FACE TWO
ASHLAX TTDTXGS
Thnrgday, August 19, IB15
Ashland Tidings
SEMI-WEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 187.
Issned Mondays and Thursdays
Official City and County Paper
Bert R. Ciw,
Lynn Mowat,
about him. No matter bow be came
to be there, or who he was. He Bat
sear the orchestra, just as the oldest
men always seem to snuggle nearest
the pulpit In church. The two girls,
strolling along, noticed him and
stopped to alk.
The old man was evidently a bit
- Editor and Owner ' hearing. He seemed to "get"
. . Xews Reporter J the orchestra all right, but with ordi-
1 nary human tones he had trouble.
SI BSCRIPTIO.V RATES. The girls, however, were more than
One Tear $1.00 ! wjiing t0 talk loud in his ear, and
6:1 MOnthS l-P'J,.v HM Thoir t Vrtnir If
he was having a good time, and tbey
joked him about not dancing, and
TELEPHONE 39 .essayed to picture to him how popu-
: liar he would be if he ever "took the
Advertising rates on application, floor "
First-class Job Intln? facilities ! ,na shrl voice he informed them
Equipments second to none in the
interior. dancin ain t what it used to be,
but he liked to see everybody have
Three Months 50
Payalile In Advance. ,
No subscriptions for less than three
months. All subscriptions dropped at
expiration unless renevralls received.
In ordering changes of the piper
always five the old street address or
postoffice as well as the new.
1
Entered at tv.e Ashland, Oregon, i
Postoffice as second-ciass mail mat- Getting back, for the nonce, ito
ter. (prohibition that doesn't prohibit and
abatement laws that don't abate, and
a good time.
The point of this 16 that modern
girls DO talk nicely to old men, once
In a while. Perhaps you thought
they didn't.
questionable remarks about the
girls?
Well, at McKinley Park, for one
place?
When the tennis folks should have
yielded the court to others, they
yielded it. No civic force to make
them.
The young men liked the baby and
weren't afraid to show it.
The girls liked the old man, and
showed it.
The husbands and wives, wiping
picnic crumbs from their faces, liked
to dance, each with his own mate,
and didn't care who knew it.
O.V OUR CAMP GROUND.
Then there's another point:
This wasn't any private Institution
gotten up through the beneficence of
some philanthropist with a hobby.
The city of Sacramento paid for it.
The taxpayers stood behind it. If
they didn't want it, they wouldn't
have it. So, after all, the city thinks
healthily, sometimes.
A-hland. Ore., Thursday, Aug. 19. '! I
HONESTLY IS IT REALLY
SO ROTTEN?
ALL
(Maurice Alniy Aldrich in the Sacra
mento Bee.)
niht in the midst of schemes that
are supposed to do things and that i
don't do them prohibition
such things:
j One couldn't help thinking how
far away these knotty problems were
j from the subject in hand. Nobody
I was drunk, nobody seemed worrying
: about the saloon question. Nobody
needed abating.
The terrible social evil, the mooted
There are so many diversing
opinions about who and what God is '
(From Santa Crux, Cal., Sentinel.)
At the last Chamber of Commerce
meeting a letter was received from
the city of Ashland, Ore., stating that
Ashland possessed a very fine camp
ing ground open to the traveling au
tomobile tourists without charge, to
remain there as long as they desired.
The letter urged local people to
visit Ashland, try its mineral springs
and partake of its hospitality. Simi
lar letters have been sent wherever
results might be expected throughout
the coast states.
Our readers will no doubt remem
ber Walter Fogg's Ashland letter
published in the Sentinel when be
took his "Gipsy" auto trip. He and
his wife had not expected to linger
in Ashland, but they were made to
feel so welcome in the public grove
j that they remained there a week and
took in some of the Chautauqua ses
sion then in session there, and which
was largely attended.
The editorial in yesterday's Senti
nel concerning Ashland's plan of of-
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DEPOSITORY OF
City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon
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that 1uest'on now t0 brtns up our girls,
tint Ktirnlnv tccua r 9 i-Vi o f An vttYt
oesn t prohibit, abatement laws that : "
. ... . v. i .v ' our boys they all seemed solved,
do not aoate. and so on neht in the
,j . . ... j. v. . j! Nobody worried about em
things that must be corrected and
supervised
Well, what?
First, there were tennis courts, (
with clean, asphalt floorings and
white nets, and beautiful green trees
as a background. There ?'ere men
and women and boys and girls play
ing on those courts and having a
good time Nobody became angry;
there wasn't a cuss word. Yhen one
group of players finished with a set,
the court was vacated for those wait
ing. The police didn't have to be
there to insure fair play about the
use of the courts.
The music played on and on, and
the musicians perspired an perspired.
Now it was a two-step, now a waltz.
A party of picnickers entered the
pavilion from the grounds outside
where the city provides benches and
tables and contrivances to heat cof
fee and tea. And say
Honest to goodness!
