THE D fllb Y TIDINGS' EDITORIAL
ESTABLISHED IN 1876
ONE WAY TO HELP
A local merchant in a recent conversation, in
which ho took occasion to praise the community spirit
that exists locally, mentioned the fact that in one
year, he, in his business, had paid out nearly $3000,
as his share in the financing, of community projects.
While we know little about this .man’s business, We
feel safe in assuming that it does not differ materially
from other institutions in that this amount of money
could have lieen used advantageously, for expansion
or other plans that he undoubtedly had. These were
disregarded however, and he dug down in his pocket
and paid out nearly $.‘{000 in order that he might
do his share in seeing that Ashland went ahead.
Other business men have done likewise, with the
result that there are many community enterprises
here that stand as monuments to the civic activities
of business and professional interests.
When you take down your favorite mail order
catalogue, and get out the order blanks, ready to send
away from the place in which you make your living
the dollars that rightfully belong here, think of this
man and what he has done to make this city a better
place for you and yours to live in.
When you thoughtlessly stop in neighboring
cities and make purchases, think of the loyal busi
ness houses at home who are contributing heavily
out of the money spent with the^n to give you and
your city the many advantages that belong here,
and—
Remember This — Every dollar that is sent out
of Ashland that could be spent here lessens just that
much the ability of local business institutions, to
cooperate on financing the things we need most. If
every one spent their money out of town there would
be no business district, and if there was no business
district there would be no Ashland.
IT SOMETIMES PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
One of the new arrivals in this city receptly told
of the advantages of being ignorant in so far as tra
dition regarding the success or failure of certain
projects are concerned. He aptly illustrated this
by telling of an incident that occurred in a neighbor
ing state several years ago when the question of
local option was up for discussion. He was named ..
chairman of the committee in charge of the cam
paign to see that local option was made effective in
his city.. He had lived there for some time, he.knelv
the temperament of the people residing there. He
had no hesitancy in declaring that it would be an
impossibility to carry the election. Others felt the
same way, and it was a pessimistic committee which
started on the campaign.
Before they had gotten fairly under way, the
chairman’s duties called him out of town, (He term
ed it an act of providence), and a stranger came
ambling in. He was terribly ignorant in so far as
local conditions were concerned. In fact his ignor
ance extended so far tliat he thought local option
was a possibility in this city. They named him as
the successor to the former chairman, and he in his
ignorant, blundering way did not for a minute real
ize that his was a lost cause, and when tlie votes
were counted, on election night, this poor misguided,
ignorant stranger, who did not know enough to real
ize that local option was an impossibility in his
adopted city, had succeeded in carrying the election.
The inspiration for this littlle prologue was re
ceived when two Ashland citizens today stated th a t”
if everything went well Ashland some day might
be a city of ten thousand but never any more,-and
they were not overly enthusiastic about the prospects
of it ever really reaching that figure either. *
• Well, we are comparatively new in this commun
ity, and we plead guilty to being terribly Ignorant,
and we presume, and assume, that we. shall he brand-
i ed bb such by many when we venture the prediction
that Ashland will become just as large as the people
who reside here want it to be. If the majority of
, them want it l>e a city of ten thousand, in tiino it
will reach that figure. If there are those in sufficient
number who want it to exceed that, it will do so,
and then if there are those whose vision is so ob-
^ “ lbted that they cannot see even a minimum popu-
on of ten thousand, then Ashland will be restrict-
to just exactly the size they wish it to be. The
tie within a community are the guiding factors-.
r are the ones who place the limit upon the
Ih of any community.
In our ignorance we can see at least three differ-
projeett, any one of which developed sufficiently
Id bring Ashland’s population far in excess of the
thousand figure. One of these is the poultry in-
r, one the Lithia Spring water, and the third
granite. .We do not believe that it is feasible or
■al to make an attempt to finanee any one of
tee with local capital, but we do believe that
icient people talk about any one of the three
tg long enough, and loud enough', they are go-
make themselves heard by interests with suf-
capital to make a business out of any one of
that will bring hundreds of new people,
and new money into Ashland, and then
d happen to predictions of a city of ten
C. J. READ, Managing. Editor
and - FEATURE PAGE
W. H PERKINS, News Editor
OUT OUR WAY
B y W illiam s
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND POINTING CO
Kiddies’ Evening
Story
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
H E LLO MA'.
W H U fC H A
D01U ? HUH?
