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Ashland
'Ashland Grows While Lithia Flows"
City of Sunshine and flowers
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Ashland. Oregon, Llthla Springs
. "Oregon's Famous Spa'
VOL. XLI
ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916
NUMBER 13
THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE ON JULY 4
County Fair
Plans Announced
Chairman D. M. Lowe of the Coun
ty Fair exhibits committe announces
the following concerning county, dis
trict and exhibits:
District Exhibits.
All exhibits in this class must have
THREE DAYS' ATTENDANCE OVER 50.000
S. P. Sends Two
Vice-Presidents
The Southern Pacific Company's
great interest in Ashland's resort fea-
been grown in Jackson county, and j ture ,8 clearly evidenced by the pres
will include all the products of the , ence of tJ)ree hl(,h offlclals ln Agh.
orchard, field and farm, and should j ,and for the ceiet)ratIon period. John
constitute the following:
Barley, not less than two varieties.
Beans, not less than two varieties.
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ueeis, noi less man ubii a uusuei. par
Broom corn.
Cabbage, celery, kale, egg plant
melons, fruits, all kinds.
M. Scott, general passenger agent, de
livered the address of the evening at
the dedication ceremony in Llthla
Vice-President E. 0. McCor-
ROUND-UP ATTENDANCE TOTALS 30,000CELE
BRATION CRAND SUCCESS-NOTHING BUT
PRAISE HEARD.
Ashland's Llthla Park and Mineral
Springs Dedication celebration is the
most successful kind of success. By
midnight tonight Ashland will have
entertained a crowd which totals al
most 50,000 for the three days of the
mlck, is here ror the ceienration, nuij celebration. And entertained them
was unable to speak because of doc- royally, as the total lack of "kicks"
tor's orders. Mr. McCormlck was sol 0f anv kind and the unanimous vol-
Clover seed, corn in ear twelve , anx,ous t0 reach AshIand that he Ieft ume of ungtlnted approval bearg evl.
ears each variety, not less than five
varieties.
Irish potatoes, three varieties, one
fourth bushel.
Oats, three varieties.
Onions, three varieties, one-fourth
bushel each variety.
Peas, two varieties.
Rye, one variety.
Wheat, winter and spring, not less
than two varieties.
Turnips, two varieties.
Carrots, two varieties.
Other vegetables for a creditable
display.
Fruits and vegetables in season.
Apples, peaches, pears, grapes, mel
ons, squash and pumpkins, each for a
creditable display.
The above enumeration Is intend
ed merely as a suggestion and is not
a full list.
Scores for Exhibits.
Each exhibit scoring 66 points will
receive $25, and the one scoring
highest number of points $50, pro
Tided it scores 80 points or more.
Any district exhibit must score 66
points to receive premium money.
Canned and 'preserved fruits and
vegetables will score as frnlt and
vegetables. - The following score will
govern: Garden products, 15 points;
orchard, 15 points; field products,
including sheaf grain, 15 points;
grain threshed, 15 points; arrange
ment, 10 points; quality, 30 points.
Total, 100 points.
Ten per cent will be deducted for
late entries.
Entries for district exhibits must
be made to insure place by Septem
ber 1.
County Districts.
The following will constitute the
districts:
1. Ashland, from county line to
Frederick.
2. Talent, from Frederick to Stev.
ens gardens.
3. Phoenix to Medford corpora
tion.
4. Applegate, from Ruch to coun
ty line, down Applegate.
6. Jacksonville, from Medford to
Ruch.
6. Central Point, from Medford to
Gold Ray.
7. Gold Hill, from Gold Ray to
Debenger's Gap.
S. Rogue River, from Sleepy Hoi
low to county line.
9. Eagle Point and Agate, from
Agate to Trail
10. Butte Falls, from Brownsboro
to county line.
his private car at Sacramento and
hurried ahead by automobile. His
health has been poor lately and un
der doctor's orders he will remain
for several days in Ashland, drinking
llthla water and enjoying our perfect
July weather. W. F. Herrln, general
counsel and a vice-president of the
Southern Pacific and a former Ash
land boy, arrived late last night, an
automobile accident preventing him
from getting here for the dedication
ceremony. He will be here for sev
eral days. President Sproule sent
his regrets, being called to New York
on business that could not wait after
he had made all arrangements to
spend the celebration period here.
The Southern Pacific is now ac
tively advertising the week-end rates
to Ashland and Is taking up a wide
advertising campaign of Ashland.
Notes of the
Chautauqua
Chautauqua Park is filling up.
Most of the campers had their tents
up before th- Fourth, and how fuity
more are going up today and more
are coming in tomorrow. Chautau
qua Park will be overflowing 'and
many campers will no doubt camp at
the auto camp. The largest number
of tents are up that have even been
erected for Chautauqua and the
crowds will be record 'breakers.
