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Mrs. H. Cook was a visitor to Med
ford lost Thursday.
Mrs. W. W. Blalock returned to
Dunsmuir Saturday.
Miss Nellie Bowman of Gold Hill
was a visitor in the city the first of
last week.
Mrs. Hattie Colwell of Medford
was a visitor with friends in Ashland
last week.
George A. Stannard of this city
was a visitor to Grants Pass the last
of the week.
Attorney E. D. Brlggs attended to
legal business In Medford and Jack
sonville Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Stone leave to
day for Portland, where they will
make their home.
J, H. Mattern spent a couple of
t days last week In Yreka attending to
business matters.
Fred Wright, who 'has been visit
ing In Ashland, returned to his home
In Cottage Grove Friday.
Harry Pellett, automobile man of
Medford and Yreka, was a visitor In
the city over the week-end.
B. II. Nugent of Pendleton Is at
the Sanltorlum, where he underwent
an operation Saturday.
Dave Beakey, district manager of
the Woodmen of the World, was a
visitor In the city last week.
B. R. Greer has moved his family
and household goods to the Mlnkler
residence on the Boulevard. .
Cllf Payne makes dish cupboards.
Edison Jerome of Medford was a
visitor with friends In the city Thurs
day evening and attended the Em
press vaudeville.
Mrs. L. S. Noe and children of
Gold Hill were the guests of Mrs.
Noe's mother, Mrs. Minnie Abbott, In
Ashland last week.
Little Miss Caroline Tilton, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Tilton, un
derwent a minor operation Thursday
and Is recovering nicely.
We will have a car of blocks on
the track In a few days. Carson
Fowler Lumber Co. It
E. R. Lawrence, owner of the
Lyric Theatre, which has been closed
until summer, returned Friday from
a week's stay at Grants Pass.
Glendale was In darkness for six
days last week when 25 poles of the j
California-Oregon Power Company
line were broken down by snow.
Mrs. L. L. Mullt and-little son Rob
ert left Saturday for their borne In
Portland. The older son, Lloyd, will
remain for the present with his
grandmother, Mrs. H. S. Mullt.
J. B. McDanlels, a former resident
of this valley, who owned a ranch In
Robert U Hammond of Medford
was a visiter in town Saturday.
Roseburg will establish an auto
camp ground for tourists before the
season opens this year.
F. L. Johns of this city was a bus
iness visitors to Medford Saturday af-
the Antelope district, has been sen-' ternoon and evening.
tenced to life Imprisonment in Okla
homa penttentiary for murdering bis
wife.
Two prisoners In the county jail at
Yreka, in Siskiyou county, removed
bricks from the Jail wall In an effort
to escape. The sheriff got next to the
intended escape and grabbed the men
as they crawled out of the hole In
the wall.
J. H. Driscoll, deputy game warden
for this district, was a visitor to
Grants Pass Thursday, and conferred
with Deputy Jewel of that city. He
Charles Howard has put a Dodge
touring car on Lis jitney service be
tween Ash'un.l v d Medford.
Sheep in Douglas county are suf
fering from the storms. An estimate
places the loss at 1,500 during the
past week.
President P. J. Campbell of the
University of Oregon was a visitor In
Ashland last Wednesday while en.
route home from a visit in Califor
nia. 0. H. Barnhili and wife, Gratz
Barnhllf and Miss Minta Cherry were
spent the day investigating conditions among thoBe from Ashiand who at
along the river and in the vicinity ten(1eJ t,le high Bchool dcbate at Tal
ent Friday evening.
of the Pass.
Among recently recorded real es
tate deals which took place in Ash
land and recorded at the county seat,
O. J. Stone disposed of Ashland prop
erty to C. W. Root and Anna M.
Scofield sold a piece of land in Mey
ers' addition to C. S. Fryer.
The ladies of the Christian church
will give a cooked food sale Satur
day, January 22, at the public mar
ket, East Main etreet. It
Mrs. James Archibald, after spend
ing a week with her father, George
Stephenson, on Factory street, re
turned to her home at Brownsboro
last Saturday morning. Mr. Stephen
son has been quite sick for several
weeks but is slightly improved.
