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oa HiKtorl All"ltori, 8ocl?ty, i Ashland "Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows" City of Sunshine and flowers Ashland, Oregon, Lithla Springs "Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLII ASHLAND. OREGON MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1917 NUMBER 62 IDINGS Ashland Responding Readily to Call for Red Cross Membership On Tuesday, December 18, the first i Jr., have carried the Red Cross gun in the big Red Cross membership through the Bolleview district, Mrs. drive was fired. E. D. Briggs and Itev. H. A. Curnahan, captains of the down-town osction, went "over the Mary Tucker assisting them and reaching locations where even Fords turn balky, on horseback. Mrs. tcp," with the result that 250 Red Homer Barron has mado a canvass Cross subscribers were secured of the upper end of the valley, while among Ashland's' business men and Mrsi. Elmo .Nell has risked life, limb women. Next day, Wednesday, the . and a brand-new car In the cause, ladies' battalion mobilized. Under covering the territory east and north (he able leadership of Mrs. E. D. of her home. All theso ladies have Briggs, campaign manager, whose In- j "hit the trail" to good purpose, too. spiring personality has called out the Rev. M. C. Reed, assisted by Rev. enthusiasm and spirited team-work C. A. Edwards, Mrs. Burgan of Tal of all her captains, more than fifty ; ent, and others, and with Otto Wln woraeu began their advance along the : ter acting as chauffeur, has made a various fronts. The town had prevl-1 business of giving everyone In Tal cusly been districted as' it was for ent a chance to keep a Rd Cross the Y. M. C. A. drive, according to Xmas, while Rov. J. K. Baillle hag Rev. Mr. Carnahan's clever idea, by done as much for Phoenix, catting a city map into 25 sections The official campaign closes and assigning one' section to each j Christmas eve, when it is hoped that pair of worker By this means the every home In this vicinity will show "plan of campaign" was made clear; an Illuminated Red Cross service flag and covering the ground, certain. jin honor of our boys "over there." Mrs. Roberta Everton and her Should any one fail to. receive this ardes had the largest territory to 1 service flag they can be obtained by cover, comprising a slice of the lower ' applying to tho local Red Crocs town near tho railroad center. Their rooms. returns numbered nearly a hundred. The latest figures available at this Mrs. Clark Bush had charge of the writing, Monday morning, are as fol- c TO EVERY ONE: ':p:ttlffif . &nui A Most HAPPY w rr wv 'i "standing army," stationed in Red Cross booths at the postoffice', in the banks, and at Vaupel's store. 'About twenty young women were enlisted for this work, and the uniform adopt ed by this branch of the service proved so "fetching" that it kept the treasurer busy counting booth re- lows: Ashland and the upper vaf- lcy $1,3(18 Talent 115 Phoenix 125 Total for the district $1,60S While our total membership has turns. Mrs. H. E. Huls also had a j not reached the 3,000 mark set for booth at the station the first two lit, it is felt that this was a quota ab days of the drive. More than $200 'surdly out of proportion to our popu- have come in from these booths. The out-of-town captains, who took the outlying districts of Belle view, Valley View, etc.. have made particularly inspiring records. Mrs. Clay Smith and Mrs, Davenhlll of the Valley View section brought in $47 from their own neighborhood and $6 from Climax. Mrs. Joy and Mrs. Frod Homes, lation. Fifteen million members tor the United States means 15 per cent of the population of the country. Upon this basis our local membership has exceeded all just expectations, and we feel that our capable cam paign manager and her efficient corps of workers are to be congratu lated upon the results of their faith ful and enthusiastic labors. Minnesota Boys On Way to Camp State Association Interests Teachers MEWYEAE! a Hr Farm Loan Ass'n Awards Local Man J. F. Rocho. secretary and treas urer of the Ashland Farm Loan As sociation, is in receipt of a Christ mas present in the form of a check from the Interior Department, Wash ington,- D. C, designated as an "e eniplification check," recommended I by the bank attorney for the effi-1 people ,and Is the only mining prop 'cient manner in making out his re- erty actively engaged in this vicin- Barton Gold Mine Closed for Winter Italians Restoring Lines On Northern Front Lost Last Week Not only are tho Italian lines hold- only in the direction of the Ukraine ing in the Monte Asolone region, on I and the Don region, but In various the northern front, where a threaten-i other quarters, ing salient was driven in them early Evidence of this appears in their last week, but considerable progress sending emissaries to the numerous lias been made toward restoring tho . affected districts in an effort to line original position. This process, oe- theni up again in support of the Bol gun by the Italians on Thursday, waa slieviki regime at Petrograd. continued