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ASHLAND:
TIDINGS
"Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows"
City of Sunshine and Flowers
Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs
"Oregon's Famous Spa"
VOL. XLIII
, ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918
NUMBER 37
Voluntary Subscriptions To
Fourth Liberty Loan Popular
Starting with Monday, the execu
tive committee and workers of the
Fouith Liberty Loan campaign have
been putting In their best licks to In
cite the citizens of Ashland district
to make their subscriptions promptly
and voluntarily In order to make
their quota and have everything
cleared up by Friday night. If this
Is done Ashland will again establish
Its reputation as a one hundred por
cent patriotic city.
This morning the chairman of the
executive committee received the au
thorized quotas for the Fourth Liber
ty Loan, which are as follows: State
$33,500,000; Jackson county, $571,'
000, and Ashland district, $181,600
This is a trifle below the amount ex-1
pected by the executive committee,
and If the subscriptions continue to
come in promptly the city's quota will
be raised practically by voluntary
registration.
The executive committee and the
workers met at a fine noonday lunch
eon served at the Austin hotel dlninn
room yesterday and reviewed the
work accomplished and that Immedi
ately In front of the big effort to go
over tho top on the voluntary regis
tration plan.
In order to afford every possible
asFistance, the registration subscrip
tion booths located In the three banks
will remain open Thursday and Fri
day. On Thursday the bank doors
will remain open until 5 o'clock Pi
the afternoon for the purpose of reg
istration. On Friday the booths In
Daring Stunts By
Aviator Instructor
The Dally Empire, of Juneau,
Alaska, of recent date contains a let
ter from J. C. Tolman, a man well
known In Ashland, who has been for
asveral years connected with Interests
In Seward, Alaska. Mr. Tolman is at
present in San Diego, Cal., with hU
two boys, Crlt and diet, who are In
the aviation branch of the service.
In the letter Mr. Tolman says:
"Crlt has been assigned as Instruc
tor In stunt flying, and machine gun
shooting from the plane all of
which does not please him, as he is
anxious to get to France, or across
the water.
"It certainly makes me hold my
breath to see Crlt fall end over end,
side over side, for a thousand feet, or
go down tall first spiralling like a
corkscrew until you think he will
never stop until he hits the earth,
then when he rights up the machine
and flies away, somehow or other, 1
want to sit down on the ground and
rest. It Is certainly great work and a
wonderful experience for those who
live through It.
"Three of Crlt's closest compan
ions In aviation have been killed. Ex
Mayor Mltchel was the last one. Crlt
has only had one accident and had a
horseshoe around his neck or some
thing equally as lucky. The machine
in which he was flying fell bottom
side up and there was not a piece left
of the machine worth 25 cents. When
Crlt crawled from underneath the
wrecked machine all the Injury he re
ceived was a small scratch on the leg
' which did not amount to anything
He got right Into another machine
nd went on flying.
"It seemed to be an unlucky day
Friday, July 12. There were 11 ma
chines smashed up that day, one man
killed, and some severely wounded.
Each one of those machines cost the
government $10,000.
"Chet has not started flying ye:,
but expects to shortly. He will ha
flying in the navy, which Is not con
sidered as dangerous as flying In th3
army."
Noted Case To Be
. Heard In Salem
Attorney A. K. Reams has gone to
Salem, where he will make final argu
ments In the case of Sweeney vs.
Jackson County over the construction
of the Siskiyou section of the Pacific
highway. The case has been before
the courts for three years, Sweeney
suing for $140,000 against $35,000
allowed by the state engineer, and se
curing an award of $70,000 by Circuit
Judge Davis In Portland, from which
decision the county appealed. Seven
hundred and sixty pageB of brief have
been filed with the court.
the banks will remain open continu
ously until 9 o'clock. Every effort
will be made to get to the top Friday
night.
On Friday evening at 8 o'clock, up
Btalrs at City Hall, there will be a
meeting of the executive committee
and all other citizens Interested b)
making good Ashland's quota. All
those Invited to last Saturday even
ing's committee meeting are request
ed to attend as well as any one offer
ing to volunteer their services. The
purpose of this meeting Is to mop up
the remains of this voluntary sub
scription registration campaign. The
details of the last clean up will be
ready for this meeting and everything
will be ready for action and the meth
od to be pursued will be finally pass
ed upon. There will be no soliciting
for funds at this meeting, the work
being confined to the business In
hand.
