PAGE ÎWO «te A s h la n d D a ilv T id in g s ASttLANÖ b À ì i t ttbUrGM ■■■■■ai ■teSte teemaattasi Saturday, July 2 1 , lO 2d of the convict camps must have been. It ♦ I is said that familiarity breeds contempt. It (E sta b lish ed in 1 870) And apparently it sometimes breeds tol­ J under the guidance turned W ednesday evening from Portland will spend a fortnight of Superintendent Briscoe started their w onderfully interesting trip here. Friday evening to scale Mt. Ash- Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. t h e , j „ nd which has occupied the past Misses Thelma Heer and Gladys Dunbar and closed with an inim i­ month. H astings left Thursday evening An accou“ t of their trIP and table rendering of the selection, During their absence they vis- for a trip to the Caves. They adventures incident will be given “ It is to L augh.” Red places in the vicinity of S a n -1 camped at G rants Pass and v is it-‘ later. At 9:30 each m orning the stu- ^a Cruz, Lake Tahoe, and Yosem- deirt body hears som ething ra th e r ite- Em erald Bay at Lake Ta- special and it is an hour they ^ oe was especially beautiful, "PPUPUP7 UPU7PUP7P enjoy very much. T hey visited all the main p o in ts! * • * of interest in Yosemite. For a Guest a t Mrs. Y arbrough’s__ longer stay hiking trips would ) Mrs. Yarbrough of Scenic Drive have been necessary. It was ex- has e n te r/.in e d as house guest, j trem ely hot in the valley. They IN THE POINT OF Mrs. L. A. Curl of G rants Pass vislted the “ Geysers” about twen- SPECIALIZED SERVICE for the past week. Mrs. Curl tY five miles from Healdsburg, returned to her home today. These were w onderful. The old j Mrs. Y arbrough had a terrify- hotel was built In 1852 and still ing experience during the storm stands. I t’s old register shows) WE STRIVE TO MAKE OUR of W ednesday evening. Sitting th e names of such celebrities a s ; SERVICE TO YOU near the telephone, when the Mark Twain, General G rant, etc. lightning struck, she was seem- Their retu rn was by the coast' A SPECIALIZED SERVICE ingly lifted from her chair and route. About forty miles north throw n forward. She was un- of E ureka they took the Klam ath conscious several m inutes. Mrs. River Highway. recently com- INDIVIDUAL TO EVERY Y arbrough has recovered from pleted. W hile particularly scen- PATRON TO MEET HIS the shock and aparently suffers ic, it is dangerous, crawling PARTICULAR NEED snake-like fa r above the river, no ill effects. IT WILL MEET YOURS with hair pin curves and narrow road beds. Form al Reception— While glad they came th a t way Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cook of not an overwhelm ing desire is Garfield street, gave a form al re ­ m anifest to repeat th a t p art of ception for th eir son, Mr. W. E. the journey. Cook, and his bride, whose m ar­ • * * riage occurred recently. The evening hours sped de- Quests at Mrs. H air’s Mrs. Heer of High stre et is en­ ce distinctive -the service lightfully enlivened by games joying as house guests a number and music. 1910339386521027335773 About th irty five m em bersaof of friends and relatives. the younger set enjoyed this gracious hospitality and welcom­ ed the bride to h er new home in Ashland. Delicious refreshm ents- were served at the close of this happy evening and guests made theirI adieus, feeling th a t the hour of departure had come all to quick­ year after year in unprofitable ways fol­ lowed from force of habit. Too many get into the habit of thinking about certain things and not thinking about other things that influence their business. New world conditions are coining to the front. The farming of the future is sure to be differ­ ent. It is now calling for a different atti­ tude on the part of the farmers themselves and the question of correct marketing methods, which requires co-operation and straight thinking. —Western Fanner. The members of the Jackson county Medical Society and their families held th eir annual picnic in L ithia P ark, W ednesday even­ ing of this week. The towns represented were shland, Medford, C entral Point, and Phoenix. There were tw en­ ty-six present from Medford. It was not picnic w eather and the la tte r p a rt of the evening was more or leas exciting owing to the unexpected storm. The events were not of the usual order and not those usu­ ally staged at Ashland Picnics. