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ACE TWO ASHLAND TIDINGS Friday, July 25, 1910 'TV. Cjfc WA Industrious and and Girls S3 1 1! n These are the kinds that are go ing to carry on Ashland's accomp lishment where we all leave off. Be sure that YOUR youngsters are not handicapped. Start each of them with a Savings Account here at the FIRST NATIONAL. It will en courage them. As little as $1.00 opens a Savings Account and liberal interest it paid,. J of tobacco Juloe in his eye and walk off la utter contempt. The place to see real cowboys Is at the Ashland roundup. ' hJkHrstNaUonatSatik ' tV CARTER. PRtS. CMVAUPEL VICEPPLS J W M COY. CA&Mild CLARIS DUiri AS'-TCAil ASHLAND TIDINGS Established 1876 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Every Tuesday aud Friday by THE ASHLAND PRINTING COMPANY Bert R. Greer, Editor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, when paid at expiration 2.50 One Year, when paid in advance J.u BRYAN MEETS WITH FAVOR IN ASHLAND Next to Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan was undoubtedly the premier drawing card of the Clflautauqua, especially among the lecturers. t Many merchants and business men in the city closed their places of business for a couple of hours Tuesday afternoon in order to hear the Creat Commoner dis course on the leading topics of tho day, and a big concourse of people from all over the valley emailed themselves of the opportunity to hoar thin notable speaker. Elz Months, when paid in advance... Three Months, when paid in advance. .75 No subscription for less than three months, at expiration unless renewal Is received. All subscriptions dropped - In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postotflce as well as the new. ADVERTISING RATES Display Advertising Single Insertion each inch, 30c Six months' contract, for. one Issue each week each inch, 25c Six months' contract, for two issues each week each inch, 20c Onn vnar rnntrnct. for one issue each week each inch, 20c One year contract, for two Issues each week each inch 17c Reading Notices 10 cents the line. Legal 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, 2ft cents the line. Fraternal Orders and Societies Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benevolent orders will be charged for all advertising when an admission or other charge is made, at the regular rate. THE TIDINGS IS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN SOUTHERN ORE GON THAT PUBLISHED NEVER LESS THAN EIGHT PAGES AN ISSUE. The Tidings has greater circulation In Ashland and its trade terri tory than all other Jackson county papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mall matter. 4444$$$$$4$$$$$$$ Advertising it the power of fen idea multiplied. Other pow- & era lose by expansion. Steam 4- Is power only when confined. $ Electricity radiated and dlffus- $ ed becomes nothing. Sound dies with distance. Great suns -S Mr. ' Bryan's topic was "Foreign and Domestic Problemo," and for nearly two hours he held 1:1s auul- ence by tho power of his eloquence In the expose of. the leading ques tions of the day as they appear to him. Prominent in theae wai the League of Nations, which, he de clared, is the one Instrument in our hands for the prevention of war. lie also scored the proposal to mak'j i separate treaty with France which, he claimed, would cut off our own power to decide when war v.as to be made. If the power of making war is to be taken away from Con gress, then the only body to invest that power In 1b the American people. "To me It Is offending that France should ask us to take this step," Mr. Bryan said. "America asked nothing in the war but victory and the vanquishment of Germany, and for a method of making permanent peace such a treaty would be a dis integrating force and would bo i discredit to the League of Nations And above all, American wants her flag loved, not feared." . Other important problems con fronting the American people which Mr." Bryan discussed were national prohibition, government railroad ownership, telephone status, road building programs, trade cominls slons and profiteers. Of the first Mr. Bryan laid claim to the demo cratlc party as being leaders In bringing this moral issue about That he expected to live to see the day when prohibition ruled In every civilized nation in the world, was American Legion Has Charter Open The World Trade Club has started