L'p to last night 361 subscribers
had voluntarily purchased bonds
amounting to $7.1,000. While this Is
very commendable and shows the
proper spirit of those who have given
their allotment In this compalgn,
there are many whose subscriptions
are necessary to fill out the quota. In
view of the fact that only two more
days remain In which the volunteer
subscriptions will be taken, every one
Is most earnestly urged to buy their
bonds within the two days. In order
to leave a little as possible to the
clean-up committee to gather In at
the last minute.
Time Changes Last
Sunday In October
At 2 a. ra. Sunday, October 2", the
standard time will be retarded one
hour, readjusting the nation's time
for the winter period, In accordanc
with the daylight-saving law.
This statement, for which United
States Meteorologist Edward L. Wells
Is authority, brings to an end an anl
mated series of contradictory state
ments Issued by the newspapers of
Portland, the sum total of which so
Tar has been to get the general public
hopelessly tangled chronologically.'
The question was opened by a
statement in one paper that time
would be brought back to standard
by setting the clocks ahead one hour
at midnight on September 30. An
other paper Immediately advised Its
adherents that its contemporary was
slightly Jammed on the time question
as the clocks were to be set back one
hour on September 20. The United
States weather bureau thereupon Im
partially Informed them that they
were both wrong. Here Is the Impar
tial verdict:
"At 2 a. m. ante-meridian time of
the last Sunday of March of each
year the standard time shall be ad
vanced one hour. On the last Sunday
of October the standard time of each
zone shall, by the retarding of one
hour, be returned to the mean as
tronomical time of the degree of
longitude governing said zone, so
that between the last Sunday of
March, at 2 a. m., and the last Sun
day in October at 2 a. m. In each year
the standard time In each zone shall
be one hour In advance of the mean
astronomical time of the"degreo ot
longitude governing each zone respec
tively" Three Soldiers
Out Without Leave
Three young men were picked up
on the Slskiyous Saturday by the
state police for having failed to pro
duce registration cards. They also
were unable to give a reasonable ac
count of their presence there. The
young men were brought to the city
Jail, and an hour later, when visited
by the officer, they were found' In ar
my uniform, having discarded their
outer civilian garments. According to
their story, the boys were from Camp
Fremont, Cal., without leave of ab
sence, and claimed they were trying
to reach a northern camp, where
they fancied the conditions were bet
ter. The soldiers were taken to the
Jail In Jacksonville to await Instruc
tions from their commanding officer.
Their names were not learned here.
Santa Claus In America Is looking
longingly over in France. But h's
passports have been denied him this
year.
Jackson County Boy
. Fallen In Battle
The casualty list of Monday con
tained the name of Russell Simon
Hawk, of Derby, Ore., who mado the
supreme sacrifice In the battle of
Chateau Thierry July 19, where he
was at the battle front with the Unit
ed States Marines.
This young hero enlisted In the
marine corps November 26, 1918, at
Medford. He was trained at Mare
Island, California, and Quantlco, Vir
ginia. Later he was assigned to the
Savage Arms company machine gun
factory as a machine gun assembler.
He was supposed to have been a ma
chine gunner In the aerial service.
Five days previous to the receipt
of the news of his death a letter was
received from him by Mrs. E. C.
James, an old friend of the family.
In It the lad wrote: "If you fall to
hear from mo within a month after
the receipt of this letter, you may
kntyv that a German shell has come
over the line with my number on It.
Almost to a day the shell came over.
He was 26 years of age.
Registrants Called
To Meet In Medford
An order has been Issued from Pro
vost General Crowdcr for the draft
men of JackBon county of all classes
from 18 to 43 years to report to the
.Natatorlum in Medford promptly at 8
o'clock Saturday, September 28. to
receive preliminary instructions. Cap
tain Richard Russell, of the medical
department of Camp Lewis, Captalu
J. Frederick Thorne of the American
Red Cross, and Captain C. A. Steele.
of the state department of the army
Y. M. C. A., are the men detailed by
the war department to give this In
structlon.
