ASHLAND TIDINGS
Thursday, Xovember 9, 1018
PAGE TWO
Ashland Tidings
Ky
the AsnLAM) riuxnxQ oo.
(Incorporated)
ESTABLISHED 1876
SEMI.WEEKXY
Htrt R. Greer, Editor and Mannger
Harrey R. ling. Advertising Mannger
Lynn Mowat, . - City Editor
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THE LIFE INSURANCE AGENT
The interests and future of life
insurance work were discussed at
the convention held at Boston a few
days ago of the National Associa
tion of Insurance Agents. The opin
ion was confidently expressed that
the life insurance business as now
organized has nothing to fear from
the competition of state Insurance.
Efforts have been made in some !
states through banks and other agen-1
cies to establish what Is called "over j
tho rnnntpr" InKiiranop. If everv one I
needing Insurance would walk up to
an office and take it out without
solicitation, there would be a big
economy. But like other ideas that
omit advertising, it won't work uni-1
versally while human nature remains
as it Is.
A common view of insurance was
expressed by the man who said, "I
don't think much of an investment
.where I have to die to get my
money."
There are a great many men hav
ing good Incomes who have made no
effort to secure protection for thir
families in case of death. They think
in a happy-go-lucky way that their
life and health will endure indefi
nitely. This type of man would
never walk up to a state or bank
insurance office and ask for a policy.
If he ever takes one out, it will be
due to the "persuasive powers of
some agent.
So it is likely, as the speakers re
ferred to thought, that the life In
surance man will live long and flour
ish. He is a bit over-persistent, and
may talk a little too long. He is
certainly "Johnny on the spot" and if
he reads an item to the effect that
you arei engaged to be married, he
will probably call around In about
three minutes and deliver a fervent
oration. But he is arguing In a good
cause. With a great many men who
can't save in any other way, an en
dowment policy is the foundation of
a bank account. And many depend
ent families today owe their security
to his determined efforts.
THE FAMILY REUNIONS
To some people ties of kinship
mean lltt'e. They see no reason why
second cousins should be anything
to each other. A reunion of such
distant relatives would seem to them
as illogical as for all the people
whose names begin with the same
letter to form an association.
Yet there are still a great. many
people who do feel the strength of
these ties of clanship. Not as many
as formerly as families are scattered
nowadays all over the country. Still
Announcements
(Paid advertisements.)
John B. Wlmer, candidate for city
recorder. A commercial graduate
from the Ashland Normal School and
the Capital Business College at
Salem, with fifteen years' practical
business experience, including the
past twenty months In the Ashland
police department, and being closely
connected with the recorder's, office,
assures you, if elected, an efficient,
economical, impartial administration
both as recorder and police judge.
I wish to announce to the voterB
of Ashland that I am a candidate
for the office of City Recorder.
At the time I came west I was
serving a term in a capacity similar
to our office of recorder.
If elected I expect to look after
the city's interest In every particular.
I solicit your support.
Very truly yours,
39-tf C. L. CUNNINGHAM.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of City Re
corder at the coming election in De
cember. W.'H. GOWDY.
39-tf
I wish to announce to the people
of Ashland that I am a republican
candidate for the office of city re
corder in the election to be held Be
cember 19. HENRY C. GALEY.
For City Recorder.
I hereby announce that I am a
candidate for the office of City Re
corder at the coming city election. I
have had sufficient clerical and edu
cational training to prepare me for
the work. If elected I Bhall serve
the people to the best of my ab'lity
R. P. CAMPBELL.
one sees In the newspapers constant
reports of family gatherings large
and small. People travel many miles
to attend them.
The phrase that "blood is thicker
than water" is not wholly meaning
less. The fact that families have a
common ancestor ought to mean
some community of feeling and con
geniality of sentiment. The family
reunions are at least apt to gather
together both rich and poor,' the
prominent and the obscure. People
seem at these occasions to forget the
artificial lines created by money and
society, and to meet on the basis of
a more natural and friendly senti
ment.
Thanksgiving is hut three weeks
away. Invite all the relations to
Ashland and make It a season of re
union. Albany Fully $150,000 worth of
clover seed has been shipped out of
Linn county this year, most of It
from here, where It has been con
centrated from all parts of the coun
ty. About twenty cars ranged from
$G,000 to $10,000 per car.
Klamath Falls will vote on $300,
000 bonds for the Strahorn road to
Sprague liver. Mr. Strahorn assures
continuance of the road on to Bend
If the bond Issue carries.
Goldsn West Coffee
l3 JJI (tierllt
l'fer everything about
mim. Keep aru,
work-in
comfort .wear
REFLEX SUCKER 3.
A. J. Tower Co -Boston
Real Bargains
IN
Real Estate
Three acres 'on Oak street, nice
jhome place, good dwelling. $2,700.
