Oregon Historical Society
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'Ashland Grows While LIthIa Flows"
City of Sunshine and flowers
Ashland, Oregon, Llthla Springs
"Oregon's Famous Spa'
VOL. XLI
ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1916
NUMBER 43
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Rifle Team Leaves
For State Match
The rifle team representing the
first company, O. A. C, left last
evening for Clackamas range near
Portland, where they will compete
with the riflemen of the state In the
annual state shoot. Those who will
represent Ashland are. Lieutenant
D. M. Spencer !n charge, Sergeant H.
0. Butterfield, J. Q. Adams, Lee Por-
ter and Allen Powell.
Twelve cnmnanlcs of the Coast Ar-!
tillery Corps and 15 companies otjwli'ch should resist the ravages of
the Infantry, besides teams from the
staffs, will compote at the shoot.
The annual shoot Is usually held
early in the summer, hut under the
new law which federalizes the state
trnnn. no monev to oav the expenses
of the meet was available until a
short time ago.
Th nraotice shooting will begin l
Monday morning and the record
shootlng on Wednesday morning.
It Is expected that there will be
three full days ending on Friday
night of target shooting at different
ranges and for different prizes. A
team of 15 men to represent the
state of Oregon at the national rifle
contests at Jacksonville, Fla., next I
month will be selected by this course
of competitive shooting.
Form Hanly Club
At Lively Rally
At a lively prohibition rally at- j
tended by one hundred and thirty
people at the G. A. R. Hall last Fri
day evening, a Hanly club with a
good sized membership was organ-
ized. O. H. Barnhlll Is president and
Rev. Edwards secretary. The club j
will hold Its first meeting Friday
evening In the city hall. Refresh
ments will be served and everybody
interested is invited.
The formation of the club was pre-
ceded Friday by several speeches,
Mayor Johnson In his usual eloquent
manner discussed the need of na
tional prohibition. Rev. Edwards de
livered an Interesting and instructive
talk on the prohibition platform and .
Its planks. Field Secretary Francis
told of the aims of the party
find O. H. Barnhlll made a strong
anDeai ior support oi me party in mc
coming election, telling of the effect i
whieh b bis nrohlbitlon vote would I
have. Hanly buttons were distribut
ed and literature until the supply
gave out. More will be on hand Fri
day. Much Road Work
Doing
Near Yreka
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There Is a great deal o road work ,
going on in the neighborhood of.
Yreka, over in northern California.
T-f A . mnn nt nam tr-0tnr i
BIB crews ""
plows, gravelling crews and scrapers
and teams by the score are at work
on the Pacific Highway, and by the
time the bad weather sets In will
have It In shape so that it will set
tle during the winter and be ready
for the finishing touches next spring.
The new highway down the Shasta
river canyon to Yreka from Horn
brook is rather rough, although eas
ily passable. The best road into
Yreka is around by the road which
Montague built to compete with the
Pacific Highway, then turn to the
right about four miles this side of
Montague where a big sign says
"Yreka seven miles."
Ford Garage Sold
To Texas Man
F. L. Camps has 'sold the Ford
garage and Ford agency here to Lee
Hall of Amarlllo, Texas. The new
owner is in town and will assume
charge of the property this week.
The Ford garage has but recently
been established in commodious and
up-to-date new quarters In the Hotel
Austin annex and is regarded as one
of the best garages in the valley.
Mr. Camps has not announced his
future plans. During the time that
he has had the Ford agency he has
sold all the cars he could get from
the factory and has built up a repu
tation for service at his establish
ment. 1
The Hanly club will have a meet
ing In the city hall Friday evening of
this week.
Plant winter beans now. See Rev.
J. S. Smith for seed. It
Put Siskiyou Road
In Shape for Winter
The crushed rock and gravel
which the Jackson county road crew
Is putting on the Siskiyou grade
from the summit this way is making
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j el late Into the winter out of the
j highway. The outside half of the
ml 1 ...l,tnV. nltnuf trmr.
nignway i mm whu t.UB..cu .u.n.
with a fine gravel topping which is
sprinkled and rolled until as hard
as pavement. This will give a road
j te winter
It is the intention to
lay gravel from the summit to the
present tnd of the pavement which
;exienus iruw jusi ..uvC
Stelnman. .Eventually the macadam
iH extend all the way on the out-
, side and the pavement on the inside.
