Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1917)
li n iii.ui M !. i t11--r-------- tj'-r'ii;r,K'i-'""'jj h- ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, December1 8, 191 ASHLAND TIDINGS Established 1878 Published very Monday and Thursday by THE ASHLAND PRINTING COMPANY (Incorporated) " " . Editor Bert R. Greer... . . - - - OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, when paid at expiration " One Tear, when paid In advance llx Months, when paid In advance. , Three Monthf, when paid In advance No iubecriptionlcT'leirthan three months. All qubscrlptiona dropped at expiration unless renewal la received. In ordering changes ot the paper always give the old street address or jottottlce as well as the new. ADVERTISING RATES . Maplay Advertising J5 Single Insertion, each inch Blx months, each Inch One year, each inch Heading Notices 10 cents the line. Classified Column 1 cent the word first Insertion, cent the word each other lnseitlon. Thirty words or less one month, $1.00. Cards of Tnanks $1.00. Obituaries 2 V cents the line. 1 Fraternal Orders and Societies Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for all Advertising when an admission or other charge Is made, at the regular rates. When no admission is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular rates. The Tidings has a greater circulation in Ashland and Its trade territory than all other local papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mall matter. to be satisfied with anything short ot the best in life. And the fathers, were they with us, would be first to caution us against following in that way when a better was pointed out. For they lived and wrought according to their best light, and much of our great store of health, happiness and com fort is due to their fine Judgment in seizing and appropriating the best of life that was offered them. It was a good way in its day and generation, but we will be untrue to the ideals and aspirations inherited from the fathers if we fail to Improve on It In every way possible in the light of greater opportunity. Character writers and others should cut out the "by heck" and "by Ned" stuff when referring to the efforts of the ruralist toward the gentle accomplishment of profanity. The average countryman of this day would blush with shame at such fee ble efforts. . If our writers would get out and mingle with the real ranchers of the land they would find them possessed, when so inclined, with a vocabulary of cuss words war ranted to do justice to the most strenuous occasion. iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiin tmimttmmitmmHmiHiiiiimiiimmmmiiiiiiimmmm SUBSCRIPTION BARGAINS, DAILY PORTLAND JOURNAL AND TIDINGS Ashland Tidings (twice a week, one year), regular price $ 2.00 Dally and Sunday Journal, one year, regular price 8,00 Regular price for both $10.00 For a short time we will make this bargain price on both: Dally and Sunday Journal and Ashland Tidings from now until February 1, 1919 $ 8-" Dally Journal evening only and Ashland Tidings from now until February 1, 1919 6.00 Sunday Journal only and Ashland Tidings from now until February 1, 1919 , , 4.00 Semi-weekly Journal and Ashland Tidings from now until February 1. 1919 S.00 All subscriptions must be In before December 30 to get this bar gain. After that date the regular price will be charged for each. ; At this bargain price the Journal comes by mall only. New subscribers or renewals. ASHLAND TIDINGS ' SUBSCRIBE AT OUR OFFICE iiimiiii8iiimt ORGANIZE HOME GUARDS. "IN THE WAY OUR FATHERS TROD." While we have no desire to figure in the role of alarmist, we must in sist that the states of the Union should take prompt action looking to the organization of troops of Home Guards. Three years ago we laughed In scorn at the alarmist who tried to point out to us our state of unpre paredness. "America needs an array? Ha! ha!" was the sentiment of two thirds of the people. Now we are comnassine heaven and earth to equip an army that should have been equipped years ago. We are sending Taw troops to France where we should already have veterans In the trenches. Will we make the same mistake as to guarding our own hearthstones? How long before we will be without either regular troops or green re cruits In the country? They are go ing by thousands and tens of thou sands. The tension between the United States and Germany. Is being drawn tighter and tighter as the days pass. German spies and German emissaries abound within our borders. Every day witnesses some act of vandalism traceable to that source. Brazil has a German uprising. Can we assure ourselveB that we are "proof against the same? How many times within recent years have disturbances broken out in this country of too great magni tude for the state constabulary to handle. It is of frequent occurrence. Can we gay that we have seen the last of such?. Or If not, when they do occur, to what force will we look to restore order? The