WHurTCHA* ,
Jack F r o tf i Home
••Warm weather nwkes me laey,"
said Jack Frost to his companion,
Master V e ry
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“I’m not one
to like It my
self," said Mas
ter Very Cool.
doim * T h e r e ?
myself every
summer that I
simply
won’t,
let it get the
best of me, but
It does, every
cannot go out
In the warm
“Warm snm-
nre r evenings
,ion't Interest
*"« ,n ‘>ie feast.
They make me
feel so drowsy and so sleepy, and I
just stay In my Frost Palace and
sleep.
“You like my Frost Palace, don’t
you?" Jack Frost asked.
“Oh, enormously,” Bald Master
Very Cool.
“It has been nice of you to have
me here for a visit, too. ' I really i
had no place to go when the weath
er was so warm.
“I couldn’t stay outdoors when It
was like that, and no ono asked
me Ilf.
“I didn’t feel like going In any
where, either. If I pad been asked,
I would have said:
“ ’No, thank you, I simply can- ■
not accept your invitation.’ But as
I received no invitations, I didn’t
I have to make such a speech.
“But you are so beautifully sltu-
i nted here. Your cool cave In the
‘ heart of these cool woods Is so
lovely. The little pond nearby with
such cool water Is delightful. And
I do admire the works of art you
have about.”
“Well,” said Jack Frost, “I do
like to have a nice home. I like it
to be big, too, because there are all
my magic workers, wbtj make this
(Corvallis Gazette- Times)
their headquarters.
“They must have lots of room in
A veteran railroad official
which to prepure some of their
whq read of the aid given the magic paints, too.
“I must have plenty of room, too.
chahffeur of one of the railroad'^
“But I am delighted to hear you
automobile busses In changing a BOjr that you like jny works of art.
“Pve kept them here, some of
tlrej on the road recalls the- simi them, sine# I've been very young.
lar Jsplrlt In the early ’70s when / “Years and yearw-and years and
years ago my great, great, great,
steam locomotives burned w ood.1 great, great-grandfather ¿¡aid:
“ ‘Little Jack Frost promises to
It Vas the duty of the entire
a talented boy. Let him liave
Iraki crew In those days to be
bis own way.
’‘wood up” engtnes at the many
“ ‘Don’t try to teach him any- j
wood yards along the line. Occa thing, but let him use ills own Ideas
sionally passengers fell ¿ o and and tils own Imagination.’
“Now, with most, that might not
helped. Immigrants earned a part have been of nny use. If you let
others just use tlieir own ideas and
Imagination and didn’t make them
study and combine their study with
their ’own Ideas, they will amount
to very little, If anything.
“But they could see that I was
brakes,
dubbed
‘‘Armstrong”
different. And almost ns soon fts
brakes, and on steep declines I was able to walk I was beginning
through mountainous sections to show what I could do.
“Some of those childish works I
passengers helped In applying
have here. You will see some
the brakes. Passenger coacheo still
of the paintings of lftlle bushes—
were lighted with sperm candle?, these are what I did when I wnsn’t
which sometimes burned ont. Ac big enough to reach unything
higher.
cordingly, passengers who Insist
“Now with the aid, of course, of
ed : upon eravellng In luxury my great steplndder, I can reach
bron ght their own candles, often anything.
“Tops of trees mean nothing to
mogntdd In ~ special traveling me!
I can.reach them nil. But I
have these paintings and frostlngs
and window work all about her«.
12**"_____
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Soma of the
Paintings.
,
What Others Say |
ANO
CLEBURNE, Tex., — Mrs. C.
G. Fitzgerald, 40, died when the
limb of a tree which he husband
waa sawing to hive some bees,
fell on her, breaking her neck.
LONDON,
It may come In
handy sometime,*’ Thomas S.
Frankland, 45 year old war vet-
erant, would say when his wife
urged him to throw away a
German pistol he found In
Flanders. He used the pistol—
to commit suicide because he
could not find work.
•’ Fashion h reit^cted « o re th in
the Supreme Court.
V J« i ’ 1
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Marriage is the only game
where tw<t can play and both
lose.
What Is often taken as a
change
of heart Is only a fear of
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,— When
punishment.
Mrs. L. F. McNamara scratched
her nose In a minor automobile
Some of the lies folks tell
accident, causing It to bleed,
about
us are not nearly so bad as
she telephoned her husband. He
all
the
truth would be.
rushed to the scene of the acci
dent. saw the blood on his wife’s
nose, and fell to the pavement
Wte are all apt to be more stub
born about doing a thing wrong
in a dead faint.
than about doing it right.
PHILADELPHIA— ’’Gene” and
Jack are the names given the
husky twin sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Hez Heck says: ’’Bern wrong
James Allen, who were born ever now and then Is bad enough
while the Tunney-Dempsey cham but makin* a habit of it is Jlst
pionship bout was being fought. awful.”
