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7 mt0W ASHLAND "Ashland Grows While Lithla Flows ; City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland, Oregon, Lithla Springs : "Oregon's Famous Spa' VOL. XL ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916 NUMBER 78 Prof. Anthony's Position Auto Drivers Must Be Good or Be Fined Political Pot Full of WOsons The writer was out of the city at the time Professor Anthony talked at the Commercial Club about our min eral waters. From what we get com monly from those who did attend we Chief of Police Porter has an nounced that the Ashland police will from now on wage a campaign against speeding and other violations of the city automobile ordinance- find that the professor made two ! The chief says that automobilists are getting aitogetner too careless In their observance of the law and that sufficient warnings have been issued and hereafter .violators will be faced with, the alternative of a fine or a brief incarceration in the inside Inn. Incidentally a stay in duress vile will be rather unpleasant these cold mornings since a recent inmate broke up the electric Btove. cnier foner reports tnat over 5,000 of the automobile ordinances have been distributed and practically every auto driver warned and re- warned, and that there will be no more fooling. The most frequent vio lations are speeding, driving with strong points In regard to our wa ters: First, that they were high class (especially the lithla waters) for me dicinal baths. Second, that the lithla water should not be drunk continuously and copiously because of its strong mineral content, which, If drunk co piously over a long period, would cause hardening, of the arteries. Therefore, he said the lithla waters should be taken under strict super vision of competent physicians. We agree with Mr. Anthony that the lithla waters are very highly rhareed with minerals and should be nton .ith and ,,nHr the vi i the mufflers open and turning In the of a physician. Now Mr. Anthony is exploiting the lithla water as a high class table wa ter. We can not agree with him that waters dangerous to drink copiously over long periods of time constitute good tab'e waters that are to be shipped to distant parts to be drunk copiously and continuously without the advice and direction of compe tent physicians. There appears a remarkable Incon sistency In these two positive state ments of Professor Anthony's. The first reports from the Pompa dour Springs Company, with which organization and evtry man, woman Professor Anthony has connected and child. It is hospitality, himself, indicate that their plans Now is the time to begin to plan called for a big mineral bath sanl- for the summer, and already many tarlura. At that time Mr. Anthony organizations are talking over pre- middle of the block. Park Picnics of Valieywide Scope Already the summerlike weather is drawing dozens of picnic parties to the park and gives a gentle indication of the hundreds who will make Ash land park their Mecca for summer picnics. Ashland has a great duty to perform during thu coming picnic season, a duty which belongs to every seems to have seen in the lithla water great bathing possibilities and no vir tue in them as drinking waters. Now the plans of the Pompadour company seem to have changed to a simple bott'ing proposition and the exploitation of lithla water as a drinking and tab'e water, and An thony appears to have changed in opinion with the company. He is now ready to exploit waters dangei ous to be drunk copiously and con tinuously, and which should under no circumstances be taken Inwardly un- liminary plans for big affairs to be held In Ashland park. Affairs which will not be just for Ashland, but for the entire valley. Ashland park be longs to the entire valley, and Ash land neglects her duty until every resident is made to feel that the beau ties and attractions of our parks and canyon are his or her property as well as ours. The local organizations should take the lead in affairs of valieywide scope. Why can not every lodge, ti&vixm) &uentu-Secon&" it I : 1 t. I 4 " , ,v v -vsj? WA ?-$izvt' h, ' i7 v . . h - A j V )' ' ti4 U , 4? j if A ' i W t - Ti 2V - $ W k ' Ll',Tr 4 Fr , V, ? r -:r - K ' WV'n.v Ji , S (0))av Vr- l 1." - a((d) . -IV Jj President WIlson'B influence is be ing felt away out here In southern Oregon, but Btrangely enough, by the republicans and not the democrats. Three Wilsons are already heard from as candidates and the primary election Is still three months away. Considerable confusion is liable to result from the conflicting Wilsons, and as a result two of them are an nouncing their candidacy with nick names. E. W. Wilson, present dep uty sheriff, who is a candidate for the sheriff's position at the coming election, Is known all over the coun try as "Curly." Joe Wilson of TaU ent, whose years of accounting ex perience has led him to aspire to the office of county clerk, is known as "Little Joe." E. M. Wilson of Med ford, candidate for assessor, has not Prospects Bright For Working Men The "idle season" for the laboring man was shorter this year than it has been for ninny years. Practically all of the local workmen were em ployed up until almost the last of the year before inclement weather forced the closing down of various projects. Already mills are beginning to oper ate and crews are being put on vari ous projects In southern California and northern California. A force of 200 men will be put at work constructing the big beet sugar factory at Grants Pass. .This build ing operation will require every clas8 of workmen from the common labor er to the Bkllled iron and wood worker. One hundred men are to be put on at Copoo, Cal., on the California-Oregon Power Company's dam and gen- fl ed his nickname as yet. At any j eratlng plant as soon as weather pcr rate, trouble is averted In that all of ; nilts. the three are out after different of- The lumber mills and logging flees. Maybe some of our good demo- camps of northern California are pr crats will be influenced by the name ' paring for a big year and are already and put down a cross against each putting on big crews. The Weed and every wllson. The coming year camps will be opened up within a cou niay see a Wilson administration In- pie of weeks, according to report, anil stalled in the county under the re-, the Weed logging trains start the- publican ticket. "Peg 0' My Heart" Vining Next Week first of the month. The Ash'and Lumber Company will operate their sawmills on Neil creek, eight miles from Ashland, this season and expect to begin work within a short time. The niulr Granite Company al ready has a force of men putting In . machinery at their quarries near Steliinwin, and will put on a large Seats for the farewell engagement of J. Hartley Manners' most com pelling and annealine comedv. "Peir o' My Heart," will open at the Vining f",Hrry forfe of "toneworke. Theatre box office on Wednesday for 1 The RoKue Rlver Cana' Company the performance on Monday, Febru- fontemplates putting in several miles or ancn nna natim mis spring, De sides completing the Fish Lake work which was unfinished when storms Coast Champs Play Here Tuesday Night Oregon Agricultural College vars ity basketball team, said to be the fastest team in the west, and who every state society, every church, less under direction of a competent every Sunday school, every organiza physiclan, as he put It, as a table ,tlon in the city plan a big picnic and water to be shipped to the four cor-, invite every like organization In the ners of the earth to be used without valley to participate and co-operate ; are now tied with the University of stint and without competent advice, j in arrangements? Let us have a val- J Ca'ifornla for the championship of We wonder if the mere dollar has ley Elks picnic, a Baptist' church pic-j the Pacific coast college conference, Influenced the professor in his nic, an Ohio picnic, a Moose picnic, will play trye Ashland high school opinions. Ja musicians' picnic, a groceryman's team in the high school gymnasium More than a year ago the writer picnic, a Methodist Sunday school pic-j tomorrow, Tuesday, night. This will went somewhat Into the ability of nic, a blacksmiths' picnic, a Scandl- be a game which no lover of the best Profesor Anthony as a mineral wa-navian picnic, a but we could go on there Is In sport can afford to miss, ter expert. We were unable to find for columns with suggestions. Let It will be absolutely the fastest bas where he had had the least expert- every Ashland organization and ketball ever wlnessed in Ashland, ence In the practical piping of min-! group begin to plan Immediately to! Ashland is conceded but a small cral waters. True, he Is consulting ' take the initiative and Invite all of .chance of defeating the husky collegi- ary 28. In "Peg o' My Heart" Mr. Manners has written one of the sweetest plays and created one of the most lovable characters seen on the stage In re cent years. Peg is the daughter of an aristocratic English woman who has married against the wishes of her family, an Irish socialist. At her daughter's birth the mother died, and Peg has been raised by her whole-hearted father. She Is simple, natural and Impulsive, and when she Is transplanted Into the affected snr- A party of about a dozen employes face living atmosphere of the Chl of the Dyer Contracting Company, cheater home, there Is trouble of all who will build the sugar factory at sorts. Peg's rich uncle has repented Factory Builders L Come From Utah engineer for the Saratoga Springs, their clan or calling in the valley to water commission, but that is a po-intend and help arrange an affair to litical body, and experience teaches' be attended by every allied member that all political jobs are not gained in the valley. The benefits accruing through merit alone. Frequently from getting these big crowds Into there 1b more politics than merit In -political jobs and political incum bents. . Our Investigations of Professor An thony convinced us beyond doubt that he was a first class political engineer, but failed to strengthen our confi dence