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"The Carlsbad of America'
VOL. XL
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915 .
NUMBER 20
Young Australians
Here This Week
Noted Dancer May
Appear Here Soon
Thlrty-fie young musicians and
entertainers from far-off Austral!
a
will arrive in Ashland Wednesday
and will appear at the Chautauqua
building Thursday, August 5. The
Australian boyB will be the guests
of the Woman's Civic Improvement
Club, the entertainment being held
under the club's auspices. .
Tbese lads represent the Young
Australian League, which has for Its
motto. "Education and Travel.
This American tour is under th
auspices of the government of west
ern Australia. The league numbers
over five thousand, and the thirty
five members who are touring the
Pacific states at the present time
have been selected by the govern
ment by competitive examination
They thus represent some of
cream of Australian youth.
the
The party consists of thirty-fiv
members, including an all-brass band
of thirty-one pieces, a stringed or
pliant ru nf twelve nieces. Lieut. J
cimnna tha rnmmnnripr. Mr. Arthur
Coyne, the financial secretary, and
Prof. Harold Betteridge, the musical
director. The band Is famed through
i-
out the commonwealth of Australia
and ranks with the foremost boys
bands of the world. Many of the
lads hold scholastic records, and
each one Is a star In mental and
physical proficiency. The boys have
played at both California expositions.
All of Ashland remembers with
pleasure the visit of the Australian
boys several years ago, and look for
ward eagerly to the coming of this
second contingent from the "Land
of the Kangaroo."
Fire Destroys
Koehler Home
While the family was at the union
service In the Chautauqua building
Sunday evening, the home of J. F.
Koehler at 44T Woolen treet was
eomnletelv destroyed by fire. .When
neighbors "discovered the fire the
limine was almost completely in
flames and nothing was saved. The
fire company made a fast run out
were unable to get any 01 tne iurai
ture out and. owing to low pressure,
averi little of the house. The fire
is thought to have originated from
the kitchen stove. The house was
insured for $450 with the Billings
agency and the furniture for $250.
E G. Davis, son-in-law of Mr. Koeh
ler, and who is now living near Tal
ent, had some valuable furniture
stored in the Koehler house,, which
was also destroyed. Mr. Davis' fur
niture was insured for $300.
Are you insured? If not, better
call the Billings Agency now. It
Valley Week At
The Exposition
AuKust 10 has been set aside by
the commissioner of special days at
the Panama-Pacific exposition as
Rogue River Valley day. The South
ern Pacific is arranging to have on
sale round trip tickets for the occa
ainn on the 7th. 8th, 9th and 10th,
with fifteen-day limit, at the rate of
$16.50 from Ashland. All the towns
in the valley are making an effort
to send a goodly number to the ex
position on these dates and Ashland
should be well represented. Appro
priate exercises will be held in the
Oregon building and you will enjoy
being there on this date. If you can
possibly arrange to go on either of
these days you should do so.
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hese days you snouia
ixpositlon is right at its best now
exposition is ngni at i
and the weather Is very pleasant in
San Francisco, probably better than
it will be later on.
Those going should notify the sec
o- . ,.v
retary of the commercial w
later than August 5, in order that
reservations may be made and ar
rangements completed to make ypu
comfortable during your stay.
r J. S. Huntley and wife pf Ukiah,
, Cal.. have been making a, abort visit
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' . t v..-in Mr.
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and County Cleric G. A. Gardner. .He
was a bugler on the U. S. battleship
Baltimore at the battle of, Manila
under Admiral Dewey. Since . retlr-
. .t. m. Tinniw Jinn,
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taken up ino numer uubiudrp.hw -vrT , .
tola time is energetically pursuing practically a. through 'service from
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Carville,
official dancers at the Panama-Pa-
cific International Exposition at San
Francisco, and son-in-law and daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Watson
of Ashland, will arrive in this city
early next week, on their way to
Chicago and New York for a season
of special entertainment, on arrange-
ment perfected by William Randolph
Hearst personally. They will stop
at Ashland for a visit with Mrs. Car
vllle's parents.
