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Term Substantially Complet
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INSPBCTION TOMORROW
DISCUSSED a
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If plans discussed at an lnfor- a
mal luncheon yesterday at noon a
nt the Hotel Ashland cafe mature. a
Southern Oregon will enjoy the a
fruits of a cooperative advertising. a
campaign, such as Southern Call-] a
forein, the California. Inc., sec a
tion* of Florida and other regions,' a
have found so profitable in bring a
ing la new settlers.
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W. H. Crawford, of The Califor a
nia - Oregon Power company of a
Medford, met with the advertis a
ing committee and Secretary J. a
H. Fuller of the local chamber of a
commerce for a discussion of such a
an advertising campaign, which a
has been suggested for Southern a
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The power company ha* always a
conducted a small advertising cam a
paign for the advancement of I a
Southern Oregon and recently, In a
crease this appropriation and
make a more extensive campaign,
the H. K. McCann advertising
agency of San Francisco, which
haadlbs various community ad
vertising campaigns, wan asked to
outline such a campaign for South
era Oregon.
The advertising agency, which
1* one of the most reliable and
most successful in the advertising
•eld . proposed th a t a sum of ap
proximately 112,090 be raised by
the various cities, commercial or
ganisation gnd from other sources
which would be devoted to the ad
vertising of this region. Including
Klam ath Falla, Ashland, Medford,
Grant* Paas and Roseburg.
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The advertising agency stated
thin sum would provide for about
26 advertisements in the news
papers of Seattle, San Francisco
and Portland, and several ads in
Sunset Magasins and one or two
other Pacific Coast publications.
The agency held that it would
ho unnecessary for Southern Ore
gon to enter the eastern advertis
ing field la competition with the
other large community advertiser?,
who are spending millions of dol
lars.
Stating that the tourists
ware coming to tpe Pacific coast
us a result of the vast sums be
ing expended by different agencies
for this purpose, the agency held
that the small amount which
Southern Oregon could devote to
advertising this region should be
concentrated In the Pacific eoaat
territory, appealing to the tonr-
hts after they get to the eoast
country.
No definite plans. hare been
made a* yet. The proposition will
he explained to the various com
munities in Southern Oregon.
Then if the idea la favored, aa It
was by the Ashland chamber of
commerce advertising committee.
vertising committees o f this re
gion will be held lt> formulate
more definite plans.
The idea is to pettenade moro
tourists and more settlers to come
to Southern O ry o n . which is held
to be the most Ideal spot on the
Pacific Coast.
Dry Throats Drier
CHICAGO, Sept. IO. —
(U. P.) — The biggest seizure
of real beer ever made In the
state bf Illinois resalted Wed
nesday la the captare of five
carloads of beer, three trucks,
the arrest of seven men and
the fhat-ge py dry agnate
here of "apparent collustou"
of the New York eatral rail
road "with violation hi as
sisting then* to Illegally divert
beer which has been routed
over their lines.”
Kxcitement marked the
raid as a dry' squad beat off
SB to 40 men and boys, who
attempted to hinder the work
of the raiders as they dra
with flags, flowers sad
other colorful trlihmlngs,
« ill he used in making
the fair ground* a replica
of an .old hacienda on fete
More than two months after
the date 'upon which It was to
have been delivered to the stock
holders ofi- the I.lthlan Hotel
corporation the Llthia Springs
day.
Flower beds with hloe-
soma in a va r let y of
shades to match the varl-
colored
hunting
were
planted last spring and
already are forming an
alluring
color
displsyo
Stucco wall* hare been
erected around tfce fair
ground* to enhance the
effect of the hacienda*.,
In addition to the fair,
which W ill. feature every
known product of the
southland. there will be
a
spectacular
pageant,
depleting the history of
southern California.
A
thousand player*. Includ-
'lo g scores of film star*
from Hollywood, will take
hotel stand» substantially com
pleted today.
Tomorrow the
board of directors of the corpora
tio n -w ill make their final tour
of Inspection before accepting
the hostelry from the contractors.
Hoover and McNeil.
According to the terms of the
contract entered Into between
the corporation and the con
tractor*, the term “substantially
completed," Is taken by both
parties to mean that the build
ing is fully ready for occupaney,
and that it. is completely built
and equipped with the best ma
terial possible to obtain, under
the specifications. According to
lomore, delivered the Ice to the terms of the contract. If, at
aka Forest district of Chicago any time, within .six months from
of Byron 8. Harvey, director the date of deliver, any flaw
fey carries the ice to rear
should becomq apparent which
Yale Varsity ueet yea
Production of
Raw Silk is
Started Soon
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to be Tried This
Tear
New *135,000
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new entries. The exhibit* w ill be.
conuitiona ai-
judged each' day, and prises m0*‘ Perfect.
