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v- x- ' - - MALAR1A..CKRM3 CANNOT L1VB PZQNB AT A'&ILASp. , OUIt HW ASHLAND . CLlMATBAWlTHOCfT THE AID OF. MEDlClN WILL CURB NINE CASES OUT OTP TIN OP ASTHMA. ! 1 VOL. XLIII ASHLAND. OREGON; TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919 NUMBER 55 WELCOME, MATE MAIL IE ID) E I K "Morn, .Tr ir Tr1 -rev t t"- NGS it : vK Pencil-Drivers Guests Oi Southern " Ashland has been busy today set ting her house In order, to entertain the members of the National EdI torlal Association who will be her dinner guests this evteriing. These visitors' will be entertained while lu the city by the Commercial Club, and the city park will be thte scene for the banquet where the Civic Im provement Club" will "servo an Ore gon products dinner to the honor guests. AshOand opens liter doors and the hearts of her people to these notable visitors and bids them a bjaarty welcome to the Rogue River valley. ,4 En Route to Crater Lake ' The special train bearing the 256 members of the association, to get h er with Governor Olcott and wlf i ' and some of the officials of tho State Editorial Association, arrived In l! Medford at 6.30 Monday morning, and the guests were prompttly hustled from the train to tbjelr. break fast which was atl ready for them at the various eating houses In that etty. The autos from Medford, Grants Pass and Ashland were In readiness by th time. breakfast wa over, and the visitors were started on their long overland ride to Oat or Lake. The driers were mostly business and professional men who , left their affairs for a couple of days In order to extend the hospitality of Southiern Oregon to the guests from afan ' Each guest was provided with a bos of luncheon to eat on the way while making the trip to the lake. Three cars loaded with repairs and ' textra equipment of all kinds, ' and three) extra, cars .were, started, out after the party had left Medford in order to take in any passengrs If their cars should break down com pletely on the way. ' Part of the cars were routed over tire Dead In dian road by way of Ashland and part by way of Prospect. These will alternate on the return home so that the gu?8t8 will all have an oppor tunity of seeing the scenic road in that country. On arriving at the lake the guest? were served dinner, after which a big bonfire was held on the rim of the lake with welcoming Fpeeches by Prof. Irving E. Vlnlng on behalf of Ashland, Mayor C. E. Gates on be half of Medford and O, S. RlancharJ n behalf of Grants Pass. Response's were made by Governor Olcott and other prominent visitors. Ashland's Guests Tonight This morning was spent slght-soe-Ing about the lake, after which tho . cars were filled and again started over the long road to Ashland. They are lexpected to begin to come Into me uujr una uiiui nuuu niiynueru U- . 1. I 1. - . ' from 4 to 6, and will be shown to the Natatorium for a plunge or a shower if tlley so desire, after which they will be served a dinner in the park by the Civic Improvement Club. Assisting this club In preparing and serving the dinner will be Mrs. Humphreys, a demonstrator of sev eral of Oregon's most prominent food Lost Timber and Wood in Big Fire The fln that started Friday af ternoon up the canyon burned over a tract of land belonging to Mrs. Julia Hockett in 'Which : a largo amount of fine timber was destroyed, as well as much firewood that had been cut and stacked to dry. Her loss reaches several thousand dol lars. During the f tfo Mrs. Hockett was called to the house' on her prop erty In which Mr. ' and Mrs. Paul reside, and during the night whilo preparing food for the fire fightjers she had the misfortune to cut her hand severely on a pane of glass which was broken from a window by the Intense heat from ' the for iest fire. An artery was Severed In Mrs. Hockett's hand, which necessi tated several stltchtes. ; . , She is at present suffering somewhat from shock and loss of blood, but no serious results are apprehended. Oregon manufactories, who has so generous ly come to the assistance -of the club members and who will not only help In the preparations, but will con tribute many attractive and appetiz ing viands of Oregon's noted pro ducts for the dlnnfer. The gueatg will not have much time to remain here' Satt Jose, then along the coast to after eating, as their special train ; L Angeles and Long Beach where will be In readiness at 8 o'clock to lieturn to Portland tonight. Invited to Jotteplilne Caves While lack of time la Southern Oregon forced the visiting editor to j pass Grants Pass without stopping in that city to enjoy the attractions to be found there, , the citlaens of, that city came In whole hearted !y In the entertainment of tho strangers,' and responded most liberally . to the courtesies demanded from the Rogue Rhfcr valley. They not only provid ed, their quota of autos to convey the editors jo Crat' Lake, but contributed a large sum of money to the funds for entertainment A copy of the Josephine Caves booklet was provided for each guest by the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce In which was Inserted a "Regret and Invita tion," In which they expressed their disappointment in not being able to bfe actual hosts of the National Edi torial Association, but