on Friday, the Rome war The status of the Russian peace office reporting the recapture of fur- negotiations continues uncertain, ther ground in the hotly disputed Reiterated reports are coming out of area- Petrograd that the negotiations wers The Austro-German command evl- broken off because of the objectlon dently has In nilud the expansion of able nature of the German terms and: the Asolone wedge in a way further ; that the Russian representatives hav to imperil the entire Monte Crappa j left Brest Litovsk. Up to a late hour position to the east the Italian bul-: there had been neither confirmation wark against the intended drive into nor denial from official sources of the plains and this possibility still these reports. remains. The Italians', however; have nega- Sotne hint that the Teutonic offer,; were not of the acceptable nature the tlved much of the enemy advance. ! Iio,8m!vlkl Indicated they were and even the German accounts of the exPecting may be found In a declarn fighting concede that for the present jtlon ,)V Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik! the aggressive Is on the Italian sldo, I frnlBn minister, that tho Russians with the Asolone heights the object- would fSt rather than submit to Ive of repeated attacks. There has been no fighting of cor. sequence In any of the other war tne objectionable terms. Tills was coupled however, with what ap peared to bo an admission of Russia's areas, military activities being at a:pre8e rai?ltary lPotnco nd the low ebb everywhere else. Even thefe 1 the.RuMla... wore artillery engagements along the ,U3 "" "poraniy w sunmtt French front appear to have lewened I? M 'n !lh ", in intensity and there has been no indication of a revival of the Infan try activity in Upper Alsace, where a German demonstration on Friday gave the enemy a temporary advan tage which was quickly wiped out by the aggressive French reaction. In Russia the strife for control Is assuming broader aspects. The ap parent solidification of the Ukraine-1 in rising against Gorman militarism the familiar Bolshevik! prediction of a German revolution being thus echoed. I The British admiralty announce 'the loss of the British armed steamer .Stephen Fnrnes8, of 1,712 tons, which I was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine In the rrlsh channel with a loss of bIx officers and 95 men A fire at the great, Krupp munl- Cossack movement In southern Rus- Uona plant at K.ssen, Germany, ap The H.arroa sold mine, located about twelve miles east of Ashland, pears to have been less serious th;in the early reports indicated. Appar ently the damage was confined to the electric power station, where an explosion occurred due to a short ctr- sia seems to be giving the opposition to the Bolshevik! a firmer hold on that territory. The Petrograd commissioners them selves are considerably worried by tne spread of the separatist move-' cult; The building, however, is re nient, which prospectively is cutting norted bv Dutch koiiwph to have been and owned and operated by Harvey j nuge sllces oft RU88ian territory, not seriously damaged Sallee of Kennett, Cal., closed down -- : - -- - - last Thursday. The mine started op erations last summer when Mr. Sal lee purchased it from the Barron State Tax Lew ! 3 Millions In 1918 Attention Service Station Created Hllibing, Minn., has been receiving! Superintendent George A. Briscoe some free advertising from the troop president of the State Teachers' As- trains that passed through Ashland soeiation. announces' that he has se j Interior Department, Washington, Friday, having on board about 1,200 icured for the Portland meeting, De-toT t.he use of tlie ne!t congress. The drafted men who were being tranb- j cember 27-29, two of the most noted amount applied for by the farmers ported to California. On one of the j lecturers In the educational world, j through the twelve farm loan banks coaeheB was an Immense banner, 1 Dr. Kiclutrd Burton, head of the Eng-; lu Lwtemuer. i is . i w, t ou, ikj, oi bearing an inscription, "Hibhing, the lish department of the University of Richest Village in the World." It j .Minnesota, will deliver two address further credited Hibhing as seiidin;; es before the general assembly one 750 men to the colors; subscribing on "The Literature of the Great $1.1 ISf.OOO to Liberty loans, $27,000 j War." and the other on "The Social to tlie Red Cross and $52,000 to the ' and Educational Significance of the through which the money is bor- I Theatre." The second ' speaker Is! rowed,, in Ashland the i Prof Frank M. Leavitt of the Uni- j The Spokane district is second in Minnesota boys had a chance to be-, versity of Chicago, Prof. Leavitt is : nunlher w'th 2a9 associations, of come acquainted with several resi-'one of the foremost authorities lniwnicn tlle Ashland is a part, being dents of the city, who were Ht tlin the field of industrial education, and 1 the first and largest in the district, station to welcome them here. Tiio largely responsible for the movement jnavinS to date T3 applications with majority of these boys hail from the 1 which