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six page issues each day of the
week, Instead of only three days
each week, as we w ill have at
first. .
W ith the larger number of
pages and the inclusion of the
qp-to-date features which Tho
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Tidings has arranged for, Ash­
Cleveland, recognised aa the pre­ land w ill have a newspaper of W e have been forced to send
the
management feels for pears aa far ae Salem, in or­
m ier illustrated cut service of. which
der to fill our orders,"
Mr.
the world. To Illustrate the eer- sure the city w ill be proud.
Koozer explained.
vice which thia company w ill
“W ith two more years to go
render The Tidings, our readers
before we w ill have been through
w ill remember th a t illustrations
a five year period of advance­
of the submarine accident recent­
ment, I see no reason why the
ly were published In The Tidings
Ashland Preserving company, or
as quickly as in tbs largest Pacific
the Bagley .Canning company aa
Coast newspapers, sk NBA rushed
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th e ir cuts to the coast by a ir­
putting up a pack of 10 times
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plane.
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Local Cannery Has
in Three Years
Excellent Growth
New Press Makes
Possible a
Better Paper
New Press Permits
Time for More
News Gathering
Present features, “ Great Moth­
ers of the W o rld ," by Mrs. Mery
Oreer Conklin; “ Sap and Salt,”
by Bert Moses; "Stew art’s Wash­
ington L etter,“ end "Tom Sims
Seye," special features which The
Tidlngh baa been publishing, w ill
be ooatlnued.
The pages of The Tidings w ill
remain eight columns wide, so
the reader w ill see that the in­
crease from tour to six pages
three days each week, and often-
e r whenever neceseary, w ill give
60 per cent more space In the
three six-page issues and the
asme amount o f apace in the
three four-pace toeuee.
The Tidings feels certain that
w ithin the near fu tu re the re-
sponae w ill be a sufficient In­
c re a ti In advertising to Justify
cltlsens of Ashland w ill consider
this Investment as much theirs
ae The Tidings, fo r the com­
m unity supports the newspaper
and we feel sure that the re ­
sponse w ill be such In the years
to come that the faith of thia
newspaper w ill prove Justified.
W ith the equipment of two
linotypes, the new press and
other equipment which goes to
make up a modern newspaper
and printing plant. The Dally
Tldinga la better able today than
ever before to handle "anything
to
It o .“ t U l W c l t l x e n
land m ight need.
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the city w ill be accomodated.
W ith the children on the Best
side of the city being taken care
of a t the new grade school on
Beach street*, the city w ill be
in possession of
two grade
schools, ons situated on each
side of the city, w ith the High
Sohool and the Junior High
school centrally located.
In addition, the strain on the
High School w ill be relieved, by
transferring e. number of pupils
in that Institution to the Junior
High school. A t the
present
time, the High School cares for
all pupils in the ninth, tenth,
eleventh and (twelfth grades.
When the new school system 1s
complete, the pupils in the ninth
grade w ill be transferred to the
Junior H ig h school, leaving the
High School w ith hut the tenth,
tors, this system of 6-3-a, or tne
first six grades on one school,
the next three In another school,
and the three highest In s till an­
other school il as proven to be
the best method, both for the
education, and for the segrega­
tion o r the children. I t has been
held that the students of the
ninth grade, on the average, are
not mature enough to mingle
w ith the older students of the
High School. I t Is for thia rea­
son that C ity Superintendent* of
Schools George A. Brisco ad­
vocated the adoption ot the 6-3-3
system of education when the
folded.
a margin above the bids on the
normal school building, large
enough to allow the work, that
the wings w ill be added to the
Beech street school at once, the
Normal school regents to pay
the cost of the
construction
work. Thus I t additional rooms
w ill be added to the city school
system, and the normal school
w ill be given excellent practice
teaching facilities.
This plan haa not been en­
tirely worked out,
but
it is
feasible, those Interested In the
work declare, and they say that
if possible the plan w ill be
carried to completion,
inated the old time expert type­
setter and revolutionised the
trade In less than 25 years. A
folding machine was installed in
1908 a t the same time as the
linotype. Then the semi-weekly,
into which the weekly Tidings
had been changed a few years
before, wae put out in eight page
Instead of four page form. Other
equipment in the mechanical line
had also been added until the
Tidings in 1908 had what was
considered one of the best end
most up-toniaje country plants
In Oregon.
The location of the first Tld-
brlafc ta lM ta r . upatolrz 1»
is BOV the Stats Bank building,
and from there to Ito present lo­
cation.