the ball rolling. What we all need is to look the subject up. THE (OWHOY OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY In an art store Is a life size paint ing of a cowboy actor, which is of- pale into invisible stars and the $jfered for sale at the moderate sum power of light istelf is lost In Infinite space. But the strong $ power of advertising increases $ by expansion. Diffusion Is Its $ life. It grows by what it 1m- 3 parts. The advertised idea to $ become a power, must be genu- ine, and related to the func- $ tlon of a meritorious business. $$$'$'$'$$ "LOOK IT UP " "Divers weights and divers meas ures both of them alike are abomi nation to the Lord." Proverbs 20 10. Thinking men and women will do well to consider the striking argu meats brought out by the World Trade Club of San Francisco in thel campaign for adoption of the units of the metric system of weights and measures. ' 1 ' They show ' staking anomaly1. That the metric ByBtem was invented by a Briton, James Wratt, In 1783, and yet all civilized nations have adopted It exclusively, excepting the United States and Great Britain. rnai ine so-cauea British sys tem" of weights and measures Is of German "origin relic of the old German Hanseatlc trade league and yet Germany scrapt It in 1871 and adopted the metric system, in vented by a Briton. People of Britannia and America may well ask themselves whether they are not carrying conservatism too far. The Metric System is no untried theory. Its principle the principle of dec imal computation has lteen used In the monetary syctem of the United States since 1786. If the United States had heeded -Thomas Jeffer son, we should also have adopted this system'of weights and measures Iwsed on decimals so simple a sys tem that a child oan learn 1t main features. In ten minutes. We know how well it works with monev. if! will work equally well with weights and measures. of $500. It's a good picture, well painted, but we wouldn't give It house room, simply for the reason that as a cowboy it Is a distortion and a joke. The painter of that $500 picture doesn't know a cow boy from the head Bolshevik of Russia, and has probably never seen one outside of the magazines and picture shows. To those who have seen the cow boy on his native heath and In the early prime of his. glory, the stage presentation of him. Is amusing, This particular cowboy has on the j regulation dime novel and motion picture, garb, and a Colt's navy re volver slung to him that is big enough for a coyote , to crawl into. It bangs suspended in front of him Instead of at his hip, and from cartridge belt that sags down eight Inches, Instead of being snug around his waist as any ordinary sure' enough cowboy would have It, if he had any such "shoo-in' iron" at all This beautiful modern $500 cowboy has on a thousand-dollar diamond ring, something a real cowboy never saw and wouldn't know what to do with if he had it . Also he is smok ing a 15-cent perfecto, with a mod ern band around its middle, where' as me reai cowuoy smOKed either a cigarette or a short pipe, except when In town on a Jamboree, when he in dulged in cigars of the 5-cent .fam ily and rank enough to drive fire men away from a blazing glue fac tory. The stage cowboy always grabs the heroine and kisses her, but the only way you could get a real cow boy t'o do that In public would be to rope and brand him and administer chloroform. The old western cowboy, " Bright bitted and saddled, Rode a bad-actor broncho That bucked and skedaddled. It - the cowboy of the old time cattle country could see 6ne of these modern imitations who travel' with wild-west shows and throw lariats In vaudeville and literature, the chances are he .would spit a cupful Fresh Meat and Lunch Goods Largest and Beet Stock in Ashland. WE ARE HERE FOR SERVICE East Side Market James Barrett, Prop. Phone 188 one of the declarations of this pro ponent of prohibition. "By Ameri ca's testimony as a dry nation the world will be shaken," he declared. "There will be no great fight to en force the law now. Henceforth the liquor interests will have to fight their battles individually, and not collectively." A monster road building program was advocated by the speaker, as an economical investment for the coun try to take. Not only would it give the country that which it needs',' but it would also provide ' employment for' any of America's millions of re turned service men who may be out of work. ' "The 'sum of $2,500,000,' 000 spent for liquor annually when the business was at its height would fill' the whole United States1 with paved streets," the speaker declared. Mr. Bryan eonphfeltjoalfly favor government ownership of railroads and telephone systems. 