ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
FAeor TWO
Ashland
Tidings
' n est effo rt to a rriv e a t a correct and
fair price for the w ork.
Some day, th e producer and the
custom er will come to a realizatio n
of the value of such stan d ard izatio n
and some such service as P o rte ’s
will become universal.
In every com m unity th ro u g h o u t
the country th ere is a sta n d a rd rate
on th e use of m oney. Go to w hat
tB a n k you w ill, they all w ant the
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Every Svenin« Except
Sunday
THE ASHLAND PklN T lN G CO.
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OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY
PAPER
TELEPH O N E 39
LOGAN, Editor
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B Y = B E R T ^ p /lO S jC /S
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon.
Postoffice as Second-class Mall Mat­
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ter.
The m ore you believe, th e
less you are able to th in k .
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Two thingW only are req u ired
<t> in sw im m ing— w ater and cour
<$> age
lubecrip ptiou Price Delivered in City:
One
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Jne nfbnth
nro
1.95
Three months
Six m onths .................................... 3.75
One year ...................................... 7.5*.
Mail aud lt-ural Routt's
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One m onth ....................................? 1 .es
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Between passing th e buck
Three months ...............................
Six months . . . . » • • • • • • • • • • • 3.50 Y and passing laws, not m uch else
One year ...................................... 6 .5< , » goes on any m ore.
ADVERTISING RATES
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Display Advertising
Living on a sm all salary is
tin g le insertion, each in ch ............ 30c
I *> so easy th a t m ost of us stick
YEARLY CONTRACTS
i to the h ab it th ro u g h life.
Display Advertising
One tim e a w epk........................2 7 ’Ac !
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Two tim es a w V k ........................25 c |
To s ta r t som ew here is im-
51 very o th e r d a y ......................?.2O c
<$> p o rta n t,. hut to keep going on
Local Readers
Bach line, each tim e ......................10c <$> u n til you a rriv e, is really all
To .run every o th e r dfey for one
<S> th a t counts.
m onth, each line, each t im e .. 7c <i>
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To ru n every issue fo r one m onth
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Solomon holds his record for
ok m ore, each line, each t i m e . .
wisdom because no one cares to
Classified Column
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.____ time.
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3> tak e on th irty wives to com
One
cent the word eacli
To ru n every issue for one m onth J pete for th e distinction.
or m ore,
t h e ‘word each tim e.
First tim e. p ^ - Ä ^ l i n e . , , . .10c
H E Z HECK SAYS:
sam e ra te of in te rest. The banks do
«S' not deviate from th e fixed ra te , but
<• the re a l comedy of the situ a tio n is
th a t when these sam e banks w ant »
<$> job of p rin tin g , they a t once line up
every p rin te r in the country to “ b id ”
on th e work. T here are still en­
e ough of th e producing “ guessers”
zt> left to afford them some pro fit in
<§> so doing. H ow ever, they a re g etting
scarcer every day— e ith e r th e fin a n ­
<§> cial executioner is g e ttin g them , or
3>ithey a re going into some o th er bus­
<?> iness th a t offers b e tte r opportunity
<s> for safe and c ertain activity. They
<8> are beginning to see th a t loaning
<S> money a t a profit pu ts m arble
w ainscoating on bank w alls and
<§> counters and m arble b alu strad es
$> leading to th e ir safety deposit
<•> vaults, w hile th e poor guessing
p rin te r leans over th is sam e m arble
«$> slab in a begging a ttitu d e , pleading
<» w ith some b a n k er to extend his note
for a n o th e r ninety days.
“ W herever you find no
Bach subsequent time, per 8-
!<3>
point line .................................... • 6c ¡ <$> a d v e rtisin ’, you find a dead
Card of t h a n k s .............................$1.00
tow n.”
ObIi i i S a i OrdeX and S o c ieties2° I ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * * ♦ ♦ ❖ * * * ♦
FIGHT MINE FIRES WITH MUD
Experience Has Shown T hat Is as
Practical a Method as Any
Kiown.
