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fa Monday, May 21, 1017 ASHLAND TIDINGS PAGE VIVB LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Irene Brandies spent the week-end with friends In Medford. George Ketchum and wife returned last week from a visit at Redding. C. F. Shepherd and son visited in Yreka and attended to business mat ters last week. Mrs. Clinton Baughraan recently underwent an operation at the Sani tarium for appendicitis. It. P. Throne of this city has been selected as one of twenty honor stu dents for this year at O. A. C. Klamath Falls is planning a cele bration for July 3 arid 4 to celebrate the starting of work on the Strahorn railroad. J. V. Wright and family of Lincoln street were Medford visitors last week to take In the parade. They Teport It very finej A gentleman from Missouri did not understand how it would be possible to spend his money and, at the same time, save It for himself or his fam ily, until he was shown a Wetsern States Life Ins. Co. policy. H.. !. Galey, agent, 431-J. 103-2t Yakima valley was visited by a frost Tuesday of lats week, but no serious damage was done except In a few scattered districts. The Christian Sunday school ex pects to observe Children's Day the first Sunday In June, and a splendid program Is being prepared. Master Thomas Booth of B street has had quite a severe attack of measles. iJ r inc. -vr riTI7FMC . BANK O FASH LAND Comprehensive Service Our banking service has a well-earned reputation for promptness and accu racy. We believe you will appreciate the careful at tention we give every transaction. Your account is invit ed. SAVINGS DEPOSITS, MaMEi l Worfllu Yomu!0 lesS MtteFett to Shop at-Vaupel's. Now that qualities, materials, colors, are hard to get, and prices soaring, you will find better merchandise here tor the money than elsewhere. Our buying facilities stored and stocked merchandise in order to serve you best now at this time, and that is why you find our store busy, saving you money. Men's 50c Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, at, each (Price today would be 65c) Boys'-Poros and Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, now (Price today would ba 35c) Ladies' Athena Union Suits of finest yarns, in any style; none better, at (Price today would be $1.50) Ladies' Summer Vests priced here at 10c, 12c, 15c 20c, 25c, 30c, 35C, 50c, 75c, $1.00. These qual ties are now priced elsewhere at 25 to 50 per cent higher. VAUPELAS, "The Store That Serves A. E. McFarland Is getting along nicely after his recent operation. Miss Edna Dahuff, who Is teaching at Colestln, was In town Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Ella Isham of Grants Pass was in town last week, attending the M. E. convention. Mrs. Black of Medford has rented one of the Barber houses on Granite street for the summer. Miss Nell Peachey expects to teach her next; term in the Soda Springs district east of town. 0. N. Wilson and family of Med ford were visitors at the Fraley home on Mountain avenue Sunday. Mrs. Bertha McKinney has finished her school work at Foot's Creek and has returned to Ashland. Mrs. J. R. Maxedon of B street, who has suffered from a felon on her hand for some time, is Improving. Stevenson Studio for portraits. Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Young expect to leave this week for Denver, Colo., where they will visit relatives for the summer. Hazel Smith Drew of Klamath county Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Smith, of B street, at the present time. Misses Charlotte Banford and Helen Bract were guests of Mrs. B. R. Greer Saturday. They were mem bers of the U. of 0. Glee Club. Ed Wolters of Mountain avenue, who has been a fireman for some time, made his first run as engineer on Saturday on the S. P. railroad. The Sunshine Society will meet at the Temple of Truth on Thursday af ternoon to study the measures to be voted on at the June 4th election. Prof. Van Scoy has finished his school at Rogue River and has re turned to Ashland. His old friends and students are glad to welcome him home. Mrs. Beaumont De Losh of Aber deen and her baby girl arrived Fri day to spend the summer in Medford with the parents of Mrs. De Losh, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. C. 