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PAG E FOUR
ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
Tuesday, December 9, 1919
DOINGS OF THE VATI LOONS
Local and Personal
A ll t h a t c a n b e s a id i s t h a t i t w a s s o m e w o r d
Have a fit a t O rres Tailors.
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F rances P ra tt, th e young d au g h
te r ot' Mr. and Mrs. C arroll P ra tt,
had her nose broken one day last
week by ru n n in g into a n o th e r girl
d u rin g the physical tra in in g class.
She sufiered considerably from th e
accident but has been greatly com
forted w ith th e tidings th a t the nose
will be stra ig h t.
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You w ant Studio A shland photos
fo r Xmas. I t ’s none too early. 54-tf
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Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Glenn left this
m orning for G lendale, Calif., w here
they expect to rem ain d u rin g the
w inter. They own a hoinfe th ere
which they will occupy.
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We will be busier in December.
D on’t w ait. Studio A shland.
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Newson H arrison is back from
P o rtla n d w here he a tte n d ed the a n
nual convention of Ford agents. A
banquet was given to all the agents
present from all over th e sta te a t
th e Hotel Benson. Mr. H arrison was
th e rep resen tativ e from the Ashland
F ord garage.
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An ideal Xmas gift, a violin, m an
dolin or g u itar, a t Rose Bros. 82-121
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Douglas W aite of Roseburg was in
Ashland this week calling on old-
tim e friends. Mr. W aite used to go
to school here th irty -to u r years ago
in the old academ y which stood w here
th e Ju n io r High school now stan d s,
in the days when he and F red W agner
i'lid m any o th er old-tim ers were hoys
together.
He found several of his
form er schoolm ates am ong th e lead-
ing business men of Ashland.
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Fine work takes tim e. Sit for your
Xm as photos now. Studio Ashland.
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Two feet of snow is reported in the
Dead Indian d istric t. This indicates
good crops next year, rtte people in
th a t sectio n 1 m aintain.
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W e handle a full line of high grade
strin g s for strin g instrum ents. Rose
Bros.
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M arshal B arber, son of Mr. ami
Mrs. W. M. Barber, is quite ill at his
home on G ranite street.
Goat milk cuts down high cost of
living. G reat food, n u tritio u s, im
m une from tuberculosis. Buy a real
m ilch goat.
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Mr. and Mrs. C'. H. Babcock left
th is m orning for San Diego w here
they expect to spend th e w inter.
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Q uality first a t Studio Ashland.
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C aptain M illard W. Grubb of B
com pany, O. N. G„ has issued an o r
d e r for all m em bers of th e com pany
to appear in the A rm ory W ednesday
evening. December 10, at 7:45 in se r
vice uniform . General Stefren and
Colonel D entier will he here for an
inspection of the com pany on th at
tlate.
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Cliff Payne make? library tables.
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Leroy A shcraft, who has been em
ployed at McCloud for some tim e, is
paying a visit to bis p aren ts in Ash
land. th is week.
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Save the babies. “ F eed .'em ” goats’
m ilk.
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Miss Ja n e Allen, sta te supervising
Tiurse, was an
Ashland
visitor
W ednesday. Miss^ Allen spent sev-
oral m onths in Jackson county two
years ago when she organized the
countv
field for the adoption of a county
health nurse.
order. These w ere Mrs. C. B. Lam-
kin, Mrs. B rookm iller and Mrs. T rask.
WAR
TORN BELGIUM
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By Edw in W. H ullinger
(.United Press S taff C orrespondent.)
YPRES. Belgium. — ( By M ail.) —
A lthough sm all arm ies of men, mostly
G erm an prisoners, have been w ork
ing nearly a year, devastated Belgium
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looks today just as b a rre n and war-
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torn as when thearm istice sent the
G erm an arm ies h u rry in g back into
the distances from which they had
come.
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So im m ense is the reclam ation task
before them , it is not noticeable th a t
the w orkers have m ade any im pres
sion a t all.
