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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.
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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.
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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
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$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.