3. Haney of Doug las county have been recent visitors at the Benedict home In Ashland and have gone on south for a visit In California before returning home. Dan Blackford aud Mrs. Williams of Drain, Ore., were visiting friends in this vicinity last week. Mrs. Wil liams will visit her sister in the Apr plegate country before returning to her home In Douglas county. In the Civic Club's debate Tuesday of the $6,000,000 bond issue Mrs. Benton Bowers will lead the affirma tive and Mrs. Etta Rowland the neg ative. The best lady speakers In the city are lining up and the meeting promises to be a rousing one. Miss Margaret Schell, who went from Ashland to Alaska last year to teach, writes her friends that she Is expecting to go to St. Joseph, Mo., next year to take post-graduate work in the high school there. Underwear lor Men, Women and Children here at the former good qualities, and not a cent higher, in fact, we have marked many less than reg ular prices, and offer 43c 15c 1.00 One It Is rumored that the sawmill at Brookings has shut down because of a shortage of labor. Many of the young men from the lumber town en listed. Miss Alice Flynn of the local teach ing staff leaves Saturday morning for her home In St, Paul. She will spend a couple of weeks in California en route east. . 1 Fred L. Hauck of Seattel arrived here Saturday and met his sister, Mrs. Van Lear, who came from Los Angeles to meet him here. They will locate in Ashland. Mesdames D. A. Peterson and C. O. Porter and baby accompanied Mrs. J. F. Porter to this city from Duns mulr last Wednesday and are spend ing a week as her guest. Miss Gretchen Kramer spent Satur day and Sunday with friends in Med ford. She leaves next Saturday for her home In Independence. Miss Kramer will return next fall to teach again in the Ashland schools. Slsson. Mrs. Fred E. Walters of Ashland relieved R. E. Nixon at the local station here Monday and Tues day as second telegrapher while the latter was In Yreka as a witness. Mrs. Walters returned home Wednes day. , Victor Vernl Mills of Ashland Is one of the twelve Oregonlans in the graduating class at the University of California this year. His course was civil engineering. He is enlisted at the officers' training camp at the Pre sidio. Mr. and Mrs. Judson Young left for their home at Hoquiam, Wash , last Friday after having spent the winter In Ashland. This was their pecond winter here and they hope to pell out their business at Hoquiam nnd return to Ashland to stay. More Japanese laborers arrived In Medford Friday to work in the sugar beet fields of the valley. R. Saito, the labor contractor, is placing the Japanese In groups at the various ranches where needed. The price paid for thinning sugar beets Is $7 an acre. There Is plenty of work of this kind In the valley and hardly enough persons so far can be obtained to perform It. Willa Rhodes, nine-year-old. Port land girl, writes that she is a candi date for queen of the Rose Festival and asks that Ashland help her. The queen and king this year are to be ! little folks between the ages of six ! and ten., Little Miss Rhodes' pictur.e I appeared In Sunday's Oregonian. Her mother was formerly Miss Mattie Cot- jtrell and was "Raised near Ashland," 'to use little Wllla's words. Mr. Childs of the Free Methodist conference is in the city, after two ' years' absence from the city. He has been In attendance at conference at Medford and came up to see the new Llthia park, which has been con structed since he went away. He is now located at Springfield, Ore. Grants Pass Courier: Rev. and Mrs. Melville T. Wire, Mrs. H. H. Boys' 50c Summer Union Suits, special 43c One lot of men's Ide Collars, largo sizes 5C Men's Oxfords at just one-half former prices. Boys' Oxfords all go at, pair $1.85 Ladies' Sorosis Oxfords, $4.00 qualities $2.50 lot of ladies' high Shoes, sizes 2 to 5, including Q A White Nubucks, pair Children's Oxfords all at cost. Basler, Misses Katherine Miller, Helen Fifield. Helen Ellis, Muriel Myers, Marian Sabln, Irene Caldwell, L'lda Basler, Dora Herman, Vivian Isham, Messrs. Hubert Wilken, Har old Isham, Horace Hair, Paul Day and Velton Basler went to Ashland this morning to attend the Epworth League convention. In session Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Word