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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1917)
Monday, January 20, 1917 Ashland Tidings By , THE ASHLAND PRINTING 00. I (Incorporated) ESTABLISHED 1876 SEMI-WEEKLY Bert R, Greer, Editor and Manager Harvey R. Ling, Advertising Manager Lynn Mowat, City Editor Offical City and County Paper Issued Monday and Thursday TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Die Tear 92.00 lx Monthe 1.00 Three Months (0 Payable In Advance No subscriptions tor less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at Expiration unless renewal Is recelvsd. In ordering changes of the paptr always give the old street address or tostofflce as well as the new. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Kews print has doubled In price the last four months. It necessitates an advance in advertising rates, or we will have to quit business. Fol lowing are the advertising rates in the Ashland Tidings after this date. There will be no deviation from this rate: ADVERTISING RATES. Display Advertising Single Insertion, each Inch. .25c One month.... " " 20c Six months.... " " 17 He One year " " 15c Reading Notices 5 cents the line straight. Classified Column 1 cent the word first insertion, cent the word each other Insertion. Thirty words or less one month, $1. All written contracts for space al ready in force will be rendered at the old rate until contract expires. Fraternal Orders and Societies. Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular initiation fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be harged for all advertising when an admission or other charge is made, at the regular rates. When no ad mission is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All addi tional at regular rates. The Tidings has a greater circula tion In Ashland and its trade terri tory than all other local papers com bined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Fostofflce as second-class mall mat tw. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Jan. 2, '17 DELINQUENT TAX PUBLICATION. Portland Oregontan: A repeated charge that the newspapers of Ore gon are the patrons and beneficiaries of graft in tho publication by a Port land paper, the Journal, which has set out to secure repeal of the present law authorizing publication and the substitution of notice to delinquents by postal cards. Why not by the town crlert The present law requires publica tion in Multnomah county in "news papers" of 10,000 or more circular tlon, and the district attorney has in terpreted tho statute to mean all pa pers able to qualify. Undoubtedly It is wasteful and unnecessary to print the list in four newspapers. But it Is sound policy and true economy to give public notice that taxes on cerr tain properties are delinquent and not to follow a plan of mere private notice to the owners. It can not reasonably be contended that the only duty the county has when the delinquent property is to be offered for sale is to drop a note In the mails to the man or woman who has failed in his payments. Pub lication of the delinquent list is a most important step in the process leading to sale of the property. It would appear to bo desirable, for obvious reasons, to have that fact well known. Moreover, knowledge that one's property will be advertised for non-payment of taxes is a direct incentive to prompt payment. We believe any experienced tax collector will give his testimony to that effect. Assertion by a newspaper that adr vertlsement, or publication, in a pub lic Journal is without value is a strange thing, and may be set down to sheer aberration or perversity of mind, or a jealous and spiteful pur pose to withhold such publication from other newspapers, at any cost to itself. For the public and for newspapers in general, the Oregonlan insists that publication on their pagos Is far more effective and profitable than any un certain process of private notifica tion through the malls or otherwise. No newspaper is Justified in charging the state or county more than its cus ,"M USllllllibli 8 Arrow U COLLARS ancvrwcuttojittlusJwdkB perfectly. tmseaJi.bjvri CUIETT PMODY hCOjIHC'Maktn MiiuiiiuiiiiiiiuniiiiHIIIWIUiUWIM tomary commercial rates for public business; and insofar as such charges have been made by any paper, they are excessive and dishonest, and may appropriately be denounced as graft. But we do not think that it is disr honorable or unworthy for Journals as a class to seek the public business on the same terms as private busi ness; and we do not think that pub lishers or editors who regard their pages as sound media for publication of public notices o;; any 'kind are grafters. We think rathor more of such a newspaper than of the other kind which discredits Its own pro fession and discounts its own service to Its readers and to the public by preferring postal-card publicity to newspaper publicity. The legislnturo ought not to be dragooned Into hasty or costly action in this business. Let thero be due consideration of the question on its broad merits. There ought to be publicity of delinquent tax lists, on fair terms, and it ought to be uni form in method and reasonable in cost. If it is worth while to a county to take the best means of avoiding general delinquencies, and of making the most, satisfactory and expeditious disposition of such properties after delinquency, It will not abandon the present scheme of public notice. ELECTRIC MORALS. The campaign inaugurated by the city authorities to reduce the unpaid current loss in the city has revealed a most unusual state of affairs. Un usual not alono in the surprises which have greeted the crew which is doing the fusing, but also in that a most remarkable attitude toward the use of current has been revealed. And the attitude is not confined to a few but is general throughout the city. Citizen-? whose characters and morals are above reproach and whose minds would revolt at the very idea of taking