For a time the
awarded. On the firat day, Wed-, «»untere were fearful lest the dry
nesday, September JO, the prizes, s«a«>n make the woods so dry
as listed In the premium book ‘ ha‘ hunting would be very dlffl-
will be given and oa the follow-j cu,‘ - hut the rains have soften
ing days, merchandise of equal ed ‘ he ground, making walking
value.
The Ashland merchants a|ost noiseless. In addition, thè
and wholesalers have been most «'»In has greatly lessened the
generous la their contributions, possibilities of forest fire*.
After the races, each ‘day, the
The deer season la but the
food may either be claimed by the «rst of the aererai hunting aea-
exhlbttor, or sold at auction; eigh- sons of the year.
The next
ty per cent of the prtss going to major hunting season to open
the owner of the cake, and twenty , will be duck season, which opens
per cent to the fair association to
‘ he Klamath country, the
be used fos prize* in this depart- greatest duek hunting section of
ment.
‘ he Northwest, on October 1.
This plan offers several advant- Hundreds of Ashland hunters
age» over that employed In former ! »re preparing to be on h^nd
years.
First, the food is fresh in the duck country In the sl
avery day. and therefore makes a! clnlty of Klamath on opening
nicer appearing exhibit. Seeond, day.
instead of having the cakes and
pirn dried up, and hardly worth
(Continued oa Pag* Four)
The churches of the city are
giving a reception to the teach
er* of the public schools oh F ri
day ot thia week at eight o’clock
in the Presbyterian church, cor
ner North Main and Helman
streets.
A large majority of the mem
bers of the faculties ot the
school* hare come frorA other
parts of out »Ute and from
various states.
Of the forty*
one members of the faculties,
twenty-two give their address
as Ashland. Many of these have
'com* from other parts of Ore-
gob sad from other state*. Eight
of -the teachers give addresses
indicating that they comp frbm
various fettles of Oregon. Eleven
teachers give addresses from
seven states west of the Missis
sippi river.
Two coma this
year from North Dakota, three
from Washington, two from M in
nesota and one each from Iowa,
Colorado, Idaho and Missouri.
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Coolidge Starts
on Trip Home,
Back to Work
SALEM, Mass., Sept. 10— (U.
P .) — President and Mrs. Cool
idge accompanied by 'Senator
William M. Butler of Massachu
setts, left here ‘ on a special
train for Washington at mid
night (daylight time) Wednes
day'.
After dining with F rin k W.
Stearns, the presidential party
motored here and boarded the
special train at 10 o’clock.
Tired after a day of constant ac
tivity in which he conferred with
Representative
Longworth,
he
motored for a visit to Mr*.
Cooftdge’s aunt, Mrs; John Hasel
In a Boston suburb and made n
flying trip to Marblehead, the
president retired immediately.
He had spent the last few hours
of his -vacation of eleven weeks
in Swampscott supervising the
packing of his personal lug-
ffsge.
The IVeaffter
Oregon and Washington
— F air in tha east por
tion.
Mostly cloudy In
the weit portion, with
moderate west or aorth-
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PORTLAND, Ore., Sept.
P .)— Production
of both raw and (inished
Mik may soon be under-
tfiken on a commercial
hosts in Oregon as * re-
su* of experimental silk
worm • culture carried
on
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can be traced to faulty materials
or workmanship. Hoover and Mc
Neil will be held responsible.
This morning the members of
the board of directors, Mr. Hoov
er of the contracting firm and
John Tourtellotte of Jhe, firm of
Tourtellotte and-Hummell, archi
tects, held a long conference. In
an effort to determine the pen
alty the contractors shall pay
for not delivering the completed
hfilidlng on the specified date.
June 1 was originally set as the
date for delivery, but the con
tract contained a clause specify
ing that time should be deducted
for days It was Impossible to
work because of rain, or other
weather conditions.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 1«.
— (U. P.) — Lapsing lute sil
ence after three bitter denuncia
tions of the army and navy de
partments for their conduot o t
aviation. Col. "B illy" Mitchell
calmly await* his fat*.
Newspapermen who have hound
ed the fiery air officer since his
first statement on Saturday were
plainly told Wednesday by M it
chell that he would have nothing
more to say in regard to the a ir
controversy until the investiga
tion ot hl* charges by Col. George
Nugent of the Inspector generals,
office in Washington, gets under
Miss Preston Stanley was the way.
first lady to be elected a member
His latest broadside Wednes
>f the New South Wales EjrliameiL.
day Was a reiteration of previous
declarations that he did not fear a
court martial, but welcomed it if
the nation's defense would profit
by facts brought out during his
Mitchell, believes however, that
the board named to probe his
charges of gross misconduct of
aviation, should be composed of
representative Americans, rather
than members of the "army and
navy bureaucracies."