lias been received In Rose burg from Washington to the effect that Postmaster General Burleson had Issued an order to the effect that It Is now unlawful to mail letters, postal cards or publications contaln- ng liquor advertisements, under the so-called Reed amendment, into the ' dry states. Oregon is among the ; states affected by the order. The ' instructions from the Postmaster ' General have been sent to the many , postmasters in this state j The Free Methodist conference just closed at Medford made the follow ing appointments for the Medford district: D. D. Dodge, district elder; Medford, Mrs. Phelessa Douglas, sup ply; Ashland, Rhoda Burnett, re tired; Trail and Derby, J. E. McDon ald: McDowell, Cal., W. E. Good; Grants Pass, C. E. Glazier. Mrs. L. R. Mason, accompanied by a relative1, came up from Tasadena last week and are visiting Mrs. Ma son's sister, Mrs. C. W. Fraley, of Mountain avenue;, at present. Mrs. Mason, has been spending the winter in Pasadena, but her home Is In Iowa. Mrs. H. H. Heller, assistant super intended of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Portland, left for the lat ter city Friday after having spent sev eral days looking after wards of the society In Jackson county. A dozen children are scattered In various homes thioughout the county who were placed there by the society. On account of bad roads Mrs. Heller was unable, to visit all the society's wards, as several of them live long distances from the city. En route to the Rosehurg Straw berry festival this morning a delega tion of Ashland men in cowboy cos tumes jumped off the northbound train and entertained the train pas sengers and depot crowd with special roundap advertising stunts, Including "The Rogue River Roundup" song, sung through megaphones as a duet by Tracy Lane the cowboy poet, and M. E. Brlggs, secretary of the Round up Association. The whole advertised the coming big event at Ashland, and the tune was the air of "When You Wore a Tulip." The, KiRgest Slaughter Trade Ever Put Before the Public. We have surreys, spring wagon, hacks and buggies ranging from $40 to $200, for which we will make in even trade for a good cow and calf. First come, first served. 103-2t EMILPEIL. Prof. Peterson, rural school super visor, who has charge of the boys' and girls' corn and pig clubs through out the county, reports that the pu pils are making excellent progress, Hosiery lor the Family Can be had here at 5 to 10c a pair cheaper than elsewhere. All qualities of hose are higher and hard to get. Through liberal ad vance purchases we are able to offer excep tionally good values in ladies' hose at 18c 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, 50c. 65c, 75c, and $1. These qualities are all higher elsewhere. In men's we offer heavy work sox at 10c, 15c and 20c. In dress sox at 10c, 15c, 19c, 25c, 35c, and 50c, all at saving prices. Children's hose at 15-20-25-30-35C. Boys' 25c Blouse Waists, special each 15c Boys' White Collar Shirts, sizes 12 to 14 43c uUJ not withstanding the lateness of the season. This year they are contract ing to take care of one acre each, in stead of one-sixteepth or one eighth of an acre, as was the case last year. About thirty of these contracts are now in force, showing the vast In crease in acreage this season over that, of last year under the care of the boys and girls. John B. WImer leaves this evening for Eugene to attend the Odd Fel lows' convention. He Is taking along a lot of Hylu Hehe advertising mu terlal. 4 Harry Smith of Reno. Xev., has arrived in Ashland, bought a car and leased a home on Nob Hill street with the privilege of buying later. He is greatly pleased with Ashland and ex pects to make this his permanent home. Mr, Smith is a personal friend of F. C. Stevens, who came here re cently from Reno and bought the Greenman property at the corner of Quincy and California streets. It was mainly through the persuasion of Mr. Stevens that Ashland gained another fine citizen In Mr. Smith. Mr. Stevens Is getting a number of folks In his former home interested In Ashland and Is a booster from the word go. He is widely traveled and selected Ashland after two years of home-seeking. Chief Boatswain's Mate A. E. Red ding was In the city Saturday as the advance agent for a naval