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A3HLAXD TIDINGS
Thursday, August 24, 1010
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M Mill
Cutlery Said
An opportunity
to buy a Pocket
Knife, pair of
Scissors,plainor
Safety Razor,
Pruning Shear,
Butcher Knives
an Axe, Hatchet,
Plane, any
thing and
everything
thai cuts.
25 Pocket Knives, worth 35 to 40c, at 2Sc
25 Pocket KniveB, worth 65 to 75c, at 50c
25 pairs Shears, worth up to 85c a pair, at 50c
60 Safety Razors, worth $1.00, at Mc
25 Duplex Demonstrator Razors free when you buy a package
of blades.
We carry the Nagle Reblade Pocket Knives. When you break
a blade It can be replaced In a few seconds.
pnvYY We will have a Tool Sale the coming week.
I I II II We carry a bg Btock of blgh-grade tools,
WUU an(j this will be an opportunity to secure
the tool you have been needing so long at a very low price.
Don't wait until the article you want Is gone.
AXES
Mattocks and
25 Railroad Picks, worth 60c at
25 Mattocks, all weights, worth
Mail Orders
and we will fill them. You will
you will have the privilege of
Warner
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Normal Arguments
For and Against
(Continued from page 6 )
at Westou, located but 21 miles from
Pendleton in the same county? It
is significant that the Pendleton ar
gument avoids all reference to this
etate property.
The Weston normal was maintain
ed until 1909 when because of cer
tain adverse political influences and
through no fault of its own failed
of a appropriation in the state sen
ate, although supported in the lower
house by a vote of two to one. It
was then the largest of three normal
schools In the state, having an at
tendance of 278 in the normal de
partment and a strong training
school. Its work was accomplished
on the modest maintenance of $12,
600 per year. The Monmouth nor
mal now receives 139,000 per year,
end in addition was granted $50,000
for buildings by the 28th legislative
assembly. With similar support the
Weston normal would unquestionably
' have attained to at least equal rank
and usefulness.
Through a bill Initiated by the
legislature the Weston normal asked
the people in 1914 for a maintenance
tax of only one-fortieth of a mill,
while Pendleton is now asking for
one-twenty-fifth of a mill. Weston's
request was denied by a majority
of 17,895. In the same general elec
tion a similar mlllage tax for the
upport of the Ashland (Southern
Oregon) normal was defeated by a
majority of 25,602. In the fact of
this decisive adverse vote but two
years ago the Pendleton measure w
' regard as a defiance of the people's
mandate and an abuse of the initia
tive. Weston was content to wait
for evidences of a change of senti
ment in Oregon along normal school
lines.
The Pendleton bill constitutes a
return to "logrolling" methods. It
clearly indicates the fear of its spon
sors to go before the people on the
merits of their own demand. Why
swk to "validate" well established
institutions that are in no sense in
. peril? Should the necessity ever arise,
their security can and will, be as
sured by the passage of a mlllage
measure entirely Independent of a
mlllage tax for Pendleton's benefit.
Pendleton has been treated generous
ly in being granted the Eastern Ore
gon hospital, which received a total
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We bought several dozen Axes at a price 40
per cent under the prices today. Woodchop
pers, we will give you the benefit of this pur
chase in LOWER PRICES.
Railroads Picks
40c
75 to 85c, at .. . . .55c
When you are ready to mail
your orders, bring or send them
to us with check or the money.
be the freight ahead, besides
seeing the goods.
The Low Priced
Hardware Man.
375E.IMaln Phone 146
appropriation of $308)659.25 from
the 28th legislative assembly.
Normal schools are undoubtedly
needed in Southern Oregon and in
Eastern Oregon. The school at Wes
ton should be supported. Weston is
an attractive little city with ade
quate train service, beautiful sur
roundings, agreeable climate, health
ful conditions and an ample gravity
supply of pure mountain water. Dur
ing the school's long career not one
death ever occured among its stu
dent body.
Weston, in fact, Is an admirable
location for a state normal school.
It is a "umall town" yes, but so is
Monmouth and so are numerous nor
mal school towns in the east. Weston
has in the past supplied an entirely
adequate number of pupils for an ef
ficient practice school, and can do so
again. ,
Why should the voters expend
$125,000 for something they already
posess? Why should they tax them
selves one-twenty-fifth of a mill when
one-fortieth of a mill all that was
asked of them and which they denied
two years ago is sufficient? Logic
and economy alike suggest the defeat
of the Pendleton bill, with a view
to the ultimate reopening of the East
ern Oregon normal at Weston.