This call is issued to all men liable
to service, and reaches those who
were in the previous registration and
who have not been called, as well as
those In the last registration. Cap
talrt E. M. Burke, representing the
Oregon Social Hygiene society, has
been In the county this week making
arrangements for this meeting, and
was an Ashland visitor yesterday.
This society was formed to uplift
the morale of the Oregon troops and
sustain the moral and social welfare
of the state, and the results have been
so pronounced that the war depart
ment has taken notice of this society,
as the Oregon boys stand highest In
hygienic lines of any in the Union.
"To Hell With The
Kaiser" At Vining
"To Hell with the Kaiser," which
comes to tho Vining theatre tonight,
is a wonderful picture.
At the death of Frederick III of
Prussia his son, Wilhelm II ( succeeds
him. The decay of the Hohenzollorn
family Is exemplified In the mon
arch's withered arm, as well as In the
weak degeneracy of the Crown Prince.
Bismarck, an adviser of Frederick,
shows the kaiser some secret plans
for subjugating the different coun
tries of the world.
In the spring of 1914 the kaiser
and his war council decide to put
these plans Into exocution. Zeppelin
submits his plan for air supremacy,
von Tlrpitz makes known his scheme
for submarine warfare, and von Hln
denburg discloses his military pro
jects. A thrilling romance Is woven
around these scenes, which ends In
the Justifiable killing of the Crown
Prince and the capture of the kaiser,
who is banished to a barren island.
Arriving In hell Wilhelm Is greeted
by satan, who abdicates In his favor,
saying that the kaiser's tortures are
more fiendish than any he has ever
been able to devise.
Doing Business
: At Former Stand
Merle Robison, who recently re
turned from San Francisco, where hi
had been employed as head electri
cian for the Hudson corporation, has
settled again in Ashland, as the cli
mate of San Francisco did not agree
with his wife's health.' Since coming
to Ashland Mr. Robison has repur
chased the Ashland garage on Second
street which he formerly owned and
had sold to Roy Crouch and Roy Iles
senger previous to going away.
Grants Pass Gets
Repeating Station
According to the Grants Pass
Courier, a building Is being prepared
for the repeating station which will
he moved to that city from Ashland,
at which time a repeating station will
also be established at Redding.
Considerable money has been spent
recently In Improving the Western
Union system, $52,000 having beea
spent on Improvements between
Grants Pass and Glendale alone, ac
cording to reports.
Delay In securing equipment for
the new building Is being encountered
but when complete the now quartern
for the Western Union will be up to
dato In every respect. They have se
cured a five-year lease on tho build
ing and will Install their own elec
tric generating plant to be used In
cases of cmorgency, and will furnish
that city with a day and night tele
graphic service.
It has been reported that the Unit
ed States government wll eventually
conHolilatB tho Postal Telegraph with
the Western Union.
Addresses Tonight
In Vining Theatre
The speaking billed for tonight In
the interests of the Fourth Liberty
Loan will take placo In the Vining
theatre Immediately after the first
show, and will bo given ny Major
Jack Hamilton, a returned soldier,
and Louis J. Simpson, of Shore Acres
This will be the wind-up of tn'.ay'p
program In which the "Yellow De
mon" automobile, arriving here at
4:30 o'clock this afternoon, was th?
opening feature.
Major Hamilton has recently re
turned from France, where he served
three years with the allied armies,
and he will present to Ashland the
true needs of supporting our boys In
their great sacrifice. Mr. Simpson
Is A .well known orator, and has al
ways met a warm reception In Ash
land, where ho has many friends who
will not fail to give him a rousing
welcome.
The doors of the Vining theatre
or the show tonight will be open at
6:45, and the pictures will be fin
ished ?.t 8:4r(, after which the Vining
floors will be thrown open to the pub
lic to attend the addresses. No ad
mission will be charged to the speak
ing. Mrs. Julia Ilockvtt will sing a
solo.
Clothing Solicited
For Needy Belgians
A call has been issued by H. P.
Davidson, national chairman ot the
Red Cross war council, requesting the
local chapters of the Red Cross to
start a drive for clothing for Belgi
ans. According to Dr. Davidson, the
need is greater than ever for these
stricken people. Every kind of cloth
ing Is needed for men, women and
children of both sexes and scrap
leather Is needed to repair footwear.