recruiting party which will be here about June 10. Gustav Osnart is the latest naval recruit from this city, enlisting last Saturday through Postmaster Kaiser, Fred Schuerman and Charley Por ter, who left O. A C. to aid In agri cultural preparedness work, have ser cured positions on the Davis ranch. Miss Alma Ross of Wlnslow, Ariz., who will l)e one of the new teachers on the local staff next year, was a visitor in the city Saturday. An eastern paper shows a picture with the ladies wearing onion and potato necklaces, demonstrating the fact that things are valued by what they cost rather than by their attrac tive appearance. This same eastern paper also told of a certain young couple getting married and their friends, after conferring with each other, decided to give the young folks eggs for a wedding present be cause of the high cost of living, and eggs were brought In cans, boxes and crates to the wedding instead of the usual cut-glaas and silverware. Some one asked the foung fellow the day after what he was going to do with so many eggs. James looked rather hurt and said. "Don't crowd me. We ate sixteen tills morning for break fast." An Indian Shaker church has been Incorporated from among the In dians on the Klamath reserve. Weed is making a bid for a new jail and has the matter before the Siskiyou board of supervisors. Ladies' Colored Silk Glove Specials All 50c Silk Gloves in colors, at pair All 75c Colored Silk Gloves, at pair ! All $1.00 Colored Silk Gloves, at pair (This includes long and snort style gloves j Please Note Silk gloves will be impossible to get a - ..... little later in the season. t The qualities above adver tised can not be had for less than 75c, $1.00, $1.50, so it will pay you even to dye these to the colors you wish t See us for summer dress goods and shoes Your Best War Census Plans To Be Published Statewide publicity Is to be given the details of the war census, news letters, bulletins and wires being em ployed to disseminate knowledge con cerning the census. Adjutant Gen eral Geoigo A. White has written a letter of personal appeal to every ed itor In the state, asking for his co operation in order that Oregon on the day of registration will know how to register and that there will be little or no confusion. By this means Gen eral White Is confident that the work of registration will move without a hitch when war census day, which has yet to be proclaimed by President ilson, comes. Plans by which men absent from their city or county can register, as well as college students coming within the requisites of tho act, are being worked out. Died. Mrs. Mary M. White died Monday at her home, 112 B street, after an Illness of brief duration. She was the wife of H. L. White and her age was 55 years, 3 months and 17 days. De ceased was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, In 1862 and in 18S2 was married to Charles L. Tyler. Two children were horn to them. The daughter, Dr. Lethea Tyler, was at the bedside. The son, Charles Tyler, was en roufe to Honolulu. Mr. Tyler died May IS, 1880, and the following year the widow came to Oregon, locating for a time at Salem and later at Grants Pass. In 1891 she was joined 'n holy wedlock with Henry L. White. One son was born to them Harry B. White, who resides at Calexlco, Cal, and who was present at the funeral. For Blxteen years after their marriage Mn. and Mrs. White lived at Rock Point, coming to Ashland In 1907. Died. Emma Alta Rounds Stephenson died at 5:45 Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Stennett, at 116 Factory street, after an Illness of over five weeks. Fun eral services will lie held at the Chris tian church at 2:30 Tuesday. Inter ment in Mountain View cemetery. Klamath Falls to start work on California & Eastern railroad be tween here and Day. Klamath Falls plans to organize a band. Farmers, Attention ! Look to your mowers early, for what they need In repairs. We are agent for most all makes McCor- mlck, Deering, and Buckeye. Whilo we carry a lot of repairs in stock. still we may be short on something that has to be sent to Portland for. Respectfully, 103-2t EMIL PEIL. Ladies' Muslin Underwear of the best qualities, all to go at '0 Discount I 39c 59c 79c i . . i t Interests" Hi 4 V. n '(. ;l ! f 1 1 ; ' t