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Thursday, June 24, 1915 ASHLAND TTDIJTG8 minium tun Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. v clal Club and publicity departments, I The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County who if the plan is deemed advisable will take it up with the proper de partment Let every Ashlander for get his personal Interest and work for Ashland, then Ashland will work for his interests with the power of the city's growth behind It. . ; , I It's Now Issncd Mondays and Thnrsdays Official City and County Paper Member Federal Reserve System Bert It. Grow, Editor and Owner Lynn Mouat, . News IUportor SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year 12 00 Six MonthB 100 Three Months BO Payable In Advance. TELEPHONE 39 . Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none In the Interior. No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. In ordering changes of the piper always elve the old street address or postpffico as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as Becond-ciass mail matter. FAST SERVICE BETWEEN CITY AND FARM. Afdilnml, Ore., Thursday, June 34, '13 A LONDON NEWSPAPER. We are In receipt of the London (England) Observer. This paper is one of the great London newspapers and It Is so different from American newspapers we wish we could send a copy to all our subscribers. The first page of the paper is taken up entirely with small advertisements. The first news article in the paper is a two or three column review of the financial situation, then follows columns de voted tg markets. The next page Is devoted entirely to a list of men and officers killed and wounded In battle. The fourth pnge Is devoted to book reviews and the fifth page to letters to the editor. The sixth page, In this social center of the world, has a col umn and a half of society news and then some special reference to the doings of notables. The seventh page Is given over to dramatical news and then comes the editorial page. The first news Item, as Americans regard news ,is printed on the ninth page and this is about the war. In fact, all of the ninth page, all of the tenth page and nearly all of the eleventh page is devoted to war news. On the eleventh page there Is a half-column story about a London street railway strike and some ten or twelve small Items of city affairs from three to six Inches long. The twelfth and thir teenth pages are given over to war news. The fourteenth page to art and music and paid church announce ments. The fifteenth and sixteenth pages carry special articles. The seventeenth page prints athletics not "sportB" as we understand that term in America and the back page is de voted to small clasHiried advertise ments. This completes the copy of the London Sunday Observer. Aside from the war news there is scarcely an article In the paper which would not be as Interesting one day as an other. The largest advertisement In the paper Is that ofa real estate firm taking hnlf a page. Tho great bulk of the advertising Is small ten and fifteen inch ads, largely dealing with dry goods and other things ladies buy. The only pictures appearing ih the paper outside of illustrations In ad vertising are three pertaining to the war. Without saying anything much about it, Uncle Sam's little old post office department continues to plug away increasing the efficiency of its service, doing more things and doing them better than ever before, and daily confounding the people who say that "everything. can be done better by private initiative than by the gov ernment." Beginning August 1, automobile service for rural free delivery routes In many localities will be authorized under the clause of the resolution of congress of March 3 laBt authorizing the introduction of auto service at compensation not exceeding $1,800 a year. Where the roads are good and prospective business justifies it, these auto carriers will serve the farmers on routes not less than fifty miles in length. This improvement Is going to permit the further extension of present routes. It means quicker ser vice at less cost, and consequently more service for the same coBt. The first routes will go into operation August 1. Auto service, under the policy of the department, is also to be utilized gradually to Install rural routes which will radiate out from the large cities. Suburban and rich truck-growing areas within twenty-five miles of great cities, when thus served, will get the "local" instead of the "first zone" parcel post rate. This means reduced cost and the Immediate stim ulation of local parcel post exchange, especially of Uncle Sam's famous "Farm to Table" service. Although auto routes of this kind will be legal ly rural routes, the effect of their in stallation will be to bring the terri tory served within city delivery. LEND A HAND. "Ashland. Ore., hns sot aside funds for the entertainment of visitors and special train parties