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Kiddies’ Evening
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By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
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'" T o meet the crowded condition in the court
house, and to- relieve the expense and delay in work
. due to so many officers being in scattered offices,
-the County Court over- a year ago decided to con­
struct an addition to the present building sq as to
get all the officers under one roof, if possible. The
estimated coat of this would be aroundw $b0,000.00.
They also considered the1 installation of a central
heating, plant to eliminate the fire hazard of the
eleven «»I<1 fashioned wood stoves and numeroift
electric heaters.
When the court made its purjmse known, many
citizens in the county nrged them to withhold final
action to permit a survey to be made in the hope
that some better and more economical plan might
be devised. It was Relieved that the public general^
ly would prefer thè location of thp> county seat in
a more central location, since the ultimate con­
sideration of a new building could not longer be
postponed. The court agreed to await until the
people had an opportunity to express tliemselv.es on
the question.
Going further into the matter, and obtaining
accurate figures from reliable contractors, checking
up the needs of the several county departments,
etc., the County court reached the inevitable con­
clusion that, even with such addition provided, •
-within a few years an entire new building would
be absolutely necessary. The cost of the new addi­
tion would then be lost completely. They decided
that the new building would also be an economic
saving in the long run. This same conclusion is
bound to be reached by any one who will give the
m atter a little study.
It is illegal for a county to issue bonds for con­
structing of remodeling a court house. It therefore
means that if the county seat is left in Jacksonville
the county court must immediately levy a tax either
to patch up the old buildings or build new- ones.
On the other hand if the county seat be moved to
Medford it will not be neceésai^r to levy a tax for
a court house for at least five And probably eight
or ten years or until such time as the county would
outgrow the building that is donated by the City
of Medford.
Realizing that the intolérable condition of the
present court house could not much longer exist and
realizing that the farmers in the county, due to hard
conditions were not in shape to stand any extra
taxes either to remodel the present court house at
’Jacksonville was the reason that the Medford city
council offered to build a new city hall and lease
it to the county for five or more years at $1.00 per
year, thus obviating the*necessity of the county’s
levying any tax to remodel or build a new court
house when fanning conditions are not of the best.'
It is for you taxpayers of Jacksòn County to say
whether or not you want to be taxed immediately to
remodel the present qourt house in Jacksonville or
build a new one there or whether you want to take
advantage of the free offer of the city of Medford
for the next five or ten years and not have to pay
any taxes for remodeling or building a court house
during that time.
That Lott Hoar
What Others Say
Dean Inge says the British
empire Is tottering to Its fall.
Maybe so. But a Scientific
fellow-cointftm an of h i s
once explained that m*a n.
walks by a succession of fall­
ing motions, and we’ve n o­
ticed that Britain usually-
totters forward.— La • Grand
Observer.
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You could make Billy get
his problems by telling him
how smart he is, but alas!
he knows the system, too,
and works it on dad.— Cor­
vallis Gazette-Times.
In various part of the
country people are wonder­
ing how to act when Queen
Marie is around > act l i k e
Americans, the queen came
to see the United States, not
a bunch of flunkies.— Pen­
dleton East. Oregonian.............
President. Coolidge, accerd-
ing to a Washington dis­
patch,-says that those who do
not vote are disloyal. That
Is putting it a hit strong.
Just plain lazy is nearer the
truth.— Eugene Register.
And now it is a >450,000
hotel for Baker. Well, noth­
ing is too good.— B a k e r
Democrat.
“ God may love common people” as Lincoln said,
but apparently our legislators do not. They seem to
prefer the well known saying “ To him that hath .
shall I k * given, while from him that hath not shall
lie taken away.”
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Consider the tobacco sales tax passed by the
1925 legislature .and on the November ballot by.
referendum. It iin|H»ses a tax averaging from 10 to
15 jx*r cent on smoking tobacco and cigarettes.
.. Now, cigarettes and tobacco are smoked by the
common people. They have always been the “ poor*
m an's luxury.” So our obliging legislators ^would
require him to pay for a State revenue stamp on
each package. He who enjoy« n pipe or cigarette
is therefore to pay heavily for the privilege. So
much for “ him that hath not.”
