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"-lion Historical Socle" : H y - - - ASHLAND RIVER. ROUND-UP AND PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION, JULY 5-6 MAsh!and Grows While Uthia nows" . Gty of Sunshine and flowers Ashland. Oregon. Ulhia Springs ' ' "'. "Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLIII ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1918 NUMBER 5 roqUe Grand Patriotic Celebration , And Third Annual Round-Up Never before has our country faced such conditions as It Is facing today. The call for patriotic service is ring ing Insistently In our ears. Patrio tism Is not always shown by the whoop and hurrah and the other dem onstrations we see. It Is instilled, however, by patriotio celebrations such as are commonly held on the Fourth of July. President Wilson has publicly en couraged the holding of celebrations this year. Each and every one should put his shoulder to the wheel and make the Ashland celebration better than the best, of any that have been held In the Rogue River valley. . Public speakers of note will address the crowds in different parts of the city and in the park. A monster pa rade is being planned by the parade committee. It 13 to include floats from the business houses, the lodges and fraternal organizations, the pa triotic societies bucIi as the state mil itia, the Woman's Relief corps, the Honor Guard, the Red Cross, and a number of "take offs" that will make it spicy and interesting. Every local Navy Attracting Many Young Men r i The lure of a "life on the ocean wave," together with the advantages offered by enlisting In Uncle Sam's navy is proving attractive to many Ashland young men since the open ing .Monday of the naval recruiting station on the corner of Main and Oak streets. Two Ashland boys have already gone out, and many more are planning on donning the uniform of the American Jackie before many days. The first Ashland boy to enlist since the opening of the naval sta tion Is Milton Biegel, who signed up as a machinist's mate, second class, and left for Portland Monday night. Milton has completed an apprentice ship in the Ashland Iron works, which has advanced his rating. Last evening Lee O. Peachey, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Peachey of Lincoln street, left for Portland af ter enlisting as a seaman, second class, radio branch. He will be as signed to the training school at tlu; University of Washington. Many others are making inquiries and in the course of a week or so the re cruiting officers expect to enlist eight or ten more. Chief Yeoman S. "Durkhelmer and Yeoman H. A. Burger, the recruit ing officers in charge of the Ash land station are making many friends during their sojourn here. They are ready to enlighten anyone in regard to the naval qualifications And their station has already become popular in tin city. Chief Yeoman Durkhelmer -ill remain In this sec tion for a short time only, while this branch of the U. S. service is being Introduced here, but Yeoman Burger will remain to make the naval station a permanent Institution. As soon as the station Is well es tablished the recruiting officers will rvislt other cities and districts in southern Oregon for the purpose of interesting young men In the navy -who are not able to reach' Ashland to enlist. Relief Fund Tries To Sell Pencils A number of stationary dealers In this city have received a box of pen cils purporting to come from "Amer ica's Allies' Co-operative committee", an organization which is sending out appeals for assistance from head quarters in New York. The pencils bear an imprint of the recipient, and accompanying them Is a letter sug- ' gesting co-operation in raising fundi for aid of dependents of soldiers of ' the allied armies. , Newspapers throughout the state have been taking up the question of the authentlty of this organization, and Inquiries to the state council of defense reveals that the America's Allies' Co-operative committee Is not listed among the national war char ities, and that 'the work it proposes to do is already one of the big tasks of the American Red Cross. In an Investigation instituted by John K. Kollocft, secretary of the state coun cil of defense, it was found that' this committee was not even mentioned as having come to the attention of the New York society. organization should plan to be rep resented. A number of bands will furnish music through the day and at night in the park and all parts of the city. The fireworks will be better than the wonderful display of last year. Ashland Is going to have a Round up, and It's going to be worth seeing, too. The committee is expecting record-breaking crowds from Klamath county, Siskiyou county, the Rogue River valley, Grants Pass and Jose phine county. There will be all the wild, exciting features found in for mer celebrations. This will' be no cut and dried, slow moving show. Anyone who can ride, or thinks he can ride, will be given the opportun ity to win the spurs, and receive the honor of being the champion broncho buster of the Rogue River Roundup t Races of all kinds, with many new and different features. The commit tees are as busy as bees arranging for the parades, signing., up conces sions, and getting things arranged for the monster celebration, now less than a month away. Young Men of Age Prompt to Register 'Twenty young men of this city have reached their majority since last reg istration day, June 6, 1917, and an swered the requirements of their gov ernment to register for Uncle Sam's service. Twenty-one registrants ap peared before Attorney Nellie Dickey at her office yesterday, all of whom with the exception of one gave Ash