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Monday, Spt. 4, 1016 ASHLAND TIDINGS PAGE SEVEN Eugene Boy Tells Of Trip to Alaska Eugens Guard, August 30: After two months spent on the Alaska coast 'at Ketchikan and Petersburg, Paul Spangler, son of Rev. A, M. Eastern Star Picnic Party The big evening picnic party given tiy the Eastern Star lodge last Wed nesday in Llthia park was reported briefly in Thursday's Tidlng.s This was one of the best and most largely attended picnics of the season and was highly enjoyed by a long list of persons from various parts of the valley and a number from other lo calities, whose names appear below following the name of the town in which each person's membership is Btill held: Millford,- III. Carrie B. Cyester. Willlston, N.- D. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Schollander. Cinclnnatus, N. Y. Mrs. S. E. Mil ler. Beloit, Kan. Mrs. M. F. Swlgart. Klamath Falls, Ore. Frances E. Boyel. Lakevlew, Ore. Pearl Wilshlre. Yreka, Cal. Elsworth and Mary E. Tubbs, Jennie Hovey. Myrtle Point, Ore. L. A. Mabel A and E. Rowena Roberts. Grants Pass, Ore. Anna Stine baugh, Mary A. Browne, Marguerite Bratton, Edith Rehkoff, Charles Wil son Barber, Katherine Baker, Mrs. C. W. Baker, Mrs. A. G. McCarthy. Central Point, Ore. Vera Ager, Laura E. Green,. R. W. Ager, J. W. Peart, Mary Miller, Mrs. E C. Ben nett, Mrs. J. W. Peart, Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Meyers, I. Hat field, Mrs. Hattie B. Hatfield, Jennie E. Morrltt, Alice E. Hanley Jacksonville, Ore. Jennie Florey, Lulu E. Williams, Mrs. Mary Miller, John Miller, E. Britt, Mollle Britt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Flck, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lavly, Mr. and Mrs. Chaun cey Florey, Mr. and Mrs. A S. Klein hammer, Mrs. J. W. and Laura Wil liams, Mr. and Mrs. Harbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson, Dr. Shaw, Miss McCully, Judge Neil, Marian Nell, C. Gallaun, Mrs. Dunnington, Kate Cronemiller, Mr. Lundgren, Mr. and Mrs. Oris Crawford, Mr. and Mrs C. W. Conklin, John Renault, Doris Klelnhammer, Esther Kleinhammer, Mr. and Mrs. M. Lance, Clint Galla tin. Medford, Ore. Mrs. J. F. Lau rence, Errola Hamilton, Lulu J. Wltte, Selena T., Henry, Minnie B. and Frank M. Corliss, J. C. Mann, Mr and Mrs. J. A. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Behllng, Mr. and Mrs. M. Purdin, Mrs. J. C. Mann, J. H. Butler, Mrs. Asabel Hubbard. Mrs. Agnes Merrell, Norman Merrell, John F. Laurence, Mr and Mrs. L. B. Brown and daugh ter, Florence B Butler, A. C. Hub bard, E. W. Witte, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Perl, Nellie G. McGowan, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Hamilton, Fred Collins and son, Amel Butler, Elsie Lau rence. Helen Brown, Arllne Butler, Mrs. W. R. Newman. Mrs. Mary B. Strang, Charles and Helen Strang, J. D. RIckert, J H. Cooley, Cora B. O'Brien. Phoenix, Ore. Marian B. Towne, G. N. and Minnie Lewis, Eugene and Nettle L. Thompson. Ashland, Ore. Fannie A. Cor nelius, Nellie G. Simpson, Mabel Bar ber, E. Luclle Frohbach, Anna Briggs, Mary F. Casey, Elsie M. Churchman, Gertrude Engle, Leah M. Caldwell, Grace V. Winne, Mary L. Newland, Maude M. Maxey, Effie P Brown, Jessie Rondeau, Maud Shinn, Sue M. Day, Mrs. C. B. Lam kin, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Bush, F. J. Shinn, H. E. Stock, Marie Stock, Mrs. C, F. Bates, Mary Wilshlre, Emily M. Hammond, P. K. Hammond, Helen Louise Cunningham, Marguer ite Hammond, Caroline Cunningham, Frank Hanna, Helene S Casey, Georgia W. and Emma E Coffee, Gertrude and Helene Biede, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Whlted, Stella Case Wag ner, Mayble and Frank Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Shepherd, W. H. Day, Mildred M. and Herbert G. Eastman, Mrs. Elizabeth Van Sant, Mrs. Clyde Cunningham, Miss Gertrude Barber, Mrs. Mulit. For the best values in blankets of all kinds see Ferguson's, the Bargain Rtnro . 29-2t The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company had a deficit for the year ending July 1 of $114,239.23.. Does W. B. Penniston know how to polish agates? Take those agates ' In and see him at 343 Main street. 29-3t HSHLHND Storage and Transfer Co. C. F. BATES Proprietor. Two warehouses near Depot. Goods of all kinds stored at reason A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rook Springs Coal. Phone 117. Office, 99 Oak Street, ASHLAND, OREGON. ARAOW COLLARS 1 6 OH. Mch, 6 lor 90 et. C tO C Tt? I A 8 O DVtr C.I MC.MKf.RS Federal Farm Loan Board Hearings Washington, Aug. 13. Hearings of great importance to farmers, farm organizations and cities throughout the country are to be conducted by the newly appointed federal farm loan board. One for the state of Oregon will be in the federal build ing at Portland' on September 7, 1916. This hearing is to secure in formation to guide the board in de termining the boundaries of the twelve federal land bank districts into which the United States is to be divided for the administration of the new rural credits law. known as the federal farm loan act. The members of the federal farm loan board who will conduct the hearings are Hon. William G. Mc Adoo, secretary of the treasury; G. W. Norris, farm loan commissioner; Herbert