The latter, whose stage name Is
Barbara La Marr, was formerly the
moving picture actress so frequently
mistaken for Mary PIckford on the
screen. Her popularity as ana suc
cess at classic dancing have, for a
time at least, and perhaps nerma-
nently, taken her out of the "mov
ies." In one of her own dances at
the San Francisco exposition she has
received as much as $100 for thirty
minutes' work.
In the Examiner of July 15 the fol-
lowing, under a laree picture of Mr
and Mrs. Carville, is quoted from an
extended reference to their remark
able dancing In that city:
"Miss Barbara La Marr, a pretty
and graceful young western girl.
quietly and modestly has been
smashing Into little bits all records
for creating and producing new
dances. And she has been doing this
In San Francisco, where new dances
grow as fact and furiously as nastur
tiums In a sunny back garden.
"Since coming to San Francisco a
few weeks ago with her dancing part
ner, Robert D. Carville, Miss La
Marr has created or invented or com
posed something like a dozen dances.
It would probably be more correct
to say that Miss La Marr and Carville
have done this, for tbey collaborate
in some of tbeir productions.
"The Zone Prmenade, described
by Miss La Marr as a flirtation one
itep.' has been captivating visitors
to the exposition, where Mlsa La
Marr and Carville have been danc-
inf." ,
Mr. and Mrs. Carville have ex
presaed a willingness to appear once
in Ashland in some of their favorite
dance while visiting their parents
here.
Dr. Mary Ellen Anderson has ar
rived from Los Angeles to be asso
ciated with Dr. Bertha E. Sawyer in
the practice of osteopathy.- 20-2t
New Auditorium
In Litha Park
There seem to be some mistaken
ideas prevalent in relation to the
auditorium to be constructed in the
park. Some citizens gleaned from
the published notice in the last issue
of the Tidings that this building was
simply to be constructed for dancing
purposes. This Is an error.
The building will be 90 by 100
feet, built of logs, and ylll be ar
ranged with a design of accommo
dating conventions and other gather
ings of all kinds.
. It Is believed that Ashland can be
made a popular convention city and
it is very necessary that some such
building be constructed to accommo
date such gatherings as may desire
to convene here.
Says Springs Worth
Millions in East
Clark Sanford of Syracuse, N. Y.,
visited last week with Mrs. B. H.
Hatch an o,d.Ume fr,end of oyer
acquaintance. He is on
acquaintance. He is on
.
Mr. Sanford was taken out to the
Uthla springs and over the park and
says: "If the ntnia spring was in
N y Jt wouM br,ng ft
minta." He
million dollars in a minute." He
has traveled over nine countries in
the old world and says he has seen
1 nothing like it. He left Friday for
the north.
The Southern Pacific Company
has completed arrangements by
which the "Sound special,1 or train
No,. 64,: which passes thrduglr this
city at 6:30 p. m. and reaches Port-
'ana at :a ...-.--.
will connect wim ww w..u-
inrton.. Railroad.1 and Navlgatloi
Urin. for Seattle. - This means that
san rrancisco iq omiw i.
Sign Diverts
From Highway
A big sign, 10x20 feet In size, has
been placed at Ager, Cal., at the
forks of the road on the Pacific
highway, directing tourists to take
the inland route to Crater Lake vit
Klamath Falla, thence through east
ern Oregon and to Portland vit the
new scenic Columbia highway.
The sign Is expected to divert a
large portion of the tourist traffic
by way of Klamath Falls. The sign
was placed by A. J. Gordon of the
White Pelican garage and E. B. Hall
of the White Pelican hotel, both of
Klamath Falls.
It would appear that it was now
up to the hotel and garage men of
Ashland and Medford to place an
other sign 20x30 feet on the opposite
side of the road directing the auto
mobilist to take the Pacific highway
up through Oregon, traveling over
the Siskiyou grade, universally ac
knowledged to be the most beautiful
and perfect piece of scenic highway
on the coast, Jackson county's paved
highways, the excellent roads with
unrivalled scenic attractions in the
Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette val
leys, the side trip of a day from Ash
land or Medford to Crater Lake, and
a visit at Ashland, the Carlsbad of
America.