The Medford high scnool debating
team defeated the Grants Pass team
Friday and will meet the Ashland
team some time within the next two
or three weeks. The winner of this
debate will meet the Klamath Falls
team for the championship of the
southern Oregon district.
Mr. N. W. Hawn or Boise, Idaho,
Is in the city and is being shown
around by Mayor Johnson. He has
Mrs. Hawn with him, and they came
to look Ashland over as a home city.
He has been general caretaker of
supplies for all the Grand Masonic
lodges of the state of Idaho.
It Is reported that one of the re
sults of the prohibition of the sale of
liquor in Oregon will be the estab
lishment of a jitney service from Dor
rls to Klamath Falls, for the accom
modation of the thirsty. Klamath
county has a payroll during the sum
mer months of more than $100,000 a
month from the lumber business
This week's Issue of Life contains ! alone, and the liquor dealers in Dor
white spaces, formerly occupied by J ris believe the lumberjacks will spend
whiskev advertisements, a condition . their money as freely in that town
brought about by observance of the
prohibition law.
The California state legislature has
adopted a measure to build over the
California building at the San Fran
cisco exposition grounds into a nor
mal school for the state.
as they did in the Oregon city to the
north In previous seasons.
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Cowles of Eu
gene, who has been visiting friends
in Ashland, Talent and Medford for
the past few weeks, left Sunday for
their home in the Willamette valley.
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Wednesday
I Jan.
yo(o
mpress
Vaudeville
Three Headline Acts
MARRIOTT TROUPE .
Original Cycle Vehicle and Monoplane Novelty
Four Juvenile Kings
Comedy Character Sitgers, featuring Little
Louatta, Male Impersonator.
Belmont and Hare
The Man, The Girl and The Piano.
Also a Fox Feature in 5 reels
"The Regeneration"
A powerful picturization of the dramatization of
Owen Kildan's romantic and tragic story "My
Mamie Rose."
Admission: Lower Floor 35c
Entire Balcony - 25c
Children - 15c
-3 first Show Begins with Picture at 7:30, Vaudeville 8:30
mm
A number of local high school stu
dents and basketball fans went down
from Ashland Saturday evening to
see the basketball game between
Medford and Klamath Falls at Med
ford. Science Is making rapid strides In
the Improvement of aids toward bet
ter eyesight. We're keeping abreast
of the times by employing the latest
and most Improved methods of test
ing and fitting eyes at Whlted's.
68-2t
"Sleuth" Settles left the last of the
week for Hilt, In northern California,
where he will pursue his chosen vo
cation, running down any Italian
bomb atrocities which may occur, as
a side line.
An epidemic of mustaches has hit
the Medford high school, according
to reports from that city. As yet
Ashland has only been scorched In
sp'ts by the mustache disease among
the young men.
Mrs. J. F. Melkle returned to Berk
eley, Cal., the last of the week after
a very enjoyable stay In Ashland, dur
ing which she renewed old friends
and acquaintances and looked after
property Interests In the city.
S. L. McGills and wife, who visited
and transacted business In ABhland
the latter part of last week, left Sat
urday for Dunsmuir. During their
stay in Ashland they became greatly
enamored of the city and may return
this summer for a vacation stay.
H. G. Gilmore writes from Los An
geles that they will leave Monday
(today) for Ashland. Mr. Gilmore
has undergone an attack of la grippe,
an epidemic of which has attacked
60 per cent of the citizens of the
southern California metropolis ac
cording to the professor.
Correctly fitted glasses at Whited's.
All work guaranteed. 68-2t
Hobb Deuel and Leon Speck, usual
Saturday evening visitors from Med
fcrd, did not make their weekly visit
on last Saturday, ciose inenas 01
the voune men atribuate their ab
sence to a campaign of Intimidation
conducted in a column of pipe dreams
issued in the Medford Sun.
