ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday. January page pom A Special Exhibition of the New Mechanical Bookkeeper at First National Bank A cordial invitation is extended to you to come into this bank and inspect the wonderful Burroughs Book keeping Machine which we have just installed. This , "bookkeeper with brains of steel" that cannot make a mistake will be on exhibition in our banking room Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdaj', January 29, 39 and 31 We want you to see just how this machine operates how it adds, subtracts, and figures balances without an error. Our bookkeepers will show you exactly how, our books are posted by machinery. The demonstra tion will be both interesting and instructive. Samples of the work will be distributed to everyone present. This machine has been installed for the purpose of giving added protection to our depositors. We urge you to call and become acquainted with this improved method of handling your account. Remember the date, January 29, 30, 31. Come and bring your friends. First National Bank Ashland, Oregon Bacher Charged With Sedition In the Social Realm miii;imniiiiinmn:i CLUB CALENDAR. Civio Second and fourth Tues- days. $ Auxiliary Every alternate Monday evening. Junior High School Parent- Teacher Third Tuesday. ' Hawthorns School Parent Teacher Third Tuesday. Sunshine Second and fourth Thursdays. ' $ Wednesday Afternoon Second and fourth Wednesdays. $ Trinity Guild Second and $ fourth Thursdays. W. R. C First and third Sat- urdays. Monday Afternoon Study Al- ternate Mondays. Chautauqua Monday evening. Chautauqua, Monday afternoon. W. C. T. U. Second and fourth Tuesdays. Home Guard Monday evening. Eastern Star Embroidery Sec i ond and fourth Tuesdays, Teacup "-First Tuesday. $ Travelers Second Tuesday. Rebekah Embroidery Second and fourth Thursdays. Christian Aid Second and fourth Thursdays. Choral Society Every Tuesday evening. was served and the day was spent In happy reminiscences of former years Pesides the host and hostess, those piesent.were Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wes ton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chamber lain. 8 Soldiers' Auxiliary. The Soldiers' Auxiliary will hold monthly meetings only In the future. The next meeting will be Thursday. February 7. The auxiliary wishes to call atten tion again to all that a biographical sketch of all those from Ashland In the war service is desired. Informa tion along this line should be left at the public library, where It will be placed In the recqrd book. Household K-onomlcs Cliiss. The household economics class con ducted by Miss Anne McCormlck, U. S. government worker In- southern Oregon, Is growing In Interest. At the meeting held in the Temple of Truth Thursday afternoon the room was filled with interested house wives, who' are endeavoring to do their bit to learn and practice con servation of food. "Food for the Family" was thoroughly explained by Miss McCormick, who emphasized the fact that while many women were good cooks, It was the balanced ra tion women must learn to . raise healthy children and to keep all members of the family well and strong. She also demonstrated that the food for children and elderly peo ple should be different. Government bulletins were glen to all those who promised to read them. These class es are all free to the public and should receive a large attendance. Man-led at Scuttle. Mrs. E. V. Jones received the an nouncement of the marriage of Curtis W. Thomas to Miss Doris Lois Rad ford nt Seattle, Wash. Curtis Is a former Ashland boy. having lived here for a number of years. He has many f' '.ends here who join In con gratulations. He is also wearing the uniform of the United States army hr.vlng enlisted some time ago. elvliruted Birthday. A pleasant company of old-time friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Shelton north of Ashland last Tuesday to celebrate Vie 6Mb birthday anniversary of the latter. A sumptuous turkey .dinner Sunsliine Club. A special meeting of the Sunshine Club will be held ext Thursday af ternoon at 2 o'clock to do some extra work. Every one is invited to be present. ' OREGON WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Klamath Falls looks forward to an unusually prosperous year in 1918. Marshfleld If specifications for white cedar aeroplane lumber were at