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK saiBiHiiaiiiii Good F u r n it u r e Is An Investment—Not \n Expense ly. * * * B an tist Picnic— When the people of Ashland conceived The B aptist Sundav school I and made possible the auto camp at beau­ held its annual picnic T h u rsd ay ,) tiful Lithia Park not even the most san­ on W agner Creek, about two and guine dreamed that it would ever prove a half miles beyond the school house at a lovely place, nartlcu- i a good financial investment from a direct THE GALLOWS AS A DETERRENT larly suitable for gatherings of » * « standpoint. But that the camp will pay this kind. Upper YTa lley Club M eets— good direct dividends in the near future It was an all day affair, start The last m eeting of the Upper ine from Ashland at 8:30 a. m., I Michigan, which has abolished capital is all but an assured fact. Frank Jordan reports that receipts from the auto park punishment, is reaping the product of Valley Community club, before and retu rn in g at about four | th eir two m onth’s vacation oc­ so far this season amounts to more than tender solicitude for the criminal which curred W ednesday of this week. o’clock. There were between 75 and 100 present to enjoy the won-) $1500, which means that by the end of the disregards the larger right of law-abid­ It was an all day m eeting with derful feast of good things pre-j season the total will approximate $5,000. ing citizens to the protection of the law. a bountiful picnic dinner for all pared. Lemonade and coffee July and August will witness the heaviest In the course of a roundup of thugs and those in attendance. Consider­ were furnished by the school. travel over our highways and naturally highwaymen stimulated by the recent ing the very busy season there Games of all sorts were played, I were a goodly num ber present to the patronage at the auto camp will attain crime wave, a gang of four—three men and enjoy the interesting program a maximum volume during the remainder a woman—were arrested the other day, and planned, the social time and the STO PPED H IS PA IN S one of the men being moved to confession, of this month and in August. feast of good things provided. “ I was suffering w ith a severe expressed delight at his good fortune in The business m eeting was held That Lithia Park and its auto camp cold, headache, backache and at 2 p. m. Plans for the F a ir ground have received considerable adver­ having chosen for his scene of operations pains in my abdom en,” w rites J. were discussed, and a commit­ tising is attested by the »umber of peo­ a state in which the penalty of murder is tee appointed to perfect those B. Dring, Newport, R. I. “A fter ple registered there and by the receipts relatively light. Says the Detroit News in plans; also a committee named taking Foley’s H onef and T ar in for the present season, hut the condition its account of this aspect of the occurrence: to arrange for the program for conjunction with Foley C athartic only goes to prove that if a liberal adver­ Da Rouch congratulated himself on the next year. In planning for so Tablets I was entirely relieved of tising campaign is carried on tlur volume fact that there is no capital punishment in large a club (th is em braces Neil my Cold and pains.” Coughs re­ Creek and Bellview districts) sulting from Bronchitis, Asthma, of patronage can he doubled. The park Michigan. considerable thought is expended Hay Fever, Croup and Whooping has been given sufficient advertising to “ If they give me life, I ’ll be out in six­ to arran g e the work to provide Cough are quickly relieved with prove that a general advertising campaign teen years, anyway,” he said. “ I ’m going the widest range of interests. Foley’s Honey and Tar. The larg ­ Announcement will be made est selling Cough medicine in the will produce. With the comparatively lim­ to be good when I get in.” ited advertising that has been carried on The prisoner pictures an even less un­ later relative to time of m eeting W orld. Sold everywhere. and subjects chosen for discus­ excellent returns are being received, and happy prospect. “ You cops,” he is quoted sion. ¡increased patronage will be enjoyed in as saying further, “ would not be surprised At this meeting, was a canning proportion to the money invested in ad­ would you if the judge let me off with dem onstration under the leader­ vertising in the future. The Tidings believes two to thirty years because I ’m confess­ ship of .Miss Gravce Teich. that if $500 were spent advertising Lithia ing?” There is no note of contrition, no There was the every day boiler OUR MAILING dem onstrated in which Park and the excellent auto camp ground suggestion of a changed attitude toward method, both vegetables and fru it were available there that 1924 will witness an society, no warrant for supposing that at canned. LIST GOES OUT increase of visitors of not only 100 per the conclusion of a term of two, or sixteen, W ire arrangem ents for remov­ January 25. cent but more. Results to date proves the or some other brief period of years the cul­ al of cans, the individual baskets and other devices were shown. truth of this contention, and the city can prit—a murderer whose crime was preme­ April 25. The electric cooker did not a r­ make not better investment than mapping ditated—will he any le£s a menace to so­ rive in time to be used at this July 25 out a broad campaign adverising Lithia ciety than he is now. Premeditation to mur­ meeting. Mrs. Brown demon­ October 25. der is a wholly logical inference when men strated the pressure cooker. Regularly every th