culminated in the Smith-j a totaI amount of $170,000 applied mtnpa nf northern Minnesota. Inches aw. mineen nave received port of the local association to the ity. The recent rains have, made Tlie total expense of administering tli An attention service station 'wn e state government for 191S will been created In Ashland by the Amer- which $105,136,529 has actually been loaned and approved on a 5 per cent basis. One thousand, eight hundred and thirty farm loan asso ciations have been established Y. M. C. A. During the stop Iron and were a strong, hearty, wholesome Tlie first day of the meeting will lot. the very stronghold and prop of , i,0 taken up by the session of the the nation. While they had bee l j representative council. There will ! their money nnd have all taken up : their old mortgages which were j.tlrawing a high rate of interest, thus replacing the same with farm traveling continuously Since Monday, he nnnrnxiimitelv fine hundred dole. they were in excellent spirits, and gates present. Every county in the jlomw m 5 per cent. This is certainly portrayed the American-born instinct ! state and every local teachers' asso-!a wort,iy cause' helPnS tho farmers, juiio a. line snowing anring these I strenuous war times. This will be of getting as much pleasure out of i elation will lie represented. The life as nossibla. They were particu- council will receive renorts of the laxly struck with the balmy weather Standing committees which have been ) tho means of llvine miiny a ll0me' of Ashland, as they'stated that when! at work during the past year. Ona ' ,ner(,,'' keeping the men on the they left Minnesota the thermometer j 0f the most important reports w-11 jfarms t0 Pr0(U,co the necessary food registered 35 degrees below zero. he from the committee on tlie thrift Accompanying the troop train was I campaign, owing to the fact that Vic Powers, a forlorn yellow "pure- Secretary McAdoo is asking all of th bred cur dog," according to their 'schools to join him in this work. The statement, which some of the boys j council will also adopt resolutions, had picked up in South Dakota and : elect officers, and transact all of thy had named after the mayor of Hib- j business of the association, blng. Vic had several owners and ' ... was treated most royally, as befitted his station. Bemidgl, another Minnesota town represented on the troop train, had Hie distinction of having sixteen en listed men accompanying them. The boys were en route to Fort Winfield Scott, where they will be put In train ing for the coast artillery. They were the first troop trains from the middle west passing. through Ashland on their way to coast stationsi products, which will win the war. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Barnhlll.and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Klrkptrick will leave the latter part of the week for southern California, where they ex pect to remain for four months. They will go by train as far as Red ding and will make the rest of the trip by automcbilo. Mrs. Walter Gorham went to Ger ber to spend Christmas. Wm. Farnum at Vining Dec. 25-26 Kaufman Closes His Ashland Engagement hauling ore practically Impossible, balance of' the winter j l,e 3-hiS' "ml of tllis '" 'can Ked and o I Frid;i in the spring operations will be re-' ,,l,lst ,' ml ,,,y taxa,iu"' ' commercial building near the cumed on a much larger scale. An "ccor(""g to the state ovy by the depot. ... , . , ,, , . state tax commission. The liu anoo ,,. ..t T . , air compressor will be installed and , , t Mis. . L. Maxey has been. 'an- , . ... ,'will he derived from other rece pis, : ni,,i ,,,,, , . heavy machinery sunk to a depth of , 1 ' pointed ii,, the military bureau of re- 500 feet, and a large crew of work- all(1 totals '!'s'"4 jlief to have charge of the hulldins. men will be employed, Power to op- Tlle t(,t11' a inilnlstriition expanse jlie primary object of the station in erate the mine will be derived from i exceeds that of this year by $12!..- to afford a place where all manner the California-Oregon Power Com-' 1 li0 ',!l. Hll1 tlle l!Uni to be raised by (1f details may he attended to for tha pany, which will he brought there by taxation exceeds this year's levy by j convenience of the soldiers who pas a branch from the main lino about ! 1 -r .!'''''. mills the average l ' y , through Ashland. Mere they will Do a mile distant. During the past sum-; wi" l,e 30.76. The tax levy ma.leju,(, t0 xvi-ito iml mail letters, send mer five'ears of ore were shipped iabsorbs all of the li per cent Increase j telegrams and buy money orders, from the mine, which was hauled to:lllpl1 ""ll'r li 1t 't tax Hm- They will also he supplied with five the spur at Mistletoe Junction. Because of the $50,000,000 in crease In tlie valuation of tlie stiit ji the institutions dependent on a mil Second Semester . Starts January 21 Ashland Trading Company dry goods and men's furnishing departments leaves for Portland tonight after one of the most successful sales made in wuiiam i-arnum win appear at tne Ashland. When he started on the Vining December 25-26. Read what I stock about two months ago tlie the New York Tribune says of it: (stock Invoiced nearly $15,000 and he date.