hand, Coos county could furnish a great Impetus to the war program by furnishing Port Orford cedar. Silver Lake Twenty miles of the Strahorn railroad is completed. Marshfleld C. A. Smith Company Is considering plans for converting its idle pulp mill buildings at the Coos Bay mills into apartments for a boarding house for additional em ployes who will be required if double shifting all plants becomes an actu ality to get out spruce orders. Roseburg New concrete building for garage soon to be built here. Secretary Dodson of the Portland, Chamber of Commerce has been do ing invaluable work for Oregon in connection with increasing the ship building lumber and airplane mater ial Industry. Every encouragement should be given these industries. Divide Pilot Lumber Company is repairing the old 0. L. T. mill and will begin operations soon. St. Helens Citizens, city and county, have raised a fund of $9,000 to build a road from here to the Co lumbia City shipyards, where 500 men are employed, a majority of whom live, at, St, Helens, ' ' RoseburgivContract'jloit for Pacific Highway bridge across the Umpqua. Union county has lo0,000 post road money-to spend ix the , county. Enterprise Telophorie company is Installing new equipment which will give modern service when completed. Brownsville The cannery shipped IK carloads of canned goods in 1917, cars ranging from 60,000 to 90,000 pounds. Marshfleld Sunrise Condensery to build addition and Increase output 75 per cent. Takllma Machinery for Golconda chrome property ordered, operations to begin Immediately. Ore under con tract to Atlantic Ore & Alloy Co. for the United States government. Wendllng Over 150 men are em ployed In rebuilding the Booth-Kelly planing mill here which was de stroyed by fire several months ago. Reedsport Eight hundred thou sand pounds of fresh salmon and 7,300 cases canned were shipped from here by one company the past season. Three companies are operat ing. Columbia City Contracts for eight ships for the government have been let to local shipyards. Columbia City New logging camp to open several miles west of here. Will have payroll of $2,500 a month. St. Helens Nine houses, costing from $1,200 to $1,500 each, will be built here in the spring. S"t. Helens A $4,000 contract has been let for a new theatre building. Children's colored hose 18c per pair, only half what they are worth. Ashland Trading Co. . 72-It Henry Bacher of this city was re cently arrested by Sheriff Lewis on a j charge of making seditious utter-! ances. It Is claimed that Mr. Bacher j for a year past has been making un patriotic remarks, and the sheriff's office has been notified a number of times that he had been indulging In seditious talk. It is reported that Mr. Bacher had been warned several times that his utterances would get him into trouble. Finally his con tinued talk became so open that per sons to whom he talked were willing to swear to a complaint. When questioned by Deputy U. S. Marshal TItchenor, who is In Grants Pass on special business, Mr. Bacher denied any pro-German sympathies and utterances, although he admitted doing considerable talking and of fered to keep quiet If released. He freely told the deputy marshal that he had said he believed the German people had a right to their Ideas as well as any of us and that he thought the United States had no right to cross the ocean to fight and should wait until attacked on this side. . Prosecutor Reames of Portland was communicated with and when told what Bacher had said gave im mediate orders that a warrant be sworn out before U. S. Commissioner Herbert Smith and that Bacher be brought to Portland. Mr. Bacher is a sign and automo bile painter and decorator of ability and has been a resident of Grants Pass for nearly thirty years past. His friends believe he had no disloyal in tentions but all say he acted unwise ly. Grants Pass Courier. M aFgeeFife CLARK in "THE hMMOHS" TUESDAY Peggy Hyland & Mare Mae Dermott In "The Sixteenth Wife" TWO POPULAR STARS IN AN EXCELLENT PRODUCTION WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY Geo. M. Coham in "Seven Keys to Baldpate" ne of the season Biggest hs FRIDAY-SATURDAY Mary Picfefford in "The Lilllc American" Special Music nr i f f 1 1 S hri - Yvatcn ior "Uvcr 1 ncre it "Always a Good Show" SCHOOL OF EXTENSION REACHES MANY PEOPLE University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 