9
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Of those?"
.»•
"No— just a two-cent stamp.” '
"W hat about a special delivery
stamp?” Insisted the postmaster.
"Best way to send a letter. I t ’ll
<et there sooner. Only ten cents.”
"I*re told you 1 wanted a two-
cent etam p!" declared the custom
er. "Jknd that’s all 1 want.
Do
yon understand?"
"W hat about some post cards?"
asked the unperturbed postmast
er.
But the customer,
having
seised hla two-oent stamp, hur
ried angrily out.
"W h at In the world wore you
doing?" demanded the stranger.
"W hy were you trying to sell that
man everything In the place?**
' "Oh, he’s our barber,’* replied
the postmaster. " I was Just giv
ing him a dose of his own medi
cine.”
'
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Sherlock Holmes Said There Could Be No “Perfect Crime,"But
Killed
— Contributed.
HELLO BILL!
HOW S YOUR WARDROBE TOR
TOMORROW NIGHT?
contact with prac-
MAKE5 V ’C/IRS' tieftlly every standard
make of automobile fur.
‘
nishes us with an ex-
p e rt
n r k i u g know-
ledge th a t is yours to
command.
D r. Leemi«
r J .
B ic e
«
9 pm. he ¿ave his
wife <100, and then
laft thé house for g 45
nùnuic^ valli
' will give you a free brake adjustment
•for one week, starting March 16.
Loomis, hah ware ’
o r ia ro á to r e lo u e '
him. when, th ey aA-
tnikfcexL th ey h a i no
e v id e n c e
D E T R O IT . Mich., Mar. 15 —
Tho "perfect crime’’—
The crime Sherlock Holmes us
ed to say never could be com
m itted—
Did It become a reality hrfre
when Mrs. Grace Loomis, beauti
ful and socially prominent, was
beaten to death In her handRome
suburban home, a scant block
from a police station?
Sherlock Holmes, master mind
at solving crimes done In fiction,
contended a murderer could not
fail to leave some clew that u lti
mately would lead to his arrest.
Right, Maybe, But—
Perhapes Holmes was right.
But—
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»
D etroit’s "homicide squad,” as
capable as any In America, has
worked day and night on the mys
tery of the clubbing of Mrs.
Loomis a few weeks ago.
Their net progress toward solv
ing the death riddle Is—
Exactly none.
They are bewildered.
Mrs. Loomis was tne wife of
Dr. Frank R. Loomis, respected
Detroit physician. They were in
T
Mr».
C re c e
Loomis
their early thirties, parents of two
children, apparently living very
happily in their brick home 09
Marlowe Ave., In a suburban dis
t r ic t.
•
basement, was not locked. There
was milch mud outside. Anyone
entering through that door would
haye had very muddy feet. There
were aot footprints in the mud,
on the cellar stairs or on the clean
linoleum of the kitchen to which
the stairs led.
»
« Thç Tragedy
Tuesday evening, February 22,
Mrs. Loomis sat in the suq par
lor of her home. The lights ware
on and the shades wdre aot
drawn. At about 2:30 o’clock,
Dr. Loomis came home from his
.office.
H alf an hour later— the narra
tive Is the husband’s from hers
on— Dr. Loomis gave hie. wife
1100 for Various household ex
penses, ahd then left the house to
tqke a walk.
At 9:45 o’clock he returned, let
himself In w ith his key — and
found his w ife lying dead oh the
sun room floor. She had been
clubbed to death. There were
rigns in the sun room of a te rrif
ié struggle.
*
One Entrance Unlocked
Front and back doors were
locked. Every window was lo c k -1
ed. A side door, leading to the
This statue of Lincoln was
presea|ed lo th« C l|y ,ot, Afhland
' by Mr? Butler in memory of Its
step-father, Jacob Thomason, a
pioneer of 1247, who first set
tled in the W illam ette valley.
The statue Is cut from
Csr-
I rara marble and' Is '.the work of
I
Hollywood Film
Actress is Killed
In Auto Smashup
The Journalism class of tlie
Southern Oregon Normal sehool
recently, were discussing an as
signment and the question enme
up as to whether the statuo In
L ith la Park was Lincoln or of an
earlier Ashland pioneer.