in his ability as a mineral wa ter expert. If properly handled the Pompadour springs project may be made a great asset to Ashland. The Tidings is in terested in Its development only In so far as it helps the community. Ashland lithla waters are splendid medicine, but should not be put on the market as table waters to be tak en without direction. The, lithla is. In no sense a common drinking wa ter. It is very strong medicine and should not go to the people as an ordinary drinking lotion to be Im bibed without care. It is the business of Ashland to see that the Ashland waters are not mis represented by Professor Anthony or any one else. Ashland from the outside are ma nil fold. Lets get busy. Cooperation upon the matter of dates is necessary, and the secretary of the Commercial Club has volun teered to keep a calendar of dates and offers his assistance In arrang ing dates so that none will conflict. The Commercial Club also stands ready to give assistance in any other way possible. ans, who have a wonderful defensive and offensive system, but the locals Grants Pass, arrived In that city the and made her his heiress, and, ac last of the week from Utah. Among cording to his will, she is to bo the party are several master work- brought to England and educated, men who have been employed by the The Chlchesters act as her guardian, Dyer company for years and have as-'and while this affects their sense of slated in the building of fifteen like pride, the remuneration which they factories In Utah and other beet- are to receive, at that time, is very growing sections. ' ! acceptable. She Is ns much out of About two hundred men will be her element as the ever-existing employed In building the fatcory, : "square peg in the round hole." which will be completed by Septem-; The three acts of comedy develop ber 1. All of the steel and machin- the humor, pathos and tenderness of ery for the factory will be shipped this situation, finally culminating In i from the east. The brick, of which Peg's running away to a dance, and nl.mt -, Hit in i. .!,. n hoi t vttet vo Irm nt lino Vi a n rrfi ir nind. flr nHmtnB. thomool v. f, f. uuuut a iuiuiuu will ue neeuuu, te- w fort of their lives and will go ,nt0 nt; lumber and other material will In's elopment with a married man m . m i be secured in the valley if possible. The harshness and misunderstanding Postoffice Will Observe Holiday The Ashland postoffice will ob serve Washington's Birthday Tues day, February 22. The general de livery, stamp and parcel .post win dows will be open from 8 to 9 a. m. There will be one complete delivery by city carriers, one collection from street letter boxes. No letters regis tered. No money order business transacted. No rural delivery made. Phone news items to the Tidings. Experts Are Examining Plant J. G. Kelly, M. Am. M. Soc. C. E-, consulting engineer, and W. R. Phil lips, M. Am. Soc. C. E., mechanical engineer, both of Portland, arrived here Thursday and are examining the springs physical plant. for final de termination. The springs water com mission was put in touch with these engineers by State Engineer Lewis and has engaged them to represent the commission In the final examina tion of the Smith-Emery contract. They are Instructed to go over all the lines and machinery and report to the commission just the character of physical plant Smith, Emery & Co. have given the city under their contract. the game not merely with the inten tion of holding down the visitors but with the determination to win. While a win Is Improbable It Is not impossi ble. Delsman will outweigh any of the visitors and the rest of the local team with the exception of Fraley will not be much outweighed. Local dopesters figure It out that if Grisez has a good night and the rest of the team plays the best of which they are capable, Ashland stands a show. It will be "some" game at any rate. The O. A. C. team played Tour games In the south and are stopping off on their way home to Corvallis. -Ashland will be their only real game on Canal Company 8 which follows this episode determine j the little alien to quit the house In I which she has been so miserably used and so unhappy. Oliver Morosco Is put an end to work at the lake last December. Seventy men are already at work on the Willow Springs canal. The probability of the Ashland Talent irrigation district passing the vote of the landowners of the district Is bright, and should it pass will mean an Immense project which would employ most of the men and teams available in the upper valley. The fruit-spraying season is here and will be closely followed by, the other orchard seasons, pruning, spraying, picking and packing, which will employ hundreds. I A good sized crew of mechanics la now busy on the Oregon Hotel re modelling In Ashland. Several property owners are plan ning homes to be built this year in Ashland. Commencement of work on a big sanitarium before ninny months have passed seems mcst likely. ! The operation of an Ashland canW nery Is anticipated by the growers and Is more than probable. Grading and