SaysHUlWUl
Sood Be Paved
State Highway Engineer Cantlne
was up from Portland the last of the
week inspecting work on the Siski
you grade. He states that the en
gineers hope to have work on the
Siskiyou grade moving along faster
in the near future.
According to the state engineer,
work on the Billings hill will com
mence as soon as the state railroad
commission agrees to the road pass
ing under the railroad culvert. The
commission now has the data and
will no doubt take action soon.'
Open House
Retail Buyers' Week
The Portland Press Club will keep
open house during Buyers' Week in
Portland, August 9-14 inclusive.
The members of the.club will extend
hospitality to every. merchant and hie
family who may be in Portland at
that time. The club rooms, station
ery and writing desks will be at the.
visitors' service.
Says State Should
Control R.R. Land
Roseburg Review: "I cruised the
greater share of the timber in the
Oregon-California land grant, and if
the state should finally open it to set
tlers after the timber has been taken
off, not 5 per cent of It would be
taken up in the next fifty years."
Such was the statement made by
State Forester Elliott, who, accom
panied by his wife, arrived last night
in a roadster. They came from Ash
land by way of Crescent City and
Coos Bay.
For eighteen years, between 1889
and 1906, Mr. Elliott was with the
railroad company. He knows the tim
ber of the southern Oregon counties
extremely well, having for years been
engaged In cruises In these parts.
"And I firmly believe that the
state ought to get control of it," he
declared. "There are. 14,000,000
acres in this state now in forest re
serves. That is enough.
He believes the western part of
Oregon should derive the benefits
from the 2,300,000 acres after the
railroad has been paid for its equity.
"Put it into the roads and the school
fund is my idea," he said.
He also expressed the belief that
the only way the timber can be made
use of in any way is through opera
tion of the big lumber, companies and
their mills. "I don't believe that 10
per cent of it would be fit.. for agri
culture. It's too much up and down"
Thn Western division team Is lead
ing the Southern Pacific baseball
league. Tbey have a record of eight
wins and one loss. Oakland store is
second with seven wins and two loss-
San Joaquin division is third
and Shasta division fourth. Sacra
mento store department jfifth and
Stockton division sixth. i ,.-.
Bootblack Fined
And Flees City
George Patton, a bootblack em
ployed at the Valley barber shop next
door to Rose Bros., skipped the city
Saturday after a series of erratic es
capades. Friday night Patton blacked
his face and hid In a young lady's
room at the Park hotel. When the
girl went to her room about 10 In
the evening she discovered Patton in
the clothes closet. She ran from the
room shrieking, her cries attracting
a man who is boarding at the hotel.
Patton ran from the room and met
the boarder in the hall. Flourishing
a revolver, he threatened to shoot
anybody who Interfered with him and
made his escape. Saturday morning
Officers Wlir.er and Johnson hunted
him up and baled him before the
justice court, where he was fined for
disturbing the peace. A warrant was
then Issued against Patton for carry
ing concealed firearms and threaten
ing to kill, but the young culprit got
out of the city before he could be lo
cated. Since his disappearance Rose Bros,
have discovered that the young man
had been in the habit of picking the
lock between the barber shop and
their store and helping himself to
candy and other stuff.
French Beauty In
Tale of Intrigue
,
Rita Jollvet, a French beauty of
the most striking type, will be shown
at the Vinin'g Theatre Tuesday night
in a romantic drama of daring and
intrigue, "The Unafraid.". Associat
ed with this no'ed French actress Is
Hous'j Peters, recognized as one of
the bfggest stars of the motion pic
ture world. ""'
The action varies from Paris to
Montenegro!' and the atmosphere of
the play is redolent of old castles,
dungeons alternating with the gay
dance balls of Paris.'
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And Killed by Auto
Blitz, City Electrician Strickland's
bulldog, suffered an untimely death
today, being run over by an automo
bile and receiving injuries which ne
cessitated bis being shot. Blitz has
been a familiar sight around the
Plaza for many weeks and will be
muchmlssed both by his master and
by the host of friends which his
happy facility for making friends
had secured him.