anything which was not thelr's have paid little or not atten tion to electric light current matters. They have unthinkingly hitched on a couple of extra lights or a toaster or a stove without bothering to give the matter more than a second thought and without the least inten tion of wrongdoing or realization that they were taking a marketable commodity worth money. Perhaps the attitude has grown up through' out the city because of the fact that the city owns the electric light plant and every citizen regards the plant and all it manufactures to be bis without question to do with as he pleases. Now that the publlo has begun to understand the true status of affairs the attitude has undergone a sweep ing change and a most gratifying fea ture o'. the change is the good grace with which tho citizens are endeavon lng to make things right. Many ap pliances which have been In use are being reported dally, and offers to make right any loss which the city may have sustained are frequent, showing that the fault lay in lack c understanding rather than in inten tional wrongdoing. The city electri cal officials are accepting the chang es In the spirit which they are given and erasing the past. When the en tire cty is ei'.her fused or metered everyone will have a clean slate and a new start, and with an understand ing of what the current lost means in money to the city, the electrical department will have fuller co-opera tion from the people, and smoother sledding in the future. Chinese New Year Minus Firecrackers Chinese New Year began last week, the honcst-to-goodness China man starting upon a period of feast ing and devil chasing. But little out ward aigns of a celebration are observable- around the local Chinatown, the anti-fireworks edict putting a quietus on the exhibttllon of noise- making which used to attract the townspeople In years gone by. Then, too, tho Chinese here are becoming more and more Americanized. Trays of sweetmeats, nuts and queer can dles are placed where all may par take In the Wah Chung store; and feasts are nightly occurrences. Wah Chung returnod Saturday Itrom Port land, where he had spent a few days on business. Gold Beach Curry county buys a rock crusher and equipment to im prove roads in northern part of coun ty. Portland Improvements on North Bank, Oregon Electric, Oregon Trunk and United Railways lines for last 12 months have totaled $500,000. Vale Stockralslng homestead act causes big rush for lands. Will add millions to tax rolls. State to provide $15,000 for high way at New Era in addition to the county's $16,0.00 and federal aid of $30,000. iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimmtmffl I e i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h i i i i i i i i mi i i 1 ' i Heard and Overheard ; (By Lynn D. Mowat.) Salem, Ore., has sprung on the un suspecting world the greatest adver tising getter of recent months by asking Salem, Maine, to change Its name. Practically every newspaper In the country published the cheeky proposal and many commented upon it. All unwittingly gave Salem, Ore., a nice little bunch of advertising. Just think If Andrew Jackson was only alive, Jackson county could re quest him to change his name to Smith or Brown. That ought to be good for the first page of every news paper In the country. Express Agent Daniel Applegate Informs us that the express office will not hold a rummage sale of un called for packages after the bone dry act Is In oiffect. We had the Idea that the express company might sell the uncalled for packages Just like tailors sell uncalled for suits. Cigarettes and Coffins. .During the year 1916 the govern ment levied a tax upon 25,232,960, 928 cigarettes, according to a recent report. Probably as many more were rolled by the smoker out of the "makin's." "Every time you smoke a cigarette you drive a nail In your coffin," says the time-honored adage. A local undertaker tells us that many coffins are glued, nearly all are put together with screws, and but few with nails. Even if nails were used a maximum estimate would be about 100 nails to tho coffin. At that rate 25,000,000 residents of the United States built their coffins last year. E. N. Butler's birthday comes in November and ours comes in August, Hence we aro seriously considering having a Joint birthday party on the last day of this month. Carl Lover land wants to be admitted, but so far has refused to tell when his birthday comes. Coley Coleman, Jr., Is getting a shadowy circle on his upper lip Coley says It Is a mustache, but has been unable to produce evidence to prove it as yet. He says he Is going to train it like Crlt Tolman's by shav ing the upper half and letting it curl up. It doesn't look very healthy to us. We are willing to bet that if Coley Shaves the upper half the lower half will curl up and die. Representative Thomas brought tears to the eyes, and water to the mouths, of the state legislators at Salem with a vivid description of the deplorable condltolns which exist at Hornbrook and pleaded for legislation which would make the state so bone dry that drunken nutolsts would not make the Pacific Highway over the Slsklyous a piece of road to be shunned by re spectable autolsts on account of the many drunken drivers who come ricocheting over the hills from Horn brook, endangering lives of sober drivers as well as their own. We will agree with Mr. Thomas most ful ly on one point: If Oregon Is made absolutely bone dry the travel over the Pacific Highway will be greatly Increased. No doubt of It. We asked a young fellow, who had been married only a few months, the time of day, yesterday. When he opened his watch we noticed his wife's picture pasted on the face. We asked him what he kept that in his watch for, and he replied, "So I can shut her up onco In a while." According to the Medford Sun, the militia company in our thriving neighbor city has purchased a Vlc- trola and received orders to dress up In their full dress suits once per