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Or.ion Historical 8oct.tr 107 Second Ashland Will Entertain 75,000 People at the Greatest Patriotic Celebration in the West; Annual Hyiu iicne and Rogue River Round-up, July 3, 4 and 5. IMtmmtiMIIIIIHIHW I Annual Hyiu Hchc A: J Rogue River Round-up J Ashland, July 3, 4, 5. Ashland, July 3, 4, 5. VOL. XLI ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY, MAY 21, 1917 VUMBKR It 4 President Sets June 5 As Date For Draft Registration President Wilson's proclamation putting into effect the selective draft provision of the war army bill, signed Friday, follows: A Proclamation by the President of the United States: Whereas, congress has enacted and the president has on the 18th day of May, 1917, approved the law which contains- the following provisions: Section 0 That all male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, both inclusive, shall be subject to registra tion, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the president; and upon proclamation by the presi dent or other public notice given by him or by his direction stating the time and place of such registration, It shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy and the national guard and naval militia while In the service of the United States, to present them selves for and submit to registration under the provisions of this act, and every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this act upon the publication of said proclamation or other notice, as afore said, given by the president or by his direction; and any person who shall wilfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction In the district court of the United States having jurisdic tion thereof, be punished by Impris onment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly regis tered; provided that, in the call of the docket, precedence shall be given In courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal proceedings under this act; provided, further, that per sons shall be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have at tained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day set for the registration', and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to draft Into the forces hereby authorized, unless ex empted or excused therefrom as In this act provided; provided further, that, In the case of temporary ab sence from actual place of legal resi dence of any person liable to regis tration as provided herein, such reg istration may be by mall under regu lations to be prescribed by the presi dent. Section 6 That the president Is hereby authorized to utilize the serv ice of any or all departments and any or all officers and agents of the United States and of the several states, territories and the District of Columbia, and sub-divlslons herein, in the execution of this act, .and all officers and agents of the United States and ot the several states, terri tories and sub-divisions thereor, ana of the District of Columbia, and all persons designated or appointed un der regulations prescribed by the president, whether such appoint ments are made by the president himself or by the governor or other officer of any state or territory to perform any duty in the execution of this act, are hereby required to per form such duty as the president shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and persons so designated or appointed shal) hereby have full authority for the acts done by them In execution of this act by the direc tion of the president. Correspond ence in the execution of this act may he carried in penalty envelopes bear- Too Much Speed On Scenic Drive . Bryan Bowman with a boy friend and two young ladies were visitors in Ashland the other day from down he valley. Young Bowman was driving h?s own car. Up on Glenview r Drive b let his speed craving get the best of him. Now Glenvlew Drive is as safe as can b. hen taken at a moder ate rat. of speed, but the winding turns are not suitable to high .pe.1 Bowman found this out and had to hire a machine to pull his car b p onto the grade from timber. Luckily no one was hurt, but had the accident occurred at Borne place, along the grade, the car would have roll.d clear Into Ashland creek. ing the frank of the war department. Persons charged as herein provided with the duty of carrying into effect any of the provisions of this act or the regulations made or directions given thereunder, who shall fall or neglect to perform such duty, and any person charged with such duty or having and exercising any author jit under said act, regulations or di 'rections, who shall knowingly make or be a party to the making of any ; false or incorrect registration, physi I cal examination, exemption, enllst jment, enrollment or muster, and any .person who shall make or be a party jto the making of any false statement jor certificate as to the fitness or lia jblllty of himself or any other person for service under the provision of this, or regulations made by the pres ident thereunder, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the ) requirements of this act or of said ! regulations, or who, in any manner, shall fail or neglect full7 to perform I any duty required of him In the exe cution of this act, shall, if not sub ject to military law, be guilty of a ! (Continued on Page Three) Best Folks Going Say Roundup Bunch The Ashland roundup booster dele- I gatlon which attended the Roseburg Strawberry Festival returned Sunday jand are loud. In their praise of the . hearty hospitality extended them at ' Roseburg and of the various features i 1 of the festival. According to the boys, they were practically "given ,the city." Mayor Rice of Roseburg j