Quick, Capt. W. S. A. Smith and C. E. Lobdell. The board has requested farmers, farm organizations and others inter ested to . furnish at each of these hearings facts concerning the need of cheaper farm loans, and It has asked interested cities to present claims for the location of one of these land banks. This will be the only hearing in the state of 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 prospective farm owners on first mortgage farm security. The loans can not exceed 50 per cent of the value of the land and 20 per cent of the value of the permanent improve ments. The loans will be made at a low rate of interest not yet deter mined, but not over 6 per cent, and provision is made for the borrower to pay off the loan and interest in small annual or semi-annual pay ments at his option, during a period of not less than five nor more than forty years. Farmers, to avail them selves of the benefits of the law, must first organize themselves in groups of ten or more to obtain a charter as a farm loan association, and thereafter application for loans can be made through it to one of the twelve federal land banks. The land will theu be appraised, and if it meets requirements, 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 retarded because of high Interest 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 informa tion regarding the application of the law indicate the great nation-wide interest in Its provisions. Secretary McAdoo predicts that the banks will be ready for operation January 1 or shortly thereafter. Government Timber Sale at $1.15 Ter M The Stanley-Smith Lumber Com pany of Portland was the successful bidder for 4,000,000 feet of national forest timber advertised for 'sale in sections 25 and 36, township 2 N., range 8 E., W. M., and has just been awarded the sale by District Forester tt PppII of Portland. UCUl fc,V, One dollar and fifteen cents per . II. . L1J thousand for all species was mo uiu price. The timber is 80 per cent Douglas fir. The remaining 20 per cent is made up of Noble fir, western white pine, western red cedar, west ern hemlock and amabllls fir. St. Mary's Academy Opens Classes ai ei. maiy b iitoucmj. Medford, Oregon, will be resumed n i e rtnmnTato nniiraofl Tuesday, epi.. u. vuuipic offered in high school, grammar and primary grimes. uv;i,.iU..i tages in music, art and China palnt . T-n mmiiii nnd hoarders re- lilt;. celved. Excellent sleeping porch ac commodations are a feature of the boarding school. 28-4t Some baseball teams merely enter a league, while others stay the season out. Spangler, returned yesterday to Eu-j gene, with the story of how eight University students and two Eugene high school boys devoted the greater part of the summer to helping the Alaska salmon packers handle the 1916 catch. Spangler left Seattle June 26, af ter having attended the Seabeck Y. M. C. A. conference, nnd proceeded directly on the Admiral Farragut to Ketchikan, where there were seven other University of Oregon men em ployed or hoping to be employed at the Ketchikan cannery. Kenneth Moores of Salem, Laird Larwood and Berrin Dunn of Eugene high school, Sam Bullock and Turner Neil of Portland, Bryan Turner of Salem, Charles McDonald of Portland, Car rol Weldin and Paul Spangler of Eu gene, nineteen students from Pacific University and eleven from the Uni versity of Washington were at Ketchikan during the first ten days of the season, but the collection of students was broken up at the end of that time because of the poor catch that was being taken there. Kenneth Moores, Laird Larwood, Estley Farley and Paul Spangler then went farther north to Peters burg, where the fish were running better, and remained there for three weeks, when Spangler started for home last Friday. On the way back to Seattle Span gler was forced to travel In the steerage because of the great amount of traffic that is being carried by the boats running in Alaskan waters, He is the first of the Oregon jnen to return. The boat was almost a week be hind her schedule on account of the unusually large freight cargo that was picked up at the ports of call, and because of delays necessitated by fog, which occasionally forces steamers to tie up until the atmos phere becomes clear enough to allow landmarks to be discerned. Spangler states that the dlscom forts of the steerage were offset by the experience of assoclationg with the "sourdoughs," many of whom were coming out from the mines for the first time in years, with their "pokes' of gold. Gambling games were the principal forms of amuse ment with these gold hunters, says Spangler, and each has a story that would be material for a novel. Rex Beach and Jack London would have nothing on these miners, says Span gler, if the latter had the ability to write what they have seen and done Kenneth Moores remained at Pe tersburg to work at cleaning up the late pack, while Larwood and Farley proceeded to Juneau "to see the town." The two latter are probably on their way home now, says Span gler. The best thing about Alaska is the scenery, according to Spangler. While at Petersburg, he states, he could see clear into the Interior re gion through the opening afforded by Wrangel Narrows an arm of the sea extending far into the inland. The mountains are at the very edge of the ocean, and snow-capped