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About Ashland daily tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1970 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1919)
ASSOLATO DAILY HDDTCM Tuesday, December 18, 1019 P h a rm a te u tic a l fra te rn ity . T his is th e visitors w ith the stu d e n ts of O. with the enemy, but now and then SIGN OF A NOVICE considered a g rea t honor as only A. C. Miss T horne did faith fu l work coming unexpectedly on the deadly ma chine gun nests of the rear g u a rd ; how th e few selected stu d e n ts of excel for O. A. C. last sum m er. She was Captain Cushman, commanding Tom lent scholastic standing in p h a rm a the secretary for G reater O. A. C. F o d > M etfeu d id V o W e my’s own platoon because of a short- | cy are chosen. He was news edi in th e Jackson county division. H er age of lieutenants, had stormed one of j to r of th e O. A. C. B arom eter, the diligent w ork was rew arded when 171 VQruW MalS&ùi. TelTtfiia I t ' these enemy positions and had been stu d en t paper, last year. He was stu d en ts cam e to school th is year shot leading his men across an open also one of the ed ito rs of th e fra te r th ro u g h her influence. field. “He died bravely, Miss Anna- . By WILL T. AMES belle,” said Tommy, In conclusion. “1 nity section of the Ju n io r A nnual Am ong th e o th er stu d e n ts from wish he could have lived - to come ( I nCi«rporp4eOefl) d u rin g his ju n io r year. He w as a A shland are Jo h n W. A nderson, back.” And then, after a little, the m em ber of th e finance c o m m itte e ! Archie B. A nderson, E lm er E. Bag-j Office andnW oW ar®4oJN8.4SfleBfaa* <4 (C o p y r ig h t. 1J1S. by th o M cC lure N e w i- p a p e r S y n d ic a te .) ■ new Tommy asserted himself enough i for Ju n io r W eek-end. His ex ecu tiv e< ley, E. M. B arrett, V incent W. H am -' St.,3ft.skiahlhn0reQre. to venture—“to you.” The trouble with Tommy Ellis • ability was shown in his excellent mond, C larence E. H edburg, M ai-, » 'n m * i r t u i-tn y tn f-fh u y f i » r sj Annabelle looked straight at Tommy. showed itself from the first day he work on th e Y. M. C. A. executive colm M. H um phrey, John H. Jones, { RetfftepdtfnYfcrk “As a soldier,” she asked, “do you went to school. It was a little school, com m ittee. He is a m em ber of t h e ; R obert F. K eller, C hester C. Mac- We 7 m a n iM n n a r tu r w a x ffa g in ^ la lltn A think it was necessary for Captain ■ and there were just fifty hooks on the Cushman to lose his life at th at time K appa Psi fra te rn ity , and is m a n a -' Cracken, Troy A. Phipps, Jam es L. Equipment0KtSa^B«iinillM id*t<iu»u'fca<1' walls of the boys’ “entry,” with fifty- and place? Do you think those Huns | ger of his house. > P o rter, H arold N. Prose, E rnel E. Ship MaCbinhfjrer9teSt»aaii<fifi&iUBn4£o one boys to hang their hats on them. could have been driven out without a gines, B oiIhiider»n(hn(H e4^av)S teK .^ E rn est A bbott, one of th e prom -i S tearn s and H arold B Stone. H alf a dozen of the new boys were frontal attack? Was it good leader W ork; G r e jr JyoftçofiedS»fi<teSL-*'BraM»aae ising stu d en ts of the sophom ore class, —------------- !---------— ■ ■■ sae younger and smaller than Tommy, who and Bronzer.üaÆiiBgingi eteeyetynHinc ship to do what he did?” is a m em ber of the Sigma Phi E p s i-; 'h a d reached the ripe age of seven; Having. î4fiort»«ihighlgquâçptrt?e«tumj!î “Why, Miss Annabelle,” exclaimed but Tommy it was who had to lay his | Tommy, taken wholly by surprise by p lan t for ffthethaanniautaceuB sidiirt-Ta» Ion F ra te rn ity . In his fre s h m a n ; cap on the floor in the corner because this questioning, “what—what makes pairs of bèatr^aajnfin* sik a ta a a e t nriae > year he represented his class in t h e ; “He’s a new driver.” chine a n d rfOutrdrydnyoBfcprlv,« wwlfcott - £ he let the other fellows grab while he | you doubt it?” debating team . He is now on the “What makes you think so?” your ord ereera& id qinttafcd A stllH U taat tt held back. Tommy didn't