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'''''(loHiiw -AsWand Grows WblteUthla i Hows" City of Sunshine and Flowers Ashland. Oregon, lithla Springs "Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLII ASHLAND. OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1917 NUMBER 63 IDINCxS Federal Government Takes Over Railroads of Nation Tomorrow Washington, Dec. 26. Govern ment possession and operation of the nation's railroads (or the war was proclaimed by President Wilson to night, to become effective at noon next Friday, December 28. William G. McAdoo, retaining his place in the cabinet as secretary of the treasury, is placed in charge as director-general of railroads. Every railroad engaged in general transportation, with its appurt nances, Including steamship lines. Is taken over, and all systems will be operated as under the director-general In a statement accompanying his proclamation he announced that as soon as congress reassembled he would recommend legislation guaran teeing pre-war earnings and main tenance of railroad properties in good repair. Government backing will be givc-u to new issues of railroad securities that a ready market may be found. The president's move, although forecast for weeks, came at this time aa a great surprise to nearly every body in Washington, including rail road officials. It had been believed he would await the reassembling of congress before taking any step, lie acted through Secretary of War Baker. Direct management of the railroads will remain in the hands of railroad officials and the railroads' war board, composed of five railroad heads, will continue to direct actual operations under Secretary McAdoo s general supervision. Will Unify All Systems. The chief practical effect of gov ernment operations will be to permit Italians Battle On Christmas Day Except on the northern Italian front, the military operations con tinue far below normal. In France, where snow has fallen along the en tire front, only bombardments and small raiding operations are taking place. West of the Rrenta river, in tne Italian highlands, the Italians on Christmas day continued their counter-attacks on the Austro-Gernr.n forces, which previously had succeed ed in making gains on Col Del Rosso and Monte del Val Bella. The battle raged throughout the morning with preat violence and the Italians wrest ed several of their former positions from the enemy, but owing to re newed onslaughts by the Teutonic al lied forces they were again compelleu to give ground. The Berlin war office admits that the Italians threw heavy counter-attacks against the invaders on the Col del Rosso and neighboring sectors, but asserts that all of them broio down under heavy losses. The situation surrounding thj peace parleys netwceii t lie . ust :-o-Germans and the Russians is still be clouded, owing to lack of details iie isg perm'ttod ,to rnnie through. At last accounts the Germans had not only failed to return an answer to the demands made by the Bolshevik! delegates, but had requested that the negotiations bo extended for another mjonth. Meantime a German commission has started for Petrograd in nn en deavor to restore relations between Germany and Rfissia and also to reach a settlement with the Russians for an exchange of civilian and inca pacitated war prisoners. Ed Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Lowe, old residents of this city, returned to Ashland Tuesday night to spend a few weeks with his parents He has been employed in a mine near Salt Lake City for the past year and is thinking of enlisting soon in a regiment of mining men who will leave Immediately for France as a special company to be engaged in digging trenches. C. W. Watson of Montague spent Christmas in Ashland with his father, Judge C. B. Watson. Mn. Watson ex. pecU to leave Friday for Petersburg, Va., where he will serve as first lieu tenant in'the United States Reserve Engineers. Mrs. R. J. Lnke of Talent was in Ashland Wednesday, . calling on friends. George E. Millner left last night for Portland on a business trip. ' a complete unification of all rail sys tems, impossible under private oper ation because of statutes prohlbitins pooling of rail traffic and earnings. The railroads themselves had gone as far as they dared In tills direction, and It became known only today that they had been warned by Attorney General Gregory that a violation of anti-pooling laws could not be per mitted. This situation was fully realized by President Wilson, who in hl3 statement declared the roads had gone as far as they could and that already some systems were endan gering their earnings in attempting unification.. Although the proclamation applies to all electric lines engaged in gen eral transportation, local interurban systems are exempt. 