1 According to hft way of viewing It government ownership of railroads is not 'a fail urn The roads were taken over when difficulties were at the high est and benefits at the lowest, and those at the heads' of tho system did not want the trial to succeed. Mr. Bryan advocate the idea of the government operating the trunk lines connecting the various sec tions of the country, while turning the. roads over to the dates in' which they lie' for operation. Private own ership of telephones also came un der his disapproval. He pointed out that a telephone system in a coun try necessarily has a monopoly, and therefore should be handled by the public. The purposes nd ideals of the American Legion were explained by Capt. E. J, Elvers, state chairman of the Legion, to an enthusiastic gath ering of ex-service men at the Com mercial club a week ago and within fifteen minutes after he had finished enough signatures were ob tained on the Charter application to secure the Ashland post a charter. Previous to this the Ashland post had been a temporary organization. Only a few hours' notice were re ceived of the state chairman's com ing and it was Impossible to notify the army and navy men of the dis trict of the meeting, so Just as many as could be gathered up on tiie street were got together nnd every one of the men present signed up and has become a committee of one to secure other members. In a short newspaper article Is Is impossible to give the scope and purpose of the Legion. Let It be known, however, that it is the one organization rec ognized by the government, that it already has hundreds of thousands of members thruout the nation and a 6trong National organization which assures tle Legion of centralized and concerted effort which will ac complish all of i'ts alms. Briefly Its purposes are to foster one hundred percent Americanism, carry on the standards of patriotism inculcated during the war, preserve associations and memories of the war, see that those who refused to bear their share of making War and those who profiteered did not share In the pros perity of peace, to promote peact and good will on earth and to lend a helping hand to the bunkle who is down on his luck A member of the Legion has the privileges and the benefits of the organization wherever he may be. He Is assured of help If he gets down and comradeship at all times. The grand ideals and great work of the G. A. R. will be carried on by the Legion. The local post Is following the lead of the other Oregon posts In keeping the charter open until Ar mistice day, November 11th, and remitting the first year's dues of $2 to all men signing applications before that time. The initiation fee Is $2.00, making this the total cost for the first year to anyone who signs now. Major C A. Malone, president of the Legion Post here, was at the recent meeting and heartily endorsed the plan and has set the mark for Ashland's memler8hip at 250 by Armistice day. All men who served for any length of time from one day to two years during the great war In either army or navy, are eligible for membership. Appli cation cards may be obtained from the secretary of the post, Lynn Mow at, at the Ashland Commercial club. The first weekly issue of "The American Legion," which was "The Stars and Stripes" in A. E. F. days. has been received at the. Commer cial club and copies will be given to all members calling. After this week the paper will be sent to the addresses given. COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS J. IX Welch, grand Jury wit ness Sam Wilson, circuit ..court witness Lowell Zundel, circuit , court witness Lowel Zundol, grand Jury witness Jury The following is a schedule of ex penditures of Jackson County, Ore., together with a list of the claim ants and articles of service for which iim ia mniifl nnd which were passed upon by the County Court iLowe)1 undel, grand Jackson County during the month of wltnegg , , f June, 1919, and were anoweu follows, with the exceptions shown: County Curt and Commissioner G. A. Gardner, judge's salary $150.00 James Owens, commissioner's salary and expense 