like having “Because,” replied the girl, “I know “He hasn't got over arguing with board of the Co-operative Associa-; and quotation*: te r fiu M a k e A to put his cap on the floor any better : all about it. You are not the only per- the traffic policemen yet.” tion. tion. < »than the other boys. But somebody’s * son I have seen who was there. Ser- T helm a Throne, one of A shland’s . had to go there, and so it was Tom j geant Fanton of your squad is my j m ost popular young women, is a my’s. Feed »YotttoiOalCaiyeSyiiChMfcenHidic1 cousin. He told me about it. It was a m em ber of the ju n io r class of hom e; It wasn’t because he was slow or blundering, headstrong piece of P itiig a stupid that Tommy, from that time on, thoughtless bravado, and it cost many ¡econom ics. She has been a mem- 1 3 7 E . M ain took the dust of bis schoolmates and lives besides his. Tommy Ellis. I know j ber of the M adrigal club th ro u g h o u t later on the choice of whatever was something else. I know you didn't 1 h er college life. Belonging to this being given out in the way of favors or like Floyd Cushman. I know he al organization is considered an honor ’ jobs or opportunities. On the contrary. ways treated you contemptuously. It takefikt)betk4apta.«tf a&edhaMeek»cfc as only the best singers a re selected Tommy was brighter and quicker and Then why did you, when he was struck milk ancLiai i&snbsbitite&’u agrajntMfl.ed. Because of her in itiativ e a b ility /sh e naturally more skillful and clever than down leave the C0VPr F a nton had or- Cream .is wntartkotODUBh itaenar. cq was appointed chairm an of th e s tu n t the m ajority of boys. But he was ut dered you to take, and go out there now to foedetd tbethaleaivw hsibM uM iii terly lacking in self-assertive’ness. given by C authorn hall girls a t th e N. G. BATES, Prop. into th at rain of bullets in a dear, j tu a l Com ptnpuhnii toettattcfeedeeflbrfaa The only occasion on which Tommy’s wonderful, foolish, crazy attem pt to annual s tu n t show. She now holds S H E D O P E D I T O U T. f hand went up in time to be recognized save him and bring him back to the th e responsible office of m anager We use th e V iolet R ay for Sealp half th ® ,M,8to8t- by the teacher, when she was showing rocks? I know all about it, I tell y o u ! “D a u g h te r , It’s tim e y o u of h er sorority. Sigma K appa. She off her pupils to visiting parents or But whv did you do it—what made I th in k i n g a b o u t m a r r i a g e .’ i N a ta fflfc ffiih n is is is a m em ber of the Y. W. C. A. and t h a t Is w h y “1 have father 4 committeemen, was when he was the you ?” Baths Shoe Chining Parlor 3 5 3 E u A -M a M a i» . T elT dll B I J th e hom e economics club. D uring only child in the room who knew the ‘Why- -why—why, Annabelle. There I ’m still single.” th is last Hom e-com ing W eek-end answ er to the question. If one or two i wasn’t anything else to do—when I she was on th e publicity com m ittee. or a dozen of the others were prepared thought ofi you, waiting for him to with the desired information they were , comp back,” As she is a good m ixer, she m an all sure to beat Tommy to it. “But. Tommy! I wasn’t waiting for aged to do her p art in acq uainting There was a little girl whom Tommy Floyd to come back. Yon dear, self- • worshiped in his secret soul. One effacing, modest, morbid old Tommy—I day her hat blew off. She was the was waiting for you. And I’ve always school beauty, so five boys put chase been waiting for you all my mortal C orn er by th e P a r k . after the hat. Tommy, as usual, got life. Tommy Ellis, are you going to started last, having been bumped out live the rest of your existence in the W ill ttdd(d£OflLOfsrpMtaMto ttbethap-4p^ You would feel b e tte r and w arm er of his stride by another boy. It was a old way. letting everything go for want i these cold m ornings w ith one of P e il’s freak wind and of a sudden the hat of enough cruelty or wickedness or pearaacaooaf qtonrourrc^Borfcjr ;t*n<fcnaa »« « OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL ' r shifted its course and came straight —gumption—or whatever it is to reach i all wool au to robes. W ill m ake a LEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 16.