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I. ASHLAND TTOrNOH Monday, Roptemlaer 1(1, 19T8 PAGE ETOIIT Uncle Sam Lifts The Lid Farmers, bring, In your wheat for your winter's flour "All limits foa quantity deliver able to farmers on exchange trans fctlona have been removed." "Mills In exchange transactions j-ii'.Bt deliver to tlio farmers whole -.vheat flour, graham, or prescribed mixed flours or sell him required tnbstltuU's In combinations with standard wheat flour. Itatlo 80 per cent flour to 20 per cent substitute. VOL Fl'RNISH THE WIII3AT V'R DO THE WflST. Ashland Mills Agricultural War Work What Is considered ono of the riost important projects to deal with, lie farm labor situation, Is now being idanned by labor specialists of the r nitcd States department of agricul ture. Farm labor conferences will lie held dm ins September and the first of October In every state in the Union whore a federal labor specialist and officiate of tho stat"R relation ser vice will discusn labor questions and tl'fir solution with officials of the ttr.te agricultural colleges, state farm 1 cip speclalintx, county agent lead ers, and other Interested. The ob ject Is to get all agencies to work to gether and to have tho various de triments of the 2state colleges to consider how tiielr campaign can bo cr.rrlcil on with a minimum amount of labor. For ex-imple. If the dairy department of a state college is plan ii'ng to conduct a campaign for in treasing the number of dairy cattli ir the state, the officials of that de partment will be asked to show how the program can be carried out with ihe minimum or present supply of l ibor. Each department will be ask ed to recast its program, so that It an be met with the present supply cf farm labor. The secretary of agriculture has designated Prof. G. I. Christie and . M. Estahrook, assistants to the fctretary, to represent the depart rient In connection with the making of loans to farmere In western states vho have suffered crop failures dur ing the last two years from the J5, 000,000 fund set aside recently by . r resident Wilson. Prof. Christie will 1 nve charge of the northwest section T;nd Mr. Estabrook or the central and southwest region. A meeting of 15 county agents In tho drouth-stricken nrens of Montana, has been called by Prof. Christie at Helena, Montana. At the meeting matters pertaining to the work of the department In con nection with tha loans will lt dis cussed. An office Is to be establish ed at Creat Falls, Montana, where the work connected with the loan vlll be conducted. Mr. Estabrook vlll hold a slniilar conference of onty agents at the Kansas State -Agricultural college, Manhattan, Kansas, August 12 to 14. He also will confer with the governors of Kansas and Oklahoma and on Aug 15 will meet with officials interested in the matter at Wichita, Kausas, where headquarters will be estab-lirhed. Every available man has been put on the fire line by the forest service to watch for and fight forest fires. T.arly in the season the fire situation In the National forest In the west lecame threatening; fires occurred earlier than usual as the result of the abnormally low rainfall and uu prgcedent heat and dry wind In the ipring. The situation Is considered worse than any, since 1910, when aire caused alaout $20,000,000 dam age and cost the lives of 78 employees Cf the forest service. An unusual number of dry electrical storms last spring were tho cause of numerous rres, and labor shortage has com bined with the had natural conditions to Increase the difficulties. In sev eral Instances ooldfers have been rred to assist the regular fire fight ers. Tho plan now adopted Is to have crews of five or more men es tablished at central points, equipped for Immediate action, and In direct loramunjeallon with tho fire out looks. This makes It possible to use unskilled labor and men unfamllllar v llh the country. In npU9 of all dlf- WAShell TfaeBarber 137 . Main llcultles the situation has not been allowed to get beyond control. Small rollef from local rains is only tem pcrary and the danger will not' be removed until the regular fall rains set la. In sp!tc of the fact that approxi mately 25,000 experienced farm hands in Illinois have been Inducted bv the draft and many thousand ji-ore have either voluntarily enlist el or gone Into competing industries the state Is producing Its greatest food crop this year, and the farm labor needs have been and are being ca-ed for. This Is tho report made ly Samuel Insull, shairman of the II inois state council of defenso to tho ''lilted States department of agricul ture. In It he expressed his apprecia tion for the department's co-operation In assisting In the recent farm- labor campaign. The achievement In Illinois, Mr. Insull states, Is due to ,!hc- patriotic spirit of small-town people who responded generously to the campaign. The Inspection service for ship ments of fruit and vegetables start ed by the bureau of markets last year has been extendcd,to cover 36 terminal markets and army training camps. Tiio certificates issued by Inspectors state tho condition of ship ments o'f fruit and vegetables as they nrrlve at market centers and are esed as a basis for settling any claim that may arise between shipper and consignee. Wrong methods of loading aro re sponsible for many losses of grapes i.Iilppcd In climax baskets, according to specialists of the bureau of mar- Gambling With Destiny Fpending your Income as you make It is simply gambling with destiny end with nil the odd3 against you. tou stand all to lose and none to gain SYSTEMATIC SAVING even though small, If constant, elim inates tho element of chance and establishes your future