troops will be across the waters, or at least out from the states' control and otherwise bus ily engaged. Every state In the Union, every - county in every state, has thousands of able-bodied men, patriotic as any who have marched away, who would be only too glad to be called upon for home defense. These men are above the draft age, but would make none the less efficient soldiers. The state that has not made nrovlslon for nr. ganlzlpg this element ot Its manhood for home defense should lose no time in doing so. No man can tell what a day may bring forth. We were caught napping once. Let att not repeat the blunder. Every Piece of Meat From the East Side Market Is a Good Piece. That's the only kind we handle. Wholesale and Retail. FISH ON FRIDAYS. OYSTERS AND CRABS IN SEASON. A. R. Brown, Prop. Phone 188. iiiiiin)iiiniiiiiiiiiummm The Heart of a Child niMiiiiiiiiimtnmiiiiimmmmamaa We go to church some of us and sing it with unction, with eyes closed and head tilted back, and then come home and attempt to follow It sometimes. It's a good old way to follow sometimes. It's a good way when it carries our feet In the ways of truth and sober ness and God-fearing rectitude of life. It's a good way when It leads us to the homes of want and suffering with healing balm in our hands and a smile on' our face. . It's a good way when It leads our life into the road that leads to up right, honorable manhood and wom anhood In every phase of life. But It's a poor way when it causes us to make no effort to Improve on the shortcomings and failures of those fathers. It's a poor way, when traveling It, we drop Into the ruts worn by the vehicles of our fathers, and fall to veer to a smoother and more easily traveled road. It's a poor way when it causes us to adhere to customs and practices outgrown by the times to waste ef ficiency In Imperfect work, when we might be working by Improved meth ods, undreamed of by the fathers, who surely would have adopted them had they known of them. It's a poor way when It causes us you can . srffordtobuy LESLIE .A LT and enjoy the luxury of the fine free running salt flowi from the convenisnt . side spout- Time Late evening ot the present month, December, 1917. Scene A simply furnished bed room In a small cottage. The blind is partly raised, and, with the radi ance from the 'street lamp outside and that from a email bulb n the hall, the room Is neither glaring nor black just a place ot Soft and sooth ing monotones. In the bed a mother and child are lying quietly. The mother's eyes are closed; she seems to sleep. But the little girl slips out from under the soft coverlets, She kneels down, clasps her hands, and bows her head In the sweet simplicity of a baby's prayer. "Dear God," she says, very slowly, and verv. very low. "Dlease, dear God, listen carefull to mo, will you? I can't talk very loud, yon know, mamma is asleep, and I. don't want to waken her. ' "Poor mamma! I's 'frald '.some thing dreadful .happened somewhere today. A boy with a bicycle came and brought us a letter in a yellow envelope. After mamma' read the letter she fell right down or. the couch, and she cried and cried just awful. God, It makes me feel terri ble bad to see my mamma cry, and I tried to help her stop just every way I knew how. But it took me a long time today. "You know, God, before my daddy went off across the ocean with the rest of the soldier men he told me I must be a good girl and look after mamma. I been trying to do tnat, God, 'cause I know that when daddy comes home again the first thing he'll ask me will be if I minded what he said. My! God, but my daddy was a beautiful, fine soldier man, and mam ma and I feel so proud of him all the time. Why, if he shouldn't come back to us I don't know what we would do. "Well, after a while mamma stopped crying, and she took me down there on the couch beside her and hugged me tight. And we sat there for a long time, all quiet Just loving each other. And then .two men came to the door. They were soldier men; I knew that right away. One of them was lame and the other one had only one arm. But they were nice men and smiled at roe kindly when I went to let them In. They stepped over to mamma and shook hands with her, and the lame man said something to her so low I couldn't hear. And then the man with one arm he took me out on the porch. He held me on his lap, and he told me how well he knew my daddy. He told me what a fine, brave soldier man my daddy was, and how much the other men liked him, and, oh! lots of other nice things. i "And then when the lame man came out he told me the same things. And he patted me on the head and gave me a stick of candy, and he called me a poor little kid. Now, God, I'm not poor, and I told him so right off. I told him I had my Iron bank more'n half full of nickels and pennies. I told him I was figgerlng on going down town that afternoon to buy one of the Victory bonds that everybody was talking about all over town. 