A dvertising for fra te rn a l orders
Fighting fires In mines Is a slow,
or societies c h arg in g a re g u la r in iti­ ness Bible of the p rin te rs th ro u g h ­
ation fee and dues, no discount. R e­ out the country. It has proven a t tedious job and since the dawning of
ligious and benevolent o jd e rs will be once th e ir business saviour and sal- mining lias been considered almost a
hopeless undertaking. Rich mines in
charged th e re g u la r ra te 'for all ad ;
vertiaing w hen an adm ission or o ther i vation. The guessing is stopped and many parts of the world have been
charge is made.
' penury tra n sfe rre d to those few burning for generations. Underground
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I p rin te rs who still th in k they cannot fires no longer are considered un­
What Constitutes Advertising
; ‘
In the B utte district a
In o rd er to allay a m isu n d erstan d - a ‘tord to pay th e price asked for the quenchable.
process
of
fire
fighting has been de­
service.
ing am ong som e as to w h at consti
veloped
by
a
mining
company which is
tutea new s and w hat advertising,
The P o rte P u b lish in g com pany is
salvaging
an
ore
body
of tremendous
we p rin t th is very sim ple ru le, which an independent business concern. It
extent. Fires th at have been burning
la used by new spapers to d iffe re n ti­
ate betw een th em : “ ALL fu tu re has no connection w hatever w ith for 15 years in three connecting mines
events, w here an adm ission charge new spaper o r com m ercial p rin te rs ’ are being smothered under 1,000,000
la m ade or a collection is tak e n IS associations. It is selling its service tons of mud.
ADVERTISIN G.”
T his applies to on
m erjts to individual produc-
At the end of 1922 2,000,000 tons of
organizations and societies of every , erg
aoes not sm ack of th e tru st
m etalliferous ore, containing, accord­
kind as well as to individuals.
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.
ing expert estim ates, at least 80,-
All rep o rts of such activities a fte r p n n w p le . One p rin te r in a town
000 tons of copper, once more will be
they h a re occurred is news.
may be a subscriber to the P o rte
All com ing social or organization I service, and his com petitor still be accessible.
Sand, decomposed rock and other
m eetlngs of societies w here no a m em ber of th e “ g u essers’ clu b .”
m
aterials
which came originally from
monoy co n trib u tio n is solicited. In iti­
ation charged, or collecton tak e n IS Its estim ates are based on proven the stopes and were discarded as tail­
costs and average costs, and w orks ings in the process of copper extrac­
NEWS.
o u t in the practical experience of tion, simply have been turned hack
T H E FRA N K LIN P R K 'E LIST
com m ercial p rin te rs generally, as into the fire area. W ater, which In
D uring th e past ten years, great sound, conservative, correct and many cases has proved its uselessness
as an extinguisher of underground
changes have been w rought in the fair, to both p rin te r and custom er.
fires, is used for transportation. It
m ethods of
selling
com m ercial
About th re e years ago, the T id­ conveys the tailings down to the fire
p rin tin g . Ten years ago, job work ings becam e a subscriber* to th is regions, 1,200 to 2,200 feet under­
was estim ated on a guess as to cost service. It costs considerable m on- ground, where the souplike slime fills
of production and selling price. R e­ ey, but it is w orth it. It elim inates the abandoned drifts, cross-cuts and
s u lts w ere th a t p rin te rs las often the elem ent of guess and fixes a def- stopes and literally smothers the fire.
guessed too high as too low. In th e in ite and fair selling price on prac-
Interesting to Archeologists.
high guess th e custom er was fleeced, tically every job of p rin tin g th a t
A Roman-British grave has Just
In th e low guess th e p rin te r w as comes up in th e course of th e busi- been discovered on Ham hill, Somer­
h a n k ru p te d .
Some b e tte r m ethod | nesst, from a larg e ban k balance set. England. On the east side of the
was needed, and the dem and arose ledger to the sm allest gum sticker, Roman encampment was unearthed
for m en capable of fig u rin g
job it fixes a fa ir basis upon which jobs the complete skeleton of a young
w ork cost.