Don't miss the big valley choral
entertainment, hundreds of voices,
tomorrow night.
Washington Boys
On Way to Border
Several troop trains passed
through yesterday carrying the
Washington militia. According to
one of the militiamen, the entire
third regiment passed through. One
pain was loaded more heavily than
any which have gone through yet,
having 32 cars. One train carried
machine guns. In view of the peace
ful aspect of things along the border,
likelihood of the local hoys having
to go is diminishing. While the
Washington troops were In Ashland
they marched up through the streets
and were received with cheers every
where by the celebration crowds.
Mrs. A. C. Harbort and little boy
arrived Tuesday from Los Angeles
and will rent a home for the summer.
Mrs. Harbort's sister, Mrs. John
Farmer, and Mr. Farmer are due to
arrive ln the next few days and will
build a home on property which they
own here.
Schools will start Friday morning.
Prof. Larimore Is here with his two
daughters and will make things live
ly for the little folks. A great pro
gram has been provided for both
young and old, and there will be
something doing morning, afternoon
and evening. The morning classes
will be of unusual variety and Inter
est.
Get the Chautauqua habit buy a
season ticket, help a worthy institu
tion and get big value for your
money.
Seven dollars and seventy cents'
worth of retail value for $2.50. Sea
son ticket method is the only way to
take in Chautauqua. You will get
more of the good things and you will
incidentally save a lot of money.
The season ticket sales are the
backbone of Chautauqua. You will
have Chautauqua or something else
in your town. Do you like good
things and do you want the young
people of this community to continue
tq have the same fine advantages for
hearing good things at a reasonable
price?
Give your children the benefit of
Prof. Larimore's training in the phys
ical clubs swimming lessons on the
side. A season ticket to Chautauqua
will give them the Larimore training
and admit them to the full program
at the auditorium. Children 6 to 12
years, $1.25; above 12 years, $2.50.
dence. There has been "something
doing every minute" from morning
to well, almost morning again. En
tertainment of a crowd of between
25,000 and 30,000 people in a city of
Ashland's size is an immense prob
lem, and the manner In which the
entertainment was so successfully ac
complished stands as a monument to
the committees' and sub-committees'
ability and co-operation. But .the
success of the celebration is due in
the main to the co-operation of
everybody in Ashland and shows the
power of co-operation.
As to results: John M. Scott, who
Is an experienced man at estimating
crowds, having much to do with vast
throngs in his capacity of general
passenger agent for the Southern Pa
cific, asserts privately that his est!
mate of the crowd ln Ashland on July
4 was 32.000, and publicly and unre
servedly estimates the crowd at 30,-
000. This means that between 20,000
and 25,000 outsiders saw Ashland
park and drank lithia water on the
one day alone. Which also means
that almost all of them will be un
able to resist the call of Ashland's
attrctlcas and will be back time and
time again. Financially the city is
benefited by between $150,000 and
$200,000 in good hard cash. And
right here let us stop to say that the
roundup instead of taking money out
of town, as predicted by some, left
practically all that was taken in right
here with Ashland merchants, and
the summer salaries of several score
of cowboys as well. The psychologi
cal effect on Ashland is perhaps the
result which will count the most. A
success, immense crowds, the celebra
tion spirit, have raised Ashland out
of a state of seml-letharev and
brought realization to some extent of
the possibilities that lie before Ash
land in making every day ln the sum
mer season a celebration on a smaller
scale which will attract crowds all
of the time.
Queen Lithia Pageant.
The Queen Lithia pageant, patri
otic and industrial parade held on
the morning of July 4 was absolutely
the greatest parade ever held ln the
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yet been completely finished and
henceforth a more lengthy writeup
of the parade, the separate features
and the lint of prize winners will be
given in the next Monday's Issue.
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3 The Tidings force celebrated 'V
along with everybody else, and '
henceforth time to write and f
set the history of the greatest
celebration of Southern Ore-
? gon's history was rather limited. I
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eluding the list of prize winners ? i
4 and the roundup results, will !
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Fireworks (iorgeouN,
The most gorgeous and, at the
same time, the most beautiful display
ever seen In Ashland was given by
the Hltt Fireworks Company on
Granite street above the lake ln
Lithia Park on the evening of the
Fourth. At 9 o'clock everyone was
startled by the report of a cannon
and immediately after by another re
port and a flash like that of light
ning. Everyone thought the flash
queer; they had seen no light ut the
place ln which the gun was fired be
fore. The cannon went off again just
then and those who looked up were
enlightened as to the cause of the
flash and were also almost blinded
by the light made by the bursting of
a bomb shout out of the cannon. Sev
eral shots of this kind were fired,
some of them bursting with white
light, some with green, some with all
the rest of the colors of the spectrum
separated and mixed. A man with a
torch next started along the street.