Metallic Tie Was
Blue Sky Dodge
Two years ago some $30,000
worth of "Universal Metallic Tie"
stock was peddled to residents of the
Rogue River valley between Ashland
and Grants Pass. An assessment is
now being made on the stock with
threats of lawsuits if the stock own
ers refuse to pay. District Attorney
Ke'.ly makes the following statement
in regard to the stock:
"The Metallic Tie Company, a
Utah corporation, which has sold
considerable of its stock in Jackson
county, and which has never com
plied with the corporation laws of
Oregon, Is now making demands upon
some of the Jackson county subscrib
ers for payment upon assessable
stock bought by local citizens. The
statement made by this corporation
to the corporation commissioner or
the state was so unsatisfactory that
no permit was granted by that de
partment to do business within the
state and stock sales made by them
since the enactment of the Blue Sky
law are in violation of the law, and,
as I view the matter, the company
can not lawfully collect on its assess
ments. I examined ' the1 statement
submitted the corporation commis
sioner and am of the opinion that
the whole scheme was purely a blue
sky promotion dodge, and I advise
the citizens of Jackson county who
have been threatened with legal pro
ceedings, for non-payment of assess
ments to not be frightened by threats
of suit, as this concern, baa no capac
ity to sue In this state.
"E. El KELLY,
"District Attorney."
, Commmercial Club meets tonight,
-.o'clock. Important. "'
Vocal andBandMusic
At Exposition
San Francisco, August 2. Splen
did music by world-famed artists Is
one of the big features of the mid
summer and autumn season at the
Panama-Pacific Interatnlonal Exposi
tion at San Francisco. The daily!
program contains band concerts by
Internationally known organizations,
organ recitals by many of the world's
masters, and choruses of unexcelled
merit.
Popular music at popular prices is
one of the greatest drawing cards at
the exposition. Not that grand opera
and ponderous compositions have
been Blighted, but the exposition
realizes that the masses want music
that can be understood by an un
trained ear something tingling and
enjoyable without the expenditure of
too mjieh brain work in the effort
to absorb it. At no theatre or opera
house in American can the same
high class music be heard for any
thing like the price In vogue at the
fair. Ten cents secures admission
to the majority of the organ recitals
and the band concerts go with the
admission ticket. The prices at
special concerts and musical festi
vals range slightly higher in price.
Festival hall, where most of the
musical activities take place, is a
magnificent auditorium in the heart
of the gardens, and it cost nearly a
half million dollars. It contains one
of the largest pipe organs in the
world, a magnificent Instrument
with wonderful tone. Famous mas
ters will give recitals on this organ
each day until December 4.
Edward Lemare of London, recog
nized as the world's foremost organ
ist, will give 100 recitals beginning
August 25 and ending December 4
Others who will give recitals daily
during that period Include William
J. Goraph of Buffalo, Charles Gallo
way of St. Louis, Daniel Phlllppi of
New York, J. Warren Andrewg of
New York, T.' Tertius Noble of New
York, P. D. D. Comey of Boston, W.
Lynwood Farnum of BoBton, Arthur
S. Hyde of New York and Frank S.
Adams of Boston,.
VTM ' famous Philippine- Coostabu
Jary;Band to on tbe'scbedule feu
dally'' concerts throughout the expo
sition year; Sousa'a band Is now en
tertaining thousands daily and the
great Boston Band of. 85 players has
hoen elvlne daily concerts. Other
organizations which are to be heard
dally Include Cassasa's Exposition
Tiflnd and the Miramba Band of
Guatemala.
Picture Contains
Lively Scrap
The moving picture goers of Ash
land who witnessed the Mutual Mas
temlece. "On the Night Stage," at
the Lyric Theatre last evening unan
imously nronounced it to be the best
picture which has been In Ashland
for many weeks. The dance hall
flcht was especially realistic, and
after seeing the terrific swings ex
changed by the participants one does
not wonder that most of the actors
who took part were unable to work
for several days afterwards. The
picture will be shown again tonight.
Bryan Speaks To
Ten Thousand
Several hundred Aahlanders went
to Medford and made part of the
crowd of 10,000 people who heard
William Jennings Bryan speak In the
Medford park. The great war and
a plea for the United States to keep
out of It was Mr. Bryan's theme. Mr.