26. Showing an increase of more than 700 over last year, 800,260 peo nlo were reached by the extension division of the university in Its slide lecture courses this year. In all there were 55 different sets of slides sent out, reaching 231 audiences. "Those that seemed to be the most Interesting' says Alfred Powers, as sistant director of the extenslondi vision, "were the slides of visual In struction." , Slides v were sent out every week to schools on the organ ized circuit. There are 51 schools on this circuit. , f , Altogether the visual Instruction bureau reached 100,377 persons, making a gain of 85,000 over last year, or over 700 per cent. , The schools named on the organ ized circuit are as follows: Albany, Ashland, Bend, Central Point, Cot tage Grove, Drain, Eugene, Forest Grove, Fall City, Grants Pass, Hood River, Harrisburg, Hillshoro, lone, Jacksonville, Jefferson high school, Klamath Falls, Lincoln high school, La Grande, Myrtle Point, Marshfleld, McMinnvllle, Merrill, North Bend, Oregon State Normal Orenco, Pilot Rock, Pendleton, Prlngle district, Roseburg, Salem, St. Dominic's Acad emy, Springfield, University high, school and Vale. The communities in which the slides have been shown are Coburg, Dufur, Eugene Neighborhood Club, Juntura church, Jackson County Club; Riverside church, Pine Grove, Unitarian church of Eugene and Scappoose Commercial Club. KNIT FOR BOYS . ALREADY IN RANKS "Save the khaki and gray knit goods for the soldiers if you do not want to help the kaiser," is the ward ing of A. H. Babcock, consulting en gineer of the Southern Pacific Com pany, who has also been commis sioned a major in the United Slates army engineers' reserve corps. "All our mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts are knitting socks, scarfs, gloves and sweaters in khaki and gray for our army and navy boys in the camp and in the field. So great is the need that knitting now may be said to be the feminine avoca tion. ."The need for these articles by the men in the field is great. Lack of them often' means a decrease of physical resistance, which in time may mean inability to fight of pneu monia. Since the regulations permit the use only of khaki and gray, civil ians at home should not accept or wear knit articles in these colors. If they must wear articles of military cut,, let them be of other colors. "Every woman who spends her strength knitting should see that her efforts are for the direct benefit of seme. man in the ranks, rather than ton some one' yet to be called. "The important facts are that our soldiers and sailors urgently need these particular garments of which there is' a great natural shortage. Whoever or whatever diverts even one such. garment from its natural func tion thereby and by just that much helps the kaiser." LATEST WAR NEWS. RAILROADS TO BE DIVIDED INTO ZONES In order that the railroads may be promptly-informed on freight embar goes on various lines and so properly advise shippers, the railroads of the United States and Canada have been divided into 26 zones, each with a chairman. Whenever any line Issues an embargo thereafter, it will send a notification of it to each of the 26 chairmen, who in turn will notify all the roads In this territory. K. M. Nicoles, superintendent of transportation for the Western Pa cific, is to be chairman of the San Francisco zone, and J. H. O'Neill, general superintendent of the Great Northern, of the Seattle zone. Notification to this effect has been received by local roads from the com mission on car service at Washington. The embargo situation, because of the abnormal traffic conditions resulting from war activity, is changing so rap idly that this centralization has be come imperative In order that a ship-, per may know promptly what freight routes are open for his shipments, i Phone news Items to the Tidings. Definite war news have I none, Eut my aunt's washerwoman's sis ter's son Heard a policeman on bis beat Say to a laborer on the street, That he had a letter just last week, Written In either Latin or Greek, From a Chinese coolie from Timbuc too, Who said a nigger in Cuba knew Of a colored man in a Texas town Who 1 got it straight from a circus clown That a man In the Klondike heard the news From a gang of South American Jews, About somebody in Borneo, Who heard a man who claimed to know Of a swell society female rake Whose