H. S. Palmerlee returned Friday
morning from Long Beach, Cal.,
where he was called last week by the
serious illness of his mother, who
passed away Thursday. His mother,
Mrs. Helen M. Palmerlee, was 81
years of age. A daughter accom
panied the remains to the old home,
Dodge Center, Minn., where the bur
ial was held.
Do you have to hold the paper at
arm's length and then feel ashamed
that you can not read better? It's
not your eyes' fault, but yours, be
cause you have put off too long hav
ing Whited the optometrist fit your
eyes correctly. 68-2t
The three-story summer hotel be
ing constructed at Elk Creek, on the
Crater Lake road, forty-six miles
from Ashland, will be dedicated
about the first of June. L. E. Mac
Donald will be the manager of the
resort, and already reports many res
ervations for the coming season. The
resort is within a few hours' auto
mobile drive of Ashland, and a visit
to the beautiful Elk Creek country
will make an interesting side trip
from Ashland.
Two mules which were used In
carrying the mall over the Salmon
mountains from Etna Mills to Saw
yers Bar, in Siskiyou county, were
burled In a snowslide. The malt car
riers were unable to dig them out
and the mules were burled under six
feet of snow over night. They were
dug out the next morning, and,
strange to say, did not appear to
have suffered any 111 effects from the
experience.
A few Chinese pheasants have be
come quite tame in this district since
the snow began to fall and cover the
ground for two or three days at a
time. Near Phoenix they have ne
gun to feed In the morning with the
barnvard chickens. A few of those
who know their value as "wild game'
and the sport of gunning for them
in season have undertaken to feed
them wherever they have appeared.
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NINE MORE SELLING DAYS THEN
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The laft few days of the month when shelving is being removed the store will
not he in condition for Bulling.
This week and four days next week the bargain tables and counters will be loaded
with greater-than-ever values. We have said that some things must not be in
voiced again and removed to the new store if a price can bo found at which some
one can uce them.
You Will Find Prices Dropping to Bedrock
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$0.00 to 110.00
Goodwin Corsets
$3.00
Petticoats, black,
green and striped,
up to $2.50 values,
now
75c
One lot 12 o to
25c Ginghams, j
Flannelettes and
other cotton wash
goods,
8 l-3c-
WEDNESDAY Only For those
Whose May Yet Buy a Coat
Choice of one lot 2.00 Choice of one lot 3.85
Choice of any other coat In stock outside of these
two lots 5.00
Tlie last word in cont clearance
THURSDAY ONLY Dress Goods
Clean-up at 19 and 30c
Most any one ought to find use for the
goods we will offer this one day for these
last Clean-up prices.
Up to COc Dress goods 19c
Up to 1.00 Dress goods 30c
$6.50 to $8.50
Sweaters, high
class novelties.
Still lower, now
$3.75
GINGHAMS
12 ',c quality now
11c.
15o quality now
12 He
ABuy now before
we move and save.
Vou are lucky If
you are small.
A lot of 18 and 19
Corsets, mostly
$1.50 models, now
49c
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The snow, however, has not yet been
deep enough or remained on the
ground long enough to embarrass
their quest for feed very much In this
valley. It has served to drive them
from the foothills, however.
Lots of times glasses improve one's
looks as well as the eyesight. Whit
ed the optician has a swell line of
latest style mountings and fittings
for eyeglasses. 68-2t
Loulfc Kelly, a prospector, carapoi
in the mountains near Gold Hill,
cj.nie near losing his life one night
list week when he closed up the
sfceetiron itoe In his tent and took
I he pipe down. Charcoal gas from a
led of coa'.s in the Hut suffocated
the miner, and had not a neighboring
prospector stopped in the next morn
ing Ilclly would now be a dead man.
A physician's aid was necessary to
restore him to -consciousness.
Mrs.' W. S. Stennett is in receipt of
a letter from Mrs. Lester C. Davis,
now of Murphy, Ore., stating that her
husband died in Portland the 30th of
lust October after a long Illness. Mr.