which will stop at that point this summer, according to Agent George N. Kramer of Ash land. The entertainment will consist of automobiles side trips to give the travelers an Idea of what the "Carls bad of America has to offer the pleasure seeker and settler. Enter tainment committees are being ap pointed from the Commercial Club, the Elks and Shrlners." From the Southern Pacific Bulle tin, which is read by thousands of railroad people and men and women In other walks of life. Casual reader, do you understand the immense value which even a lit tle item like this has upon Ashland's welfare? In Itself the proposition of handling tourists at city expense Is only a matter of a couple of hundred dollars, but It is such unique and progressive entertainment features as this which mark the spirit of a city. We would venture to say that Ash land is the only city of anywhere near its size along the coast which is carry ing out this "personally conducted trip over the city" plan for the tour ist. During this summer thousands upon thousands of easterners will be shown over Ashland, and of these all will tell of Ashland's beauties and many will return. Let every man, woman and child in Ashland work out simple plans such as this, and when carefully gone over and all impractical points elim inated, submit them to the Commer- The Home Circle Thoughts1 from the Editorial Pen Make a Stir. Make a stir! What for? Because If you do not you never will accom plish anything. Life is a field into which harvest hands, in great num bers, have been sent. Make a stir! Swing the scythe and cut down the grain. Use your hands, binding into bundles all that is ready for the gar ner. Make a stir. If yoi are a mer chant, be on the alert; display your goods, attract the people, and In a lively way move around them, and shojy you are a willing servant, even anxious to accommodate In the small est matters. Advertise- Be ener getic here. Why, your patrons are looking for so.ne word from you, and really expect you to announce some great bargains, as you profess to labor In their interest. Stir around, make the most of your opportunities, and life is a grand success. Life is a battlefield, and no battle was ever won without a struggle, and no strug gle ever took place without some stir. Hence we repeat It, make a stir, or you will never gain a victory. A level-headed newspaper man says that the editor Is asked why he does n't publish some of the scandal that floats about, or why he doesn't roast some certain citizen thta lias commit ted a misdeed. Great Scott, if the editor of the average newspaper pub lished all that comes to his ears or that he knows has transpired, this world would be a realm of woe and a field of continual combat. A few in stances which do receive the atten tion of the press are only to serve as examples. The average editor de serves praise for not publishing more than he does. The news might be a sweet morsel to the degraded minds, but the heart-burnings which would be created by the unfortunate ones would more than offset, and then we are not any of us angels. If we were we would have no place on earth. When a man tells you he has some thing to sell tbat Is so good it needs no advertising, you may well view him with suspicion. The man who really has something good is so proud of it that you could not keep him from advertising It. He just natur ally wants to tell everyone about It and his enthusiasm goes Into every line he writes. And the goods sell because he makes the public catch something of this enthusiasm. News paper advertising is the great outlet for the written message tbat sells the goods. It reaches an audience that is always looking for something better. Standard legal blank forms of every kind may be procured at the Tidings office In any Quantity. Of Never! Each and every day counts Think our proposition over This is plain talk FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America READ PAGE 4 A party of ladies consisting of Miss Violet Richardson, Phyllis M. Eden, Hermine Hecht and Mrs. Robert L. May passed through Ashland Friday on their way to Portland on a sight seeing trip. They are driving a Ford and say they have had very little trouble in crossing tho mountains. They came by the way of Klamath Falls and Ashland. After a short time spent in Portland the party will return by another route. They will spend two weeks away from Berke ley. The girls carry sleeping bags and when night comes they turn their car into the Bide of the road and pitch camp. Miss Richardson is supervisor of physical education in the Berkeley public schools, and director of the Berkeley women's gymnasium. This has a membership of over 150 women and girls, and claims the champion woman's basketball team on the coast. Much of their traveling Is done early at night, In order that they may spend as much of their time as possible during the daytime In the cities. Fire Patrolmen Are Assigned At a meeting