Ypres itself, a collection of ruins,
has hardly been touched. The de-
bris has been swept from the streets,
and a lean-to-station put up near the
site of th e old
A few re s ta u ra n ts
have been re-opened for to u rists and
relatives of fallen soldiers visiting
th e zone.
A sm all g a u n tle t of postal-card
sellers and curio venders form s reg
u larly outside the statio n a few m in-
utes before tra in tim e
Several liv-
eryoten and garage ow ners do a fine
business driving sight seers over the
battlefields.
Kllt m inus these Ypres is today as
she was in 1918.
To th e east, south ¿md north
stretch es an ugly, sheil-chopped life-
,ilss te rra in , w here gangs of “ body
sn a tc h e rs” (th e Tom m y’s nam e for
grave h u n te rs) are still w andering.
Now and then, in some out-of-the
Big jazz dance a t A shland N ata-
to iiu m , S aturday, Dec. 13.
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Misses Effie and O rpha Oslin, Nel
lie P e rry and Nellie B eaver were
am ong th e A shland people who vis
ited M edford Saturday.
E at real tam ales and chili beans
it Rose Bros.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ed B aer cam e in
from th e ir country home Saturdav
to shop with ou r m erchants,
Leave your m agazine subscriptions
with us. Boley’s Drug Store.
Mrs. W. S. Ball, who has been se ri
ously ill, is very m uch im proved.
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H em stitching, Bicoting, 10 cents
t yard. We pay th e postage. The
vanity H at Shop, M edford, Ore. 6-tl
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Mrs. Helen Young of Jackson,
Mich., is visiting a t th e hom e of her
niece, Mrs. E. N. B utler, a t the B ut
ler ranch across B ear creek.
She
expects to spend th e w inter here and
in C alifornia.
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way. g rass-stuffed «jiater they still
find a w eather-soaked uniform , gray
of khaki, w ith a hum an skeleton in-
side it. They g a th e r th e bones to-
geth er in a sack and carry them back
to h e a d q u arte rs.
Or, they find a fo rgotten grave,
probably m arked by a little rain-
blackened wooden cross. The b a ttle
area is dotted w ith these crosses—
th e only epitaph on some being a rus-
tv trench helm et. The “ body snatch-
e rs ” job is to dig up the bodies, p ut
them in sacks, too, and b ring them
aw ay for re-burial.
W recked tan k s, wagons, tru c k s,
am m unition dum ps, pill-boxes a re
scattered up to th e horizon. F o u r
m iles down th e
Menin road from
Ypres 28 B ritish tanks lie in one
field, called th e “ Tank C em etery.”
Of m any sm aller villages not even
the ruins rem ain, th e w alls having
long since been reduced to stone-
dust.
Of the old m agnificent fo rests up
(lie railro ad th e re a re only occasional
n naked
a k e d t tree-stem
r e e - s t e m s,
s w ith
e w leafless
le a fle s s
ith a n f few
branches. T here is no living tre e
for m iles and m iles. G erm an gas
dit it.
The old inferno of sound has giv
en place to a m ore terrib le silence—
a silence unbroken by living crea
tu re . No birds, no m oving things
in th e grass, n o thing but th e abso
lute silence of a m an-m ade desert.
From the a g ric u ltu ra l point of
view, the country is years in the fu
tu re. Every square foot m ust be lev
eled and restored. Only here, the
u n d e rta k in g is infinitely m ore diffi
cult. Any m om ent th e w orkm an
m ay run into an unexploded shell or
hidden death trap .
Every farm will have to be equip
ped with a com plete new drainage
system . The old pipes w ere ripped
out d u rin g the early p a rt of the
bom bardm ent, allow ing the w aste
wat e r to spread out over the flat
countryside and collect in depres
sions.
The Socia! Realm
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Card Party Tonight
This evening the E lks L adies’ club
will give th e ir card p a tty in the club
loom s. This prom ises to be a very
e n te rta in in g event and will he an op-
p o rtu n ity in which th e men will be
th e invited guests and will have the
chance to show* th e ir skill in card
playing w ith the ladies. Bridge and
500 will be played and a program
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w ill be presented.
