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Pwp* Two áshla A iy DÀÎLV ftbitföö ASHLAND DA ILY T ID IN G S ' land than was cut by all sawmills in the country d'tir- i ing the whole year. • More forests are burned each year than are regrown P u b lish ed E very E v en in g E xcept Snndny by and millions of dollars of property loss are the direct re T H E A S H L A N D P R IN T IN G 0 0 . sult of carelessness. Bert R. Greer .................. ................................................ ................. ....E ditor Fires in rural sections are much more hazardous be- George Madden Green ..................................................... Business Manager ■ cause of the lack of fire' fighting facilities, and campers official city paper .......................................... Telephone 39 and picnickers should be especially cautious with fire. E ntered at th e A shland, Oregon P o sto ffice as Second C lass Mail M atter When people permit the use of their land for camp- Subscription P rice, D elivered in City ing and picnic parties, it is nothing more than right that One Month $1.95 those enjoying the farmer’s hospitality should take every Tire« Months - Six Months..................................................................... 3.75 precaution to avoid destroying his property. 006 S ^saar . . . . . . 7 . 5 ® j (E stab lish ed in 1 8 7 6 ) By Mail and R ural R ou tes: One Month Three Months .............................. ........................................................ Six Months . ... $ .65 1.95 8 50 A Virginia farmer 126 years old is dead. They say One Year .................................. .................................. 6.50 he could remember when farmers were not having a hard -------------- ! time. DIS LAY ADVERTISING RATES: Single Insertion, per tch ......................................................... Y early C ontracts: One Insertion a week ..................................................................... Two insertions a week ............................................ Dally Insertion ................................................................................ R a tes fo r L egal and M iscellaneous A d vertising F irst insertion, per 8 point lin e .............................................. ....... Eftch subsequent insertion 8 point line....................... ............ •ftpd of T hank s____________ __ ____________________ __ Obituaries, per line..................................................................... I .30 .27% .25 .20 J .10 .05 1.00 .02% WHAT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING "AU future events, where an admission charge is made or a collection taken in A«fverti3ing. !to discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders. DONATIONS No donations to charities or otherwise will me made in advertis er ,ob printing— our contributions will be in cash. JULY 2» A MAN THAT HATH FRIENDS m ust shew h’mself friendly: and there is a friend th a t sticketh closer than a brother.— Proverbs 18:24. Married life in a flat has a decided tendency to be come that way. Whenever there is a big prune crop the boarder calls to heaven for mercy. The man who talks to himself doubtless wants to hear something he can believe. Having a one or two dollar bill may be bad luck, but there is worse luck, that in having neither. It matters not whether the weather is hot or cool, if your community advances you have got to boost and ever lastingly keep at it. Oregon’s .most distinguished body of men will be the guests of Grants Pass during 1925. Modesty almost for THE WONDER WORKER bids us saying who, but we have reference to Oregon There is probably somebody in this great country editors. who does not know that “ advertising pays,” hut if there i _____ is he, or she, is woefully ignorant of American business Cottage Grove — Woodward estim ate th a t it will be approxi and commercial achievement. ‘Those two words, “ adver sawmill to resum e work. m ately seven years before the tising pays,” form one of the fundamental rules of busi whole of the fleet is raised, and ness and joined with “ service” spell success to the busi K lam ath Falls— Gold discov then only if the p resen t difficul nessman who observes them. ered in vicinity of Diamond lake ties are overcome. district. N otw ithstanding th e m ost up- All of America’s phenomenal business enterprises can to-date and powerful apparatus trace their growth to large scale advertising. By adver DOPED CIGARETTE employed, th e divers are finding tising the trade name “ Kodak” the Eastman Company VICTIM IS RO BBED it a hard task to clear th e sunken gained pre-eminence in the manufacture and sale of cam vessels of th e ir several y ear’s ac eras and photographic supplies. Newspaper advertising SACRAMENTO, July 30. — cum ulation of m arine grow th, and the paster board formed the magic carpet on which Playing