'Congress will be asked to guarantee earnings equivalent to the average net operat ing income of each railroad in the three-year period ending June SO, 1917. Railroad experts estimate that this will cost the government next year in the neighborhood of $100, 000,000, which can be raised in largo part by Increased freights, if the in-! terstate commerce commission grants local banks and postoffice. Every the roads' application for the 15 perjtime a War-Savings Thrift Stamp is cent rate Increase now pending. purchased something is added to tha Otherwise it will be paid largely out 'comfort and convenience of an Amer- of the general government funds, The Interstate commerce commis sion and other government agencies which have to do with the railroads will continue to perform their func tions as heretofore, except that they will be subject to orders of the director-general of railroads. Talent Young Man Died In Ashland Tolre Guy Kirby, a resident of Tal - ent died at a local hospital In this where in the service any one of the city Monday morning, aged 21 years, j following articles: A belt, a fork, He waa the only son of F- ink Kir'vy, n kni'. palrof stockings or an ideot an old settler of Wagner Creek. j ification card. When he buys two The deceased was operated upon i stamps he may be furnishing any one about ten days ago for appendicitis, ' of these: Canteen, suit of canton and although his condition was con-! Kldered serious some hope was held 1 out for his recovery. He was well; known In Ashland and was a member j of the L. O. O. M. lodge. The burial 1 4 1. CA A A. iuLm juitue h.l wit? oiej jis cemetery ai j :? rzrcZZ the M. E. church conducted the serv- ices at the grave1, after which the lit-! nahstic services of the Moose lodJ;e;at lwuit one hundred cars of apples were read. There was a large at-, t0 ,e contributed throughout tho tendance from this ciby at the fun- r nited State. C. M. McCullousb. era1- Fine Ore Yield Fwm HPUTPV Minp'I!0CkV"h f M'(,ford na been asl;e1 11 (Jill 1CWCy 1U1I1C to net as district chairman of the Rogue River valley. At a meeting of Tiie Dewey mine, ren,ep,i i,., i summr iiTU'r an idleness of lei: years, is yielding some fine ore, irji the reports that come from Ga.elle, Siskiyou county. 1 The mine is equipped with an electrically drive') ten-stamp mill, and a complete plant of mine machinery. The vein ranges from ten to ttf entiy feet wide, and a large tonnage of profitable ore has been placed in sight. The new ma chinery was specially designed to ef fect a large extraction at low cost. Bell Telephone Has Patriotic Employes A service flag hangs in tho windoiv of the local office of the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Company which slates that the membership enlisted in the war from the Pacific system of this.company numbers r50. This includes Oregon, Washington, Cali fornia and portions of Nevada and Idaho. The entire Bell system has furnished 6,861 men to serve their country. An enormous service flag was flung recently from their head quarters In New York containing this number of stars, portraying the pa triotism of the employes. Leslie Coombs of Scenic Drive, who Is employed In northern California, spent Christmas in the city with his family. Mr and Mrs. Peter Vandersluls and daughter Alice of Grenada, Cal., I are spending the holidays with friends In the valley. Week of Prayer Held Next Week The annual week of prayer will be observed in Ashland the first week in January, 'commencing December 3 and continuing every night through out the week. Union services will be held in the various evangelical churches of the city at 7:30 each evening, as follows: December 31', Christian, church, Dorman D. Ed wards, leader; January 1, Presby terian church, W. M. Mellinger, lead er; January 2, Methodist church, G. Southwell Brett, leader; January 3, Nazarene church, H. A. Carnahan, leader; January 4, Congregational Church, Charles A. Edwards, leader. By order of the Ashland Minis terial Association. DORMAN' D. EDWARDS, Sec, Practice Thrift and Give Uncle Sam Lift by Buying War Stamps The time is approaching for New Year's resolutions, and one of the very best to be made by