When he had gone about a block a
row of fires were burning white. In
a moment the tires loucnea on at
first began to turn green, and they
all followed suit, dying out a red hue.
Then followed rockets, dancing fig
ures, an American flag, two monster
pinwheels. a Hthia fountain, a design
on which' beiow a bottle the words
"Ashland, Lithia Springs" were em
blazoned, and out of which a foun
tain of fire shot, more gun shots and
more fixed designs, all of which beg
gared description. The same effects 'for UiU gift.
were produced that the people mar
veled at at the exposition, the only
difference being that this display had
different features. No such rockets
were ever turned loose in the sky in
Ashland or vicinity before. Rockets
exploded two or three times instead
of once as ordinary ones do, and
every explosion produced a new color
or effect. Some of them strewed
handfuls of diamonds to the four
winds, some of them burst in many-
armed starfish effects, some of them
went up like comets, and others burst
into many small comets. The man
with the torch, touched off myriads
of Roman candles at one time which
crossed and recrossed in the sky, pro
ducing an effect which was beyond
expression. The crowd that collected
at the report of the cannon was the
largest ever gathered together in
southern Oregon or northern Califor-
Great Choral
Program Friday
Next Friday, the 7th of July, Chau
tauqua opens with a Rogue River
valley musical day. The choruses
of Medford and Ashland have been
rehearsing for some months past
with a view of uniting the singers of
the two towns into one large chorus.
A joint rehearsal of the two ruualo
clubs was held at Medford last Tues
day night, In which a hundred sing
ers and an orchestra of twenty pieces
were brought together.
It has been the desire of George
Andrews of Medford, since opening
his studio last winter, not only to
Improve the singers In Individual
solo work, but to build up an Interest
In choral work in the entire com
munity from Ashland to Grants Pass.
He Is much encouraged with his In
itial efforts and hopes by another
year to be able to bring together 250
voices for a musical convention, on
which occasion some of the best not
ed musreal talent may be engaged
to assist the local societies of tho
valley.
E. C. Root, Carleton Janes and
Harry Howell are doing splendid
work In bringing together their pu
pils to unite in one big orchestra,
and it is their Intention to build this
orchestral organization up to thirty
or forty members, which will be used
not only as an accompaniment for
the chorus, but standard overtures,
and some of the symphonies will bo
taken up. The orchestra Is composed
of musicians from Medford, Talent,
and Ashland.
A picnic dinner has been arranged
state. A large cement basin sur-1 for Friday, at which all the musl
rounds the f ountain and beautiful i clans and singers are to participate.
Memorial Fountain
Presented City
The Butler-Perozzl memorial foun
tain was unveiled and presented to
the city on the evening of the Fourth.
The exercises were opened by a se
lection by the Medford band, after
which II. O. Frohbach, the chairman,
introduced Prof. I. E. Vining, who
delivered the dedicatory address. Lit
tle Luclle Perozzl, assisted by the
flower girls, unveiled the fountain.
During this ceremony the band
played a pastoral selection. Mayor
O. H. Johnson accepted the fountain
ln a short, humorous address, which
with a selection by the band closed
the program.
The fountain Is made of beautiful
Verona marble. The figure Is that of
Cupid playing with a swan. These
words are Inscribed on the fountain:
"Florl di peshl," w hich is the Italian
for "Flower of peaches." The base
is cement and contains some of the',
best cement work ever done in the
and concerts at the pavilion in tho
afternoon and evening.
The program of the afternoon will
be interspersed with solo singing by
Medford singers, also singers from
Giants Tass and Ashland, In fact,
Friday is to be the big musical day
of the Chautauqua, which should re
ceive the encouragement and patron
age of all music-lovers of the valley.
AX ACKXOWI.KJKJEMKXT.
Portland. The parade was perfectly ! nla.
planned, well balanced and handled J The daylight fireworks on the
with precision. Almost a mile in evening of the 5th were of course not
length, with four bands, several hun-1 as brilliant as those of the previous
dred horseback riders, scores of floats evening, but who saw them did not
and decorated automobiles, wild west 1 describe them they merely said
features and a great variety of spec- "Oh!" and "Ah!" and other like re-
lal features, the 30,000 people who
lined Main street from the East
school to the West school cheered
and cheered each and every feature.
The list of prize winners has not
marks. The first five minutes were
spent in an almost literal battle in
the air. Bombs burst many feet In
the air and skyrockets exploded with
a blinding flash In full view of every-
Xotice.
Anyone having bills against the
Springs Celebration Committee,
please present at once to H. O. Froh
bach at City Hall. It
Miss Delia Ross of Dunsmulr Is vis
iting at the W. N. Wright home.
