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Oregon Historical Society Corny 2U7 Second St Ashland Grows While Llthla Flows' ' City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland, Oregon, Llthla Springs "Oregon's Famous Spa' VOL. XLI ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, JULY lp, 1916 NUMBER 14 TT TT IT T S Immense Amount Left by Visitors What la the real meaning of the celebration just past? There is no questlon but what 30,000 people vis ited Ashland during the three days of the Springs Dedication Celebra tion, and everybody agrees that there was some money spent here, but the question of how much was spent is hard to estimate. The general Idea is that an aver age of $5 was spent by each visitor. This would mean some $150,000 that was left in Ashland in three days. The Southern Pacific has a monthly payroll of some $25,000 here every month, and that is certainly appreci ated by our business men, but to thing that a six months' payroll was brought to Ashland in three days shows the advisability of such cele brations as we have just had. There has never been a month when the receipts from the sale of drinking cups have amounted to over $100. For that matter, the dally average for May, 1916, was $2.91. for June $3.31, and for the first nine days of July the average was $14.87, or a total of $133.79 for the nine days. The increase in cup receipts on the celebration days was more than 500 per cent; so that the estimated amount of $150,000 Is not far from the actual amount of money left In Ashland. The general opinion about the city is that we must repeat the celebra tion next year, get good new features that will bring even mere people than I we had with us this year. Ashland took care of her visitors, everybody was satisfied, and they could not help but be, as Ashland Is naturally situ ated to entertain thousands. Will she? is the question, and that de pends all on her public-spirited citi zens. List of Parade Awards Comnlete The following list is the final com plete Hat of parade awards. The pa rade on the 5th having three di visions, patriotic, industrial and fra ternal only, all the entries had to come under one of these heads. Hence both the Auxiliary Club float and the Civic Club float came under the fraternal float bead: i July 4. Best industrial, first $10, S. P. en gine and caboose; second, $5, Airs. "Wilmer Poley. Best patriotic, first, $10, Mrs. Emil Pell; second, $5, G. A. R. float. Best fraternal order float, $10, Ladles' Auxiliary; second, $5, Civic Improvement Club. Best club of horseback riders, $10, Medford Club. Fest special feature, $5, Indian float; second, $5, Ashland pioneers. July 5 and 6. Grand prize, decorated automobile, $10, Mrs. Boslough; best decorated, $10, E. A. Estes; most beautiful, $10, Mrs. Rocho; most original, $10, E. V. Carter. Specials, J. J. McNair, $6; George N. Kramer, $6; Fruit Association, $4; Mrs. M. E. Briggs, $4; Ashland Trading Company, $4; Wah Chung, $4. July 6 Comic and Children. Cannibals, $10; fire department, $8; boys' band, $5; human rosebuds, $5; city council, $5. One dollar each for the following doll buggies and wagons: Isadore Howard, Elizabeth Schaumlofel, Eli nor Swedenburg, MiSs CroWson, Miss Swanson. Tricycle, $2, Dennis Espee. One dollar each for the following decorated bicycles: Mrs. Stewart Hatch's grandchild; Indian cowboy, $2; Uncle Sam, $2; preparedness float, $2; Raymond Bowers, $2; roadster, $1; Uncle Sam and Villa, $2. Sunday School Day Parade Big Affair Members of local Sunday schools and big delegations from out of town joined In an all-day Sunday school af fair Saturday. A picnic dinner at noon was followed by an entertain ment at the Chautauqua In the after noon. At 4 o'clock the Sunday school members to the number of several hundred, led by the Ashland band and attired in costumes of biblical times, paraded the streets, making a most creditable showing. Pageant of 4th Greatest of All The Queen Llthla Pageant, Patrl- j otic and Industrial parade, which was witnessed by 25,000 people on the morning of the Fourth of July, was the greatest purade ever staged in Ashland if not in the state outside of Portland. The parade was over a mile in length and was complete. Un like most parades, there was no mo notony, the variety of features being most