F. D. WATTS, S. A. BARNES, E. O.
DeMOSS, WM. MacKENZIE, CLARK
WOOD, Weston, Oregon.
C. 0. P. Company
Builds Extensions
The California-Oregon Power com
pany will have completed the survey
of the power extension between Shas
ta Springs and McCloud, a distance
of seven miles, by Saturday. Mater
ial Is being distributed along the line
for the building of the same. -The
same company is building an
extension from Castella to Carrvllle
and Trinity Center and will have It
completed in six weeks. At present
the company has four camps on the
route. The division manager, O. Q.
Steele of Yreka, has moved his family
to the route where he will camp till
the work is completed.
Miss Nellie Perry is the guest of
her cousin, Mrs. P. J. Klnery, at Hill
crest orchards.
Brewster valley, Coos county, to
have a creamery." 1
One in Twenty-Five
In U. S. Own Cars
This is a nation of automobile own
ers. Nothing like the distribution of
motor vehicles In this country, is to
be found In any other part of the in
habited globe. Never (before in his
tory has a product, the unit value
of which even remotely approached
that of the automobile, been sold
to nearly so large a proportion of
the population.
If any argument were needed to
clinch the fact of the huge prosperity
of these United States it could be
found in this one item of national
Investment; the light-seeking econo
mist would need to search no fur
ther. By the first of January, 1917,
there will be one automobile in the
country for every 25 inhabitants. On
January l. of this year, there was
already one automobile to each 44
of the population.
It Is staggering when one stops to
realize the cost of even the most mod
est motor car. If one put the average
cost of an automobile at $500 which
Is considered lower than the true
average, the value of the 2,445,664
cars which the government census
recently announced were registered
In the United States in 1916, reaches
in the aggregate, $1,222,830,000.
This Is the sort of figures that one
uses in speaking of national debts
or annual appropriations of a first
class power or the cost of many
months of the great war. It is quite
outside of ordinary comprehension.
But automobile production did not
stop in this country when the weary
old year laid down his scythe and
hour glass last December. On the
contrary, it received a new Impetus,
and more cars, by an enormous per
centage, are being produced and sold
this year than ever before. The most
sanguine prophets predicted that
1916 would see 1,500,000 cars pro
duced in America. For once these
prophets are cloaked with honor in
their own country, for that produc
tion seems certain to be reached. In
a careful compilation of the figures
for the first six months of the year,
made by The Automobile, our fac
tories were found to have produced
754,902 passenger automobiles. It
Is not hard to see that with the speed
ing up of the production usual In
the second half of the year the 1,
500,000 mark Is sure to be attained.
When these 1,500,000 cars are
added to those In operation on Janu
ary 1 last, it will be seen that at least
3,945,664 automobiles will be owned
in the United States, or one to every
25.34 inhabitants. This total will
represent the Investment of $2,000,
000,000 in round figures, based on
the $500 a car limit, which is cer
tainly far too low. . '
Such an enormous distribution of
a product, which less than a decade
ago was considered a luxury, de
mands an explanation. It bristles
with Interesting economic questions
on all sides. But the first insistent
query is: "What has made such a
thing possible; wherein lies this mod
ern magic?" The technical and rath
er puzzling answer to this question is
quantity production.
"What," you say, "you answer the
query of what has made such quanti
ty possible' by saying, 'quantity pro
duction'!" Precisely. Because quantity, pro
duction, epplled to the automobile
Industry with an intensity and a thor
oughness never before equaled on ap
proximately such a scale, has in turn
made possible a constant and Import
ant reduction in the prices at which
the cars are sold. It has put the au
tomobile Into the hands of every man
and, as if with the waving of a ma
gician's wand has made of the men
of the street a motorist. Let no man
say after this decade that the age of!
witchcraft is dead.
Ten years ago you could not buy
a serviceable automobile for less than
$2000; five years ago your choice
below $1000 was limited and strict
ly limited.
Today there are at least fourteen
standard makes of car, from one of
which you can expect more consist
ent service than from the expensive
machine of a dozen years ago, which
sells at less than $700. Many of
these are priced at much less than
that amount. Indeed, the great ma
jority come substantially below that
mark.
The motor car has become literally
less costly than a pair of decent
horses at first price and, of course,
much less expensive to maintain from
all points of view.