There were four husbands walking
with four wives. And each man was
with his own wife. And fbey were
laughing just as though they were
i happy. They "sparred for an open
j lng." as the sporting editoT says, and,
Then it began to grow too dark for getting it, they danced. It was pret-
they can hardly be counted, and none jfering free camping facilities to visit
shall deny the right of his own con-. ing autoi3ts caused this office to re
ceptions on this important subject, jceive a prompt visit from E. J. Far
We read in the Bible that Enoch : low, now of 53 Wood street, Sea
walked with God and that Moses I bright, but recently of Ashland. Mr.
talked with God. There are those iFarlow has been a resident of As'n
who believe Enoch actually wa'kedjland, Ore., for the past forty-seven
and Moses actually talked with the years and has been coming here to
Almighty, as we do with our fellow
mortal men nowadays.
But the writer presents this as his
X5he
People's Forum
Opposes Electric Light Contract.
Ashland Tidings: It seems very
unwise for the voters of Ashland to
ratify the proposed agreement be
tween our city council and the California-Oregon
Power Company, for
the city to purchase the company's
plant in Ashland, for the following
reasons, viz.: All valuation of said
years.
He praises the Ashland idea as be-
conception of that Scriptural narra-jing worthy of imitation. He says au-
the players to see the ball clearly,
and, just about that time, strains of
music were heard. It was dance mu
sic. At this juncture the alert reader
cuts in with:
"Oh, that's Mckinley Park! You
-can't pull a moral out of that-"
Oh, bm can't you?
Mukluk Mike wants to know,
sometimes, what has become of the
o-and-so. Kenneth Campbell'B
quaint creation with his hand out
stretched might ask, one of these
days, with perfect consistency, What
has become of the old-fashioned boy
and girl who used to go to dances
and come home early? Or what has
become of the old-fashioned dance
where there wasn't a place to hoist
drinks between numbers?
If he Bhould ask any of these Ques
tions, the answer is the same:
It's out at McKinley Park.
ty crowded on the floor by that time,
but they grinned when their toes
were stepped on, and, after the num
ber was over and the encore there's
always an encore at the park these
same four copies bunched off togeth
er and had a talk-fest till the music
started.
So if anybody wants to know
what's become of the old-fashioned
wife who went to places with her hus
band why, 6he's out at McKinley
Park. The same Is true of the old-
fashioned husband who used to be
seen in public with his wife. He's
there. I
When it was still daylight the mu
sic began for the kiddies. The city
of Sacramento has begun, this year,
to see that the little folks have their
dances, too. More than 100 cute lit
tie girls in white party dresses and
boys in wondrous big bow ties con
trolled the floor for an hour and onl
yielded it when the order came that
it was grown-ups' time.
tive: That Enoch and Moses, alone
by themselves, had good thoughts,
exalted ideas, and returning from
this sojourn by themselves, felt and
were better men. Who does not, in
this later day, have this experience?
Who shall put It as a leap from
the sublime to the ridiculous to say
that, from the turmoil of the city with
its social problems, its ceaseless
struggle with the publicity of evils,
its worries about the future genera
tion, its forebodings that the world
in general is headed straight for the
fiery pit In a sulphur-propelled jit
ney who shall say it is going too
far to assert that, under the waving
trees of which California is so proud,
in that pure and balmy night air, it
is not possible to "walk and talk
with God" in McKinley PaTk?
You perliaps have heard how easy
it Is to find what you are looking for
A man can find a town just full of
gamblers and such.
A muck-raking minister can find
brothels at every turn, hell-holes In
every nook and corner.
Your energetic reformer can find
I a crying need for the social evil to be
There were happy doings in the
pavilion, far removed from the things
that shouldn't be and the things that
are supposed to do things but don't.
One observantly inclined saw many
of the old-fashioned things, so-called,
of which it Is sometimes asked:
What has become of them?
Now, honestly, witbont straining a
point:
TW wr throe vnime men anrt abated. Your rabid anti-drink advo-
they might pass for sports, downtown icte cai show ou 'i,n ever 811(1 ever
ami thov mpr attract t hv a enn-'so many figures just how fast the
nine baby in its mother's lap. it world is going to the Airedales. Ask
might be stated, if vou do not know. the police and they'll shake their
It, that babies and mothers are wel-J heads and regretfully admit it's all
come at McKinley Park affairs. i'oo true.
Well, now, this is one actual incl-1
aent: You CAN find what you're looking
i The three young men clustered for an(1 the reason you find it is be
around the baby. They didn't knowicalIfe y0U-re looking for it.
the baby; ttey didn t know tne motn-1 rji(j any one ever ,jeny the absolute
r; they didn t know ber husband, lnabiitT of the bell-holes to hurt the
standing a few fet away, talking to;person who doesn't g0 into them?
a friend. But tbey thought the baby , Tbe o)d Greek maxim was, "A
mighty cute and they took Itssoun(1 body, a sound mind."
little hand in their big ones and; But a 80und mind hag a jot to do
shook it with gravity akin to awe at with a 80und bodv A iltt!e ciean
the very minuteness of the proffered
fift One essayed to chuck the little
fellow under what chin he had, and
thereby brought forth a crow.