T his dem and b ro u g h t can be charged w here no form er es- adult, probably a male. The grave
fo rth experts in th e w ork, b u t such ■ tím ate is given, and th a t charge is was about two feet In depth, lying due
exp ert service was
valuable and precisely th e sam e as if th e work north and south, the head and shoul­
ders being Inclosed by slabs of Ham
costly, such an expense in fact th a t had been placed a fte r hot com peti- stone. On the right of the head lay a
it took a larg e volum e of business ¡ tive bidding by num berless firm s shallow dish of Roman-British black
to ju stify an expert estim ato r. The ’ who know how to a rriv e a t cost and pottery.
This was broken in three
larg e city office em ployed these men a fair selling price. It does not at-1 places, probably by the super-encum-
and the sm all country offices could tem pt to com pete w ith the guesser. | bent earth, but with the exception of
not affo rd to employ them , because The g u e sse r’s bid m ight be tw o hun- a small portion of the rim It was pos­
th e ir volum e was too sm all. T hat dred dollars on a fifty d ollar job, or sible to restore It. N ear the head lay
a crude and barbarous copy of a Third
left the larg e city shops doing Intel fifty dollars on a two hundred dol- or Fourth century A. D. Roman brass
llgent and pro fitab le business, and la r job.
The correct fig u rin g of coin. This had probably been pluced
th e sm all country shops still g u e ss-' com m ercial p rin tin g costs is com pil­ in the mouth to enable the dead man
ing and try in g to stay out of the cated and technical, and th e re is not to pay his fare to Charon, the ferry­
hands of th e financial executioner— one p rin te r out of five h u n d red who man. for taking him across the Styx.
th e sh eriff. T he p rofitable business jean quickly and properly figure cost Near the right hand of the skeleton
lay an oval hammer stone or pounder.
of th e big city shop enabled it to or correct selling price.
Tuesday, November 7, 1022
H ere ft-om P o ri O rford—
Mr. and Mrs. John L oucks, of
P o rt O rford, O regon, a re visiring
Mr. and Mrs. H arris Dean, 24 2
G ranite stre e t. From here they go
o Los Angeles w here they will m ake
th eir fu tu re home.
Mrs. Loucks
Good reliable d e n tistry a t reason- will be rem em bered as Miss E dith
1 able prices.
Dr. H enry B. P url, P o rte r who was in business here
B eaver Bldg.
44tf for m any years.
Does your stove sm oke— oven re-
A shland G ranite M onum ents, fin •
¡fuse to w ork?
Phone F ixit 5>b >p, i ¡shed to order. S. P enniston, phon»
115-R.
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In Peace and In W .
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m e
and
R iveting the a tte n tio n o f the beholder on the fa c t th at the
A m erican Red Cross is ch artered by Congress as an official volunteer
re lie f organization, th e dome of th e Capitol a t W ashington, upon
which is superim posed a large Red Cross, is th e cen tral figure of a
new p o ster fo r th e A nnual Red Cross Roll Call. The poster, which
has been pronounced one of th e m ost strik in g o f innum erable rep re ­
sen tatio n s of the fam ous dome, is th e work of F ranklin Booth, a New
York a rtis t of wide renow n. It will be displayed thro u g h o u t the coun­
try during th e Roll Call period. A rm istice C ay to Thanksgiving,
when th e Red Cross m em bership fo r 1923 will he enrolled.
PRIVACY OF A GOLDFISH
Send Us News
If some a th le te ’s tu rn e d prize fig h ter,
If some big boy’s g e ttin g lighter,
¡L et us know, you bloom in’ blighter,
’Cause i t ’s NEW S;
W ith a pen or pencil w rite it,
In a m inute you’ll in d ite it,
P u t on it a stam p and sm ite it—
SEND US NEWS!
(Old O regon)
H ere from T alent—
C. C. Bond, of T alen t, was a visit-,
or in A shland Monday afternoon.
P hone 39 before leaving the city
and also upon re tu rn . Many of your
friends would like to know w here
I you w ere.
I
V isit Cojwo Kiuiday—
Mr. : nd Mrs. H. A. S tearns and
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Oslin were am ong
the A shland people who m otored to
Copco, Calif., Sunday for th e open-i
ing of the new u n it of the Copco
pow er plant.