remarkable for a city of Ash Iarfd's size. Medford was well repre sented, as well as the other valley communities. ' The parade formed on the several streets adjacent to the East school grounds and got under way at 10:30 a. m. In the lead was the chief of police and the Ashland patrolmen, mounted on horseback. Then Ed Thornton on a magnificent charger. Xext came the Ashland band in their ; natty uniforms of blue and white. I The Coast Artillery Corps company of Ashland received an ovation over (the entire route. The next feature of the parade was a group of thirty marching girls In white costumes, who when they reached the Plaza per formed a drill to the delight of the crowd. Following these were a num ber of Red Cross girls. These fea - tures were planned and drilled by Mrs. E. C. Gard with the assistance of Mesdames Lamb, Brady, Banta and of MeBdames Lamb, Brady, Banta, C. Cunningham, F. Nelson, Loomls, and Misses Eunice Grubb and Clark. The mayor and several guests of honor, including the Southern Pacific officials, followed in automobiles, and the springs commission occupied a decorated car. Then came the beautiful queen's float, an artistically done float in pink and white, with Queen Mary Welsenburger bowing graciously to her subjects. Miss Emma Jenkins was maid of honor to the queen, and little flower girls and pages sat at her feet. The queen's float was the i work of Mrs. P. S. Provost, Miss Lil Han Patterson, Mrs. Hum Pracht and Mrs. H. O. Frohbach. Mrs. C. H. dawn until alm08t dawn again, the their chief, remembrances the man-1 R- p- McClelland won the steer !yaupel.wa in charge of the design-1 trafn Erectors, one "t whom wasner in ,.wJch the crowds were han- roping contest, which waa based on ing of the queen's dress and those,! placed at each corner and tatersec- died. I best time for the three days, as were of the maids of honor. - r - , most of the big money contests. Children carrying flags followed the queen's float, and then came J. X. Dennis' little son in his "Llthla Racer" automobile. The G. A. R. was represented by a patriotic float with members riding in it. A number of patriotic floats fol lowed, the best among them being ' the display on Mrs. Pell's car, which won the first prize. Wah Chung's Chinese colony was represented by an Oriental float of a unique character. The Vining Theatre had a coupe with a pretty young lady representing Mary Pick ford riding In it. Next came the Medford Riding Club In natty black and white rrdlng costumes. There were eighteen rid ers in this club, which won first prize. Mrs. Snatchnell of Medford organized the club. A preparedness float caught the at tention of the crowd and was ap plauded along the line of march. One of the best features of the pa rade and the one which was awarded the special prize was the Indian float numbered 1 0. The noble redmen and redladies as well warwhooped and sang from a typical Indian back ground. The pioneer ladies of Ashland had a float with a regular old hack such as was used in crossing the plains, and with a camp equipment such as was carried in those days hung all over it. Even a candle mold was Included, so perfect was the equip ment. Several of the pioneer ladies of Ashland walked and rode with this float, attired in pioneer garb. The float which won the industrial prize and the most unique feature of the parade was the "Lithla Special," engine, cab and caboose, which was constructed by the local brotherhoods of railroaders. The little train was "there,"' complete in every detail, and must have represented a lot of thought and work. The train was numbered 8 in respect to the eight hour day for which the brotherhoods are working, and bore signs, "Off to the Round-up," "Let 'Im Buck" and others. Little girls acted a sengineer and fireman. ' The Medford band, marching with perfect military precision, Installed by their . leader, Director Rowland, were next in the procession. And let us add here that the four uniformed bands did a great deal toward making the parade the greatest ever, for nev- (Continued on Pace Eight.) ChmtBuqua A Rln Wook- N. Y. Marine Band, Kaffir nuiywwn Boy ChoU.f Mauson Mov. 26 special events, fine, lectures, great. music, lots of fan. Popular morning classes led by excellent instructors. Arrange your work so as to get as much of the