- Those children who are ilx years of age or will be six by March 15, 191S, are entitled to enter school , on the above date. i Any child, for whatever reason, ! that does not enter school at tho lie ginning of the term is not only him self handicapped but Is a hindrance to the entire class. For this reason the superintendent of schools espec- jially urges 'all parents, having cliil- Xat .G. Kaufman, who has been dren for the beginning class, to make managing tho closing out sale of the j preparation to start them at the be ginning of the term. No new children will be received after Monday, January 28. age tax will enjoy larger revenues next year. The .Monmouth normal sehnfil receive'? frnni tin inilliiirH t :i y The second semester of the public, (a vp,u. 5ft w,ie m,xt y(l!l, schools will commence January 21.' w,n rm;Ive $;l7i1 44.22 Tho Btnt0 1918. It is important that all be-1 , levy ,,xt ycttp w .,, . ginning pupils start school on that ... . .. ... . 600. 9S. The-mlllage tax of tho Ore gon Agricultural College this year totaled $:i."i1,505.58, and next, year ft will .receive $371, 442. 2. . Tha University of Oregon this year receiv ed $263,1129.1 S, and next year It will receive $27S,5S1.67. postal cards Mrs, Maxey, who wan assisted by Miss Helen Connor Fri day afternoon when 1,200 soldiers liiuin .iiniii-s'n.! i,isseo inioiu'.u asiv- Innd, stated that they gave out 1,50 postal cards, sold $12 worth of stamps and took two market basket of mall to the poHtoliiee to mail as a result of the afternoon's work,. Ono big soldier wanted to send a present to a little girl six years old, but did not have tho time to nelect It on route. Leaving tho address and n dollar, he asked the ladies to buy tin ' present and send it to the tot. Simi lar requests w ill no doubt be general, and tho hoys will appreciate the priv ilege of having these details looked! ;tfter. "Sam Houston Is the best thing that William Farnum has ever done. Thousands of horses and some stu pendous battle scenes are a part of the entertainment. In fact, the pic ture quite beggars description, there is so much of it and it Is so varied. But bigger than these Is the dynamic, dramatic drive of 'The Conqueror.' The picture holds the audience tense, ever expectant of new thrills, as they watch the humorous, romantic, some times pathetic, ever human story of Sam Houston." In addition will be shown a two reel comedy that Is really funny. leaves it practically sold out. Un like most sales managers who start out with a flourish and fall down in the midst of it, he follows up the work until the stock is sold. His methods are clean-cut and forceful and Ue pushes his sales aggressively until completed. Probably that Is the reason he has so many return en gagements to the same town frora different merchants who wish to close out their stocks. He IS one of the best advertising writers the Tid ings has como in contaot with. Phone job orders to the Tidlags. Draft Board Held Meeting Saturday Cement Plant Shut Down for Holidays With some 200 questlonalres In Its hands out of approximately 500 mailed to registrants, the county draft board held Its first meeting Saturday afternoon in the court house. Twenty-five questional rej were examined and classified. These were placed In the various classes as follows: Class 1, 14; class 2, 3; class 3, 0; class 4, 8; class 5, 0. Contrary to the situation In many other counties, Jackson county regis- Fires wore rulled from the blast furnace of the Gold Hill cemont plam, Monday evening until after the holi days, pending making necessary re pairs for an extended run the coming season. In the meantime a full force out will be employed In the quarries, and Clerk Gardner Btates that very little enlist Would Still Fight Despile 94 Years According to the Rogue River Courier, George Washington Cole of (ialice, 94 years old, hale and hearty, and an old Indian fighter of days gone by, appeared at the recruiting office recently and offered his serv ices to his country. When told bjr the officer that he was too old to be) taken he cried bitterly, declaring that he would live to be 100 years old. and that he could do his share of trants are returning their lists made! damage to the kaiser as well as an In the proper order. County i one, aud again asked that he might 30,000 barrels of cement in the bins will be shipped as soon as cars are available. Orders are already booked for cement that will require a nine months' run the coming season. Scarcity of labor has hampered oper ations since the opening last October, trouble has been experienced by the board In this respect. In a few in stances classes designated by registrants were changed by hoard The argument for Christmas pres the ents of cash to our soldiers In Franco the seeins to bo that It will save troubla The men have the right to aud give satisfaction at both ends. nn.iaal fi Mia ,tutM hntifd it that'' ' l'l"i" v fciiu uinv. iLh . - so wish. Phone job orders to th Tldincs.