'i "And somehow that made those men look at me so funny, and they coughed thu-or four times, and they blew their noses just awful loud. Then one of them 'splalned to me that It took an awful lot of pen nies and nickels to buy one of those bonds, and he Bald he was most afraid my iron bank didn't have quite enough In It yet so's I could buy one. And then they both kissed me and shook hands with me just as though I was a real grdwn-up lady, and I went away down the street. "That's what I wanted to talk about with you tonight, God, and I thought I better tell you just how It was, so's you would understand. I hear folks say that everyone should buy one of these Victory bonds, so that victory can come to our brave soldier men. I don't know much about war, God, but I do know that when victory comes peace will come. And then my daddy, and all the other daddies who have gone away to war, will come marching home again. And somehow I can feel just how things will be on that day. The sun will shine, and the bands will play, and the pretty flags swing in the breeze, and the great crowds along the streets will cheer and cheer, and everybody will be happy, oh! so hap py. Won't that be fine, God? Just peace and joy, and all the daddies home to hold their little folks on their knees. "I know it's not Just right to ask at for money, God, but If you could spare enough to fill my bank, just full enough so's I could buy one of these bonds, I would try and be a good girl just as long as I live. Of course, I know that one lsnt very much, but I know, too, that a big, hard rain is only a lot of tiny, tiny drops. That's all I ask, God, Just to be one of the drops. "I like to be happy, God, and to see all the other folks happy. And that's the reason I am asking you for a little money, so's I can help a little for victory and for peace. "Bless my mamma, God, and all the other mammas and the little chil dren whose daddies turned soldier men and marched away. And bless the ones who are fighting away off there now In that far country. And oh! God, bless the ones who have come home lame, and blind, and sick, and hurt, and tired. And bless my daddy, God, just bless him lots, away out there, almost across the world fighting, fighting for mamma and me, for victory, and peace, andjiap pinesa. All this I ask in the name of Jesus. Amen." The little girl lifts her head. A sudden flicker from the street lamp outside brightens the room. It Ilium ines the sweet and childish face, and In the soft strands of her hair there glows a shining halo. The child smiles. She climbs softly into bed, cuddles down beside her mother, and slips away into a calm and restful sleep. Exchange. lisp m : y w pSIHil I fUST I J are 8 ibji use oi O v ronnt. Thh ! merit are 1 cancelled merit. 1 Open I THE 1 VX J w VWMfifili',MWillW?ag1l Recording Household Expanse as in business, household expenditures lystemized and regulated thiough the , e . m i xt.? i r i -ii 1 ; a rirei national liajiK inecKing amount and nurnosft of earth dibnrse- entfirfld on tha chflrk. stub, while the check itself furnishes a receipt of pay- an account at'The Bank That Helps Itself by Helping Patrons FIRST NATIONAL BANK A cm an n Sr ORF.GON CARTER.. President C.H.VAU PEL. Vic's Pies. CUT. CA5HIPB. LLftlVH BUSn WMT.UAaH. ground. Prices of hand mills of sub stantial make run from J2.50 to $5. A small mill can be had for as little as $1.50, though this probably would prove too tedious to use, except for small quantities. Fiu-mlng is a Business. Bradstreet and Dun report that the life of the average business In the towns and cities Is short. If a business in a city is to last it must be adapted to conditions. Its man ager must be wide awake, and must use the most modern business meth ods. ' Just so nowadays with farmers. Farming is a business. Every day it Is becoming more important that a farmer Btudy his business and use better business methods. Keep Turkeys Until Nature. This year's turkey crop has been so slow in maturing that the United States Food Administration is urging farmers to withhold the birds from market until fully fleshed. The av erage young turkey will weigh from 10 to 15 per cent more on December 15 than on November 15 of this year. Turkeys are unlike other poultry. Chickens can be fattened at any time, hut a turkey does not take on much flesh until It has nearly reach ed maturity, then it gains in weight rapidly. N Feed is now abundant In most of the turkey-raising areas, and to place Immature birds on the market means illilipJiiii'll "Nearest to ffl ISSSj!? Everything " Ifefi i HOTELMANX Powell SL.atOTarreB San Francisco In the heart of the business, shopping and theatre district. Running distilled ice water in every room. Our commodious lobby ,flne service,and Homelike restaurant will attract you. European Plan rates $1.00 up. in n Mtugeaeal W.LJaaes the loss of a large potential sum'y of turkey meat at a time when It is. needed to substitute for beef, pork and mutton that we