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ABHLAXD TIDIXG8 Tuesday, February 2.1, 1918 TAUfl INU I I - ffiiiBP ' f ASHLAND TIDINGS Established 1876 Published every Tuesday by THE ASHLAXO PRINTING OOMTANY (IncorponUod) Bert R. Greer. .Editor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 .$2.60 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . It 4 Anlnln vne xear, wnen pwu i , 2. 00 una lear, wnen pom m '" , e Six Months, when paid la advance.. Three Months, when paid In advance months. All subBcrtptiens aroppeu Kn .t.harintinn for less than three M expiration unless renewal It received, m Awu,in. chances of the paper always rive the eld street address or postofflce as well as the new. ADVERTISING RATES Display AdvertMnB . ,n Single insertion each Issue. 30c o. ..,... tnr nun lutllA PftCh Week each lBBUe, t!iC Six months' contract, for two Issues each week, . . . 4 each issue, ZOC One year contract, for one Issue each week each Issue Zuc . - 1 -1. H,AAu AAth fauna 1 7 li. e One year contract, ior iwo isues cku Reading Notllee 10 cents the line, lingal Notices 5 cents the line. Classified Column One cent the word each time. Twenty words one month, one dollar. Cards of Thanks, $1.00. Obituaries, 2 V cents the line. ij..ji.iti tn fratnmal aMah ap cnrlpflpa rhfirfrfnfl' a. repnlur Initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for ail advertising wnen an admission or other charge is made, at the regular rate. When no admission Is charged, space to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular rates. THE TIDINGS IS THE ONLY NKWSPAPKR IN SOUTHERN ORE GON THAT PUBLISHED- NEVER LESS THAN KIuIlT PAGES AN ISSUE. The Tidings has a greater circulation In Aehland and it trade terri tory than all other Jarkxon county papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mail matter. ASHLAND HAS NO MAYOR Mr. Lamkln says the Tidings Is mistaken In Its statement that legal fides can be collected in Ashland only thru the Justice court and that all such fines so collected go Into the coffers of the' connty Instead of the city treasury.' He says Ashland has a police court notwithstanding the Tidings states the contrary. We re aware that Mr. Lamkln pretends to act as chief magistrate of Ash land's municipal court, hut, we con tend he does it without' warrant of law. Mr. Lamkln Is not now mayor of Ashland. The state constitution, the city charter and ordinance of Ashland. terminated) his cumbancy when his term expired the first of January. IDs successor has never been legally elected. Ashland pre tended to hold a city election in No vember, but, In law, it had no elec tion. Mr. Lamkln therefore Is neith er mayor nor police Judge. There Is danger, we think,' in proceeding with cases that carry Jail sentences. Cltl sens Infringing the law may pay small fines without contest, rather than go to the annoyance of enter ing suit to recover, but an Illegal Jail sentence would likely embroil the city In a suit for damages for false imprisonment. ' The Tidings has no axe to grind. It Insists only that Aslfland be put back on a sound legal basis by hold ing a legal special election for city officers now legally vacant. It does sot lay the blame on all the city of ficers. Some of them are acting In good faith. Playing for advantage thru peanut ward methods the politi cal firm of Banta ft Lamkln have put the city In bad. By so doing they lave put men like Shlnn, Nlnlnger. McGee and Turner in a bad light be cause they had faith enough In them to leave the, political direction . of the administration to them, expect ing It would be legally done and did not realize it had not been so trans acted until the validity of the police court was attacked and admitted to 1e acting without legal authority. Councllmen Shlnn, Nlningter, Turn irr and McGee are straightforward. conscientious, able men. The city night feel a Just pride In any one of these as successor to the political cabal which has handed the city or iAshland Its recent Illegal package. As for mayor Lamkln and Mr. Banta they have too little regard for legal action and too much for politi cal advantage to warrant citizens In honoring them further. When con fronted with their Illegal acts by At torney Briggs, in his plea to oust the City court, they admitted It with such alacrity as to leave the fact undid pted that they knew they were act ing; without warrant of law. ; if they knew the first to be Illegal they must have known the last election to be so, because It was invalidated by the same omission as the first. If that be so it Indicates they had great er concern in holding their Jobs than la keeping the city on a solid legal basis. However they may deny in tent to Bhut out political opponents by the secret illegal method of call ing the election for the charter Amendment bo citizens would not be genie rally apprised of the change In date until It was too lata for them to file as contestants In the race for municipal offices the number who believe they wilful ly purposely played for that advan tage Is growing every day. Many of Jhem exprtss themselves as not will ing that Ashland be put, and kept in a bad illegal situation, by the very common trick of manipulating poli tics so that those In the minority may appear In the majority and a favored few hold the places of honor to th exclusion of abler and more popular citizens who might have consented to become candidates had the whole matter been conducted open and above board. Ashland should at once be put back on a legal business basis. