tn ö fi r o m A ä f i W b DAILY tîDÎNQS Tuesday, February Id, iftflf» ■ ta tti L ithtans Big Show, Feb. 16-17. Spends W eek End— — <------ { Junior Miller of Gold Hill sp en t' U ndergoes O peration— the week end with his aunts, Mrs. Miss D. H ershberger of D uns-iW m . Myer and Miss H arriet m uir underw ent an operation at Hodges of this city. the Community H ospital, this morning and is reported to be do H ere Sunday— ing as well as could be expected Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mack of Hilt,. CaMf., spent the week end DeM olay M eeting Leaving T onight— at the home of Mrs. Mack’s par- Regular m eating of* Lithia D. Jetaoette of this city k leav-j ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. W alker Chapter, W ednesday evening, Feb. ingathis evening for Mobile, Ala- of Liberty street. 11 a t Masonic Haji. Routine busi i bama where he will visit for sev- . ---------- ness. Refreshments. • eral months. R eturn H om e— italiph Robison, Master Councilor. ---------- Mrs. Mary Dunn and Mrs. Eliza- Russel Overocker, Scribe. 136-1 : See Davies for nursery stock, betli Van Sant returned home • 7 32-tfj Sunday evening from Portland The regular meeting of Ashland — — : where ¡they have been visiting Post, No. 14, American Legion In A shland— friends and relatives for th e p a s t; will be held a t the Armory at J. G. Bromley of G rants Pass month. Mrs. Dunn became ser- 7:30 tonight. spent yesterday in Ashland a n d ' iously ill with flu while in the vicinity inrp< cting highways. north but is reported to be great Tn A s h la n d - ly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Russell of Special Auto Accident Policy Los Angeles are in Ashland visit ; for $5.00 a year. Phone 21. Yeo Form er R esid en t Dead— ing at the home of F. E. Rus I M course. 24-tf Mrs. Fred Coastain returned I sell. last night from Stockton, where F our More Days— Rexall Saie. she w ent a week ago, having been Lithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. McNair Bros. called there by th>3. death of her m other. H er m other was well At Gold Hill— Born— known in Ashland and vicinity Mrs. H. H. E ’.hart and son. February S, to Mr. and Mrs. as Mrs. H. Scribner, later m arry Billy, spent Sunday and Monday Stanley Hake of Bu?h street, a ing Mr. Hedgepath.— G rants Pass at Gold Hill visiting with relatives boy. He has been named Leon Courier. and friends. ard Stanley Hake. You are welcome to compare L ithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. my Automobile rates with any other rates in Jackson or Jose V isitin g Y esterday— phine Counties; you can be the Leland S. Cook, recently ap Judge. Phone 21. Yeo, of course. pointed d istrict m anager of The M etropolitan Life Insurance com L ithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. pany a t Medford, was visiting J. L. Richey, the local agent yester In Medford— day. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Newby journeyed to Medford this m orn Lithiams" Big Show, Feb. 16-17. ing to attend to business inter ests. U nderw ent Operation— Hugh Page underw ent an oper Have your engine cleaned by ation Saturday at the Commun »team at Robinson’s Garage. ity Hospital and is reported to 1 3 6 r-2 t be doing well. To G rants P ass— A num ber of the local members of the K nights of Pythias are planning to go to G rants Pass this evening to attend a m eeting in th a t city. Save $10.00, walk upstairs to Orres tailor shop. 17— tf Lithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. R eturns to H om e— W. R. Davis who has been (: pending the past ten days in Shasta Valley returned to Ash land last evening. W’hile south he visited C. B. Lamkin who is on a ranch at Montague. We put the chicken tam ales. The Plaza. In our 82— tf In A shland — J. W. Fitzgerald of Dunsmuir, superintendent of the Shasta di vision of the Southern Pacific ar rived in Ashland today with his private car, Shasta, on an official inspection tour. He is accompan ied by A ssistant Chief Train Dis patcher, T. E. Custer of Duns muir. Kodak finishing. Studio Ash land. On the Plaza. W ork on roads— T hirty men are now at work on the A shland-Klam ath Falls road, according-to officials of the state highway departm ent, ten more men being sent out yesterday. Stages are m aking regular runs although behind time, going slow er than usual more as a m atter of precaution than on account of th e condition of th e roads. The snow Friday n ight softened the road in spots making it necessary to add to the road force.— Klam ath News. Paulserud’s Suits Satisfy. 