Vice-President E. O. McCormlck
was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Greer for
dinner at The Bnngalow Wednesday
evening.
The Tidings Is on sale at Poley'f
drug store, 17 East Main street.
Chautauqua
Commences Fti day, July 7
Two great musical numbers. Medford,
Grants Pass and Ashland Musicians
If you like good things, buy a season ticket, $2.50.
Prof. Larimore and daughter are here. 12 days
and every day a big day morning, afternoon and
evening.
Sunday School Rally on Saturday,
Comus Players Saturday evening.
iwhitq cement ptalrs lead up to it from
Park Drive. Walks encircle It and
lead off In several directions from It.
The fountain and stairs were lit up
by strings of many-colored lights and
made a very pleasing and at the same
time Imposing effect. The fountain
was purchased at the San Francisco
exposition by D. Perozzl and G. S.
Butler and has been here for some
time, but was not finished until the
day before it was presented to the
city. It cost them $3,000, not in
cluding me rreignt, etc. u is a great The following is an open letter
addition to the park and the city is j from H. I. Greer, of the Springs Wa-
certalnly indebted to the benefactors ter Commission, to the neonle of
Ashland and all visitors who have
found so much enjoyment in our
one. A big red, white and blue tai-
loon rose slowly and sailed off across ,In thla I),ll,Ilc mnnner 1 to
the mountains. Then rockets andr;,MV,,D ''" appreciation to
bombs went up thick and fast which r- J- P' Do(,Be- my co-worker on
on bursting turned little parachutes Pe S,rinRS Water Commission, for
loose on which hung all kinds of ani-1 4h'8 untlrlnK an1 """elfish service to
mals, dolls and strings of flags, thei," ' v iuiiu ana ror tno
American flag being in prominence.
Some of the parachutes bore little
pans of fire. Some of the bombs
beautiful effects. Everyone who saw
the fireworks will have to admit that
they were better than they thought
they would be. The reporter would
not have missed it even If he had to
hire a jitney to get there.
Automobile Parade.
The Pacific Highway triumph on
Wednesday forenoon equalled any au
tomobile parade ever held in Ash
land, and the beautifully decorated
cars received an ovation. The Med
ford and Central Point bands fur
nished the music. A full account and
list of prizewinners will appear Monday.
wisdom of his rlpo business experi
ence and his conservative policies In
shaping and helping to carry out the
burst with colored smoke, causing I nlttns thnt have resulted so advan
tageously to our beautiful city.
As is natural ln a large undertak
ing, differences of opinion in the
management will sometimes occur,
and I wish to say right here that I
have found Mr. Dodge very firm ln
his convictions, with the public good
always uppermost in his mind. Many
times I have deferred to his opinions,
although holding opposite views my
self, with the result that better serv
ice has been rendered to tho public,
and I have ultimately been able to
see the wisdom of his position.
Mr. Dodge is entitled to his full
share in all the applause and com
mendation which the people of Ash
lnnd and their generous friends and
neighbors have given to the manage
ment in the dedication and general
enjoyment of the fruit of our labors.
Mr. Dodge has spent over thirty-threo
years of his life In thin city. He has
rendered invaluable service to tho
people of this community in the ca
pacity of mayor of the city, member
of the school board and In the promo
tion and execution of many public en
terprises. Mr. Dodge enjoys the full
and loyal confidence of all who know
him and I feel that we should, indi
vidually and collectively, improve
every opportunity to show Blm our
appreciation and express to him our
thanks for his unselfish devotion to
the public good.
BERT R. GREER. '
Itaby Show.
As this paper Is going to press a
large number of promising young in
fants are on display at the baby show
in the Elks Temple. Of course, they
are watched over by their fond moth
ers, who think they are the most
beautiful little pioces of humanity
possible, and are doing their best to
make the little innocents look pre
possessing. Mrs. J. II. Turner Is the
chairman of the committee ln charge
of the show.
Dedication Ceremony.
A crowd which must have ap
proached 15,000 people gathered on
the lawns and paths of Llthla Park
Wednesday evening to hear the dedi
cation addresses and witness the
christening of Lithia Park by Queen
Mary Welsenburger. Professor Vin
ing presided over the evening's cere
monies and briefly outlined the his
tory of the park and springs develop
ment work. The massed bands of the
valley furnished music of a most In
spiring nature.
. Queen Mary, who was seated on a
throne on the bandstand, officially
christened the park and project with
(Continued on Page Five.)
Rally. '
All who are Interested In the great
Sunday school rally and basket din
ner Saturday at the Chautauqua
building are requested to bring well-'
filled baskets. Dinner will be served
in Llthla Park opposite the children's
playground.
i
The socialist local at Talent wilt
give a big picnic at Wldener park
next Sunday. Everybody Is Invited.
Speeches and entertainment.