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
. ASHLAND
10 Years Ago
20 Yéars Ago
Sunday afternoon a few friends
of Miss Ella Bunnell called at her
home on Garfield street and song
some lovely songs, thereby bring
ing cheer and gladness into the
sick room. Little Claudine Cox
sang a pretty little solo, which
was much appreciated by Miss
Bunnell and her mother. Those
present, were Mellle
Morton,
Myrtle DeCarlo, Alta Morton,
Claudine Cox, Nettie Bacon, Jen
nie Tooker and Irma Bacon.
Wednesday Club Program—
afternoon.
Voeal solo— Carl Lovelond.
Piaao duet— Mrs. J. R. Robert
son, Miss Jones.
Vocal solo— Mrs. D. D. Norris,
Piano solo— Mrs. H. O. Pur-
Vocal solo— Herbert Alford.
Sunday school orchestra— Geo.
Caldwell, Harvuy and Chester
Woods.
Voeal solo— Marguerite Frlo-
wold.
Violin Obligato — Harvey
Woods.
,
Bveaihg:
Piano solo— Mrs. Strlcl land.
Vocal duet— Mrs. 8.
’rovost,
E Rasor. »
Vocal solo— Mr. Rasor.
ASHLAND
3 0 Years Agi
Ten Ashland boys were added
to the 8. P. payroll this week,
h&vfng Joined the work train
forqes under O’Neil, now engaged
near Slsslon. Among those who
went were Hugh Gillette, Wilson
Fox, Burrell Smith, Morris Ad-
Kev. Robert Tweed departed am t Walter Denny and L. E.
today for Merrill In Klamath Bender.
county, where he goes on mlsslon-
ionary work for the church.
Mayor J. P. Dodge has pur
chased of J. E. Smith the lat
ter’s residence property on the*
Mattle Kincaid left yesterday
Boulevard and Mr. Smith has
for an extended visit through
purchased
Mr. Dodge's property
Iowa and Illinois.
in the Iowa addition and both
expect to occupy their n e w
homes this week.
Ray Sanford1, Harrison Howell,
L. E. Harris and Charles Storms
were among the Ashlanders who
Miaa Minnie Rockfellow, Miss
attended a ball at Talent last
Pickard, J. H.
Briggs, Hum
evening.
Frscht, C. E. Lane and E. M.
Miller, who have had the most
adventurous and delightful camp
ing trip of 3 weeks at Klamath
Attorney E. D. Briggs retnrn- and Crater lakes, reached home
ed on last night’s train from Tuesday. Mlsa Minnie Rockfel-
Portland. James J. McNair who low of the party, holds the ladles'
accompanied him north, extended record for time for the climb
his Journey to Lewiston, Idaho, from the waters edge to the rim
In search of a field for engaging of Crater Lake, having perform
in the drug business. ,
ed the feat in 29 minutes.
Mrs. Geo. W. Vaupel went
Sacramento recently to spend
few days visiting with friends.
LYDIA
OF THE PINES
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HONOREWILLSIE
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COPYRIGHT by
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FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
In the pine forests of the Hiawa
tha country on the upper Missis
sippi lies Lake City, a combination
of N ew England and the modem
W e st Its old settlers, rubbing el
bows with the reservation Indians
and mingling with the sturdy Scan
dinavian and German immigrantg,
are of the pioneer N ew England
stock—“the best blood that Wentf
W est. W ith that best blood Mrs.
W illsie is chiefly concerned in
this essentially American stojjf.
This novel, which cannot fa il to make a vivid and last
ing impression on all readers, starts as a Serial in
some samples
here to keep
and to 'show
what I have
done and to
show what my
\
magic workers
JrrT n
have done.
• “I use dlljer-
v- -
y j
ent colors, I
V i - * —A
make changes,
1 think up new
touches.
Ja
lo "Bh i v e ’ mni
C>"
J . , “»’ 7r.„”5
me so that I will never forget that
I am a frost worker.
“Well, Master Very Cool, I think
it Is going to be cold enough to
night for us, and for all the work
ers to get started. Now for a good
old frost party with lots of gaiety
and color I”
DAILY IUBLB PASSAGE
“Brethren, if a man be over
taken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one
in the spirit of m eekness; con
sidering thyself, lest thou also
be tem pted.” Galatians « : ! .
”A man who never made a
mistake, never made anything”.
We all have our faults and
make mistakes. Read the
above passage again.
if .s s s ta s tn s s u s s g g a s ts s u tiiiittltiliti
i,
The Tidings
SOON
Watch for It!