the part of a Good Smar- some of which is stated to be itan Saturday night cost H. A, four to six inches in thickness and such products as Wrigley’s gum, Fletcher’s Castoria, the Crowley exactly $38 in cash. f ord, the Victor talking machine and countless others At 8 o’clock he was driving of Immense strength. soared to world-wide fame and to fabulous _____ wealth _____ _ for toward Sacramento when a way- tlieir creators and advertisers. Unceasing and unbounded 1 iarer halled him. He stopped advertising explains why the American says “ Kodak” for ramento. and th,e raa“ as„ked ‘".L**® to’ Sac He told him to jum p camera, “ Victrola” for phonograph, “ Uneeda biscuit” in. for cracker and “ Hershey bar” for chocolate bar. In They had not driven far when t\e i\ kind ot business there is some far-seeing and en- ' t^ie man save him a cigarette. It terprising manufacturer, distributor or merchant who was doped’ ’ and when Crowley places himself and his product above the common level came to ” several hours later, his car was parked on a street by setting advertising to work for them. in this city. M hat has been accomplished in the past through ad W hile Crowley was i nslum ber- WOULD SOFT PEDAL LOCK»MOTIVE WHISTLES vertising is being duplicated or excelled today by national land under the influence of the manufacturers and local merchants. A new fabric is cigarette, his companion robbed MARYSVILLE, Calif., J u ly 29. made famous and given a national demand almost over him. then drove him to town and — Prom ise by th e S outhern P a the car. cific Company th a t th e shriekingg night by widespread advertising. A new automobile parked _____________ )iu 8 up a national demand tor itself months before it 1 difficulty experienced of w histles by n ig h t in th e Mary- Bville yards will be tem pered as is placed on display with the aid of extensive advertising RAISING GERMAN FLEET best the engineers can and fol In every community there are merchants who have re low the traffic signals of th e road, LONDON, Ju ly 30.— Trem en tained a thriving trade through many years bv regular having failed of fu lfillm en t, the dous difficulties are being exper city council has instructed City and heavy advertising or who are building-un nrosnern«« , . . - ------- building-up prosperous ienced by the salvagers now en business in new st- /es by the old rule “ advertising pays.” I gaged in raising the sunken Ger Advertising has fc ,:ome just as essential to business sue- ► man fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland. cess as sendee ani a storeroom. Those In a position to judge UNUSUAL EVENTS C O M M A N D IN G YOUR INTEREST evidence everywhere, with o c-' tifi$d to have experience there casional bands of antelopes to and on ‘'the d esert” beyond. In vary the monotony. I shall no! this immediate part of the state trouble my readers with our var are rem arkable forests cf juniper ious camps, only to say that I timber. These trees are unlike water was scarce until we struck any other and are very pictues- Being a series of interesting articles dealing with early •Jay- the headw aters of tire Ocheco I que. Some of the bodies are verv events and pioneer men and women who made history and builded for succeeding generations. river. Grass was good all along; large and the. branches spread the route. One camp was Old mightily, like the cedars of Leb (By C. B. WATSON) Camp W atson, another out-post anon. This timljer is valuable i . riculture assured him th at he had garrisoned in the more troublous chiefly for fence posts and fire Chapter Thirteen | days. These vast prairies have wood. The bruised foliage is W e Camp in John Day V alley a i made no m istake and he calcuiat- j since been a great hunting field full of odor and the freshly cut ! ed upon the day when this beau- F ew M iles South of P rairie City, where thousands of deer and an bodies give off a strong pleasant j tiful valley would be teeming j A t th e Ranch o f a Form er R esi telopes have been recklessly aroma. The table-lands lying to with population and the valley i dent o f R ogu e R iver V alley. producing rich harvests for agri slaughtered simply for their hides the north were high and covered and horns until few have been with hunch-grass and sage brush. culture and horticulture. P erm itted to Sm ell R ipe A pples left. \\ e were draw ing nearer j Since then extensive wheat fields When we reached there his and to Thum p W ater M elons, to the f ascades day by day and have been developed and the high- little orchard was in its second B u t Are Offered None. scanning the snowy summits of er lands given over to sheep and year of bearing and had a good the Three Sisters where we ex- cattle. Between John Day and - A fter passing P rairie City we ciop. I remember how proudlv i he piloted us through this beau- ra " Se' Prineville we did not see a white traveled southerly