— A shland ' a t Tommy and a mud puddle. Tommy out and grab? Or are you going to b eau tifu l C hristm as IcLaSslliattlnR m uch to à ts tt ^headed it off ami. all blushes, look a grab—me?” Annabelle was laughing is represented by 22 of th e 2906 Pra c t*ca' a n d stu d e n ts now registered a t the c o l-, p resent for any one. Most any m ake single step toward his inam orata. Then and crying at once. But she cried al value, i*. another boy grabbed the bat away from together. and shuddered as she sobbed : lege. This is a new m ark in to ta l I of sew ing m achine fo r sale or rent, * Tommy and himself bestowed it upon “ And you almost threw your life en rollm ent— an increase of 86 per C edar fence posts fo r sale. its owner, with the air of one having aw ay !” cent over th e figure for th e corre- ___________________________________ rescued it from tbe puddle instead of Tite war helped some. Annabelle sponding period of 1916-’17, th e last purloining it from the abashed Tom- helped a great deal more. Tommy got Despite th e , my’s worshipful hand. The little girl, a better run next day. Last month he norm al school year. whose name was Annabelle Hester, beat out three candidates for assist fact th a t class, lab o rato ry and of „smiled benignantly upon tbe other boy, a n t division superintendent. If you fice room has been a t such a pre »whose name was Floyd Cushman, and push Tommy now you'll get pushed m ium th a t every available space in T hd’Ww •»never even gave Tommy a glance. back. basem ent and g a rre t has been u til Oak SL Tel. 117 And so it was. At twenty Tommy ized, a high sta n d a rd of efficiency Especially when you can get the was holding down the worst possible has been m aintained. M IC K IE SAYS best and fresh est B read and Cakes job in the gift of the superintendent of Of the 22 stu d en ts from A s h la n d ,: fo r th e least m oney. ‘ f the one-horse interurban trolley com one is a senior, four are ju n io rs, five T h a t’s why o u r business is increas- | pany, a joh which no one else would < MfAW.MjéUE €DU. SUJAPVUq' sophom ores, 11 freshm en and o n e iin g daily. take, and which necessitated his get «BUttSCÄlPYtON ttCCJEAPTS FtR We carry a full line of Pastry all t i n g up at an unconscionable hour in 1 - T U ' OOEEhi, OOUOt, KALE, special. the time. the morning, ami walking a mile a fte r M orrice K aegi, a p opular student, CAOW m etvs, w m a v u n s , fkaxohaa , taking tbe last car into the barn at CV4H, PRAttCS, OVThitNS, OfsCVk, is active in stu d e n t a ffairs. He has AT night, with all his leisure time in the ■ be a n s — done m uch for th e w elfare of th e middle of the day—and what use can ANNlUiNG-, OESY SO tONgrB .a young fellow make of the hours from rva KAOKÆ.M ten till three? The use that Tommy made of them ' ^was to think, hopelessly and with a ! sinking heart, about tliat same Anna- ' 1 8 0 E A S T M AIN ST. belle H ester whose hat he saved from being muddied when be was a little R . C. .Jorgensen, P rop . boy. Annabelle was a stenographer in Aown now, but she still lived in the su- | hurbnn village, and very often rode »out on the car on which Tommy col- ! iected the fares. IX SPECIA L G IFT BOXES She was always friendly and nice , to Tommy, and now and then lie ven tured to talk to her a little, but only now and then, because Tommy fan cied Annabelle seemed a little nervous C o m b in a tio n B o x es o f C ards an d and ili at ease at such times, perhaps P ap er; B e a u tifu l T in ts, B lu e, P in k , as though she didn't just care about Y e llo w , e tc . ‘getting too intimate with a conductor. Another reason was that Floyd Cush- J u s t th e kind of a gift your sw eet ■inan, who was in college now, and go- j h e a rt, sister, m o th er o r friend would *ing to be a lawyer, rode out with An- j appreciate. Always acceptable, a l *nabelle whenever he came back to