Assembly as possible-tt comes but once a year Not a Single Accident or Arrest Mars Handling of Crowd of 30,000 The most remarkable and credlt- ! a,jle tninS ,n connection with the, re cent celebration was the fact that despite the immense crowds, the greatest which have ever gathered in southern Oregon, the jams of auto- j crowd ever assembled in the southern mobiles which turned Main street' part of the state, the whole celebra into a Broadway and the Plaza into a ' tion, accommodations, entertainment circling mass of cars, the glorious land everything else moved with such i teen'yenr"old boy' won tne 300 sad time that everybody enjoyed, not a 'smoothness that the contrast to the : d,a' 'lrst I)r,ze ,n the "ticking con single accident. occurred and not a : accidents reported from elsewhere Is ' test' over 78 entries. Broncho Bob single arrest was necessary. This ' most noticeable. I Hal1 of Pendleton was second and wonderful record is due partially to the exceptional good nature of the 1 curred on the Pacific Highway and In I thlrd- The awards were popular and crowd, which in Its turn resulted 1 Medford owing to the extra heavy 'not a word of dlasenslon has been mainly from the fact that Ashland 1 traffic to Ashland. No fatal injuries ' heard resardlng the judges' de was providing an entertainment resulted. jCisions. which left no cause for grouches. In I There was no drunkenness or un- Buffalo Vernon captured the bull the main, however, the record Is due ruly conduct during the three days dogging contest, with Frank Cable to the efficiency of the force of pa- of the celebration, the boisterousness ' second. Through a misprint on the trolmen and traffic policemen organ-1 which might be expected being of an ' program the winner of this contest ized byChiet of Police Porter. The unusually clean nature! Visitors to ! aB ,n doubt until the officials got ' force of men was keDt busy from Arfricfl AlltAC In Second Parade; The decorated automobile parade on the 5th of July, while hardly ri valing the pageant -of the 4th in point of size , was a most artistic parade. Behind the Medford band came Queen Lithia riding in E. V. Carter's automobile, which was artistically decorated with greenery and flowers. The queen's float being dismantled, Mr. Carter kindly donated his car. The "Lithia Special" followed. Then the Estes car loaded with pretty girls and representing the Dixie associa tion. J. F. Rocho's car was a har monious combination of pink and green and well deserving of the prize wbic hit won. Next came the Cen tral Point band, then A. W. Bos lough's car done in pink and white and loaded with pretty children. G. N. Kramer's car in green and pink created much comment, as did the artistic green, red and blue creation of Mrs. Jim McNair. The Civic Im provement Club autos were entered, and following were a number of cars with less pretentious decorations. Mesdames Monte Briggs and Tracy were in total charge of the parade. Egan Wins Valley Tennis Title H. Chandler Egan, ex-golf cham pion, defeated Ernest Adams of Grif fin Creek in the finals for the sin gles tennis championship of Rogue River valley Saturday. Adams has won for the past two years and need ed victory this year to secure perma nent possession of the cup. Egan played in brilliant form. No Ashland entrants were listed. John Beeson, former valley champion, Willamette valley champion and one of the best of the tennis players and enthusiasts of the northwest, has located In Ash land and should give a big Impetus to the game here. " Charles Zueblin, a great authority cm city building and advertising, has consented to speak at the lunch to be given at Hotel Oregon tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12 o'clock. Fifty cents per plate. Ladies or gentlemen who would like to be present should leave names with Reed or at the Billings office. tag Pictures of the Ant arctic, Sylvester A. Long, Wood Briggs, Sequoia Male Quartet, Lou Beau champ, Skibinsky-Welch Co., and Others. tlon, courteously and efficiently handling the crowd. While Ashland had more people in It during these three days than any city in Oregon outside of Portland and the greatest Several automobile accident oc- Ashland will' carry away as one of JlnfA DIhhmai. iAuto Plunges Over Forty-Foot Bank D. T. Lawton, retired