135-tf C atalogues Arrive— The spring catalogues of Sears and Roebuck arrived in Ashland today for distribution to the var ious points in the first and second zone. Twenty thousand six hun dred catalogues arrived and about ten thousand rem ain for d istri bution in Ashland. The rem ainder are sent to nearby cities and towns as far north as Eugene and south to Red Bluff. Ashland has been the distributing point for these catalogues for some time. T. D. Colehian is the Ideal agent. Send your order to a Civic Club member for a sack of F isher’s Blend flour, your name, address and the grocer’s name. Help this lu n d this week. 135— 3t L ithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. NOTICE TO BU ILDERS On and after April 1, 1925, the wages for carpenters will be $7.20 p er day. ’ This resolution was adopted by th e carpenters of Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass, a t a m eeting asatembled at Medford Feb. 6. 1925. 134 3* American Hospital in Japan Burns F R eturn Hom Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bartges of Medford — Morton & Sons of W imer street have returned home j G rants Pass, buy site for erection from a two weeks vacation-spent of large folur mill. in Portland, Tillamook and R osé-i ------------------------- - burg. Read the Tidings want ads. I ■> In with a roar. zation. of the im portance of the complished through the increasing of "the anti- use of the insulin treatm ent, in a period when the tendency was all toward increasing diabetes tors bringing about thi3 splendid rates.” NEW YORK, Feb. 10.— A new decline in the death toll of the “ There is a little comfort to be health record was achieved in worst scourge of childhood. gained from the slight decline 1924 by th e people of the United i Possibly the greatest single in the m ortality from cancer,” he States and Canada according to I public heaîth achievem ent of 1924 said. ^ ‘N otw ithstanding the drop the m ortality statistics of the i was the fu rth er of , ho the death ra te is still identical M etropolitan Life Insurance Com-j death rate from tuberculosis. It with th at of three years ago and pany made public here today by continued to fall sharply from higher than for any year prior to Haley Fiske, president, at the! n o . 5 per 100,000 in 1923 to 1921. company’s annual convention of j 101.7 in 1924. The decline since “The gravity of thie cancer m anagers. j 1911 (224.6) was 53.4 per cent. problem is concentrated on the Lithiams Big Show, Feb. 16-17. The d?-ath rate of 8.5 for each if 1925 witnesses a sim ilar gain, higher age groups but more 1,000 of population is the lowest! there will be recorded Tor that deaths occur in childhood and Born— on record. The M etropolitan fig- ■ year a death rate of less than adolescence than is generally sup To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Conwell ures cover approxim ately 16,000,-! I»» per 100,000, an accomplish- posed. An intensive study* by the of Medford, Oregon, February, 000 industrial policyholders o r m ent which the . most optim istic M etropolitan of the cancer prob 4th, a son. Mr. Conwell is the one-seventh of the entire popula public health w orker would not lem this year revealed the fact brother of Mrs. M. M. Brower of tion and ar|© accepted as the best have ventured to predict for tu never before realized that if a boy this city. index of.w hat has occurred in the berculosis ten years ago. or girl once reaches the age of tie® general population, the m ortality F o r pulm onary tuberculosis there is more likelihood-of u lti Cars washed a t Robinson’s statistics for which do not be- aloroe, the rate dropped to 93.7 mately dying of cancer ’ th an of Garage. 136-2t con»e available until the end of per 100,000, a decline of 6.9 per tuberculosis. This probability is this year. cent, since 1923. These low fig even g reater with girls than with H ere from Salem — The outstanding features of this ures, it m ust be rem em bered are boys. L. R W hite of Salem, auditor improvemient are: ’ for w orking people and their While the mild w inter of 1924 of the State Industrial Accident Absence of epidemics. families, living in cities, who uni- and the low influenza death rate Commission, is spending the day F u rth er reduction in tuberei!- ¡ forinly show higher death rates are the causes to a large extent in Ashland attending to busi losis death rate. for these diseases than does the of the 21.5, per cent decline in ness. Lowest death ra te from diph general population. the pneumonia rate, Mr. Fiske theria ever recorded in history of The lowest typhoid fever m or lielievied other factors were im L ithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. M etropolitan industrial policy tality in the, history_/>f the com portant. “ People are recognizing holders. pany (4.5 per 100,000) is a re th at lobar pneumonia is an in L eaving Today— Few er deaths from diabetes in duction of 13.5 per cent., as com fectious and a preventable dis Mrs. M. J. B urr and Mrs. Clara a period in which tendency was pared with 1923, of 38.4 per cent ease,” he said. “ Physicians are Johnson are leaving today for ! a P tow ard an increase in m o rtal- in five years, and of 72.0 per cent not allowing oth er persons to an extended trip on the Pacifici