up the valley tiful young orchard and pointed Traveling the long stretches of man nor a budding settlement. tow ard John Day City, for a few out his variety of fruit with the Ocheco, our way was unevent W e stopped at this pioneer settle m iles and camp at the ranch of a which it was loaded. One tree ful. We had no band of horses ment only a short time to get dir- form er resident of Rogue River loaded with a crop of early ap- to keep our attention as we had ctions for our crossing of the valley, with whom, again, W alrad, l’ pies now ripening; great big yel going out, and the hot sun and „Cascades. From this point there Cardwell and Myer had been ac low fellows. He bent down a monotony bred drowsiness,, and was a wagon noad which crossed quainted. I have forgotten the limb and invited us to smell the we slept as we rode. Finally we the Cascades to the Santiam river name, but rem em ber th a t the delicious fruit, but did not au came to Prineville, a shanty town and thence to the W illam ette val proprietor of the new- farm seem thority any closer acquaintance of four box houses and several ley. We followed this road to ed delighted to m eet his form er dug-outs’’ th at housed the mea the Deschutes river where we with it. It had been many months acquaintances. He was very gre population. To the south and camped. since we had been so tempted proud of his new possessions and im m ediately ¡across the Ocheco In my next 1 will t ?!l of our and our m ouths watered for a took delight in showing us bite as he turned us away to in lose Bear Creek buttes, six thous- j adventures crossing the moun around. He had come here about spect his splendid w ater melon and feet high and m arking the tain. the tim e of the gold discovery, patch near by. They were ripen geographical center of Oregon. Ashland. Oregon, July 26, 1924. and rem em bering the harvests C. B. WATSON. ing also and we were perm itted Many years afterw ardsl was des- reaped by his Rogue River b reth to thum p them, but were given ren who chose farm ing instead no invitation to make a more of mining he picked out a most formal „ acquaintance We ex eligible spot and laid his plans an.; nod v it, ... , TOWN AND COUNTRY * . , . . »mined his splendid hogs and cat- to r a rew ard from the m iners who He and listened to his eloquent would furnish him a m arket for NEW SPORT SHIRTS. words of boosting the beautiful his product. The Blue m ountains IN LEATHER. CORDUROY valley. We bought millc and rose grandly to the east and un fresh vegetables with which we AND WOOL PLAID claimed square miles of pasture regaled out selves and prophesied! Buck Skein Shirts .............. ................ $3.75 and meadow lands spread out th at in a few years our friend See Them in Our Window around him. From the m ountains would be a very wealthy man. for he secured the tim ber for Im he knew how to charge for his provem ents and fuel and a beau produce. I suppose he has long tiful m ountain stream furnished ago passed to his rew ard w ith o u t' Biggest Little Store in Ashland an abundance of pure w’ater. knowing th a t we had both apples' Among his first exploits was to and melons th at night. Not much. | secure a good variety of apple, but enough to aw aken th a t taste i pear and other fru it trees and we have all known the delight of. berries. His first efforts at ag- That night we had an all night serenade from what ap never have reached a remedy. peared to be a thousand coyotes, i Clerk R ichards to again take the Therp was, perhaps, but one, but j m atter up with the officials. Property owners along the A he made up a full orchestra all ; street track have complained of by himself. In the night I got up the nuisance many times, but and shot in the direction I thought the sounds came from and heard him run away from the opposite ; FOUR KILLED WHEN NEW PLANE FALLS direction. These rascals are ven- triloquists and will throw their LOS ANGELES, July 29. — notes in all directions. The next morning we moved on Four persons were almost in stan t to John Day City and recognized ly killed here yesterday when the newly built cabin monoplane the activity of a mining camp. California crashed to the ground Our route from here was west shortly after beginning an exhi with some points south over a bition flight before hundreds of high rolling prairie with an oc casional sage plain. Innum erable ( spectators. jack rabbits and coyotes were in The craft was the enbodment of Osmond Belcher’s dream of a new type of plane. Belcher, the designer, his wife, th eir son and Bud Creeth, pilot, were all killed Defective airloons, or movable wing tips are blamed for the mis hap. Ladies Free Interesting Reminiscences By A Southern Oregon Pioneer j Army Goods Store Quick Sales of Your Surplus Articles Is the wood-shed cluttered up with equipment which has a value to somebody, but is worthless to you? If You Need