Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, November 18, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text7 8Z 'Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows' City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs i "The Carlsbad of America' ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915 VOL. XL NUMBER 51 Sidelights On Official Doings Council meets at 7 o'clock during the winter months, thus giving time for nice long executive sessions be fore midnight. World's Notables Here Nov. 29th New Manager at Vining Theatre On next Wednesday evening Ash land motion picture lovers will wel Landowners Slow Paving Matter Laid on Table To Take Hold Water Commissioner Earl Hosier and City Hall Janitor Harley Holmes are back from visits at the San Fran cisco exposition. Councilman Biegel, who has been Beriously ill, Is improving and will be back in his regular chair at Council meetings before long. Street lights at all hours of the night are much appreciated, and here's hoping that curtailment such as the city has suffered this fall will never be necessary again Mayor Johnson, who has been laid up with an attack of grippe, la able to be about town again although still slightly under the weather. He will be able to occupy the chair at Tues day's council meeting. Ashland's automobile fire truck is one of the best investments which the city has made in recent years. Under the old regime of the hand-hauled fire wagon, the fire which occurred In Mrs. Smith's bouse near the top of Church street would have burned the place to the foundations before the old wagon reached the scene, while the fire truck buzzed up the steep hill in a few seconds' time. Considerable discussion came up at Tuesday evening's council meeting re garding the provisions in the new or dinance governing peddlers and hawkers. The council wishes to frame the ordinance so as to allow a man to peddle products raised on his own place or manufactured by his own hands, without paying a license. The exact wording could not be worked out Tuesday and the ordinance was laid upon the table for further over hauling. , ' - The fire chief and driver have pe titioned the council for a "raise in sal aries. The former asks for $90 and the latter for $85. They base their request on the fact that they are obliged to be on the Job twenty-four hours of the day and have not time away from the flrehouse except at the noon hour which each is allowed. The fireman's job in Ashland is most tedious and the wonder is that the present efficient men have been able to stand the confinement as long as they have. The Grants Pass city council Is con sidering a plan whereby the mayor -will receive a salary of $50 a month and' the councilmen $2.50 each for every meeting they attend. The pro posed expenditure has not been made a part of the city budget, but may be adopted. Such a diversion from time honored custom would no doubt be most welcome to the officials in Ash land. Few business men are in a po sition to devote the needed time to council business, and the $100 paid the mayor for a year's work here just about pays for the shoe leather he wears out while attending to city bus iness. While Ashland is extremely fortunate in having men on the coun cil who are efficient and capable and who are rubllc spirited enough to de vote a great part of their time to city business, a little real money would undoubtedly be welcomed. Salvage Company Clean-Up This Week The Pacific Salvage Company's big closing out sale will psoltively close Saturday, November 20. For the last three days of the sale, which starts Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, they have marked the bal ance of stock some lines being broken at prices that will attract with dynamic force. They also wish to thank the entire community of Ashland and surrounding towns for generous patronage during the sale. For the final three days the manage ment have made extra efforts in re gard to price cutting and feel confi dent that the store wil? be crowded hi every nook and corner with shrewd and eager shoppers ready to participate In the great bargain feast. Do not fail to attend this big event. It is an opportunity that does not oc cur oftea. Remember the dates and tbe place 131 East Mala street, snosrty tfce Sterling store. Apollo Concert Company Coming The Apollos are coming. Second number in the Lyceum course for the season 1915-1916. They will appear at the M. E. church under the direc tion of the Ministerial Association on Tuesday evening of November 23, 1915. In variety of musical offerings, splendid solo work and strong en semble no organization on the plat form surpasses the Apollo Concert Company, for a dozen years one of the leading platform companies of America. Every member of this great organization is a finished artist. The personnel this year Includes Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Wells, the former an ac complished pianist and saxophonist, and the latter a banjoist and guitar ist of national fame and a saxophon ist of note; Mr. Harry W. Lewis, one of the greatest clarinetists and saxo phonists before the public; Mr. George Shutts, celebrated xylophon ist, and Miss Gladys Harding, reader and vocalist. The wide range of in strumentation used by the company, and the splendid abilities of the In dividual performers, make possible an extraordinary variety of pleasing music. Then, too, the apollophone, an Instrument built for this company, and combining the best qualities of the xylophone and the zarlmbaphone, adds a note of the unusual and pro vides something distinctive and heard only with this company. For several years past the Apollos have had the distinction of being the first musical company to have their time entirely sold out, and this distinction comes as a result of real merit as shown In their platform appear ances. 