land as his place of residence. The exception was a young man from Tal ent. ; The boys were eager to register and become subject to go out to fight their country's battles, and their sen timent was generally voiced by one, who hoped that the fight would last until he could get into it. Follow lng Is the list. William Bryan Johnson, 1224 Iowa street. . Dale Rodney Baughman, 566 Fair- view street. Sumner Austin Parker, R. F. D. 1. Rollie Freeman, 261 Oberlln street. - Edward Mahlon Stannard, 405 Lib erty street. William Eryan Davis, 309 Harri son street. ' John Kemble, 227 Granite street. George Andrew Dosler, R. F. D. 1. John Redmond Bilderback, R. F. D. 1. Walter Herman Scholer, R. F. D. 1. Troy Aubrey Phipps, 113 Pine street. Lea A. Porter, 95 Coolidge street. John Francis Finneran, corner 8th and A streets. Harmon Cress, 508 Liberty Btreet. William Mayfleld, 872 Boulevard? Fred Rltzlnger. R. F. R. 1, t Benard Pederson, 329 Beach street. - ' Chester Knlghten, Talent Oregon. Roy Murphy, R. F. D. 1. t Guy William Randies, R. F. D.I 1. Col. Hammond Joins Pershing's Staff Word has been received that Col onel Thomas Hammond, formerly of Ashland, had left an Atlantic port May 28, at the orders of General Per shing. At "the breaking out of the war, Col. Hammond was In the Phil Ippines, and received an appointment on the general staff of the army with orders to report at Washington, D C. He had been stationed at the na tional capital ever since until the '"'-sent orders arrived from General rershlng calling him to join his regi ment at the war front in France. Colonel Hammond is a brother of Mrs. John Turner of this city. Water Meters To Be Installed In City At the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night an order was issued directing the ordinance com mittee, to draft a new ordinance'pro Vldlng for the use of water meters and the establishment of meter rates. The committee will be aided in the drafting of this ordinance by the water superintendent and city attor ney, and the former was instructed to purchase sis new water meters. City Grocers Will Sell No Wheat Flour ' Starting Tuesday Ashland went on a complete wheatless basis until next harvest. This resolution has been made by the local grocers and flour ing mill In compliance with a confer ence with W. A. Folger, county chair man of the food administration, who is enlisting the entire county to save on wheat flour for the country's peeds. While the matter had been taken up with the county chairman previous to this resolution and the grocers in a resolution had pledged themselves to encourage their patrons 'to save on the use of white flour as much as possible, later develop ments put Jackson county on a strict ly wheatless diet for the next month or two, and the Ashland grocers im mediately fell in with the require ments. Chairman Folger issued the follow ing notice to the local grocers as well as elsewhere throughout the county: To all flour merchants and millers In Jackson county: In accordance with the request re ceived today you are asked to sell no more flour until July 1, except to log ging camps, bakeries holding licenses and hospitals. Arrangements will be made to ac cept and pay for all flour, probably this week. ' Meetings of merchants and millers will be held In various parts of the county this week, soon as it can be arranged. W. A. FOLGER, County Administrator. The sale of war bread containing CO per cent wheat flour Is not pro hibited, neither is tie sale of gra ham and whole wheat flour as long as the present supply on hand lasts. After this is exhausted, no more will be forthcoming. Hotel Austin Opens Under New Manager Deginning with the first of the month the Hotel Austin received new propriteor. This is H. W. Laug' enour of Seattle, an experienced hotel man who has opend the house and will operate it. on its old-time basis. The dining room which has been closed to the public since the exodus of A. A. Chisholm several months ago Is open, and the public may secure meals regularly at this hostelry now, i Mr. Laugenour Is an affable, pleas ant gentleman and has come to thi3 city with the Intentions of making its interests his, which bespeak well for the accommodations he will offer in his hotel. As is usually the case, the hotel business in Ashland is much better in the summer when many tourists pass through here or remain for several days at a time, and it Js expected that conditions will be much Improved with the complete opening of the Hotel Austin. Lane County Will Be Made Wheatless Lane county will be wheatless from now until the next harvest is over, according to representative re tail dealers in flour at a meeting held Saturday night at the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, an agreement to that effect being signed by those present. A. C. Dixon, county food administrator, gave it as his opinion and the merchants - present agreed with him, that every merchant in the county would abide by the de cision made. No wheat flour will be sold by the dealers in this county until after harvest or unless released by the state food administrator, except to hospitals, bakeries, logging camps and sawmills, which operate . under government license. Main Street Bakery Closed Fdr Summer Owing to conditions regulating the baking business Incident to the cut ting down of wheat flour supplies, Abe Butler has closed his bakery on Main street, for the present, at least, The use of substitutes has made his business so much harder, together with the lack of efficient help, that during the summer he concluded to close down. He will hold his room and equipment, so that should condi tions prove favorable later on