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ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
Tuesday, December fl, 1021
Men's University Glee Club to
Appear at Armory December 21st
The first big entertainm ent fea-1 was in town Friday, lining up ar-
tu re to be staged by the Ashland rangem ents.
He promises a live
American Legion during the winter program , featuring harmony and
months will be held in the Armory, novelty stunts. The Legion will co­
December 21, when the men’s glee operate with the alum ni of the uni­
club of the University of Oregon will versity and the students of the high
appear.
school in m aking the concert a suc­
A rth u r Ru<M, m anager of the club, cess.
Aubrey F urry, a local boy, for­
merly a member of the Sixty-fifth
quartet, will appear here with the
club. Leith Abbott, also an Ashland
boy, will have charge of the appear­
ance of the club from the standpoint
of the vacation students.
wife buys dress goods at E nders’ de­
partm ent store, the money helps to
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Published Every Evening Except pay for advertising in Medford news­
papers. And the rest of your Ash­
Sunday
TH E ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
land business men are only sm aller
frogs in the sam e puddle. Between
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY
the banks, Enders, the Ford garage
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and the other lesser fry, it looks likej
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon a combine' to grab all the Ashland I
Postoffice as Second-class Mail Mat­ and Medford business for exhibition
ter.
purposes at the Plaza. May be laud­
able enough, but it’s ra th e r illogi-
MEDFORD, Or., Dec. 6.__A. B.
<S> Of joys departed, never to <§> cal when they attem p t to browbeat
„ me, supported by you, into throw ing Gates, a special prohibition agent,
return,
How b itte r’s the remembrance. <g>|^e Shears and Sawbucks catalogue and chief witness for the state in
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— Blair.
< ~ » ' into the flre- They jam the 'Medford several of the bootlegging cases
<S> <$><§> <3> <s> <3> <S»
«•><•> <s> <g> newspapers with advertising and i heard a t this term of th e circuit
then holler for more. It gives me court, was arrested Friday by Sher-
If congress only had acted upon a headache. Why can’t th a t money iff Terrill, upon w arrants sworn to
the tax-revision m easure with some be used to buy eggs laid by my hens by Jam es (Shine) Edwards, him self
of the celerity with which President instead of Medford» neckties? 'W hy a defendant in two bootlegging
H arding signed it!
should I be the hard-headed goat?
trials, both resulting in a hung jury,
I'm willing to give you credit for in which Gates was the sta r witness,
It will be noted th a t the num ber putting out the best Christm as and charging possession and giving away
of bandits braving sure death by at- fair edition th a t _ ------------—„
I have seen in the of liquor. The w arrants were sworn
tacking mail trains guarded by ma- valley. But it doesn’t excuse your i out before Justice Smith of Gold Hill
rines is decidedly small.
’ Trade at Home” propaganda. It and before whom the defendant was
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only shows w hat a fool you are. a rraig n ed Friday. Gates was released
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Your m erchants patronized it liber- on bis own recognizance and his pre-
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THE PEO PLE’S FORUM.
«» ally with advertising— showed they ! Hmlnary hearing set for next Satur-
<g> <i> <J> <s, really had money_ fel, fQr it becauge | day a t Gold Hill. A ttorney O. C.
Ashland
Tidings
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! ^ e y figured on county trade with B°Sgs acts as attorney for Gates.
ASHLAND, Or., Dec. 7. E ditor the extra circulation. It was a good j Tt ia claimed th a t when Sheriff
tiie Tidings I am taking you a t paper. W ith the exception of E n d - lTerrlB showed a disinclination to
your word, saying you would print ers,’ the three banks, the Ford g a r - iserve the w arrants, a fte r Gates had
both sides 6f any question in the age and the Boot Shop, they all refused to be placed under a rre rst,
Open Forum column. I have to do seemed to have liked the idea. But Thursday night at m idnight, Dis-
th a t because I ’ve got a bone to pick what about those exceptions? A re ! trict A ttorney Rawles Moore and At-
with the Tidings.
they following the lead of John Ful- torney Boggs insisted on the arrest
For months, it seems years, you 1er. alias the commercial club, a n d ! ” "~---------- ~ --------- !----
have been trying to make me swal- sending th eir Ashland dollars to
low a lot of sheer bunk entitled, i Medford for preservation by contact
Trade a t Home” and literally sung with pay rolls of th a t place? Ever
to the tune of “ Marching On” in ref­ since Fuller tried to stage an Ash­
erence to the advancement of Ash­ land chauatauqua with a Medford
land payrolls, The stuff makes me crowd, he and his followers have de­
hot under the collar. I have been a veloped a m ania for th a t sort of
regular subscriber, paying out good ¡thing. If th a t’s the case I may as
from our
money for real news, and yet you | well take my money to a Medford
fill up the paper with stuff telling bank and have my flivver, fixed at
STATIONERY DEPAR TM EN T
me to patronize home industry for “ Pop” G ates’ hospital.