called thera up immediately after their arrival and informed them that , the hour from 11 to 12 on Saturday morning had been set aside for the j Ashland stunts, and put his automo i bile at the disposal of the boys, driv ing It himself. The Dixson brothers had secured six fine horses which the i Ashlanders rode in the parades, and a number of fair maidens decked out In cowgirl costumes rode in autom I biles and distributed literature. On 'every side the 'Ashlanders were met with acts of co-operation and kind 1 ness wlhch brought them home swearing by Roseburg as the homo of the best people on earth. The mer I chants of the city gave best display I places to the window cards advertis ing the roundup and Hyiu Hehe, the handbills and folders were distrib uted by the thousand and still the crowds yelled for more. A Bupply of roundup buttons was exhausted in a couple of hours. From reports in Roseburg papers the roundup delegation was one of the hits of the festival. Both papers devoted a column of front page space to the Ashland bunch and their stunts. The 'advertising value of the trip cannot be overestimated. To quote John M. Scott of the Southern Pa ciflc, who was In Roseburg, "It is the best method of advertising you could put across." Mr;.! Scott urged that above all the roundup delegation visit Portland for the Rose Festival, and no doubt a delegation will be sent to advertise along the way and at Port land. Tracy Lane and Monte Briggs with the rounduf) song, sang from horse back, automobiles, building roofs', windows, here, there and everywhere, never failed to attract the attention of a big crowd and proved to be a feature unique and effective. Be sides these two, those who made the trip attired In roundup costumes were Fred Herrln, H. O. Frohhach, W. E. Plerson, E. R'. Grieve and Dan Con ner. Five Hundred War Census Marshals Sheriff Jennings states that a force of 500 war census marshals has been organized in Jackson sounty and is ready to handle the registration on June 6 without a hitch. Because ot the special state election June 4, the registration machinery will all be in shape without extra effort. The North Bend box factory may open soon. Former Chief Made Special County Agent R. C. Porter, who was last week appointed as special investigator for Jackson county by District Attorney Roberts, with several men under his supervision, entered upon his new du ties tills morning. The position which Mr. Porter has been appointed to Is one which re quires a reliable, responsible and well-qualified man, and was galne- unsolicited through his efficient work while chief of police of the city of Ashland for nearly four years prior to January 1 of tills year, together with his general knowledge of de tective work, and came to him as a complete surprise when asked to ac cept it. Mr. Porter's duties are general liv vestigating of all cases of law viola tions which are reported to the dis trict attorney's office, and will re quire his attention . in all parts of Jackson county, including the Pacific Highway over the Siskiyou moun tains, and being a responsible man of high moral standing and unapproach able integrity and loyalty, he will be a valuable man to the district attor ney's office In enforcing the laws and apprehending criminals. Old Soldiers Will Hold Reunion Here Col. James Mattlngly of the South ern Oregon Veterans Association re ports that at nn officers' meeting held at Medford the old soldiers decided on Ashland as being the one and only place to hold the annual reunion.: The old soldiers from all over southern Oregon will gather here on September 10 and camp in the lower park where the encampment was held last year. The new auditorium will be offered them for their meetings. ' . ; The Ashland Commercial Club ex tended an Invitation to the associa tion to again come to Ashland, and will appoint a committee to assist in raising $100 to help defray expenses. Last year's reunion was the most suc cessful the veterans have enjoyed. The Chautauqua park provided an Ideal camping spot, handy to both the business portion of the city and to the Chautauqua building where the sessions were held. Bonfires at night and a varied program In the daytime made the old soldiers' stay a pleasant one. News that Ashland Is to again be host is welcomed by the war veter ans. In view of the present war condi tions and resultant arousal of patri otlsm. extraordinary homage will be paid the men who fought for the Stars and Stripes. Coast Artillery Into Service July IS The National Guard organizations of the country are to be drafted Into federal service between July 15 and August 5. The Oregon Coast Artil lery, including the 1st company, will be made part of the federal army on July 15. AVhether state mobilization will precede this date now seems less likely than heretofore, although It is possible. No definite orders have been received beyond the general ones. The Coast Artillery will prob ably mobilize at Fort Stevens but may be sent to some other point. From the general tenor of the present reports it appears that the national guard organizations are to be made part of the first big army sent to Europe, although a division or two of regulars may precede it. Whether or not a use can be found for the Coast Artillery in the Eu ropean contingent Is only a matter of conjecture. The artillery may be changed to some other branch or may be used to replace regular artil lerymen sent to Europe. The National Guard will be mobil ized in 32 divisional camps and given six weeks or two months of intensive training which, In view of the present efficiency, is deemed sufficient to weld them Into a fighting force. They will then vacate the camps to allow the first