Stocks of clothing and raw mate
rial are not to be had, and these ton
mllMon human beings must be cloth
ed. Harken to the following letter
from a well-to-do lady of Brussels:
"Perhaps you will laugh when you
hear that I wear a cloak mado from
my husband's overcoat, a walr.t mado
from his, football shirt, and a skirt
made from a dyed bed sheet. Moth
er has a suit mado from a tablecloth,
and S. has a dress made from bur
lap." This doesn't sound very warm, to
us who are well clothod and shod,
coming as It does from people living
in a cold, damp cllmato with winter
coming on.
Irrigation Debts
Paid By Klamath
Reports from Washington are to
the effect that contracts under which
the newly-organized Klamath Irriga
tion district assumes liability to the
government for payment of operation
and maintenance of the project for
years subsequent to 1918 have been
approved by Secretary Lane. An an
nouncement of the contract says the
maximum amount for which the dis
trict becomes liable Is approximately
$1,300,000.
Allies Gain On St. Quentin;
British Take Over 40,000 Turks
London, Sept. 25. The process of
closing In on St. Quentin was contin
ued by the British, who made pro
gress In tho Grlcourt neighborhood
and also in -the Selcucy region west
of St. Quentin. One thousand prison
ers were captured In yesterday's op
eration, particularly around St.
Quentin.
Heavy losses were Inflicted on the
Germans In their attacks above Grl
court.
British posts In tho regions east of
Arras, near Sacnry Cauchy, also were
attacked, and here, likewise, tho en
emy was driven off.
In the encircling of St. Quentin and
In driving the Germans and Bulgari
ans northward In Macedonia, tho al
lied armies are making further pro
gress against Increased enemy resist
ance. .
Northwest of St. Quentin tho Brit
ish have followed up the allied suc
cesses of yesterday, In which the
British and French mado further
gains toward the town from the west
and are pushing forward In the direc
tion of the northwestern suburbs.
Heavy fighting Is taking place in the
region of Grlcourt, less than three
miles northwest, and Seleney, two
and ono-hnlf miles northwest, tho
British are advancing despite counter
attacks by the Germans, who were re
pulsed with severe losses.
On the French sector to tho south,
only the artillery has been active. Be
tween the Allette and the Alsne the
French have repulsed German attacks
In the Important territory about the
Molsy farm at the western end of the
Cchmln Des Dames.
Apparently the allies In Macedonia
have completed the splitting apart of
tne lierman-Bulgarlan forces east and
west or the Vardar. Tho Serbians
are pressing northwestward along the
river toward Veles, which the enemy
apparently will not be able to hold, as
other allied forces are marchlni
northwest In thnt direction from Prl-
lep. . . .t . .. . ..
Standing on the heights along the
Bulgarian frontier east of the Wrdar
south of Demlrkapu pass, the Bulga
rians are offering stiff resistance to
allied attempts to advance. North of
the pass, the enemy Is retiring on
King George Sends
Letter To Soldiers
A number of letters arrived In
Ashland this week from members of
the 09th Battalion, presumably from
England, which contained tho follow
ing letter from King George:
"Windsor Castle.
"Soldiers of the United StateB. the
people of the Dritlsh Isles welcomo
you on your way to take your stand
beside the armies of many nations
now fighting In the old world the
great battle for human freedom.
"The Allies will gain new heart
and spirit In your company. I wish
that I could Bhako tho hand of each
one of you and wish you Godspeed on
your mission.
"GEORGE R. I."
The above lotter Is presented to ev
ery American soldier on his leaving
England for France. It Is a fac-sl-mlle
of an autograph letter written by
tho king and Is a highly prized souve
nir from that monarch.
Doing His Bit To
Down The Kaiser
Professor H. G. Gllmore has com
posed for campaign purposes a bril
liant mnrch under tho tltlo of "Undo
Sam's Fourth Liberty Loan March."