"Let Its members be from the
George W. Noble Selected u east and west of our country; from
Lieut. Gol. at Grants
(he north and south and from the
Pass
fleltfh and factories," Mitchell's
statement urged. "1 tell you, when
GRANTS PASS, Sept 10— we get through we are going to
The electioh of officers of the modernise and simplify a good
Southern Oregon Soldiers and many departments of the govere-
Sailors Reunion Asaoclation was
held at the morning session yes
terday and resulted as follows;
Col — W. Lyman, Medford.
Lieut. Col.—Oeorge W. Noble,
Ashland.
MaJ. --Alexander Kyle, Rogue
Let every American know ab-
solutely and entirely that we are
going to better our national de
fense. that we are on the war. path
MEDFORD.
Sept.
10— Tho
and that we are going to stay
bids for She construction of the
there until these conditions are
new high school and its heating J
River.
the statement con-
remedied
plumbing, electrical work and
Q. M.— A.. J. T. Smith. Gold tinueH.
The barking of little
blackboards, which were* opened
dogs that follow the main pack
Tuesday night by the school
Gold Hill was selected a* the should not delude any clear think
board, totalled 8161,184, far
place for the next meeting which
However, »he will be held In September, 1926. ing person as to the object of our
under the estimate of John
conference will be continued to-j An interested audience greet chase. Our bureaucrat* and non-
Tourtellotte, architect for the
morrow morning, aiid at this' ed Colonel IJams, of Kansas City, flyers indulge In mental gymnas
building.
tics in /Washington in an at
time it is believed that a set Tuesday night at the armory.
This leaves about 83O.OOQ nut
tempt to evade the truth by white
tlement will be reached.
of the 1185,000 bond issue, voted
Tho colonel gave a patriotic washing boards, alibis and sug
The hotel was partially com-, address which brought forth
months ago for that structure
gestions for fixing the blame for
pleted, and occupied by the numerous bursts of applause. At
and which sold at a premium,
disasters on the dead commanders
lessee,
R.
W.
*Prloe,
on
July
1,1
netting 8101,745.28, to be ex-:
the close of the address Judge when they know that they them
but workmen have been engaged C. M. Thomas was called upon
pended for furniture and other.
selves were responsible. They are
In completing the structure sine« for a talk. Although he had
equipment, grading, walks and
not worth the time taken away
that time causlnf much incon-' not expected to make a speech,
lawn.
from teaching our people what
venlence to the lessee^ and crus - I he launched forth and gave the our national defense should he and
Work w ill be begun about Oc-1
Ing-a financial loss to the cor audience something to think telling them the truth about It.”
tober 1 oa construction, and the
poration, It Is declared.
building will be completed and
about.) He* commented on the -Professing to know nothing
occupied with the opening of the
crime wave and gave the reason about the lnvfijtlgatlon of his
public schools a year from this
as the lack of propter home life. charges ordered by MaJ. Gen. John
month.
the divorce, and the Jazz life. Hines, chief of staff, other than
He stated that In Jackson county what he has read In the papers,
No local contractors succeeded
la captaring nay part of the
there are now 60 divorce cases Mitchell showed an absolute dis
pending and many in Josephine regard a* to the outcome of a
work in the competitive bidding.
probable court martial.
The successful bidders, which
county.
" If the war department doeoa’t
la each instance were the low
CHICAGO, Sept. 10— (U. P .li
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like the statements I made, let
est, are as follows:
them take any disciplinary action
General construction— Hedges
they see fit according to their
ft Hulls of Portland, 8118,880 j
■western railroads continued here
Judgment, court martial or no
Heating— Keyser ft Schmldll
j today before the sperlnl session (
of Roseburg.'814,887.
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of the Interstate commerce com
i 0 T IP T
D I I I T C court martial." Mitchell went oa.
"The investigation that really la
. Electrical— W.
H.
Emerick.
i Charles Donnelly, president o f i l i l l l w l
I z l l J f t H / needed I* of the war and navy de-
Inc., of Portland, 86,818.24.
A silk ribbon factory
partmenth and thsir conduct la
| the Northern Pacific railroad,,
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Plumbing— Sturgis ft Sturgis
recently.
established hero
one of the witnesses, told Clyde I
I ’ U the disgraceful administration of
ot Portland, 16747.'
will take some of the
Blackboards — Northwestern
B Aitchlson chairman of th> I I I I i l l . | J | j/A I Jfi Ji\ aviation."
first raw silk produced at
Furniture Co. of Portland, |1 6 8 0 j
I commission that In no year sinc > * * v w
Crawford's farm.