month. The company is now fully equipped for service and awaits its country's call. When you feel like a chick with the Pip. And let all your business go rip, Beat it homo to your couch And sleep off your grouch, For it's no use of fightln' the grippe. Sleep and Feet. We love to He abed till noon and sleep and sleep and sleep. In fact, the time can't come too soon when we have made a heap and will not have to leave our couch until we've slept away each semblance of the morning grouch which now we feel each day. Such little things as fire alarms and neighbors mowing lawn don't bother us when in the arms of Morpheus we yawn. A Big Ben is not worth a hang when we are plunged in slum ber; a boiler factory's whanging bang, a sawmill ripping lumber, don't even make our eyelids twitch when we are wrapped In dreams. There's nothing can our snoring ditch at mornlag, so It seems. WVro sure we never would wake up and get down TRADE AT HOME! t mini in ASHLAND Creamery manufacturers of Butter and Ice Cream X When Buying Butter Ask for Ashland Creamery Butter J Phone 24 D.PerozzI, Mgr. te ( Ill to the Job unless a bombshell from a Krupp was bounced from off our knob, If blankets would stay tucked In tight and not our slumber wreck by coming off our feet each night and winding round our neck. Oh sleep to us is more than gold, but when our feet and knees are sticking out into the cold we have to wake or freeze. A 1,600-acre farm near Pendleton, which at one time sold for nearly $73,000, has recently been sold for $36,000. Falls City to have new S. P. depot soon. New brick garage to be built at Grants Pass. That's an unusual word what !i itf Omar and aroma mixed up together Omar-aroma, in happy combina tion. And the aroma in the Omar ciga rette is just as happily distinctive as the aroma in the name. It is sooth ing and ripe, smooth and rich a supreme triumph of blend. Omar the perfect Turkish blend ! Even the words blend. 76 theOmar-Aroma Guaranteed tj i Park Garage MORRIS BROS., Propi. Used Cars for Sale Automobile Supplies and Repairs Micheiin, Goodrich and Fisk Tires in Stock Other Makes on Short Notice Phone 152 Park Ave I I Here and There Among Our Neighbors j The Grants Pass Sugar Company has leased 100 acres of land near Sutherlln, F. B. Walte, prepara tory to planting sugar beets. Japan ese will be used to cultivate the beets. Six Portland Chinese also under consideration a plan to lease 200 acres of rich bottom land of the Curry estate and raise potatoes, broc coli and other truck. That Portland possesses the shin.- gle mill with the largest individual output in the United States is proved by figures cited in the current issue of the Timberman. In 1910 the Men efee Lumber Company at its Portland that counts iiiiiiiwwmiiiiiiiii t I Men's Shoes I Mtist Wea j Your shoe money spent for GOOD Shoes will last longer. Briggs&Elmore 11 East Main Street I ' mill produced 280,000,000 red cedar shingles, setting it at tho head of all shlnglo mills in the United States. Second place Is held by a plant at Raymond, Wash., which has 165, 311,000 as its mark for 1916. Salem Statesmen: A fund of $1,000 has been set apart by the United States National Bank of Salem as a loan fund for tho benefit of boys and girls in Marion and Polk counties who expect to participate in pig club work. G. W.. Eyre, vice president of the bank, was instru mental In having the fund set aside. He has been encouraging pig club work for somo time. Klamath Falls. Incorporated for $40,000, the Oiegon-Callfornia Box Company will begin operations In tho old Savldge Brothers plant here with in a few weeks. Fifty thousand box es a day will be manufactured, if the factory runs to capacity. Fifty men are to be employed at the start. Roseburg News: Seventeen head of fine Jersey milch cows and one registered bull were killed the first of this week by R. W. Long, one of the most prominent dairymen of this state, after he bad ascertained that they were afflicted with tuberculosis. Mr. Long's herd was considered one of thei finest in the state and for some time the milk and cream from his ranch has boen In demand. Probably due to the high cost of living, a movement is under way to raise the salaries of Siskiyou county- officials. It Is proposed to boost the sheriff's Income to $6,000 per year, clerk and recorder $3,500 each, tax collector $2,400, assessor $4,000, dis trict attorney $2,700, treasurer $2, 400, surveyor $3,000, school superin tendent $2100, and auditor $2,000. A raise for the coroner seems to have been overlooked. Representative Ream of Sisson Introduced the salary grab bill. Indian Agent Holds Auto With Booze A. T. (Buck) Anderson, a promi nent Klamath stockman, arrested a (few days ago charged with introduc ing liquor on the Indian reservation. Is suing the Indian agent for the re covery of his automobile, which was seized with the alleged . stock of liquor carried In the machine. An derson will be given a preliminary hearing before the United States com missioner at Klamath Falls when the federal prosecutor arrives from Port land. Anderson, who lived on an Indian allotment feeding stock, was arrested on the charge of carrying into the reservation two demijohns and two bottles, all filled with liquor, In his auto, and under an old statute that provides for the confiscation of any vehicle carrying liquor Into Indian reservations, the auto was seized and is held for confiscation. In his suit for recovery Anderson also asks for; $400 damages. Phone news items to the Tidings. INTERTJRBAN AUTOCAR CO. Leave Ashland for Medford, Talent and Phoenix dally except Sunday at 9:00 a. m. andl:00, 2:00, 4:0 and 5:16 p. m. Also on Saturday night at 6:30. Sundays leave at 9:00 and 1:00, 6:00 and 10:89 P. m. Leave Medford for Ashland dally ex cept Sunday at 8:00 a. m., 1:00, 2:00, 4:00 and 6:16 p.m. Also on Saturday at 10:16. On Sunday at 10.30 a. m., and 2:00, 6:00 and 9:30 p. m. Fare between Medford and Ash. land, 20 cents. Round trip, S3 oeoU,