T. 8.
HOLLYW OOD, Cal., M a r.J B .—
Earfton, Normal school student
and member of the Journalism (U N )— Injuries suffered in aa
class, In an Interview, Mr. »and automobile crash Sunday caused
Mrs. G. 8. Butler, doner of the tho death hère Monday of Helen
i Noward, motion picture actress.
statuo and secured some inter
Loretta Bush and W illiam De
esting facts f concerning this
splendid addition to* the
par*. marest, both ot the screen colony,
A e interview a# prepared
by ★ ere recovering fro m , Injuries
snitoined In the enme accident.
the Normal ktudeht Is as fol
The three were enroute to a W ar
lows;
ner Brothers location, near River
The rumor that the statue In
side when, their machine oolllded
Lithla park is not the statue o? with ataotker.
(
Lincoln
Is unfounded.
"W hy,
aqyonc could tell It is Lincoln,"
e x c lili’ieJ both Mr. and Mrs. G.
Redmond — Fred AtMnson
8. Butler at their beautiful home completes construction of ware
qt 4 1 Granite street, in an in house and lumber storage yard,
cornar 4th and B streets.
terview Saturday,
’
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C. K. WILLIAMS, Prop.
1 *1
gave his wife has not been found.
But two diamond rings on her
hand were aot touched«
No trace of the club with which
she was killed has been found.
Dr. Loomis has offered 11000
reward for the slayer’s arrest.
Probing the doctor’s past, de
tectives learned he was born in
Brooklyn, Mich., on a farm ; stud
ied medicine; entered a New York
hospital as interns; met Grace
said.
They asked why he had blood Burns, a nurse and married her.
stains on his overcoat, his gloves
Ideally Mated
and his hat. He replied that these
In Detroit, Dr. Loomis had
came when he stooped to pick np prosperous practice.
his w ife’s body.
Friends* said the physician and
■ They asked him why there were his. wife we^e Ideally mated, fond
no bloodstains on the telephons of each other, of their home, of
receiver. He replied that he had their -two children.
removed his glove when he tried
The children have not been
to use the instrument.
told of the "perfect crime." They
Dr. Loomis was released after play together happily at the home
there had been widespread expres of Dr. Lommia* mother, hoping
sions of indignation over his a r their own mother soon w ill re
rest. Friends signed petitions ex turn.
pressing complete confidence In
But she w ill not— for she was
him.
the victim of what may prove to
There the case stands.
have been the "perfect crime" at
T h e |ld 0 Dr. Loomis says he last.
I single detail of his story.
They asked him Where he went
on his three-qusrters-of-an-hour
, Walk, and how fast he walkqd. He
told them. A policeman took the
same walk, at the same pace— and
found it took Just 45 minutes.
^Telephone company ■/ records
show that Dr. Loomis’ phone was
listed as out of order from 9:01
to 9:50 o'clock, as Loomis had
Ip S OWN M E D IC IN E
The population of the town was
doubled Sunday and every aspect
The customer wanted a two-
tof She old boom days Is coming. e w t stemp.
Strange ta le * of wealthy finds are
’ ’Envelope to go with it? " ask
told and surveyors are busy stak e d the postmaster.
ing out proper lines.
"No, Just s stamp."
“ W e have some nice eight-cent
stamp».” the postmaster went on.
TONAPAH, Nev., Mar. 14.—
" P re tty color. Good mucilage on
The yellow or gold fever, an af-
, the back. Stick well. W ant one
fllc y p n .o f the Old W»st, waa In
A grip today *< treasure hunters
Streamed through th é picturesque
canyon and across the long, dry
lake beds to Weepas.
LOS ANGELES, M ar. 16.—
Rowen,
A second strike has been made ( U N ) — Mrs. M argaret
and Ed McKelvey, <3 year • old "doom prophetess .god. two of her
k. " '
and
desert character, la the center ’ of associates,'were held to answer
attention as he displays a large charges of conspiracy to murder
quarts boulder flecked with nug D r. Bert Fullm er, leader o f ' the
A paint and varnish for
gets and said to assay 27500 Seventh Day Adventists, ■ a t the
per ton. The place of the find was conclusion of th e ir preliminary
every need
unrévealed, however.
hearing.
-iuMdStT
Antonio F rilli. of Florence, Italy
Australian Employs Novel whose work was exhibited in
the Italian xpavUien
im it
Method of Saving Life
ace of Manufactures a t the Pan
in Crisis
ama Pacific - International expo
SYDNEY. N. S. W .. Mar. 16.— sition at San Francisco, in 1916.