Five-room dwelling, hard finished,
.good plumbing, nice location, for
i $1,800, furnished.
Clark county, Washington, proper
ty to exchange for fruit land in
I Rogue River Valley.
Billing's Agency
Real Estate and Real Insurance
41 East Mala Fbone til
1). M. LOW E, A BOOK FARMER
WHO IS MAKING GOOD
By O. II. Barnhill, Ashland, Ore.
Come with me, gentle reader, and
with your mental Mazda look upon
a few pen pictures of a farmer who
changed his college kaikl for blue
bib overalls and is successfully put
ting into plow practice the technical
theories which he learned in the class
room.
At the 1912 Portland Land Show
the police are having .difficulty in
keeping the crowds from blocking
the aisles In the vicinity of the
Southern Oregon exhibit. Hundreds
of farm products have been artisti
cally arranged, forming a bower of
agricultural beauty. In front of this
booth stands the exhibitor, himself
the chief object of interest, holding
the spectators spellbound with the
story of his farming experiences. Evi
dently, this Is no oily-tongued immi
gration agent or silver-voiced subdi
vider, but a plain, American farmer
who is familiar with all phases of
his subject, tremendously In earnest
and with boundless enthusiasm for
his chosen profession. Just now he
is disproving the irrigation orchard
ing. The exhibitor's eloquence is
backed up with -tangible proofs that
mixed farming can be made a great
success In this locality by carefully
conserving the natural rainfall, and
the crowds move on convinced.
The judges of the land show are
convinced of the extraordinary merit
of Lowe's dry farming exhibit and
when he returns to his ranch near
Ashland his belt Is bulging with the
following official awards:
State Horticultural society, first
premium, $250; Utah Nursery com
pany first prize, $100; gold and sil
ver trophy cups from the Portland
Commercial club, the Southern Pa
cific and Great Northern Railroad
companies.
The next year we see Lowe at
the Chicago Land Show, whither he
has been sent by the Oregon State
Board of Immigration. His exhibit
wins the sweepstakes award and, as
at Portland, is a center of attraction
to the immense crowds that pour
through the exposition building. Not
only are the people attracted by the
splendid display of farm products,
but by the exhibitor's entertaining
lecture, which is a continuous per
formance. There is always some
thing doing at the Oregon booth. To
day a woman who insists that the
44-inch sweet potato squash iamade
of papier-mache has the vegetable
plugged and then attempts to win
a dollar prize by carrying away the
huge product of Oregon soil. '
' Ever and anon sometimes oftener
a tall Eycamore from the Wabash
or elsewhere lines up against the
7-foot sheaf of oats, trying to cap
ture the $25 suit of clothes which
has been offered to the man whose
altitude equals that of the grain.
When Lowe is not with his ex
hibit he is making a speech else
where, being in great demand at
the Coliseum, where audiences which
sometimes number ten thousand are
795 , r$l0 $795
Model 85-4 f. o.b. Toledo HW ' Model 85-4 f.cb. Toledo
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A big roomy car is luxurious- two ways
about it.
But extra inches in an automobile cost hun
dreds of dollars as a rule.
It took an investment of millions in facilities
for tremendously increased production
To effect the economies necessary to produce
luxurious size at this price.
The wheelbase is 112 inches
G. E. MILLNER, Dealer,
fascinated by his glowing descrip
tions of. the Oregon country.
Upon these occasions Lowe appears
as the Man With the Hoe, being
dressed 'in overalls and carrying one
of the implements which made him
a horny-handed son of toil. The peo
ple feel that they are listening to a
practical farmer who knows whereof
he speaks and not to a fine-fingered
theorist or an unprincipled promoter.
The voice of the speaker booms out
like a foghorn, being equalled in
strength and volume by that of few
orators.
During his land show trip Lowe
may also have been observed ad
dressing the largest Y. M. C. A. in
Chicago, student bodies at various
agricultural colleges, -and visitors at
the New York Horse Show, and the
New Orleans Dairy Show. We next
see him in Cuba giving expert ad
vice on alfalfa growing for the
Spreckles Sugar company; wading
waist deep in the flood waters of the
Mississippi in order to make train
connections, the tracks having been
washed away by the rampaging riv
er; blizzard-bound for half a week
In the Rockies; then, delighted be
yond measure to see once more the
green fields of Oregon and to get
back home, where he can associate
with hens and horses.
Numerous calls come for lectures
before commercial clubs and high
schools. In all, 174 lectures are
given and 10,084 miles traveled in
four months. Tempting salaries are
offered Lowe to devote all his time
to advertising Oregon agriculture,
but he prefers farm life, where he
can be at home with the wife and
children and enjoy the first fruits
of his labors. A big railroad com
pany insists upon putting hlra on
their payroll, but he refuses to ac
cept transportation or other tangible
evidence of appreciation.