unit of 500,000 draft ed soldiers to take their turn. . Echo A storage reservoir west of Butter creek is being planned by the Westland irrigation district. E. V. Carter Asks Aid For Children To the Editor: The Oregon Bel gian Children's Food Relief Commit tee, with headquarters in Portland, has obligated itself to raise $2,800 per month for the next six months to feed -,S()0 children In the province of Brabant, Belgium. We have been ap pealed to time and again In behalf of theso poor starving children and many have given repeatedly, but if they are to be saved we must give agai.i and again. The undersigned has been named as committeeman for Jackson county, and it is hoped that our county will respond fully and promiiily In raising our share of the funds necessary. All the banks of Ashland have agreed to accept dona- j Hons tendered, and these will be col-1 lected and forwarded with the names 1 and residences of the donors. It is 1 true that the appeals made now in j nenair or worthy charities are so numerous that all can not lie met, but surely the pitiful cry of these help less, innocent children will not go un heeded, and I am sure that Ashland can lie counted upon to do her full share in raising the money needed. E. V. CARTER. Bowers Appointed To State Lime Board Benton Bowers of tills city has been appointed to the new state lime board liy Governor WIthycombe. Mr. Bowers was first recommended by the Ashland Commercial Club, who secured the co-operation of the vari ous other Jackson county commercial organizations and of the state Tax peyers' League. The other ap pointees are B. G. Leedy of Corvallls, recommended by the slate grange, and John SImanek of Crahtree, recom menc";d by the Farmers' Union. Each of the organizations mentioned made two nominations, from which the governor selected the three appoln tees. The hoard will consist of five members, the two additional mem hers to be the warden of the state penitentiary, acting ex officio, and the fifth member to be selected by the other four. The lime board was created In or der to develop means of making the lime'deposits of the state available to the farmers for fertilizer. Students' Handiwork Elicits Admiration Admiring crowds thronged Dodge & Sons' furniture store Saturday af ternoon and exclaimed over the artis tic and practical handiwork of the members of the manual training and domestic arts classes of the Ashland Junior and senior high schools. To begin to describe each article which was worth particular attention would take many columns and still not do justice. The manual training exhibit was placed alongside some of the factory made furniture in the store, and if itVere not for the labels with the maker's name it would have been hard In many Instances to tell the difference". In fact, one or two pieces of furniture made by the senior high school boys would' win the admiration of an expert cabinetr maker. Numerous articles ranging from tabourets and footstools to ta bles and easy chairs were included in the exhibit of the manual training departments. Heinrlch Heldenrelch was the manual training Instructor at the senior high and Delmar Harmon at the Junior high school, and the exhibit was a monument to their abil ity at teaching the young idea how to build. The women visitors were lrreslstl bly drawn to the half of the show space devoted to the sewing exhibits, and there found cause for hours of surprised inspection of hundreds of dainty and at the same time practical pieces of sewing work. No attempt will be made to describe the scores of articles of apparel and bits of fancy work, but Judging from the comments of the women visitors Misses Ring helm of the senior high and Miss Brandies of the Junior high must be wonder workers at teaching girls to sew. - Contract has been let tor' a modern apartment house, at Roseburg. Klamath District Epvvorth League Meet Great Success 'Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do, Do not wait to shed your light afar; To the many duties ever near you now be true, Brighten the corner where you are." Sing it! Whistle it! Live it! To ; ite City. The first meeting of tlm hpar two hundred young people sing district officers was held' last July, the convention song, of which the and In September work on the pro above is the first verse, at the clos-'grani was begun. .President E. (). ing meeting of the Epworth League, Smith organized eleven l-ngue dis annunl meet at the Methodist church triets in the northwest and thus Sunday evening, meant inspiration made possible the securing of Dan plus. Rev. J. It. Van Fosuen. district Rnimmltt, editor of the EpwortU superintendent, installed the follow"-; Herald, Chicago, to speak at this and Ing officers for the ensuing year: I other northwest conventions. Brum Herhert Wilklns, president; Cuther- mitt Is known ns "The Big Epworth Ine Miller, secretary; II. S. Palmer-Man" and divides with the general lee, Anna Caldwell, May Llndley, May Wells, vice-presidents: Paul Day, treasurer; Mrs. lioldrldgo, Jun ior League superintendent. For two days a big bunch of en thusiastic Epworthlnns from the Klamath district, which includes Klamath Falls, Roseburg and all in - termediate points, have been holding Theft Restriction Proves Big Problem A problem which is assuming big proportions in Ashland as well as In the various other cities of the coast is that of the theft of Junk and small articles which are sold to junk aud second-hand dealers. Restriction of sale of junk and second-hand articles, which will render detection of theft easier and at the Bame time not work a hardship on honest dealers, Ib a dif ficult matter to solve, and the city council wrestled for almost two hours with a new Junk ordinance