on a basis of certainty. This bank desires to co-oporato with you in building on that basis. Wo have unusual facilities for pro moting the Interest of our customers. STATE I.AXK OF ASHLAN'P kets who have worked out an Im proved method of loading these bas kets. By placing the last row of bas kets at the side of tho car at an angle t'rem the other rows It Is possible to so fill the space In the cars that damage from shifting of the load Is prevented. A poster showing this method of loading climax baskets is being distributed In producing sec tions where the baskets are used. As a result of a health survey made In five counties In Wyoming, home demonstration agents In that itate are urging farm women to seo that their children drink more milk, and to use more milk products la the diet. The survey was made by the state leader of home demonstra tion agents of the United States de partment of agriculture and the state agricultural college working with the rural teachers of the counties. It shewed that 48 per cent of the ab sent children from school was caus ed by Illness, a large part of which could be attributed to Impropor food, besides the campaign for the use of more milk, special food Instructions will bo given by the agents to meet the needs of the families In which the children are not being given proper diet. Receipts by dealers of timothy seed were Indicated to be 83,000,000 pounds less for the year ending July 1, 1917, according to tho seed re porting service of the bureau of markets. However the carry-over on July 191 8 amounted to about 12, 900,000 pounds more than that of the year before and 59,000,000 pounds more than that of two years ago. This large carry-over, It Is thought, will offset tho greatly re duced acreage cut for seed this year. Incomplete returns from the war emergency seed survey of July 1, 3 918, shows exports for the twelve months ending on that date havede- cteased from 12,767,580 pounds to S.C-68,241 pounds. The United States has always had the largest export of timothy seed and the falling off In exports, it is stated, may he due to difficulties In securing ocean trans portation and to a decreased demand in Europe for seed to produce hay crops. Incomplete returns from the sur vey of stocks and receipts Indicate that the stock of clover seed In the hands of dealers on July 1, 1918 is Ipf3 than one-third of the quantity held .by them a year ago. The re ceipts by dealers for the year ending J.'ly 1, 1918 were 24,000,000 pounds '.ess than for the previous year. 1. HART'S TAXI $ Phone 4.KMI Office Phone 140 5 Alnutt's Cigar Factory $ 33-lm J Hop Harvest Is Small In State Hop picking In Oregon has not ceased but has slowed down mate rltilly. Reports are coming In from all tho valley sections of yards be. ing abandoned. Where the crop was sold on contract tho picking Is going on as usual. In a number of cases where the hops wero not previously contracted for the growers are also harvesting their crops. It appears to be their Intention to store the hop3 on tho possibility they can be dis- pofed of after tho war, which shows I hat the speculative spirit' Is still valve In the hop world. The specula tion does not extend to tho ranks of tne dealers, however, as offers of the new crop at close to the growing cost meet with no response. When picking of hops not contract ed for Is under w ay .It Is being done with funds arranged for before the government order went Into effect. Financing since the order was issued has been out of the question. It Is believed that one-half of the Oregon crop will bo gathered, which will mean considerably more hops than tho contract sales call for. In Washington less than half of the crop will bo picked and In California t'bout three-fourths. Much of the southern crop was harvested before the government's Intentions were Mr-do known. In a few instances settlements of contracts have been made between buyer and grower and the hops will lie left unpicked. In other cas?s con tracted hops will be tendered for de livery as in former years. A few lots of early picked contracts have already been accepted by buyers. Judge L. R. Webster Killed In Portland Ashland residents were shocked o hear of the death of Judge Lionel P.. Webster, which occurred In Port land Wednesday, when he was In ptantly killed by falling from the fourth floor of the Columbia build ing to the bottom of the elevator rhaft. The accident occurred at 6:30 o'clock as Judje Webster was leav ing his office to go to his dinner. When the elevator stopped at the fourth floor In response to his Tin'.: the bottom of the cage was about two feet above the level of the floor, according to a circumstantial account to the police. Mr. Webster took a false step, fell and rolled between he elevator and the floor, '" The cage, which was operated by G. Sumner, was descending to the floor level at the time. Mr. Web tter was badly crushed before his body released Itself and fell to the bottom of the shaft. The body was sent to the morgue and Sumner wa3 held for investiga tion by the district attorney. Mr. Webster was 66 years old and i native of N'ew York. He practiced Sow In southern Oregon and for four years was circuit judge In Jackson and Klamath counties. In 1S95 he went to Portland and practiced law for a number of years and for two terms, beginning In 1902, he was ji'dge of Multnomah county, resign ing In 1910 and being succeeded by Ji'dge Cleeton. As a good roads advocate Mr. Webster was very active. He also took a great Interest In the Juvenile court, which was under his Jurisdic tion. He was a widower and lived at the Mallory hotel. Judge Web ster was well known In Ashland. HOKKOIIS OF CJAS WAVE