• W hat about “ him that h ath ” —the well-to-do
map who can afford and enjoys fine Havana cigars!
Is he not to pay an even higher tax! Nay, not set For
cigars are totally exempt. The tax for both is to
be paid by bis less fortunate brother citizen. At
least so our legislators projiose. ,
Fortunately, whether or not the old savings
shall prove true this time is up to the ‘‘common
people.’’ Fortunately again, as Lincoln said, God
made a lot of them. We imagine they will vote
“ 323—NO” and rid Oregon of this most diaerunina-
tory and foolish tax.
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‘ Consider the price of milk. And still they issue
bunting licenses.
Belief Is something t It a t .
makes thinking unnecessary.
CuBtom is a starch that Is used
to stiffen up a popular evil.
Sympathy Is a beautiful thing
up to the point where it gets
mushy.
Ambition that overlooks the
law of gravitation is in for a bad.
spill.
You may know as much as the
boss, but he uses his knowledge
and you don't.
Only by the closest calcujatlor
can you make the bread and but­
ter served in restaurants come out
even.
Hez Heck says: "A widder who
hated her first husband is al­
ways in a hurry to git a second.”
KANSAS CITY, hJlo.— Mrs.
Mrs. Jessie B. Walker was
granted a divorce from Carl
C. Walker, the “sunshine
evangelist,” whom she de-
serlbed in the divorce court
aa Having a "nasty disposi­
tion^ and an ungovernable
temper.”
BROOKLYN — Although
he is held in the Queen’s
county Jail on charges of
first degree murder $1.65 is
still >1.65 to Chin Sing. A
fellow prisoner pledged his
hat to the Chinaman in re­
turn for a loan of $1.65.
Then the borrower, Herbert
Phillips was released from
custody but he had to go hat­
less until his attorney nad
visited Chin’s cell and duly
turned over a dollar bill, six
dimes and a nickel.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,
One fourth of the Freshman
class at Rutgers college fail­
ed to pass in an intelligence
test, according to Dean Wal­
ter Marvin. But a fresh­
man, Arnedd Snow of ^ew
Brunswick, helped to tiring
up tire general average by
going over the mark a n d .
scoring 107 per cent.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
ASHLAND.
10 Years Ago
20 Years Ago
30 Years Ago
Herman Mattern returned last
week to hla Highland mine In the
Salmon mountains in Siskiyou
‘county after a three weeks visit
In this city.
Mrs. F. B. Hatch and .children
are up from Santa Rosa, Cal., to
spend a month at the home of
Mrs. Hatche’s parents, Mr. ahd
Mrs. Wm. Nelson In this city.
Mrs. Gertrude Barclay enter-*
tajned • number of friends Mon­
day evening. Croklnole and whist
occupied the evening.. The guests
were Mr. and Mrs. A. Hinman,
Jr., Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sherwln,
Mr. and HrS. H. L. Whiled, Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Drake, Mr. and
Mrs. p. W. Paulson, the Misses
Picard and GUI and Messrs W. G.
Kropke fcnd Robert L. Vining.
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Mrs. Will'Dodge, Who has been • Eugene Register: Dr. Tilton,
undergoing an operation at the wh orecently disposed of hla
sanitarium is reported to be im­ property on East Ninth street, in
proving nicely.
company with his wife, has gone
to Ashland to reside.
Word has been received that
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Connor, who
planned to spend the summer in
Alaska, are.returning to Ashland,
finding that the northerly climate
did not agree with Mr. Connor’s
health.
O. F. Billings reports the sale
of the desirable residence proper­
ty- of O. R. Gallant and wlf^ dr.
North Main street to W. D.’ Smith
of Ohio, who will immediately
take possession of the place and
Improve it.
Mnhalla had simply lost an hoar
that day. She really had not known
what had happened to it and then,
wonder of wouders, a little guowe
had appeared.
His. name was Someone and It
was he who was the creature meant
when people said that “Someone”
’ must know or that “Someone” eould
do this or that. ~
Someone wore a green suit with
gold buttons. He dressed very
hnndsomely.