Tuesday night. .New phases kept bobbing up until the problem looked almost un solvable to eerybody's satisfaction, and finally the passage of an ordi nance was left over until the next meeting, which will be a special ses sion lisld on May 29. The present ordinance conflicts In some respects and has not proven 1 together satisfactory. City Attorney Moore presented a new ordinance Tuesday night, but some of the coun- oilmen were not satisfied with 11. : TWr Mnnra'n nrrHnnnnp nermlttpd mln-! ors to sell junk under certain restric tions and did not require dealers to hold such stuff for seven days as at present. Violent objection was made by sev eral to the elimination of the seven day clause, which while admittedly working a hardship In some cases, was deemed necessary to give the owner of stolen goods a chance to recover the same. Discussion of means whereby the clause could be made to apply only to the atrlcles more frequently Btolen was lengthy, and it seems probable that some such solution will be decided upon. This would ward against the Immediate shipping of Junk by dishonest deal ers and at the same time give legiti mate dealers an opportunity to im mediately dispose of bulky articles such as furniture. The matter of minors selling sec ond hand articles and junk was left up In the air." The discussion brought out the fact that dozens of Ashland boys are Im plicated in the theft of small articles such as faucets,, plumbing fixtures and the like and the selling of them, sometimes with forged authoriza tions. In any event It seems positive that dealers will be required to keep com plete records of buys and sales, to gether wkh names of those con cerned. City Attorney Moore tr.Tffaihed that the ordinance now In effect had beea hurriedly drawn and passed by a pre vious council without proper conning over. In many respects the present ordinance in enforcable, however, and will continue In effect until a new one Is passed. Over In Siskiyou county, Califor nia, a report is In circulation that Bray Brothers received $70,000 for their big stock ranch near Cole sta tion which they recently sold to Reg- Inald Parsons of Medford. The con- .(deration by which Mr. Parsosn be- came owner of the ranch has never .Andrew McCallen of Ashland also en been made public. rolled at the Presidio. meetings in our city, planning, pray ing, singing anil working for ail that Is good and pure and holy In this and other communities represented. Few people realize the importance of this convention, which compares fa vorably witli any other gathering oi similar nature ever held in the Gran ' secretary the work of forming among the young people of the Methodist church "a league offensive and de fensive, with every soldier of Jesus Christ," which was the announced desire of John Wesley. In his address Saturday evening Mr. Prummltt described the Epworth l eague as a laboratory of youth, , comparable to Edison's scientific laboratory in .New Jersey, where great discoveries are made as a result of countless experiments nea"ly all of which are failures. Whenever all experiment succeeds the resultant In vention is taken out of the laboratory and put to work for the benefit of mankind. Epworthlans are at the experimental age and make many necessary mistakes in finding out what they can do best and how best to do it. When they succeed they enter other fields of useful activity. One of the most remarkable meet ings of the convention was the sun rise prayer meeting held in the park Saturday morning with an attend ance ot sixty. That such a larga number should attend "devotional meeting at such a very early hour Is the best possible proof of the spirit' of service which animated the con vention. Another remarkable feature of the convention was the banquet Saturday evening. This was In charge of the Teacup C)ul) nnil U(li(,s. A(j f the I jocnl church, and the ladies certainly d(, fl gQOd jo)) of Mlng the young . The "piece d resistance" was , . . , thp ,,, M SPCUre(i by fair means or fywl, as Rev. Doug lass was observed coming down North Main street early Saturday morning with a fat, yellow-legged rooster under his arm. There were also sandwiches, potatoes, pickles, salad, cake, coffee, jelly and Ashland poaches. Two hundred guests sat down to supper;, completely filling one small and two large rooms. The hour was 6 o'clock, and by 8 o'clock the eats had been disposed of and seven speeches delivered and assimi lated. If any other banquet beats this record it will have to go some. Rev. Reed filled the posl'ion of toast master In his usually l.appy style. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Mayor Lamkln, J. O. RIgg and H. O. Butterfield. and responses made by Hubert Wilklns of Grants Pass and Dan Brummltt of Chicago. Mr. Butterfield called attention to the fact that many of the league boys were soon expected to enter active military service ot their country and that they would need the prayers and letters of those who remained at home'. Mr. BrummRt showed a roll of honor which was being put Into the various chapters and which con tains the names of the members who had enlisted for the war, together, with a statement that they were fighting for the establishment of Christian Ideals and that every sol (Contlnued on Page Four.) J. Q. Adams Gets His Commission J. Q. Adams of this city has re ceived his commission at the officers' training camp at the Presidio. Ha will receive the pay of a lieutenant from now on. One hundred men were given their commissions Friday. Mr. Adams was a sergeant in the 1st company here and held a high posi tion In the O. A. C. cadet regiment. He went from Corvallls to the train- Ing camp. ', - 1 ' Walter Phillips,' Verni Mills and