the , village, which was pretty often, and w ays useful. quite took possession of her. Yes. Tom- ) ray felt altogether “out of it” with An W E A R E F E A T U R IN G H IG H L A N D , nabelle. > Then the war came. Tommy went as C R A N E ’S an d o th e r Q U A L J» buck private and came back as one. y e wasn't, it appeared, of non-com ma ITY ST A T IO N E R Y terial. thougrt an intelligent, studious and conscientious soldier. Floyd Cush at D A N C O N N E R , P r o p r ie to r . man. jamming his way in the atten tion of tiis superiors at Plattsburg and H eadquarter« for Com m ercial Men and T ourists. later in France, attained to a captaincy before he met his finish above Verdun. E uropean P lan . Excellent Grill. When Tommy was demobilized they M erchants’ Lunch. gave him bnek bis old run, and it was POLEY A ELHART, D ruggists Two Blocks from L ith ia P a rk . tbe third evening tliat he saw Anna belle Hester. The girl had climbed to the platform of th e ear and was on the point of entering when she glanced up and saw Tommy. She went white, then rosy. “Why, Tommy—Tommy Ellis!” th e Ch,me, d o c k . ' she exclaimed. “When on earth did Copyright 1919 by you get back? I didn't—I never F J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. heard—” Annabelle was becoming in articulate. o u certainly get yo u rs when you lay your smokecards on the tebia’ple Tommy Eilis had been through what no man can go through and still be call for a tidy red tin or a toppy red bag of Prince Albert and rclbAl rr quite as he was before. Much of his makin’s cigarette! You’ll want to hire a statistical bureau to keep oniwfr old self-consciousness w a s gone. of your sm okestunts! W hy, you never dreamed of the sport that - "Annabe'le,” he said in a manly, di ONLY N IN E D A Y S TO awaiting your call in a home rolled cigarette when i t ’s P. A . for rect way. “I’m dreadfully sorry about C H R ISTM A S Floyd. I’m the only one yon know who DON'T put off your C hristanis ♦ a s there when It happened. All the Talk about flavor! Man, man, you haven’t got the listen of half ’’ t^r ‘ th in k in g and shopping any longer. way back I was thinking you’d want to Indecision prolongs delay. Decide smokecareer until y o u kn o w what rolling ’em with P. A. can do for yo u r » know, and that the first thing I’d do th a t you will include one of those contentment! And, back of P. A.’s flavor, and rare fragrance—proofs d f < would be to tell you. If you’ll let me IL L A » IM F irs t N ational SAVINGS ACCOUNTS kftow when. I’ll get off and come over Prince A lb ert’s quality—stands our exclusive patented process that:; am ong th e gifts for each boy and to your house and tell you.” cuts out bite and parch ! W ith P. A. your smokesong in a makin’s cigai^j girl, and come in for a Savings P a ss “Do. Tommy: come tomorrow in your book to bear your “ M erry C h ristm as.” r ? rette will outlast any phonograph record you ever heard i Prince Albert off-time. I’m going to be home. And I The th o u g h tfu l look a h ead ; the is a cinch to roll. It’s crimp cut and stays p u t like a regular p a lt.i! do want to hear—everything.” Tommy th o u g h tless look back. didn’t notice the odd, studying look the Prince Albert upsets any notion you ever had as to how delightful a ! him. But he promised to g o ; ghï g- jimmy pipe can be! It is the tobacco that has aade three men smoke,e; R ’ '<• --f- ! i x y he went. find ’ pipes where one was smoked before. It has woi. men all over the nafine-. -! I •id Annabelle about the i To rush of the great m ove /p e e to the joys of smoking. g V. C« A S H LAN D. 0 (3 E C O N ^ ^ i ^ '’ V.Ç ^R.LÇÂ. pres ■ - fv * . S ì a ?. he Americans cleaned ont mem C riV A U P E L VICE P e tS J W Mc COY. C a s h ie r jh e V» . <.un salient; how most of the R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C. ’111!I l l m / f f ip iiu it lh Kiirii ififl CLARK B u s n ASST CAS* doughboys were racing to get iu touch FiiieOTHttririOG The Trouble With Tommy AsU&tHhMroAVWM* W. A. 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