Someone had come to call on Ma­
halla and he had Invited her to go
with him to Visit the Valley of
Memories.
There he had also shown her the
mountains that were all around the
valley.
The mountains were made ont of
ambitions of people and there It
was so that even people who felt
they had failed and npt realized
their ambitions had really helped
and had not really failed.
Those who had not won prizes
but who had tried had all been a
part of building up the mountains
of ambitious and success and of
trying, for the trying for things was
whut built the great bed rocks and
foundations of the mountains.
Someone had. also shown Mahalla
where all the Jolly thoughts and
memories stayed so people could
always aufnmon them -to their
minds when they wished.
And then Someone took Mahalla
back home.
There was something about the
Valley of Memories that made her
want to send only memories she
cared about there, for sulky mem­
ories and selfish memories and hor­
rid memories had such a dreadful
time when they arrived. ■ „
They had to fuss and change and
rearrange themselves instead of be­
ing able to enjoy the place nt once.
A lost hour was a pity aa It was
not an hour which hud lost Itself
hut only through her, though some­
times lost hours were lost by her
when they passed so quickly with
fun.
That was quite all right. But she
didn’t tiunt any ugly, dragging
hours. They hud such shuttling
8omeone Bade Her a Polite Fare­
well.
feet, and seemed so ashamed of
themselves when they came arriv­
ing In the Valley of Memories.
But because the hours belonged
to everyone there was always some
good about every one of them.
That was such a ’Comforting
thought
’ "Good-by, Someone,” Mahalla said,
as Someone bade her a polite fare­
well.
“You’ve certainly taken me on a
most remarkable trip and I’m ever
so grateful to you.
“I’ll never forget It as long as I
live."
“Then It was a good trip,” said
8omeone delightedly. “We who be­
long to the Valley of Memories can
have no greater compliment paid
us than to hear that something was
so wonderful or so beautiful or so
thrilling that It can never, never be
forgotten.
“Thank you, little Mahalla.”
Someone was gone. But he had
left a diamond right on the wln-
dowslU.
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But was It a diamond?
Mahalla looked and looked again.
No, Jiow funny I It waB a sun­
beam and it was coming, dancing
through the window.
And now Mahalla remembered.
She had been wondering about that
lost hour after she had gone to
bed, and now It was morning.
But certainly some one had been
to see her and had talked to her
and had taken her on a trip, <
Why of course some one had.
He even said his name waa
SOMEONE 1
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ESTEVAN, Sask., (U P )— Far­
mers in the Eatevan district can
snap their fingers at Old Man
Winter. Coal is selling ut^trom
$1.80 to $3.00 a ton and you can
lay in a whole winter’s supply fot
what a couple of tons would cost
The Travelers’ Insurance com­ you In New York or Chicago.
pany, G. F. Billings, agent, has
DAILY BIBLE PASSAGE!
Just paid B. F. Reeser, $60 for
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falling downstairs. This Is the
"V ffn the pure all things
second time this company h a s
are pare; bat unto them that
paid him for injuries within the are dcflde and unbelieving is
last six months.
nothing pure., but even their
Mist Elsie Harner, who h a s
8. H. Calhoun, well known tax­
been attending the Ran Francisco
Mrs. Col. Wm. Meyer left for idermist, is (Visiting his son, -Jas.
Instltue of Art, returned home Des Moines. Wash., Saturday eve­ Calhoun In Ashland, for a few
last Wednesday.
ning to settle np some business.
days.
mind and conscience
llied." TMns Is 18.
is
do­
What a terribly charge to
impurity; and yet we must
agree with Paul: purity and
impurity cannot live In the
same mind and heart.
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“I can’t benr It!" sobbed Lydia.
“I can't. Seems sdmetimes If I
couldn't have little Pntlence again
I’d die! That’s the way she looked
TH £ STORY
In her coffin, you remember?
‘F-fresh from the hand of God—
CHAPTER I.— W ith h«r baby s is ­ not one who h-had lived and s-suf-
ter, P atience, Lydia returns from fered death.' O my little, little
play to the untidy home of her Im­
poverished father, Amos Dudley, at sister!”