everyone, young and old alike, will be the in vestment of War-Savinga Thrift Stamps, which are now on sale at the ican soldier or sailor now fightins our fight, and at the same time it lightens the nation's war burden just that much. ' To show to what extent small sav ings Invested in thrift stamps and War-Savings Certificates will help the big cause, Col. John M. Williams, acting adjutant-general of Oregon, has prepared the following, based on the cost of equipping a United States soldier for service: "Every time a child or an adult buys a 25-cent War-Savings Thrift 1 Stamp he buys for a soldier some- flannel underwear, pair of gloves, Pair of goggles, mess plate, pair of heavy woolen socks. j Car of Apples to Be Given Soldiers Vcall has come from he east for! h3 manager of the Apple Growers' I Association of Hood River, has been , tlo emblem were those closed for tho -j appointed chairman of the movement winter, or where the inmates had left j for the state of Oregon, and S. V. . home for the holidays before the Re.l I '""1 Showers of the valley it was; tiu.uiimuiiM.t uermen uini a ennoaa would ne snipped from Medford early In Januarv. Mails Unusually Heavy This Yeari The receipts at the local postoffice were greater during this Christmas i season than for a like period during i the past six years. This was iu ! doubt partially due to the enormous shipments of parcels and letters to the soldier boys on all the fronrs. The work of dispatching the outgo ing and delivering Incoming mail was performed with celerity by the clerlu and carriers, although this work was hampered (several days by belated trains. Mail was delivered wit.i autos on Sunday In order to prevent j a congestion Monday. Deliveries! were made throughout the city j Christmas morning, and the rural carriers also went out. Christmas Recital Given Next Sunday The choir of the Presbyterian church will give their program of Christmas music next Sunday even ing, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The church services in the forenoon will be the Sunday school at 9:45 and the preaching service at 1 1 o'clock. Dr. Carnahan will speak on "First Mile Religion." Phong twg items to tht Tidings. Medford Fireman Leaves Many Debts Ted Clairy, who had been a mem ber of the Medford fire department for a few weeks, left Friday, ostensl- bly for his homo in Rainier, Wash, lie t,ook with him his fireman's spec- lal police Madge and keys to the city hall, but left as a reminder a host tfi debts, divlilcd up among many per sons and several merchants. Clairy had been a resident of Medford only about six months. He had spent the summer In the employ of the Crater Lake Hotel Company, and drove one of the stages between Medford and the lake. When the Crater Lake sea son closed he worked for a time in a local garage, and then was appointed to fill a vacancy in the fire depart ment. "When he has purchased 16 thrift stamps, affixed them all to his thrift card and exchanged ,them for War savings Certificate, on which the gov ernment will pay him 4 per cent in terest, compounded quarterly, he has made possible the purchase of any one or more of the following necessi ties for a soldier: Woolen blanket, two pairs of breeches, cartridge belt, woolen overcoat, wo army cots, four suits of v inter underwear, three hats, mattress, poncho, two pairs of arctic overshoes, pair of russet shoes, three tent stoves, two sweaters and five woolen undershirts. "Having accumulated eight War- Savings Certificates, the thrifty one has made It possible for Uncle Sam to buy an additional 1,000 cartridges for a United States army rifle, and all further savings are proportionate ly important." Now that Christmas is over and the drain necessitated by the observ ance of fli it holiday is ended, an ex cdlent .- to dispose of superfluous change will be to purchase Thrift Stamps and War-Savings Stamps. These may be found on sale at any of the banks and the postoffice. wliere explicit instructions will be given to all purchasers. j Service Flags In Evidence In Citv Wnriv evnrv hnnanhnM in ichian.i land the surrounding country dis- ' played a Red Cross service flag in its window rhri.imn, Pr.rtinw ti.nl only ones omitting this pntriotic lit- ;Cross driv'e started. All the business ! ; places in the city, with few excep-i . lion bore the 100 per cent mark on j their service flag indicating that j every mem iier connected with or ?ni ployed there were members of the Red Cross. j Sagacity of Fowl