— Loose-leaf Memos
loyalty’s sake and out of the good­
Mr. Editor! I w ant to read a real
— W riting Cases
ness of my pocketbook, which has
— Playing Cards
been stretched into all sorts of shape"
“ ‘“" T Why
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Cribbage Boards
trying to m ake both e n * meet. I .
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‘J,® bu outslde- As
would have stopped my subscription £
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— Line-a-Day Books
— Address Books
. long time ago b u, «or my wite who a' ' ,1 ¡a w b „ cks
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They’re
not
hypo-
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Fancy Boxed Stationery
likes to read the personals.
crites anyway.
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F
ountain Pens
W hat if I do get a rain coat and
— Eversharp Pencils
A FARMER.
a pair of shoes from Shears and
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Fraiu»O Mottoes
Sawbucks? Why shouldn’t I buy my
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Fram ed Pictures
groceries there if I could. H aven’t HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
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Narcissus Bulbs
I the right to get all I can out of
D ISBAN DS FO R TH IS Y E A R
— Xmas Cards
a dollar. Why should I leave money
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— G reeting Cards
with the “ home m erchant” when the
By F. H. JOHNSON
Ashland business men, their w ives’
SHOP EARLY
and everybody else spend th at sam e’ A fter one of the most successful
seasons
in
its
history,
the
football
money in Medford? If you can give
team of the Ashland high school has
me a decent answ er to those ques­
tions I ’ll call it quits. Until then disbanded. Out of the eight games j
played seven resulted in victory for!
I'll use the paper to s ta rt the fir e 1
with after the wife has finished the the local squad, the only loss was
the game a t K lam ath Falls.
personal columns.
They defeated Lebanon, the W il­
Your Ashland m erchants lift tjheir
lam
ette valley champions.
hands to heaven in solemn despera­
ing install an exhibit of Jackson coming of an insurance agent. F in­
county products a t the N atatorium . ally, a preacher who owns an a t!
Mr. Lowe has recently had some joining farm burned off a stubble
B A R B E R
hard luck w ith fires on his ranch, field and the fire spread and burned
which is located ju st south of Med­ up a tracto r and centrifugal p u m p 1
C hildren’s W ork A
ford, east of the Pacific highway? belonging to Mr. Lowe, valued at
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em bracing a portion of the landing $2000. The fire also destroyed 600
field used by the forest patrol the feet of underground w ater pipe,
Safety blades resharpened
) past season. An airplane started a which was laid on a hillside and
[î'ÇVi'/K ’ like new- Single bit, 30c
I grass fire the past sum m er and acted as a flue for the fire.
|t Z » Q | doz. Dobule bit, 60c dot.
j b u rned two dwelling houses on the
Because of these fiery m isfortunes I
Lowe ranch. One of the houses was Mr. Lowe dbes not feel overly friend­
c. B. L A M K I N
insured for $2000, but contained a ly towards aviators, soldiers and
t quantity of .household goods, which ' preachers just now.
Some irate
; were uninsured. A short time after- neighbors procured a rope and
3ARGA1NS IN
, wards a soldier cleared a spot for a chased the erring army man out of
Real E state
’ gas tank by burning off the grass the neighborhood.
! and weeds, with the result th at the
t i t y and Ranch Properties
• fire spread and b u rn ed ’ up all of
Don't let George do it. Come your
House» to I le ni.
j Mr. Lowe’s grain, which had just
self to the Fisherm en’s meeting
i been stacked and was aw aiting the
W ednesday evening, 7:30 o’clock.
'nT lZ R N S’ RANK BUILDING
M anager Rudd reports general in­
terest in the club activity. Klam ath
Falls will be the farth est south th a t!
the club will travel this season.