must export to- feed our army and our allies. Tha- rapid gain in weight which turkeys; make after reaching maturity will j more than compensate growers for i holding them days the additional thirty aaaaaaaaa8aaa$a8aa a Fruit and Farm Color in Poultry. The color of chickens is not a pri mary utility point, but as a secondary point often comes In for special con sideration. For example, a white va riety and a black variety of t.he Bame breed are actually Identical in table quality, but because black birds do not dress for the market as clean and nice looking as white ones, it of ten happens that they are not as sal able. When a flock of fowls Is kept for egg production only, unformity In color is much less important than approximate uniformity and size and tyne, yet the more attractive appear ance of a flock ot birds of the same color Justifies selection for color as far as It can be followed without sac rificing any material point. When a poultry keeper grows his own stock year after year he ought by all means to use stock of a well established, popular standard breed. By doing so and by selecting as breeders only, as many of the best snectmens of the flock as are needed to produce the chickens reared each year, a poultry keeper maintains in hi fionk a hlehly desirable uniform ity of excellence In every practical qualUy, and with little extra care and no extra cost can have a pleas ing uniformity In color. Vm Homemade Corn Meal. Anv family in town or country can have the best of corn meal by grlnd- ine it at home In a hand gristmill The city man can buy corn by the hnshel at a grain store. . He can grind It coarse or fine, to suit the taste of the family, and in quantities tn last a day or a week or longer. Most people will agree that this meal containing the germ is very paiaiapie and PAmnRrM well in this respect ui4 v. v f - - - . . , with that ordinarily purchased ready Free Home Exchange Department What do you want to buy, or what have you to trade? This col umn Is thrown open for the benefit of paid Tidings subscribers. Whatever you want to buy or trade, advertise it here free, if you are a Tidings subscriber. It is the intent of this column to put subscrib ers who want to buy or trade in touch with those who have It for sale or trade. Do not advertise here what you have for said, but what yon want to buy or trade. Any wanted to buy or trade advertisement will be inserted two issues In this column tree, If you write the advertise ment and send or mall it to the Tidings office. In order to get this free service you must be a paid subscriber to the Tidings, and write your name and address plainly so it can be printed with the adver tisement. NO REAL ESTATE exchange ads taken in this column. They go as paid ads In the classified column. . Sa$aaaa$a$aa$ata$aa4a$a3a3a$a6a MRS. S. L. ALLEN will exchange , HARRY L. SINCLAIR will trade set . . electric vibrator for wood or any- j of heavy single leather tug work -y thing of equal value. Phone 16 or harness for farm produce. Tele- ' ( JOHN H. DILL will trade nice black walnuts for onions. Address 835 North Main. 46 WANTED TO TRADE Motorcycle, tl. D.,' three speed, lor ngnt ora car. J. J. Walker, 785 B St. 50 WILL DODGE will trade three 6x6 fir timbers for spuds or beans or same value. Telephone 212. 45 a a a: t a 289-J. 53 phono 39. LOUIS DODGE will trade single bug gy harness for any kind of farm produce. Telephone 212, , 45- E. O. SMITH wants a load of straw. 280 Hargndine. 45- WILL DODGE will trade double-bar- rell, 12-gauge shotgun tor onions, bacon or wood of same value Tel ephone 212. " 46 FRANK CROWSON will trade two sacks of spuds for 500 feet of lxiz second hand boards. 253 Eighth t street. 45 BERT R. GREER will trade ten nnnndn of nice dried prunes for rnnii nocled dried neaches. 132 Granite street. 45 FRANK CROWSON will trade sack of spuds for same value in onions. 253 Eighth street. 45. AMOS GRAVES wants to .trade win- . aow giass ior uuri Orpington roos-s. ter of equal value. Phone 14-F-21 4& WILL EXCHANGE 800 shingles for good potatoes. Phone ZW-M or calK2 17 Granite street. 65 a H. ROBERTSON wants to trad Belgian hares. Either New Zea land Red, Rufus Red or Whit ungnsn. wnat nave you to trader for them? Address box 413, Ash land, Ore. 4S WM. NORTRIDGE wants to buy a second-hand Ford to use ior miiK delivery. 272 Orange street, phone 444-J. 45 J. R ROBERTSON would like to trade a coal stove for a wood stove. Phone 341-J. 49 AMOS GRAVES wants a cow, giving milk, for her keep this winter. Phone 14-F-21. 48 TOUR NAME wants to trade yellow dog for a mess of cats. Address your name and telephone. Any old trade goes in this column. Sendff in your wanted to buy or trad advertisement. WHAT HAVE JTOU to exchange for a fine registered Jersey hull, fron high-producing stock? R, D. San ford, Helman street, Ashland. 4 1 J. P. Dodge h Undertakers Sons ,nmiiiiiiintuniiiiiiijiiiiiimnnmt Ltdy Assistant Dcpity Couaty Coroscr State Licensed Eabilmer r
