35 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. 52tf • • * 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. . . . You w ant Studio A shland photos fo r Xmas. I t ’s none too early. 54-tf . . . 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. • ♦ • We will be busier in December. D on’t w ait. Studio A shland. 5 4-tf . . . 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. ♦ • » An ideal Xmas gift, a violin, m an­ dolin or g u itar, a t Rose Bros. 82-121 • • • 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. ♦ • * Fine work takes tim e. Sit for your Xm as photos now. Studio Ashland. * * * 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. * » r W e handle a full line of high grade strin g s for strin g instrum ents. Rose Bros. 82-12t « » » 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. • • Mr. and Mrs. C'. H. Babcock left th is m orning for San Diego w here they expect to spend th e w inter. . . . Q uality first a t Studio Ashland. ’ 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. . . . Cliff Payne make? library tables. • • 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. * * * Save the babies. “ F eed .'em ” goats’ m ilk. • • • 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 »-»-♦ « « ♦ . ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ■ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 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 , , . , . x , , looks today just as b a rre n and war- , __ __ __ _ ___ _________ . 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. , 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. 85-5 * • ♦ 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. 82-12t 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. ♦ ♦ ♦ H em stitching, Bicoting, 10 cents t yard. We pay th e postage. The vanity H at Shop, M edford, Ore. 6-tl • • • 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. a • • 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 -------- 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 , 1 w ill be presented. ---------- 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 IN J IN X 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 / to Rent. Citizens’ Bank Building. W. A. Shell t X ? w ^ c d d S u 't^ S 137 E. Main out of tire T iT .w w beaten and ru b b ed .an d fra y e d , " ’ iio u lh s a m e id e a I T A IL O R S w ay th a t a E den w om an ' J X 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 J O R B » MEN AND WOMEN i\ F ree T ria l in Y our H om e .s a t *• DAN CONNER, Proprietor. Headquarters for Commercial Mer. and Tourists. E uropean P lan. E xcellent Grill M erchants’ Lunch. J 1 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 . t r 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 / 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 i 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 . ‘.l ’ e T U 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 ♦ ♦ ♦ : ♦ 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. • • • 1HE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT lo r W ife o r W EBS© ri® H om e ♦ • * TODAY ONLY C. B. LAMKIN in g a n d My Name Is Dtnnis «I 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. 85-2 • • . 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 S 5 -2 t 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. • ♦ « Reserve your Xm as candy box at Rose Bros. We have the best line in the city. 82-12t • • ’ • • • •• • • • . . .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 •?• <$><$>