A crew of men working under Harry
Hlldebmn is .operating the rock
' crusher at the summit to full capac-
Ity.
Will Reach the
$100,000 Mark
Indications are that the Ashland
Farm Loan Association will have a
total of $100,000 in applications for
loans by the time the bank for this
district Is established. A very en
thusiastic meeting was held laat Sat-
1 urday afternoon and officers elected,
i The city hall was well filled with
women folks when Chairman J. F.
Rocho called the meeting to order.
Mr. Rocho gave a few facts of the
workings of the farm loan act and
stated that a permanent organlza-
tion wag t0 i,e effected by the gath-
erjng. The nominating committee
which was appointed at a previous
meeting reported as follows:
For trustees: D. H. Jackson, Ash
land; E. E. Pblpps, Ashland; J. F.
Roho Ash.,nd; w L Moore( nelle.
view; Fred Homes, Belleview; W. F.
Dunn, Talent.
Of fivers of the board: D. H. Jack
ton, president; E. E. Phipps, vice
president; J. F. Rocho, secretary-
treasurer
Loan committee. D. II. Jackson,
Fred Homes, W. F. Dunn. The of
ficers were made an advisory board
to the loan committee,
Articles of incorporation
were
read and approved and the organiza
tion established. After the organiza
tion was completed, In the absence
of the president E. E. Phipps took
the chair and Introduced Prof. Relm
er of the state experiment station,
who gave a very Interesting and In
structive ( talk regarding phases and
provisions of the loan act. Many
questions were asked, bearing In the
main upon local problems connected
of and the
hat, Mr, Relmer an.
satisfactory
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Tho mooHn niHnnrnert tn
meet at the call of the chair.
Finish Work
In This County
The last of the land grant cruisers
have moved over into Josephine
county and in two weeks will move
on north to Douglas county. Louis
L. Sharp, who is in charge of the
classification, in an interview at
Q rants Pass Friday expressed him
self as being highly satisfied with
the progress which "his boys" were
making and also looks forward to an
early opening of the land. .
Klamath Sawmill
Wages Are High
Skilled workmen received an aver
age of $3.52 per day and unskilled
$2.44 per day In 1914, as compared
with $3.92 for skilled and $2.53 for
unskilled In 1916, according to re
ports received by State Labor Com
missioner Hoff from Klamath county
sawmills and planer mills. Some
difficulty was encountered In secur
ing competent help last month, the
reports said. There are a total of
fifteen plants operating, an increase
of one over 1914.
Mr, and Mrs. Jack True, Harry,
Eunice and Amy Grubb motored over
to Beaver creek Sunday, Mr. True
going over to fix a bridge and the
others to enjoy the beautiful day.
They returned through the Klamath
River canyon.
Crowd of Three Thousand Hears
Speakers from Hughes Workers
Those who went to the depot or to j Miss Elbert Greer, who was becom
Llthla park yesterday expecting to j limly dressed in pink. Then the
see poodle dogs and monkeys were j party w ere loaded down with bas
dlsappointed. Those who expected : kets of peaches, apples, grapes and
to see a group of earnest women, J other fruit, and cases of llthla water
democrats, socialists and republicans, j wore placed on the train. The la
who are convinced and want to con- j dies of the reception committee wish
vlnce others that Charles Evan j here to thank all those who donated
Hughes Is the man best fitted for i fruit and helped in other ways, es
president of the United States, were j peclally Mr. Albert Johnson for the
more than satisfied. The woman's i boxes of winter banana apples and
special train carried a group of worn-1 to Mr. Murphy for the care In pre
en every one of whom has a record i paring the lithia water. Several of
of accomplishment In many lines of the automobiles which transported
social betterment, and as far as any- the visitors to and from the park
one could learn there was not a mil
lionairess in the crowd except possi
bly Mrs. Ward Howe Elliott, who, In
the words of ona of the party, "Is a
millionairess in her inheritance of a
name." And Ashland gave the visit
ing women an enthusiastically royal
reception. Fully three thousand peo
ple gathered in Lithia park to hear
the visitors, and over a hundred cars
met the delegation at the depot.