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERA On Friday, March 7th, the Tidings will resume its twlce-a-week Issue. It will be published on Tuesday and Friday evenings. The price of sub scription will remain at $2.50 the year it paid at expiration and $2.00 the year It paid In advance. It Is (ratifying to the management that notwithstanding the weekly has been sold at the same price as the semi- weekly before the war the subscrip tion list has materially Increased so that at this time the Tidings enjoys the largest circulation in its history. The semi-weekly Is reestablished to make room for Its Increasing adver tising patronage as well as to supply the news more generally and quickly than Is possible In a weekly Issue. The Tidings has established the pol icy of printing its advertising rates at the head of the editorial column each Issife, a rate applicable to all on the class of advertising there set down. In all cases, except where un expired yearly contracts exist, the advertised rate will be strictly ad hered to. A slight Increase In the advertising rate will be noted. There are two reasons for this. While government restrictions have been removed on the use of print paper by country publishers the raw mater ial has bad another advance. The second reason is that the vaflue or advertising spade per inch is rightly determined by the number of sub scribers to the publication, the rate basis being figured on per thousand circulation, the spade unit being used only as a basis for computa tion. The difference In circulation properly accounts for the difference In advertising rates In different pub lications. Beginning Friday, March 7th, the Tidings will be delivered in the city by carriers on Tuesdays and Fridays In the evening. Rather remarkable how fate works against the incompetent. Un der the terms of the charter a year ago last December Mr. Banta was elected a member of the council for two years. Had not the amendment to the state constitution been adopt ed terminating incumbency of all municipal officers on the first of January Just past Mr. Banta's term would not have expired till next Jan uary. However, the constitutional amendment legislated him out of of fice, hut he did not know it, and probably this will be his first inti mation of that fact, for he pays little attention to law. We say he prob ably did not know it, because when he filed for office again last Novem ber he filed for a one year term be ginning the first of January, 1920. That leaves him entirely out of a Job for this year. Before today he like ly has not known it, but since the first day of January he has not been a councilman at all. True he has sat on the council and did most of the talking, but he had no more right there than you had and you did not pretend to run. It takes a pretty bone headed councilman to get into such a fix but Banta has succeeded proper. True, he is filling the chair like a hunk of beef, but he is not a councilman, consequently Ashland has no chairman of the street com mlttee.' No wonder the streets are in such bad shape. Nor has Ashland any chairman of the water commit tee. A lively hope may therefore be properly entertained that the reser voirs will not again be drained this year about the first of July after water has stopped running in the creek. Every Piece of Meat From the East Side Market Is a Good Piece. That's the only kind we handle. Wholesale and Retail. FISH ON FRIDAYS. OYSTERS AND CRABS IN SEASON. James Barrett, Prop. Phone 188. Public confidence is a queer and fickle quantity. There was a time when Banta was looked upon by many as fair timber for mayor. But he made his fatal mistake in getting into .the limelight as councilman His performances failed to sustain bis reputation. After having heard him bellow and bluster at council meetings for more than two years it would now take all the force of the political firm of Enders, Banta and Lamkln to save him from being de feated ten to one in his own ward for alderman. Verily, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, eepeci ally If the crown is too heavy for his sickly mental frame. We have heard many sermons and lectures on Lincoln, but never one better than that delivered by Dr, Koehlor at the Presbyterian church last Sunday momlni;. He has an ex ccllent command of the English Ian guage, is ready in address and good thinker. Ashland Is fortunate In having such a preacher. He likes the rugged honesty, Initiative and stalwart character and conveys his thought perfectly so that Lincoln be comes an inspiration to young and old under his fluent