118.70 Geo. W. Owen, commissioner's salary and expense 104.90 Home Tel & Tel Co., tele 3.00 3.60 2.10 2.10 2.10 F. M. Lance, circuit court expense 2.59 T. L. Taylor, circuit court expense 2.50 nhone for Anril Home Tel & Tel Co., tele phone for May Postal Tel Co., telegrams.. G. A. Gardner, expense trip to Portland 5.35 4.39 2.93 Total $749 90 Justice Court J. T. Roberts, Justice court witness Glass & Prudehome Co., Jus- of peace supplies G. O. Taylor, Justice court expenso Geo. O. Timothy, Justice cour: expense 2.20 ' 6.05 8U.03 0 4.00 $101.91 Total M21.51: III llll Win i I F. Rov Davis, court reporter 35.00; Sheriff Office A. R. Thompson, circuit court C E. Terrlll, sheriff's salary 208.33 orlr 54.00 Klora Thompson, deputy slier- G. X. Lewis,' bailiff of grand I Iff's salary 100.00 Jury and clr. court 18.01) Ulen I., lerin, deputy sner- F. Roy Davis, testimony . . Joseph Alnutt, John M. Allen, Mrs. lirumlile, transcribing Iffs salary R0 00 ; 48.00; w. O. Garrett, deputy slier grand Juror 0.40 , iffs salary 123.00 grand juror 9.00; Frank L. Coleman, work In circuit court rherlff's office 10100 witness 2.10 Arthur F. Ilazelrigg, work In Wm. H. Brown, grand Juror Dolly Rrumble, circuit court witness Harry W. Bamieburg, petit juror Daniel Barneburg, petit Juror Ira L. Bradshaw, petit juror C. Charles Buck, petit Juror Louis Brownsworth, petit 9 60' sheriff's office 104. no 'G.-o. L. Howard, work in 3. CO' sheriffs office S4.00 Emma YVendt, work in slier- 12.80. Iffs office 63.00 12.10 Ella Parks, work In sheriffs 14.00;- office 70.00 13 00 Nettie L Thompson, work In ! sheriff's office 8.75 juror 15.80, W. O. Garrett, deputy sheriff Fred N. Cummlngs, circuit i hlro In June 65.00 court witness 4.50 1 It. H. Bradshaw, deputy sher- Robert Casey, grand Juror. . 9.0i iff's expense 24.00 Frank S. Carpenter, petit i P. H. Dally, deputy sheriff's Juror 12.001 expense 18.03 Jacob Casebeer. petit Juror 15.40. M. I Dally, deputy sheriff's i expense 2.00 4.60, W. O. Garrett, sheriffs exp 9.4i Home Tel & Te). Co., tele- 4.50" phone for May 13.80 Med ford Hook Store, office 3.60 1 siipplit 5.15 6.00 J. J. Mc.Mahon, sheriff's exp 3.00 12.201 Postal Tel. Co.. telegrams grand Jury Our neighbor got a new machine Just the tjther day; . He says it uses gasoline, And not alfalfa hay. V Thus far we have not succumbed to the temptation to wear llver-col ored' shoes with white Bocks. An agricultural exchange Bays that the farmer who is attending to his work finds plenty to do at this time of the year. The same might well be said of every man who at tends to his own business and at any time of the year. ' monopolies are wrong, , because America cannot afford to let a pow eiful group of men grew up with an unAmerican attitude. The Im mense profits of a few bread an' archy. One other reform Mr. Bryan would have is having the country publish newspapers for its people In forming them upon bills to be voted upon, and giving them correct in formation on vital questions of the day. He favors a Journal or chain of Journals that would give edltorl al opinion of the different parties. nowver mucn' nis nearcrs mar His plan would haw the differ from Mr. Bryan politically no various municipalities take over the switchboarW and systems, and thus under such a plan, the postoffice' de partment would handle long distance lines. Monopolies wre (scored by Mr. Uryan, who claimed that from an economic standpoint they are wrong. The absence of competition results in decreasing quality, he claimed, and increasing price. . Politically one can fall to admire his firm faith and steaMfastneso to his party, Te gardless of the many questions ad vocated by powers) "differing from those formerly ' advocated by him. He is a mighty good loser and has borne his political defeats with phil osophy, and carries the same serene faith In the democratic party that he presented when. he entered the arena over a score or years ago. W. S Chapman witness Irvin Daley, circuit court wit ness Mrs. Dodson, circuit court witness Josiah Dltsworth, petit Juror Timothy C. Dugan, pet juror Howard Dtinlap, petit Juror 10.20 Geo. B. Dean, petit Juror . . 9.60 Scott Darby, grand Jury wit ness 1.90 C. Irvin Daley, grand Jutj- witness 4.50 John Dickey, grand Jury wit ness 1.50 Wm. H. Edmunds, petit Juror 13.00 Robert Ellsworth, er. Juror 4.20 Everett E. Eads, petit Juror 13.20 Frederick Furry, petit juror 10.80 W. W. FriBtoe, grand Jury witness . . . . .' 