Bryan and his party were taken from
the train at Ager by Medford citizens
and taken to Crater Lake by way of
Klamath Falls and then to Medford.
The distinguished visitor was enrap
tured with the beauties of the lake
and of the , Rogue River valley and
highly complimented the hospitality
of the Medford people.
A bank clery steals from his em
ployers. Who Pays?
F. S, Foltz and family stopped
over in Dunsmulr for a visit, last
week while en route home from the
San Francisco exposition ...
Be served with a dellcipus sundae
or an, ice cream soda in the new f'sil-
ver service" at Rose Bros,', , , 19r4t .
1 phone news items to the Tidings-
Miss Joorietz
Receives Diploma
One of the most successful of the
hundreds of conventions held at San
Francisco during 1915 closed last
Saturday, when the seventy-five
women delegates to the convention
of corsetieres, which assembled from
eleven states, returned to their
homes.
Miss Emma Joorfetz of McGee's
store attended and took the final ex
aminations following a week of lec
tures and demonstrations, passing
with a very high average. Her dip
loma places Tilt In a class with pro
fessional women, for she is now a
graduate corsetlere.
Mr. Frank E. Fehlman, director
of sales and advertising for the H.
W. Gossard Company, who was in
charge of the convention, states that
this was the most representative
gathering from the large stores and
shops and theflnost interesting fit
ting clinic he had ever attended or
planned for the organization.
Medical fittings, regular corset fit
tings, special lectures on salesman-
j ship, advertising, "turn-overs," al
terations, etc., were features of the
week. In addition to this the dele
gates were entertained wtih many
sight-seeing excursions, enjoying
special privileges at the Panama?
Pacific International Exposition.
White and gold were chosen as the
colors for the Gossard convention,
and the slogan adopted, "Work for
the Love of Your Work." Miss Joor
fetz finds herself busily engaged
since her return telling her friends
of the remarkable things she saw
during her stay In "The Jewel City."
Popular Gill Will
Tell of Hawaii
A full house Is anticipated at the
Vlnlng Theatre tonight to greet Misa
Francis Hamlin, ' who will tell of
Honolulu and sing Hawaiian songs.
Miss 'Hamlin and her singing need
nq Introduction to the people of Ash-
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ittiiu. - uurius lue pum year &up uan
been. teaching In' the Priory, a school
In Honolulu, and has had an oppor
tunity to become intimately acquaint
ed with the life and customs of tha
heterogeneous collection of races
which make up the population of the
Hawaiian Islands. Interspersed with
ier story and description will be
several beautiful songs. Miss Ham
lin Is one of Ashland's most popular
young ladies, as her host of friends
will bear witness. The regular pic
tures will be run in connection with
Miss Hamlin's bntertalnment, which
will take place between the first and
second run of pictures.
Buyers' Week at
City of Portland
With 107 leading Jobbers and
wholesalers banded together at
Portland for "Buyers' Week" and an
Invitation having been sent broad
cast throughout the states of Ore
gon, Washington, Montana and Idaho
for the week of August 9 to 14, it la
practically certain that many of the
retailers of the northwest will take
advantage of the opportunity to be
come familiar with the great stocks
of goods maintained In Portland. On
purchases of bills of goods amount
ing to $500 or more the cost of rail
road tickets will be refunded to the
visiting merchant. A splendid pro
gram of entertainment will be pro
vided, and it is designed for the
amusement of both the merchant and
his family.
Ford Band Is
Frost m Roseburg
The Ford Motor Car Company band
which passed through' Ashland Wed
nesday in three special cars bound for
the expdsltoih was more or less of a
disappointment along the line. They
were supposed to be taken from Med
ford to Ashland over the highway in
cars but did not make the trip. At '
Roseburg, where announcement had
been made from, Superintendent J. M.
Soott that the band would piay, sev
eral hundred pepole gathered. The
band leader claimed that he had' re
ceived no notification of the stop;
and although the railroad men' of- ;
fered to hold the train the leader re'
fused. to play.' ;!".' : . ' " ' ' 5 "'"
Phone Job orders to tn Tidings.
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