ity. in tian years. The decline in the Coast. Mrs. B urr is assistan t Na-j Lowest num ber of deaths inci- typhoid fever death rate has been come into close contact with per sons suffering fro m it. The pub tional O rganizer for the L a d ie s! dental to m aternity ever record- continuous since 1911. While lic is being educated to the need of the Elks Lodge and her home ed for women insured with Met there were sevieral isolated out of b etter personal hygiene, which is in Omaha. The couple have ' ropolitan. breaks during the year in Ameri been visiting at th e home of Mrs. I The figure 8.5 for 1,000 popu can cities, and notably in New jpcrludes cleanliness of th e hands; the thorough cleansing of utensils A. D. Jillson and are delighted lation is compared with 8.7 for York it is recognised th a t the in restau ran ts; the prevention of with the Ashland park, clim ate J 1921 the best previous year. The prdblem of* typhoild ¡control in unguarded snteezing, coughing the and location. general death rate for 1923 was America is now alm ost entirely expectoration; the eventilation of ---------- ; 9.0 and for 1922, 8.8. These are- one of rural- sanitation. schools, homes and work places L ithians Big Show, Feb. 16-17. the best years in th e sanitary A slight decline in-the deathrate and avoidance as far as possible history of the United States and i from alcoholism is ‘the first de of chilling and.exposure.” From Medford— Canada as is proved by the rates cline rep o rted 'in many years, ac Deaths from disease incidental Mr. and Mrs. Allen A utry of for their industrial populations cording to Mr. Fiske’s announce tp m aternity ware 6.6 per 100,000 Medford were in Ashland last for such prior years as 1919, ment. The rate for 100,000 was which is th e lowest ever recorded evening visi-.lt» with friends a m (1 0 .6 ); 1917 (1 1 .6 ); 1913 (12.0) 2.8 as against 3.0 for 1923. In for women insured in the insured relatives. and 1911 (1 2 .5 ). ’ x 1922 the rate was 2.1, in 1921 departm ent of the Metropolitan “ The splendid record for 1924 0.9 and in 19’20, the first year “ It is due to some extent a t least Cliff Payne makes boxes. is due above all else to the ab a fte r prohibition 0.6. The rate to more and b etter nursing before sence of epidemics prevalence of for cirrhosis of the liver, close and after confinement and b etter From H ornbrook— any disease,” said Mf. Fiske. “ The ly associated with alcoholism re Mrs. Paker and sor. Jimmie, of influenza death rate, for example mained a t 5.8 the same as for H ornbrook are spending a few which m arred the 1923 record 1923. T(M> LATE TO CLASSIFY days in Ashland on business because of thia epidemic in the The dialxetes death rate declin ---------- j early m onths of the year, was one ed from 16.2. in 1923 to 15.1 in LOST: — Small black suit case B irthday Sale Ends Saturday, •; of the lowest this year ever re- 1924 for each 100,000 population. (week-end size) with strap McNair Bros. j corded. Deaths from pneumonia This is higher than usual years around it, between high school were fewer than in any prior, year of the past ten, bu t lower than and post office. Finder leave at In M. (Ford Y esterday— except 1921. any year since 1920. “ The drop in Tidings office. Reward. 136-2* Mrs. E. E. Gall and M. E. “ The epidemic diseases of child this death ra te is oiue of the most Randles were Medford visitors hood, — mieoslos, scarlet fever, hopeful items in the statistics of FOR RENT: .— Cozy, w inter yesterday. whooping cough and diphtheria the year,” declared Mr. Fiske, cabin, furnished for housekeep registered the / lowest V rate’ on re- “for it shows w hat can be ac ing. Gdod location. Phone 153. H ere Today— ' cord. The combined death rate Harold C arter of D unsm uir Is from these diseases declined 20.5 a business visitor in Ashland to ! per cent., as compared with 1923. day. | D iphtheria offered the'.most strik- ---------- i fog example of the improvement N otice— ‘ of public health through the ad- F irst Church of Christ, Scien- vance of scientific medicine The THE THEATER BEAUTIFUL tist, Ashland, Oregon, announces rate, 12.8 per 100,000 was, far a Free Lecture an C hristian ' and ^way the lowest ever recorded TODAY — TOMORROW — THURSDAY Science by John M. T utt, C. S. B., in the history of M etropolitan in of Kansas City, Missouri, member dustrial policyholders. It rep re of the Board of Lectureship of sents a drop of 50 per ce?t from The M other Church, The F irst the ra te of ten years ago “ This achievement should be Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, M assachusetts, in the credited to the increasing use of Church Edifice, Pioneer Avenue, the Schick test, to the growing South, tonight a t E ight o’clock. appreciation of the value of the The public is cordially invited to toxin-antitoxin as an immunizing agent, and to the increasing reali- attend. HtAL IH lit 11t KMt N 11 s , t0 “ Hhomas : ♦ ♦ 4 Guaranteed Hot W ater Bottles, Regular price $1.50, now ..................................................