Classified Advertisements
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
LOST Between Medford and Horn
brook an automobile tire 36x4
and tire iron. Very liberal reward
will be paid for its return to Tid
ings offloe. . .. 27-2t
GOOD PASTURE One mile' from
postofflce. - W. D. Booth, 996 Oak
street. Phone 291-R. 26-2t
Loan Board Will
Hear Oregonians
Washington, Aug. 24. (Special)
A hearing of great Importance to
farmers, farm organizations and to
cities of Oregon will be conducted
by the newly appointed federal farm
loan board In the federal building
at Portland, Oregon, September 7.
This hearing is to secure informa
tion to guide the board in determin
ing the boundaries of the 12 federal
loan bank districts into which the
United States is to be divided for the
application of the new rural credits
legislation.
The members of the federal farm
loan board who will conduct the hear
ing are Hon. Wm. G. McAdoo, secre
tary of the treasury; Geo. W. Norris,
farm loan commissioner;, Herbert
Quick, Capt. W. S. A. Smith and C.
E. Lobdell.
The board has requested farmers
and farm organizations of Oregon to
furnish facts concerning the need
of cheaper farm loans and It has
asked Interested cities to present
claims for the location of one of these
banks. This will be the only hearing
In Oregon.
The new federal farm loan act will
do for the farmer what the federal
reserve act is doing for the business
man. Under it the government pro
vides the machinery for assembling
capital to be loaned to farm owners
or intended farm owners, on first
mortgage farm security. The loan
cannot exceed 50 per cent of the
value of the land, nor 20 per cent
of the value of the permanent im
provements. The loans will be made at a low
rate of Interest, not yet determined,
but not over 6 per cent, and provis
ion Is made for the borrower to pay
off the loan and interest in small
annual or semi-annual payments
through a period of 40 years or at
his option.
Farmers, to take advantage of the
law, must associate themselves in
groups of ten or more and form farm
loan association and then make ap
plication to one of the 12 federal
loan banks. The land will then be
appraised and, if it meets require
ments, the loans will be made.
The new legislation is expected to
prove a great boon to those sections
of the country where development
has been arrested because of high In
terest rates and it is predicted that
it will have the effect of making
agricultural prosperity permanent
and uniform; stabilizing land values,
and greatly improving general farm
conditions.
Thousands of requests to the U. S.
treasury department for Information
regarding the application of the law
Indicates the great, nation wide in
terest in its provisions.
Secretary McAdoo predicts that the
banks will be ready for operation by
January 1 or shortly thereafter.
Fruitgrowers
Fear Car Shortage
. Fruitgrowers of the valley fear
.that the car shortage which is affect
ing seriously the lumber industry in
Oregon, is likely to affect the move
ment of the fruit crop from the valley
which Is now at its height.
Despite assurances from the rail
roads that plenty of cars will be
brought in, the growers worry never
theless. Agent Zenas Moody, of the
Pacific Fruit Express, states that
there is no reason for alarm and that
while there are now but about 30
cars in the valley, the railroad seems
to be making a determined effort to
supply the needs of the fruitmen and
the supply of cars is kept moving
steadily.
Approximately 200 carloads of
pears have been shipped from the
valley to date. Of these about three-
fourths were shipped from Medford.
Most of these have been Bartletts,
the Howell pear shipments starting
today. Ashland fruitgrowers for the
most part have shipped their pears
for cannery purposes, thus doing
away with packing and grading. The
pears shipped for cannery use are
not shipped in refrigerator cars.
A few years ago carload after car
load of peaches were shipped from
this city but so' far this year there
has not been a single car of peaches
shipped from here.
The early varieties are all ripened
and the Mulrs are beginning to come
in. There will probably be a car
of these shipped. Many small ship
ments of choice fruit are going out
by parcel post and express.
A total fruit crop of 1000 cars is
now predicted and a freer circulation
of cash in the fall will result.
John McDonough is making a num
ber of improvements to his home on
Liberty street.
Contract for 200,000 ties for Hill
lines placed in Eugene.
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Of an increase in price of wall papers to take effect
at once also that the price this fall will be from 25
per cent to 50 per cent higher than heretofore. We
anticipated these advances and bought heavily for our
fall trade.
Select Your Goods Now
While our stock is complete for many patterns we
now have cannot be replaced at any price. We have
a large assortment of Imported and Domestic oat
meals, ingrains and flocketts and over two hundred
figured patterns ranging in price from 10c to 80c per
bolt.
. Everythinc in paints, varnishes, building and
roofing paper, glass, etc., automobile enamels and
varnishes.
W. 0. Plckersonil
f fill 1 1 !