Medford mer- chant. Percy Wood and son Denny , momentBi and tlie round.up ,a sM to went over the grade on the Pacifio be one of the best ever held in the highway Just below Ashland Satur-j state by big cattlemen who were In day morning in the former's car. The '. attendance. Thrills were never lack car took a 40-foot Dlunee over a 1 ,n&. bu' n fatalities resulted. The brush-covered cliff into Bix-foot-deep Bear creek. The car turned over twice and was immersed. All mirac ulously escaped serious injury, though the boy was taken from the creek unconscious. Mr. WTood, who is partially par alyzed, seems unhurt. Lawton was going up the grade behind a heavy wagon. He tried to pass the wagon on the right and went over the bank. The accident occurred near the foot of the Wyant grade, and owing to heavy brush the car is not notice able from the road where it lies buried in the water. How the three occupants could have escaped death is incredible when the scene 'of the ' accident is visited. Offers Medford Sugar Factory A meeting of the directors of the Medford Commercial Club has been1 called for Wednesday evening to dls- j cuss a proposal received from the' Utah-Idiiho Sugar Company for the erection of a sugar factory at Med-j ford for the season of 1917. Thel sugar company asks the donation of - .1T aUa nnA mAna ..,!- nn .-Tnnn r 7. r :, ""'years-Mary Louise Murphy, 230 a $50,000 bond for the erection ofi . . , . . , I votes, one dozen photographs. the factory. Five thousand acres of beets for the first year and 6,000 for the second year is asked. PHOTOGRAPHERS. S All amateur photographers t who have pictures taken of the ? $ recent celebration are earnestly J requested to give a copy to the $ general committee so that they & $ may be used in newspaper pub- $ 4 licity work and other advertis- 9 tag. ' 5! ' Round-Up Was Most Successful A total attendance of about 30,000 people for the three days bespeaks j the great success scored by the j Rogue River Round-up. The round i up was a great show from start to finish, and the four hours of enter ' talnment every afternoon passed like 1 as many minutes to the Interested I crowds. The attendance on the first day was about 15,000, on the second day 7,000, and the third day 8,000. In the first place the round up waB entered into by the general celebra tion committee but soon assumed such proportions that it became ap parent that finances to guarantee it could not be raised by subscription. Therefore the following gentlemen, Messrs. X.'onte Briggs, O. T. Berner, C. Adams, A. C. NInlnger and Doc Helms, took over the proposition as a private venture, backing It to the extent of $10,000. They succeeded nobly In giving Ashland a celebra tion attraction which alone would TlAVO Q.ltfuflorl iho urnn-Ha n twl li.nt.fl.. " - "'. "u mtniijr i ma hoi Beem 10 ue awe to miss tne have come out with a little balance Weed bats. Kenneth Lilly, former on the right Bide of the ledger, which J Ashland boy, who 1b rated as clean may mean that Ashland can have an- j up man for Weed, secured a home other round up next year. jrim wtn two men on bases and also One hundred contestants from all j got two other hits. over Oregon and California were en tered In the round-up events, and the show was a contest, not an exhibition with feeling between the contestants running warm at times. Donal Cannon of Pendleton, a six l,eorge Fetcher of the same place together afterward. The Pendleton relay string ridden I by Jimlme Taylor won the relay, with ' the Murphy string of Ashland a close second. Taylor also won the pony express. Every day's program was run off j cowboys were a clean bunch of fel lows and Ashland regretted seeing them leave, so many friends had they made. The full official time for all three days will be published in Thursday's issue of the Tidings. Baby Show Prizes Are Awarded To the women visitors one of the most enjoyable features of the cele bration was the baby show held at the Elks temple. Mrs. J. H. Turner was in charge of this feature, with Mesdames Cub Herberg, Elsie Churchman and C. H. Vaupel as as sistants. Thirty-five babies were en tered and a good-sized crowd was in attendance. Instead of having judges, the prizes were awarded by the vote of all those present. The prizes were awarded as follows: Prettiest baby under