Saved Its Life Through the unusual . intelligence displayed by an ordinary barnvard fowl. "Happy" Eastman, assistant postmaster, was short a representa- i tive of that coveted article at his Christ inns feast. For several weeks .Mr. Eastman had been fattening a fine rooster which he was expecting to grace ills festal board on Christ mas day. Christmas eve "Happy'' repaired to the poultry house to slay the fowl, when it was discovered that I the prize bird was missing. Members of the household then remembered of j hearing noises about the yard the previous night and it was supposed that some miscreant had annronrlat-1 ed the rooster for his own Christmas I dinner. A substitute was provided, 1!lvpl vice-president, and Dr. Web which, however, fell far short of th-)itPr of Phoenix secretary. This ag bird desired. The day after Christ- j mas Mr, Eastman was astounded to see the rooster return home. As tho fowl came from the direction of the woods, it is decided that extraordi nary sagacity on the part of the rooster saved Its life. Prof. Irving E. Vlnlng, who recent ly returned from Camp Lewis, wher he delivered eight lectures, has been obliged to give up his work for the present owing to throat trouble. Phone Job orders to tht Tidingi- Red Cross Issues Show Kaiser Word has just been received from Mr. Lludley, head of the northwest- iern division of the Red Cross, that it I iias been decided to give a time exten- sion on the membership drive and not to call it cloned until New Year's evo. This action was deemed wiBe in view of the fact that Portland is lagging behind, as well as several of the country districts. Other sections, Umatilla county for Instance, havo doubled their quota, Jackson county stands only sixth from the bottom in the returns column. Willie this hard ly allows much room for congratula tion", there have been several adverse local conditions that In large meas ure account for this fact. For ono thing, our willing workers have been handicapped by lack of supplies. There were but 800 receipts, where, to distribute among 50 workers, there should have been 5,000; there has been a fiimilar shortage in pine, and, until Friday, in service flags. All sorts of expedients had to be re sorted to, to substitute for these lack ing supplies, but the good nature and Ingenuity of the workers minimized there annoyances and enabled thein to reasonably satisfy the public. The committee managing the campaign will insist on having enough pins fur nished so that all members shall eventually be supplied. In addition to supplies shortage, impassable toads affecting certain outlying sec tions, and the epidemic of measles in Talent may be mentioned as causes contributing to hinder our local cam paign. However, it is hoped that, with a week'B extension, our quota may be materially increased. In one day, on Thursday last, $971 came iri, gar nered by the faithful workers the Prospects Good For New Railroad S. S. Dullis of Medford, who had been making a business trip to Ne v York and Washington, returned home last Friday. Ho slates that the eastern capitalists who own the Gray Eagle copper mine, which Is one of t::e richest properties in this section of the country, will finance mi exten - sion of the railroad from the Illu-.t Ledge to their own property at the head of t he Applegate, when the rail road to the ISlue Ledge is Imill. In addition to tremendous copper depos- Hs. a road to the Gray Eagle would 0eI1 a ,l!,linn nml a ,,,,lf f,,,,t of client su'.-r pine, Council Formed by County Farmers On Saturday, December 22, repre sentatives from the various farmers' organizations of the county met In (lie offices of Claude C. ('ate. county agricultural agent, and perfected an organization known as the Jackson Count y Agricultural Council. It is I lie purpose of tills council to co-operate with the Oregon Agricultural Col lege and tho United States Depart ment of Agriculture in outlining the work and maintaining tho office of the county agricultural agent mid in i , ..... ,i ,. , iuiuimjiu me iiki icuiiui .n I welfare of the county. The member. ship of (his council shall consist of (lie following: One representative from each of the agricultural organ izations of the county, such as granges, farmers' unions, growers' 'associations!, breeders' associations, improvement clubs, poultry associa tions, farm loan associations, etc,: a,s0 on mpmher of the board of cn,,nty commissioners appointed by that ',0,y; thrfift n"n''prs at large, representing