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VOL. XLIII
ASHLAND. OREGON; TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919
NUMBER 55
WELCOME, MATE MAIL IE ID) E I K
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.