paving of the Jack son county Pacific Highway between 'Central Point and Gold Hill Is going steadily forward and will employ more men as the spring comes on. Road work throughout the county will result within the next month as money becomes avalloble, A survey . m f ana so unnappy. unver morosco is Starrs kip Cnnal , w the f tiie Cra,er Lnke rod wi:i be made production as last season with the b-v eovernment engineers In antici- Boston cast, which Includes Miss I'""0" or an ai'I'ropr.aiion .or pay- Florence Martin In the title role. The Rogue River Canal Company put a big force of men and teams at work the last of the week on the Willow Springs extension of the canal , Will ILTPf t III U IUVVV At system. Tents were pitched for the workmen and work will be rushed. The canal men estimate that the work will be finished by the first of April. Seventy men have been put to work and a force of 100 men will be used ! ing. Paving will be laid over a portion of the Siskiyou grade which was al lowed to settle during tho winter months after being graded last year. The beet-growing industry will re quire much hand labor of the cheaper class. On Thursday evening of this week Railroad traffic has held up high-class boxing batch will be throughout the winter without Ten-Round Bout the return trip. The O. A. C. team as soon as the extent of the work staged at the Ashland armory. The gl,,.08 Bump am promises to grow J. D. Bell of Medtora, one of the Incorporators pf the Pompadour Min eral Springs Company, was up Satur day to attend a meeting of the stockholders. Current taxes (1915) can now be paid at the Billings office, 41 East Main. 78-4t defeated Stanford twice and won one and lost one in the University of Cali fornia games. It is rumored that If the O. A. C. faculty refuses permis sion to the team of staying over to night In Berkeley to play off the tie, that the team will arrive in Medford this evening and play the Medford team a practice game. The Medford boys are said to be anxious to get a fifty-point handicap to make the game interesting. No handicap will be asked at Ashland. The game here Tuesday night starts promptly at 8 o'clock. There will be no preliminary, it being dis pensed with so that those who wish may attend both the game and the military ball, which starts at 9. Don't miss this game. wl.l allow, two cleverest boys In the Rogue Riv- even better as the year progresses. The Phoenix vditch Is practically er val'ey, Biirnle Burnett of Ashland i Mining throughout southern Call completed with the exception of a'and Joe Vasbinder, former champion forn in and northern California is exl- few laterals upon which work Is now of Arizona and present pride of Gold porlcnclng renewed activity, and ex- progressing. With the approach of spring plant ing of bulbs and plants is being planned. The Civic Improvement Club plant and bulb exchange Is lo cated at the home of Mrs. W. H. Smith on Main street next to the Buckeye bakeiy. All who need plants To Take Waters For Analyses Henry M. Parks, director of mines and mineralogy, Oregon Agricultural College, Is expected here Wednesday to take the waters from our mineral springs plant for analyses, in con nection with the settlement with Smith, Emery & Co. The springs water commission has asked the Cor vallis chemical department to analyze our waters to ascertain whether they are being delivered at the central sta tion containing their mineral cort tents as at the springs. Hill, will meet in a ten-round go c,.ptioiial nctivlty is looked for in the which should give the boxing fans of copper mines. Ashland a real run for their money, j a big Irrigation project In the Llt Vasbinder will come up from Gold , te Shasta valley in Siskiyou county Hill accompanied by a crowd of ad-lwjn employ many men and teams, mlrers who believe him to be a Work on this has already started. world beater. Burnett Is seriously training and Is in better shape than he has ever been In previous mixes. He has taken off about twenty pounds of excess weight and is faster than a flash. The event will start at 8 p. m. Every objectionable feature will be eliminated and a clean, fast exhibition Is assured. Ladles are especially Invited. It Auxiliaries Hop. On last Friday evening a choice gathering of Auxiliary Club mem bers, with their gentlemen friends, or bulbs or have extra slips or wish gathered together on short notice at to exchange are urged to come to the I. O. O. F. hall and enjoyed an in club exchange. . formal evening of dancing. Beyond the many definite con struction activities the sprli.g and summer months will bring forth sev eral projects which are as yet In an embryotlc state and to the ctly of Ashland promises building activi ties which will exceed those of any sing'e year of Its existence. The year's activities should pro vide work at good wages for every man In the valley. The fine weather of the past few days has given an Impetus to every activity, and the few weeks of the winter "hibernation" appear to be over. Joe Hurt of Ashland was a busi ness visitor to Medford Saturday.