Marred By Discourtesy.
The afternoon was slightly marred,
however, by the discourtesy shown
by a number of Wilson partisans,
who apparently forgot that Ashland
was hostess to these visitors, that
Ashland stood to gain or to lose her
reputation as an entertainer royal, after burst of enthusiastic applause,
that the Civic Improvement Club, re-! Mrs. D. Perozzi, chairman of the lo
gardless of politics, had made a big cal Hughes Alliance, introduced the
effort to greet the visitors with a
profuslon of fruit, flowers and hos
pitality, that common courtesy and
fairness demand a hearing of the
"other fellow's" side uninterrupted
by hoodlum yells. A number of cars j part in the suffrage work In New
at the station bore signs with painted i York state, told of how the Women's
reproductions of Wilson and Mar-1 Special was conceived and how It was
shall and six railroad men lined up j financed, not by millionairesses but
holding lke signs so that the eastern by contributions of from one dollar
women would see them. During the ' up from women of every class In the
talks in the park occasional cries ' east, but all from women. She told
came from ten or twelve Wilson syra-J of the aim of the special train, to try
pathizers, who apparently forgot . to gain enthusiasm to take east with
their manners. The visitors were them from the western women who
magnificently "oblivious of all these1 had the right to vote and to try to
things, however, and made no refer-' bring to the west an understanding
ence to any of the unpleasant things j bj. .some of the problems of the east
which happened here or elsewhere with which the west Is not convers
in Oresou. Many democrats were , ant. She told of the different work
heard to express themselves as dis-: ers and what they had accomplished
gusted with the actions of their fel
low party members.
r.oceptlon Pleases.
"How beautiful," "You are too
generous" and like exclamations of
pleasure were heard on every side
during the stay of the visitors here.
The women on the reception commit
tee surely did themselves proud with
the nice thingo arranged for the
pleasure of the easterners. After
the party had been taken to the
Lithia park bandstond each was pre
sented with an Ashland rose by little
National Apple
Show Nov. 20-25
The National Apple Show will be
held at Spokane from November 20
to 25, Inclusive. One of the features
this year will be a prize of $250 In
cold for the best five boxes of apples
in the world. This competitlon will
be open to any orchard, anywhere,
to determine what district and what
grower can produce the most perfect
five boxes of apples. It will follow
the same general lines at the world's
competition at the Panama-Pacific
exposition last year. ' Jt Is restricted
to twelve of the leading varieties of
the northwest. One hudred dollars
In gold will be offered for the best
single box of apples entered. Many
other clases are named In the pre
mium list.
Dog Poisoners
Reported Busy
Frequent complaints have been
made to the police department that
someone is scattering poisoned meat
around town for dogs, the last re
port coming from the Sander green
house, where pieces of this meat
were picked up and analyzed and
found to contain groundglass and
poison.
The police department is making
an investigation of the matter and
have several parties under watch
whom they hope soon to be able to
bring to justice for thlB low, dirty
work.
Plant winter beans now.
J. S. Smith for seed.
See Rev.
It
made the return trip by way of the
hlKh drive, and this feature was one
of the most enjoyed of all. The re
ception committee consisted of the
following: Mesdames C. H. Vaupel,
chairman; II. O. Frohhach, T. II.
Simpson, B. Ft. Greer, G. S. Butler,
A. H. Pracht, II. L. Whlted. C. T.
Shepherd, J. H. Turner, Blanche
Provost, E. D. Briggs and A. W. Bos
lough. Three of the ladies went to
Grants Pass and came up on the
special. They were Mesdames I).
Perozzi, E. Pell and A. W. Boslough,
Speeches.
While the talks made by the ladles
were necessarily brief, they were to
the point and received with burst
four speakers.