OVEK THE TKENVHES Not long after, the Prussian guard was put opposite us and we got our selves ready for most anything. And Mire enough a story spread that tho Cerman miners were digging under neath us. Our miners were busy In vestigating. For a long time they couldn't find anything. Then one ev ening enmo a sudden order to with draw to a trench In the rear, and 15 minutes after we had filed out through tho communication trench came a crash and a roar and a body was tossed a hundred feet Into the rir one of cur men who hnd stayed behind too long. A qreat black nmoke cloud roso up. Our trenches had been blown to nothing, say3 Tommy Kehoe, England's vetoran of the trenches at 16, telling his war experiences In Boys' Life. That cloud of smoke had scarcely disappeared when the Germans open ed up on us with everything they had. millets and shells were flvina; "vcrywhero. The whiz-bangs tore f ops In our wlra fences and In our ennd-bag parapet. Showers of sand, earth and pebbles fell over us and ba'f blinded us. We lost some men how many I don't know, but 1 saw two blown to pieces by a shell that dropped right Into the trench. We four pals Billy Clegg, Billy Matchett, Bonesey and I were sit- w tins In the trench in tho dark, glad 11 wasn't our turn on the firing step In all that fuss. Just then came the gas mask sig nal. I grabbed for mine. My hands were shaking so I could hardly hold It, but there wasn't any time to lose If I wanted to live. As I fumbled vith It I kept mumbling to myself, "Fifteen seconds! Fifteen seconds! Ono, two, three, four " According to Instructions, 15 sec onds was about the time allowed for a gas wave to arrive, and If that aask wasn't adjusted properly by the time I had counted 15, then good-byo to Tommy Kehoe. I had got up to 10 and was still fumbling when along came a fellow we called Welshie, who grabbed m? rnd put tho thing In place on my head. Then we both jumped for the firing step. Not 100 feet away a long, low fog lank was creeping toward us close to the ground. It was the gas wave. Our rockets were . shooting Up through the dark, and In their glare the wave rolled yellow and red and green as It rolled on. Behind It all was pitch black. By the light of the 1 -"KfrfV.. V It has action enough for a two family house --N, Y. Sua. a nrai sran if" - jy Jit - V vvf v I m r-, . 1 to K id i - n Vj mi i: i S "'Ti ' '''' You Are Anxious For a Peep All Right; They're Ready. And truly they are fascinating gar ments in which the style features of the new season have been developed to a remarkable degree of beauty and effectiveness. Plnsh coats are very much in demand again. Wool Velouris the most used and, Navy, Brown, Green, Taupe, Uurgundy, Black and Reindeer arc the most used shades. Many arc fur trimmed.. The suits are made of serge, poplin and broadcloth, mostly, and are snappy in style, and while the selection is not so large perhaps, as usual, the quality is good, for we prefer not to stock a line of suits that will not give you satisfaction. So we cordially invite you to come in soon and see them. There is no war tax yet and the prices are not as high as you might expect. Our advice, though, ?. to buy at once your fall coat or suit. ccc'J rockets I could look along our line of trench and see our lads in hel mets and masks, stiff as statues with their rifles pointing over the para pet. My mask was warm and stifling, and I felt like pulling it off for a big i reath of fresh air before tho wave r.hould reach ui, but I didn't dare. I had heard of men who had taken such a chance and who hadn't lived to tell of it. One moment the wave was sparkl ing white, like prosphorescent surf on a sand bar, the next it gleamed green and red, like the deadly thing .t was. And It crept toward us, oh, so slowly! Perhaps It was only 10 seconds before It rolled over the sand bags, but It seemed like It) times as long. Then It Bwept over U3. I gasped for air. I thought I was suffocated. I was sure there was a hole In my mask somewhere and that It was all over with me. But Is wasn't as bad as that. I was half stifled, hut there was a lot of life left In me, though the ga3 did get a few fellows It knocked them flat. Page T ONE NIGHT ONLY Monday, Setpember 16th A. H. WOODS Presents The Laugh Heated Suite Parlor, Bedroom audi Batln A New Tale of a Wayside Inn, by C. V. Bell and Mark Swan Metropolitan Caste and Production as Played Colonial Theatre, Chicago 4 months; Republic Theatre, New York 8 months. Prices 50c, 75c, $1 .00, $1.50 SEATS ON SALE at Them? f X t i 1 : t f .1 -t ! Talent Tidings Mrs. H. E. Trycr of Medford Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jesse Adorns at her home on Wagner creek. The Red Cross Is working now for '.he relief of the Belgians. Remsmber to renew your sub scriptions for your paper or the gov ernment will order It discontinued. Mrs. W. E. Tryer is collector for the latent district. James Weaver expects to move his family to Ashland in the near future. Ha has accepted a position p Enders' department store. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brandt and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bristow left last Monday for a camping and hunting trip In the Butte country. Mrs. Eaton and Mrs. Roberts of Medford motored up last Wednesday evening for a visit with Mrs. Eaton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vogell. Miss Ethel Ilazen was a guest of Mario Purves at her home on Wag ner creek Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Marlon Tryer and daughter fnd son were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Adams on Wagner creek last Sunday. Old papers tor salt at the Tidings office. 5$ .,...; leatrc