he can resume bis business. Voters To Be Given W. S. S. Circulars Several thousand men, women and high school students will be called on to volunteer for the war saving stamp campaign In the way of ad dressing postal cards. Unless the vol unteers are forthcoming the plan of the statq executive committee can not be carried out with success. Every registered voter in the Btate Is to receive a postal card containing the proclamation of the president des ignating June 28 as national thrift day, and the card wil also give In formation as to what the W. S. S. means. County clerks are expected to get out these cards, but the task is bo great that the county clerks will be unable to perform this task without assistance. The state executive com mittee has no money to pay for ad dressing the cards, and there Is no mechanical device available to sim plify the work. The secretary of state who has a complete list of the reg istered voters of Oregon cannot do the work because his addressing ma chines are built for addressing soft papers like covers for the official pamphlets and these machines will not work on postal cards. The program indicated by the ex ecutive; committee is to have the county chairmen of the W. S. S. cam paign take up the problem with the county clerks. The county clerks can have their deputies prepare lists of the registered voters and then have these list subdivided into batches of a few hundred each. When the coun ty chairman receives his allotment of the postal cards, now being printed, he will turn them over to the county clerks for addressing from the list of county clerks will meet the situation is by calling for volunteers to do the addressing. ' as the plans are outlined, there will ,not be a person in the state who will be In ignorance of the national thrift i day of June 2S. Aside from reaching the registered voters through the mail, there are methods arranged for sending the message to the perfple In various ways. All fraternal societies will be asked to lay the W. 3. S. matters before the members in the two weeks previous to the drive and this is expected to reach at least 100,000 people. All religious organizations will also lie solicited, to assist. The ministers will be requested to speak on the war sav ings in their churches on Sunday, June 23. The women's organiza tions of the state are to be clrculariz ed and asked to volunteer. One of the effective methods for spreading publicity will be through the school system. The state super intendent of public instruction will take up the cause with the county school superintendents, and these, in turn will consult with the teachers and principals, and the teachers will Instruct the children.' The children will be told to talk to their parents about the war savings stamps and the necessity for economy and sign ing a pledge on June 28 in accordance with the procalmation of the presi dent. Soldier Sees Rain Of "Kaisers Tears" The Tidings is In receipt of a let ter from Robert S. Allan, formerly employed in Paulserud & Barrett's tailoring establishment. Mr. Allan left Ashland last fall, and is one of the first men from southern Oregon to get into action with the American expeditionary forces in France. The letter in part Is as follows: "It affords me great pleasure to write you Just a few lines In regard to the few months I spent In the beautiful little city of Ashland. I must say, as a matter of fact, that. Ashland 1b one of the most beautiful and best places in which to live In the whole world. I passed through many beautiful cities, and taking them all in comparison, I would take Ashland for mine. "The climate is fairly good over here, but there Is something lack ing. We get our share of rain, also we get most every kind of rain that exists. For instance, : we get real rain water and if not that, there is always a substitute, such as a rain of bullets, 'kalsectears,' and at times it rains real big elephants that burst upon striking the ground and fly into a thousand pieces, and say, it's no small job to get by these big drops of rain. If you do, fine and dandy. If you don't, you are in bad, that' all." . German Drive Checked At All Points Along Front By Allies ' German masses no longer hurl themselves at the allied lines along extended fronts. The momentum of the Teuton advance of last week ap pears to have exhausted itself in striking the yielding lines of the French and British, which now have stiffened and are holding the foe ex cept for Insignificant gains here and there, especially along the front run ning south from the neighborhood from Soissons to Chateau Trierry. The struggle apparently Is changing from a war of movement to a war of position. Offlcal reports show that the Ger mans are launching their assaults on Chezy, Corey and near Demmieres, isolated point of vantage. These at tacks were, roughly, from five to seven miles apart along the line which includes ground where the Americans have; established them selves and have fought the Germans to a standstill. The French official statement says the Teuton attacks were all repulsed. The report of operations along the British front fails to show any not able activity on the part of the Ger mans. At Morlancourt between the Ancre and the Somme, south of Al bert, the Germans supported by a heavy artillery attempted to raid the British positions, but were repulsed leaving prisoners behind. Details of the fighting In which American units have taken part show that General Pershing's men have Group 4, Bankers Lunch At Ashland A meeting of group 4, of the State Bankers' association, was held In this city Tuesday, at which time the visit ing members were guests of the local