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W ednesday Club
The hostesses of the W ednesday
c ,ub which m eets tom orrow a fte r-
noon in th e P resb y terian church p ar
lors will be Mrs, C harles A bbott, Mrs.
H. M. A ndrew s, Mrs. C. H. Barne-
burg, Mrs. E. H. Bush. Mrs. M. E.
Boslough and Mrs. W. G. C urry. A
line program has been arra n g e d and
a p a rticu larly in te restin g m eeting of
the club i# an ticip ated .
Feed Y out Calves. Chickens and
Pigs
Mutual Compound
Tel. 214
IN
’ The Invisible Bond”
F r o m t h e P o p u l a r S t o r y ’‘S e e - S a w ”
W Z C N E S D A Y -T H U R S D A Y
MABEL NORMAND
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S p e c ia l M a t i n e e W e d n e s d a y , 4 O’c lo c k
f o r S ch o o l C h i ld r e n , A d m is s io n 10c
Rarj. a in s in
favorite
with thousands of women
REAL ESTATE
City and Ranch P ro p e rtie s. House
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to Rent.
Citizens’ Bank Building.
W. A. Shell
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137 E. Main
out of tire
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beaten and ru b b ed .an d fra y e d , " ’
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s a m e id e a I
T A IL O R S
w ay
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f j >lattere^ tJ° t h e 9 o f th e ch ildren, or stain ed tab lecloth s com e
" • a v e r > m u c longer life ahead o f them for n ot h avin g been
m k llhC E J e " 4“ ^
ORRES
d o th e8 ’
Work’ tem per
e lu n c o s t .^ a ..omaU com p ared to its years o f d ep en d ab le service.
' L aunderin? togeth er w ith th e m an y thou^inda
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MEN AND WOMEN
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F ree T ria l in Y our H om e
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DAN CONNER, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Commercial Mer.
and Tourists.
E uropean P lan.
E xcellent Grill
M erchants’ Lunch.
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Two Blocks front L ith ia P ark.
J J E N I ) us y o u r fa m ily w a sh
id eal
wp
se rv ic e
w ill g iv e you
and
freedom
from w a sh d a y d ru d g e ry .
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J O R D A N E L E C T R IC CO ., A s h la n d , O r e g o n
F. E. FRENCH & SON, Props.
On S a v in g s
A c c o u n ts
Interest
FOR HIM
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B u y y o u r X m a s G ifts fo r Hfm-
a t a M a n ’ s S to r e , w h e r e He
w o u ld g o if b u y in g fo r h im s e lf.
A D o lla r S ta rts a n A c co u n t
STATE BANK 0T ASRIAND.
FOR YOUR
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Raw Furs
Send Them to
Comfort Shoes
THE GOLDEN RULE FUR CO,
603 First Ave., Seattle, Wn.
W rite for price list and tags.
P a c if ic ” C ed ar C h est. E v e r y w o m a n w a n ts
a n d n e e d s o n e . It Is a m o s t p r a c t ic a l g ift,
lo r it i s u s e fu l a s w e l l a s o r n a m e n ta l. It i s
a n ti-m o th , d a m p a n d d u s t. W e m a k e m a n y
s t y l e s a n d s i z e s . T r o w b r id g e C a b in et
W o r k s , M edford , O regon .
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Phone 165
Ge 11 he top market price
S w e e t h e a r t Is a
t s
The Barber
R estaurant
M oth er, D a u g h te r o r
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IR E N E C A S T L E
PE IL ’S
Ashland Laundry Co.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. McWilliams of
C hurch stre e t a re receiving a visit Good Meals and Short Orders. Day
and Night Service.
from th e ir daughter-in-law , Mrs.
K enneth McW illiams, and baby from
2 9 7 E a s t M a in
P o rtlan d and The Dalles. They ex
pect to rem ain until Sunday.
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1HE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT lo r W ife o r
W EBS©
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H om e
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TODAY
ONLY
C. B. LAMKIN
in g a n d
My Name Is Dtnnis
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TODAY
ONLY
Hotel Austin
by the A shland L um ber com pany’s half th e cost,
office. He was picked up by M ana
Special m atinee W ednesday,
ger F red P atto n and given shelter,
in. for school children to see Jinx
and a fte rw a rd s tu rn ed over to the
mission 10 cents.