Wednesday of the directors of the Jackson County Fire Patrol Association the usual agree ment was made with the state for ester to patrol timber lands in Jack son county and also with the U. S. forest service to patrol the Oregon and California railroad lands. The county court placed In their budget $500 for forest protection," the same being offered to the association, but this was declined as insufficient for the general protection of lands outside of those included in the asso ciation. The following patrolmen were ap pointed: W. E. Finney and Charles Dimford for the Squaw Creek and Jackson ville districts; George W. Trusty and John WInningham for Trail and Alco Rock Lookout; C. E. Prenlng, Gold Hill; George Loud, Lower Rogue; Charles A. Spencer, Pleasant Creek; M. M. Scott, west fork Evans creek; E. E. Simmons, east fork Evans creek; Art Mooie, Elk creek; E. Mc Call, Prospect; Oliver Adams, Butte Falls; JoJseph Jeffert, south fork of the Rogue; C. A. Edmonson, Willow creek; N. B. Hildreth, north fork Lit tle Butte; W. L. Farlow, south fork Little Butte; J. L. Kershaw, Ante lope; G. W. Hake, Colestin; George Hall, Bald ' mountain; Mark Kline, Wagner Lookout. office in the county and who meet the other requirements set forth in Form No. 1977. This form and application blanks may be obtained from the of fices mentioned above or from the United States Civil Service Commis sion at Washington, D. C. Applica tions should be forwarded to the Com mission at Washington at the earliest practicable date. Joe Thomas,,the young man who passed several bad checks in this city, is now lodged in jail at Jacksonville. He waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury. Good Work Done Promptly N.&M. Home Laundry AT THE Rough Dry at Reasonable Prices. New Machinery. J. N. NISBET, Mgr. Office and Laundry 31 Water St TELEPHONE 165 UK FIRST HONORS Panama-Pacific International Exposition First among products of their 'kind first in quality, first in efficiency. Zerolene and Red Crown have been awarded the GOLD MEDAL the highest honor the Expc sition can bestow the acknowl edgment that the "best oil and gas the Standard Oil Company can make" are the best that human skill and experience can produce. ZEROLENE tie Standard Oil for Motor Cars RED CROWN ike Gasoline of Qualify Rural Carrier Examination. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an exam ination for the county of Jackson, Oregon, to be held at Ashland and Medford on July 24, 1915, t'o fill the position of rural carrier at Rogue River and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other post offices in the above mentioney coun ty. The examination will be open only to male citizens who are actually domiciled in the territory of a post- Klamath Official Circles Disrupted After a row with the council In which the mayor struck 0. D. Math ews, acting president, and made charges that the councilmen were in league against him, Thomas B. Nich ols, mayor of Klamath Falls, Tuesday presented his resignation and those of soveral of the police force. The trouble grew out of the fail ure of the council to confirm the ap pointment of Joseph Smith as chief of police, and the resignation of that official, together with those of Pa trolmen Sam Walker and Hank Wil son, was presented. J. H. Carnahan, city attorney, also resigned, saying that 1,000 a year is not enough salary. Mr. Williams named committees and a special po lice force. A special election may have to be called. If your watch does not give you satisfaction take it to Johnson the Jeweler. 7-tf HSHLHND Storage and Transfer Co. C. F. BATES Proprietor. Two warehouses near Depot. Goods of all kinds stored at reason able rates. A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rock Springs Coal. Phone 117. Office, 99 Oak Street, ASH LAM). OREGON. We Give a Horse Laugh when we see the way some horses are shod. The horses don't laugh, how ever. Neither would we if we wore such ill fitting, uncomfortable shoes. Bring or send your horse here to be shod in our way. Then the horse will feel like laughing and working more willingly too. A. L. LAMB 1 Corner First Ave. and C St. Successor to W. W. Wilson. rTTTTTTTTTVTfl I T riTTTTT r TTVTT'I i'TTTTTl fTTl J AllEsseutialsforTravel are found in a trip East from San Francisco, via the Ogclen Rot te (Southern Pacific Union Pacific) Comf oi t Three trains with every modern convenience home, hotel or office for the business man or tourist. Scenery unsurpassed on the Amer ican Continent. 1 Sctvice No better to be had. Courteous, efficient employes, the best dining car service. Trains protected day and night by Automatic Electric Safety Block Signals. STOP-OVERS AT SAN FRANCISCO On one way tickets of 10 days to visit the Panama Pacific International Exposition Ask ior particulars, stop overs and literature via this route from any agent, t SOUTHERN PACIFIC J3 lobn M. Scott. General Paaapti in t tint t minim lien in niiiiiiiiininiiif