the unorganized farmers of the co,lnty- Albert G. Joy of Ashland was elect- p(1 president, A. K. Earhart of Rogue rlcultural council Is made up of rep resentatives from every agricultural district of the county. Memliera present were very enthusiastic and pledged themselves to do everything In their power to carry on the work outlined for the coming year. Pi. S. Anderson of RockyforrI, Al berta, Canada, arrived recently to winter In Ashland. Mr. Anderson owns a large wheat ranch In Canada which he has leased, and says he may locate In Ashland permanently as he Is delighted with the climate here. Appeal to How U. S. Fights first two days of the drive, anJ) brought in when the town teams ro ported at the "get-together" lunch held, that noon In the Elks' dtnln room. Returns from the booths, too, have been most gratifying, $2.", hav ing been received from this or source. Another gratifying feature is that there have been no campnigil expenses. The lunch of Thursdfijj was generously paid for by G. S. B'jt ler, and that has been the one bit of outlay connected with the campaign. We have up to date more tin 1 l,ti00 members, which is certainly 4 creditable number and would seem ffl be our proportion of the 1.1,000,0i1 to be1 raised throughout the natlotv Yet it is the earnest desire of 1 1-0 Red Cross to enlist every indtvtdi: fj man, woman and child In its gre-S reserve army or war relief. If can not be in khaki, we can be so' t diers of the Red Cross. Then, show? your colors! Display a Red Croj service flag In your window to prw that your heart is in the right plart; and that you stand ready to help ymtfl Uncle Sam to the extent of your ahl' ity. It is an honor to belong to thij noble order, authorized by congr-s headed by President Wilson, a proved of by General Pershing ic( France. Join now! The dollar yoij pay for membership may help to s;i4 the life of your boy, your brother oij your friend. Leave your dollar i the State Hank or at Red Cross bead- quartern tills coming Friday after noon. Get In line. Don't lie a slack er, when your country is culling foij help YOUR help. The big members ship drive has been extended unlij New Year's eve. Hegln the new yea( right. Become a member of tho Rd) Cross. Remembered War Children Xmas The various Sunday schoola throughout the city made coiit.ribu lions for the less fortunate children I of the sister nations, especially tltos0 living In the wan ridden countries These contributions were made at tli j exercises held in the churches Sun iday, and will be sent to their disliiiu lion as soon as possible. At the Presbyterian "inulay : chooj about $.", 0 worth ol' clothing and ns -ful gills were donated by the differ cut classes of the schools to t lie watj children of France. Each class madq a presentation of their gifts, whici$ were artistically wrapped parcels. For many years the M. K. Sunday school have bad a "While Christ inns," when the little folks are taugli that it Is the time for giving. This year $70 was ronti Hinted (or llitf hungry little children of ArmenH, $l "i for a local worthy cause and worth of provisions were donated lot help the poor in our own eomtiiunlt y The Christian church also ol served last Sunday for the Armeniart relief, nml a fund of $:!! was raise! to help the wretched people acrosfl , the water. The Sunshine Club romcmtiereil the worthy families in Ashland on Cli,rislina.s day. Ten families wer.i supplied with eatables and gifts fiiti til is society. Oregon Teachers Work for Prizes ! County schools of the state ari taking part In a thrift campaign forj the prize of $-"0 donated by the Stat-j Hankers' Association. The details ofi this contest will b" considered ly th Oregon State Teacherw' Association now in se.ssion at Portlajid. The priz was put up by the bankers at theiij Marshfield meeting last June, butth4 Idea of tho campaign is directly iu line with tho government's new War Savings Thrift campaign, which isj also given a share of attention the state teachers. The plan generally Is to district, the state into three parts, corre sponding with the congregational dis tricts. Each district will havo a cam paign manager, and each countyf within tho district to be canvasse-l under the direction of a local chair man with an associate committee man. Tim prevalent idea is to get t sort of coalition organization mam up of effective organizers and work er who have shown their eapacit. for doing tilings in the war cam palgns heretofore carried out.