Wate^ I will be glad to estit u;ii TWO LADIES OR LADY AND ESCORT With One Paid Admis. with you. I (*an L tiie store-room or attic filled with articles which are not in use? locate water. Expert well drill ing and locating. U. S. SCHOOL BANK ARMY GOING TO COLLEGE Most boys and girls who were graduated from high NOW NEAR 3,0C0,000 MARK school last spring have decided by this time whether they will continue their education by going to some liber By S. W. STRAUS, al arts college or technical school. President American Society for Thrift. It is a critical time in the life of every young person the children of America --the period when they realize for the first time that * A * R® learning thrift? there are problems outside of school books, and the de The best answer to this question may be gained cision they reach now will have a very great influence from a study of on their lite. the school sav What the high school graduate does this summer de ings bank sys tem of our coun termines what kind of a citizen he will be—whether he try. decides to go to college, enter a trade or just drift along A recent sur vey of these in without trying to get additional training to make him stitutions indi self more capable, his life purposeless. cated that dur (riving a boy or girl four years of education means to ing the l a s t school year the many parents considerable of a sacrifice and the loss number of de S. W . S T R A U S of the companionship and help of their children, hut in p o s i t o r s in most cases, if that sacrifice is made now, the future school hanks was close to 3,000,000, with deposits in excess of $12,000,- years will be richer for both parents and children in everv 000 and balances ln school banks of way. more than $15,000,000. These fig Thousands upon thousands of high school graduates ures are only approximate, inas much as many school bank systems are lost to further education because not enough interest make no official reports, but they is taken in them and in their welfare. are of sufficient completeness to re President Coolidge recently said that the foundation veal the rapid growth taking place in this department of thrift educa ot popular government is laid upon a sufficiently trained tion. and enlightened intelligence, and that the real*creative Generally speaking, the increase in depositors and deposits is at the ability that develops the country is supplied hv the gen rate of 25 per cent. Steady in ius ot the people aud not hv the government. creases are found both in the per How closely education is connected with the cultiva centage of depositors to pupils en rolled as well as in the average tion ot the national genrus is shown hv the fact that one amount of individual deposits, thus person m every four in the United States is directlv con showing that the practices of thrift cerned with edcuation, either as teacher, student or ad among American school children are becoming more Intensive. It Is ministrator. ’ estimated that there are now be Aside from the personal benefit obtained, everv tween 7,000 and 8,000 school banks b e T J ahU r ,fWOr n sho"'.d. seek knowledge so as to he “ S I S M S eiter able to function as citizens of the United States. cities and town8- While this gratifying progress Is gnoranee is an economic and moral waste and edu- being made, the start in the devel- ca ion is t ic only means ot breaking the power of evil j opment of our school savings banks and liberating the spirit of truth. I has only begun, if ail available children were enrolled in the school ■ - -------— ! bank systems of the country the number of depositors would be In the neighborhood of 25,000,000 In CARELESSNESS AND FIRES of 3,000,000, and the amount Four-fifths of the fires each year are man-made, All stead of deposits wonld be 1100,000,000 of them might be prevented by the ordinary exercise instead of $12,000,000. of care. In the development of school in « t nr»vi- J! . banks one Important fact should be ‘ especially imperative that every pre- kept constantly in mind—namely, caution be taken to avoid starting fires, because the drv 0141 thrlft doe® not consi8t entirely season of the dancer ol nf l,««,.,. i / SS ' commendable ln 8aTlng mon® that y* While this most . year * „ is . . here and 11 the l,,t uaUgei heavy JO everything poa- is increased manyfold. Bible be done to encourage youth Careless campc s are the worst offenders. Fires left ful Americans to save money, they at the same time, be taught burning in the wot Is or lighted cigar or cigarette stubs should, that true thrift means not only say tossed into the br sli last season burned more timher- ing, but the rightful use ot money, tune and energy - - Y\ erinrsduy, July 30, 1024 Write Make a quick disposal of these sur plus articles by using a classified advertisement in V. ZBORALISKI Box 147, R. F. D. 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