They re p o rt having ■
had a very enjoyable and in te re s t­
ing day a t th e plant.
Ruth Evelyn Ziegler, whose poses ns
•Autumn,” “Mother ” etc., have pleased
patrons of a well-known circus, has
Just posed in court in a , matrimonial
scene. When she m arried her hus­
band, she and he made their home in
Cliff Payne m akes fire screens.
her mother-in-law’s vocal studio in the
M etropolitan Opera house. New York
Cheap insurance is costly a t any
H er testim ony in seeking to divorce
William J. Ziegler, a critic, is reminis- price. F o r sound in su ran ce a t rea-
cent of the “Seven Keys to B aldpate.” sonable rate s, see B illings Agency.
“I couldn’t sleep- late in the mornings i E stab lisb ed 1883
3 4 tf |
because the pupils would begin to
,
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arrive at seven or eight,” she declared.
“All told, seven individuals had keys
to the studio. I had no privacy. I
couldn’t change clothes or take a hath i
without fear of rome one’s entering j
suddenly. I protested to my husband:
hut he thought it was all right, lie
read most of the time anyway. I had
about as much privacy as a goldfish.” !
acq u ire m odern m achinery and th e
Mr. P o rte has su rro u u d ed liim self
Homespun Jeans.
best w orkm en. The bad guesses of w ith a large sta ff of the m ost expert
A suit of clothes made from Ken
the little p rin te r left him w ith no e stim a to rs to be found in the coun­ tucky homespun jeans now is a rari­
money to secure m odern equipm ent try . These e stim a tes a re com pared ty hut the cloth still Is produced in
or com petent m echanics, as well as and proven before they are given to a small way In remote sections of the
There the old-
a dissatisfied clientele by reason or th e pro d u cer as a selling basis, and mountain country.
re ttin g one price on a job today and w hen they come to us, as they do, time methods of carding the wool,
a n o th e r on the .luplicate of th e Job .evtse,, each week to m eet th e
a n o th e r day.
So the country job changing conditions of th e pap er and
Rentuckv once hfl(]
shop was left in a jum ble of uncer- labor m ark e t, we can depend on J tion.wj(,e rep u tation.
ta in ty , dissatisfaction and penury, them as reliable.
! h a t kind of Kentucky statesm en
of the older pe-
Two expert m echanics, form erly
P ractically every country new spaper service is w orth m oney if conscien- rjO(] always appeared attired in jeans of Salt L ake City, have tak e n charge
office and job shop was wobbling tiously adhered to. It is a boon to and occasionally now men are to be of the rep a ir shop of the Buick Sales
u n d e r a heavy m ortgage, and th e ir th e tra d e and to th e p rin te r.
It seen wearing a home-spun jeans suit Agency. All work g u aran teed .
couls w ere not th e ir own.
The stan d ard izes the business on a fair of the most modern sartorial cut giv­
51-mo
ing the w earer an air of distinction.
b a n k e r or politician who held t h e ! basis to both producer and custom er,
In most cases the mountain looms
m ortgage played th e m usic to which I The T idings subscribed for the now are devoted to weaving rag car­
th e p rin te r had to dance.
F ra n k lin P rin tin g P rice L ist serv- pets in which handiwork many of the
All th a t is now changed, and it ice a b o u t th re e years ago.
Since women are experts.
Many visitors
cam e about by a scientific expert or- then we have conform ed strictly to have marveled at the blending of col-
ganization form ing to e stim ate th e the prices set down in th e ‘ little ors and the artistic designs in rag
cost of producing job w ork in t h e ; black book.” W e have found it a f u g s woven on a mountain l o o m -
average shop in th e United S tates valuable aid. w orth m uch m ore than Aumsville Courier-Journal.
At first its work was received by it costs, because k gives us a U elin g j
im portant Qualification«.