hankers at a luncheon given at noon at the Hotel Austin. A number of representatives from the various banking Institutions of Jackson, Jose phine and Klamath counties were present and enjoyed the hospitality of the local officials as well as the Intermingling of business Interests and Ideas which these get-together meetings always produce. In the afternoon a business meet ing was held in the library, where among many Important affairs (11b cussed was the appointment of a com mittee of three men to Interest them selves in the matters of public poli cies, especially pertaining to securing cantonments, aviation camps or re- construction hospitals for points In southern Oregon. This committee will tender their services in co-opera' tion with any movement of this kind regardless of the special location, provided It is within the radius of the southern tier of counties In the state. i The newly elected officer of group 4 are: Chairman, William G. Tait, president of the First National bank, Medford; vice-chairman, V. O. N. Smith, cashier of the Citizens bank of Ashland; secretary-treasurer, , V. H. Vawter, cashier of the Jackson County bank, Medford. Out of town guests at the meet ing and luncheon were: Frank C. Bramwell and Sam H. Baker, Grants Pass; A. M. Collier and A. B. Epper son of Klamath Falls; V. H. Vawter, Dolroy Getchell and William H. Gore of Medford. W.U. Employes Get Special Payments Manager Newcombe, of the West ern Union Telegraph company, re ceived advice from New York this morning announcing that the excep tional conditions which moved the board of directors to authorize the two special payments to employes during the year 1917 gave indica tions of continuing to a greater ex tent during the year 1918. In addi tion to the special payments on Jan. 1st and July 1st of this year, the board also announces the distribu tion of an extra special payment pay able October 1st. This payment will be made to all regular employes, except the presi dent, on the payroll as of that date. who shall have served the company continuously from April 1, 1918, In clusive. As in the past these special payments will not affect increasing of salaries, which will be as hereto fore, determined on individual merit. gone into battle with a spirit which Is magnificent. In their defense of the bridge across the Marne they re pulsed the enemy in a decisive man ner and with their rifle fire prevent ed the Cermans making further seri ous attempts to cross the Marne. Amnrlrnn mflphlna own iva rnn. verted the northern part of Chauteau Thierry into no man's land. The Germans, unable to hold their posi tion under the storm of bullets poured into them by the Americans, have withdrawn to the outskirts of that section of the city. In addition to the present battle American troops are actively en gaged on four sectors and preparing" 10 enter me iirsi line on a nun Flanders. Northwest of Toul, east of Lune vllle, north of St. Mihlel, along the Meuse and west of Mondldier, In Picardy, Ceneral Pershing's men had given a good account of themselves before the entrance of American un its Into the fighting east and west of Chauteau Thierry. . With the halting of the offensive on the new salient, military observ ers expect the Germans will make an other attempt to reach the channel ports through Amiens and crush the Anglo-Krench forces before the full strength of the Amorlcan efforts can be brought Into pluy. The supremo war council has expressed confidence in the situation and the ability of General Foch to combat the enemy's plans. Many Ashland Boys In New Battalion The latest tidings of the organiza tion of the 69th battalion being form ed at Fort Stevens, presumably for overseas service, states that four new butteries and a supply company arc being formed. While a complete list of the Ashland boys in these batteries is not available yet, thoso known en rolled are as follows: Supply, Company Clifford Yar brough. Battery C Corporals Coleman and Porter; Bugler Joy; Privates Davis, Homes, Baughman, Dougherty, and Carey. Battery D Sergeant Glenn Simp-- son; Corporals Ed Wolcott and Geo.. Evans; Privates Ralph Fraley. Battery C Sergeant B. H. Grubbr Corporals Payne, Kirk, Holmes and Settles. Battery F Sergeants Stevens and Sams; Corporals Frank Tinker; Pri vates Crosslin, Pcnnlston, Songer, Dwlght Tinker and I-ane; Mechanic Bob Keller. Electrician Sergeant Danford goea with the non-com. staff of the new battalion. Oscar Silver, Reld Harrell, Dean Scott, Frank Rush and Heston Jones are reported to be enrolled among those going In the new battalion. It has not been learned yet the time of their departure nor their route from the fort. Flag Day Will Be Observed By Elks The annual flag day exercises of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will bo held on Friday even ing:, June 14 at the Elks temple. A patriotic program of more than usual Interest will be given and all citi zens are cordially Invited to be pres ent. Patriotic addresses will be given by Rev. Chas. A. Edwards and oth ers, and the musical number and rit ualistic exercises will be of the usual high order. To nnnlol tn(nnno la tn n n 1 f aat 0r1 fn these services on account of the large number of members of Ashland lodge now In the army and navy of the United States as Indicated on the Elks' service flag. Notice to Vog Owners All dog licenses expired May 1st, 1918, and new licenses are required Immediately. Call at the recorder 1 office at once and procure a license, as the chief of police has been In structed to take up and dispose of all dogs found without license tags for the current year. GERTRUDE BIEDE, City Recorder. Old papers for sale at Tidings of fice.