353 Eavit Main
police. The m an is a p p a re n tly per
fectly harm less, hut tells incoherent
T. N. H um phreys of th e A shland stories about his condition. An effort
F louring Mills left th is m orning for
will be m ade to locate m em bers of
the north on a business trip. He ex his fam ily or friends.
pects to cover Albany and points in
D ouglas county before retu rn in g .
NOTICE
T rinity Guild will bold a special
m eeting in the P arish house, T h u rs
day afternoon Dec. 11. 2:30 o ’clock.
Every m em ber requested to be pres
ent.
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Miss H elen W alker spent th e week
end w ith her friend. Miss A nna
F rench, of Talent.
Cuts and a ’2000 w ord a rticle on
¡A shland's a ttra c tio n s for a u to to u rists
was furnished the P hotom obile T our
ist com pany, which is g e ttin g out one
of the most novel guide books of the
year. The book has several th o u
sand pictures, show ing every cross
road, etc., and is a r, g u lar motion
pictu re of the ro u te and should seil
well. The com pany kindly gives
A shland the page of space w ithout
fu rth e r charge th an for the cuts. etc.
A couple of excellent p ark pictures
will deck the A shland page.
A shland Cam p In te re sts
Many inquiries are coming in from i
cha gibers of com m erce and o th er o r
ganizations concerning the Ashland
auto-cam p which has become th e m od
el fo r asp irin g tow ns to follow. In
C orner by th e P a rk .
NOTICE
You
would
feel b e tte r and w arm er
I wish it to be understood th a t the
rum or, which is being circulated thal these cold m ornings with one of P eil’s
I have given up my dental practice all wool au to robes. W ill m ake a
and W*H move o ut of town is false,
practical and beau tifu l C hristinas
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DR. W. E. Bl?AKE
present for any one. Most any m ake
of sew ing m achine for sale or rent.
C edar fence posts for sale.
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Reserve your Xm as candy box at
Rose Bros. We have the best line
in the city.
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.s,
o rd er to fu rn ish the d a ta asked a cam p was prepared and is sent on re-
COMMERCIAL CLUB COLUMN •?> th re e th ousand w ord a rticle on th e quest.
. z <?> •?• <i> <$><$> <s> <g.
W. R. C. Club Met
The re g u la r m eeting of the W om
Best W oolens, L atest Fashions Always
en's Relief Corps was held last S at
urday afternoon a t which an un u s
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
ually la rg a n u m b er w ere present,
th u s m aking it one of the m ost de-
lig h tfu l sessions of the season. T hree
new m em bers were tak en in to the
Have y our Xm as Y ictrola reserved
It takes the place of whole stock
now a t Rose Bros
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m ilk and is absolutely gu aran teed
.
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( ream is w orth too m uch money
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7 ™ " ®eem in*,y
now to feed to the calves when Mu-
tound on th e ra ilro a d th is m o rning tu a l Com pound i3 b e tte r feed fQr
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a re h a rd to get now a t reason
able prices.
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We have som e num bers in
old stock and will be pleased
to show them to prospective
custom ers.
P A IN !
W ill add
100 percen t to th e
pearance of your p roperty
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O U tO O N .
Dickerson
The Paint Man
G a r te r s ,
A rm
B ands,
T he V ery B est U n d erw ea r
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ASHLAND'
S u its ,
S ilk R e e fe rs, H a n d k e rc h ie fs .
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N e c k w e a r.............................................. 50c to $3.00
G lo v es, a ll k i n d s .............................. 50c to $7.50
S ilk H o s e ............................................ 75c io $ 1 .5 0
D re ss S h i r t s ............... ......
$1.50 U p
H a t s .......................................$1 50 to $ 3 .5 0
C a p s .......................................... 50c to $3.50
M e n ’s
ap-
m uch to its cash re n t and selling j
value.
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Shop Early
Mitchell’s