Reference abevld be made per­
haps to the Tidings competitors In
the Ashlgnd field.
Competition
van fo r a long tim e keen and
active.
The Valley Record was
established about 1817 by N. A.
Jacobs and soon B. J. Kaiser,
for years a typesetter In the Tid­
ings office, Joined Jacobs In part­
nership. Then M r. Kaiser became
sole owner and continued so un­
til about 1818 when Charles B.
Wolfe purchased the paper and
published the Ahhland (Record.
Ownership reverted to Kaiser,
who leased it for a time, then
sold the plant fo Medford and
this was the pnd of the Record
newspaper.
The5 “ Ashland Ad­
vertiser," “Town T a lk " and the
“Ashland Tribune" were also
more transient candidates for
public . favor. The la tte r under
the management of the Potter
Brothers, made considerable pre­
tensions in the local newspaper
field and met with no small popu­
lar favor for a year or two, only
to lose out in the close competi-
tion.
The plant was sold and
combined w ith the Medford M all
Tribune. The Tidings therefbte
is the sole survivor, and let us
hope the fittest.
Money did not circulate aa wide­
ly or as freely a few years ago
as at present and the per capita
in actual ube in this region.
F ifty or even twenty five years
ago money was limited. I t was
quits usual for subscribers to pay
the printer in promises, potatoes,
wood or watermelons, any of
which served as legal tqnder. And
the help got Ito pay largely in
kind. The editor of fifty years
ago Uks the
doctor and
the
preacher of the same period, was
an object of charity principally,
and thankful for such things as
came his way voluntarily.
Yet
H IS TO R Y O F TID IN O S
STORY OF T H IS
store by Dr. J. H. Chitwood on
the north side of the Plasa, on
the lot now occupied by the Free-
burg building.
The next loca-
tlon was upstaln in a Wooden
building that stood en the site
ot the present Ashland Improve-
ment Co. block on the Plaza.
Next It was moved to a then new
ditions.
Newspapers all over Oregon,
as wej| u jn Ashland and Jaek-
l0 n county. In the earlier years,
were famous for thé fights car-
r iCd on jn th e ir columns between
their editors. These were largely
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BY TAYLOR
the day of available
electrical power or practical gas
engines here, the Tidings presses
>gs • V£S - BY T he way , who
were driven by means of a unique
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w ater power plant. It comprised
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a current wheel In the old woolen
n tll| flume, which passed in the
rear of the office bunding, the
power which it generated being
transmitted to the «econd story
o f the building in which the office
was located, by “means of a wire
cable. I t was a crude arrange­
ment but wonderfully effective in
comparison
with
hand power.
L a te r pressure water from the
city mains was used for power
u n til supplanted by the present
day electric motors.
TH« l i n t linotype, a stanoard
Mergantbaler, was added to tie
Tidings equipment in 1908, the
second machine to be installed
- anywhere between Redding and
r. Roseburg. I t ’s cost, 83500, was
campalgn for the new school
Is considered
quite a venture at
structures was started.
it
the
time.
I
t
is
still doing service
Although the bonds were vot­
>f alongside the newer one of later
ed over four months ago, no de­
1. model added a year or two ago
finite work, w ith the exception
re and which casts several different
of the selection of the site, has
si slses of type by a single move-
been made toward the construc­
is ment of the operator's hand.
tion of the new school building
“ Hand picked" type are now in
or the remodeling of the Haw­ and opening bids, and the local
board agreed to w ait until that little use even in the smaller
thorne structure.
r - Several weeks ago, the mem­ tim e before awarding the con­ country offices. The “machine,"
aa the linotype is referred to In
bers of the board Of education tracts on the school buildings.
I t is planned, that it therq to shop talk, 'has practically elim­
advertised fer bids on the struc­
tures, and estimates were re­
ceived from firms throughout the
Northwest. These bids were op­
ened in due course, but no con­
tracts were let, end have not
been yet.
This action was taken because
the members of the board were
conferring with the members of
the board of regents of the
Oregon Normal Schools, with the
hopes that the regents would
see fit to aid in the construction
of the Beach street school.
When the agitation for the
bond election was first started,
one of the strong talking points
in favor of the measure was the
fact that w ith the present school
facilities, there would not be
enough room for practice teach­
ing when the Southern Oregon
Normal
School
was
opened
regents realized this ract, ana
were perfectly w illing to assist
in any manner possible In the
oenstruction and the. enlarging of
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purchased^ and haa been doing
service in printing the paper from
that day until Jtfst now supplanted
by the new web press on which
this issue is printed, cut and
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