expressed their pleasure In acting with Ash land and Medford In taking them to Crater Lake. They also extended an Ipvltattlon to the editors to come to Grants Pass some time again and visit the Josephine Cavtea and take the wonderful trip to the coast thru the giant redwood forests, and over other scenic roads. - Northwest as Hosts The party has been two weeks on the trip already and all along the route werfe treated royally. At Port land ;'Friday cWnicg an elaborate dinner was served to 600 In Laurel hurst park by the Caterer's associa tion. Saturday noon V.f Portland Press club gave lunch In their rooms and In the evening a banquet was tendered the guests by the Orl;gon lan, Telegram and Newo of Portland Sunday morning tho Rotary club fur nished 1 0 cars for a trip over the Columbia highway and th'j Progres sive Business Mens club of Portland supplied a trout and bear meat breakfast at Eagle creek. Thlrty flvo of Portland's business mon wfent miles to Eagle creek the night before to prepare the meal and 13 more business men were on hand early in the morning. The editors and their friends sat down at a table more than 300 feet long In the out- of-doors. Many Individuals stated that altho they had travelled across the continent and had been shown every possible attention it remained 'for Portland to-nut on tha croivnini? 13 future At Salem Sunday afternoon the guests were treated to airplane exhi bition flights and fancy stunts by two machines and glvjen a home pro ducts lunch in thte Capitol park. Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver will also entertain the editors, and sessions of the national convention will be held in leach of these places. Telephone Heaiing Held in Portland The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company has filed with the Public Service Commission of Oregon ft schedule of rates, purporting to have been approved by the postmas ter general and covering the local telephone exchange service thruout the state of Oregon, and which aro Inow being collected. Thes rates are an incrlease In certain instances over the rates fixed by this commis sion in Its ord,'er of May 1, 1919, end Is believed by the commission to be sufficient grounds to warrant a hearing being held as to the legality and reasonableness of the rates con tained In the schedule. A hearing In this matter before the Public Ser vice Commission will be held In Portland August 27, at 10 o'clock a. m., at which time and place all Interested . parties may appear and be hfeard. Prefers Ashland 1 To Any Other City Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fnebnrg are back from an extended automobile trip that covered nearly three months in which portions of four states were coverjsd. Only the fact that the longing for Ashland became so In sistent that they could not withstand it longer, these people would un doubtedly be wandering yet. Mr. and Mrs. Freeburg started out May 24 and went by way of Sacramento th)?y spent several weeks. Later they started on again to San Diego and Into New Mexico. - On their return the travelers pass ed thru Santa Ana, Riverside, Rfcd lands and all the little towns In that! section. This country, Mr. Freeburg j stated, they found exceptionally beautiful, but not particularly de sirable In which to live. They re turned north by the Inland route thru Bakersfleld to Sacramento, then over to Lake Tahoe where they remained four days. Later on they visited Carson City and Reno, Neva da, and returned to Oregon by way of Pyramid Lake and Oedarvllle. On reaching Oregon they wen: thru Lakevlew, ' Silver Lake, Fort Rock," Prlnevllle and Shaniko to The Dalles, thfen down the Columbia River highway to Portland and on borne. ' "We had a delightful trip," Mr. Freeburg remarked in speaking of his wanderings, "but we found no placb in which we would like to live as well as in Ashland. We saw many beautiful show places where million aires reside, and they were all right for that , class of people, but taking in consideration Ashland's water, park, climate and all other attrac tions, there Is no place I saw that can compare with it. The good water- here alonfc compensates all other attractions shown In the var ious places in which we visited." Old-time "Posies" Blooming in Park The August flowers are coming into th3lr own in Ashland park Just now, and a riot of bloom Is exhib ited in the beds of various blossoms that only make their appearance in this last month of summer. Perhaps few citizens have rballzcd the flower scheme arranged each year by the park board, which is to have certain styles and varieties of flowers planted In the beds each year, and to be succeeded by some thing el6. so that no monotony pre vails In the blossoms to delight th "eyes of the park habitues. This year the scheme calls for old-fash ioned flowers, and huge beds of golden-glow, hollyhocks, dahlias, pe tunlas, cosmos and many otlihr of the old-lime "posies" ere at this time in full panoply of bloom. White "they ain't much sty! about 'em," the sight of the old-fash loned favorites that used to blossom in our mother's garden "back home" somewhere brings a homey thrill to th) hearts of all and especially to those who remember the old gardens where these flowers were to be found In rank profusion In the August