touch. KLAMATH TO SPEND $20,000 ON GREEN SPRINGS ROAD That approximately $20,000 of the $100,000 directed for road work In Klamath county next year -will be used on the Green Springs highway to Ashland, $20,000 on the road to Merrill, $25,000 on . the road from Klamath Falls to the north and $25,000 for general repair work, was indicated by County Judge R. H. Bun nell In a recent talk before the Klam ath County Good Roads Association, according to a dispatch from that city. These highways are all post roads and their improvement will be of such a nature as to warrant ad ditional funds from the state and federal governments, According to the official. To the north, where the road gets In such deplorable condition during the winter months, It is planned to build a route across the low ground from the Pelican bay sawmill up the west side of the Southern Pacific tracks to a point near the Graham ranch on to the Algoma road. This will cut out the dobe hill a short distance outside the city, which gets almost Impassable in wet weather. Members of the good road allo cation Invited the court to meet with them and discuss plans with an idea of co-operating with that body in its propoeea program. There was no hint of critislsm and the meeting was one in which constructive poli cies were forwarded. mat the membership committee Is still busy was evidenced by the plans outlined for a house-to-house membership canvas In the near fu ture when the town has been care fully districted. It is also planned to send dele gations to Malin, Merrill, Fort KHam- ain, Bonanza and all the smaller places In the county and spread tho enthusiasm which has permeated the county seat. A Dew road running for some dis tance along the west Bide of upper Klamath lake, which will add much 10 xne scenic oeauty of the drive around this beautiful sheet of water. has been petitioned by residents of that district and has the favorable consideration of the county court, ac cording to report. The proposed highway will cross the head of Link river on a bridge, skirt the lake past the Frank Mc- WJrnacR piace, cross the Wocus marsh on a dike, go In near the Eagle ridge tavern and Join the old road again at Rock creek near the uoan Tancn. it will he 15 miles long and will cut off about seven miles of the old road besides elimi nating the long hills and grades. It is hoped to get the road opened for travel during tho coming season Lets Hired Help Go, Does Work Herself Mrs. Tobotf Astonished at Reenlts of Tanlao Gains 20 Pounds 'Some wonderful things happen In ! this world, and the way Tanlao has restored my health and built me up Is one of them," said Mrs. Paul Tobolt of $16 California Ave., Butte, Mont., in one of the most Interesting and remarkable statements yet publish ed in connection with the Master Medicine. "My trouble started about two years ago," she continued, "and 1 have simply been a nervous wreck ever since until now. Last January I went to the hospital where I was told that my whole system had be come poisoned by an affected appen dix, that an operation was my only hope and It was doubtful If this would save me. So I arranged to have my children cared for, in case I should not see them again, and sub mitted to the operation. Well, the operation was done with so much skill, and I was so carefully nursed that I finally got out of the hospital, and was home with my husband and children again. Then I picked up wonderfully for a little more than a month when I began having terrible pains In my back over my kidneys. My appetite left me, and nothing tasted right. I was constipated, had fearful headaches, and was so ner vous I could hardly sleep. I fell off until I weighed less than a hundred pounds and was so weak that it was an effort for me to get about at alt. "Finally my husband suggested that I try Tanlac, as it was being so much talked about, and the results have astonished us both. I couldn't see much improvement on my first bottle, but with the second my ep netlte got better. I commenced to feel Improved and was surprised when I got on the scales, to find that I had gone up to one hundred and eight pounds. Well, the third bottle did wonders for me, relieving me of all pain and headache and making me want to eat up everything. 1 now weigh one hundred and eighteen pounds, making a gain of more titan twenty pounds on three bottles and I'm wondering what my fourth bot tle which I have just started taking, will do for me. I sleep like a healthy child, never waking at night at all and feel like I could eat five or six meals a day. I dismissed my hired help, four weeks ago, after eighteen months' steady service, , and since then I have done all my own house work, cooking and everything. 1 have no more dull, drowsy bad feel ings and life Is a pleasure to me. I can't praise Tanlao enough for what it has done for me." Tanlac Is sold In Ashland by J. J. McNalr; In Medford by Eagle Drug Co.; in Gold Hill by M. D. Bowers; and in Central Point by Miss M. A. Mee. adv. Bonk. ifh Chart. Clock. 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