Thureday, September >, lUitM ÁShLÁSD Ü átiÁ îffîiâtii PAtà rntñs au¡ Reckless Driving Toll Is One Life Every 42 Minutes On U. S. Highways W aterm elon F eed Saturday— The T alen t cam p of M odern W oodm en of A m erica will give aj w aterm elon feast S aturday n ig h t a t ' th e ir h e a d q u a rte rs, and all neigh-i i boring W oodm en are invited to a t tend. ¡Ma MÉtóORY THAT IS MARVELOUS Authentic Feats of B>'ind Musicians A rc Among the Most Remarkable on Record. I Investigators Blame Careless­ ness of Autoists for (great­ est Number of Accidents Automobile accidents in the United States in 1921 caused the death of 12,o(X) persons,—one person killed every forty -two minutes day and night. More than 300,000 persons were injured. The fata.-ics on our highways last year v e r t mort- than the American dead in tr ■ Spanish-American W ar, while the injured far outnumbered our 221,000 wotirdcd in the World War. That the automobile hazard is grow­ ing steadily is shown by the fact that althcugh accidents on the railroads are decreasing automobile crashes in 1921 increased 4 per cent over 1920. Tor more than two years the Balti­ more and Ohio railroad has placed men at crossings where large numbers of automobiles pass. These observers note the machines crossing and take down the license numbers of those whose drivers fail to take any precau­ tion. In 1920 these observers noted 398,000 vehicles and, according to their records, 25,000 drivers failed to take any pre­ cautions at highway crossings. In one m nth of this year 16,177 automobiles were checked by the railroad’s observ­ ers and 2,972 drivers were reported as having failed to stop, look or listen before crossing the tracks. During the first four months of this year 58,806 machines were observed and the “ fail­ ures” reached seventeen per cent. O pportunity knocks a t your door Open it and invest in D elta lands, w here th ere is no w a te r shortage. See Sperry a t 172 M ountain avenue. 3-6 F ou ntain Is P ain ted — F all fashions, as indicated by the new g arm en ts being put on th e gen­ tlem an a-top th e m em orial fountain in the Plaza, will be of b rillia n t hue. Now th a t th e iron gent has been properly w ashed by early fall rains, he is. being o u tfitte d fo r th e w in ter w ith a coating of orange paint. At any rate, it is adding greatly to his appearance. I have several second hand band in stru m e n ts fo r sale cheap. See me about s ta rtin g y our boy in th e Boys’ Band. Carl H. Loveland. Studio 135 E. Main. Phone 465. 4tf LEE DOM’S T I R E HOSPITAL MOVED to th e B EA V E R CORNER. MASON and HOOD T IR E S. ltf V isit F riend s He Few Accidents from Skidding The impression prevails in some quar­ ters that asphalt pavements are slip­ pery, especially when wet, and conse­ quently are dangerous to drive over. I f this were true, accident records would show a large percentage of cases where skidding was the cause of the accident. A three months’ investigation re­ cently made in Maryland discloses the fact that 90 per cent, of automobile accidents are due to speeding. Of fourteen fatal accidents, two were caused by failure to heed the warning Mr. and Mrs. f? C. Zim m erm an, of Los Gatos, Calif., who have been spending a few days w ith th e R a th ­ bun fam ily a t 117 Union stre e t, left th is m orning in th e ir car. Mr. Zim­ m erm an is one of th e leadiug m er­ c h a n ts of Los Gatos. W anted, wom en to w ork in fru it a t T a len t cannery. F o r p a rtic u la rs, phone 364-J1. ltf V acationin g for M onth— Prof. I. C. W ilson, who was p rin ­ cipal of th e Ju n io r high school last U m brellas recovered. F ix it Shop. year, b u t who has been a tte n d in g 4tf S tanford university d u rin g th e sum ­ F re sh H ot T am ales a re now m er, is in th e city to spend a m onth 5-9 visiting w ith his m other. Mr. W il­ being served a t Rose Bros. son sta te s th a t he h as been enjoy­ T h e re's a lesson in economy in ing good h ealth and g e ttin g along every g a rm e n t bought here. P aul- nicely w ith his work. s e ru d ’s. 3tf D etrick sells b u tte r for less. A rriv es H om e Today— Now is th e tim e to have your pi­ D onald D ickerson and Ted Ge- ano tu n ed . C arl H. L oveland S tu ­ B auer re tu rn e d early th is m orning dio 135 E. Main. P hone 465. 4 tf from a few d ays’ business trip to San F rancisco and o th er in te rm e d i­ H ere on B usin ess— a te points. B. F. M cCrary, of Siskiyou, was H ave tw o very good buys in resi­ a business visito r in A shland y ester­ dence p roperty on G ran ite stre e t, day. and on A lPson s tre e t, a t very a t­ P h o n o g rap h s repaired. F ix it Shop. tra c tiv e prices. A shland R ealty Co. 299tf . 