$1.19 You better be there when “ Hell Fire’’ Harring ton, fighting for bis reputation and the Indians burns up tlie screen with action,* and wins tin* beautiful Lalileet for liis bride. * - $2.75 Fountain S y rin g e ^ ......................................$1.99 Also a Tuxedo Comedy 25c Talcum Powders .................. *............................................. 15c 50c Nyolotls Shampoo ................................ 37c 50c Nyolotis Beauty Balm .................................................. 37c 1 Assortm ent fine box Stationery at 1-4 off R egular Price “Stupid but Brave” FRID A Y -“ Father and Son Night”— Toilet Goods— Drug Sundries ELHART'S Books and Stationery Three Big ....1 " lir il Til DCTTCnRUCMT early adm inistrati0n WEEK END SPECIALS SOIL E X PE R T M ILL TALK Miss Louise H argrove of the TO FARM ERS HERE I Hargrove Millinery Shop h is gone to San Francisco where she is (Continued from page 1) j spending several weeks doing by Professor Long will be very ! spring buying. timely, and the subjects which he I has selected upon which to base On B usiness— his talk are very pertinent to the Ralph H. Baldwin, vice-presi- • prosperity of this section of the dent of the Ralph - Schneeiock i state. Company of Portland, Oregon, is Professor’ Long will also talk im Ashland today visiting with upon his work at the college While local business men. . County Agent Cate will talk upon the subjects covered by the other ! Visiting Here__ * two men’ la>'ln8 special em phasis Mrs. Mary Patterson of M e d -lUpon the phaee8 of the work • ford is in Ashland visiting at thei w^ i(^ directly affect Jackson home of Mrs. C. O. Holman of county farmers. All farm ers who can possibly B street. do so are urged to be present aX the meeting tomorrow’ morning. Above Is shown the fire that destroyed St. Lu ke’s Hospital, operated by the American wpiscbpai Church Mission, in Tokio, Japan. The building, a temporary structure used since the earthquake and "ire of 1923, was gntted with a loss of $150,000. This remarkable photo was taken just as the roof crashed A rticle A bout A shland— In a recent issue of. the “ Paci fic Hom estead” real estate mag azine, a long article about Ash land as “ The Land of Prom ise” Is printed. The article tells about th e new L ithia Springs hotel, the big E m igrant and H yatt dams; box factory, lum ber company, H artm an Syndicate and Lithia park. ! Gone South— SPECIALS for This Week delivery services in hospitals and homes." - -, The automobile death rate in creased from 15.4 in 1923 to 16.0 in 1924. M ortality from this cause has more than doubled since 1916 and increased seven-fold since 1911. The rise in 1923 over 1922 was 13 per cent and the in crease of the previous period 11 per cent. This year’s increase is only 4 per cent. Automobile ac cidents still stand as the foremost cause of accidental deaths, caus ing four times as many as railroad accidents and more than twice as many as accidental falls or acci dental drownings. Girls’ and Misses’ Wool Flannel Middies. All sizes, all colors. Jack Tar make. Your choice $3.95 ♦ I » Ladies’ Silk Lingerie—Teddies, Bloomers. Shirts, Nighties and Step-ins, at less ONE-THIRD Ladies’ House Dresses and Afternoon Togs, all sizes, all colors, in .just three prices. Your choice at G oing North — B rett Page of New York is leav ing today for Seattle where he will spend a week on business. Mrs. Page iu going south to visit friends and Mr. Page will meet her there later. 98c $1.98 $2.98 These are all genuine, good values and a real saving will be had on every one y Halfway — Bonds voted for construction of new school house . . . . ---------- , -------- --- - ......................... ....... Kaiser’s new Spring line of Silk Hose now •selling • (let your McCall Pattern for the new En sembles here WE WILL TAKfc YOUR ORDER FOR FISHER’S BLEND FLOUR SHOP AT an<l turn it over to th e Civi<* Club Fund C om m ittee White House Grocery Phone 156 388 E. Main C o m p a n y W here Y our D ollar Has More Cents Ashland's Best Year Business indications are that Ashland is on the threshold of the best year the city has enjoyed in its history—a development and growth that will add materially to the population and business of the city. Not a boom, but a. growth Based on the in trinsic attraction and possibilities in the city. This Will Mean More Business for the firms which made the proper hid for the new business Everybody^ y will of course share in the prosperity to a certain extent, regardless of what z they may do or may not do, hut one of the signs of deterioration is the feeling of being satisfied with what business drifts to you. and the failure to make the-proper effort to get the maximum. J ADVERTISE AND GET YOUR FULL SHARE The Ashlandlridings Any boy bringing bis father—10c for Father and Son : :