(U N )— Lively steps of ¿he Char It was there .that M r. and Mrs.
leston, danced by Painter Kent Butler selected the statue. Mr.
when he was• attacked by armed Butler expected to secure the
aboriginals on Epi island, saved statue that was exhibited, hat It
Kent from probable death at the was sold to a man who waa con
hands of the cannibalistic savag nected frith the San Franc'»co'
Chronicle, and Mr. Butler was
es.
Kent, • an Australian compose?, supplied with
an exact
copy,
was on a walking tour in the New which was c u t-in Ita ly express
Hebrides group, still inhabited by ly for him.
• .
head hunters, when the savages,
Mr. and Mrs. B utler ware for
brandishing weapons, swarmed quite a while undecided as to
about him.
z
which piece of statuary to select
To distract their
attention from Signor F r illfa
wonderful
Kent swung into the Charleston. display. They for I time favor
Soon the natives caught the in ed s statue of Washington, but
fection of the dance and 'w ere it did not quite come np to their
swaying and shuffling along with ideal of what Washington should
the composed. When the dance be like. The statue of Lincoln
wfts ended the natives lavished seemed perfect. In every detail,
"Kent with presents and escorted and It waa finally chosen from a
him In safety to tho coast.
number g f magnifleient rivals.
The statue 4s six feet, olght
Inches in height« Standing on
its granite base, the great soul
of Lincoln appears«to look out
from, tho beautiful, sad face and
wonder, in his quiet way, at the
hurrying people who daily pass '<
him by, unseeing, unthinking,
Normal S t u d e n t Gathers uncaring.
Some Interesting F acti
on Memorial
• < .Litliia Springs Machine Shop
P X C I lc
NATURALLY
One a t N ight—
Next Day Bright!
A Genuine Treat
ORDERLIES
are an easy relief for con
stipation.
A neyer falling laxative,
gentle in action and absolute
ly sure.
Never necessary to Increase
the -dose.
They work naturally and
form no habit.
Safe for children aa well
as adults.
Three Hlaes
2ffc— BOc— »1.00
a
McNair Bros.
Another Strike
is Reported as
Made at Weepas
Fuller Paints
Insurance Service
Well Directed
Varnishes
*B a e t P a in t— Beet W orkm en
. Your insurance policies
should cover your risks
and your hazards ju st as
a well directed arrow
covers the bull’s eye.
Phon» 172
b et’s Thank the
^Normal Sehool
Again Ashland has to thank the student
body of our State Normal School for
bringing to Ashland anothen aggregation
of music - lovers — this time the faculty
Quartet of the University of Oregon.
»• .
Surely this entertainment, which is to
be given this evening, deserves universal
support, not only because of the promised
excellence of the program to be given and
as encouragement to the Normal School
to continue to “ put on” similar programa
but also that our visitors may realise ilr
full measure the warmth of Ashland’s
weloome.
F irst N ational B ank
ASHLAND
fjSgn
OREGON
Breakfasts
'stand by
you
VEGETABLE H ASH
L p in t chopped
cooked potato
\ p 1 n t m ix e d
cooked vege-
tables '
*
cup white sauce
cup dia zo la
Tomato or chopped
egg sauce
IIE mixed vegetables may be any
kind, as cooked carrots, turnips,
cabbage, beets, peas, chopped string
beans,lima lieans, stewed com,onions,
etc. If cooked onion is not among the
vegetables, a little raw, minced onion
should, be added. Combine the in
gredients. H eat, the Mazoja in a
medium-sized frying pan, pack in the
hash an inch deep and fry until
browned.
T
7V/T ANY jokes have been coined
Women Are Held
In Murder Case
:-J. 0 . RIGG
The Best Way o f
reparing D elicious
Vegetable Hash
If your insurance is in
the hands of this agency
of the H artford Fire In
surance Company, y o u
may know th at in case of
loss, your policies will
“ hit tho spot.”
JL ’ A. about bash — but in the
case of Mrs. Allen’3 hash (see
recipe above) the joke is on the
person who doesn't try it.
You will also get an idea why
M odern H ou sew ives prefel*
M azola for fryin g — because
foods fried in it'are greaseless
when ready to serve;— because
Mazola is an absolutely pure vege
table oil, pressed from the hearts
of fully-ripened corn kernels.
Once you try Mazola for fry
ing you will never go back to
the old fashioned way of frying
with animal fats.
M ail Th u
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Thu» correct breakfast eating, as
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To heap up with Your Job, you
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Thus Quaker Oats—providing an
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