Mrs. Demorettt.
Mrs. William Curtis Demorest, for
merly an ardent progressive and a
woman who Is taking a most active
and also of the experiences they had
encountered upon the trip west.
Mrs. Robin.
The next speaker was Mrs. Ray
mond Robin of Chicago, president of
the Women's National Trade Union
League, member of the committee on
Industrial education of the commit
tee on Industrial education of the
American Federation of Labor and of
the executive board of tho Chicago
Federation of Labor. She is one of
the best-known and best-loved social
(Continued on Page Eig'-it.)
Local Ice Company
Elects Officers
The Ahland Ice and Storage Com
pany will be headed by G. S. Butler
for the coming year, that gentleman
having been elected president at a
meeting of the directors held last
week. T. H. Simpson was elected
vice-president, H. L. Y-T'llte(1 secre
tary, and J. G. Hurt re-elected treas
urer and manager. W. H. McNalr
was elected a member of the board
of directors. The company, which
operates big plants both here and at
Medford, has had a very successful
year. The largest volume of busi
ness Is in the Icing of the fruit enrs
which pass through, this being one
of the icing stations on the California-Oregon
railroad.
Will Co-operate
In Road Building
The state highway commission In
session at Salera gave its endorse- j
ment Thursday to seven roads desig
nated as state highways, upon the
construction of which It will co-operate
with the federal forestry depart
ment under section right of the
Shackleford bill.
The road projects for which funds
will be requested from the govern
ment are as follows:
From Portland to Ashland on the
Pacific Highway; from Portland to
Ontario, via Baker; from The Dalles
to Klamath Falls; from Portland to
Ontario via John Day; from Florence
to Mitchell; from Bend to Lakevlew;
from Eugene to Klamath Falls.
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Klamath Falls
Ties Medford
The Klamath Falls football ma
chine held Medford high's hopefuls
to a 13 to 13 tie Saturday, and the
' prospects for the toughest kind of
: a four-cornered race for the Souths
j em Oregon championship loom sure.
; Klamath must have a fast, husky
I bunch to hold the heavy Medford
' team to a tie. Grants Pass shows
I the best team of years and Ashlnnd
j must be reckoned as having the best
balanced team ever turned out of the
local school. Local fans are anx
iously awaiting the first game here
In order to get a glimpse of the home
boys In action. Interest Is rising
fast and a season of games, none
onesided and every one a thriller, Is
promised. Medford and Klamath
both played fast ball, according to
reports from across the mountains.
The scores were due to fumbles, in
the main.
Corner Position
Lost First Prize
D. M. Lowe, who took the Jackson
county exhibit to the state fair at
I Salem tills year and won third place
! among the counties of Oregon, states
j that the position allotted the county
I is all that lost Jackson county first
place. He states that tills county
j was only two and a half points be
hind first place and that arrange
ment was the weak point and that
that feature was Impossible In the
out-of-the-way corner which fell to
! his lot. However, Mr. Lowe states
I that he has already started arrange-
ments for next year so that this dls
j trlct will be assured of a good place.
An organization of county exhib
itors was made and agreement reach
ed on a number of features which
were demanded and granted by the
fair board and will be in effect next
year. Among them will be a new
system of scoring. Score cards will
be sent out to each county three
months in advance so that the exhib
its may be planned with reference to
every point which means a high
score. Another feature is a prize of
a substantial cash amount for the
county which makes the best display
of its best resources. Thus Jackson
could feature apples, pears, alfalfa
and the like; Tillamook, cheese and
dairy products, and so on. There
will be f(ie fruit awards next year
jand Jackson growers will have an
i Incentive for greater effort,
j Mr. Lowe did not take his exhibit
i on up to the Seattle land show as at
first planned. No guarantee could
be found for anything and he did not
wish to lay the county liable to a
debt of several hundred dollars In
case his fears regarding the stabil
ity of the show proved true. '
Mr. Lowe states that he was ad
vised by the governor to take his
exhibit to the Dry Farming Congress
which is to be held In Texas this
year. Mr. Lowe's one farm exhibit
Is always a prize winner at dry farm
shows, and the state executive be
lieved he could gain much more fume
for Oregon and Jackson county
there than at the Seattle show.
