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PAGE TWO ASHLAXD TIDINGS Monday, July 17, 1018 Ashland Tidings By .THE ASHLAYD PRIXTIXG CO. (Incorporated.) , SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Bert R. Grew, Editor and Manager. Lynn Mowat, News Reporter Issned Mondays and Thursdays Oliicial City and County Paper SlUSCRIPTIOX RATES. One Tear 12.00 tx Months 100 JThree Montbs 50 Payable in Adrance. TELEPHONE 39 . Advertising rates on application, first-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in tbe Interior. Talks With Screen-Struck Girls , ljmm ., ' T Toward the phone. f.f 1 No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at miration unless renewal Is received. In ordering changes of the piper always five the old street address or ptntoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mall matter. Beatrix Michelena. readers on their guard In respect to the exaggerated claims of these insti tutions. This past welt, however, has brought me no less than a dozen letters from girls who have been taken in" recently by -courses 01 first ,of this It is not always so easy to see series of talks through the sham of the school that I devoted sev- proposes to give results through the eral to warn- personal touch. It' can at times put I n g s against on quite a face of honesty. On this fake schcxH. account I consider it by far the more of motion" pie- dangerous of the two. ture acting. I One of the best evidences that had thought; these fake schools are perpetrating this sufficient ' their frauds with conscious intent is to put m y i the fact that they seldom present themselves in their true colors. They have round-about and insidious method's of getting their pupils. Some of them succeed in combining forces with third-rate and unscrupu lous producers of motion pictures. kind or another intended to i The producers naturally receive ap- Ashland, Ore., Monday, July 17, '16 THE MEN' WHO BUILD. The Rogue River Roundup wai the biggest investment which has been made In Ashland for some time. In the short space of two or three months, five men, O.' T. Bergner, A. C. Nininger, Monte Briggs, Clarence Adams and J. L. Helms, leased ground, built track and arena, stands to seat ten thousand, spent a small fortune In advertising, guaranteed a total of $10,000, and made monejr when the final reckoning came. It took more than money to carry, through the project which these men carried through with everlasting credit to themselves and to Ashland; it took the spirit which says, "We wM'V-the spirit which does not know how to quit. When np to with in two days of the opening, the rain kept falling and the sun remained hidden, did these men lose heart and take the many avenues which were open to them of saving a portion of their investment, "playing it safe"? No. With full realization that rain meant ruin, they went ahead enlarg ing rather than minimizing their plans, and when at the last minute the gods favored them as the gods always favor the game, they had an entertainment ready for the crowds which came which has never been equaled between Portland and San Francisco. Men of this mold are the men who build cities and fortunes. 1 Heard and Overheard a Mayor Johnson says; "The latest' attachment for my automobile is the tack which I picked up downtown the other night. Got it for nothing, too. Kept the tire from leaking fast until I pulled it out." Jean Hastings says: "The whole company was outof step with Private Burnett when the C. A. C. boys marched to the station Saturday." . J. H. McGee says: "My business up to the 15th of this month was as big as the entire month of July last year." In other words, Mr. McGee Is doing Just twice the volume of busi ness that he did last year. The Oregon industrial review in the Pacific Coast Manufacturer says: "Bonds have been sold and work will commence soon on a manual training building, an addition to tbe schools 'of Fossil, Ore." Which leads us to wonder "What's in a name?" one make screen stars to order. Conse quently I feel the call for at least one or two more "talks" on the topic. These fake schools might be con veniently divided into two classes those which pretend to give immedi ate and personal instruction, and those which advertise that they can teach by mail. While-I believe that the one has proven about as effica cious as the other in actual practice, the claims of the latter are the most patently ridiculous. In fact, I believe it so unquestion ably evident that the correspondence school of picture acting is a fraud, that further words here are not need ed for its conviction. It would be just about as sensible to propose D. W. Griffiths' directing his "Clans man" by mall or long distance tele- per- from inexperienced wish to become picture plications sons who stars and just as naturally they have not positions for all. They can, how ever, very easily make reply that they are holding the applicant's name on file for future reference and meantime advise him or her to take a course with this or that school of acting, This advice is no recommendation for the school. It merely means that the producer is Just as "crooked'Vas the school from which he undoubted ly receives a good "split" of the tul tion fee. I am glad to say that there are but few producers who will lend their names to this sort of villany, but there are a few, and it behooves the "screen-struck girl" to be cau tious. believes that God has used age-long processes in the development of the solar system, the earth, the animal kingdom at whose head stands man, and the mental, spiritual and moral nature of man. It is true that some