51-2t Pioneer Woman Passes Away Mrs. Nancy Jane Davis, wife of Allen Davis, passed away at the Davis borne on First street Tuesday after noon, November J 6, at 3 o'clock. She wag 83 years, 7 months and 15 days of age. ' Mrs. Davis was born in Nashville, Tenn., April 1, 1S32, and moved to Troy, Iowa, in 1842 and resided there until coming to California in 1S56. She crossed the plains with an ox team, leaving the Missouri riv er on May 7, 1856, and arrived on Bear creek, Shasta county, Califor nia, on September 7. She was mar ried to Allen Davis in Trinity county in 1860 and resided in Trinity coun ty and Scotts valley until 1900, when they moved to Ashland, where she has lived until her death. Mrs. Davis was a devoted Christian all her life and a member of the Methodist church for 73 years. She has a host of friends in Ashland who will mourn ber death. Mrs. Davis Is survived by her husband and three children Mrs. J. M. McGee of Ashland", Mrs. W. T. Mason of Central Point and Grant Davis of Talent. The funeral was held from the residence Wed nesday afternoon. Rev. Van Fossen and Rev. Douglass officiated. Inter ment in Mountain View cemetery. Fish Hatchery to Be Built at Once The state fish and game commis sion met in Portland Tuesday with all members present and decided to go ahead with the construction of a fish hatchery at Butte Falls. The com mission based its decision for early construction upon the fact that the realdents of the Butte Falls section have given their enthusiastic support to the project and guaranteed help in the construction. Sportsmen throughout Jackson county have tak en a big interest in the proposed hatchery, which will mean a big thing for the fishing streams of southern Oregon. Heretofore all fish which have been planted near Ashland have been brought In on the railroad from a great distance and at a big expense. With the Jackson county hatchery in operation more trout and salmon fry will be obtainable. A negro who wandered over th valley, visiting country schools and inviting himself to speak to the schol ars on. "Cannibalism" and like sub jects, was i finally haled before the Medford authorities and: given the alternative ot leaving the, country or sixty days In jail., H accepted tbe j first cholcw, i ' On Monday, November 29, Ash land will entertatin two of the most noted notables who have ever visited the city. The distinguished visitors are the Earl of Aberdeen, MarquiB of Temain, former governor-general of Canada and lord lieutenant of Ire land, and his wife, Countess Aber deen. These distinguished members of the British peerage come to Ash land direct from the San Francisco exposition, where they have presided over International gatherings and have been feted as the most promi nent guests of the west for the past month. Ashland Is the only stop made by Lord and Lady Aberdeen between San Francisco and Portland. On the evening of the 29th, at the Elks temple, Lord and Lady Aber deen will deliver addresses before what no doubt will be the largest crowd assembled In Ashland In re cent months. The affair will be un der the auspices of the Civic Im provement Club and will be for the benefit of the Belgian relief cause. Lord and Lady Aberdeen are paying all of their own expenses on the pres ent tour of the United States and every cent of the money taken in goes to the stricken sufferers of Bel gium. An admission charge of 50 cents will be made. This will be the biggest event of the winter and everyone In Ashland should and probably will attend. Countess Aberdeen Is president of the International Congress of Wom en, having been elected to that of fice for a five-year term In Rome in 1914. She recently presided over a meeting of the International Women's Council in San Francisco. She is rec ognized the world over as a leading philanthropist of the British empire and is known throughout the civil ized globe. Lord Aberdeen is also a leader in humanitarian work and is the head of several benevolent or ganizations of world scope. In stopping in a city of Ashland's size the earl and countess are break ing all of the precedents of their present tour of the United States, which they are making in the inter est of the Belgian relief work. In San Francisco they learned of the big success which the Ashland Civic Improvement Club made in bringing Helen Keller to Ashland, and for this reason were glad to accept the local club's invitation to stop in Ashland. A lady in the Central Point district, whose boy indulged in fighting dur ing school hours, attracted the atten tion of the prosecuting attorney's of fice by removing the boy from school. The youth went back to school. The row threatened for a time to disrupt the discipline of the Bchool, and cre ated considerable agitation against the teacher, due to the community taking sides. s Telephone 420-J for dry tier wood, $2. ' 9-tf Phone Job orders to the Tidings. HHtt H1HI HI t HUH no. 7. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Citizens Bank of Ashland AT ASHLAND, OREGON, at the Close of Business November 10, 1015. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $205,613.90 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured , 1 Bonds and warrants 200;00 Eanking house 4 r.nn 00 Furniture and fixtures ,oq'oq Due from banks (not reserve banks) Due from approved reserve banks "f? ' Checks and other cash items oo'Sqi'ia Cash on hand 2i,ni.u Total $321,352.16 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in M;; Surplus fund VAal. Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid ' on'nn Dividends unpaid Due to banks and bankers f'"'JJ Individual deposits subject to check i io 'Ii Demand certificates of deposit 44100 Certified checks 0, J?, Time and savings deposits "'J! Reserved for taxes 1'io uu Total State of Oregon, County of Jackson, ss. I V O N. Smith, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. V. O. N. SMITH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of November, !915 ,, , G. C. MCALLISTER, Notary Public. My commission expires February 3, 1917. C01 feet Attest: DON B. SMITH. ; . , . , ' ' W. M. POLKY. ,1 ii si:l-.i ' iMIMIIt I come a new manager at the Vining Theatre. Ex-Manager Vining goes east in January to take up his lecture work, and O. T. Bergner of Portland succeeds him at the helm of Ash land's beautiful theatre and picture house. Mr. Bergner is a man of years of experience in leading city picture houses and was the first man ager of the new Columbia, Portland's biggest and moBt artistic picture house. He comes to Ashland with a big reputation behind him, and Ash land audiences are assured of the best there Is to be had in plays, pic tures, service, music and everything that goes to make a theatre a suc cess. Second to none on the coast In artistic beauty, comfort and equip ment, the Vining Theatre will have a worthy successor to Prof. Vining In Mr. Bergner. Mr. Vining has given Ashland the best that could be obtained In pic tures and has built up an apprecia tion of good pictures among Ashland people. He goes east In January to take up his lecture work in New York and the adjacent states, where he Is scheduled to make over one hundred addresses. Prof. Vining is building op a sterling reputation in the east as a lecturer, and this year has had his territory extended into several new districts. Ashland will be sorry to see Mr. Vining leave, but will accord the new manager a real Ashland welcome neit Wednesday evening, which Mr. Vining announces as welcome night. Every theatregoer in Ashland should attend the Vining Theatre on that evening and give Mr. Bergner solid evidence of their appreciation of good airiusoments. The evening will also be in the nature of a farewell to Mr. Vining, who has taken a prom inent part in all projects for the good of Ashland. Mr. Vining will spend the next month working on his lec tures and will deliver several ad dress in "Medford and other Ore gon cities before going east. "Jewel" at Lyric Sunday and Monday Everyone who has read the very Interesting book "Jewel," by Clara Louise Burnham, will be pleased to know that Manager Lawrence nas booked the photoplay based on this Dleaslne novel. Ella Hall is starred. It will be shown Sunday and Monday in conjunction with an exceptional vaudeville act, Walters and Clare mont, who have tabloid sketches of various comic operas. Sunday they will have a twenty-minute version from "Bohemian Girl." The admis sion will be 5 cents for children, 15 cents for adults. Get your watch repairing done at Johnson's Jewelry Store. 97-tf IIMHIIIII IHH4IIII $321,352.16 X J. P. DODGE, Directors. I Mill The campaign for sugar beet acre age in the Rogue River valley is near- ing the climax. While no definite figures have been reported, the acre age already secured appears to have fallen woefully short of the 5,000 acres required for the assurance of the factory, and the Medford, Central Point and Grants Pass beet commit tees are making heroic endeavors to arouse the landowners to the realiza tion of the great opportunity which is slipping from their grasp. Business men of Medford are rais ing a $20,000 fund to form a com pany to engage in sugar beet cul ture. This Is in addition to the back ing for the farmers guaranteed by the sugar company. Ashland has been asked to secure 200 acres in this district, but as yet no definite progress has been made. Business men here, as throughout the valley, are fully aroused to the im portance of getting the acreage, but the farmers seem slow in signing up, and a whirlwind finish will be neces sary to get the 5,000 acres. , Lack of irrigation Is the one big reason for the lack of available acre age of suitable beet raising land in the Ashland district. Alex Nibley and C. M. Thomas were up Tuesday and in company with V. O. N. Smith, president of the Commercial Club, visited a good many of the people who had signed up for beets last year in this section. They found very little available for beets and very little already Blgned up. Ashland must get that 200 acres to do their part, and all landowners who can possibly put a few acres in beets and who have not been seen are urged to call at the Citizens Bank, where V. O. N. Smith has contracts and beet data. ' . . Eternal City is Wonderful Film The most famous 'Paramount pic ture ever turned out by tbe Famous Players Film Company, Hall Calne's "Eternal City," presented by Daniel Frohman, will be the attraction at the Vining Theatre Thanksgiving day and evening. For many years Hall Caine refused to permit his great work to be presented upon the screen and it was only by a personal visit t(J Engand by the president of