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I the passage of the transport» '
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The board members are much,
pleased at the result of the!
j tlon act has the Northern P»-j
man, giving the name of Her-
bidding, as is Architect Tour-|
ciflc railroad earned a fslr re ber nagley, who cashed fictitious
telotte, although the latter and
turn on Its Investment.
I checlfs in Ashland early this week.
I "A t the end of 1924 the com-
belng sought by officers in
board members regret that at
least some of the contract work
pany’s Investment In road equip Northern California for offenses'
did not go to local bidders.
Intent, material and supplies and committed there, it was learned
working caiiital amounted to t0(,ay.
However,
the
architectural
in aptte of the cool weather, a
| 8588,000,000,” Donnelly said.
Bagley worked his game on on*
firm of Tourtellotte ft Hummell
very good crowd attended the fin
. “Upon this Investment It had n Ashland merchant Tuesday after-
will have a* their local represent
al band concert of the season given
; return for the year 1924 of 3.3«, noon. The Standard Cleanera were 1
ative during the building work, |
by the Ashland City Band, under
Frank Clark, the Medford archi
the victims o f the bogus check the direction of Cast Lovetaad
tect, who has been collaborating
gam*.
last night * The concert was held
The forger ordered a suit of
with them since obtaining
In Llthia Park.
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C. A. Ramsey Held for Alleg
clothing at the Standard Cleaners,
architectural contract; and
The vocal numbers. " If You
ed Inraanoe of Bad
and offered a check of 886 In pay Knew Susie Like I Know Seale"
school board has t retained
Check
ment of a deposit. He requested sad “Silver Threads Among The
L. M iller, well-known local
810 change, and a cheek was given Gold," both eaag by Lovetaad.
tractor, as their inspector
C.. ft. Ramsey, a former reel- MELLON ON SURVEY
him. He canhetL the check at the
representative.
dent of Montague, Cal., was
OE BIG RUM FLEET Plata Confectionary s taw minutes were the features of the concert.
The last two concerts given by
bound over ot the grand Jury
later.
SPANISH OFFENSIVE
the band have been given wlthoat
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10— «1.
at his,prelim inary hearing yes
The Bagley check was returned the members ot tho organisation
AGAINST R IF PS ON terday afternoon' in Judge Tay p .)— Secretary of the Treasury
from the bank, and now the police receiving compensation- tor thsfr
PARIS, Sept. 10.— (U . P .)— lor’s court la Medford, on a Mellon has made a personal sur are on the lookout, for Bagley. It
The combined French and Spanish charge of larceny by bailee, har vey of the rum fleet, aboard a la declared he worked the same efforts. The earlier concert* were
paid for by the city aad the cham
offensive against A M Rl Krim is ing purchased an automobile coast guard cutter off the North game In Northern California.
ber of commerce.
expected to start within
a day --- or from
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firm during Atlahtlc coast, and has found the
The same night 86 gallons of
two. W hile twelve thousand fipan-' early August, giving a trsudu- conditions there
greatly
Im
gasoline war* stolen fpMa The
Ish pushed their way from Alhuee-j lent oheok In part payment, and proved, he. announced upon hla
Starfdard Cleaners cleaning plant
mas Bay with little or no resist- then driving the car outside of return to hla desk here today.
on Ashland creek. Although they
sacs against AJdlr, tho Rlffian the elate, tt la alleged.
have not Deen able to obtain def
Capitol, still other forces i n re-
Ramsay was arrested Tuesday,
Roseburg — California-Oregon inite eluee oa this robbery, the
ported to have mad* a landing nt here, by State Traffic Officer
Power Co., may build major pow police believe Bagley afigo eommit-
ed thia crime.
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for the past three years
near here by H. A. Craw-
ford, who studied silk
worm production for sev-
eral years in the orient.
C r a w f o r d now ha»
about 80,000 silk worms
which have spun their
cocoons.
He is confi
dent that the quality of
silk in the cocoons will
be excellent.
Next year
he plans to have 200,000
of the worms. He esti
mates than 100,000 silk
worms
will
eat
1500
pounds of leaves during
the six months of their
live*.
Whan
Crawford
de
cided that the Portland
climate and soil were
suitable for - »ilk worm
culture he purchased a
farm and set out mul
berry trees which have
thrived.
He
believes
that two crops of silk
cocoons each season will
be possible, because mul
berry leaves stay green
late Into the fall.
A*
soon as the moths emerge
from their cocoons and
lay their eggs he starts
hatching
the
second
Northern Pacific
Loses Money
Declares Officer
i?:
onr ¡lie purpif
UUUUI a
a
Good Crowd in
Attendance at
Last Band Concert