professors In our universities and in our high schools are materialists aud atheists. They and I may appreciate the same facts in geology, for Id stance, but we part company when we come to the interpretation of the facts. For I am certainly a theist and I believe that Jesus was the Christ and that the Bible is the great est book in the world and that it leads me to spiritual fellowship with God. But I am a theist evolutionist. ARTHUR R. BLACKSTOXE. the driver and the two ocupants got out, rushed over to the fountain, took great long draughts of the bubbling ABhland water. The important look ing man who was driving sighed, "Ah, that's great water." They all bent down for one last swallow and, climbing back into their car, slipped away toward the north. People's Forum The Diary of a Rlrd. (By Mary E. Sullivan, formerly of Ashland.) My first recollection is of a morn ing in June long ago. I found my self compassed about by walls which I cou.ld not look through. -1 lay panting in the sunlight, and was so thirsty. Presently a shadow came between me and the sun, which I found to be my kind mother's wing. My thirst was allayed by a delicious strawberry still wet with the morn ing dew dropped into my wide-open mouth by my self-denying mother. Nothing out of the ordinary hap pened for a few days, until one morn ing my mother announced to me that I would son have to try my own wings. The voice in which she spake seemed mingled with fear and regret. he was, with intentions of makfng his acquaintance, and she said: "My dear, it is an enemy." I learned af terwards his name was Mr. Cat. At last the morning came when I was to leave the parental roof and face the world before me alone, as my mother had done. 'And I will never forget her parting words, which, though brief, meant so much. They were, "Be a good bird." I flew away with an earnest resolution to do so, and kept it unbroken till one morning I suddenly came to a cherry tree by a well, loaded with its ripened fruit. After eating a hearty meal of stol en fruit my mother's words came tol me with redoubled meaning. I was saddened and flew away, seeking con solation. I suddenly came to an opening in the ground, by which lay several bunches of flowers. People were standing about weeping, and I heard a man say; "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes." My despair almost reached desperation. All my past wrong-doing lay before me like a large panorama of heinous pictures. I flew on with rapid pace, hoping to find balm in some place or some gen tle genial friend, when to my Joy I found myself in the midst of a "birdies' ball." All were dancing. My remorse soon passed away, and 1 found myself the gayest in the crowd. .1 again had the pleasure of meet ing him whom my mother, in her Twenty-Five Years v Ago In Ashland (From the files of the Tidings of July 17, 1891.) Ashland went over to Jacksonville to celebrate the Fourth, the account stating, "the assemblage being the largest ever gathered in this place." It was a good old-fashioned Fourth with fireworks galore, parade, Dec laration of Independence, and a pub lic dinner at which 1,200 were served. Cora Bell Bennett of Med ford was adjudged to be the prettiest baby in the baby show. The Tidings was greatly excited because the San Francisco Examiner announced that a party sent out by that paper discovered the Josephine Caves. The article ends with a plea to California to "claim our fruit and grain if they wished; but leave us our cave for a catacomb for the bones of our mossbacks." Intimating that Ashland had mossbacks before some of the present citizens had ever heard of the town. An account of the racing on the Portland track failed to make men tion of Wade Hampton. The Talent 'correspondent predict ed twenty carloads of hay and grain from that locality as the season's crop and made appeal to tbe South ern Pacific to provide a station. Blaine Klum, who now runs an outdoor sign advertising business of rather large proportions In the valley and owns a Ford, in IS 91 was get ting out "The Talent Bird's Eye," subscription price for which was 5 cents a month, paid In advance. It puzzled me, as I thought that was the easiest thing possible, to go out I old-fashioned way, had termed "an and try the "great round world." enemy." I took particular notice of Her advice to me at my first flight j the kind expression of his eyes, the R. L. Burdlc must have been suf fering from a bad cold when he told the reporter for 'the Grants Pass Courier his name when he departed for Ashland to Join the militia com pany for the annual encampment. At any rate, the Courier man spelled his name "Bertig." "Some men are great, some achieve rreatness," commenced the Jjarber shop orator. "Yes, and some men grate upon you," Interpolated C. B. Lamkln, who had stood It for a half an hour without complaining. They tell this one on one of the traffic men who were added to the Ashland police force dirVing the cele bration: Policeman: "What are you stand ing there in the middle of the side walk for?" Henjy Provost: "Nothing. I " ' Policeman: "Well, Just move on. If everybody was to stand In one place, how would the rest get past?" was to endeavor to reach a certain bUBh with a broken twig which she pointed out. In my self-conceited es teem of my own abilities I set the mark of my flight to the eaves of te barn. Oh, cruel barn! I reached my destination, but the next thing I realized, I was picked up by a kind old gentleman who restored me to the dear old walls of my first recol lection, where I was again tenderly watched over by -my patient mother for a short time. I noticed such a beautiful