days of long ago, and makes the park these -lovtely summer eve nings a mighty pleasant place to loiter. Will Study Blight Resisting Pears Prof. F. C. Relraer oAthe South ern Oregon Experiment station at Talent left Sunday morning for San Francisco from where he will sail to China to resume his study of blight- resist Ing pears and to collect seed of certain kinds of pears for distribu tion in this country. He expects to rurn from China by the first of the year. Two years ago Prof. Reimer spent cclnsldjerajble1 time In China, Japan and Korea making an exten sive pear study. Sevpral cases for violating the water ordinance of the city have come up before the municipal Judge within the past we)?k. Carload of Cattle For Valley Farms D. M. Lowe, representing the Jackson County Livestock Associa tion, and Elton Beeson, a representa tive of the Jackson County Farm Bureau, ijaoently purchased a car load of shorthorn cattle from-the i wsu vi iiiwi iiiui u vain? iivw viioi . . . . , . , Gibson estate In Woodland. Callf.lCarneB,e- ",el magna,e and phllaD- The stock arrived Friday and were . throphjt. died this morning at hla token from the car to the Lowe farm lummer homo. "Shadow Brook," af acro Bear creek. These cattle are ter an lllneM of than tnree day all pure bred and sired from the best wlUl bnnchlal nmonitL Death shorthorn stock, and will be sold!a9 80 udden that hla uBhter. Brown, president of the National . Shorthorn5 Association, was present fund assisted Messrs. Lowe and Bee.?' on In their purchase, and (Jested all stock nurchfcuwd and pitted upon their pedigree. ' A picnic will be held at the grove at Phoenix Saturday, September 6, at which time these cattle will be sold at auction, as well as other pure bred stock and grade stock. This sale will Include pur bred hogs and sheep as well as cattle. ' . The county livestock assoclcatlon j and the farm bureau are working In j cooperation In order to Improve tho breed of . lltock of the couitfy. This makes four carloads of pure bred stock that these associations have put into the county, and it ii Mr. Lowe's intention to go back to California next week and purchase more animals for the sale. The purchase of these animals was financed by the Citizens Bank of Ashland and the Stat Bank' of Talent, and these institutions In turn will finance purchasers who have n?ed for stock. F. F. Whittle Has . Purchased Transfer Saturday F. F. Whittlje took over the Ashland Transfer & Storage bus iness conducted In this city by C. F. Bates, and assumed control of af fairs Monday morning. Mr. Whit tle Is a well known business man of Ashland of. formw years, altho for the past ycar he has been associated with the Fruit Growers' Supply com pany at I lilts. His return to Ash land affords much satisfaction among his many friends, and ho in tends to carry out the .transfer and storage business along tlio same llii)?s as Ills predecessor, Mr. llatv, will remain for Ithe present in tlie city and will assist Mr. Whittlo for v. tlmo until tho Intter is fully es tablished. Ho has mado no dKlnlto plans for tho futuro. Cannery to Start In About 10 Days The Ashland cannery has been running for several days past, can ning pears and blackberries, altho the season has not rightly started. In about 10 days the cannery will start with a full crow of men and women on pears, omatoes, beans, and later peaches and apples, and will be operated steadily Into the late fall. . About forty or fifty peo ple will have work in this factory. Editors in Favor Of Special Session Calling of a special session of the state legislature to ratify the na tional woman's suffrage amendment was recommended In resolutions adoptfed Friday at the close of the annual state editorial association convention in the rooms of the Press club. The editors also will petition the. legislative' to enact nreasulrfs whlcch" will Insure federal aid. for the Roosevelt highway and to reme dy any legislative defects that now threaten to keep Oregon from ob taining the full benefits of federal aid in highway work. The convention was attended by nearly 100 editors there for the na tional convention. At the close of the session C. E. Ingalls, ledltor of th'e Corvallls Ga zette-Times, was re-elected presi dent. ' i Great Philanthropist Dies Alter Short Illness Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11. Andrew Mrs. tuwweii Miner, was unguis iv get to his bedside. His wife and Pvaqe .ecrotary wore with him Andrew Carnegie began a race against time when, in 1901, at the age of 6G, he resolved to give away his enormous fortune. He held it "disgraceful" for a man to keep on gathering idle minions. In the com paratively few years which the actu ary could allow him, ho would dig em harass himself of practically all njo had. No man had ever launched a philanthropic campaign of such di mensions. His was then a fortune of Just about a quarter billion dollars, the largest ever acquired by a foreign- born American, second only to the John D. Rockefeller,' wealth as the largost Individual accumulation in the United States, and, built, ns It was, of 5 per cent steel bonds, It would, without so much as turning over one's hand, have approached half a billion by the tlmja Carnegie Much Damage Done By Big Brush fjje The brush fire that started