ird m onth Park and the excellent eamp ground. It would be difficult to estimate in dol­ engage in highway robbery. “ Of course,” Those w atching were very in ter­ checks are mailed to all holders ol’ lars and cents the real worth of the park said one of Da Rouch’s accomplices, “ When ested, for a num ber contem plate Copco Stock at $1.75 per share . getting them. In this, a 12 lb. ($7.00 per annual.) Tell any I and camp ground to Ashland, but that it you go out on a stickup job, you intend ham may be cookd in 45 m in­ member of our organization you i is one of the most valuable assets of the either to get the bird’s money or to shoot utes. A fire may be built at w ant to be placed on the mailing | town cannot be denied. The possibilities for him, you know.” 11 a. m., and an entire dinner list for Copco 7 % P referred Stock 1 future development and enlargement are This band have confessed to crimes so placed in one of these cookers yielding 7.1 4 e^— cash or install­ unlimited and as we develop so shall we numerous that not all are remembered in and be ready to be served at 12. m ent plan. Under 15 pound pressure corn, reap. detail. Detroit was selected because it is chard, etc., may be canned in 35 in Michigan, where murders are let off m inutes, as against three hours DOWN IN FLORIDA with a few years’ inconvenient detention by the boiler method. behind prison walls. It is hardly to be Beans, corn, both on the cob, The conviction of the “ whipping boss” doubted that other phases of the present and off, cauliflow er and chard of Preferred of a Florida convict camp on a charge of crime wave are traceable to the same state vegetables and loganberries and Par value $100 apricots of fru its were canned,* murder—in the second degree—brings to of facts. Only the explicable timidity of and raspberry jam with “ certo” Now at $98 a close a grewsome chapter in a grewsonie the robber’s victim, who is aware of how was made, during the dem onstra­ ASK ANY M EM BER G F OUR record of. modern barbarism. A Florida little his life is worth to his state, holds tion. ORGANIZATION jury convicted him. the murder record as low as it is. The num­ There was no set lecture ac­ this work but every While punishment of such offenders is ber of citizens actually killed is not the full companying THE one with a problem asked a ques­ to the credit of that state, it is to its debit measure of the harm wrought by refusing tion or offered a suggestion and CALIFORNIA OREGON that it permitted the lash to remain so to look on atrocious murder and offenses in the most lively discussion, in POWER COMPANY long an instrument o f torture. The death volving potential murder as capital crimes. which everyone took part, en­ Redford, G rants P a ss and sued. of Martin Tabert, which the Florida jury —Oregonian. K lam ath F a lls Among the many helpful sug­ lias laid at the convicted man’s door, fo­ Y reka and D unsm uir gestions m ust be mentioned this, cused the outside public’s attention on Stop! Before you send that dollar bill th a t a little soda in grape jelly conditions in Florida and aroused the in­ to a merchant in some other town just re­ or grape juice prevents it crystal- dignation—and this last evidently com­ member that if you spend it at home at izing. B ulletins were distributed th a t give very clear instructions mitted itself to the state affected. As a least a fraction of it will return to vou * in this work. result reform in the treatment of prisoners Remember that when you send that dol­ It may not be generally known has been started. The lash has been aban­ lar to the other fellow’s town you are build­ th a t it is a tax paid by the fru it growers th a t support this work. doned—and some of those who have been ing up his town, not your’s. • • * found guilty of abusing it have been held Dr. Shaw R ead s at Norm al— to account. Nothing infuriates a newspaperman so On W ednesday m orning Dr. An awakened conscience is good. But a much as a person who refers to all news M attie Shaw favored the Normal conscience that does not go to sleep—and items as ” squibs”.—Spokesman Review. students with a num ber of her delightful readings. consequently needs no awakening—is bet­ ter. The people of Florida should have Some of the satisfaction of life comes It is always a tre a t to hear Dr. Shaw and these num bers were needed no special investigation to inform - from not taking others too seriously—La especially pleasing and received TOUR PARTNERS them as to conditions so notorious as those • Grande Evening Observer. most appreciative hearing. IN PROGRESS* SO O N COPCO Consider tlyi “ Dividends” in comfoi surely be yours front any investment find at our store in abundance. You and your family have only one years more cheerful and eompaniona furnishings? A well furnished home good upon every member of the fami we have ever carried and our prices and see us, all goods marked in pi a J. P. 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