creature pass by and look up at me several times. He had eyes like Jewels, and his paws were so soft and velvety it seemed as though they could not harm one, and his manner spoke of refinement soft texture of his paws. I thought myself sufficiently experienced to choose my own company. He has promised to call upon me this even ing. I will stop writing and make ready to receive him. Oh, joy! To morrow I will place the details of his visit in my diary. But the diary still lays unfinished A mass meeting was held at Eagle Point and $1,000 toward a $12,000 bonus was raised for the purpose of bringing the Rogue River Valley rail road to Eagle Point. Surveyor How ard was to head a party of surveyors seeking a pass through the CVcsades In contemplation of an extension of the railroad toward Klama'h. J. t. DODGE & SONS Undertakets - ... State Licensed Emfcalmer Lady Assistant Deptity County Coroner The Tidings record that "t'le young magnolia tree at thij McCall residence on Oak street la in full bloom. That sam'e magnolia Is now the largest in the city if not the vu'.-ley. William J. Schmidt, architect. a? drawing up plans for the city hall which was erected that year. The original structure was reniodellel two years ago. Ice hauled into town fr-)Pj the Dead Indian country was on sale. J. J. Donoghue, a disciinrjiej S. P. brakeman, beat up Superintendent Llnberg of the Shasta div.;io:i at tli local station. Llnberg seamed f re ceive little sympathy, although hadiy damaged. The railroaders at Duns- muir burned his body in cfflpy to cel ebrate the occasion. horses going north; mules, 1 car be longing to the government and head ed for Miles City. Mont. Nearly all of the cattle were from points south of here en route' to Portland, Taco ma and Seattle. Mr. Bates estimates that during May and June about 100 cars of livestock could not feed here on account of lack of room in the yards and had to go on through to another feeding point. Tracy Layne's Roimd-Up Song The militia gave a bo'I in Granite hall, which stood where the house now occupied by D. D. Sott'.j at tne corner of Church and Hib'h stieots, Is located. Dr. L. Townsend was a suicide, the tragedy occurring in hi? Oak srrett home. Peaches were being shlppel. The season's shipments were estimated to aggregate about 3,000 boxes. June Cattle Shipments Heavy The following song, which is sung to the tune of "When I Wore a Tulip and You Wore a Big Red Rose," was written by Tracy Layne, the Pendle ton coWboy poet, and was sung a great deal during the roundup by the cowboys. Many inquiries have been made concerning the words, which are therefore published: Roundup Hong. We're here in dear old Ashland for to have a grand old time; Folks of every kind from up and down the line. There's buckaroos, bulldoggers, cow boys, Indians to see. And every one of them will happy be. For this is going to be the greatest time of all the year, . With all bright lights and all gay sights and everything good cheer. So, come to the roundup, the Rogue Rlter Roundup, And we'll have a grand old time. r.ici;uiic gums, aim uu: wnai a showing! ; Come on, boys, and get in line. There'll be horse races and they'll set the paces C. F. Bates of the Ashland Trans fer Company reports heavy ship ments of cattle and sheep through Ashland during the month of June,', Here in this ,Ashland town. with lighter shipments still contin. So go get your honey, and bring all ing. Friday, July 7, 13 double-- your money, deck ears containing 4,490 head of And stay till the sun goes down. sheep from Huntington, Ore., passed ; ; through on their way to San Fran-j Baker Democrat: "From every Cisco. Saturday eleven cars with 279 part of Baker county comes the sure head of beef cattle from Willows, sign of a great mining revival. The Cal., and vicinity came along on their touch of prosperity is knocking near- ' er day by day. way to Seattle. Total shipments feeding at the Ash- land yards en route during June were i Wasco county will vote on $300, as follows: Cattle, 164 cars; sheep, I 000 road bonds in November. 30 double-deck cars and 33 single , deck; hogs, 3 cars; horses, 10 cars, The Monarch sawmill, long closed, of which 9 cars were government at North Portland is to reoDen. The Theory of Evolution. I have been asked by a good citi zen of Ashland if I believed in tbe theory of evolution. This Is my an swer: I certainly do believe in the theory of evolution as it is taught in denominational colleges and every other institution of learning. Every man who has received his college edu I asked my mother who i cation in the last few years certainly FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SPRINGS WATER COMMISSION For the Week Ending July 14, 1010. Date. Vo. No. Name of Party Issued To. Amount 7-8 2231 F. E. Rosencrans, for 16 hrs. labor repairing pipe line at $3 per day less state insurance $ 2J32 Frank Crowson, for 24 hrs. labor cementing joints at $2.50 per day less state insurance 2233 F. L. Putnam, for hauling trees, 17 hrs. labor with team less state insurance 2234 Individual Drinking Cup Co., for (5-31-16) health cups 2235 Ashland Printing Co , 6-19 Publishing statement, 369 lines at 5c $18.43 6-23 24 cloth signs (5-1-16). . . 2.00 6-26 Publishing statement, 49'i lines at 5c 2.47 5.98 7.47 8.47 32.50 23.42 The big seven-passenger car loaded down with camp equipment slid smoothly into the Plaza from the di rection of the auto camp. Gliding to a stop opposite the Carter fountain, 2236 2237 2238 2239 $23.42 Joe Kerr, 48 hrs. labor on fountains cleaning up at $2.50 per day less state insurance W. M. 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