six months Frank Gould Deardorff, 110 votes, gold chain and locket. Prettiest baby under six months to one year Lois Maurine Briggs, 140 votes, silver cup. Prettiest baby one year to two Smallest baby, two months In grid Maedene Pedersen, gold ring. Second smallest baby Dorothea Weedon, two and a half months, gold ring. t Fattest baby Victor Sander, elev en months, sterling silver bib holder. Best natured baby Ford Reed of Talent, set of gold pins donated by Mayor Johnson, Fewest hairs on head Russell William Bledsoe, brush and comb set. Second prize prettiest baby 150 votes, Burrell Wyant, gold ring. The Newberg. cannery, recently burned, Is being rebuilt. ' Weed Wins Purse In Classy Game After playing two rather listless games of Baseball, Weed and Med ford tangled in an eleven-Inning thriller on the third day of the cele bration which finally returned Weed the winner of the game and the series by a 2 to 1 score. The game on the 4th was witnessed by over a thousand people, but dragged out for over two hours with. . little interesting ball. Sleberts pitched a good game for Medford, keeping the hits scattered and finally shutting Weed out, while his team got nine runs. The Weed pitching was just the opposite. Tuerck did not have anything on the ball and the two twlrlers who followed him having no moro. The second game was a little bet ter, Weed winning by a 9 to 3 score with Anthony in the box. Anthony pitched good ball and was accorded fair support, while Caster for Med ford was accorded the opposite and -it 1 . . I The third game was clnsRy base ball, and had such an exhibition been put on the 4th the attendance would have increased instead of diminished to the 500 who witnessed each of the last two games. Tuerck and Sleberts both pitched gild-edged ball, with Tuerck having a shade the best of It. Tuerck held Medford to two hits, ono of which tied the score in the 9th. Sleberts scattered seven Weed bln gles through the game, but was awarded poor support in one or two pinches. Over a thousand good hard dollars are said to have exchanged hands, because of the Weed victory. Medford-Ashland Choral Concert The afternoon program on the first day at Chautauqua was a sort of pre liminary concert. The evening con cert was the big vafley event. It was given by the combination of the Med ford and Ashland choral societies, which are conducted by Messrs. George Andrews and Earl Rasor, re spectively. There has been a move ment on foot to bring the muslc-lov-lng people of the valley, into closer touch with each other, and this was the culmination of it. The p'rtnclpar Instigators of this movement were' the Medford director and his broth- er, Ed Andrews, of Medford. Ther members of the two organizations have worked untiringly to be able to put on a good program, and their efforts were certainly rewarded. The concert was the best of its kind ever given before an Ashland audience. The thirty male and the thirty-one' female voices produced a harmony of sound which was remarkably beau tiful and impressive. Mr, George) Andrews conducted the combined choruses, and under his direction the voices were almost as one. The "cre scendoa" and "decrescendos" and the "fortes" and "pianos" seemed to come as easily as from one singer. Among the soloists, William Vaw ter of Medford was probably the most universal favorite, Miss Florence Hazelrlgg receiving second place in their esteem. The other soloists also should receive credit. W. Carleton Janes made a great hit with a compo sition of his own "Valse Serenade.'! The singers were accompanied by a thlrteen-plece orchestra. . The Chautauqua management hopes to be able-to start the session every year with a choral concert giv en by home talent. ThlB is a great thing for the musical people of the valley, and we hop'e that the move ment will achieve success. Round-Up Will Be Made Annual Event The round-up association is being organized and the event will be made an annual one. Citizens are sub scribing liberally to the stock and sufficient finances will be raised to establish it as the greatest event of the kind ever staged in the west. This year, notwithstanding the ar rangements and equipment had to bo worked out from the ground up at great expense, the show made good and every' expense was paid, with a neat balance to the good.