Tho march consists of four move
ments representative of the music of
France, Great Britain, tho Stars and
Stripes and the "Three Nations in
Fraternal Acclaim," and will soon ha
given to the public. Professor Gli
more's daughter, Mrs. M. B. Stevens,
of Detroit, Mich., has, In tho lntorest
of her country, as on artist, charge
of tho music at Camp Custer and Sol-
fridge field, and there Is little doubt. !
hut that nt those and other military
headquarters, the Ashland creation
may receive many a welcomo and ap
preciative hearing.
Having repurchased tho Ashland
Gnrage, I will not be responsible for
bills contracted by Roy Crouch or
Roy Hesslnger on or before Septem
ber 23.
MERLE B. ROBISON,
37-1 Prop.
Veles, and It would appear that this
column has been cut off from ts com
rades further south, thus cutting th(j
enemy forces In two.
The Bulgarians fighting on the
frontier west of tho Vardar probably;
are those who fled before the French,
Greek and British arcund Lake Ooi
ran.
It Is believed In Paris the allle
will press up the Vardar to Usku!
and swing eastward and outflank tho
Bulgarians west of Strumltza rather,
than attempt to get over the hills on
the southern frontier. In tho region
of Prllep, the enemy la being forced
toward tho Albanian frontier.
Aorlal and artillery activity his In
creased markedly on the American
sector southwest of Metz, but no In
fantry engagement has resulted. Both
tho German and American airmen and
gunners are busy, artillery paylnu
special attention to cross roads an l
troop formations within range.
Few details of tho situation In Pal
estine, as it has developed in tho last
couple of days, hnvo been reported.
Only brief, formal i.tatrments tell of
the capture of Acre and Hafla and
the further advance of Gnner.it Allon-
by's victorious troopti. It appears".
however, that the Turkish forces
which succeeded In reaching the east
ern bank of tho Jordan nro virtually
Isolated and In Imminent danger of
capture.
Allied forces advancing south oC
Archangel again havo been attacked
by Lettish forces fighting with the
Bolshevlkl and Austro-Gernian pris
oners.
London, Sept. 2.1. More than 40,-
000 prisoners and 203 guns have been
takon by the British In their succe"
ful offensive In Palestine It Is offi
cially announced this afternoon.
The British forces operating east
of the Jordan apparently are In a fa
vorable position to cut off the Turks
retreating north along the Hedjas
railway. The British are now ap
proaching Amman on that railway.
Arab forces are pressing the retir
ing enemy northward from Ma'en.
Ma'en Is on the Iledjes railway,
southeast of the Dead Sea. Ammaa
Is 120 miles to the north.
Prize Winners At
Jackson Co. Fair
At the Jackson county school fair
held In Medford Last Friday ami
Saturday, tho following were the win
ners of the different projects:
Winners of Grand Prizes Verne)
Owens, Medford; Uosc.e Roberts,
Eagle Point; Leola Hesselsravo, Cen
tral Point, and Beth Ager, Jackson
ville. Winning Canning Team Jackson
ville school team, consisting ot Ber
nlce Reter, captain; Beth Ager, and
Ruth Fleming. '
In school contests, Jacksonville
won first plnce among the town
schools, Oak Grove first In two room
schools, and Willow Springs first
among the rural schools.
The four winning the grand prizes
are given a free trip to the statu
ral r, and left Tuesday morning for
tho entire week. They will probably
roturn, Sunday evening. Tho Jack
sonville canning team will go to th
fair today (Thursday) and demon
strate at the state fair Friday, Super
visor R. E. Morris went with th
Jackson county exhibit and .had
chargo of the county booth.
Ashland prize winners were: Ale
tha Gray, potato growing, $l; Elea
nor Moore, baking, $1; Mildred Gy
ger, Bewing, $1; Robert Miller, Bel
gian hare raising, 50 cents.
Wagner Boys Gain
Commissions In Army
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wagner receiv
ed news this weok from' their sons,
Carroll and Robert, who have been
attending tho officers' training school
nt Fortress Monroe, Va that they
both had completed their courses and
received thoir commissions In tha
branches of the service for which
they have been aspiring. The former
gained tho hank of second lieutenant
In tho heavy artillery, and the latter
electrical sergeant. Carroll expect!
to remain for eight weeks more In tha
school of orientation, after which ha
will be classed as an orlenteur, an of
fice connected with the big guns of
the heavy artillery.