The point about this is that young
men. even in this day and age, do on
occasion pay attention to babies, 'af
ter all.
In the next place.
thinking will do a world of sweeping
of immortality into the rubbish heap
wiere It came from and where it be
longs. Somebody stand up and say why,
without blinking, the world is get
ting worse. Why, It's the same old
world, only better. Tbe trouble Is,
where there is sin nowadays we seem
there were two to parade it more than we do the
girls. They were pretty fashionably
dressed you might not have expect
ed they'd be at McKinley Park pa
vilion, perhaps, but they were. And
you might have thought, perhaps.
other thing.
Those who prefer to think right,
dance right. Those who think right
don't worry about sneaking booze
bottles into cloakrooms for the girls,
tbey would be too busv listening to 'as we are informed every now and
nothings uttered by youns men to 'then Is the twentieth century custom,
pay attention to anything else. Where shall we find a better con
But here's another thing that hap- j dltlon of things than fathers and
pened:
There was an old man out there,
real old. He sat leaning his arms on
mothers dancing on the floor with
their children? Where shall we find
the old-fashioned young man who
cane, enjoying the music and gaiety used to be polite and never made
Our Community
We are a part of this community
so are you. Let us work hand In
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of us.
Your banking business done
through this strong bank works di
rectly for you and the community.
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ASHLAND, OREGON.
Oldest National Sank In Jackson
County
tomobile drivers are the best adver
tisement a town can have, and that
they are all praising Ashland because
of the treatment they are receiving
there, and are sending many other
autolsts to likewise partake of it.
Auto owners from every state in the
union are now enjoying Ashland's
park.
The Ashland park begins within a
quarter of a mile of the city plaza
and extends in the other direction to
the national forest back in the hills.
Over a hundred acres arc included in
the city park alone. There is a cen
tral free cook house, containing a
dozen stoves, where gas can be se
cured on tbe installment plan by
dropping a quarter Into the meter.
Water is absolutely free, as is also a
place to camp and stand your auto.
Tbe overhanging trees are illuminat
ed with festoons of electric light, thus
affording to that extent free light
service.
if they failed to do so. It would not
affect me, as my income would be a
fixed and sure one as long as any city
of Ashland was solvent, to tbe
amount of $700 per month "mini
mum" as per contract. This ig
$8,400 'per year, $168,000 for the
twenty years, sure as death and tax
es. It's a dangerous and one-sided
contract. R. D. SANFORD.
The Commercial Club requests tbe
names and addresses of parties who
are considering coming to the coast
.his summer. We wish to send them
lterature and give them a good con
ception of Oregon. 74-tf
When a celebrity and a waiter
both wear dress suits you can usually
tell the waiter by bis unaffected
horse sense.
The world may take you at your
worth, provided you first establish
that worth.
spend tbe winter for the past five;P'ant is left in the hands of the coun
cil and company, taken from the peo
ple, and we do not know what the
valuation will be. If I had as profit
able a deal to put through as this
seems, I could well afford to pay
a $3,000 commission to any agency
who could induce the DeoDle to tie
."tmuLi.n, up uj iiieir vuies in rati
fying It, and also buy transformers,
etc., from the city and donate power
for pumping mineral springs water
for $1 per year as a sop of apparent
liberality, as I would be not only get
ting the agreed price for my physical
plant, but would be tying the tax
payers of Ashland np to paying me a
fixed income, and let them take all
chances of reselling their juice, and
After ridiculing his wife's subserv
iency to styles, the modern American
proceeds to put on a high starched
collar for a hot day's work downtown.
Householders have to put in a lot
of wori: planting and cultivatine
their fruit, but tbe small boy gives
bis assistance when It gomes to bar-vesting.
To the real lover of picnics the
food never tastes good unless it is
eaten in a spot mighty bard to tote
the lunch baskets to.
Horses suffer a good deal through
the summer, but as they don't talk
back it is generally agreed by driv
ers that they are perfectly happy.
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The Standard Oil
for Motor Cars
Better than ever-the Ford is now a necessity
to every business man. And it's the family
sen-ant as well. Excellence with economy,
less than two cents a mile for operation and
upkeep, while "Ford Service for Ford Own
ers" assures the continuous use of a Ford car.
Buyers will share in profits if we sell at re
tail 300,000 new Ford cars between August
1914 and August 1915.
Runabout $440; Touring Car $490; Town Car $690;
Coupelet $750; Sedan $975; In the United States of
America only. All cars sold fully equipped, f. o. b.
On display and sale at F. L. Camps' Ford Garage.
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Phone 152
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We personally conduct Repair and Lathe
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Our Repair facilities are unexcelled, nnr
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Our stock of Auto Supplies is right up to
the minute.
Prices reduced on Michelin tires July 19th
We have these tires in stock,' also have
Goodrich and Firestone.
UST Onr Vulcanizing Department will please yon.
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