on the hillside above Ashland canyon Fri day afternoon developed into serlpus proportions before It was finally got under control. The lire ntarted at a line fence between two properties and it is not known how It was" set, but owing to th extreme dryness of the woods tho fire spread over at least a section of ground and burned much good timber. Nice Trip, But Oh, You Ashland Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Herbert and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hilling cum) homo Friday night from nn automo- lillo trip thru lOnstorn Oregon. The i Journey was made In tho Billlngi I car and tho party went by way of Crator Lake, thru llend to Condon where they visited for a week with a daughter and sister of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. UIIIIiiks. Coming home tholr route took , them to Hrlncvlllo land For. KJrhnnth land home by tho Dead Indian road. Whilo the tourists claim they had a fine trip tliky saw very little country in' which they would like to live, and none they would exchange for a homo, In Ashland. Fort Klamath was really the only green spot they saw on their trip, they stated, but that did not In any way compare with Ashland. Almost everywhere else was nothing but sand and sage brush. These-tourists have come to the conclusion llkle practically ev eryone else, that to appreciate Ash land one must go somewhere else for a tlmje. Good Wheat Raised In Jackson County "The Rogue River valley has rais ed most excellent wheat this year," remarked T. N. Humphreys of the Ashland Mills recently. Threshing season Is now .In full swing and much grain Is coming in at the mill at the present timet According to Mir. Humphreys more wheat was raised In the yallby this year than last, and it Is a much hotter product. Rarely bus he sejon better milling wheat than Is raised here In the valley this sea son, and states that some of the Early Bnart and Bluo Stem is exr ceptlonally fine. The Ashland Mills receive most of the wheat and grain raised In this end of the val'py f from Taleut south. could call himself an octogenarian on November 25, 1915. To give this stupendous sum away. in about half the time he had taken to gather It, was a purposo Carnp gle had fairly well fulfilled when death overtook him today. He bait distributed about $300,000,000. It was giving money away at the rata of opr $20,000,000 a year, or morar than $50,000 a day. To his native' Scltland his IargestL single gift was a fund of $10,000. 000 to aid education in Scottish uni versities. He carried out his pet idea of Hero commission, endowed in 1905 with $5,000,000 by which hundreds of men, women and children bave bden rewarded with Carnegie medal or pensions for acts of heroism In thja rescue of Imperiled persons. He lrter extended similar benefaction to several forolgn countries. . One of the largest and greatest Ideals was the abolition of war, at hope that he cherished In the face of International conflicts. He gava $10,000,000 toward an international peace fund, and built the peace pal ace at The Hague, which was dedi cated in 1913. life gave $750,000 for the bureau of American rcpub- s lies at Washington, . , Home After Long r- Automobife Trip" K IU ( . utiu m is. rwju isiunejr re iM - 1 1 1 T.1 1 .1 Ti 1. . turned Saturday night from an' ex tensive automobile trip that covered territory jfrom ithe, IPaclflc to the SiWras. They went directly front , here to Cresent' City, and on down ' the coast to Sail Francisco. From .- that city tholr route took them over land to Lake Tahoe, after which they touched Novada, whero they joined Mr. Dickey's sister who live in Reno. Mr. and Mrs. Dickey re ported good roads practically all thfli- way with tho exception of tho spotn vli're highway construction was be Ini; ma do. Ono of the adventures that befell tli"in on their trip was nt Crescent City v.hci(r they wont out on tlu water mid wero IokI In the fog whlelh necessitated their being held up ovei- '"Ki. Many Elks Going To Klamalh Falls A number of tho members of tluv local Itodgt) of Elks are planning on going to Klamath Fulls this week to attend the Elks state convention In session there, A spl'dal train wilt be run over the Southern Pacific,, starting from Portland, and will con- slut of ten Pullmans by the time It leaves Ashland. It Is expected that another Pullman will be addt-'d her for the use of the Ashland delegations If it Is njjeessary, and the Elks will make their headquarters In the train while attending the convention. J Service Men Can Get Instruction Superintendent G. A. Briscoe re ceived Saturday from Salem the ap plication blanks and instructions; pertaining to the solders' educa tlonal law recently voted upon In th state. Any returned soldiers, sail ors or marines wishing to avail them seJs of the opportunity of this new lew may get all Information required from Supt. Briscoe, who will be In his office every week day from 4 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and h will give out tho applications and Instruct the applicants In the law. Any other appointments can be mado over the telephone by calling up tho-. high school office. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Garner of Gazelle, Calif., were recent visitor at the homo of Mr. nnd Mrs. G. N- Gray.