peaks loom up everywhere along the coast The cold storage plants in Alaska as far north as Petersburg do not need ammonia tanks to manufacture ice for their fish pack, says Span gler. All they do when they are short of ice is to send a power boat a few miles out into the inland sea to load up from icebergs that con stantly loat by. A glacier nine miles northeast of Petersburg furnishes the principal supply of icebergs. Alaska is a sportsman's paradise, says Spangler. When the inhabitants want meat all they have to do Is to follow the shore line for a few miles in a boat when the tide is low and shoot al the deer they wish in a very short time as the animals come down to the beach to eat kelp, for the salt contained. Hunting In the mountains is ideal, and all kinds of game may be secured within a shprt distance of the coast. The innumerable streams that flow down the mountain sides Into the in lets and lays are teeming with trout, Spangler states, and In the cold wa ter fresh from the snow the fish are gamey and of the finest quality. The natives use salmon eggs in fish ing for trout almost exclusively, and are of the opinion that the fish will not rise to a fly. However, Spangler says he caught thirteen big rainbow trout In a few hours one afternoon, using a fly. The catch 'at Petersburg was this year taken almost wholly by the glll netters, says Spangler, while at Ketchikan a number of traps were 'n operation. The men enjoyed a prof itable trip on the whole, says Span gler, and each gained both financial ly and in experience. Odd Fellows In . Lithia Park Tuesday Tomorrow is the day set apart by the Ashland lodge of Odd Fellows to entertain visiting members and have a good time in Llthia park. Odd Fellows have been invited from all over southern Oregon and a great crowd is expected. All are to bring their own basket lunches. Ashland extends a cordial welcome to every one who can possibly attend. Llthia park is becoming the rendezvous for all lovers of a good time in the shade and by the running water. Picnic parties gravitate as naturally to this spot as apples to the ground, and had Newton lived, in Ashland this summer he might have been con founded iu establishing his theory that gravity always pulls directly to ward the center of the earth. Eleva tion attracts here, or at least does not prevent the action of the force which brings people from far and near and nearly every clime to rest and 'think and feast in the midst of idea) surroundings. At Albany Roundup Scratch 'em Cowboy Evening Telegram: Albany, Ore L'August 31. The slogan, "Scratch 'Em, Cowboy," is the slogan adopted by the Albany Roundup Association, and the management has signed con tracts with C. R. Adams of Pendle ton to stage the show to be held in this city October 12 to 14. Adams will bring 25 of the star performers with' hira from Pendleton. Seals brothers and the Blanchetts, Smiley Corbett, Tracy Layne and Buffalo Vernon are some of the talent al ready assured. Ten thousand dollars is to be spent to make the show a genuine "Scrotch 'Em, Cowboy," af fair. Brotherhoods Have ' A Big Relief Fund Fifteen million dollars bulges in the war chest of the railroad broth erhoods. This amount, about equally divided among the four unions, is ready for distribution among the men should Bi MM.mm .-imii'.IP prryWHirTTTll i l IW I w Tie jgitiUBUMUiLl'J.-! -.'X s . .. J Among the daily requirements of every family none is more appreciated than the Ford Sedan, so cozy, comfortable, refined and eay to drive. The delights of the electric car with the Ford econ omy in price and maintenance.' The Sedan $045; Coupelet $505; Runabout $345; Touring Car $3G0; Town Car $595; Chassis $325, f. o. b. Detroit. Add freight $53.25. 6n sale at F. L. Camps' Garage they need strike relief. It is to be doled out in portions of $40 a month among the 400,000 men who would be Involved In a national railroad tie up. How long it would last Is prob lematical, for relief might start with the opening of the strike or might be delayed until later. As the brotherhood men view it, their mighty war chest probably would not be touched in the fortlv coming strike, for they believe it would be so brief that the men would not feel the pinch of unemployment. This great war fund has been gath ered through weekly contrlbutlnos covering a long space of time. The assessment varies according to the members' earnings, but the total sum per year is written in fixed thou sands. One little code word, wired from Washington to every railroad center M L ihrini fiiTT iffiil i ii Dance Immediately After ' the Band ( oncer t "T 1 llMllW ii HH In the country, is sufficient to pre cipitate the strike. The more than, 600 brotherhood delegates who left Washington for their posts Sunday carried Instructions for running the strike. Trains on the line will be run to the nearest junction; fires will be banked and engines oiled. The en gines and the cars will be delivered to the companies in perfect condition, and every union man will quit th property with orders to avoid vio lence or trespass. The. feeling predominates in local railroad circles that a strike is only a few days off. Boys' Bchool pants and waists at bargain prices at Ferguson's. 29-2t Winchester 30-30 rifle. A bar gain. Inquire 115 Granite. 24-tf lHMMMtltH