mother-in-law will undertake To prove that her seventh husband's niece Has stated in a printed piece That she has a son who has a friend Who knows when this war Is going to end ? ? ? ? ? ' But he won't tell. U. R. Stung. (This little verse has been circu lating. Its authorlship is not known to the editor.) J BEST WAR-TIME RECIPES. turn and brown on other. Drain and serve for breakfast or luncheon. Corn Meal Griddle Cukes. One and one-third cups corn meal, 1 cups boiling water, cup milk, 1 tablespoon shortening, 1 tablespoon molasses, 2-3 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow der. Scald corn meal in bowl with boiling water; add milk, melted shortening and molasses; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake on hot greased griddle until brown. Louisville, Ky., proposes to close her schools and churches In order to conserve fuel, but we hear of no sug gestion to close the saloons. Now every fellow can comment as he seea fit on this statement. nominy Muffin. One cup soft boiled or left over hominy, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 table spoons shortening, 1 egg. 94 cup milk, 2 cups corn flour, 4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Mix together hominy, salt, melted shortening, beaten egg and milk. Add flour which, has been sifted with baking powder. Beat well and bake in greased muffin tins or shallow nan in hot pven 25. to 30 minutes, Rye Drop Cakes.' Three-eighths cup Hour. 4 tea spoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tea spoon salt, cup rye meal, cup corn meal, I tablespoon molasses. 1 cup water. Sift together, Hour, bak ing powder and salt; mix in corn meal and rye meal; add water slowly to make stiff dough; add molasses and mix. Drop from spoon into mod erately hot fat; brown on one side, Good apples at 50c per box. Ash land Trading Co. 72-lt NOTICE 320-acre cattle and hog ranch for sale in Northern California; 60 acres In alfalfa, under water; house and barn. Will be sold cheap for quick sale. We have a number of real, bargains in all classes of real estate In Ash land and vicinity. Small payment down; easy terms on balance. See Beaver Realty Co. at the popular corner, First and Main streets, Ashland, Oregon. A VERSE FROM CAMP LEWIS. The following verse was printed in "Over the Top," the soldiers' news paper of Camp Lewis: "Going West" ( An expression used instead of death . by our allies.) "Going West" isn't dying, It's just going west, to a glorified rest As the setting sun, when the day is done, ! In a glory of red, sinks low in the west, Never suggesting a thought of the dead Hut rather of rising again in the morn A sun reborn! "Going West" isn't dying, It s just going west, t6 a glorified rest. . Dan W. Totheroth, Co. G. The Case Against Christian Science Free Lecture by FREDERICK W. PEAB0DY, Boston Lawyer Author o( "The Reliflio-Medical Masquerade"; attorney for Mrs. Eddy's eons in their suit for the appointment of a receiver for her estate on the grounds of insanity, etc., etc., etc. Thi9 famous lecture-trial is in the form of a lawyer's address to a jury, upon sworn testimony of many wit nesses examined by him in open court, in which Mr. Peabody. proves the absolutely non-religions character anrl th entire absence of real healing power, In "Christian Science." ;r - ..r.ani the His plea Is absorbingly interesting; his disclosures are in a high degree startling and his showing is authoritative and convincing. First Baptist Church, 1st St., Tuesday, January 29th at 8 p.m. From the New York Times. " The courts of Massa chusetts are open, and until Mr. Pea body is a convicted slanderer no sane or decent person, man or woman, can afford to give any countenance to Christian Science.' " From the Los Angeles Daily Times. " Five thousand per sons listened last night to Frederick W. Peabody three thousand more waited for admission and were turned away all standing room was taken nearly an hour before the time sched uled for the address to begin." Tlio Boston Herald. "Mr. Peabody's speech was an ava lanche of wit and biting sarcasm. That they got plain talk and plenty of it and a great abundance of ex p'icit charges without any beating about the bush, there can be no doubt in the mind of anyone who was privi leged to hear the distinguished attor No Admission Charge Here the Only Living Man Who Knows the Whole Truth ' Voluntary Ollcring