the Famous Players Company that "The Eternal City," the drama which has created more discussion than any other play of the past half century, was secured for the motion picture public. A selected company of stars, headed by Pauline Frederick, was sent abroad to stage the picture ex actly in the locality In which the scenes are laid in Rome. The production is on an order of sumptuousness which surpasses any past, effort and realizes even more than the acted play ever could. It is presented In eight reels with spec ial orchestration, and Is the biggest feature yet Becured for the Vining screen. Hotel Business Is On Increase Manager Dobbins of Hotel Oregon tells us, and his statements are borne out by the hotel register, that the past few days have seen the heaviest arrivals In Ashland for many months. The increase seems to be steady and consistent. Word of the meals prepared under the direction of Mr. Dobbins and his affable management has spread throughout the coast and many trav eling men who formerly stopped at the Medford hotels are making their headquarters here. Mr. Dobbins' Is getting the results and ABhland busi ness men can be assured of a safe In vestment in helping make Hotel Ore gon a modern hostelry. Next week Mr. Dobbins will have as his guests Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fee of San Francisco. Mr. Fee Is one of the big officials of the Southern Pacific. They will remain in Ash land for two or three days. The Oregon manager also informs us that ho has already received sev eral letters from friends In California reserving accommodations for parties for next summer. ' '' It's too late to get a new suit made for Thanksgiving, bnt don't let that worry yon. Paolsemd ft Barrett will make that old suit look like sew. The city council met at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in regular session with a sprinkling of spectators in the city hall benches. Most of the on lookers were preesnt to see what be came of the resolution passed by the recent citizens' meeting to discuss pavment plans, and were disappoint ed when following the reading of the minutes and a couple of regular re ports, the resolution was read and laid on the table until the next meet ing without any great amount of dis cussion. Mr. Ware moved that when the council adjourned it would be to meet next Monday, November 22, nnd the pavement matter will no doubt be fur ther considered at that meeting. Mr. Guntner petitioned the council to take over his North Main street property for delinquent paving assess ments and other assessments. Tho petition was referred to the special committee on such matters. The mayor reappointed Mesdamea C. W. Nlms, Mae Mullt and R. L. Bur die to succeed themselves on the library board. Communications from Fire Chief Roblson and Driver Gulley, asking for raises to $90 and $85 per month, respectively, were referred to the fire committee. The firemen stated In their petitions that in view of the fact that they were obliged to be on duty twenty-four hours out of the day, their present salaries seemed Inade quate. A requisition from the electric light! department for a transformer for the city ball neighborhood and another for a meter for the high school, was allowed. An ordinance defining the terma "peddler" and "hawker" and stating tbe license which must be paid before hawkers and peddlers may do busi ness in Ashland was read, discussed at some length and laid on the table. Mayor Johnson requested that an ordinance regarding the license on' billiard halls and bowling alleys also be tabled sine be had sot had an opportunity to study It over. , The council then went into execu tlve session. Beautiful Marble Fountain and Statue When the land for the new Llthla park wbb being purchased G. S. But ler and D. Perozzl donated a tract of land and the springs commission set aside $3,000 for a memorial fountain to be selected by these gentlemen. On a visit to the San Francisco fair several weeks ago, D. Perozzl be came greatly enamored of a beauti ful fountain of Verona marble, the) work of an Italian sculptor and a part of the Italian exhibit. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Butler went to the exposition, saw the fountain, tele graphed to Mr. Perozl to come down, and the pair of benefactors closed! the deal for the beautiful piece of artistry. The price paid when corn- jplete w approxlmnte $3i000. The fountain will be placed on a tract just above the park drive at the Granite street corner of the new park and on a slight eminence. Mr, Butler also purchased a mag nificent statue of Abraham Lincoln which he will erect at some point in the park as a memorial to his step father, Jacob Thompson, an Ashland pioneer of 1847. The statue stflnrisi about six feet eight inches in height and coBt $2,500. The works of art will be delivered upon the close of the exposition. Schoolmasters to Meet at Jacksonville A meeting of the Schoolmasters' Club will be held at Jacksonville No vember 20, beginning at 10:30 a. m. This Is the first gathering of the year. Program: 10:30 a. m. Opening address, Su perintendent George A, Briscoe, Ashland. 11:15 a. m. Address, "Supervision of Pupils To and From School," Principal P. II. Dailey, Medford. Followed by general discussion. 1:30 p. m. Address, "Some Stand ards of Excellence in Teaching,", Superintendent V. Meldo. HIllls, Medford. Followed by geseral discussion.. , 2:15 p. m. Address by Prof. Joseph ' Shaffer of the University of 6re- Business meeftig.