Apple Measures
Fourteen Inches
An apple measuring fourteen Inch
es In circumference Is on exhibition
In the Commercial Club window.
The apple is from the home place of
F. II. Walker. While others may
grow as large, Mr. Walker says ho
has to see them.
C. B. Lamkin Moves
Real Estate Office
C. B. I.amkln has moved his real
estate office from the room near the
public market to the office room In
the building botween the Citizens
bank and the Vienna bakery. This
was formerly occupied by the Con
way company when they were doing
business in Ashland and has since
housed one or two real estate con
cerns. Mr. Lamkin is making a bus
iness like looking place out of the
room and Is preparing to meet the
business which he is sure is coming
next spring.
The baker, of course, Is out for the
dough.
How do you like our new autumn
so far this year?
Will Be Close Race
For Recordership
Approaching the Interest In the
race for the presidency of the United
States in Ashland Is the race for the
city recordership, which despite the
fact that the city election is not until
December 19, Is clearly growing
jwarm. City Recorder Gillette has
announced that he will not be a can
didate for re-election but will devote
j his time to the development of his)
mineral water springs and to the
pushing of bottled waters, and hence
i forth the field is clear and the race
will be an even one.
, Five candidates for the recorder
; ship had made open announcement
I of their candidacy Inst Thursday,
they being John Wimer, a member
iof the Ashland police force at pres
ent; Henry Galey, who was In the
banking n rid real estate business here
for a number of years; R. P. Camp
bell, who has had much experience
along like lines elsewhere; W. II.
Gowdy and C. L. Cunningham, both
of whom have like qualifications for
the position. Every one of these
I men is good timber for the responsi
ble position In view, and in addition
the names of several others have
been mentioned In connection with
the recorder's Job. Secretary Frank
Shinn of the Commercial Club, Jus
tice of the Peace Leo Trefren.
Messrs. H. O. Frohbach, Ryan,
Hardy, Autrey and E. E. Phlppa
have been mentioned.
Prof. Vining Boosts
Big Brother Move
Medford Mail Tribune: Professor
Irving S. Vining of Ashland last
night addressed a large audience of
Elks at the Medford Temple on the
subject of the "Big Brother" move
ment, which Is now a nation-wide
part of the activities of this organ
ization. Professor Vining clearly
outlined to his hearers the impluses,
shortcomings and desires actuating
the minds and conduct of boys, and
awakened among the members of the
audience a better understanding of
ways and means of handling boys
and of putting into uctive operation
the Big Brother movement in the lo
cal lodge. It Is planned to have the
movement started In Medford within
a very short time.
Local Relay Team
Loses at Albany
Jinks Murphy and Jim Bowers re
turned today from Albany, where
they entered their relay team In the
Albany roundup relay against several
of the fastest teams of the north
west. Although taking third place
the first day and first place the third
day, the local team did not place
either first, second or third in total
time, due to slow time the second
day. Five teams were entered and
the race was the most exciting event
of the roundup. The show was a bis
success, the attendance going over
20,000.
Ladies Discuss
Party Platforms
The ladles' political class held an
interesting meeting in Auxiliary hall
last Saturday afternoon, attended by
about sixty ladles. Party platforms
were discussed, all participating.
The next meeting, Saturday after
noon at 2:30, will bo devoted to dis
cussion of the Pendleton normal, tho
brewers' amendment, Sunday blue
law and, If time Is left, to the cor
rupt practices act. Everybody Is In
vited. There will be but a few more
of these meetings before election and
all who have attended report much
worth while knowledge galued.
Hold Rally at
Neil Creek Sat.
There was a rousing republican
rally held last Saturday evening at
the Nell creek school house, Fred
Mears and W. G. Gore being the prin
cipal speakers. Several others gave
brief talks and general discussion of
various problems was enjoyed. A
number of musical numbers by Med
ford talent added to the entertain
ment feature of the evening.
Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
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