At the Oregon State Fair a few
years ago Lowe was appointed on a
nomenclature committee, together
with a couple of professional pomol
ogists, to name a large number of
unknown varities of apples. The
horticultural highbrows were con
siderably surprised to find that their
farmer assistant had correctly named
fourteen of the twenty-five apples al
lotted him. Surprise grew to amaze
ment when it was ascertained by
further investigation that Lowe had
also correctly named the eleven re
maining apples of his quota. The
fair managers looked up the new
fruit judge's pedigree and found that
his horticultural education bad been
obtained at the California Agricul
tural college and by working with
Luther Burbank, supplemented -by a
dozen years' of farming In Mendo
cino county. Since this incident Lowe J
has been much in demand for judg
ing fruit exhibits. At Salem last
year he made an exhibit which won
twenty-nine first premiums. The fol
lowing month he took the exhibit to
the Portland Land Show and again
captured the same prizes which he
had won in 1912 and in addition
the sweepstakes and gold medal. His
success at the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion i3 too well known to require
cataloguing.
Luxurious
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio
"Mad in U.S. A."
Cleanliness. Personal Attention
and Courtesy Combined to Make the
Eagle Meat Market Popular
or
L. Schwein
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Before embarking upon an agri
cultural career Lowe was a civil en
gineer, having completed a four
years' course in the Michigan State
University in two and one-half years,
working his way through school and
graduating with $160 ahead of the
game. While surveying a ' logging
road through the mountains near El
gin, Oregon, he was ordered to go to
Canada and do some preliminary
surveying on a new line through the
.Rockies. Having promised his wife
that he would do nothing of the sort
and having become disgusted with
the life of a civil engineer, Lowe
pitched his transit over a 400-foot
cliff, broke his drawing board over
a stump and started for California
to fit himself for the profession of
farming.
While on his way to the Chicago
Land Show, twenty years later, he
was Invited to stop at La Grande
and make a speech. As he was be
ing introduced to the audience he
was astonished beyond -Ineasure to
see enter the room twenty men,
whom he recognized as members of a
class containing fourty-four boys
which graduated frm the Elgin
school the year he taught there one
winter, the weather precluding out
door engineering work. The men
had come down to La Grande on a
special train, in which they took
their old teacher back to Elgin,
where he was tendered a fine ban
quet. The work In which Lowe takes the
greatest interest is the testing and
creating of new Varieties. Among
the latter, some of which have been
sold to seedmen and are yielding the
originator a good revenue, the fol
lowing are deserving of special men
tion: Kentucky Wonder bush bean,
the first cross of which was made
by Burbank; the Lottie Lowe pea;
two new sunflowers; a white corn
which was brought from Minnesota
and adapted to Oregon; a popcorn
which grows a dozen feet high; and
a beardless, hulless, six-rowed win
ter barley. During the past season
thirty-four varieties of grains and
grasses from Russia to Canada
were tested at the Lowe ranch.
Mr. Lowe's seventeen year old son,
Donnle, is a chip out of the old
block, having begun his farming op
erations and plant experiments at the
age of six years. He has originated
a new winter radish of excellent
suallty and at the last State Fair at
Salem exhibited a tomato vine upon
which he has successfully grafted
eleven different varieties. Georgle,
aged six years, has for a year or bo
Bigness!
The seats are comfortable and roomy and
there's plenty of leg room front and back.
And your further luxurious comfort is assured
by cantilever springs, big four-inch tires
and balanced weight the gasoline tank
is at the rear.
Beautifully finis'hed! every convenience!!
Price $795!!!
Model 85-6, six cylinder; 35-40 horsepower
116-inch wheelbase $925.
374 E. Main, Phone 116
INSPECT our marXet and your conn
, dence will be behind the pleasure
of eating our meats. The Knowledge
cleanliness ana a sanitary won
shop will aid your digestion.
N. Main
Pbone 107
HSHLHND
Storage and Transfer Co.
C. F. BATES Proprietor.
Two warehouses near Depot.
Goods of all kinds itored at reason-Able-
rates.
A General Tranxfer Business.
Wood and Rock Springs CoaL
Phone 117.
Office, 99 Oak Street,
ASH LA D, OREGON.
ASHLAND LUMBER
COMPANY '
Dealers In
LUMBER
Shingles. Lath, Sash, Doors,
Roofing Papers, Cordwood.
Factory Block Wood
been planting trees and raising vege
tables; Hazel, a high school grad
uate, is fitting herself to be a teach
er of domestic science; Jewell, the
eldest son, Is superintendent of a box.
factory at Weed, California; lastly
but first in importance, is the hard
working mother, who stays at hom
and keeps things moving while th
father Is away preaching the gospel
of good farming.
John A. Lowe, father of D. M., was.
a cousin to President Hayes, aide de
camp to General Grant, and captain
of the Etghth Ohio cavalry during:
the Civil war.
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