Cared without Knife,
th e p rin te rs w ith m ore o r less sus- of security in our dealings w ith tu s-;
,,j jli(VC heard th at you do not re-
picion. Its com pilations of cost were tom ers and a feeling of certain ty g:)r,| anv man a3 well fitted as your-
checked by th e producers and, grad- th a t we a re doing th e rig h t th in g self to fill the position to which you
ually it was found to accord w ith both by o u r custom ers and ourselves, have been elected.”
actu ally proven costs In th e average
We do not ’ b id ” a g a in st anybody . “I never said th at.” replied Senator
.
. , the popularity of the for-
o lm
c ln ness
A ss
T h e r e Is
is a a rig
ris h h t t Sorghum. ‘‘Possibly
of men
Shops.
And
to r th
the
bus,
Tljere
e
on a num
Rut ber
, wl„
work of th is o rg an izatio n grew price and we feel th a t u e a re pie-
j
oi
apace in the m inds of th e p rin te rs pared to sta te it, and we do sta te it,
thg fortitude t0 stan ,j t i,e
of th e country. It filled a long-felt reg a rd le ss of w h eth er we a re in hot campaign prim aries as well as I do.”—
need.
com petition for th e business, o r th e Washington Star.
Now it is generally accepted as a business is left by o u r good custom-1
Extravagant Sympathy.
sound, correct and c e rtain basis for e r w ith o u t asking us fo r an esti-[
“Did
you
get any satisfaction when
properly e stim a tin g cost and selling m ate before th e w ork is done,
was
y°n
reported
the theft of your car to
price of com m ercial p rin tin g , and is J If th e “ little black book”
the police?”
proving a Godsend to country prin t- used bv every p rin te r in th e valley,
t
. ...
, “Not much,” replied Mr. Cliuggins.
and you asked them to bid on a sp e -' ..Thp
,dpa _______
geemed t0 be thftt T 0()gf|t
ers.
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T his organization is
th e P o rte cific job, all of th e ir bids would be
ashamed of myself for being so
P u b lish in g com pany, of
Salt Lake th e sam e, but it would be th e rig h t careless' as to own a car and leave
City, and its price list,
“ the little price— not th e re su lt o ’ com bina- * it around as a tem ptation to some
black book,” is becom ing the busi- tion or tru s t— but the re su lt of ear- poor chap who don’t own one.“
Buys Fine Cattle—
J. L. B arthouse has purchased 11
; fine H ereford ste e rs from Benton
Bowers and is k illing them as need-
!ed for sale over the counter a t the
; P laza m arket.
Sfriiing iVew ÄeJ Cross Poster
Operation or Confinement
of repu­
table and responsible
T housands
Northwest people can tes­
tify to my unfailing skill in
curing Piles. Why suffer the
pain and discomfort when
my non-surgical method
will cure yon to stay cured?
I r « n « T « a l l d a a b t aa to result» by
»«rsaia« to refund y e a r fe e if I fa il to
cure y e a -P ile s , no m e tte r bow severe
o r chranie tb e case. W r ite o r call to­
d ay fo r m y F R E E booklet.
DR. CHAS. J. DEAN
SM O A N D M O R R IS O N P O R T L A N D .M K fiO N
M E N T IO N TH IS P A P E R WHEN W R IT IN G
L
iggett
& M yers T
obacco
A se y o u assaosi^
these tfeoBsasids
housands of people keep on
trying, year after year, to build
T
health from food that has been robbed
—the food that enriches the blood, and
builds sound, healthy bodies.
of certain elements required for per­
fect nutrition.
Grape-Nuts is made from whole
wheat flour and malted barley—baked
for 20 hours, which develops the nat­
ural richness of the grains and makes
for ready digestibility.
If your food doesn’t contain the
mineral properties that go to build up
nerve, tooth and bone structure, there
is no other means by which you can get
these vital elements.
This is one reason why so many
well-informed people eat Grape-Nuts
And Grape-Nuts is perfectly deli­
cious—served with milk or cream, or
made into an appetizing pudding for
dinner.
Get a package of Grape-Nuts from your grocer
today, and give the family a help to health.
—the Body Builder
Postum Cereal C o., Inc.
Battle Creek, Mich.
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