Davis was a son of Dr. Davis, a for
mer dentist here but now of Los An
geles. Lester was a graduate of the
ABhland schools and followed the
painters' trade here for a number of
years. Besides a widow he left three
small boys.
Mrs. G. W. Scott and family left
Thursday for Portland, where they
will make their home. Mr. Scott pre
ceded them to the Oregon metropolis,
where ha made arrangements for a
residence. Their household goods
were shipped ahead of them. Mrs.
Scott has won a large circle of 'rlends
during her May In Ashland and the
young folks will greatly miss the
daughters, Misses Helen and Naomi,
vho have taken a prominent pa it In
Ashland social life.
Coyote Scalps
$11.50 in Klamath
Since 15 head of cattle in the Ely
section have shown symptoms of
rabies, extra precautions to prevent
the spread of the malady have been
taken in Klamath county. After a
conference with Stute Veterinarian
Lytle, the county health officer has
ordered all dogs within a ten-mile
radius of Ely muzzled or shot. Ha
Is also having notices posted there, i
warning stockmen to keep their
stock closely guarded or corralled,
to prevent their being atacked by
rabid coyotes.
The county court, In order to make
the extermination of coyotes worth
while to hunters, has placed a special
bounty of $5,00 per head for the
next CO days. This is In addition to
the $1.50
middle of July, when many special
trains of Shrlners were passing
through. On July 15 to 17 on the
division from Portland south 59 pas
senger trains were handled, besides
21 freight and work trains and 10
light engines. On July 17 and 18,
in the Ashlnnd-Dunsmulr district, 33
passenger trains, 9!) light engines
and 10 freight and work trains
passed over the single track road
crossing tho Siskiyou mountains.
Tho record day was July 17, when
83 movements passed over the Asli-land-Dunsmuir
district.
"Considering the difficulties of
operation particulars of the latter,"
the Southorn Pacific chiefs havo
written, "stand out from all other
performances as pre-eminently good,
and considering that they have been
made with such a high degree of saf
ety, reflect great cerdlt on the entire
organization."
Died.
On the morning of the 14th at
7:30 Mrs. Mary Kllza Gibson Bailey
passed out Into the beyond. For two
years Bhe has been confined to hor
homo and most of the tlino to her
per head paid Jointly by , bed, and only she knows how much
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county and state. sbo has suffered. But in all her suf-
Besides this bounty, special boun-1 ferlng she kept her faith In her good
ties of $5.00 more have been pledged , God. A few evenings before she went
by stockmen In the Ely and Fort j she called her husband and chlldron
Klamath sections. These will be paid , about her and nsked them all to
for all coyotes killed in those sections promlso to meet her In heaven,
giving a dead coyote a value of $11.50 j- The funeral service was held In
besides the money to be derived from the Baptist church Sunday afternoon,
the sale of his hide. She was laid to rest In Hurgadlno
In the Fort Klamath country no emetery by the side of hor son, who
Infected cattle are reported. There preceded her only a few months ago.
are stories from parts of the reser
vation to the effect that coyotes have
attacked people and dogs, but these
have not been confirmed.
July 17 Record
On Ashland Division
Reviewing the achievements of the
Died.
Mrs. Loona Saunders, wife of
Claud Saunders, passed away at tho
Ashland Sanitarium at 2 o'clock Sun
day morning, from pneumonia. The
doath conies under very sad circum
stances, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders hav
ing been married but a few weeks.
The deceased was formerly Miss
Leona Smith and attended high
Southern Pacific for the old year, 'school up until last year, when she
Vice-Presidents E. O. McCormlck and accepted a position as bookkeeper at
W. R. Scott have sent letters of ap- tho Sanitarium, which she held until
preclation to the various operating hor marriage. The funeral will be
heads of the system for the efficient held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
movement of trains during the expo-1 from the Christian church. Mrs.
sition period last season. Traffic of Saunders wis a favorite among the
greatest density on the Shasta and young people of Ashland and will be
Portland divisions was during the mourned by the entire city.
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you will want. As a sample of prices, how does
. SLAB WOOD, $1.75 a Tier impress you?
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