Warm Days Drive
Throngs to Park
Ashland enjoyed the first really
summery day of the summer yester
day, the thermometer registering 94
degrees and the evening being de
lightful. The park was the mecca
for perhaps a thousand people In
the afternoon and the canyon was
lively with picnic parties. Hundreds
came from down the valley.
The band concert last evening at
tracted one of the largest crowds
of the summer, probably 2500 peo
ple enjoying the perfect evening.
Dozens of cars brought up Medford
ites by the scores and other valley
points were well represented. A
number of Medford society folk re
mained throughout the evening for
a dance at the Bungalow which was
also well patronized by Ashlanders.
The band concert was greatly ap
preciated, the Ashland band present
ing a concert of well chosen selec
tions, all of which were very well
received. After hearing seven dif
ferent bands here this summer, the
music lovers of the city have about
reached the conclusion that the local
concert band is the equal if not the
superior of any of them.
The mercury rose to the hundred
mark at Medford yesterday, while
the official maximum reported by the
weather observer here was 94 de
grees. The same temperature pre
vailed the day before and about the
same today.
The hot weather is driving the
crowds in throngs to Lithia park at
Ashland where the temperature is
several degrees cooler owing to the
water of Ashland creek and the
greenery and shade.
Increase Premiums
On Pears at Fair
The following changes have been
made In the premiums on pears in
the Jackson County Fair premium
list for the fair, September 13 to 16:
In division H, class 5, No. 17, for
display of five boxes of pears, not
less than three varieties, the prizes
are $25 and $15 instead of $10 and
$5.00, as printed.
In No. 18 of the same division
and class the prizes are $15 and $10,
instead of $5.00 and $2.50.
Fruitgrowers should note the
changes and go after the premiums
which are double those offered by
tho state fair.
County papers are requested to
copy these changes.
Rifle Team Will
Soon Be Chosen
A rifle team, composed of five
members of First Company, C. A. C.
O. N. G., will go from Ashland to
Fort Clackamas to participate in the
state meet September 10.
The meet has been postponed from
August 20. The personnel of the
team will be determined by elimina
tions held on the local' rifle range
a few days previous to the state
shoot.
Two officers will accompany . the
team, one as captain and another
as rdnge finder.
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Says Car Shortage
Not Fault of S. P.
Railroads of the Pacific Coast are
not responsible for the car shortage,
says W. R. Scott, general manager
of the Southern Pacific, In a letter
to the public service commission an a
a copy of which was received fn Ash
land yesterday. Mr. Scott gives as
surance that everything possible will
be done to relieve the situation In"
Oregon. He denies that there had"
been discrimination against Oregonu
In distributing cars.
Mr. Scott asserts the shortage la
due to the water shipping congestion
in the east, which has held cars un
loaded at terminals and prevented
their return to the Coast for unload
ing. The Southern Pacific has 500 cars
on eastern terminals, the return of
which it has been unable to secure,
he asserts.
The Southern Pacific also ordered"
the construction of 3000 cars early
in the year, but they have not been
delivered because of a shortage of
labor and interference of war busi
ness. Mr. Scott writes:
"Recently the company was advised
that the first shipment would b
ready In a few days. Instead of wait
ing for loads, the new cars will be
billed for the west at once, the com
pany deciding to pay freight on them
in order to get them on the system
as soon as possible.
"The general manager says that
during the month of August 32 &
empties were delivered on the Port
land division and 132 empties are en
Toute to the division. During the
month 965 loaded cars were delivered
on the division, and there has been
active and successful co-operation
among nearly all shippers in unload
ing and loading cars." -Mention
of the empties sent to the
Oregon division is made, Mr. Scott
explains, to show that there is no dis
crimination against Oregon.
Conductor Is
Seriously Hurt
Frleght Conductor Swaggart, who
was injured by a fall from his train
near Weed last week, was hurt worse
than at first reported. The accident
occured when the emergency air was
applied on a car through a break in
the air line and the jarring stop
threw him from the top of the car.
He was taken to the San Francisco
hospital and his wife and daughter,
Muriel, went down from here to be
with him. At last reports Mr. Swag
gart was resting easily and thought
to be on the road to recovery.
Lewis Butts, who was shot and
killed by John Allen, Aug. 18 near
Rock Creek Butte, Baker county,
was a nephew of Festus Butts of thiffj
city, who resides on Mountain av
enue. The killing was laid to Jeal
ousy. Allen has been charged with
second degree murder. The uncle
residing here, acquainted with the
circumstances in the case, asserts
that the shooting was entirely un
justifiable. Klamath Falls Strahorn railroad
saves five miles by survey through.
Dairy.