5-lm o by Underwood & Underwood. P h o to The result of speeding along a public highway at night. Five died and three were seriously injured in this accident near Cleveland. at railroad crossings; four by speed­ ing; four by driving on the wrong side of the road, and four by reckless driving. None of the fatal accidents was caused by skidding. Statistics, from city records in San Francisco on automobile and motor­ cycle accidents, show 3,609 accidents in 1921. Of this number only 138, or 3.8 per cent were due to skidding. Of the 109 of these occurring on asphalt pavements, 75 per cent were the result of carelessness. Four-fi'ths of San Francisco’s paved street« are of the asphaltic types. Owing to rains in winter and fogs in summer, they are in a wet condition most of the time, so the slight percentage of accidents due to skidding is at once apparent. The tabulation of an average thou­ sand reports on causes of automobile collisions, filed with the claim depart­ ment of the Inter-Insurance Exchange, Los Angeles, shows only 6 per cent, of the accidents were due to skidding. Forty per cent, of these skidding acci­ dents resulted from imprudent attempts to turn too quickly; 40 per cent, from over-speeding and only 20 per cent, or 1.2 per cent, of all accidents were due to unavoidable skidding. Many Collision* in Iowa A rigid investigation by the Iowa State Highway Commission during 1921 showed that of 4,683 accidents which occurred in that state in which 359 persons were killed and 4,195 injured, 114 accidents or 2.4 per cent of the total were due to skidding, and Iowa has practically no asphalt roads. The great percentage of accidents in Iowa were collisions. Of these there were 1,210, with 1,010 persons killed and injured. Asphaltic pavements have not caused any appreciable number of automobile accidents. While the tractive resistance of asphaltic concrete is relatively low, it is not so low as to cause excessive slipperiness. As a matter of fact, statistics prove that asphaltic pavements are less slippery than are the other so- called permanent types. Cliff P ayne m akes book ends. tro la. The photographs w ere tak e n 3 0 4 tf in th e vicinity of A shland, Oregon, ---------- Jin a b e a u tifu l valley, su rro u n d ed by To M ake O fficial V isit— | ro llin g hills and tow ering m oun- M ilton L. M eyers, deputy grand , tains, some of them snow capped, com m ander of the K nights T em plar Rose B rotiiers of A shland sold th e of O regon, will pay M alta com m and­ v ictro la .” er)’ an official visit ton ig h t. Mr. Miss F ay C arver, d irecto r of phys­ M eyers is d rill m aste r for the dis­ ical tra in in g for the girls last year, tric t and w ill leave A shland tom or- m ade the pictu res possible by hold­ row m orning for K lam ath F alls in ing the May pole dance u n til th e com pany w ith G rand E m inent Com- j p h o to g rap h er could tak e the p icture. m an d er C. W. Nims, of th is city, w here they will inspect th e com-j m andery a t th a t place. They will W ill R e tu rn H om e— then leave on a to u r of inspection Mrs. C. L. K elton and d a u g h te r, over the s ta te and have arra n g e d who have been v isiting w ith Mrs. th e ir itin e ra ry so as to a rriv e i n K e l t o n ’s f a th e r and m other, Mr. and P endleton d u rin g the R ound-U p1 Mrs. J. P. Sayle, will re tu rn to th e ir th ere, a fte r which they will rin is h ih o m e in O akland, Calif., tom orrow . the inspection. They have been in A shland for th e last th re e m onths. HM r . i — li— Remarkable feats of quick memoris­ ing by blind musicians have been recorded by the National Institute for the Blind. Fred Turner, one of the most accom­ plished blind musicians In Scotland, recently memorized all of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion’’ and In four mouths tidined his choir and accompanied the entire Work on the organ, while Sin­ clair Logan, the blind composer and organist, memorized Somervell’s “The Passion of Christ,” a fairly compli­ cated cantata occupying 75 minutes In performance—trained his choir and ac­ companied a highly successful per­ formance In less than two months, dur- i ¡ng which lie was working under the j stress of other heavy memorization work for an im portant recital in Liver- ■ pool for the National Institute for the I Blind, In addition to his normal pro- i fessional duties. : To carry in the memory Beethoven’s 32 pianoforte sonatas, as William Wol- ! stenholme does, and the entire 48 pre­ ludes and fugues of Bach, as lu the j case of H. V. Spanner—two blind uiu- ¡ sicinns resident In London, would j seem no light achievement, and yet these form but a small portion of the range of works In the mental store­ house of these men.