Twenty-one men will be with th e '
club. W hile in the city they will be •
entertained by th e alum ni and
friends of the university.
being made by the sh eriff in order?
th at the cases m ight come to trial.
They apparently welcome such a
trial a n d a fight to th e finish.
The episode of Edw ards sw earing
out a w arrant for G ates’ a rre st ap­
pears to have aroused more feling
between the wets and drys of Med­
ford than anything th a t has hap­
pened since th e raids made by the
state prohibition agents last August.
The w arran t against Gates is the
outgrow th of th e bootlegging trials
at which Gates was th e chief w it­
ness. He appeared as th e chief w it­
ness in the Goodwin and the two Ed­
wards trials, and» in each case a hung
jury resulted. A wide discrepancy
existed in G ates’ testim ony and ju r ­
ors in all th e trials freely adm itted I
th a t the disagreem ents were due to I
the inability to accept the te stim o n y !
of Gates.
NEIGHBORS
CHASE
TROUBLE­
SOME FIRE MAKER FROM
FARM WITH ROPE
W. A. SHELL
N e w A r r iv a ls
Axminister and Brussell Rugs
Linoleum and Congoleum Rugs
IN ALL SIZES AND BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS
We are constantly receiving NEW GOODS, all bought at
the lowest market price and marked to sell at the very lowest
price possible.
We believe in getting back to normalcy at the very earliest
date. When there is a decline in the price of anything we
immediately mark down the price ou goods in stock, always
keeping in line with the market.
All goods marked in plain figures.
“ WE SELL FOR LESS”
J. P. Dodge & Sons
Funeral Directors, first
class service and moderate
prices. Lady assistant
Reliable Housefurnishers
D. M. Lowe, the well-known dry
land farm and fair exhibitor, is help-
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Xmas Gift
Suggestions
McNair Bros*
Tha
tion if I so much as buy a postage
stam p in Medford. Yet, every time
I leave a dollar with those home
stores you are so everlastingly hold­
ing up to me, it is slipped on to
Medford, not surreptiously, but fla­
grantly. The town and your paper
rem ind me of a formal tea party, the
kind you read about in paper-backed
novels, where everybody talks and
nobody m eans a word of it.
I tell you your own m erchants are
laughing a t your editorials and
“ Trade a t Home” stuff, m aking a
fool out of you. They don’t believe
th a t guff. Your m erchant’s wife
buys her dresses in Medford, P o rt­
land or somewhere else. The m er­
chant himself buys everything in
Medford— he might buy a pair of
coveralls in Ashland to knock
around the garage with. Your banks
buy everything they can a t Medford
— I ’m surprised they don’t move the
vaults down there and estab lish 1
branch offices in Ashland. If my
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A Self-Recording Expense Book
T he tin y brook o f petty exp en d itu res trick les o n a n d \o n
unnoticed u n til— on e day w e w onder w h ere th e m oney
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Showing
At Ashland Winter Fair
OF T H E FIRST TOURING CAR DESIGNED AND PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY THE
NEW MAXWELL ORGANIZATION
s
A car which reveals, at a glance, such a wealth of beauty and goodness that the price seems
almost unbelievable.
Cord tires, non -sk id front and rear, 31x4 inch.
D isc w h eels d em ou n tab le at hub and rim, or wood
a rtillery w h eels, optional w ithput extra cost.
U n usually lon g sprin gs prom ote com fort, tire e c o ­
nom y, roadability.
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A lem ite lu brication .
D rum typ e head lam ps and cow l lam ps, nickel
trim m ed. N on-glare len ses.
Broad<9oth uph olstery; T urkish cushions.
A dult-sized seats, deep and w ide and room y.
New type w indsh ield , hinged at top and bottom .
W lndchield visor. W indsldeld wipeu. R ear-vision
mi<ror.
Bodies low er and larger, w ith ou t sacrificin g head
room . W ool carpet on floor.
New steerin g com fort. C lutch and brake action,
steerin g, and gear-sh iftin g m ade rem arkably easy.
H andsom e and accessib le instrum ent board, Best
sw itch es. M otor driven electric horn.
w ent.
T here is a w ay— an easy way— to check th e leak s. Pay
all b ills by check. T he check stu b s w ill te ll you w here
W. Walker
MEDFORD
OREGON
the m oney w en t— a n d how much for each purpose.
The Citizens Bank
Ashland,
Oregon
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