2.20 Monroe H. Gordon, pet Juror 13.00 Isaac T. Galllgar, pet. Juror 13.00 U H. Ulllett, grand Juror. . 9.60 Henry C. Galey. petit juror 15.40 Gavin M. Grainger, pet Juror 12.40 Home Tel. t Tel. Co., April tel for circuit Judge 3.70 Home Tel & Tel. Co., May tl for clrouit judge 1 3, 00 E. H. Helms, petit juror . . . 9.00 Henry Head, grand Juror .. 7.40 James Higlnliotham petit Jur 14.60 .lonn court Hall. -grand Juror 4.20 Mrs. Hobart, grand Jury wit ness 2.20 Vesta Holt, grand Jury wit ness 2 00 W. J. Hartzell. erand Inrr i witness 2.30 ! sirs lverson. clrcu t court witness aeo Kenneth Jerome, circuit crt witness 210 Denver Klncald. errand iuror 7 4(1 Rexall Lloyd, circuit court witness 3 00 F. M. Lance, grand Juror . . . 7.20 Dovey Lamb, circuit court witness s en Thomas C. Law. petit juror 13.40 uexau uoyd, grand Jury wit ness , . . . . 4 F. E. Loomls, grand Jury wit-, ness .'. onn ,aun i-urasden. cfrcult court witness , 2 10 Frank Miller, petit juror .. 10.20 J. W. McDonough, gr. Juror 9.60 jbck waynan, grand jury witness W. C. Medley, circuit court witness 10.80 Harold McDonald, grand jury wlltness 2 10 Nye Mathews, , grand jury witness , 4 ago John McKInney, grand Jury witness ; . . . j 50 W'iley Norman, circuit court witness John Palmer, ' circuit ' witness E. H. Porter, grand jury wit ness Faskell M. Putnev. irr Chas. A. Peterson, petit juror BenJ, L. Powell, netif nr James I. Patton. Dr. E. B. Pickel. clirciilt mnri witness o 1 n Robert W. Ruhl, grand Juror 420 cujHra itigss. grand iurv witness Mike SIdlev. i clrenlt i-ntii.) witness . . Joe SIdlev. circuit iwnrt witness ;. Dr. C. T. Sweenev. nlrcnlt court witness L . . . Elliott F. Smith, netlt Juror Mary Smith, grand jury wit ness . '. Ernest Scott, grand Jury wit ness .,.,. Mike Sodley, Jr., grand, jury wimess Joe Sldley. grand iurv witness , 4 KO u K. Terrlll, money advanced clr. court witness 3.00 Ben J. Trowbridge, petit Jur or . lorn Taylor, circuit court witness . . ; T. L. Taylor, grand Juror . . G. O. Timothy, erand iurv witness Mrs. Tull. circuit court wit ness Earl Wood, -grand Jurv wit ness I ; Mrs. W. Wood,' grand jury1 wltnes.f; for sheriffs office .....i 9.6 Glen L. Terrlll, sheriff's exp 41.37 C. E. Terrlll, office expense 4661 C. E. Terrlll, sheriff's exp.. 66.3' C E. Terrlll. sheriffs exp.. 28.00 Western Union Tel. Co., sheriffs office expanse.. 18.05 Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams, sheriff 8S Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams, sheriff 2.4 9 J. J. McMahon, deputy sher iff's expense 2.2.1 Total $1295.17 County Clerk's Ofrir Chauncey Florey, co. clerk's salary 166.6(1 Mildred M. Nell, deputy clerk's salary 83.34 Louise Wllkiamttpn, deputy, clerk's Balary 80.00 Frances Nell, deputy clerk's salary 70.05 Ruberta Pearce, deputy clerk's salary 65.00 Delllla Stevens, work in clerk's office 63.00 Pauline Dean, work in clerk's fflc 15.00 Grace L. Wilson, work in clerk's office 30.00 Chauncey Florey, stamps .. 47.90 J. W. Gardner, repairs of typewriters 19.00 Home Tel. & Tel. Co., tele phone for April 6.05 Home Tel. & Tel. Co., tele- ' phone for May 7.8 Medford Printing Co., office supplies 86.33 Medford Book Store, office supplies ' 5.83 court 3.60 2.10 2.00 4.20 4.20 12.4 20.0 1.50 4.50 4.50 2.10 15.40 3.20 2.70 4.5C Total 747.48 County Treasurer's Office Myrtle W. Hlakeley, treasur ers salary i... . 100.00, Lenore Godlove, clerical work In treasurer's office ...... 70.00 Myrtle W. Blakeley, stamps for office 15.00 J. W. Gardner, repairs on typewriter .............. 2.50 Home Tel. & Tel. Co., tele phone for April ........ 2.25 Home Tel. & Tel.. Co., tele phone for May ......... 2.75 Medford Book Store, office supplies' .. 8.40 Postal TeL Co. , telegrams ... .88 Co. Treasurer Myrtle Blake- ly, typewriter . ... ., 60.00 10.20 2.10 7.20 2.00 3.60 3.50 3.50 Total $261.78 School Supt's Office G. W. Ager. sch. sunt, salary 15B.90 R. E. Morris., sch. sunervis- or's salary ........ . 100.00 Mrs. Eugene Thompson, ' work for school superintendent 27.00 G. W. Ager, stamps for office 6.00 G. W., Godward. work on 8th grade exam, board ...... 9.00 Home Tel. & Tel. Co., tele phone for April '4.901 (Continued on page six) Ashland Transfer & Storage Co. C. P. Bates, Proprietor Wood, "Peacock" and Rock Springs Coal and Cement PHONE 117 Office 99 Oak Street, Ware-:: house on track near depot. Ashland, Oregon !