—W estm inster Gazette. R ETIR IN G LAUNDRY OW NERS Her. C hris M oreno and fam ily of THANK ASHLAND PATRONS Stockton, H. H. R adcliff and party, ---------- of C entero, and S. A. E stu s and fam- W ith th e beginning of th is week, jiy, of gan Francisco, were th e latest the ow nership of th e A shland Laun- victim s of the robbers, who used the dry rev erted to W irt M. W right, who s.ane m ethods as th ese used in the comes to th e city w ith the best of cow creek robbeiy.’ several weeks references from A ltu ras, Calif., and ago. F t. M organ, Colo., w here he form er- The robbers w ere described as ly op erated power lau n d ries Mr. about five feet and six inches in W right has several y e a rs’ experience height, rath,er heavy, w eighing in the laundry business, and no about 150 pounds. They wore gog- doubt will give th e people of Ash- gleg over th e ir eyes-and a handker- Hand good service and the best of chief over th e lower p a rt of th e ir quality. The housew ife nfced not face with caps draw n down. T here h esitate to send all her fam ily wash- were two of them in the a ffa ir last ing to the lau n d ry ; in fact, it is night. necessary th a t th e fam ily w ashing 1 " 1 ------------ - ■■■•----------------. . . ” ■____ m be sent to the lau n d ry In o rd er to I'1000, it is expected th a t j it will be the first of O ctober before th e “ system ” is ag a in in o p e ra tio n .' In the United States there is some- tlmes a pecullur tendency to avoid the use of certain every-day words—at one time It was considered indelicate to refer to the legs of a table when the word “supports” was available—oper­ ations, other than “m ajors,” are now referred to as “repair work.” Only the other day in Loudon a woman from the United States mentioned that a friend of hers had had some “repair work” done—meaning that she had been op­ erated on. Of course, no Inquiry as to the nature of the “repairs” is per­ for canning. Phone 9-F13. 5— 2 for Bare Existence. i XZ 5tf HIGHWAYMEN ARE BUSY LOST— On S’skiyou m ountains, dark AT NEIGHBORING CITY brow n canvas bedding roll, with “ R. H. D avidson” and “ S tate Room ” in black paint on outside H ighw aym en were busy again last containing five wool blankets, one night, and th re e au to to u ris t parties steam er rug and h a ir m attress. from C alifornia were held up and Leave at* police station. A shland. robbed, says th e G ran ts Pass Cour- 5-1* Leaves fo r Washington*— W anted, ex tra well furnished ASHLAND R ECEIVES NOTICE Mrs. F. J. Shinn left for B elling­ house; m ust be very good; for IN VICTOR PUBLICATION ham , W ash., th is m orning. j adults. W ill re n t by th e year. Ash- “ The Voice of the V ictor,” a pub­ 5-3 I land R ealty £o. PEN’S E N G R A V E D — E L H A R T ’S lication put out by th e V ictor T alk ­ Y our nam e in gold le tte rs on your L eaves for H o i u e - ing M achine com pany a t Cam den, fo u n ta in pen— a t E lh a rt’s. 4-2 Miss Jean C allen, who has been N. J., a copy of which is received by visiting a t th e home of her g ra n d ­ every V ictor d ealer in th e w orld. B uilding Addition;— paren ts, Mr. and Mrs. I. Johnson, of In its la s t n um ber gives space for O. T. B ergner is having an ad d i­ N orth Main stre e t, left for her hom e tw o fine pictu res of th e May pole tion b u ilt to his alread y spacious in Los A ngeles y esterday evening. dance and the school victrola, taken a p a rtm e n ts on Allison stre e t. The in L ith ia p ark on Jackson County work is being done by P. J. Sm ith, The best player piano for the! School day, w ith th e follow ing de- of M ountain avenue. least price a t C. F. S hep h erd ’s, 658 ' scriptive m a tte r: 5-2* i “ F ifteen h u n d red school children Boulevard. P iano for ren t. E v erything good to e a t a t D etrick assem bled from all p a rts of Jackson G roceteria. ANNOUNCEMENT county, O regon, p a rta k in g in a th le t- Mrs. J. H. Sugg announces h e rjic s , May pole dancing and o th er NOTICE F all M illinery opening F rid a y and stu n ts. The p arty was g rea tly en -| Owing to circum stances, we are, S aturday, S eptem ber 8-9. 5-2 livened by th e use of th e school vic- com pelled to sell for cash. C om -; ---- . ---------- - m eucing S eptem ber 15 th , we will sell fo r cash only. W o lco tt’s G ro -! eery. 3-eod Ughi house- Phone 411-J. C l o t h e s “T a ilo r e d to M ea su re b y B o r n ” w ill k eep y o u w e ll d ressed at lo w c o st. T h e y h a v e th e lo o k o f lu x u r y , b u t th e lo n g w e a r a n d lo w p rice m e a n rea l e c o n o m y . 0. A. PAULSERUD A. W. WALKER AUTO COMPANY Phone 18—Medford, Ore.