L ake C ity. Her fath er’s friend, and
John gathered Lydia in his arms
her own devoted admirer, John L e­ and hushed her against his heart
vine, after d iscu ssin g affairs w ith
“Sweetheart 1 Sweetheart! Why,
D udley, m akes up his mind to go
I didn’t realize you still felt so!
into politics.
CHAPTER II. — Lydia, P atien ce Think how happy Patience roust
and a companion, K ent Moulton, be up there with God and her moth­
p layin g by the lake, are accosted er! You wouldn't wish her back !"
by an ord squaw from the nearby
“If I believed that I could stand
reservation. Lydia g iv es her food.
Margery, em ail d aughter o f Dave It—but there Isn’t any God!”
M arshall, the tow n's banker. Joins
Levine gasped. “Lydld! Hush
them . In their play M argery fa lls
Into the w ater. She is pulled out, now! Stop crying and tell me
unhurt but frightened, *and taken about It."
home by L xdla and K e n t Her fa ­
Ills sallow face was set with
th er ca lls on AitfDa to complain,
pain. Why, child, this Isn’t right
b lam ing L ydia for the mishap.
You're too young for such thoughts!
CHAPTER IIT.—L ydia explain«
the qccident and a sserts th at be­ Lydia", do you read the Bible?"
, She nodded. "I’ve tried that,
cau se M argery Is considered "stuck
up” she la not a popular playm ate. too—hut Jesus might hnve believed
M arshall arran ges for L yd ia- to everything He said was true, yet
teach Margery* to sw im and oth er­
w ise become "one o f the crtfwd." there mightn’t have been a word of
L evine tells Amos h is pljin to take truth In It. Do you believe In God?”
tim ber from the Indian rese fv a tlo »
John's hold on the thin bands
and u ltim ately have It o p en el for tightened. He stared long and end­
settlem en t.
lessly past (lie window.
CHAPTER IV. — P atien ce su c­
“Lydia," he said, at last ’TU Ad­
cum bs to an a tta ck o f diphtheria,
lea v in g Lydia fe e lin g that her trust mit that my faith In the hereafter
in God Is lost and her sm alt w orld and In an AU-seelng God has been
h as collapsed. She flnds com fort in considerably shaken as I’ve grown
the lo vin g kindness of Jphn L e­
vine. L ydia learn s th a t a note of older. But I’ll admit, too. tMat I’ve
A m os’, backed by L evine and held refused to give the matter much
by Marshall, is due and cannot be thought. I tell you what I’ll do.
m et. THe child pleads w ith Mar­ Let’s you and I start on our first
shall, and for her sak e he agrees to
travel trip, right now I Let’s start
renew the note.
looking for God, together. He’s
“He’ll kill some-one In a football t^ora- nll right my child. But you
scrimmage yet,” was John’s com aM117 don’t eeem to he able to use
the ordinary paths to get to Him.
merit.
So we ll hack out our own trail,
“No, the boys say he never loses eh?
And you’ll tell me what your
his temper.' The rest of them do. progress
Is—and where you get
I wish girls played football. I bet lost—and I’ll
tell you. It may take
I’d make a good quarterback.”
us years, hnt we’ll get there, by
John laughed weakly but de­ Heck
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lightedly. “You must weigh fully
Lydia looked Into the deep black
a hundred pounds! Why, honey,
they’d trample a hundred pounds to eyes long and earnestly. And as
she looked there stole Into her
death!”
heart a sense of companionship, of
“They would not!” Lydia's voice protection,
of complete understand­
was Indignant. "And Just feel my ing, that spread
like a worm glow
muscles. I get ’em from swim­ over her tense nerves.
It was a
ming.’’
that every chtld should grow
John rnn his hand over the sense
up with, yet that Lydia had not
proffered shoulders ami arm. "My known
since her mother’s death.
goodness,” lie said in astonish­
“Oh!" she cried, “I feel happier
ment. “Those muscles are like already.
Of course we'll find Him.
tiny steel spring! Well, what else
hunt tomorrow.”
would you like to be besides quar­ I’ll • begin • m.v
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terback, Lydia?”
