Matt Potter and William Hock
ett.'put It back into the creek.
A girl going from school at Corval
11s to her eastern Oregon home went
through a. very harrowing experience
In Ashland one day last week. The
young lady had made the acquaint
ance of an elderly, gray-haired wom
an on the train and at Ashland the
new acquaintance Invited the girl to
get off and walk around during the
twenty-minute wait. When the, old
woman led the girl hack of the livery
stable near the, depot she became
alarmed and started back for the
train. The woman tried to hold her,
but the girl wrenched loose and
escaped to the train, where she, in
formed the conductor. The police in
a northern California town were
wired to and presumably the woman
was arrested, although nothing fur
ther has been heard of the case lo-
cally.
The incident should serve as a
warning to girls traveling alone .to
make no acquaintances on the train.
take Movies of
Street Scenes
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The Medfqrd moving picture peo
ple were up Saturday taking street
scenes and pictures of the city coun
cil grouped around, the Carter me
morial fountain. The (Urns are ex
pected to be completed within a few
days now. It is hoped that It may be.
possible to have them shown at a
local picture house before .sending
them to the exposition.