Amos was keenly Interested In
Lydia hitched her chair closer to Levine's
campaign. He took Lydia
Levine and glanced toward the one September
evening Just before
kitchen where Lizzie was knitting school opened to
hear John make
and warming her feet In the oven. a speech In the square.
Lydia up
“I’d like to own an orphan nsylum. to this time had given little
And I’d get the money to run It to the campaign, hut she was heed
de­
from a gold mine. I would find a lighted with the unwonted adven­
mine In New' Mexico. I .know I ture of being away from home In
could If I could Inst get out there.” the evening.
“But what are you really going
the wooden platform extend­
to do with yourself, Lydia, pipe ed On
from the granite' steps of the
dreams aside?”
cnpltol a hand dispensed dance
“Wjell, first I’m going to get an music nnd patriotic airs, breaking
education, clear up through the uni­ into “America” as Levine made his
versity. ‘Get an educntlon If you way to the front of the platform.
have’to scrub the street to do it,’
Lydia stared up nt him. She
was what mother always said. ‘You - wns
filled with pride at the thought
can lie a lady and be poor,’ she of how
close and dear he was to
said, ‘but yOu can’t be n Jady and
her. She wished that the folks
use poor English.' And then I’m about
her realized that she nnd her
going to he as good a housekeeper
father were Intimate with
as Mrs. Marshall and Urn going to shabby
dross ns well ns Olga Reinhardt, the hero of the evening.
The first part of the address In­
and have ns pretty hands as Miss
Towne. And I'm never going to terested Lydia very little. It. con­
move out of the home I mnke. May­ cerned the possibility of a new post
be I’ll get married. I suppose I’ll office for Lake City and made
have to 'cause I wnnt at lenst six numerous excursions Into the mat­
children, and some one’s got to sup­ ter of free trade. Then of a sud­
port them. And I’ll want to travel den Levine launched his bolt
“Ladies and gentlemen, twenty
a good deal.”
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"Travel takes money,’’ John re­ miles north of this old and highly
civilized city lies a tract of fifty
minded her.
By the middle of January Levine miles square of primitive forest,
wns sufficiently recovered to leave. Inhabited by savages. That tract
The Saturday before he left* oc­ of land is as beautiful as a dream
curred another conversation be­ of heaven. Virgin pines tower to
tween him and Lydia that cement­ the heavens. Little lakes lie hid
ed still further the quaint friend­ like Jewels on Its bosom. Its soil
Is black Fur-benrlng anlmal$ fre-
ship of the two.
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Lizzie was taking a long nap. guent It now as they did a century
The dear old sonl had been ex­
“Friends, in this city of white
hausted by tile nursing. Irvine
lay on the couch and finally asked men there Is want and suffering for
Lydtfi to read aloud tf> him. She fhe necessaries of life. Twenty
was deep In “The Old Curiosity rfnlles to the north lies plenty for
Shop’* and wns glad to share It every needy inhabitant of the town,
n bit of loam and heaven-kissing
With her friend.
Suddenly Levine was astonished pines for each and all.
to hear Lydia’s voice tremble. She
"But, you say, they belong to the
waa reading of little Nell's last Indians I Friends, they belong to
sickness. “She was dead. Deer, a filthy, degenerate, lazy race of
patient, noble Nell wns dead. No savages, who refuse to till the fields
sleep so beautiful and calm. She or cut the pines, who spend on
•eemed a creature fresh from the whjsky the money allowed them by
hand of God. Not one who had a benevolent government and live,
for the rest, like beasts of the field.
lived and suffered death."
’'•‘Why, I ask you, should Indians
Lydia suddenly broke off, bowed
her yellow head on the book and he pampered and protected, while
broke Into deep, long-drawn sobs Fhltes live only In the bitter alf
that were more like a woman’s Of comnetltion?.
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than a child's.
(Continued Tomorrow)
John rose as qalckly as he
conld. "M.v dearest I* he exclaimed.
“What’s, the matter?” He pulled
During the last six years aerial
her from the armchair, seated ambulances in France have trans­
himself, then drew her to his
kneoa
ported more than 3000 wounded
(Now (o on with the • ry)
soldiers.
(Continued From Yesterday)